Different for me

I'm not usually a flowers and birds sort of crafter..

throw in the butterflies, and I'm completely out of my element,

but I wanted to try to make these all work together!

I always like to play along with the challenges over at Pretty Pink Posh

where they host a 10 minute craft dash.

Craft Dash

See the card next to the logo, I think I did a pretty good job of matching up these colore!!

My card took me 8:01 to create!

The paper with the bird was a leftover piece from my project from yesterday.

At the last minute I decided to color in the bird...

I used my spice marmalade Distress stain, and a small paint brush.

The little birdies on the top are wood veneers that I dabbed up with the same distress stain.

And on the side behind the seeds scrap that is some fun washi tape...

Can you tell I'm loving this new washi I have with the butterflies on it????!!!

I'll be sending this fun card to my mom! 

She's been starting to make her own cards, and I want to encourage her, and give

her lots of examples of what she could make too!

Also Linking up with:
Pretty pink posh: 10 minute Craft Dash #17
Simon Says: Happy Mail

For me?

Perhaps like many of you out there,

you make many craft projects, for your friends, for your family, often

even for complete strangers.

I know for me I very rarely make something for myself!

Today however I have a project that I made completely for ME!

See the problem is that I always needs a plethera of pens for my job.

I have a little locker at work, and the pens seem to just get thrown on the edge of the locker, and then of course they get lost!

So I decided to make the fun tin for all my little work items!

Here's the before picture

Yep, it's a large size Planters Roasted Almonds tin.

I covered it with some pretty papers from Heidi Grace.

And then I made the banners, I also used the Heidi Grace papers,

and I printed out the letters on my printer, and punched them out with a circle punch

then added them to the banners, punched holes for the twine, and voila, a banner.

Really that part was super easy!

Next I colored up this "color me wonderful" image from Saturated Canary

Here's her close up!  I am in love with her yellow dress

after all, yellow is my favorite color!

And it's a perfect springy color!

Finally at the bottom of the can I added a few stripes of twine from the twinery

Linking up to the challenges at:

The Twinery: Banners

Creative Inspirations: Spring Colors

Shopping our Stash: Spring or Easter

Simon Says Stamp: Easter or Spring

Bearly Mine: Anything Goes

A yellow thank you

Just a quick yellow post this afternoon as I am 

Headed back not the studio for more creating!

Yellow, oh sweet yellow... My favorite color!

I know it's a little odd, but it's always happy, 

Never pretentious, and looks fabulous on its own too!

Today I whipped up this little ATC, using my yellows (and maybe some orange!)

The little flower digi stamp is from dilly beans,

The yellow inspiration from (pin)spirational challenges, 

And of course the ATC is for wicked Wednesdays challenge!

I love grouping them all together! 

I can guarantee some more thank you's in the near future! 

Entering this into: 

Wicked Wednesday: Be thankful

(Pin)spirational challenges: Challenge 33

Dilly beans challenge: Thanks challenge

Simon says stamp challenge: Thanksgiving/ thank you

Card of a different shape

I won this fun SC digi a few weeks back from miss Mary for a fun blog hop!

You know how much I love these images, and the kitty is just so freakin adoreable!

I colored her gray just like my Koa cat (who wears a gray and white tuxedo)

The challenge over at Saturated Canary Challenge

is to make a non square card...

Which is also the challenge at Simon Says Stamp challenge

So I pretty much just straight edges at an angle to make this card...

yep, that's right, I'm not very good at making shaped cards so this works for me!

Isn't this a fab digi??

I needed to make a thank you for my dear friend in Florida who was so nice as to

send me and Hubby a 2nd anniversary present!

Who wouldn't love this fun shaped card??

Here is a close up of miss kitty! Don't you just love her green eyes??

Also entering this card into:

365 cards: day 243 certain sentiment (thank you)

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! 

31 Days of Halloween: Day 11

Only 20 more days till Halloween!!! 

Yeah!?!?

I have been having so much fun creating something new for Halloween every day, 

I know this post is almost into tomorrow, I have just been super busy!

So... without further ado, here is a fun Halloween Tag that I made!

I'm following along with a Christmas tag challenge, and you will see that Christmas tag

shortly! But for now, I'll just slap this post up so you can see the pretty tag!

Do you like??  here are some close ups

Fun and can definitely be used to decorate around the house!

Hope you've had a fabulous day!

Entering this into:

Pennys paper crafting challenge: Anything but a Card

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Dies or Punches (the heart is a die cut)

Paper Crafting Journey: Add some Bling

31 days of Halloween: Day 7

For the record the party went off without a hitch, and my mother in law

Had a fabulous time... The cops even showed up and asked us to turn the music down!!

Soooo for day 7 I'm sharing this fun ATC that I made

I wanted to use my new stamp that I won from Viva Las Vegas stamps

This is a good size stamp, and I wanted to try it out on aluminum foil

So I stamped it using staz on and let it dry (so about 30 seconds)

I then wanted to color the skulls and flowers, so I pulled out my alcohol inks

And I used a paint brush (gotta work really fast)

To finish it off I added a little glitter to one of the eyeballs. 

What do you think??

Don't forget today is the halfway point of the challenge at Anything but a card

And something like this is perfect for the shine challenge going on over there! 

Entering into: 

Wicked Wednesday ATC: Flowers with a dark twist

Simon says stamp challenge: Glimmer and shine

The crafty bloggers: Challenge 4 anything goes

Cow's it Going??

Lucky me, I had some time to create today!

I LOVE playing along with challenges

And I love to try to fit as many challenges into one project as possible

I KNOW you probably already know that if you follow my blog at all.....

Soooo today I made this cute card!

I have wanted to try paper piecing for a while now, and this is sort of using that technique

if you look close at the boy cow's overalls you can see that is actually a piece

of old jeans I have in my craft room that I use for scraps!

There, that's a better view...

and see the cute sentiment??  Cow's it going??  like I told hubby, thats Punny...

Oh goodness, I must of had too much caffiene today!

First this cute cow pair is a stamp from la la land crafts I colored them up

using my copic and prismacolor markers

I added stitching to the denim paper behind the cute pair and backed with the

fun polk a dot paper!

Then I added the butterfly which is a stamp from Denami designs

and the buttons seemed to round out the bottom, I then slapped on a quickie flower and

voila!!!!  The background paper is kraft resist from my boyfriend Tim Holtz

so you ask how many challenges can I fit onto one page???

Entering into:

Pile it on: fabric or felt

Bearly mine challenges: add a sentiment

Flutterby Wednesdays: anything goes

Shopping our Stash: fur or feathers

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: anything goes

Paper issues: fallin for flair

allsorts challenge: inspired by a song  (old mcdonald had a farm)

Designed to Color: Day 4 rustic Country

Corrosive Challenges: Animal Companions

also posting to La la crafts: customer gallery

Sooooo if you're counting, that's 10, and most likely a record for me!!!  Hope you enjoyed!