Now I am not big on Halloween. I don't personally like ooky spooky things and I just honestly feel like there is nothing Australian about it - we don't need to borrow someone else's celebration, so I was really glad to see that "Cats and Bats" can also work really well for non-Halloween subjects. It worked well for my son's October birthday and also exceptionally well for school themed photos.
One thing I was really happy about is how well it works with Willow and Emerald cardstock (I may have over-ordered those two colours at some point LOL)
I even found that the compliments could be easily tweaked to suit my purposes. Did you notice how I turned "Halloween" into "Hello Ten"? I think my favourite thing about this pack was those glittery black stars - so many of them and they work on just about any page!
I also really wanted to play with our new Make It From Your Heart Volume 3 so you might find that patterns 29 and 30 look familiar?
So now on to Kara's Blog
Thanks for reading!
Keep smiling,
Nell
p.s. I do plan to play with Falling for You before my workshops next month so check back later this month for a blog post featuring it!
6 comments:
Yes I am not big into Halloween but it was easy to use the Bats and Cats collection for other themes. All of your layouts are lovely.
What a great range of layouts Nell. I love how you have turned Halloween on it's head!
Your pages look so much fun!
I love the bright green pages the best. Great projects. Fun!
Amazing layouts!! This does work well for subjects other than Halloween as your beautiful layouts show! I was wondering why in the Australian Blog Hop I had not seen anything Halloween--so it IS a U.S. thing, then. Now I know. Do you have any special holiday that is something from your corner of the world?
Hi Kathleen, while Halloween isn't at all Australian, it is becoming quite a big thing here. My sis celebrates it and in my old neighbourhood we got trick or treaters.
Australia doesn't really have many of its own holidays - Australia Day (which contentiously celebrates White Settlement on Jan 26th) Anzac Day (which celebrates war veterans - initially the first World War but now generally including all soldiers) and Remembrance Day which does the same thing. I would kind of like to see us have a holiday for the Melbourne Cup (which is Australia's biggest horse race) but we don't and instead have a few public holidays that are still a hangover from our British Colonial past - like Labour Day and Queen's birthday. I've always thought it odd that we would rather adopt Halloween than Thanksgiving - if I could adopt an American holiday I think thanksgiving would be much better! I love the idea of everyone being a bit more grateful for what they have! Thanks for reading and leaving a comment!
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