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Carmi's Art/Life World 
Carmi creates one special Christmas card using rubber stamps and paint. 

Cindy Gimbrone Beads 
Cindy and her blue fingers review The Handbook of Metal Clay. 

Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at our crafty world 
This week at Craftside there are tutorials on how to needle felt a bat and a pumpkin with a cute mouse, an early recycled sweater Christmas tree designed with the new Sizzix die, a chance to win a copy of How to Draw Steampunk, how to build garden row covers, a reportage video and a recipe for a fast fruity skillet cake.

Crafty Princess Diaries 
Combine some basic crochet skills with soap collecting for this charity donation idea. 

Crafty Princess Diaries 
Combine some basic crochet skills with soap collecting for this charity donation idea. 

Eileen - The Artful Crafter 
Rather than stashing your mom’s jewelry away to tarnish and gather dust, combine some of your favorite pieces into a M.O.M.s (Memories of Mom) necklace. 

Mixed Media Artist 
Cyndi's hand stitched silk top quilt is all finished! Whew!! 

Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery 
See how to make a secret window in a glitter decoupaged book with a Fiskars Everywere Punch. 

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Halloween Printables

Looking for last min Halloween printablesor other occasions check out myPinterest board for a variety of linksHERE
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Inchie Catch-up

I've been catching up on my inchies for 

Every Inchie Monday the last few days. 

 Kiss

Sparkle

 Wisdom

 Destination

 Dreams

Curiosity

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Freebie Recipe Card and Label

If you love pumpkin like I do you will love this 

pumpkin biscotti recipe I'm reposting below.

Free Printable Recipe Card

Click the image above, save, download and print.

Free Printable Pumpkin Label

Click the image above, save, download and print.

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Mini Cake

I just remembered it was safe to share this mini cake 

photo with you that I made for a friend's birthday.

I want to stress that I am not a cake decorator 

whatsoever I just wing it. I have found some 

helpful tools as I go along.  One of them is an 

icing sculpting set my hubby gave me for my 

birthday. That's what I used to create the

ridges around main part of the cake.

To bake my cake I used an idea I borrowed from 

pinterest where you bake mini cakes using food 

cans you've saved.  For this cake I used a large 

canned pear can and sprayed the inside with Pam 

cooking spray and then filled it 3/4 the way full.

For the flavoring I used packets of crystal light 

raspberry pink lemonade to flavor both the white 

cake mix and the frosting.

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About Family Crafts 
The current craft challenge is all about crafting with plastic bags. Submit your project and browse through the pumpkin projects submitted for the last craft challenge. 

Cindy Gimbrone Beads 
Cindy reviews Craft Activism just in time for Make a Difference Day! 

Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world 
This week at Craftside there is a blanket stitched felted flower pattern and tutorial, a chance to win a copy of The Wine Lover's Devotional, some high fashion clothing details, and a recipe for an oven smoked roast. 

Crafty Princess Diaries 
The Crafty Princess takes a trip and talks a little about the benefits of attending functions away from home.

Eileen - The Artful Crafter 
Got tea lights? Look at this darling mini birthday cake favor you can make with them. You’ll find directions for a coordinating birthday card as well. 

Mixed Media Artist 
Cyndi's painted silk fabric quilt is almost finished! 

Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery 
How to make a recycled wool sweater pumpkin with flower die cuts. 

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Birthday Canvas

I just had to share my wonderful birthday gift I
received from my friend!  Its a piece of canvas she
painted and stenciled and made into a door hanger!

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Freebie Halloween Postcard

Herm an Ethel have arrived for their annual visit.  

Sadly the economy has effected them as well and 

they're looking for work.  Don't let them fool you

we always feed them while they're visiting LOL

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Herm and Ethel pictures.

Click the images to save and download 

and send to your friends and family.

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Bootiful Halloween Magnets

3D Crystal Lacquer Blank Bottle Caps 1" Round images or stickers Magnets Large Windowed Tin *

Gem Particles (Blue Flash) * 3D Colored Crystal Lacquer * (black, brown, yellow) Rub-ons * *Optional

Here's a fun and easy project to make and give as a party favor or for a hostess gift. A couple of projects ago I showed how to make a faux hand blown glass ornament (HERE) and in one of the steps I showed how I drained the excess 3D Crystal Lacquer I used into blank bottle caps.  Once the bottle caps were dry I put them away and saved them for a later project.  You know the old saying waste not want not....I mean after all 3D Crystal Lacquer doesn't grow on trees *wink*

Step 1: Gather your supplies-- For my 1" images I used some marked down Halloween stickers I had picked up after Halloween last year that I had stashed away.	Step 2:  apply a small amount of 3D Crystal Lacquer to the base of each bottle cap and add your 1" images or stickers to the center of the bottle cap, and  allow to dry.
Step 3: Once the images are adhered and dried inside your bottle caps fill each cap up with clear 3D Crystal Lacquer (use a toothpick or pin to pop any air bubbles you might have).  Set your bottle caps aside in a level, draft and dust free area.	Step 4: Once your bottle caps are dry turn them over and  adhere your magnet to the bottom side of the cap using more 3D Crystal Lacquer.
Tin: Click HERE to see my previous project showing how I decorated another Halloween tin.  I first applied yellow and brown 3D Crystal Lacquer to the frontside of the clear window and allowed it to dry, level. Then on the front of the clear window I used rub-ons, and to give  the tree some dimension I used black 3D Crystal Lacquer over the rub-on tree.  Once the tree was dry I applied an even layer of clear 3D Crystal Lacquer over the entire clear window and rub-ons.  I also added  fun gem particles to the wet lacquer at the base of the tree and haunted house to give it some bling.	Here are the finished  Halloween magnets attached inside my tin by their magnets.

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Altered Matchboxes Part 2

I previously posted my altered matchboxes (HERE) and

now here they are finished with their ribbon hangers 

and numbers added and their giftees packed inside.

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Crafty Blogger Blurbs

About Family Crafts 
Lookinng for a fun Halloween gift for your neighbors? Check out these fun ideas that will have you ringing the door bell and running! 

Carmi's Art/Life World 
A sweet pop out card featuring a rubber stamp launch from the Crafter's Companion is this weeks special post. 

Craft Buds 
Pick up some free Halloween printables at Craft Buds, including subway art and a cut-and-assemble Halloween banner for your mantle. While you're there, you can look for the easy fabric pumpkins tutorial, and get your home ready for fall!

Craftside- A behind-the-scenes peek at our crafty world 
This week at Craftside there is a chance to win a copy of the book The Art of Vintage Journaling and Collage with a tutorial on how to make a rock collage paperweight, a link to enter to win 12 design books along with quotes and eye-candy from Quilt Hall of Fame inductee Nancy Crow and the book Design Matters.

Crafty Princess Diaries 
Tammy shows the results of doubling up on yarn to make a loom hat using school colors. 

Eileen - The Artful Crafter 
Here’s a quick and easy tutorial for making vintage-look bottle vases. 

Lindsay Sews 
Modern quilters unite to host the 12 Days of Christmas Sample Quilt Along. Each block will be different, and with only two blocks per week for 6 weeks, it's easy to join in! Get your fabric ready, because it kicks off in two weeks. 

Mixed Media Artist 
Piecing the top of a hand-painted silk quilt is like doing a giant puzzle! 

Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery 
Free crochet tiny ghost pattern. 

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Jenny Holiday's Blog Giveaway

It's a win win situation over at Jenny Holiday's blog.  She is offering a fantastic giveaway for a cuttlebug.  There are 3 chances to enter and win. By just becoming a follower is a winning deal in itself since she has such awesome products and designs!

Click HERE to find out more information 

and visit Jenny's blog.

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She was Bewitched!

BEWITCHED

Here's another Artist Trading Block I created for a 

Holiday swap as I mentioned HERE previously.

I again used an image from OTM's 

Halloween Collage Sheet 1 and a few other 

images I had in my stash.  For the base I used an empty 

ribbon spool that I painted and added mini dingleballs to.

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Halloween Cookies

I baked my usual  holiday sugar cookies the other 

day, and finally manged to get them decorated 

today. I followed  Sweet Sugar Belle's frosting 

recipe and tutorial on how to decorate cookies 

using a piping and squeeze bottle technique.  I 

didn't do too badly just need a bit more practice and 

more squeeze bottles (it's so much easier this way!). 

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Holiday Artist Trading Blocks

I just finished up a couple of Artist Trading 

Chubby Blocks for a holiday swap I'm in. On the 

Halloween ATB I used a weathered block and misted 

it with a combination of Tungsten Carbide and Sterling 

Silver Color Mists  from the Molten Metals set. I really 

love the dark shimmery look they gave the wood.

Next I used images from OTM's 

Halloween 1 Collage sheet and 

gave them some dimension by adding 

3D Crystal Lacquer over the images.

I also drilled a hole in the top and added a rusty 

bent piece of wire I mounted through a skull bead 

and then glued onto the block. I hung a key, 

and some ribbons from the end.

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This ATB I made for a friend knowing she likes the color 

combinations of  turquoise and red. I first adhered some 

freebie images found online that I printed up, and then 

added some DecoArt's Snow-Tex and while it was still 

wet I sprinkled extra fine glitter dust. I then embedded 

bells and beads into the wet snow and let it dry.  I also 

adhered one of Sakura's Glass tiles over the words 

on the front side of the block.  I love how the 

glass tile magnified the words!  

 

Again, I used push pins for the feet.

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