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

Soar High

Happy Saturday night everyone!

I whipped up this cute little ATC this afternoon,

after my quick trip to the good will for their half price Saturday!

I'm playing along with a few challenges,

and it felt good to mode podge something down!!!

Linking up with

Simon Says Stamp and Show: buttons

Wicked Wednesdays: Bird/ Nest

Fancy and Fussy Friday: Button up

Desert Islands:  challenge 56  Patterned paper, spray mist, something glittery, teal, sentiment

Oozak: anything goes with a sentiment

Bearly Mine Challenges:  Anything goes

The Huntsman

I've mentioned before my struggle with card making...

Today I continued my battle...

In this case using "the huntsman" from Saturated Canary (find it here)

At the Saturated Canary Challenge blog there is a challenge based on a picture

I interpreted the green grass and the big tree into this

Birthday Card for a friend from work

My friend is really into magic cards (I don't get it but he LOVES them)

So I figured what else would a little boy with a sword slay but a dragon??

I added some sewn detail around the sides

And the oval that the huntsman is die cut out of was them embossed around the edges.

The Ticket is from Tim Holtz, and I added the "happy day" stamping

Here's the huntsman's close up...

Isn't he a cutie?? 

Hope you like what I've created today!

Entering into:

Saturated Canary Challenge: 24

Delightful Challenges: punches and dies (die cut the huntsman, and the star on the bottom is a punch)

Desert Island Crafts Challenge: blue, green, for a boy, embossing

365 Cards: all boy

Pile it on: Bingo Challenge (Ticket, Image, Sewing)

Another Christmas Card

It's one of those very rare days...

Where it's overcast and less than 115 degrees in Phoenix in the summer!

What should a girl do on an overcast day like this??  

Why make a Christmas Card of course!  

I used a pretty digi from dilly beans shop

I colored this fun snowlady with my copic, I tore and distressed the plain white paper behind her, 

I then embossed another plain piece of white paper, and then 

distressed with my distress inks and threw some embossing powder on those dots! Used 

some fabric cut outs and a strip of snowflake ribbon for the house and tree,

And finished off the card with a few strips of washi tape 

(the card was too big, so i thought it would add a little to the card!  

Here is miss snow's close up!

I am entering this pretty lady these challenges:

Dilly Beans: worn, torn and distressed

Chocolate, coffee, and cards: emboss

Desert Islands Challenge: Blue, Wet, Sparkle, no patterned paper, embossing (pick 3) ok I went overboard

Designed to Color: fabric

Ribbons, butterflies, and the great outdoors...

Ahhhh back in the craft room today for the first time in a week...

It was fabulous!!  I got a lot accomplished, but as I mentioned before,

I can't share too much with you as I'm getting ahead for the anything but a card challenge

Coming to a computer near you September 2nd!

I did take some time out to smash tho! 

I struggled with this one girls... 

Something about these circles just threw me off....

I tried them all over the page! And finally I stuck them around the SC 

digi and glued them down! 

The Challenge over at Saturated Canary Challenge is the great outdoors!

I Love this image, and colored her up with my copics

Then I did something I'd never tried before...

I cut out another image and masked her up and Distressed and glimmer misted the background!

It hurt a little to spray up a perfectly good image

but I love the way she turned out!

I also got a little creative with the ribbon behind the banner... Some ribbon and twine! 

And the butterflies in the circles are from Denami Designs.  

And my new favorite tool the die cut machine churned out the flower and the circles, and the pretty

scallopy design for the butterfly girl! 

I left some space at the top of the page for some journaling. 

Entering into:

Just us girls: JUGS #149:  Technique challenge

Saturated Canary: Great Outdoors

All sorts challenge: Going around in circles

Anything challenge: Summer Days

Crafty Catz: anything goes

Desert Island crafts: Mayzy art (use 3: Flag/bunting, sprays/ mists, texture)

Shopping our Stash: Technique Challenge #64

Black and White + 1

The challenge over at saturated canary challenge is to use black and white plus one other color

I was super excited to color up Krista's newest freebie

I even bought a new copic marker for the occassion.

Here she is in her close up!

I colored her using mostly copic markers, and for the black polka dots and black stripes

I used enamel accents

And the whole card.

I'm also entering this card into some other challenges, there is texture on the cutout of the digi stamp, and the buttons were just too much to turn down.  The patterned paper has been in my stash for a while

you could say I've been hoarding it I guess.

and the fun little sentiment is from a new pack of clear stamps I picked up at Joann's this week

I added the eyelets to the side of the sweet sentiment, and ran a strip of washi tape behind that. 

Finally, I had to... HAD TO make an envelope to go with (mostly cause the card turned out to be an odd size) 

 I think they look like a fine pair! 

Hope you enjoy my creation

Entering into:

Saturated Canary Challenge: black and white + 1

Corrosive challenges: use a sentiment

The Poodles Parlour: use a digi stamp

Shopping our Stash: my precious (used my papers that I've been hoarding!)

Desert Island Crafts: challenge 34 (used texture, happy sentiment, and brads or eyelets)

Diva's by design: anything goes
card makin mama's: challenge 50 1 - 2 - 3
seriously creative challenges: un inked, un cut, un opened