One Last Halloween Post

I couldn't help but work on Halloween projects up until the last minute.  I did this Halloween plague to put on the table to welcome my trick or treaters tomorrow night.  I love Wendy Vecchi's Art Parts.  I doesn't take any time to put together a great piece of work that displays beautifully.  Hope you enjoyed this fun piece I put together with Graphic 45's Happy Haunting paperline.

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October Tag-- New Love Dry Rock Candy Glitter

I had a great time making this months tag.  It was the first time I had a change to actually get to Tim's tag done before the end of the month.  I love the new Distress Glitter.  I used Dylusions under it on the broom and the witches face which I think made the witch a little more fun!!! I hope you like this months tag and hopeful it won't be the last one I do for the year. I'm going to try to catch up on all the other tags this week --wish me luck!!!


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Tara

One Perfect Day

A year ago this week, I spent one spectacular week on Royal Caribbeans Freedom of the Seas touring the Eastern Caribbean with two of my best friends-- my husband Tim and Angie.  This was part of Tim Holtz's last crafting cruise through Scrap Map.  I have not blogged about this experience but to say the entire experience was amazing is an understatement.  The people you meet... the sites that you see... and the memories you make.  My favorite day or memory of the entire cruise had to be one of the simplest we had.  Paul, Angie, Tim and I set off after we docked at St. Maarten and took a water taxi over to the shopping district where Angie and I both scored some fabulous Disney luggage at a great price before heading over to the most gorgeous beach I have ever seen.  We spent all day long--literally up until the very last minute we could on that beach.  Of course, my hubby had made some friends and we had them take our picture enjoying our perfect day.

For the project, I started out painting the base of the shadow box with Claudine Hellmuth Traditional Tan.  Once it was dry, I took some Vaseline and streaked it over the box in various areas that I wanted to look distressed then I covered it with Claudine Hellmuths Charcoal Black.  Once the box was dry, I sanded it down to reveal the tan where the Vaseline was.  I then used Graphic 45 Tropical Traveloge paper collection to embellish around the picture.  I fussy cut the flowers and leaves and the beach from the cover.  I found some flowers and colored them to my liking with some Dylusions and Perfect Pearl Mists.

I love the flowers in the Graphic 45 paper but the leaves remind me so much of the islands that we were on and that is the reason I am submitting this to the Simon Says Challenge this week.

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Tara