Halloween Card

 I actually started making some Halloween cards!  I was trying to get some made early as I will be MIA for awhile as I am having surgery tomorrow on my left hand.  I have severe carpel tunnel and trigger fingers on both hands.  I should have done this long ago but put it off and of course it got worst.  I am having my left hand done first and we will see how it goes.  With my disability it will be interesting how I will be able to get about.  I didn't get too many cards done though unfortunately.  This first card I saw on Pinterest.  I had been wanting to use my Wreath Builder & Template and stamp set by Gina K again and I loved how this turned out.  Instead of flowers and leaves I used pumpkin faces!

For the card on the left I used the pumpkin face from SU's Harvest Hello stamp set.  I thought it was a little large, so I took out my Halloween stamps and found a smaller one that I had in an old Paper Pumpkin from SU.  Which one do you like?  

For the witches hats, I used SU's Toile and Trouble DSP and cut it with the Cauldron Bubble Framelits dies.  

For the inside sentiment, I used my old Michael's $1 stamp and decorated it with some washi tape.  I am really making a concentrated effort to use up what I have before I buy anything new.

Here are some pictures from our trip to Tennessee.  The first one is a great restaurant we found on our first day at Pidgeon Forge.  It was a replica of the old diners which brought back a lot of good memories!  

They had some great old cars parked out front and everyone was dressed up in 50's attire.  

Inside they had 2 old cars - one red and the other pink - and in the middle they had cut out a booth for people to sit and we got to sit in the red one.  Here is a pix of Joe, Jennifer and I waiting for our food!

One of our stops was at the Parrot House.  This was such a cool place!  They were celebrating their 20th Anniversary.  They started out with 1 parrot and today they have 1,000!  I have so many pictures of all the different species but I loved this one with Jennifer and Jeannie with all the birds!

Another stop was at Dolly's Parton's Stampede.  It was a dinner show with lots of entertainment.  We loved the horses! 

Here is Joe and Jennifer having a great time.  This was their past time every night!  The loser had to buy the ice cream!  It was always a fierce battle but Joe always lost!!

On the way home we stopped in Virginia at the Luray Caverns.  Here is a picture of Jennifer, Jeannie and Daisy.  When I was 9 years old I went there and remember how we had to walk through it up and down on very tiny steps!  It is all different today as the steps have been replace with a path.  It was so brutality hot that day so it was so nice being in the caverns!

It's hard to see but that's Joe and I in the picture.  

It was just as beautiful as I remembered!

Here is a picture of Jennifer.  She was amazed at the caverns!

Here is a picture of Jennifer and I on the path.  

Here is a picture of music being played and the different sounds it makes in that area of the cavern.  It was really beautiful!

As I mentioned, we had to cut our trip short due to the flooding/oncoming hurricane and were not able to go to Nashville so that is still on my bucket list!

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy