Crafty Creations Challenge - Halloween

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Today is the beginning of challenge #325 over at Crafty Creations Challenges.

The theme for our challenge is Halloween  and the sponsor for this challenge is SLS Lines.   

The winner of this challenge will receive 3 single digital images of your choice.

Click here to visit their store and check out their great array of digital images.

For my card today I used Halloween Pumpkin.

Those pumpkins are really spooky aren't they!!

I printed the image 2 times, colored them and used on my card front. 

I had some Halloween DP  in my stash and it was a perfect fit for the theme and the image.

I added a bow and a bat charm

Here is a closer view to the charm. 

Our challenge has started and will run until Oct 11 @ 10:00 p.m. et 

We would love to see an entry from you.

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE I SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  SLS LINES  - Halloween Pumpkin Paper/Card Stock: Orange CS, DP, Dark Gray CS Accessories: Ribbon, charm, VersaMark, Distress Markers, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, colored pencils, gamsol, Spectrum Noir

I am submitting my project in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create -  - #189 Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Colors of Fall (#366)

Angie's Digital Stamps -  September - Anything Goes (#19)

Colour Your World with Lucy Sunshine - 2 Always Anything Goes (#32)

Great Impressions - September - Anything Goes (#66)

Artistic Inspirations -  Anything Goes (#56)

Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes (#72)

Love to Scrap - Anything Goes (#139)

The Crazy Challenge -  (Week 1) Autumn  (#14)

Whoopsi Daisy -  (September) Autumnal Colors (#34)

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #14 Always Anything Goes (#73)

Thanks for stopping in today

Celebrate

Welcome back 
I thought I'd show a card I made using some Pan Pastels and Versamark. Don't have Pan Pastels well dust off those chalks and you will get the same effect.

Stamp the image with Versamark and then add the color - using chalks/Pan Pastels. What applicator did I use?? I just used my finger. I just gently tapped my finger onto the pigment color and then tapped my finger onto the stamped image. I also gently rubbed 

I stamped a wooded image and used greens and blues and some browns on the trees. Used grays and blues  on the stream and the bank (by the label)

Let me share my card with you. 

I love this look, to me it gives me a misty/foggy morning look, Hope you like this look as well. 

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE I SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Stampscapes - Pines and Rocks Paper/Card Stock:White CS green CS Ink: Versamark Dies Used: Sizzix Tim Holtz - Handwritten Celebrate Accessories: Blackboard label, Pan Pastels

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Cards und More - # 167 - No Designer Paper (week 2) (#74)
• Digi Choosday Challenge - #38 - Anything Goes (#6)
• Lemon Shortbread Always Anything Goes  (#80)
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#16)
• Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes (#167)
• Colouring in Scrapland -  Clean & Clean or Fully Loaded (#11)
• Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes (#64)
• Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes (#65)
• Lost Coast Designs - Anything Goes (#17)
• The Paper Girls -  (Week 1) Nature (#13)

Thanks for stopping in today and I will be back real soon.

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Challenge 42

Hello everyone
It time for another challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends.

I think Halloween is a fun time of the year so I decided to use an image that fits that theme.

The sponsors for challenge #42 over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends are:

Bugaboo Stamps

  and 

Fred She Said

The image I decided on is from Bugaboo Stamps -  

Silhouette - Happy Halloween Cat and is available here

I  have a pumpkin die that I absolutely love and I use it a lot in the Halloween/Fall season on some of my projects.  For this card I actually took about 1" off the bottom of the pumpkin, to make it fit the card better with the all the other die cut images you see on this card.

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE I SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  digi - Bugaboo Stamps Silhouette - Happy Halloween Cat Paper/Card Stock: Orange CS, Brown CS, White CS, Black CS, Purple CS, Vellum Ink:Memento - Pear Tart, Lulu Lavender Die: Impression Obsession Spider & Web, Accucut Pumpkin #3, Accessories: Ribbon, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, Spectrum Noir Markers, Glitter

I  am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Scrappers Delights  September -  Anything Goes (#67)
• Crafting-With-Friends -  (W2 of 2) Anything Goes (#125)
• Creative Corner -  No Patterned Papers Allowed (#31)
• Jo's Scrap Shack -  No.156 -  Anything Goes (#36)
• Polkadoodles -No.37 - Anything Goes (#64)
• QKR Stampede –  No. 209 - Anything Goes (#21)
• Simply Papercraft -  No. 36 (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes (#128)
• Crafting With An Attitude -Always Anything Goes (#193)
• Crafty Girls Creations  Always Anything Goes (#96)
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge  - Always Anything Goes (#33)

Crafty Creations Challenges - 324

Hello everyone
Thanks for stopping in today.

