Hello, old friends!

While going through my fall and Halloween decorations stored from last year, I came across some old friends.  These were a couple of my favorite projects -- and favorite characters!

I hope I'm getting you in the mood to start creating some fall projects!  Check out my schedule of events for fall/holiday classes and sign up to create a ton of stamping fun!  Dust off your stamping supplies and get going on those holiday projects at home, too!  Now, go stamp something!

Pick Your Poison (but leave out the rats, please)

If you're wondering what I did with the rest of that package of DSP, that's what you'll see today.  After going through all my leftover retired papers, I am bound and determined to use what I have (especially seasonal DSP) before it retires and not hoard it until the very end.  I actually had less than a handful of scraps left once I made yesterday's and today's projects.  That's the way to do it.
Now, if I can just continue that plan:)

After yesterday's projects, I was able to make 1 more card + 4 complete layouts.

Paris, anyone?  Once again, I used the DSP to make a card that was NOT for Halloween.

For my first layout, I did very little to the pages, as they had a pretty nice design already.

I hope you can see this.  I added some bling to some of the intricate designs and to the skeleton's eyes, as well as to the ornamental shape at the bottom of the page.  This shape will be great for adding a label to the photos and/or the date for them.

I used this little spider (from the Spooky Bingo Bits stamp set) to unify all the layouts.

You may notice that the rat is missing that is on the DSP under the chandelier.  I like fun Halloween themes, but I do NOT like rats!  I covered him up with one of my decorative labels I punched:)
Bye- bye, rat!

I hope these 2 posts will encourage you to open a package of DSP and try using all of it, as you plan a series of great projects.

Thanks for stopping by!

Using DSP

Here's another lesson in using your DSP -- even the little scraps.

This DSP is Pick Your Poison, from the current Holiday Mini.  Now, you may not want to make enough Halloween cards to purchase an entire package of this paper, but think again.  They don't have to be just Halloween cards!  Look again at the 2 cards shown above.  Remove the Halloween stamps and use other text and image stamps and you could have an entirely new look.

Here are some cards made with the same papers, but NOT for Halloween:

Of course, I added some of our rhinestones for some special bling.