My Graphic 45 Happy Haunting House

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Well, here it is! My haunted house using the wonderful Graphic 45 collection called "Happy Haunting" - aren't they beautiful papers? The house took me 2 weeks of 6-12 hour days and it is ALL fussy cut and pasted on! Each little piece is hand cut and then all the edges are colored in black marker so so that it all blends in. Many of the small figures are layered so as to give them a 3-D layered look. Can you spot the little girl looking out of the window? The 2-sided moon is attached with wire so he bobbles about - isn't he great? I love this collection and owned it for a long time before I cut into the papers. I apologize for the dark photos of the house itself but if you click on the photos you can get a larger image. I also took some close ups so that you can see more detail. Enjoy!

I also made a journal with these papers and will post the photos later this weekend. Thank you for stopping by to visit my blog today! Wishing you a Happy Halloween!

Hugs,

Barbara Diane

A Quick Halloween Card

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A quick card today using my favorite Graphic 45 papers. I have made my haunted house with all of the papers from this collection - 2 weeks of fussy cutting and pasting and will have photos tomorrow.

Thank you for visiting my blog! Wishing you a happy day today!

Hugs,

Barbara Diane

Now She Needs A Name!

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Here she is - the Witch Pop-Up Doll - and she is such fun to interact with! I have many photos today but I tried to show what she could do and I had to take the photos and hold the doll at the same time. I really need a video to do her justice, but this is what I have. I hope that you enjoy! I love this doll - she is an amazing toy and perfect for story telling.

And now she needs a name! Any suggestions? She is not very big as you can see. I need to paint the stick and I might add some embellishments but I wanted to show her to you! Wishing you a happy Monday!

Hugs,

Barbara Diane

Hands and Clothes - Next Is Hair and the Pop-Up Cone

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In these photos the witch has her hands and her clothes and she is so weary of the wait! Poor dear! She wanted her hair on and to be in her pop-up cone so she could begin to have fun hiding and scaring people! I will have photos of the completed doll on Monday. My camera takes a video but I have never taken one and have no idea how to put it on my blog if I did take one. Plus it's hard to take the video and show the interaction of the doll at the same time. I have to figure this out or just photos will have to do. :<)

Thank you for visiting my blog today! I love all of your e-mails and comments! Thank you! We have some sunshine today in this part of WI - and not too cold! Wishing you a great weekend!

Hugs,

Barbara Diane

The Witch's Hat

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My new doll is a pop-up toy of a witch. She has a hat! (Can you see her little hand pattern in the upper right? That's next.)

I'm late today - have to leave for an appointment but wanted to get these photos posted. Tomorrow I have the hands - she is really cute and what a fun interactive toy! Wishing you a good one!

Hugs,

Barbara Diane

Halloween Is On My Workdesk This Wednesday

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This Wednesday I am sharing some first photos of my Halloween house for "What's On Your Workdesk?". I have been going back and forth between this project and my new doll and I am very behind on this one as it requires so much fussy cutting to decorate it. My son Jim painted the house the first time and then I did the touch ups but when I had to cut out additional floor sections to get the green paper behind the windows, it damaged the house at the base and I had to do repairs and paint again. Now I have the fences all painted so hopefully I can trade in the black paint for the scissors!

I finished my pop-up Witch doll today so I will be posting photos this week. It was another sunny day today in this part of WI but the colder weather is not making me happy. The older I get, the harder it is to get through the winters with the snow and cleaning/moving the car, etc. But I live in WI - so unless I move to a warmer climate within the next few weeks I best deal with it.

So hop over to the 'Stamping Spot' to see what everyone is doing today! Julia has a great new look to her blog - check it out at http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ Wishing you a good one!

Hugs,

Barbara Diane