Smashing again

 It's been a while since I shred a smash page!

This morning I got up with hubby and while I was enjoying a cuppa joe

I wrote out my challenge list!

The new job is going fabulous, and I need some stress relief!

I made this Christmas inspired smash page, probably cause I wish it was winter time

(it's a fabulous time in Phoenix!)

and cause there seem to be a lot of Christmas in July themes going around!

A few weeks ago I found this cool book at the goodwill,

it's a cookbook of sorts, and it's from the late 1800's and is out of Virginia..

Don't worry, it's a reprint, but I thought it was perfect for this little smash page!

The image is from The Ocotopode Factory,

and I added some glittery embossing to her dress and ear muffs

Here's her close up

She was fun and pretty easy to color!

 

I'm linking up with:

Octopode Factory: Inspired by writing

The pink elephant: monochromatic

Designed to Color: Sketch

Craft Room Challenges: Heat Embossed

Diva's by Design: Tags

 

Wizard of oz tag

Happy weekend y'all!

I just am hopping in real quick like to share a tag I made for a swap

The theme was Wizard of Oz

Either the old one, or the new one.

So I used the lion as my main image, it's from The Octopode Factory

you can find that fabulous shop here
My fun tag......

I tried to represent as many of the characters as possible, so I have the lion,

and the twine coming out of the bottom is to represent the scarecrow,

the balloon is for the wizard, and the ribbon on top is just plain red ribbon

that I covered with aluminum tape, to represent the tin man...

I loved the definition of courage for this tag.

Hubby said afterwards that I should have used some glimmer mist on the background,

and now looking at it I sorta agree!

Oh well what's a girl to do???

I hope you're getting your craft on this weekend!

Entering this into:

Octopode Factory Friday Challenge: Tag, you're it

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything goes

Creepy Christmas snowman

Ho ho ho ho

Merry Christmas!!!

Right??  It's only a little over a week away!! 

I need to stop producing cards and actually get them into the mail...

Maybe tomorrow??

I made this creation using a new image I got from The Octopode Factory Shop

I just love this snowman!

The snowman was colored with my copic and Spectrum Noir markers. 

I also paper pieced the hat and scarf using Basic Grey Serendipity papers.

I added the washi tape banner made with twine and the sentiment "tis the season"

The Octopode Factory Challenge is Triangles so I did the bunting as flags,

And then I added the washi tree's to the bottom of the card. 

I also stamped 3 snowflakes around mr snowman!

I think I might use mr. snowman here to play along with Tim Holtz's tag challenge this month.

He's just perfect isn't he??

Also entering this card into:

The Crafty Pad: Challenge 200 (Recipe)  (3 snowflakes (on the snowman image), 2 ribbons I hope the twine counts, and the ric rack too, and 1 sentiment)

Do you Stack Up: Christmas (and they only have a few challenges left **sad face**)

Love my Tapes: Banners

Fussy and Fancy Friday: tags and banners

Diva's by Design: Use Some Red