Happy Halloween! Happy Birthday! And The Spider Papers Freebie!

There sure is a lot going on today! As you know by reading my blog it is my birthday and that we are headed to Disney this afternoon.

And of course you know that it is also Halloween today. It is the one day of the year you get to dress up funny and act silly. Well, some of you may do that every day, but for the rest of us it is a day to let out hair down and have a good time.

Today I am offering the last of my 2008 Halloween freebies. I hope you have downloaded all my other Halloween offerings!

Here is the Spider Papers freebie for you. It contains 10 papers with a cute little spider on them.

Halloween Kit Add On Freebie

Only one more day until Halloween! Have you downloaded all the spooky freebies you need yet?

I'll offer one more Halloween themed freebie tomorrow (Halloween Day) and then it will be back to designing "regular" stuff until Thanksgiving comes around!

Today is the rest of the Halloween Kit from yesterday. So here is the Halloween Kit Add On for yout to get your spider overlay and a another Jack-O-Lantern in a slightly differnt color and texture.

Remember, don't stress over eating too much candy in the next few days. You deserve a break! Just get right back on the diet/exercise wagon and keep going! One or two days will not destroy your progress so far. Just don't get TOO slack! LOL

Halloween Kit Freebie

Well, it certainly got chilly here in Florida! I love it. Now don't get me wrong...anything colder than it is right now and I don't think I'd like that.

That's one reason why fall is my favorite time of the year: it is cooler but not freezing cold. I hope this stays this way at least until Halloween because we are spending my birthday at Disney Hollywood Studios (formerly known as Disney MGM.)

We hate going to the theme parks in the summer when it is so hot you are miserable all day. One year we were at Universal Studios and it was so cold there was hardly anyone there at all.

We had gone that late in the year because we wanted to see the Macy's Parade. Well we had no lines in any of the rides because most people stayed away until later in the afternoon towards time for the parade. It was like having the park as a private playground!

Anyway...enough about that (can't you tell I'm excited about the cooler weather??!!) If you have managed to keep reading this far down then you get to download todays's digital scrapbooking freebie: the Halloween Kit!

Have fun with this kit and make sure to pick up the Halloween Kit Add On tomorrow!

Halloween Freebie: Bat Buttons

Today I am offering you a set of six Bat Buttons I made from public domain clipart. I always try to make sure the stuff I use is in the public domain and is free to use without credit or permission.

As always, if this is your work and you can prove it then I will most definately remove it from my site. The last thing I want to do is steal something that belongs to someone else.

Early in my digital scrabook blogging I accidently used something that belonged to someone else. I didn't mean to pirate their stuff and as soons as I was contacted I removed it from my blog.

So enjoy another Halloween freebie that is just a little bit different. But isn't that why you keep coming back...because I offer stuff that has a sort of different look to it? I hope so!

Dracula Template is Last Freebie In Monster Template Series

Here is the sixth of my Monster Template Series. I love these movies and it has been my pleasure to introduce (or re-introduce) them to you.

Today's Monster Template is the Dracula Template and it features Bela Lugosi as the infamous vampire. There have been many versions of Dracula but nothing beats this one from 1931!

The other templates in the Monster Template Series include:

Our Little Monster

I Want My Mummy

Creature Feature

Wolf Man

Phantom of the Opera

Monster Template Series #5: Phantom of the Opera

Some people may not consider The Phantom of the Opera a Halloween horror movie (especially if they have only seen the 2004 version.)

However, back in 1925, Lon Chaney made a slient version of Phantom of the Opera and if this isn't a scarry Halloween monster then I don't know what is. The tag line when this movie was released was, "The greatest horror film of modern cinema!"

Today's digital scrapbooking freebie uses Chaney's image from the 1925 film and the "logo" from the 2004 version. Here is the Phantom of the Opera Template.

By the way, the Lon Chaney in this template is the father of the Lon Chaney in the Wolf Man Template.

Please make sure you check out the other four templates in the Monster Template Series. And come back for the last template tomorrow.

Wolf Man Template Freebie

As Halloween gets closer and closer, I am continuing to offer spooky freebies! I figure Halloween is a major picture taking time with all the costumes and parties so you will need a lot of digital scrapbooking elements, templates and what not.
Here is the fourth in my Monster Template Series. It is the Wolf Man Template featuring Lon Chaney, Jr as the Wolf Man (1941.)

