Halloween Breakfast Treats - Ghost Toasties

Here's a fun way to serve breakfast for your hungry goblins for Halloween!  Use a ghost shaped cookie cutter to remove the insides of bread slices.  Place buttered bread slices onto a griddle or pan and pour egg whites into the middle and let them cook.  You can make the ghosts stand out a bit more by adding black food coloring to some ketchup.  Spoon it into a sandwich baggie and clip the edge to use it like an icing bag (or you can just use an icing bag...lol).  Trace around the ghosts carefully and add the eyes and mouth.

My daughter thought it would be a good idea to toast the inside pieces  and then make a strawberry jam sandwich.  I poked holes for the eyes and mouth to let the jam show through.

Don't forget to add a rubber stamped tag for your breakfast buffet by using the stamp from the Bone Appetit stamp set from The Angel Company.  Dress up the tag by adding ghost cut-outs.  I used the Sizzix for mine, but you could also cut them by hand.

Fangtastic Liquid Refreshments for your Halloween Party

Do you want to serve some fun drinks at your Halloween party? I bought plastic wine glasses at the dollar store along with a pack of plastic fangs to create this "Fangtastic" refreshment. I thought tomato juice would look more like blood, but I didn't have any on hand! I used the Bone Appetit Stamp set on shrink plastic to create a fun tag to go with it.

Here is a close up of the fangs with the tag.

Rubber Stamped Halloween Cupcakes!

I'm so glad that TAC did not retire the Trick or Treaters Halloween set. It is one of my all time favorite Halloween rubber stamp sets! The stamp is featured in the Fall/Winter 2009 Inspiration Avenue catalogue.

My friends at Mrs. Mack's Bakery & Restaurant have this really cool printer that uses food coloring as ink and rice paper to print photos on cakes. I noticed some leftover rice paper and they gave it to me so I could take it home. I knew this set would make awesome cupcakes! I colored on the stamps with Food Safe (food coloring) markers and then lightly misted them with my ultra fine mist squirt bottle (like you would when you use the watercolor crayons) and then stamped the images directly onto the rice paper. I colored them in with the food safe markers.

OK...I know what you're thinking...."Didn't she use those rubber stamps to make the Sculpey clay pins?" Yes, I did. I recommend using a clean set that you've never used on anything else, but I cleaned my stamps well hopefully they're not toxic...lol

Thanksgiving Pilgrims & Turkey

Created with The Angel Company Rubber Stamps:

Family, Food & Friends
Running Stitches

This card was created for the November Art Challenge at Paperwings. Here are some links for you to see all of the other craft projects and cards created for this challenge:

Stacy

Seleise

Melisa

Bridgett

Laurie
Jany

Fall/Thanksgiving Sculpey Clay Pins & Embellishments

I made a few things with my Sculpey Clay Sunday night so you will be seeing several posts of ornaments, pins, and embellishments over the next few days! I'm going to add pin backs to the turkey and pilgrims and use them on name cards for Thanksgiving (either that or I'll use them as embellishments for napkin rings). I'm making the kitty into a pin and giving it to my "baby" who is turning 5 on Friday! I'm not sure what I'll do with the leaves. Maybe I'll add them to the autumn frame that I made the other day.

Created with The Angel Company Stamps:

Charcoal Leaves
Family, Food & Friends
Playful Kitties

I should mention that I stamped the clay before baking. After the clay was cooled, I colored the images. On the smaller pins, I just lightly stamped with black ink. On the leaves, I actually pressed my stamp into the clay a bit harder with a brown color to make an impression. Now...sealing the pins was another story! The only thing that I have found that doesn't smear the Copic ink is Modge Podge. It's not a shiny gloss that I would've liked, but it does the job! If anyone knows what I can spray on Copic ink for a glossy varnish, I'd love to hear from you.

Autumn Swirls Altered Frame

I picked up a plain frame at my local dollar store a while ago and figured it was time to see what I could do with it. I stamped the frame using Burnt Sienna ink and colored in the leaves with my Copic Markers. After I did that I wanted to add the "Fantastic Fall" sentiment to the frame, but it didn't show up very well because of the design. I decided to stamp the sentiment onto clear acetate and then I very carefully heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I trimmed around the sentiment and then stuck it on top of my "mistake." It's a bit crooked, but it's there to stay...lol. I did use a bit of metallic rub on to the frame, but you can't really see it in the photo.

