Halloween Treats for School Part 1

I have been busy this week getting all the Halloween treats for school ready.  For every holiday, I alwasy have good intentions of planning and starting early, but it is always busy that last week before treats are to go out!  Here are a few pictures of the treats we prepared for everyone.

Cooper has 2 sets of classmates at his preschool, so we decided to make 2 separate bags for his treats.  He has food allergies, so I always include things in his bag that he can have.  His bags contained Smarties, Skittles, A Scooby Doo Fruit-by-the-Foot, and Halloween stickers.  I used my Build-A-Bear dies and Big Shot for the paper sack, along with the Bingo Bits stamp set for the  "CANDY" stamp -- all from SU!  The paper topper is from a set I picked up in the $1 section at Target. I used the Top Note die on the toppers of the cello bags and the same Target paper.  The pumpkin stamps are from Bingo Bits as well.

These are the treats we made for the teachers.  We covered Hershey nuggets (YUM!) in 1"x 3" Halloween paper (SU!).  The toppers were made using my Big Shot and the Top Note die.  The two ribbon colors are Lucky Limeade and Basic Black -- both SU!  I cut the spider from my Doodlecharms cartridge and the pumpkin from Pumpkin Carvings.

We were in such a hurry this morning, that I forgot to take pics of the older two kids' treats!!  I always send more, so I hope they make it home with them so I can make pics and post them as well.  I had a lovely display already set for one of the treats, and I am so disappointed I forgot to photograph.  I'll have to make up for that at Christmas!

I did get the most important picture this morning though, my babies.  Emilee is Beth Chapman, Dog the Bounty Hunter's wife, and Brody is Big Al, Alabama's mascot.  Cooper is just himself this morning, until (see below)...

Here is one more photo from the fun activities at school this morning.  I think Cooper, who was "taking off from school today", had as much fun as the grade-school children!  He loves this picture because he is allergic to milk, and I don't let him get near the real stuff.

Have a nice Halloween!

Catching Up on Scrapbook Pages

Little by little I am catching up on my scrapbooking. I like to scrapbook each of my children's school years. I try to ask them questions and note their responses, and in most cases, they don't remember what they have told me from year to year. This is part of what makes looking back through them so fun! Now, I didn't say I was all the way caught up, only getting caught up! Over the Labor Day weekend, I finished two pages: one for my oldest's 1st day LAST year and one for my middle child's 1st day LAST year. I have designs for the others I need to do. I was hoping to get baby brother's from preschool last year completed to share, but that didn't happen. Hopefully I will get completed this week.

Here's the first one. I used a Fiskars ad as inspiration. It looks very similar to theirs, but I thought it was neat and cute. I did add the white stitch along the top and bottom of the patterned papers -- I like a stitched look!

The primary color papers of blue and red came from a paper pack I got at Wal-Mart. They have some pretty nice paper for $5 a pack. The patterned paper is from SU!. The apple was cut from the Cricut Lite Recess cartridge. By the way, I'm having an issue with this cartridge and my Gypsy. I cannot cut with the Gypsy and this cartridge, but I can cut with it straight from the Cricut. I will be calling Provocraft tomorrow! I love this cartridge, and really need to use my Gypsy with it. I cut the "back to school" using Plantin.

Here's the second page. For this one, my inspiration came from a Scrapbooks Etc. page.

I used the Recess cartridge for the "School" cut, Plantin for "kindergarten", and DoodleCharms for the bus. All this paper came from Wal-Mart too. Also, the "kindergarten" is done in red vinyl. It is just so much easier to cut out the vinyl and it's usually a cleaner cut. Then, I use my transfer tape to place on the page. It lines up very nicely.

I have about 7 more pages I need to do to get caught up, then do a better job staying on top of it this year. I did do a little clean-up today with my paper and scraps. I will share that soon. I am very pleased with my solid cardstock and scraps, but not 100% on how I want to do my patterned paper yet. Plus, I would like to maintain my SU! paper in a labeled something so I can sync it up with ribbon, etc. Still thinking on best way to do this with limited space. Always something to do!