Ghoulish fun

Happy Monday! 

I'm feeling creative today, and may just spend the whole day in the studio!

Yesterday however I only had a little small window of creative time,

I made this fun Halloween tag! 

First I stamped and embossed the background in black ink and black embossing powder to give texture. 

The image is from viva las Vegas stamps. 

Then I colored up those skull zombies from dilly beans and stamped some orange 

Card stock to make the moon! 

The background was distressed using distress inks, 

And then I just had to assemble! 

It's a sorta creepy scene, but it was fun to create! 

Linking up with:

Dilly beans: Halloween

 Desert island crafts: #1, 2, 7, 9

Viva Las Vegas stamps: October challenge

Bearly mine: Halloween

Curtain call: spooky scene

Our creative corner: Halloween tag with texture

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

Pink Christmas

Happy week before Thanksgiving!

I have a Christmas card to share with you all today...

A pink Christmas Card.. My mom will love it I'm sure as she LOVES

all things pink!

I won this cute as a button Stampendous stamp a few weeks ago from

Designed to Color

and I thought this was the perfect time to use it!

Aren't those elves just so adorable???

I wanted to add the stars but could not for the life of me figure out how to make them

a banner... Finally I just popped them on with pop dots and added the twine behind them... It turned out cute right??

For the Heart I die cut it and then I used my new

Distress Stains to make the pretty mottled background, I stamped

the "merry christmas" with my staz-on black, and added a start inside the heart as well..

The December is a Tim Holtz embossing folder and again the heart was a die cut!

I'm following along with a number of challenges with this card

Bearly Mine Challenges: Pink Christmas

By the Cute and Girly: Twinkle Twinkle little star

Crafty Sentiments Design: Christmas

Cute Card Thursdays: Starry Night

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything Goes

Diva's by design: Anything goes