~HAPPY HALLOWEEN from THE CUTTING CAFE~

Happy Halloween!!!! 

I love Halloween, one of my most favorite holidays with Christmas being number one! I wanted to get this posted earlier, but phew, it was a lot of work. Only because "I" made it a lot of work, which is usually the problem with anything I do...lol But I do have to admit, that I had so much fun making this banner! It's rather large, so I had problems on finding a spot to hang it to get pictures. That was a whole new job in itself lol My husband was still in bed and I'm rather short, so I tried hanging it in a corner of my craft room so that I could snag some pictures, but I wasn't really happy with it, as you can see what I mean. You can't really see it.

So luckily, the old man woke up just in the nick of time to take it into our family room and hang it up on our high wall for me. I used two of the Halloween Printable Sets from  

The Cutting Cafe for this project. 

Halloween Banner Set..Template and Cutting File

Halloween Mini Colored Set..Printable Stamps

The thing I love the most about the Banner set is that there's blank banner templates that you could make your own sayings, not just Halloween. I used Seed Bead Wire to hang altered "Charms" from the banner lettering. They were originally poker chips lol

Also..in appreciation for all the awesome customers that visit The Cutting Cafe, Regina is generously offering a free Stamp Set!!! It's called December Daily 2 and it's FREE until November 6, 2010 -- 11:59PM(PACIFIC TIME) .. Go HERE to get all the details and to download this awesome set!!

Here's a few more close ups of my banner...I hope you enjoy!!!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Halloween Banner Set..Template and Cutting File -- The Cutting Cafe

Halloween Mini Colored Set..Printable Stamps--The Cutting Cafe

 DCWV The Fall Stack & DCWV The Halloween Stack -- Patterned Papers

Stampin' Up -- Whisper White Cardstock -- Template printed on as well as the mini images
EK Success -- 1/2" Circle punch
Stampin' Up -- 1 1/2" Circle Punch

Wrights -- Seed Bead Wire -- Copper & Violet 

Stitching with machine using Black and White all purpose Thread -- Walmart

Harvest Craft Ribbon 1 1/2" -- Walmart

Offray Garbo Black Ribbon -- Walmart

Glitter Orange Sweet Treat Ribbon -- Michaels

I am entering this project into the following challenges:

The Crafty Pad -- Stitching, Real or Faux(each piece is sewn)

Creative Inspirations -- Inspired by The Pumpkin Patch(The banners hanging around the tents)

The Paper Players -- Anything Goes

Oh Alice..--Halloween
Tellen's Place -- Dark and Creepy/Anything Halloween 
Little Red Wagon -- Halloween

Totally Gorjuss -- ooo Spooky, Halloween

Crafty Catz -- Halloween

Mami Doodles -- Anything but a Card

AiFactory -- Halloween

Create with Connie & Mary -- Theme Challenge - Halloween

Digi Doodle -- Anything Goes

Dutch Dare -- Halloween or Purple/Black/Orange/Green

Paper Play -- Halloween

Pixie Dust Studio -- Happy Halloween

Stamp Insanity -- Halloween
One Stop Craft Challenge -- Anything Goes

Anything Goes Challenges -- Halloween

A Crafty Little Place -- Make it Spooky

Paper Playtime -- Halloween
Wee Memories -- Anything Goes