A very merry unbirthday!

It's my sisters birthday! 

Yeah!

I created this whimsical card using a digi from Alicia

And a sketch from creative inspirations.

I love love love that metal clock...

Best part is that it's a sticker on the back! Perfect! 

Here's a close up of Alice.

Hope you enjoy!

 

Linking up with: 

Creative inspirations: sketch

Alicia's challenge: anything goes

Cupcake Craft Challenge: Lots of Layers

Pause Dream Enjoy: Happy Unbirthday

 

 

12 tags of Christmas tag 6

So as you may know, I've been playing along with the 12 Tags of Christmas
Challenge that is being hosted by Linda at The Funkie Junkie
this is my rendition of week 6!
You can find her creation here
I was inspired by her bow, and the coloring on her tag!

I have to be honest, I really struggled with this tag!

the top part feels too heavy to me!

And the bottom half a little bare...

Oy... so I wanted something shiny, so I tried embossing my pretty cut out

and it turned out ok, and then I did a little embossing on the edges of

the little tag I made as well!

Definitely not my favorite tag, but it was definitely challenging!

If you remember this fabulous challenge is being sponsored by Linda's store

The funkie Junkie Boutique

also entering this into Creative Inspirations: Traditional christmas colors challenge

Using Kraft Resist

First off I have to share that my Bright and Bold Card won over at Dilly Beans, check out that post here

I'm super stoked to get started on their newest Challenge "hearts"

Ok, so today I finally had some quiet time to myself in the craft room...

I had swung by Michaels yesterday on my way to work and picked up a pad of

kraft resist from Tim Holtz (after I saw his tutorial on his blog here)

I didn't really have anything in mind when I started, was just gonna play with the product a little bit

This is what ended up happening!

The kraft resist is basically kraft paper that has varnished images on it...

When you ink over these images and wipe the ink away there is color on page everywhere

but where the varnish is... It's a pretty cool effect.

As I was just playing around, I didn't care too much about color, but I think this

little card ended up pretty cute!

I did a sentiment only card per the challenge over at creative inspirations

Plus the bling (sorry it doesn't photograph very well!)

on the sentiment for the bling it up and gems and twine at cute card Thursday and

Crafty Creations respectively.

I also hand dyed and stamped the background for the anything goes challenge,

and added the buttons for the challenge over at corrosive challenges by janet

Finally, the background is mostly all hand made, the inking, the stamping, ect ect that is for

the challenge over at Anything goes challenge make your own background

I hope you're having a fabulous weekend!!

I am on a mini mostly staycation next week, so I will be in the

craft room with the kitty! 

Entering into: 

Creative Inspirations: Sentiments

Crafty Creations: Gem's and Twine

Cute Card Thursday: Bling it up
Anything goes: make your own background
Flutter by Wednesdays: Friends (must use butterfly or fairy)
Corrosive Challenge: Cute as a Button
A Blog Named Hero: Use Kraft