Halloween Treats!

 

Happy Halloween!  I was busy making Halloween treats for my students last night.  It was a last minute idea (of course...why would I plan anything ahead of time?).  On my way home from work, I was thinking how I could get crafty and came up with covering Hershey candy bars.  Simple enough especially when I had some great DCWV Halloween paper and my Silhouette to make labels!

 

I cut the wrappers to 5.5" x 5.5" and wrapped it around the candy bar, securing it with some Scor-tape.  Then I started stamping labels.  These labels are from My Time Made Easy.  They are the Occasional Label cut file and coordinating stamp set.  I also used MTME's A Spooky Surprise stamp set for the sentiment, and Reverse Confetti's Spooky Cuties for the images.

The ghost on this one is from the MTME set and the witch's shoes are from the Reverse Confetti set.

These only took about 1.5 hours to complete 24 of them.  It was hard to not eat one!  I guess the sentiment held me back!  LOL!!

I hope you have a spooky Halloween!

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  A Spooky Surprise and Occasional Labels (MTME), Spooky Cuties (Reverse Confetti)

Paper:  DCWV Halloween Stack, Neenah white

Ink:  Pumpkin pie (SU), pear tart, sweet plum, dandelion (Memento Luxe)

Accessories:  Occasional Label cut file (MTME), Scor-tape



Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween (almost)!  I went down to my craft room for something and decided to make two Halloween cards for my nephews.  This one is a little washed out in the picture.  There is some green in the pattern paper and I added some green to the main image.  That piece was die cut with My Favorite Things Vertical Greetings die.  The stamps are from Reverse Confetti:  Spooky Cuties and Spooky Sentiments.  I ran the black piece through a spider web embossing folder, and adhered a spider button on the web.  Kind of hard to see here in the picture, but you can see it if you look closely.  On this one, I added black enamel glaze to the eyes for some dimension and a Wink of Stella brush for some shimmer on the ghost.

This one was made in the same manner.  I used a copic marker to color in the "31" and added a spider sticker to the stamped web.  There's a spider button on the embossed web as well.

 

I used this sketch from Clean & Simple sketches.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Spooky Cuties and Spooky Sentiments (Reverse Confetti)

Paper:  Neenah white, black, Eerie (BG)

Ink:  Versafine black, copic marker

Accessories:  Vertical Greetings die (MFT), spider web embossing folder, enamel glaze, Wink of Stella brush, spider buttons, Memory Box jewel spider sticker



Just Us Girls #212 - Photo Inspiration Challenge

Happy Saturday!  Today the challenge at Just Us Girls is a photo inspiration challenge, and Marisa has chosen a photo of the most beautiful fall table scape.  I just love fall colors!

Here's a closeup of the beautiful photo.

I was pretty literal with this photo.  I used the colors and leaves as my inspiration.  While I was searching my bevy of fall stamps, I found this leaf image in an old set from Gina K designs called Autumn Leaves.  I stamped it on watercolor paper and used Distress Markers and a water brush to color it.  I was really hoping for more orange leaves, but the brown seemed to overpower the oranges and yellows I used.  I added some shimmer with a Wink of Stella pen.

I needed a sympathy card for a neighbor's father, and I just adore this sentiment.  It's from a PTI set called With Sympathy.

I used this sketch from Seize the Sketch challenge blog.

I'm also entering this in the Trigger Tuesday challenge.  Obviously inspired by the leaves!

 



You can see more inspiration on these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue Trembeth

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 

Thanks for stopping by! 

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Autumn Leaves (Gina K Designs), With Sympathy (Papertrey Ink)

Paper:  Vintage cream, early espresso, more mustard, watercolor paper, Thankful dp (Authentique), Sugar Hill dp (Farm Fresh)

Ink:  Memento rich cocoa, Archival black, Distress Markers

Accessories:  Prima crystals, button, twine, Wink of Stella clear pen, watercolor brush, dimensionals



Just Us Girls #211 - Color Challenge

Hi everyone!  Just Us Girls has a cool color challenge going on this week.  Nancy chose this very beautiful color combination that I just adore!

