House mouse atc

Last week on my estate sale adventures I found a half a deck of cards, 

I'm probably the only person at that sale that saw them as a steal at .15!

But I know they are ATC sized, and just a little work transforms them! 

I gessoed, and then added some gelatos for the orange background.

And since I used my house mouse stamp last week I had them out and just love this little image.

Some flowers along the edges,

And I stitched in some grass for a quick and easy project! 

Linking up with: 

House mouse challenge: house mouse and a friend (my mouse sure seems to have made friends with this fan!)

Wicked Wednesday ATC: stitching

Create atc

Happy Mothers Day to all the amazing mothers out there!

I'm a mom to 6 furbabies, and I'm pretty sure they won't be making me dinner or bringing me flowers, but I will get hugs and kisses from them I'm sure!

Today I have a fun ATC to share with you all.  

I have recently been wanting to get back into some of the challenges that I used to participate in quite often, so I thought what better place to start than with an ATC.

There are a couple of challenges that I'll be entering this into.

I created this ATC by white embossing polka dots to the background,

then splattering some Lindys Stamp Gang Rudolphs Nose Red

Then I stamped the "Ruler," and the letters which are part of Viva Las Vegas's 

December Daily Plate 1430

Finally I stamped the butterfly with Create onto a bit of vintage dictionary page.

I got my inspiration from this photo 

Which is the inspiration photo for may from viva las vegas stamps. 

I'll be entering into their challenge found here.

Also entering into the challenge at Wicked Wednesday Challenge here 

Just us girls: Embossing

Thanks for wandering by, I hope you are having a creative weekend! 

Almost st pattys

I have had a very eventful day!

It included free coffee from a brand new Dutch Brothers,

a nice walk at the park with the dogs,

and a flat tire and sitting on the side of the road for an hour and a half!

So even though I had planned on doing a card for this weeks Just Some Lines post,

I completely ran out of time, and have this fun little ATC to share instead!

Lucky for me I had colored up this little image last week,

and I have a fun ATC to share!

The background paper is from Pretty Little Studios.

I hope you are getting crafty this weekend!

Entering into:

Pinspirational Challenges: #98

Wicked Wednesday ATC: Leprichans and Luck

Pink Elephant: Greens/ St Pattys day

Cut it up: Green and use a die cut

Friendly ATC

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Today I'm sharing a little ATC

This is the last week (or day!) of the challenge at Just some Lines

Use 3 Embellishments!

I used twine, the pretty flower, and the little hanger.

I colored her up with my copic and prismacolor markers.

The sentiment is from a Unity Stamp!

 

I hope you had a very thankful and blessed holiday (if you celebrate)

and that you are finding some crafty time today!

 

Entering into:

Wicked Wednesday ATC: Friendship

Challenges for Everybody: Anything goes

Put a feather on it

 Tuesdays are my late day at work

(I go in 2 hours later than normal!)

However I tend to wake up about the same time,

Sooooo I took a little bit of time and made this little ATC! 

I heat embossed the feathers, then inked over them with

Peacock Feathers, Raspberry, and Honey Distress inks!

(If you don't know this, the embossing acts as a resist)

Then a little bit of Vintage Photo around the feathers, 

and the sentiment stamp at the top.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I love ATC's for a quick creative release!

I hope you are getting crafty today!

It's my Friday at work, so Yeah for the weekend!

 

Linking up with:

Wicked Wednesday: Put a Feather on it

Simon Says Monday: Got Ink

The Corrosive Challenge: Fur and Feathers

Pile it on: Use a Tool (my heat gun to emboss the feathers!)  

Shopping Our Stash: Use something already out on your desk (the feather stamp and the ink!)

Witch atc

Only a few more days til Halloween!

I hope you all have your costumes picked out and ready to go??

I don't think we'll be able to do any dressing up this year, but it's always fun to color

up some fun Halloween images!

This is one of my oldish La la land crafts stamps!

I colored her up using my distress inks, some water, and a paintbrush!

I added a little glitter to her hat,

and I mounted her onto a scrap piece of striped cardstock

Added a few strips of halloweeny ribbon, and the sentiment!

I love how quick and fun ATC's can be!

 

Tomorrow is the Friday of my very long work week, and I'm looking forward to having my weekend, and possibly getting to enjoy Halloween!

 

Linking up with:

Desert Island Crafts: Witches/ broomsticks, stripes, sentiment on front, Lots of black, glitter and sparkle, and at least 2 ribbons 

Wicked Wednesday: Cute Halloween

Robyn's Fetish: Halloween

Love to Create: Halloween

Crafty Creations: Halloween Characters

Color Q Challenge: #211

 

A Happy Birthday ATC

Aren't you loving this yellow and black and white color combo??

I am!!!

It's the 100th Challenge over at Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge!

They are celebrating with a boatload of prizes, and lots of yummy eye candy goodness!

Check it out!

I made this fun ATC to play along!

After all, who doesn't want a cupcake with a butterfly on it??

