Smashing again

 It's been a while since I shred a smash page!

This morning I got up with hubby and while I was enjoying a cuppa joe

I wrote out my challenge list!

The new job is going fabulous, and I need some stress relief!

I made this Christmas inspired smash page, probably cause I wish it was winter time

(it's a fabulous time in Phoenix!)

and cause there seem to be a lot of Christmas in July themes going around!

A few weeks ago I found this cool book at the goodwill,

it's a cookbook of sorts, and it's from the late 1800's and is out of Virginia..

Don't worry, it's a reprint, but I thought it was perfect for this little smash page!

The image is from The Ocotopode Factory,

and I added some glittery embossing to her dress and ear muffs

Here's her close up

She was fun and pretty easy to color!

 

I'm linking up with:

Octopode Factory: Inspired by writing

The pink elephant: monochromatic

Designed to Color: Sketch

Craft Room Challenges: Heat Embossed

Diva's by Design: Tags

 

Anything but a card challenge 7

Good morning!

Today is a new challenge day at Anything But a Card
Where you are challenged to make anything but a card, and this week you can be inspired by this fab picture

At first I was tempted to try to do a painted umbrella,
but alas I live in Arizona, and umbrellas seem to be pretty hard to come by here!
(who knew!)
Sooooo I had this awesome Saturated Canary image and since

my inspiration from the picture was the umbrella, I ran with it!

Yep, I haven't had an altered composition book in a while!

Ok, so here's the back story, when my parents were out 2 weeks ago we decided we were going to do a family weight loss challenge.  So we got a number of family members on board, and we've been doing our best to keep eachother accountable, and as I'm sort of spearheading the operation, I am offering some prizes. 

This is the prize going out to my sister in law in Florida. 

Hopefully she will stay inspired to keep up the good work!

Plus since I seem to always be winning things, and it's so much fun for me to get these fabulous prizes in the mail I thought I should return the favor! 

Here is a close up of the little sentiment on the front cover....

I love this!  I got a pack of clear stamps at Joann's black friday/saturday sale

they are all very inspirational, and I really cannot wait to use some more of them!

Finally, here is a close up of my colored image

yes, I used my copics,

and yes, I was also inspired by some other challenge blogs that I play along with

Please head over to the Anything but a Card blog and join in our biweekly challenge

or at least check out all the creations from this super talented Design Team!

Entering this into:

Saturated Canary Challenge: Challenge 31: a sketch

Just Us Girls: Photo Inspiration (see below)

Diva's by Design: use 2 or more patterned papers

Pinspirational Challenges: photo challenge (I was inspired by the wood of the swing, and also that in the picture there is a pen/ paper/ envelope, and my creation is a comp book)

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything But a Card
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge: Anything Goes

Dorothy ATC

I love how quickly ATC's go together!

It's just a quick little piece of heaven!

I wanted the "yellow brick road" so I used my punchinella

and some gold embossing powder to make the road

then I used the little image from Saturated Canary

if you can see, I used some red glitter glue on her shoes

and I wanted to add the witch, but these ATC's are really pretty small, so I added

a pile of green goo with a witch's hat instead!

Then the little tag finished off the piece! 

Hope you love it, and I hope you are finding time this

weekend to create something fabulous!

Entering this ATC into:

Wicked Wednesday Creations: Based on a Story (wizard of oz)

Cupcake Crafts Challenges: Fairytales

Diva's by Design: fairies and fantasy

Simon Says Stamp and Show: for the love of sparkle

Marking things off my list

I rescently wrote a 35 before 36 list, (no I haven't shared it here)

One of the things on my list is to keep in better touch with my long-distance friends

I made this card in attempt to make a start at that!

The image is from the super talented Krista Smith from Saturated Canary

You've seen her work on my pages before! 

Her new challenge is to use Polka Dots, so I did my very best to polka up everything!

Even the little ribbon which was all black, I added white dots using my white gel pen

Here is the close up of this this pretty little fairy

I added some "clear" glitter glue to her wings to make them stand out

I cut her out using my Big kick die cut machine and a Spellbinders Oval nestabilities

On the black oval I ran it through my cuttlebug embossing polka dot folder

Now for the butterfly!  I'm so excited to share this butterfly with you all!!!

She is made out of a dryer sheet!

YES, I said a dryer sheet!  You wanna know how??  I will not take credit for this one.. I found this

fab tutorial on youtube here

It's hard to see, but the butterfly is actually see through! 

I even threw some extra dryer sheets in with my blankets tonight so I'll have some more to work

with this next weekend, ha!

I also added some stitching along the edges, and along the sentiment too!

I can't wait to send this beauty off to Florida! 

Entering this card into:

Crafters Cafe: Stitching Faux or real (mine's real!!)

Pile it on: #36 For Princess

Pennys Paper Crafting: #92 Sew Charming

Divas by Design: #51 Friendship

Saturated Canary: #25 Polka Dots



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