 I just got this Joy Photo Card Frame die from My Favorite Things and cut it out twice (using the die-cut inlay technique from last week).  Once from marina mist and again from sahara sand and put them together.  The marina mist piece was run through PTI's woodgrain impression plate and accented with tea dye distress ink.  Then I cut some snowflakes from SU's retired Parisian Breeze paper using MFT's Let It Snowflake dies.  I made them sparkle with distress clear rock candy stickles.  It gave a subtle sparkle.  I added a button and twine bow and mounted everything on soft suede base.  (And now that I'm looking at this color combo on my laptop, I see that there are more grays than browns.  It looked more brown on my iPad than on my laptop.  Oh well!)

I had a couple of snowflakes left over, so I put them together and stamped a sentiment from MFT's free set Cheerful Christmas Greetings in soft suede for the inside of the card.

You can see more inspiration from the JUGs design team at these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue Trembeth

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Cheerful Christmas Greetings (MFT)

Paper:  Marina mist, soft suede, sahara sand, Parisian Breeze (SU)

Ink:  Soft suede, tea dye distress ink

Accessories:  Joy Photo Card Frame, Let It Snowflake dies, woodgrain impression plate, button, twine, distress clear rock candy stickles

 



Happy 30th Birthday!

My niece had her 30th birthday this weekend (where did the time go?), and I met her for dinner tonight.  I bought her a Pandora bead and needed a bag for it.  I just purchased these small kraft bags from Hobby Lobby and it was the perfect size.  I started by die cutting the numbers from grunge paper, covering them with glossy accents and fired brick distress glitter.  Love that stuff!  So glittery!  I added some washi tap and a flower I had sitting on my table.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Big Birthday Wishes.  

Here's the card I made previously that I gave to her.  Love how they match so nicely!

That's it for me!  Thanks for stopping by!

 



12 Tags of 2013 - October

Happy Columbus Day to my American friends!  I spent the weekend at our cabin and today I was off so I went shopping!  I was at my LSS and the mall.  I sure did spend a lot of money.  I guess I should work more and not have so much time on my hands!  LOL!!

 

So while I was at my LSS, I purchased this moon and owl die from Tim Holtz/Sizzix.  I cut them out of grungeboard, applied glossy accents to it, then sprinkled on the distress glitter.  I used mustard seed on the moon and tarnished brass on the owl.  I wish I had the black glitter for this, but that's on its way to me as we speak!  I set them aside to dry and went to work on the tag background.  I applied antique linen, spiced marmalade, mustard seed, and dusty concord distress paints on the craft mat, spritzed it with water and dragged the tag through it.  Love the way it came out.  Then I added some dusty concord and mustard seed distress inks on top and spritzed with water to get the water droplet effect.   I applied dusty concord distress ink through the bubble stencil, then applied clear embossing powder over it.  The owl and moon were adhered with glossy accents and I stamped the images with black archival ink.  I also took some peach seam binding and added some dusty concord ink to it.

 

I learned this technique at Tim's Chemistry 102 class.  I'm also going to enter this in his 12 Tags of 2013-October blog post and Our Creative Corner It's Halloween Let's Tag It On.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Botanical Art (Studio 490), Phantom (Pinkpaislee)

Paper:  Manilla tag, grungeboard

Ink:  Antique linen, spiced marmalade, dusty concord, mustard seed distress paints; dusty concord and mustard seed distress inks; black archival ink

Accessories:  Moon and owl dies, mustard seed and tarnished brass distress glitter, bubble stencil, clear embossing powder, seam binding ribbon

Just Us Girls #210 - Technique Challenge

 Hi all!  Vicki chose a great technique for the Just Us Girls technique challenge this week.  She chose a technique from one of my favorite designers...Jennifer McGuire.  She calls the technique die cut inlay.  You can see the video tutorial here.

I've actually done this technique before.  You can see my card here.  I went in a different direction this time.  I used Mat Stack #3 and Simply Jane dies for this technique along with some Graphic 45 papers.  I wanted to add some blue into the mix, so I created my own panel using Distress Paints.  This is called the Distress Marbeling technique from Tim Holtz.  I put antique linen, broken china and weathered wood distress paints on my mat and misted it with water.  Then I dragged a piece of vintage cream cardstock through it and dried it with a heat tool.  Then I colored the edges with a gold leaf pen.  I used the gold pen around the edges of the mat of the main image and on the pearls too.

I used the Deconstructed Sketch for my layout.

You can see more inspiration for this challenge on these blogs.

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue Trembeth

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

Thanks for stopping by!