Spooky Treat Boxes

Happy Monday Everyone! I hope you had a nice weekend. We did here and if you saw my last few posts you'll see that I also had lots of fun playtime too!

Today I wanted to share my Spooky Treat Boxes I made...

(All Stamps JFF Stamps)

All sorts of inky fun on those...of course you can decorate them with any images.  If you'd like the pattern to make this tombstone treat box head on over to Imagine for a free downloadable PDF pattern (scroll down - it's near the bottom).

Tombstone Treat Box

World Card Making Day 2017 #3 - Joy Clair Challenges

One more post before the weekend is over...A friend of mine is on the Joy Clair Design Team and told me about all of the fun challenges they were hosting for World Card Making Day.  

Well I only have 2 stamp sets from JC - Doodle Flower and Hello Sentiments, but I took that as a personal challenge to see if I could create cards using just these 2 sets for the challenges they were going to post.  I haven't worked my way through all of them yet (but I may in the coming days) however I thought I'd share what I have completed so far!

The first challenge was easy - Show Us Your Desk.  As it happened I was working on my friend Martha's challenge at the time I took it....

And here is the card I made for Martha's challenge - CAS. 

I used her card example as inspiration for mine. 

I really like how the background I stenciled shows through the mason jar.

Next up - Background Builder with Kerry.

This was a fun challenge.  I used VersaMagic (chalk inks) to create the color part of the background;  I then stenciled works from a Club Scrap stencil - bloom, grow, peace, serenity, cultivate joy, etc.  I thought it paired nicely with the flowers.

Rainbow with LeeAnn

I made the rainbow swishes using a sponge dauber and memento dye inks.  I then stamped the posie on white cardstock and colored each using the same inks from the rainbow.  They were fussy cut and adhered - green & orange directly to the card and blue, yellow and red using foam tape.

The final challenge I have today is 

Color Combo with Helen

The color combo is red, orange and brown.  Seemed perfect for Fall so I stamped/masked the wreath using a flower that looked like a mum. I then colored them with a variety of red and orange Prisma colored pencils.  The sentiment is stamped using Dark Brown Shimmer Delicata which has a lovely shimmer IRL.  Wish it showed up in photos but alas it doesn't so you'll have to take my word for how pretty it really is.

I may try to tackle the rest of the challenges soon if I have time this week.

If you haven't joined in the fun you should give it a try.

Supplies:

Joy Clair - Doodle Flower, Hello Sentiments

Imagine - Memento Dye Inks, Memento Markers, Delicata, VersaMagic, VersaFine, StazOn, Sponge Daubers

Club Scrap - Stencils, Cardstock

PrismaColor Colored Pencils

Other - Ribbon, Twine, Vellum

World Card Making Day 2017 #2

Well didn't get to post these last night due to storms but I did get to make some more cards yesterday.

This first card was made for the Just Add Ink Challenge Sketch #380...

(Stamps: Club Scrap Scandinavia Kit 10/17)

I stamped the background using Angel Pink Memento ink. The flower on the main image was actually colored with Memento Dual Tip Markers then stamped on the die-cut square. I really like the  contrast of the bright colors of the Love Letter (deep pink) and Bahama Blue Memento Inks against the softer pink and blue from the Scandinavia kit.

Just Add Ink Challenge #380

Since I had my inks out I went ahead and stamped up another card just for the fun of it...

For this card I used a piece of pattern paper that had the large circle and flower designs. I then stamped the sentiment and geo elements in more of the Memento Dye Inks that coordinate so well with this kit...Bamboo Leaves; Bahama Blue and Love Letter.  I actually made a few more cards but have yet to photograph them...I'll be back with them later today.

Supplies:

ClubScrap.com - Cardstock, Pattern Paper, Stamps

Imagine - Memento Dye Inks; Memento Dual Tip Markers; VersaFine Black Onyx Ink

MFT - Stitched Square Die

World Card Making Day!!

Happy Day friends!  I hope you'll all be able to carve out some time to play today and make at least one card for someone you love!

I've been busy...here are some cards for your viewing enjoyment to get you in the mood!

