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Well, I had to get in just one more Halloween (sort of) card! This one uses the cute little witch from the Swept Up Crafty Cling Single set from Our Craft Lounge.
You may notice that I'm using non-traditional colors. That's because I'm playing along in the OCL blog challenge this week:
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I'm also using last week's MOJO212 sketch:
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And here's my card combining those challenges AND Halloween!
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Thanks for stopping by! I hope your Halloween is a great one!
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How about another Halloween card using the A Little Witchy set from Our Craft Lounge! I can't get enough of it!!
I decided to play along with Jen's SFYTT for October. It's definitely a great one! And yeah, I'm cutting it a little close, huh, since this is almost the last day of the month?!
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Yikes, tomorrow is Halloween, folks! Time to dress up, walk from door to door (probably in a strange neighborhood), and beg for candy. Sounds like fun!
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Ok, here's my card…
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Thanks for dropping by today. Here's hoping you all have a safe and VERY fun Halloween! Are you trick-or-treating??
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Hello, everyone! Are you ready to embark on another E-Team adventure/challenge?
This is the mission that our fearless leader, Daisy put before us this time:
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Your challenge is to only use what was in your eP box. You have to incorporate these 3 items in your creation: Seasonal Distress Inks, Maya Road Bottle Caps, and anything Starbucks. You can be inspired by Starbucks drinks, décor, the company itself. Your can use the gift card, sleeve holder, or anything you can find at Starbucks. They have a cool logo too. So go and get a drink at Starbucks and get inspired for this fun eclectic Challenge.
Oh my! So are you read for some fun? Here are the blog hop details:
Now on to my project…….
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Those are the items I started with. And here's the 8 x 10 artists canvas wall hanging that I came up with:
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Huh? Well, yeah, my mind works in mysterious ways sometimes!! When I laid out my Maya Road bottle caps in a row, I immediately saw a snowman! You mean you wouldn't??
I used some white felt and quilt batting, along with my sewing machine to create the snowman sections which were adhered into each of the bottle caps.
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I cut up my Starbuck's coffee sleeve to create the snowman's arms, nose and hat. Each of these was painted with watered down ink from one of the Ranger Seasonal Distress Inks.
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I used Want2Scrap adhesive pearls for the snowman's eyes and colored a random part of a smaller pearl flourish with a Copic 100 marker to make the mouth.
Then I spritzed the 8 x 10 artists canvas using a Tattered Angels Glimmer Screen and Sea Glass Glimmer Mist.
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I let it dry thoroughly before I adhered my glitter paper/tissue paper hills, the bottle cap snowman, and the multi-layered popped up snowflake.
Oh yes! I did knit the scarf myself!
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I was very undecided on what to use as a sentiment/phrase on the canvas. I finally chose a phrase that reminded me of Frosty the Snowman and just printed it out on some printer paper. Then I tore each word out, and adhered them each to the canvas using Claudine Hellmuth Matte Multi-Medium. I also sprinkled some DecoArt Glamour Dust over it while it was still wet.
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That's it for my "eP meets Starbucks" challenge!!
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Now it's time for you to move on to visit the other E-Team blogs. Here are the links for you:
I don't think Sherry or Linda Duke will be participating this time, but please visit them and leave them some love anyway!!
Thank you SO much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed your visit!!
Miscellaneous: white felt, sewing machine, quilt batting, buttons, cotton thread, needle, size 6 knitting needles, yarn, tissue paper, glitter paper (K & Company), brown felt, foam brush, paintbrush, water brush, rhinestone brad, DecoArt Glamour Dust, snowflake charm, computer, printer
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Well, it's that time again. Time for another Color Throwdown challenge! You guys rocked the challenge last week. There were so many favorites for me; it truly was hard to narrow the field!
Laura is our hostess with the mostess this week and here is her fabulous color combo:
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LOVE this!! What a cheerful combo!
I decided to use my new (to me) Simple Sunflower stamp and die sets from Papertrey Ink. You just can't get any simpler than this! Die cut the paper, and stamp the flower and leaf in versamark, then emboss with clear embossing powder!
I also used the Mat Stack 3 die and the Background Basics: Vines stamp set, which I clear embossed as well.
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This card is already on it's way to a dear friend who's recovering from an illness. I certainly hope it cheers her up!
Now it's time for you to check out all the fabulous creations from the design team:
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And don't forget to visit with our fabulous October Guest Designer, Amy Sheffer!!
We'd love it if you'd play along! Check out all the details on the Color Throwdown blog!
Thanks so much for stopping by to take a look! There's another E-Team challenge coming at you on Friday! Don't forget to check it out.
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Hi, people!! It's Wednesday and time for a new Color Throwdown challenge! This week I'm the hostess and in order to get caught up in making Halloween cards for all the grandkiddos, I chose some colors to inspire me.
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I LOVE this Holiday Cruiser stamp set from Our Craft Lounge! How many stamp sets do you know that are appropriate for Halloween, Thanksgiving AND Christmas! Amazing!
