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
