Thank you

Hey everyone!

Wow it's been a week! 

We got a mini vacay to Cali in, I had my last day at work,

And I'm getting ready to start my new job tomorrow!

I wanted to thank our California friends for opening their home to us,

So I made this fun card....

Inspired of course by our fabulous days and evenings at the beach!

The image is from dilly beans and for the current Mermaid challenge,

The sketch from Tuesday morning sketches,

The use of the embroidery floss and tag for the challenge at  timeless twine,

The small stamp for Simon says Stamp and Show

The pins for Simon Says Stamp

The beach for Chocolate, Coffee and Cards and Creative Inspirations,

Cute card Thursday good luck charm

And finally it's feminine for the July card challenge at Bo Bunny!

Whew! That was a lot! 

31 Days of Halloween: Day 20

Wow, only 11 days till Halloween.

This month is just flying by! 

I have been getting back into my running the last few days, and so I haven't had as much time for crafting.

Don't despair, I have a fun offering for today! 

I appologize ahead of time for the  pictures,

this product is hard to photograph!  But it's one of my most favorite products and techniques to use!

That's right, you've all seen it before (and you'll see it again!)

It's the aluminum tape at work again!

This time I dry embossed it using Tim Holtz gears embossing folder.

I then put the tape on the tag.  Then I used my alcohol inks in plum and green

(sorry I forget which one I have)

to add some color to the tag... then I ran the tag lightly across my staz-on black ink pad

this just picks up parts of the gears and highlights them!

Ok, enough talk... here's the tag!

I used a pretty image from Dilly Beans, and I'm gonna play along with their Cute and Creepy challenge

I colored her up using my copics and prismacolor markers.

I then added some glossy accents to the hearts

Here's her close up...

Isn't she lovely?  The hearts were die cut using a Sizzix die cut that I rescently got.

I added a little doily behing for some interest, and I distressed that using my peeled paint distress ink pad.

I am also playing along with Cut it Up Challenges: Eek, boo, ahh  Halloween.

The BOO is grungeboard letters that I painted first, and then covered in the glitter! 

I LOVE glitter! Kitty even had some glitter on his face today from playing in the craft room with me!

I'm also playing along with Alphabet Challenge Blog: Anything Spooky (or not?)

And Anything Goes Challenges: Make your own embellishments (I think I've done quite a bit of that!)

Bearly Mine Challenges: #57 Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenges: Halloween

Desert Island Crafts: Challenge 40 (Purple, punches, CASE (come back for my next post and

you'll see where!)

Diva's by Design: #57 Something Spooky

Simon Says Stamps challenge: Eerie inspiration

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Use your favorite (Can I say Aluminum tape any more???)

Tammy's scrapping cornerAnything Goes

Cute card Thursday: Got glitter?

Alright, I think maybe that's enough challenges to enter!  After all, I wanna be able to play along with some other challenges this week!  It's my long weekend (4 days) so I'm hoping to finish off some DT commitments, and get some fun posts up for you all! 

Have a great rest of the weekend!