Yes, that is a photo of my children taken a couple of years ago in 2006. I remember it like it was yesterday (sigh).


Created with The Angel Company Products:

Autumn Swirls
Penelope & Sydney Ribbon
Burnt Sienna Palette Ink Pad
Clear Embossing Powder
Clear Acetate

Golden Autumn Leaf

Created with The Angel Company Rubber Stamps & Supplies:

Charcoal Leaves
Autumn Swirls
Burnt Sienna Pallette Ink
Gold Embossing Powder
Gold Brads

Enchanted Frog Halloween Card

I finally got around to putting labels on the CD Cases for my unmounted sets and when I saw the witch's hat from the For All Seasons stamp set, I knew instantly what I would be doing with it. I used Masking Magic to create a mask (you can also use a post-it note) for the hat after I stamped it. Then I used a stamp positioner to line it up. I had cut my paper a bit too short for the sentiment to fit on it, but I can live with it.



Created with The Angel Company Rubber Stamps:

Hoppy Everything
For All Seasons
Linear Sentiments
Trick or Treaters

Autumn Embossed Shimmer Technique

I combined the SCS Embossed Shimmer Technique Challenge with Heather Scott's Card Sketch and got this as a result. The TLC185 Embossed Shimmer technique was a challenge for me since I didn't have exactly the right stuff. After much trial & error I ended up painting Vegas Gold All-Purpose ink on the back of the acetate over my previous failed attempt. Then I stamped leaves (which you can't really see that well in the scan, but it shows IRL) on the other side of the acetate...then ran it through the Cuttlebug.


Created with The Angel Company Stamps:

Charcoal Leaves
More Elegant Sentiments
Burnt Sienna Pallette Ink
Clear Acetate
All Purpose Ink (Vegas Gold)

Quick Fall Sympathy Card

A very quick & simple sympathy card with a fall theme.

Created with The Angel Company Stamps & Supplies:

Love and Laughter
With Sympathy
Autumn Leaves Kaleidacolor Ink Pad

Halloween Lollipop Treats

Here is a great way to dress up your lollipops for a nice treat. This also works well for other occasions, just use a different stamp set.

Supplies:

Trick or Treaters (TAC stamp set)
Simply Spooky Paper
Noir (black) Palette Ink
PrismaColor Pencils (blended with odorless mineral spirits)
3/8" Ribbon

Delicious Autumn Card Kit

This is just one of the cards that you can create with the Delicious Autumn Card Kit. Thanks to Heather Scott for allowing me to reproduce her card kits for my customers.

Kit Includes:

• Delicious Autumn Stamp Set
• Ivory Ultrasmooth ( 5 sheets)
• Wine Red #3 Textured Cardstock (5 sheets)
• Yellow #1 Textured Cardstock (5 sheets)
• Silver Swirl Paper Clips (3 each)
• Black Scrappers Floss (2 yards)
• 4 Idea Sheets - Includes color pictures of samples, all materials and supplies listed, and step by step directions

$24 with Stamp Set (or you can substitute any same price set)*

$10 without Stamp Set*

*prices do not include shipping


Visit www.CreateWithLove.com and click on Card Kits for further details.

Sympathy Card - Fall/Autumn

Here's another sympathy card with the Good Timber set. I love this tree! I'm not sure where the green cardstock came from, but I think it may be one of the older Bazzill cardstock colors.

Supplies Used:

Good Timber
With Sympathy
Spanish Olive - VersaMagic Multisurface Chalk Ink
Lyra Watercolor Crayons
Stipple Brush (Size 2)

Boo Bash Halloween Cards

Here are some Halloween cards that I made to send as thank you notes for my customers. I used Prismacolor pencils and blended them with a blending stump and odorless mineral spirits.

Stamps & Supplies:

BooBash
Simply Spooky Paper
Noir Pallette Hybrid Ink
Prismacolor Pencils
Orange Cardstock

Halloween Treat Box

I was shopping at Staples and noticed some plastic pencil boxes. I knew instantly what I would be using them for and grabbed a bunch of black ones to make this stamped treat box for halloween.

Supplies:

Plastic Pencil Box from Staples
T2246 Boo Bash
V-926 Simply Spooky Pad
Noir Pallette Ink

If you'd like to see more of my halloween themed stamp art using The Angel Company stamps, please visit my art gallery at Create With Love.