Happy Halloween!

Since it's Halloween, I thought that it would be fitting to share one more Halloween page made with my kit for this month! I started with a couple of challenges, one on Sketches 4 All using this great sketch by Jana Eubanks:

And a challenge from The Paper Variety blog to make a Halloween project.Here is my page:

A close up look at my embellies:

Thanks for stopping by today-before you go, leave me a not and let me know what you do for Halloween! Do you trick or treat? Pass out candy or dress up? If so what was your best/most creative costume? I will be taking the kids trick or treating tonight, myself. Be sure to come by tomorrow-I have another layout and some exciting news to share!

"Paddleboat Fun"

I saw this awesome color challenge over at The Color Room, and since I had these colors in my October kit, I decided to play along (albeit a little late).

The challenge:

My take on the challenge:

Again, with a crooked photo...gaggghhh!!! Oh well, you can get the idea-I just have to get used to shooting my pages w/o tons of sunlight (it has been very fallish, gray, and rainy here lately). Any way, on to my layout:

I finally scrapped a few photos from my honeymoon! Supplies I used: Pink Paislee Vintage Moon Harvest Moon paper, scraps of Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe Dresses paper for the photo mats, Echo Park Life is Good Element and Alpha stickers, several Girls Paperie vintage buttons, ZVA bling flourish that I colored to match my layout with a Copic marker, black glitter chipboard Thickers.

Oh, and if you don't read the Dear Lizzy blog...she had the AWESOMEST recipe for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies on her blog this morning- 16 oz can pumpkin, 1 box spice mix, and chocolate chips. It sounded so yummy, and I had some of the stuff, so I tweaked it to what I had-1 cup of pumpkin pie mix, 1 butter recipe yellow cake mix, 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla, and just added in some spices-ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and a cup of chocolate chips, dropped them on a greased cookie sheet and baked at 350 for about 15 minutes. They were SOOOO yummy with a glass of ice cold milk-and I think they still would have been awesome with out the chocolate chips. Try them out and let me know what you think!

Pagemaps Sketch Challenge

I told you I had more to share before the month was over! Here is a layout I did for the current sketch challenge over at Pagemaps blog:

 My Layout:

I used up some scraps for this one: Cosmo Cricket for the yellow background with the circles, and the flowered paper, yellow gingham print from The Girls Paperie from my October kit, an ancient "The Pumpkin Patch" sticker from my kit, brown crochet ribbon leftover from my September kit, a Graphic 45 tag and Basic Grey Eerie brad from this month's kit, and some inked fall felt embellies that I bought in a bucket from Wal Mart ages ago!

Get Picky Birthday Blog Hop

I saw that Get Picky was having a birthday blog hop, and I had to play along!

Here is the sketch:

Here is my layout:

Do you believe I actually scrapped a page about myself? I don't always dress up for Halloween, but that year, one of the kids put a tattoo on me, so I had to scrap it!

Supplies used:
SEI Eerie Alley Arachnaphobia (been hording this paper forever!), Making Memories Spook Alley die cut 6x6 paper, gray Cosmo Cricket embossed cardstock that I inked, and a few scraps from Little Yellow Bicycle's Frightful Collection Large Stripes and Making Memories Spook Alley. I used part of a KI Memries border, and a couple of 7Gypsies stickers. The title letters were chipboard sticker letters from the Target $1 spot, and I dabbed them with my silver paint dabber.