Anything But a Card Week 3 Autumn Magic/Spring Wonder Challenge 40

Good morning

My Post is late because I wasn't feeling well the last couple of days, but I assure you I forced myself up this morning to finish editing my pictures and blog my post.  Over at Anything But a Card we are at Week 3 of our "Autumn Magic/Spring Wonder" Challenge No. 40. 

My best friend's favorite holiday is Halloween and every year I make something for her house.  I think she still likes me making stuff for her???  Maybe I should ask her, but then again, whenever I go over to her house she still has my "creations" on display!

This year I've seen so many bottle and yarn creations it's addicting.  I've pinned a gazillion things and knew I wanted to create a few.  Working for a bar really helps get unique shaped bottles also.  My boss gets a kick out of me coming in and putting my name on the bottle.  She knows that when they are empty to keep them for me.  

This is the bottle I had my eyes on for awhile.  

and with some orange yarn I bought at my local thrift store, some fake leaves, pipecleaners, google eyes, and black scrapbook paper I created her a fabulous pumpkin vase.  

I think he even looks good sitting in my living room.

I hope you will jump over to the blog and link up with us.  Please do us the favor and include this link in your post! Anything But a Card Challenges No. 40 "Autumn Magic/Spring Wonder"

http://anythingbutacard.blogspot.com/2014/10/welcome-to-week-3-of-autumn-magicspring.html

As always, have a great day and God Bless!

Halloween Hotglue embellishments using Amazing Molding Putty

Good morning crafters,


I am so excited to share another project using the Amazing Molding Putty.  If you missed my first tutorial using this stuff, click here.  I've been searching the house for all kinds of things to make molds out of and this time I think I came up with a fabulous idea for a friend, so here we go:

First this is what you need:

Here are my containers

I found these cutsie halloween erasers that I had from

last year yet.  This particular one is of a pumpkin

So I created my mold

here it is and it takes less than 5 minutes to set up

Then I added hot glue to the mold

and I used alcohol ink to color it

I attached some google eyes, mouth and nose

and some paper leaves with hot glue

I also used a glitter hot glue stick.  I small stick

2 perfect pumpkins

and again attached google eyes, nose, mouth

and some paper leaves

and made a gift baggie for a friend who uses 

ALOT of hot glue on her projects.  Now she just 

needs to pop off the eyes, noses, mouths and leaves 

and she can stick her pumpkins into her melting 

pot and she has hot glue again.  

So what do you think of my idea?  I hope you get a chance to head on over to the Amazing Molding Putty blog and check out all the fun creations over there.  

Guest Design at Susan's with TP pumpkins

Good morning,

I am so excited about today's post.  I am a guest designer over at Susan's and just love that she wanted me to post for you today.  I wanted to show you an oldie but goodie.  I saw these last year after the Fall season was nearly over and wanted to remind myself to make them...well, if you are anything like me, you forget about it.  At least I did until I was reminded by Ruthie over at September Ninth.  She has the best tutorial and video for you also, so please go check it out after you've seen what I made.  This entire project took less than 20 minutes to complete, easy peasy.

For this project you will need:  roll of toilet paper, batting (I didn't have any, so I just used an old tshirt that I cut up), orange colored fabric, raffia, scraps of cardstock, leaves, and a hot glue gun

I picked this fabric (2 yards of it) up at a thrift store for pennies.

There was enough fabric to make 8 of these.

Dollar Store for the toilet paper.

I had the leaves and raffia on hand.

I wrapped the toilet paper roll with my discarded tshirt (good way to recycle) 

cut at 14 x 14 inches and stuffed it into the center of the tp roll hole. 

Then I wrapped that with the fabric, cut approx at 14 x 14 inches

and also stuffed that into the tp roll hole.

Then I wrapped a piece of rolled cardstock with some raffia,

 stuffed it into the center of the tp roll.

Hot glued a leaf to the stem and voila...a pumpkin

and this is how they turned out, isn't this a great grouping?

Now I wonder how long before the cat is gonna start playing with them?

Now if you need to know how to make these, head on over to September Ninth and check out here tutorial.  I know you are gonna love it.  Thank you also for stopping over for my guest design spot.  Thank you to Susan for having me also.