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

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! 

Using only one color

Over at Designed to Color they are celebrating their

1000th facebook fan!  And they are doing a bunch of giveaways.

One of the giveaways includes a challenge (well two of the giveaways include a challenge, but we're

only talking about one of them for this post!!!)

The challenge is to use only one color....

I'm not great with a single color.. but I'm up for any challenge!

So I pulled out all my markers and I grouped them together by color.

2 pink, 3 yellow, 2 green, 4 blue, 3 tan/brown, 1 orange, 1 purple, and 1 red.....

So I guess the likely choice would be blue, yellow or brown.

So I started with brown, but then realized the challenge said NO Sepia, and the

brown/ tan was definitely sepia looking....

But I'm hoping to use her for the current Autumn colors Challenge over at Dilly Beans

Sooooo back to the drawing board!  I picked up my green markers and went to work.

The green markers are a light and a dark.... no too much contrast.

That was last night, today in the light of day... ehhhhh no pop, no pizzazz!!!

I was playing around with my distress inks, and realized that I have 2 green distress inks!!! Yeah!!!

and I have a cake of green watercolor, and I have green glitter glue!

Ok, ok, I'm just rambling huh??  Here's the pic!

She is all green, but still pretty beautiful right???  Well I think so, and I'm hoping to incorporate her

into a fallish project, so hopefully this won't be the last you'll see of this beauty!

Remember to check out the fun over at Designed to Color and enter one of their fun giveaways!!!  There's still a little bit of time!  and follow them on Facebook too! 

Happy Crafting!