Today is the beginning of the new challenge over at Crafty Creations Challenges.

The theme is For The Home. 

(I had to think for a while before coming up with something for this theme.)

The Sponsor for this challenge is -  Fresh Brewed Designs.

Here is a little info about Fresh Brewed Designs

Hello, I am Heather Dennis, the Owner and Artist at Fresh Brewed Designs.  I try to make sure I  put God first in my life.  I am so blessed beyond all I deserve.  I have an amazing husband who supports and loves me more than anything.  We lead praise and worship together in church. I home school two of the best kids in the world.  

Here is a little about our shop:

Fresh Brewed Designs is a small online company that has been offering a wide variety of digital and rubber stamps since November, 2010 designed to meet the needs of paper crafting addicts everywhere!  With over 30 categories to choose from and new additions each month, our range of products is expanding all the time.

We would love for you to visit our blog and facebook page, where creativity is brewed fresh daily. 
  

I mentioned I had to about this for a while to come up with a project.
Well I had something here all along,
 it was just waiting for some adornment.

I've had this perpetual calendar for some time. But it has never been decorated, never used.  So I decided to show this  and I chose a cute pair of snowmen
and decided to use that image for the January page.

This calendar  has a sheet for each month  with a blank spot at the top to decorate and it also gives you the capability to note a persons name next to the day of the month. Each sheet has 31 numbered lines. This is a perfect reminder for birthdays and anniversaries or anything that happens on the same date of the month each year. And the great thing is you use it over and over, You flip the page over as you begin a new month. It becomes a darling and creative reminder you use year after year.

Here is a close up view of the top section that I decorated.
I used Frosty Hugs and Kisses
the perfect image for the month of January

I added glitter to the snowmen and added a bit of a sky with some glittered falling snowflakes. 

A few glittery snowflakes by the month name and at the bottom 

finish off this cute reminder for the month of January.

Just think, I have 11 more pages to decorate 

Hmm... Maybe I will do a new page every month til I finish the calendar. 

OK I have January finished already so I will start on the February page in Feb and complete the individual pages in their corresponding month. So be on the lookout for this ongoing starting February.. This will be so much fun.

BTW, this hangs in my kitchen on the side of my refrigerator, close to a regular calendar.

The perfect spot.

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE I SUPPLIES USED ON THIS PROJECT

Stamps:  digi - Fresh Brewed Designs - Frosty Hugs and Kisses Paper/Card Stock: Blue CS, white CS, Red CS Accessories: Glitter, Quicky Glue Pen, Copic Markers, dimensional foam

I am submitting my calendar in the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations -  Anything Goes (#43)

Crafting from the Heart -  Always Anything Goes (#54)

Craft Your Passion -  Always Anything Goes (#75)

A Snowflakes Promise   #28 - Anything Goes (week 2) (#50)

Digi Choosday Challenge  - #37 - Anything Goes (#6)

Everybody-Art-Challenge  #380 - Anything Goes (#22)

Sunny Day Crafting -  #14 Anything Goes (#17)

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#24)

Thanks  for stopping by.

See you soon

Back To School

Hello everyone.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day holiday and weekend. Now that that holiday has past it's time for fall to come into out lives. Back to school, cooler days and crisp evenings, sweaters, apples and oh so much more,these are the things that remind me of fall.

This month the sponsor over at Craft-Dee BowZ is Robyn's Fetish

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this months challenge

at Craft-Dee BowZ. Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations,

was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib.

Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers,

designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion. Robyn’s Fetish Digital Stamps And More

is happy to award 3 digital stamps of the winner’s choice

to the winner of this months challenge at Craft-Dee BowZ.