This was always one of my favorites when we got to stay up and watch the Halloween Spooktacular special on tv when I was a child. It may look a little goofy to a grown up, but it was certainly "the real thing" to a 10 year old! We were so naive back then!

I used a pentagram border because it was the shape of the pentagrm in the palm of your hand that signified you would become a werewolf! Ha...caught you looking at your own palm, huh? LOL

I also used some vines for the frames to represent the wolfbane (acutally wolfsbane) mentioned in the poem from the movie. The vines don't actually look like wolfsbane, but give me a little poetic license here if you will!!!

Besides, you're still trying to get a glimpse of your neighbor's palm to check for that pentagram, aren't you LOL

Creature Feature Template Freebie

It is time for part three of my Monster Template Series. I hope you have been collecting them so far!

Here is the Creature Feature Template. It spotlights the Creature From the Black Lagoon.

Did you know that movie was filmed right here in Florida? It was in a place called Silver Springs, near Ocala.

NOTE: If you would like something special from me regarding a post I have offered, please email my direct link located in my sidebar. If you leave me a message on 4 Shared I really have no way of contacting you directly. I'd like to be able to answer you yes or no...depending on if I can actually do what you requested or not. I don't want to not be able to do it and never let you know that.

Halloween: I Want My Mummy Template Freebie

Today is part two of six in my Monster Template Series. Here is the I Want My Mummy Template.

Once again this template has an overlay of my favorite horror actor...Boris Karloff. Check out yesterday's Our Little Monster Template for the other Karloff template. It just can't be Halloween without Boris Karloff.

But did you know that Boris Karloff was also the voice of the narrator in the 1966 Christmas classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas?

Freebie: Our Little Monster Template

I'm starting my Halloween templates today. The series is entitled Monster Template Series and it contains 6 famous monsters.

As usual I am including both the Paint Shop Pro version, as well as the Photoshop version of each template in its daily zip.

The first entry in this new series is called Our Little Monster and features Boris Karloff as Frankenstein. This is such a classic movie. If you haven't watched THIS version then you REALLY should!
When my son was about 13 we rented this version of Frankenstein along with the comedy version made in 1974, Young Frankenstein . We watched them back to back and I was able to show my son WHY Young Frankenstein was so funny.

Yes, even on its own that movie is halarious. BUT, if you know exactly WHY you are laughing at something it makes it even funnier. My son was able to see the original dramatic scene in Frankenstein and then see the way they made fun of it in Young Frankenstein.

It was a great "family time" activity and every year at this time he will mention something about it in passing (and that was 8 years ago) That shows me he really enjoyed what we did together.

This series contains overlays of the creatures so you don't have to worry about coloring them in exactly. These movies were made in black and white so to me the true Frankenstein or Dracula is a black and white monster! LOL

I hope you can make some cool layouts with these templates in this series! Please let me see what you come up with.

Add On To Ghouls

Thanks for the great comments on my Ghouls freebie. Here is the rest of the kit: Ghouls Add On.

Now that I have all of my Halloween freebies completed I am going to be working on some things to offer between Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Beginning tomorrow I will offer my series of Monster Templates for Halloween. There are six of them altogether. I hope you like them!!!!

See you tomorrow!

More Halloween Freebies: Ghouls

Continuing with the Halloween theme, I have a kit with some textured pieces that you are going to love! Get the Ghouls here!

This collection contains some lace frames and borders that give it that gauzy/flimsy feel to match the female ghoul.

Of course these frames and borders can be used on fancy layouts as well as ones with a Halloween flavor.

The frames and borders were made using designer elements from The Ephemeral Victorian.

Come back tomorrow for the Ghouls Add On and keep coming back the rest of the month for plenty more Halloween freebies!

Halloween Freebie: Ghost Alphabet

Here is a really cute little freebie that I'm offering today. It is simply called Ghost Alphabet. Why try and get fancy with the name when something plain and simple will work just as well!? LOL

I'm working on a series of Halloween templates I hope to be able to offer the middle of next week. Keep your eyes open for that one!

Hope you are having a great weekend!