(JFF Stamps - Memento Markers)

(Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Itty Bitty Punkin' Patch

Memento Dye Inks)

(JFF Stamps - Memento Inks)

(Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Itty Bitty Punkin' Patch

Memento Dye Inks, VersaFine Black, Memento Markers)

(JFF Stamps - VersaColor Inks, Clear Embossing Powder)

(JFF Stamps - Prisma - Club Scrap Cardstock)

I'll be back later today to share a bit more!

Have fun creating!!

Autumn Elegance

Tomorrow is World Card Making Day...is everyone planning on making at least one or two??  I hope so, I'm sure someone in your circle of friends/family could use a ray of sunshine in their day.

Today I wanted to share a couple cards I made using the new Rubber Stamp Tapestry set - Autumn Elegance.  It's such a beautiful set and oh so perfect for this time of the year.

This set comes with 5 stamps - pumpkins in 3 different sizes/shapes; a vine w/ leaves and a tiny sprig of flowers.  This is such a fun autumn set of stamps. I had fun with the first card stacking the pumpkins up.  All of the images were stamped using Memento Inks and then the ground & pumpkins were colored using Prisma Colored Pencils.

My next card was stamped using a combination of Green Kaleidacolor inks for the wreath and Memento Inks for the pumpkins in the center. This time I colored the large pumpkin and ground using pastel pencils.

Supplies:

Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Autumn Elegance
Imagine - Memento Inks, Kaleidacolor Inks
Club Scrap.com - Cardstock, Thinking sentiment
JFF Stamps - Happy Autumn Sentiment
Prismacolor colored pencils
Pastel Pencils

Handyman's Holiday Hop

Today I have the honor of participating in the Handyman's Holiday Blog Hop and our challenge was to alter a paint brush!  Make the rounds and be inspired. We could choose any of the Fall/Winter holidays we wanted but of course I choose Halloween...my fav...

BOO!  Here is mine! It's been so long since I've taken some time to make a fun Halloween item and this was the perfect opportunity to do so.  If you can't tell, I had lots of fun making this...I got painty, inky and sticky all over.  Do you know how hard it is to make glue gun strings when you actually WANT them???  Silly me!

As luck would have it a couple weeks before I was invited to join in the hop I bought this grungy old paint brush at a flea market at an antique tractor show. It just had such a fun look - I couldn't pass it up for just 50 cents!  Of course everyone thought I was nuts because it was stiff with old paint, rusty and all gunked up.  In my eyes I knew it would be perfect for something.

I started off painting the paint brush with a coat of Micaceous Iron Oxide (Golden). I LOVE this paint - it's got an instant grungy feel to it...yes, I grunged up my grungy paint brush even more.  LOL!! I then dipped the tips of the brush it's self in red paint for a bit of drippy looking "blood".

I then started on the main "character"...  I knew he had to be a bit dark and spooky so this was my guy...  He was also grunged up with a touch of the iron oxide paint, his "wings" are MDF pieces I've had in my stash for years that were painted black then highlighted with Lavish Green Metallic Lustre (DecoArt).  His vial is a plastic candy holder I bought just for the vial - LOL!!  Can you guess what it's filled with???

He has a pet eyeball as well as a pet spider that's trying to climb up his leg.  I didn't have an eyeball in my collection so I made one...from trash.  No kidding, I pulled out a piece of shipping tape and some pattern paper tissue that I threw away. I wound the tissue around the tape, painted it white then colored the eye with markers.

I also made a book for him to hold his "recipes".  In this pic. you can see some of the glue gun spider webbing that is all over this piece.  I mentioned it above but it's so hard to make those darn glue strings when you actually want them on your project. 

I hope you've enjoyed this spooky stop on the 

Handyman's Holiday Hop!

The next stop is Colleen.

Anytime you get lost a list of blogs is on D’s Paper Studio.

Our “Be Inspired Giftaway” is featured at D’s Paper Studio.  Check out Debby’s blog for details. Four winners will be chosen from comments on all the blog posts in the Handyman’s Holiday Hop.

