Top 10 crafty projects from 2012

Ok, so I've been a very bad blogger this week!

Wow like really bad!
I found this little challenge over at Kellie winnell's blog basically posting a top ten from 2012
Sooo here goes!

Some of the fun things I've spent my time doing this year!

This is my favorite card from the year... Using a fab dilly beans image!

I love this picture frame!

I adored this little box!

Altered comp book

I know this is on the comp book, but I made a slew of these flowers, and I just love them!

Another art journal page... It also happens to be my most pinned item on Pinterest!

This was my very first entry into Tim holtz's 12 tags of 2012

A smash book page! 

Ohh

Anything But a Card: My Favorite Creation

If you've been following my blog for a long time you would have seen this project...

So probably most of you haven't (unless you've gone way back!)

This week the challenge over at Anything But a Card

is Anything Goes or to share your favorite project from the year!

I'm sure a lot of you are in the same boat as me... you've just crafted yourselves silly during the holidays,

and the last thing you may want to do is another project....

Sooooo just link up your favorite from the year... Well as long as it isn't a card silly! 

Here is mine...

 

This was my very first attempt at an altered composition book! 

Wow it's been a long time... I LOVE this thing though...

It's too bad I did it as a swap, cause all I have left of it are the pics... So here they are in all their glory!

 A close up of all the cogs and washers I added to the cover

 One of the wine labels I've had for a project that never came to fruition!

 Ahhhhh left over Scrabble pieces from our wedding put to good use!

 Possibly my favorite flower of all time!!!!  

Anyways, I hope you're having an amazing Holiday week!  

Remember Jesus is the Reason for the Season... and just take a deep breath, you'll get through...

And then we can all start crafting our Valentines stuff!!!  Ha ha ha 

I'm just kidding, enjoy the next few days!

Winter birthday!

Ahhhh are all your stockings hung?? I guess the real question is are they filled??

As in did you get all your Christmas shopping done??  

I still have at least one present to buy, and a little bit of wrapping to do!

But I had enough time to throw together this cute card!

My girlfriend in Florida's birthday is at the very beginning of January,

and I though I've gotta do something that has no hit of the holidays. 

I'm hoping I succeeded??

The image is of course from Saturated Canary, and I colored her up using a mix of 

Copic, Prismacolor, and Spectrum Noir markers.

I also used the markers to color up those cute cupcakes!

Here's her close up!

 

That paper behind her is really more gray, but appears pink in this pic! 

Entering this into: 

Cupcake Craft Challenges: Cupcakes

Saturated Canary: Challenge 33: Inspiration picture

Pause Dream, Enjoy Challenges: December Celebrations 

Cute Card Thursday: Eat Drink and be Merry  

Paper Crafting Journey: Anything Goes 

Do You Stack Up: Anything Goes 

Designed to Color: Sketch 

Bearly Mine Challenges: Winter Birthdays

Masculine Christmas card

I suck at men's cards! 

I mean really... Most guys just wanna see if there is money or gift cards inside...

Right?

Well I needed to make a Christmas card for my dad....

When mom and dad were out in September my dad looked for cardinals every day!

He even bought a cardinal at the good will!

So when I found a pack of cardinal stickers in October I knew I'd use them for him!

What better way to get a masculine card done than with a sketch challenge,

 And a color challenge!

Ahhhh thank you inspiration!

First the sketch challenge can be found Here at There She Goes Stamps

Challenge 186.

Then I had to find a color challenge to play along with!

And the perfect one was at Paper secrets.  I especially loved the teal! 

So there you have it! I made a card for a man! 

And the bonus is that I did it using almost all scrap papers!

Entering this card into:

Simon says stamp: Merry christmas

Card makin mamas: It's holidays

Maybe the last Christmas card

I made this cute Christmas tree card yesterday

With the left over pieces of a project I made for my mom!

I love that its obviously a Christmas tree, but it's not Christmas colors!

Just a hodge pudge of pretty papers!

And in the top I used a piece from the home improvement store

I'd call it a cog wheel maybe?

The stars were inked with perfect medium using my punchinella, 

And then embossed with gold and silver embossing powder.

The presents were wrapped with some twine! 

Here's a little bit closer!

Hope you've finished most of your holiday crafting!

Entering this into: 

Desert island crafts: #1, 2, 5, 6, 10

Creative inspirations: Contemporary Christmas colors

Dilly beans: Non-traditional Christmas colors

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

Creepy Christmas snowman

Ho ho ho ho

Merry Christmas!!!

Right??  It's only a little over a week away!! 

I need to stop producing cards and actually get them into the mail...

Maybe tomorrow??

I made this creation using a new image I got from The Octopode Factory Shop

I just love this snowman!

The snowman was colored with my copic and Spectrum Noir markers. 

I also paper pieced the hat and scarf using Basic Grey Serendipity papers.

I added the washi tape banner made with twine and the sentiment "tis the season"

The Octopode Factory Challenge is Triangles so I did the bunting as flags,

And then I added the washi tree's to the bottom of the card. 

I also stamped 3 snowflakes around mr snowman!

I think I might use mr. snowman here to play along with Tim Holtz's tag challenge this month.

He's just perfect isn't he??

Also entering this card into:

The Crafty Pad: Challenge 200 (Recipe)  (3 snowflakes (on the snowman image), 2 ribbons I hope the twine counts, and the ric rack too, and 1 sentiment)

Do you Stack Up: Christmas (and they only have a few challenges left **sad face**)

Love my Tapes: Banners

Fussy and Fancy Friday: tags and banners

Diva's by Design: Use Some Red