I also changed the orientation of the two cards, but not much more than that, besides the focus of each. Like I always say, It's just as easy to make two cards as it is to make one...
Are you filling up your stash of Halloween cards? There are only two months left before we get our scary on! See you at the Halloween & Other Occasions Challenge Blog this month!
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I sanded the wooden frame before I pulled out my holiday designer papers. All my papers are either from past projects or torn out of the stacks I bought at thrift stores or on clearance. I was lucky that all the papers I used were from the same set (DCWV I think). I cut them to fit above each burlap pocket using spray adhesive.
I chose some lines of adhesive-backed gems to run across each top of the pockets. I like a simple craft, but my card catcher needed a little extra, so I added a few snowflakes around the frame. A Christmas bow and Santa button finishes off today's make. I added a few of my own handmade cards and I must say it looks great...
Today I crafted a whimsical scene of the inside of a house getting ready for December 25. Throughout the year, I have hunted and gathered tiny ornaments and after-Halloween and -Christmas craft supplies for my shadow boxes. Salvation Army has a thrift store where I found a whole box of figures. Michaels was good for pkgs of tiny gifts, pets, stockings, etc. And of course my mom's crafting supplies and Christmas deco's helped my cause. If you look at the bottom shelf of my shadow box, you'll see some vintage children I've paired up with a Michaels holiday figurine and a tiny ornament of grandma baking cookies..
I'm always on the hunt for bottle brush trees, and found one that fit onto the 2nd shelf. Stickers where I didn't need a lot of depth, and paper doilies mimicking a snowy roof. When my closest Michaels closed with deep discounts (90% off) about 20 years ago (!), I bought up all the shaped buttons. I couldn't resist, They were 10 cents each for multiple buttons on a backing.
Anyway, I worked all morning on this, spending some time looking for the right pieces to add to my design. And I really like the final make. I hope you do too!
Bonesy stopped in his tracks, struck still by a terrible thought. His fiance's mother had long dark hair. . She had been a witch, and as far as he knew, she still was. Then he did get sick...
How was he going to get out of this fix? If it were his "almost" mother-in-law, did she tell his fiance about his behavior? "But I didn't do anything!" he argued loud. "It was a Bachelor party!"
He started trotting down the road, being very careful so he wouldn't fall. The way his luck was going, he'd probably lose his the pumpkin on his head, or smash it on a rock, or something else terrible and awful. He made it to the fence marking the cemetery property line. He sat down to think when he saw out of the corner of his pumpkin eye another skeleton...with a pumpkin head!!
He rushed to it and realized it was his fiance! "What happened to you?" he cried.
"What happened to you," she screamed in startlement. She was dressed in her wedding gown and had been crying. "She didn't wait for Bonesy's explanation and blurted out, "Your father saw me with my girlfriends in a restaurant and he thought I was flirting with the waiter. He yelled my name and some words and the next thing I knew the restaurant was clearing out, with skellies screaming, and my head was a p-p-pumpkin."
"Same thing", Bonesy said, "only it was my bachelor party and your mother cursed me." He got down on his bony knees. "Ima, I still love you and I don't care if we both have pumpkins for heads. Let's elope right now!"
Ima Goner smiled through her tears, pulled him off his knees and answered him with a kiss. So that's what they did, and they lived spent the rest of their lives time happily ever after.
The End
He managed to sit on a nearby pumpkin and shook his head.
That was a mistake! He reached a bony hand up to his head and screeched in
surprise. Something wasn’t right. His skull was huge and felt different. Fear
ignited in him as he used both hands to feel where his skull should have been.
It very definitely was different. He needed a mirror.
Finding the attic’s trap door, he gingerly took the stairs.
Yes, definitely a barn as he suspected. Near the doors leading outside was a metal
tub. He approached it with trepidation. What would his reflection show him?
“No. No! Not possible!” he moaned.
Instead of his exquisitely-shaped skull and chiseled jaw bone,
he saw what his hands had warned him of. He had a pumpkin head!
“Impossible,” he shrieked.
Though it was hard to deny the reflection in the pan of
water, he stumbled out of the barn into bright sunlight. The daylight burned
his sockets. No, make that his triangular-shaped eye holes. It also warned him
that night was over and he should be in bed until the moon rose.
With a start, he remembered where he was supposed to be--getting
ready for his wedding. He was supposed to be in his comfortable nest of rotting
leaves and rich soil, soon to be married to the love of his life, Ima Goner. He
smiled at the thought, then had another thought (he wasn’t used to thinking so
much).
“My head’s a pumpkin,” he whispered. What skeleton in her
right mind (and skull) would marry someone with a pumpkin head, he thought. Well he’d have to find out where he was to get
to where he wanted to be. He began walking without direction, keeping his hand
on his heavy head to hold it up.
Earlier this month I created this Pumpkin Head skeleton from leftover Halloween supplies. Today I adhered him to a pumpkin, used patterned paper (#16 from Rucola Designs from her Dead or Alive paper set) and placed several bottles of BOOze next to him. The story of his momentous morning after will be continued before the end of our Halloween celebration.
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I then used my white Posca marker to give it a witty greeting. Like it? I hope it made you smile...
