Stamping and Scrapbooking!

Well, it's Monday and today starts Challenge #8 on the DRS Designs Blog!! This challenge is to use your stamps in your scrapbooks and make a scrapbook page for fall - any size!!!! I do scrap, but I'm rather new to it. I was a little nervous about how and what I was going to scrap, but once I got started it was really a lot of fun to do.

A few weeks ago my DH and I went to the Cider Mill. I took my camera & was able to capture what we did and saw that day! It was beautiful outside and the weather was nice and warm, almost 80 degrees! Not very Fall-like huh?

We had cider and donuts, went on a hayride, went through the Haunted House, and picked apples and pumpkins to bring home. Later that night I made a fresh home-made Apple Crisp. Yum!

I used my DRS Designs Halloween Stamps to create a 2 page layout for this challenge. I never realized how much you really could use your stamps in scrap booking until I created these pages. All of these ideas came to me very quickly. Make sure to scroll down to see some close up pictures. I'd hate for you to miss all of the little details!

I used the Small Jack O Lantern and the Pumpkin Ribbon Slide to create a border to decorate the lower left and upper right corners of each page.

On the first page I used the sentiment "Just Witching You a Happy Halloween!" and the Witchy Accessories image to decorate it. They were both so fitting with the picture of the Witch from the Cider Mill. This witch was actually on a pole, about 12 feet high, and moved like she was really flying through the air. She also moved her head from side-to-side like she was looking at all the people there, and you could hear her cackle too!

To create my page title, I stamped the Empty Spider Web with black ink all over a large piece of orange cardstock and then cut the letters from it, using my Cricut. The picture above shows the spider web detail on the letters very well. This Frankenstein was a large piece of wood that someone had painted. I thought he looked so cool!

For the second page I used the sentiment "A Treat For you!" to decorate the pictures where we were eating fresh, warm cinnamon donuts. They definitely were a treat! Not sure why I look so sickly white--I even had make-up on, but you can't even tell! (Can you see the "Flying Witch" just behind my DH.)

The Bountiful Basket image on this page represents what a Cider Mill is all about-Harvest Time, and picking your own apples and pumpkins!

We even ran through the Haunted House while we were there! I think my mind played with me more than anything. Anticipating that something was going to jump out at me, was the most scary part. I decorated the Haunted House picture with the RIP Headstone on both sides. They had a grave yard set up just outside the entrance of the Haunted House, but because of the long lines of people I could get a good picture of it.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Small Jack O Lantern, Pumpkin Ribbon Slide, Empty Spider Web, Witchy Accessories, Just Witching You A Happy Halloween!, A Treat For You!, Bountiful Basket, RIP Headstone

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Bazzill cardstock and colored cardstock by The Paper Company
Accessories: Bic Markers, Cricut and George and Basic Shapes Cartridge, Ribbon by May Arts and Bobbie M. Designs, Brads By Joann's Scrap Essentials, Nesties

The DRS Designs DT would love for you to join us in this and any of our other challenges...feel free to use other stamps while you are waiting for your DRS stamps to arrive ;-) If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword DRSC8 and leave a comment here that links directly to your project so we can come check it out! You don't have to do a fall themed page to play...just grab some photos and stamps and knock a few more pages off your scrapbook to do list!!!

Check out the inspiration from the other DT members to get you started...

Angel Rivera

Cathy Indelicato (Team Coordinator)

Dawn Knight

Etha Schuette

Heather Lee-Reppen

Janette Olen

Jessica George

Jessica Knutsen

Vicki Parson


Hope you have an easy going Monday.

I've been off of work all weekend & now it's back to the grind for me.

See you back tomorrow!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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