What's happening in your neck of the woods?

Labor day is over and I guess you can say it is officially Fall. Not like calender officially, but we are into football, hurricane season, and pumpkin spice everything! Fall holidays are not that far away. Stampin' Up is offering a great Paper Pumpkin this month for Halloween. We will be surprised with the exact projects, but we know there are enough supplies for 24 projects included in this Toil and Trouble kit. If you would like to take advantage of it for just this month you can, as long as you sign up, order- by September 10th.  You can subscribe to the monthly kit, or prepay purchase 1 month, 3 months, 6 months or 12 months. Check out the options here. Got to run. Have a great day and be blessed. Stop back by for more Halloween ideas and other alternatives. Spreading joy one card at a time!
                                                  Love stamping in Dixie,
                                                                   Cindy

Trick or Treat

Good morning friends,
It is a beautiful "Fall" morning in Dixieland. Actually, we are getting some really nice, cool temps this am. I have a cute Halloween Treat to share with y'all today. One of my hostess clubs made these this month, they are really simple and cute!

Materials: Chalk Talk Bread Tag framelit, Owl punch, Hexagon punch, Basic Black 1\8 inch ribbon and White Baker's Twine.         
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, and  Tangerine Tango
Ink: Basic Black and  Tangerine Tango
Stamp sets: Halloween Hello and Perfectly You Hostess set (131877)
Directions: I cut the tag with the Big Shot, Stamped it with the Bat from Halloween Hello in Basic Black.
The ghost is made by punching out a white owl with the owl builder punch and trimming off the feet. 
Use the middle size circles for eyes and the heart for the mouth out of black. The ghost is popped up on a dimensional  and attached to the bread tag. The Hey Pumpkin is stamped with Tangerine Tango on a scrape of Whisper White  and punched out with the hexagon punch. It is adhered with snail adhesive at the bottom of the tag. The cello bag has 2 graham crackers, 2 chocolate nuggets and a Peep ghost.This is tied with the 1\8 inch Basic Black ribbon and White Bakers Twine.

Hope you like this and it inspires you to create a cute Halloween project. Have a blessed day, Thank you for stopping by, I always look forward to your comments- so leave me one!!!Thanks- God Bless you real good.

I'm Home.

Going away is alot of fun and Tombo and I had a great time in Sunny California! Well, it wasn't so sunny the last few days, but we still had an awesome time. I am a little on the worn-out side, but glad to be home and now gettin' ready for this weeks Candy Wrapper Class. Yesterday was the last day to rsvp, but if you send me an email or call tomorrow I can still fit you in since I haven't cut all the projects we will be making yet.

This is not one of the projects we will be making. I actually attended a class Meagan Jones, one of my downline daughters taught before I left on my trip. It was a great class. This is one of the cute Halloween Projects we made. The box is simple construction two piece box that we rolled with the fence jumbo wheel. Then we cut out pumpkins with the Big Shot Sizzlits, used glue dots to adhere them to Tootie Pops, stuck them in floral foam and covered the top with moss from craft store. Isn't that the cutest. It is on my mantle as I write this. If you'd like to make one let me know and I'll give you directions and a product list. For now it is time for bed. Yall take care ,be a blessing to someone who needs you, and you will find yourself truly blessed! I promise!

You light up this place with that smile on your face!

Hey Friends, I hope and pray all is well with yall. I am still hobbling, but at least I am able to get around. Nothing profound today! It's a Monday. Tomorrow night my hostess club will be making this card for the upcoming Halloween season. Now, you probably have guessed I'm not a big Halloween fan- but I think this Batty for You stamp set is really cute. It is so versatile! It has 8 stamps that can be used with the 1 3/8 circle punch to make some really cute Fall Holiday projects. This card focuses on circles. I used the 1 3/4 circle punch all the way down to the 1/2 circle punch. The cardstock is Pumpkin Pie, Concord Crush, Pear Pizazz, Basic Black and Whisper White. It sounds almost good enough to eat! Some of the circles are on dimensionals and there is just a little ribbon added. I really like the little pumpkin's saying" You light up this place with that smile on your face." I hope whoever gets this card will smile. Last week we talked about passion, this week why not share your passion with someone. Make a new friend, or mend a broken friendship. Send that long lost friend a card you made all yourself. Be a blessing and you will be blessed.

More Halloween samples

For someone who is not a great big Halloween fan I seem to have created several cards this year for those of you who are. This is the second Halloween card we made during my Holiday card stamp a stack last month. I love the film strip design on this card. I use it often. The card is on a black base with Dusty Durango layered on top and made to look stitched, the "film strip" is made using the spiral punch down both sides. The other punches used are the 1 1/4 square punch and the 1 1/4 circle punch. The stamp set is a great one for this holiday "Batty for You" (p. 23 item # 116576). Order it soon and it will arrive in time to make cute treats for your kids and grand kids this fall season. Call, email, or you can place an online order at my demo website here. I pray yall finish out the week well, be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you. Be blessed and be a blessing. Love cindy

Dog Days of Summer

Hi y'all . I hope everyone is doing fine. I am amazed at how beautiful the weather has been this August. Here in Dixie August is usually a really miserable month. Hot, Humid, Hot, Humid, did I say HOT? Well, this August has been very pleasant, almost fall-like which is just weird for us. We normally swim in our pool a lot in August. The water has actually been a little chilly this month! Well, all that to say I am getting in the mood for fall. School has started already and I'm ready for the next season to follow. Actually it's only like a 120 days til Christmas! Let me get back to the next holiday. Halloween is not one of those days we really get all excited about. However, with grandbabies running around and fall Festivals getting ready to abound I included a couple of Halloween cards in this months Stamp a Stack. I hope you like them. I think they are really cute! The base of this cards is Whisper White cardstock. The next layer is Only Orange cardstock that was crumbled, then straightened and ink to paper technique done with basic black ink. The spider is made with the scallop punch and the photo corners punch using black and lovely lavender cardstock. The sentiment Happy Halloween is from Tiny Teeny Wishes, a great set to have. It is punched with the window punch and layered on the modern label punch. This is really a quick and simple card.

Up coming Events for September

9-3 is my next Stamp a Stack featuring birthday cards.

9-5 is the monthly PMS creative therapy session.

9-11 I will be hosting a free Cards for the Troops event

9-15 hostess club

9-25 C3PO's scrap booking club meeting and

9-29 Gift Stamp Camp

Please call or drop me an email if you are interested in any of the upcoming events. RSVP deadline for the first week of September is August 31st.

Gotta Run. Have a blessed day and be a blessing to someone along your way and you'll both be blessed!