Zombie Walk 2012 Layout

I am super excited to share with you today my 2 page Zombie Walk 2012 layout. I've been wanting to create this layout ever since the Zombie Walk in October.

This was the 1st year we were able to participate and I wasn't gonna let anything get in my way. The week before I had received my 2nd round of chemo to treat my breast cancer. When I had my labs drawn the next week, the week of the Zombie Walk, it was determined I was neutropenic. Which basically means all of my blood counts were extremely low or zero and that made me very susceptible to infection. So I was ordered to receive neupogen shots over the next 5 days, the last day being the night of the Zombie Walk. Plus, the doctor did want me to get a blood transfusion but I refused for personally reasons.

So the day of the Zombie Walk my husband and I were frantically trying to finish my daughter's Sam costume and I was taking my daughters across town to The Railroad Park to attend the NICU Halloween event for preemie graduates, which my youngest daughter is.  We had a really nice time. I ran into a co-worker and the family that my daughter shared a room with in the NICU. The girls got their faces painted, road the merry-go-round and the train.  Then it was rush, rush, rush home, drop the kids off and then get my last neupogen shot. Plus during all of this I was trying to find a hospital gown to wear to the Zombie Walk.  Thankfully for my nurse at the hospital, she gave me one!  Then it was a rush to get home again, still trying to finish my daughter's Sam costume and get myself and youngest daughter ready for the Zombie Walk.

We ended up just a little late and missed the beginning of the walk but joined right in. I finally felt like I belonged somewhere. Everyone was dressed in their best zombie attire. My costume consisted of a brain cap (to wear over my bald head), hospital gown, some blood splatter, and I carried around my victim (Zombie Baby). I created my Zombie Baby for the Blogger Virtual Zombie Walk 2012  (please check it out). My husband was a nerd zombie that had a pencil sticking out of his head. My oldest daughter was Sam (yes we finished it) from the movie "Trick r' Treat." You can see all of the details about Sam HERE. And my youngest was Scooby Doo.  I had the absolute best time and will never miss another Zombie Walk.

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Check out a close up of the brain...I am so pleased with the way it turned out!!!

 

 

 

Page 2

 

 

And all together

I used these items to create my layout:

• Design Studio
• Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge - "Zombie Walk 2012" title, the graves and grass
• October 31st Cricut cartridge - the hand in the title
• George and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge - moon
• Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge - city
• A Frightful Affair Cricut cartridge - the zombies and hands
• Mini Monsters Cricut cartridge - lamp post
• Martha Stewart Dripping Goo edge punch - blood dripping
• Glossy Accent - on blood and shoes of business attire zombie
• star brads
• plastic folder divider - glass part of the lamp post
• eyelets - lamp post sign
• ribbon - lamp post sign
• brown, black and white ink
• red craft paint - on blood splattered zombie and brain
• Brain - created by Creepy Glowbugg - I just altered it a little by adding some watered down red craft paint (it was originally gray) and glossy accent to really make it shine!

I am entering my layout in the following challenges:

• Haunted Design House - Macabre Monday #158 - Freakers Free for All - open til 1/20
• DL Art - Thankful Thursday Linky Party - Anything Goes - open til 1/31

I am so happy that you've taken the time to check out my Zombie Walk 2012 layout, I hope you liked it. This year I hope to be able to spend more time scrapbooking and putting together the memories that have been created over the years, especially with my girls!

Scary Pumpkin Treat Box and Luminary

Today I bring to you a 2 in 1 - Pumpkin Treat Box and Luminary.

 

Here you can see it as a treat box and a pretty good size treat box too, 4 1/2 wide x 4 1/4 high.

 

 Filled with lots of yummy chocolate treats!

 





 

Here is a view of the back.

The sides.

I'm not sure if you can see it in the photos but I did give the pumpkin some texture and it really looks very similar to the real thing.

 

 

And now what this treat box looks like as a luminary...scary!!!!

 

 

I used these items to create my Pumpkin Treat Box and Luminary:

• Design Studio
• Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge - pumpkin
• October 31st Cricut cartridge - face of the pumpkin - Using the Design Studio I hid the outer contours and just used the face and placed inside the pumpkin (so it would be cut out of the pumpkin)
• Fiskars Texture Plate (carpet) - on the pumpkin
• brown ink - on the edges
• Michael's $1.00 Wooden stamp - on the back

I am entering this Pumpkin Treat Box and Luminary in the following challenges:

•  Scrappy Moms - Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Shape Up - create a shape project - open til 9/10
•  Cardz TV Challenge #14 - Happy Holidays - Pick One - open til 9/13
•  Haunted Design House - Macabre Monday - HDH #150 - Oh My Gourd - open til 9/16
•  Getting Cricky - Simply Sunday Challenge - Happy Fall Y'all - open til 9/30
•  DL ART - Thankful Thursday - 1000 Post Linky Party - open til 9/30

 

Haunted Window

I can't believe it I designed, cut, and completed a card in just a couple of hours (and that's with taking care of a 2 year old and making dinner, too)!  I have here for you my Haunted Window card.

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio 
• October 31st Seasonal Cricut cartridge - the window
• Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge - the ghosts
• clear craft plastic - the window
• misc. pattern paper (that I've had for who knows how long) - outside and inside card
• stone ghost sign sticker * my favorite hoarded item *(another piece that I've had for who knows how long)
• brad - to hold on the stone ghost sign sticker
• misc. clear BOO stamp - on the inside
• misc. clear Happy Hauntings stamp - on the inside

Here's the inside:

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Bitten By the Bug 2 - Window Challenge - open til 7/22
• Shopping Our Stash Challenge #60 - Precious Hoarded Item - open til 7/23
• Cooking with Cricut #95 - Buttons and/or Brads - open til 7/24

Thank you so much for stopping y and checking out my Haunted Window card.

Frightfully Delightful Spider Halloween card

I have here for you today a card I was inspired to do because of a couple of challenges:

• Krafty Girls Challenge #11 - Color Splash - create a paper kraft that is black and white with a burst of color of your choice - I used green - ends 7/15
• Haunted Design House - Macabre Monday - HDH#141 - Butchered Blueprint -You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that uses the following sketch.
  
  
   You can follow the sketch completely, or you may take some
  artistic license. Either way, the sketch should be obvious and easy to find - ends 7/15

• I think I was able to follow the challenge with just a minor change in the location of the stiches

• Party Time Tuesdays Challenge #76 - Lets Get Punchy - ends 7/16
• Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Challenge - Anything Goes - ends 7/20

I used these items to create this easel card:

• Design Studio
• Martha Stewart punch
• Eyelets
• Floss
• October 31st Cricut cartridge - spider
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut cartridge - web
• Glossy Accents - spider
• misc. Halloween clear stamps
• foam squares - spider

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Frightfully Delightful Spider Halloween card.