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Supplies:

Grungy Paintbrush

DecoArt - Metallic Lustre - Lavish Green, Fab Fuchsia; Black & White Acrylic Paint
Golden - Micaceous Iron Oxide Fluid Acrylic

Imagine - Memento Dual Tip Markers; All Purpose Ink

Misc. "Stuff" from my stash - skeleton, birdcage charm, labels, book pages, vial, spider web die-cut; etc.

Countdown to Halloween!

I'm starting my countdown to Halloween with these fun cards...

I love the colors for this card - made using Chameleon Markers.

Spooky house on the hill...

Love this sentiment...it's true some days too!

Of course a witches work is never done!

And if you have a bit of time and make a Halloween card be sure to enter it into the JFF Card Challenge - this month's theme is Halloween! Anything goes just as long as there is a bit of stamping somewhere on the card.

JFF Halloween Card Challenge

Greetings from Kansas

No, I'm not in Kansas but the cards I have to share with you today were made using the brand new stamp set from Rubber Stamp Tapestry - the folks that bring you peg stamps - Greetings from Kansas!  As a matter of fact, they have loads of wicked cool new sets out this week....Itty Bitty Punkin' Patch; Autumn Elegance; and Desert Cactus just to name a few.  

One of the things I love about peg stamps is how versatile they are and I hope that my cards today will show you just how versatile they really are.

Greetings from Kansas

Of course I wanted to start off with traditional sunflowers since that's what this set is all about.  It comes with 4 stamps - 3 sunflowers in various sizes as well as a leaf set.  The leaves are spaced apart a bit which allows for you to tuck the leaves beside the flowers or with just enough space to draw a little stem in between the leaves like I did here.

Next I wanted to a bit of a fall thing playing with Cantaloupe, Rhubarb Stock and Potter's Clay Memento Dye Inks.

Finally I did a bit of masking and coloring. In the "olden days" all sunflowers looked pretty much alike - yellow and brown but today there is a whole host of fun varieties and this is one of my favorites - Ring of Fire - a deep red center which continues out on the leaves that fades out into an orange then yellow on the tips. 

So you see even though they are the simple sunflower...there are so many fun ways with which to use them.  I have only just skimmed the surface. I can't wait to continue to experiment with this stamp set. I can see lots of fun in the near future!

Be sure to check back in the coming days for more cards made using some of the other newly released stamps at Rubber Stamp Tapestry!!

Only 4 days till 

World Card Making Day!!

Card Sketch Challenge

I came up with the sketch for the Card Sketch Challenge on the Club Scrap forum this month - I designed it so that you could use the sentiment border strips included in the kits each month.  Of course you could use plain cards and other items for the strip as well.

(Ignore the 0617 - that was a mistake)

My first card was made using a border strip from the Orchard kit...actually it's all from the border kit except the dies of course.

This card was made using January's kit stamps - Color Me Happy.

I used an assortment of cardstock for the card - even a bit of copper metallic paper (looks brown).

Finally I made this card which I think is my fav. 

I stamped the dandelion with a light color of ink then went over the image with colored pencils. Gives it a unique look don't you think?

Have you made a card recently?

If not plan ahead and try to make at least one on 10-7!

Happy October!

Can you believe it?  The first of October already! I don't know where the year has gone...I know everyone says it but it seems like the older I get the faster it goes.

Well as I mentioned on Friday October 7th is World Card Making Day so I thought that I would share one or more cards each day from now till then.  I've got several lined up already and can't wait to share them with you all!

Today I have a card that was inspired by Imagine's color of the month - Aubergine - a.k.a...eggplant!

The background for the card was made by scoring lines 1/2" apart on a cris-cross pattern which I then inked with Neptune on each fold line.  It really does create such a striking background doesn't it?

Be sure to check out the Imagine Blog for other inspiring Aubergine projects this month!

Supplies:

Imagine

VersaColor – Neptune

Memento Inkpad – LuLu Lavender; Grape Jelly; Elderberry; New Sprout; Bamboo Leaves; Cottage Ivy

On Point Glue

Tear It! Tape

irRESISTible Pico Embellisher – Silver

Jumbo Dauber

Other

Altenew – Peony Bouquet stamps & dies

Club Scrap – Sentiment

Cardstock MFT – Scallop Stitched Die