Halloween Soap Dispenser

I'm back with a fun little project I made on a whim.

I love Trader Joe's liquid glycerin soap.  Just ask my Mom.  (That is another story for another time.)  I used to fill up a soap dispenser that matched the other bathroom accessories, but after our kitties knocked off and broke two of them, I decided to leave the soap in its original plastic bottle.  It turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because now I can decorate it with vinyl for each season or holiday.

Halloween Soap Dispenser

After removing the labels from the front and back, the dispenser was all ready to decorate.  I cut out the vinyl images on my Silhouette Cameo, and just stuck them on.  A pretty orange and yellow gingham ribbon is the perfect finishing touch.

Now we are all ready for Halloween.  (At least in our bathroom!)

K

Another Halloween Card

I have been doing a lot of stamping lately, and needed a break, so I made a card tonight.

Say what?

That doesn't make much sense, but then I haven't been making cards; I've been stamping on tiles for my craft show that is coming up in a couple weeks.  I think the Stazon fumes were getting to me!

Do you ever wake up with ideas for cards swimming around in your brain?  That happened to me this morning, but by the time I got around to stamping tonight (a flat tire, sick kid at school, and a trip to the allergist got in my way today), my ideas were pretty much gone.  So I made a card that isn't anything like what was in my head when I woke up today.

I'm in the process of unmounting all my SU sets, and I had my Halloween sets out, so that is what I decided to use tonight.

This has way more 'stuff' on it than I usually use, especially lately, but I don't think it's too over the top.

Supplies used:
Stamps - home is where the haunt is, house of haunts
Paper - GKD PL white, daffodil, eggplant
Ink - daffodil, pumpkin pie, elegant eggplant, Memento black
Accessories - nestabilities oval die, nail heads, ribbon, EK swirl flourish punch, post-it, 1" circle punch, SAMJ, sponges and daubers, dimensionals

Toodles!

K

OLW and a Stamping First

It's Wednesday, and you know what that means.  Time to make a one layer card!  Susan's challenge was to make a black and white card with just a spot of color.  Having little color, with lots of black and white tends to make whatever is colored pop.  That can make for a striking card.

At first, I was only going to color the spider's treat bag, but the rest of him (her?) got lost.  So I have two spots of color instead of one.  I think it was necessary, though, to complete the image.

Tho photo doesn't show it, but the spider is embossed to give it a little texture.

And now for my stamping first.  See those brackets around the sentiment?  That is something I have never used before.  I have never really understood the need for all the brackets I see, especially in scrapbooking, because I am more of a literal person.  Grammatically, you don't need brackets, so therefore it doesn't make sense to me to use them.  Unless of course, it is for a design element.  I finally figured that out today!  The sentiment was just floating out in the middle of nowhere until I added the brackets.  Now it seems grounded and is very much a part of the whole picture.

I like that.

And I need to loosen up!

Supplies used:
Stamps - web wishes, Hero Arts bracket
Paper - GKD PL white
Ink - Versamark, Memento black
Accessories - SAMJ, post it note for masking, clear EP, Copics
Technique - masking

Toodles!

K