Freebie Friday Free Subway Art Printable and Spooky Halloween Card

Spooky Halloween Card

I hope this post finds you well.  Today I have a fun Halloween card and I am also re-posting the free 911 Subway Art.

Does this ever happen to you? You start out making a card (or any project) and you just start adding things to it, and when you are done it becomes one of your favorite projects? Well this card is one of mine.  I love the oranges and purples for Halloween and think they look great with black.  So, I started to pull out my Halloween paper pack and decided on a black card base.

The shapes are cut using the Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 2.  There is something about this die that I truly love! I don't know what it is, but I am really drawn to it. It may be because if you cut it just right, it looks a lot like a Frankenstein monster head, don't you think? I was fortunate to be able to capture the "spooky" in one of the cutouts and then I started playing.

The final piece I added was the spider.  At first he was on-dimensional and then I asked myself, what would be creepier than a spider getting ready to build his web? So I took my Martha spider punch and started punching.  If you haven't created something like this before, it is easier than it looks.

How to make a creepy spider with a Martha Stewart punch

• Punch your shape 5 - 7 times
• This works best when your shape is symmetrical
• I like to punch odd numbers, odd just works better
• As you can see, I kept to my colors of black and orange and there is a pop of red in there
• Fold your shape in half
• Glue the folded shapes together
• ** They will make a half circle (this means that the left and right ends are not glued together
• ****Note - you can do this and if this guy had been hanging in an opening on the card I may have done that, but I also would have needed more punched pieces

Adding that little bit of movement to this card...

• Do you see that black twine (it started out white, nothing a little sharpie can't handle)
• I then tied it to the top of my nestability and attached it to the center line of my "half circle spider"
• I punch one more shape and glue my "half circle spider" onto that (I do this for stability and to keep it flat so he slides around)
• The rest of the twine is left loose so that he swings back and forth - sends chills up your spine, doesn't it?

I gave this card to a friend of mine and she loves it so much it is up all year long on a cork board she has (now that is a true friend! every time I see it, it makes me happy that something I made is loved so much).

Remember 911 card

I am also sharing with you today the card I made for 911. I modified it slightly from the one I posted here.  I gave this to my son the morning of 9-11, the modifications I made were that I added a small white feather and popped up the corner stars of the card.

Here is the printable again if you missed it.

Free Remember 911 Subway Art Printable

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables (and now cut files) with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, etc, because I would love to hear from you

• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)

• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.

• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!

• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 

• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

I will be linking up to these parties over the next few days.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Remembering 9-11

Remember 911

Do you remember where you were when you heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center? It is that moment of my generation, similar to the day John F Kennedy was assassinated. For me, I cannot forget the horror and images that replay in my mind.

I was at work, and my husband called me and asked if I'd heard? I didn't know what he was talking about, but noticed people gathering around the television.  From that moment on, we were all sickeningly glued to the television. Our brains were screaming, this cannot be true, and our hearts were crying for those trapped, and for their families and friends. Everyone wondering if someone they knew was in the building. My husband could see the smoke from the burning buildings, and was relieved that they didn't have a meeting there that day.

I still get emotional when I remember seeing the second plane crash into the South Tower, it was 9:03 am, then the Pentagon, news of another flight that was likely hijacked, then the most horrifying thing happened, at 9:59 am the South Tower collapsed. At 10:03 the brave passengers of flight 93 die as the hijackers crash the plane in a field in Pennsylvania. Finally, at 10:28 am the North Tower collapses. All those innocent people, all those families whose lives were changed forever.  Nearly 3,000 people died that day.

Remember 911 free subway art printable

In the face of all that horror were stories of bravery, the passengers of flight 93 who tried to stop the terrorists and lost their lives while preventing the plane from reaching its target. The brave firemen, policemen,  and all first responders who rushed into those buildings that would soon collapse. Do you remember what you were doing or where you were when you heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center? 

As we get up and go about our days today, try to remember to take a moment to remember those who lost their lives that day. Give your spouse a kiss, your kids an extra hug, call your parents, do something kind today.

Remember 911 card

Wishing you and your families are safe today.

Free Easter Subway Art

I have been having some fun this weekend, and am happy to share a quick Easter Subway Art with you today!  It is perfect to print and put in a frame, I printed mine on parchment paper.  I really like the texture that parchment paper adds to what you print on it.  I have been using parchment paper quite a bit lately. Apologies for my pictures of late, my camera isn't working and I am using the camera on my phone... just isn't cutting it... that and the fact that I am taking photos while on the go so I haven't exactly staged them... :-)

I hope you like it!

Oh, yesterday I mentioned that these would look nice as cards.  I think this project would look cute that way too.  I do have to make quite a few Easter cards for the kids, and the nieces and nephews.  What do you think? Maybe that will be my next project?

Click here for the PDF with the free printables

As always, I am happy to share my tutorials, freebies / printables (and now cut files) with you, I only ask that you do the following:

• Please leave a comment if you download a  freebie / printable / digi, etc, because I would love to hear from you

• If you enjoy the things I share with you, please become a follower so that you will see all the new stuff when it is posted (no pressure, join only if you want)

• Please do not share any of my digital images, printables, or tutorials directly with others, but please do send them on over to me so that they can peruse and collect the images themselves.

• I would be thrilled and honored if you would send me links to any images or posts that you've done using something that I have shared with you.  If you say it is ok, I will even feature your work here!

• If you want to recolor the images, feel free! 

• If you have a special request, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Most importantly be Fantastically Creative You!

I hope you have a wonderful day!