Well I think school has started back everywhere, 

and with that in mind I decided to make a card
 with a back to school theme.

I saw the image with that apple and the worm reading his book (Apple With Smart Worm),

 and decided that image would be cute on a Back to School card. 

Here is a closer view of this cute Smart Worm

I added a beautiful double loop bow using a gorgeous lime green 

with a white hounds tooth check design. 

This is a wired ribbon and those are my favorite types of ribbon 

because they hold their shape.. 

I thought it made a great accent to the smart worm.

To make this bow I use my Craft-Dee BowZ tool. The tool is easy to use and is easy to store and small enough to take with me if I go to a crop or even a friends house.

You can order one here. 

Oh BTW, I use my CDB tool on all my bows. 

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE I SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digital image- Robyn's Fetish - Apple with Smart Worm Paper/Card Stock: Yellow CS, Red CS Ink: Copic Markers Accessories: Hounds Tooth Checked Ribbon, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, Note Paper, Back to School Sticker

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft   Always Anything Goes (#70)

Classic Design Team Open Challenge #6 Anything Goes (#47)

Crafting Musketeers #41 - Back to School (#4)

Crafts Galore Encore September - Anything Goes (#32)

Crafty Awesomeness  September - Anything Goes with Colored Image

Doodle Pantry #21 - Anything Digital Goes (#13)

Open-Minded Challenges  #8 - Back to School - Reading (#25)

Sparkles Forum Challenges #83 - Lots of Layers (#119)

The Sisters of Craft Always Anything Goes (#42)

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge Always Anything Goes (#91)

Your Scrapbook Place Anything Goes (extra entry if you use sponsor image)(#11)

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great week.

Welcome Fall

Welcome back!!
I know I know, fall hasn't started, but I am getting a head start, And I don't know about you but I am tired of this heat and humidity, so fall is going to be a welcome change for me.

I picked up a new stamp and matching die the other day and thought I'd use it before fall and winter really set in.

I really fell in love with this flower stamp and its so nice when you can get a matching die to make cutting the images out a breeze.

I used a gray tone for the card base and the paper under that lattice is a darker gray.

 So....... I decided to use a red satin ribbon and red lettering. 

I edged the word panels with Rhubarb Stalk.

That red really pops doesn't it!. 

My bow is a single loop bow and the Craft-Dee BowZ tool makes bow making so easy

Here is a closer view of the bow.

The bow maker tool can be ordered here

The Craft-Dee BowZ September Challenge starts today and lasts until the end of the month.

Did you know, over on the Crafty-BowZ blog, the designers post each Tuesday with more inspiration for you. Hope you can stop by to see the image they are using from the sponsor. 

I will be back next Tuesday with my inspiration project using a digi from Robyn's Fetish.  

 Hope you can stop back

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE I SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Ken Oliver - Butterfly Daisy Stamp Paper/Card Stock: Gray CS. DP (lattice), Red CS Ink: Memento - Rhubarb Stalk, India Ink - Black Dies Used: Sizzix - Mixed Media #3 (alphabet), Cheery Lynn Lattice #2, Ken Oliver Butterfly Daisy Die Accessories: Ribbon, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, Spectrum Noir

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Crafting By Designs - September Anything Goes (#18)
• Crafty Gals Corner - #87 Anything Goes (#22)
• Fab 'n' Funky -  #316 Anything Goes (Sept. 6th) (#249)
• Inspiration Destination - #101 Always Anything Goes (#30)
• Mod Squad Challenge - W, F - Foilage (#6)
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Sisterhood of Crafters  -  Ribbon (Week 2 of 2) (#39)
• Wonderful Wednesdays -  W, SIO -  Always Anything Goes(#6)
• Die Cuttin' Divas W, must include a Die-cut - #281 - Anything Goes (#55)
• Digi Choosday Challenge - #35 - Anything Goes (#32)
• Lemon Shortbread  Always Anything Goes (Week 1)  (#27)
• Sunny Day Crafting -  #12 Anything Goes (#42)
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#62)

Thanks for stopping in today