Happy Halloween

Hope you have a fun, scarey and safe halloween!

So excited for this...

Join Clearsnap and 8 of our favorite crafting companies for a Handmade Holiday! Spellbinders, Hampton Art, Donna Salazar Designs, The Twinery, Glue Arts, Authentique Paper, Graphic45, and Zutter will all be showing you innovative ideas for gifts, decor and more to jumpstart this holiday season. Join us beginning November 4th, 2011.

 

I will be one of the guest designers on November 4th - so excited :)

A Haunting We Will Go

We love halloween in our house, getting dressed up, scary movies and pumpkin carving what could be better.  This year I made a quick Halloween mini album to showcase my son's costumes.  Head on over to the Bind-It-All blog for more photos and details.

Happy Crafting :)

Holiday Greeting Class

Lindsey and I are busy preparing for out next class Holiday Greetings.  Come and join us for a night of card making and goodies just in time for the holiday mailing list.

Here's a peek at one of the cards we will be making in class.

For more information on classes you can join our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/SmithPaperDesign

Hope you can join us.

Something Wicked

This way comes...

Join us over at Scrapbook Star for a week of fun Halloween projects and ideas.  I love halloween and decided to make a gift box to fill with treats for a friend who loves halloween too.

I painted the box black, added some fun halloween paper and the a few tags and of course some twine.

Don't forget to check back all week for more spooktacular ideas :)

Merry and Bright

I love the new Holly Jolly Christmas paper line by Echo Park Paper Co.  The colors are so pretty and the patterns are amazing.  I knew as soon as I saw it what I wanted to make with it.

I started with this old box that I had sitting around just waiting to be used.  I love keeping old packaging to re purpose into something fun!

the first thing I needed to do was cover the front so I measured and cut a piece of brown cardstock then a piece of Snowy Sidewalks patterned paper and carefully cutting out the window in the front.

Then to create the scene inside the box I cut out the snowman from the Journaling Cards paper and some fun snowflakes from the other side of the Snowy Sidewalks paper. 

Then I added some hills hand cut from cardstock and used pop dots to make the scene have some dimension. I also added some twine around the window of the box to give it a more finished look.

To complete the box I added the Merry and Bright sentiment and some presents both from the Journaling Tags sheet. I also added some more twine as a bow around the ribbon.

I had so much fun creating this little shadow box and I know I will create many more cute projects with this line.

Scrapbook Star Design Team Challenge

For this months challenge over at Scrapbook Star I thought I would do a stamping challenge as October's Kit has some really fun stamps included.  Here's my layout, I stamped the leaves and the acorn on the title. 

Head on over to scrapbook Star and join in the fun!