Lori Hairston: September 2015

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Free Silhouette Image + Halloween Party Winners!

Hi, there! Are you about ready for another work week? Hope you've had a lovely weekend!

Speaking of lovely...this silhouette certainly is:

Isn't her dog sweet? I was lucky to find such a darling vintage card! I've got her and the sentiment ready for you to download.

You can download the silhouette and sentiment HERE.

You can tell that I cut the girl and her dog out of the card. Love how the texture of the original card came through.

The Halloween Party was great fun and WOW! there were a lot of wonderful projects! Hope you had fun! Now to announce the winners!!

Lawn Fawn Pillowbox and Peek-A-Bat Dies: Jennifer Scull

The Cutting Cafe Three Sets of Your Choice: 2amscrapper

The Funkie Junkie $25.00 gift certificate: cm (carol)

My Mega Party Giveaway: Lisa

Congratulations to all of you! I always wish I could give a prize to everyone - thank you to all of you that left such sweet comments!!

If you are a winner, email me(you can click on the email on my sidebar) and I'll get back with you on the details of collecting your prize.

Want one more chance to win? The challenge is open until October 3rd. You can find all the details HERE.

Have a wonderful week!

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Halloween Party 2015, Day Three

It's Day Three! I can't wait to see what everyone has for us today. It's so fun to hop around and see all the Halloween Goodies. If you missed Day One or Day Two, you can find them HERE and HERE.

My first project today features one of my all time favorite cut-files from The Cutting Cafe. I use the seed packet file all the time! It's perfect as a treat, card, and tag pocket.

I think the Boo-tiful Day sentiment is so pretty. Wouldn't this be perfect as a "You've Been Booed" treat? This is part of a Cutting Cafe file. I'm thrilled with this black and gold pocket!

I also made a tag using The Cutting Cafe's Halloween Labels. You can get all the links to the files below.

Project Two is a treat box you can download.

And I love the black cat in a pumpkin - adorable, right? I've got that ready for you to download too. It's part of the vintage images for Halloween Party 2015.

Download the treat box HERE and HERE.
Download the black cat HERE.
Download the Printable Tags HERE.
This box is super easy to put together. The tabs (where the glue will go) are the solid yellow. You need to print both pages. If you have any questions, the video from THIS POST has a similar box.

If you like the patterns of this box, you can find a cube shaped box (and another cute kitty download perfect for Halloween) with a lid in THIS POST.

How about one more project? This one is magic!! Do you remember the magic slider cards from awhile back?

It really seems like magic when the picture is pulled out and it changes from black and white (or in my case black and yellow) to full color! The Halloween Magic and Tab are part of the tag printables above. Hard to photograph how cool it really is! I've got a video to show all the details on putting this one together.

Remember we've got PRIZES! Another BIG THANK YOU to the Halloween Party sponsors:

Lawn Fawn: pillow box and peek-a-bat dies
The Cutting Cafe: three free files of your choice
The Funkie Junkie Boutique: $25 gift certificate

I'm also giving a MEGA Halloween Party PRIZE (everything in the pictures + a $15 Lawn Fawn Gift Certificate:

How can you win these awesome prizes???

Easy. Leave a comment on my blog that you would like to win. Visit all the participating blogs and leave a comment for them. For every comment you leave, you get your name "in the hat." So if you leave a comment on every participating blog today, you get your name in the hat five times. If you commented on all the blogs yesterday and today, that makes eleven! It's not too late to comment on yesterday's posts, if you haven't. All winners will be announced on Sunday, September 27th. So be sure to leave all your comments by Saturday, September 26th at 11:59 p.m. central time.

This is the first ever Choux Choux Paper Art Challenge! The awesome prize I'm giving is a $25.00 gift certificate to Lawn Fawn! Told you the prize was AWESOME! Link up Halloween or Fall Projects. You can link up as many current projects as you want. Be sure to link to the ChouxChoux challenge in your post. Link up by Saturday, October 3rd. Winner (chosen by random selection) will be announced on Sunday, October 4th.

Link to the challenge HERE.

Enjoy the last day of Halloween Party 2015! Let 's go visit these blogs:

Have fun! Be sure to check back Sunday to see if you're a winner. See you Sunday!

Monday, September 21, 2015

Halloween Party Day Two

Glad you've come back for Day Two of the Halloween Party! I had so much fun looking at everyone's creations yesterday - hope you had fun, too! If you missed Day One, click HERE.

First up today, meet Batty! I am in LOVE with her! I'm just amazed by her wavy feet. What fun she is to watercolor. In the video below, I'm showing how to create the background with distress inks and how I colored Batty. At the beginning of the video, I show how to create the gusseted treat bag (you know gussets let you put in MORE candy!).

The I'm Batty for You tag is part of the 2015 Halloween Party Printable Tags. You can download it HERE. I used a starburst die to cut it out and edged it with some distress ink.

You know I love vintage images - especially images that are cute and sweet. I've got two for you today that I turned into Halloween cards and they are free for you to download.

Aren't they cute and sweet? Just a little bit of glitter to top them off! Hope you will create a little something with them, too!

You can download these two cuties HERE.