Trick or Treat!

Hello Everybody!

I made this Halloween card for 2 challenges:

Curtain Call: Spooky Scene

Moxie Fab World: Gold Challenge

I created a scene for my little trick or treaters.  The stamps are from My Mind's Eye (a couple of years ago maybe).  I used distress inks for the background.  I used scattered straw and orange marmalade for the sun setting sky.  For the darker part of the sky I used dusty concorde and faded jeans.  I used walnut ink and a little black soot for the ground.

I embossed the trees with gold embossing powder for the Moxie Fab challenge.  Normally I would have done it in black but gold looks so much better with the fall colors.  I did use black embossing powder for the little kids.

I even stamped the inside.  I felt I had to because there wasn't a sentiment on the outside of the card.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...did you go trick or treating as a kid?

Practice Tags

Hello Everybody!

I can't believe it's been like a week since I last posted.  It's been busy!  My birthday was last week so my husband planned lots of fun stuff for my birthday week :)  I'll share more about that later :)

Today starts Creative Chemistry 102 with Tim Holtz.  Day 1 is awesome!

Here are 2 tags I made using the marble and resist techniques.  This is what I needed to get my mojo going! :)

This marble rocks!  And then I did a little water flicking.

Here's my resist.  I flicked water on it also.  And somehow I did too much flicking on the mannequin.  But other than that this tag came out great.  You can see the writing from the notions labels.

Super excited about the other lessons....so I better go!  Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...what's your favorite technique so far? :)

Vintage Happy Birthday

Hello Everybody!

I wanted to be sure to play at the last challenge of the month at Inkspirational Challenges.  And I did-barely!  If you haven't been there go check 'em out!  If you play all month you can have a chance to get the prize from the sponsor.  There are some great prizes!  Wednesday starts the new set of challenges. :)

So here's my card:

This week was a sketch challenge.  I used Crate paper and inked it up with vintage photo distress ink.  I inked up just about everything!  LOL.  The circle and sentiment.  And for the lace I used a tea dye distress stain.  The green middle ribbon is a Tim Holtz ribbon that I used sage stain on.  The ric rac already dark brown so no staining there. :)

I glued on some buttons from my stash.  It needed a little extra vintage.

Here is the sketch:

For the month of September Inspired by Stamping is the sponsor.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...Keep on craftin'! :)

Cute Lil' Pumpkin

Hey Everybody!

It's the 1st Tuesday and you know what that means (if you don't I'm gonna tell ya)--It's time for a new challenge at Technique Time Tuesday!  Yay!!

The technique is called Faux Cloisonne.  Now I will be honest-I had to look up Cloisonne.

Dictionary.com explains it like this: as an enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thing metal bands fixed edgewise to the ground.

So you used metallic embossing powder on glossy paper (I used magazine pages).  How cool is that?!

So this is the top of my pumpkin.  I used the Faux Cloisonne on the leaves.  There are 4 leaves total.  The big leaves are from Sparkle N Sprinkle and the two maples leaves are from Michaels.

The leaves are flowers are on top of a pumpkin I made.  Graphic 45 had a tutorial and you can go here to see it.  There are 2 more cool pumpkin tutorials on there also.

I put some Dazzles acorn stickers on one of the panels.  The pumpkin paper is from My Minds Eye.

The flowers and bling hearts are some old Prima flowers that I had.  I inked them up a little.

And the coolest things beside being cute and having cool leaves...it holds treats!  How cool is that!!

I am also submitting this cute lil' pumpkin to the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamps-Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by today!  Until next time friends...I can't wait to see what you make.  And if you make a pumpkin-leave me a comment so I can see it.  And if you make something with the faux cloisonne be sure to link it up! :)

Not one of my best...

Hello Everybody,

So I made my Tim Holtz tag-but it's not pretty.  I used Liquitex light modeling paste instead of the embossing paste but it seemed to work.  You can find Tim's pretty tag here and the directions for it.  :)

I swear I read each direction twice!  LOL.  My colors are all off.  The ribbon came out good!

I used a fragment charm and put a letter sticker on a piece of printed book paper.  Then I outlined it with the technique that Tim showed.  I glued it and I like how it came out.  

Here are my words.  

I don't have Tim's stencils yet so I used a Dylusional one for the paste.  The others were Crafters workshops and Heidi Swapp.  

I am a bit embarrassed to submit this anywhere for anybody to see.  But I have to because there will be a new tag tomorrow.  I can't get behind! 

Thanks for stopping by.  Sorry I couldn't pull it together better.  Until next time my friends... :)

An Easter Layout....

Hello Everybody!

Here's an Easter Layout that I just finished.  It is for a challenge at Let's Scrap where you had to use 3 pattern papers, rub-ons, 2 different washi tapes, a die cut, and bling.

Here is my die cut.  It's a Tim Holtz bunny that I cut out of kraft paper and tacky tape (from Sparkle N Sprinkle).  I used dark brown flock from Sparkle N Sprinkle also.  He's so soft! 

Here's the journaling.  The bling is from Making Memories and here I layered two of the squares.  

The rub-ons are from Basic Grey and 7 Gypsies.  The year and the little design at the bottom and on the left are rub-ons.  All of the paper here is from Pink Paisley (Indigo Bleu).  And then I went crazy with vintage photo distress ink.  LOL.  

I used tea dye distress stain on the yellow ric rac.  The rabbit sticker is Tim's also.  The flower trim is Tim's that I stained with stormy sky.  That's a great match for this paper!  I have more paper so I will be able to make some more custom embellies! :)

The washi tape is on the left.  Also is a bottle cap chip board from Basic Grey.

I am also submitting this to the Wednesday Challenge at Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...what are you working on? :)

My Favorite Color Green

Hello Everybody!

I made this fun green card for a few challenges.  There was some awesome inspiration that sparked this creation! :)

The first bit of inspiration came from The Alley Ways Stamps Photo Inspiration Be Inspired #37.  I love this green color!  I call it candy apple green and it's one of my accents in my scrapbook room.  So this color makes me happy!

The other inspiration came from Inkspirational's Case Inkspiration Challenge #38.  

I took the strips of Coredinations Grassroots green cardstock and embossed them with different folders.  This was the first time I used my mustache folder.  Yay!  The end strip is from a Tim Holtz bingo card folder.  I like the way it says GO.  :)  Underneath the green strips is the white cardstock of the card that I changed to mustard seed using distress ink.  

Instead of a circle I used a stamp and sentiment from the Doodleframes set from The Alley Way.  This is such a fun set.  I saw one of their DT's use this set-and I was like I have that set!  Thanks for the extra inspiration! :) I also stamped this on white cardstock that was colored with mustard seed distress ink.

I embossed the the frame and sentiment with an embossing powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle.  It's called Spring Willow and it is a cosmic semi-trans.  The cosmic is for glittery goodness it adds! :)

Then I added a yellow ribbon I had from my stash.

It's Stamptember at Simon Says Stamp this month.  I am also entering my card in the Wednesday Challenge which is to use something that they sell at Simon Says Stamp.  They sell the Doodle Frames stamp set and the Tim Holtz Mustard Seed Distress Ink.  They have a fabulous selection-so go check them out! :)

Thanks for stopping by today!  Until next time my friends...keep craftin'! :)