I know I would love one! he he he

Linking up with:

Wicked Wednesday ATC: Birthday/ Anniversary/ use 100

Runway inspired challenges: #43 Lela rose

Twinery: X marks the spot

Flutterby Wednesdays: anything goes 

Down the rabbit hole

 Happy Monday!

Is it really already Monday??

I started a new job on Saturday, and the days are just flying by!

Today I took a little bit of time and make this cute and fun ATC!

You guys know how much I love to play along with the challenges at Wicked Wednesday ATC's

and this week the challenge was "down the rabbit hole"

I suppose I could have gotten more creative and tried to do something not Alice In Wonderland,

but that would of been silly since I wanted to used this FABULOUS

digi from Alicia's little shop!

So I did some funky off the wall flamish looking hair, and used up bits and pieces

of paper that I had sitting around the craft room!

I hope you like,

 

I'm linking up with:

Wicked Wednesday: Down the Rabbit Hole

Alicia's Challenge: Anything Goes

Love to Create: Fairy Tale or Fantasy

Left of Center: LOC or Spots and or Stripes

 

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

A fairy house

Happy Friday all my bloggy friends

I was hard at work in the studio yesterday, and today I get to make some posts! 

Yeah!!!  I had this cute digi from SK Digi's 

so I knew when the fairy houses post went up at Wicked Wednesday that I'd be using this digi!

Ohhhh how cute and fun

I colored this image a couple of months ago, and it's been in

my ziplock back (that I take to work every day) since then!

I did however add the distressing on the edges, and the glitter on the spots
I also added the butterfly using rusty hinge and cocord grape distress inks that I then heat embossed

with clear embossing powder.  I then colored in the open space with Wild Honey Distress Ink

I did that using a paint brush and some water

For the grass at the bottom of the card I brushed on some Evergreen DI and then covered that

with distress crackle

Here is my close up of the fairy house!

If you are a creator of ATC's, go check out this fab challenge at Wicked Wednesdays ATC's

I am also entering this ATC into the Open Challenge at Flutter By Wednesdays

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

31 Days of Halloween: Day 31

Happy Halloween everyone! 

Are you dressing up and giving out treats?

I will sadly be at work! Luckily I really like my coworkers, and we'll make the best of it!

Sooo today I whipped up this cute little ATC.

After all, the challenge at Wicked Wednesday atc is 

Head covering... I think this cute witch stamp from la la land stamps is perfect!

I colored her up using my copies and prismacolor markers...

Plus I wanted to play along with the Tic tac toe challenge at frilly and funkie

I used the bottom line of glitter, ink sprays, and buttons

Finally I wanted to add a moon, just like the big full one outside! So I punched out a circle and inked it up with wild honey and rusty hinge distress inks. 

Do you love? 

Also entering into:

Tuesday alchemy: Dark gothic or spooky

Cupcake craft challenges: Witches or pumpkins

Come fly with me

I wanted to play along with a few challenges, but I've also been wanting to try some new techniques...

I found Studio l3 which is a challenge blog that goes along with Tim holtz

Compendium of curiosities II. And the prize is a wow gift card from Simon says

Their challenge ends very soon, and if you have the book (which I don't by the way 😁)

Then they are on page 53...

So last time I was at the hobby lobby I checked the book out...

It's a cool technique where you emboss onto black paper and the color in the image 

Using perfect pearls....

So here's the ATC I created

Lucky for me Wicked Wednesday atc has a new challenge butterflies

This week! Plus Flutterby wednesdays challenge is anything with wings

So I stamped using my denami design stamps, in clear, and then clear embossed over to make a resist

Then I colored in the butterflies with my perfect pearls... The book goes much more in depth so check that out! 

I Added a some words punched on my dymo 

Do you like??

It's definitely more shiny in person....

Entering this into:

Studio l3: Challenge 25

Wicked Wednesday ATC: Butterflies

Flutterby Wednesdays: 210 any winged creture

31 Days of Halloween: Day 13

Maybe cause its the 13th this should be a scary post??

Well the challenge over at Dilly beans is a spooky girl!
But I don't really do scary or spooky very well, so for my day 13 offering I've created
A not so spooky, maybe kinda cute ATC

To answer your question, no it's not my anniversary (still got 3 more weeks for that)

It is however the one year anniversary over at Wicked Wednesday ATC

And they have some fabulous prizes in store!

So if you've never made an ATC, or it's been a while, come join in!

I tried something a little different with this image.

I paper pieced the background. Yep, I paper pieced the background!

This image was perfect for this technique, probably because of the framing.

Here's her close up....

I added a little glitter on her wings and eyes, just because I love glitter! 

So, is she spooky?? Maybe not so much? I think she could be though...

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for a new challenge at Anything But A Card 

It's gonna be a funnnnnnn project!

Entering this into:

Dilly beans: Spooky girl challenge

Wicked Wednesday ATC's: Birthday / anniversary

All sorts challenges: Too Cute to Spook

Spark your creativity now: Anything goes

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