Of course, for Halloween I used the Witch to drive, and paired the image up with some cute paper from the Mischievous 6x6 paper pad. I love that car!
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Please drop by the Color Throwdown blog and join us! There's so much inspiration for you there and we'd love to see what you create using these colors!
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And don't forget to visit with our fabulous October Guest Designer, Amy Sheffer!!
Thanks so much for stopping by today!
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***IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THE E-TEAM BLOG HOP POST, CLICK HERE.***
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Hi, everyone!
I'm back today with a card based on the OCL87 sketch challenge. I'm afraid I missed the part about the "spooky" something that needed to be added. Oops!
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Isn't that a great sketch?
I decided to go with a Fall theme. It's just in the air, I guess. In fact, I'm headed up to the mountains today, to take in the fall colors and hopefully pick up some fresh-picked apples! Hopefully, I'll have some photos for you next week.
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I stamped my pumpkin and leaves in Memento Desert Sand ink. It's light so you don't see such a prominent outline. I love how this pumpkin looks when it's colored!
Check out all the details at the OCL blog and play along with us!!
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and can enjoy some beautiful fall weather! Thanks so much for dropping by!
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Welcome back to another fun and inspiring blog hop with the E-Team! We're presenting our second in the Seasonal Tags series. This time our challenge from our fearless leader, Daisy, is to make ANYTHING BUT A CARD using the theme "Be Thankful".
As always, Daisy will be giving prizes!! Woo hoo!! There will be 3 winners chosen randomly from all the comments on the E-Team members blog posts. And maybe even something special will be given away on the eclectic Paperie blog!
I was browsing the internet for some inspiration and came across a plethora of pumpkin ideas on Pinterest. (I just LOVE that site!!) So, the idea to make pumpkins as a Thanksgiving centerpiece was of course the first thing that came to mind. I used a couple of linked sites for my inspiration, and I'll give you the links to the original creations later on. But the pumpkin ideas that I found were so cute and simple that I just had to try them and show you my results.
So do you want to know what I started with?
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Ha! That's right! Toilet paper! Here's the link to the original idea: Toilet Paper Pumpkin
And here's my process:
First I chose these papers from My Mind's Eye and Fancy Pants to use. I only had 1 sheet of each, so I also chose some orange and some black 12 x 12 cardstock to use. I cut all my sheets of paper into 2 inch strips. This gave me 6 strips of each patterned paper and 6 strips of a solid color cardstock to use for each pumpkin.
[You can click on any of the photos to see them larger.]
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For the orange pumpkin, I inked the edges of all the patterned paper strips with Distress ink in Frayed Burlap, then crumpled and re-straightened all the strips.
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I started stuffing one end of each strip of orange cardstock into the bottom of the toilet paper roll, then into the top, leaving a little space in between the strips. Then I did the same with the patterned paper strips. I also took an empty toilet paper roll, collapsed it by crushing it in my hands and then twisted it to look like a pumpkin stem.
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For the blue pumpkin, I used Distress ink in Weathered Wood for the edges of the strips, and then crimped instead of crumpling them. I used Wild Honey Distress ink on the edges of the black patterned paper and crimped them as well.
The idea for the twine pumpkin came from this site: Crochet Thread Pumpkin
I had loads of these spools of thread from making crocheted flowers for my cards, so I decided to repurpose one of them. I used some gardening twine and a twig from my yard to make it look more like a pumpkin.
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After adding some vines die cut with a Spellbinders border die, and tying some ribbon around each stem, this is what I had:
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So that's my Seasonal Tags "Be Thankful" project. I hope you enjoyed reading about it! It's great to know that I can use this centerpiece from now through Halloween and the Thanksgiving holidays and not have to worry about the pumpkins going bad!
Now it's time to move on to see the projects of the other E-Team members. They're going to WOW you for sure!
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Thank you so much for stopping by to see me today. I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
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Hello, everyone! It's Wednesday again and time for a new Color Throwdown challenge. But first let me tell you how exciting it is for us all to have so many fabulous and talented team members! We've had so much fun chatting online, and I am SO loving all the beautiful art the newbies are adding to our challenges!
Now on to this week's challenge, hosted by the oh-so-talented Barbara ~
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What a fantastic combo! I immediately thought "Christmas", so I pulled out my new Ali Edwards stamp set "Believe" from Technique Tuesday. This is so perfect for making quick and beautiful Christmas cards!
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My card is 5.5" square. I loved layering the images with the Merry sentiment. So cool! Love my little jingle bell too!
Here are links to all the design team blogs:
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Be sure to play along with us this week. You don't have to have the exact colors, just something pretty close. You can find all the rules and the linky tool to use over at the Color Throwdown blog.
Thanks so much for visiting with me today! Friday is a new blog hop with the E-Team. That's always FUN! Be sure to come back then!
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Hi there, everyone!
I wanted to share with you this gorgeous Echinacea flower image from the new Our Craft Lounge stamp set You Make Me Happy. It really does! It makes me extremely happy!
Echinacea is one of my favorite flowers…I have it in several flower beds in my yard. I love how it blooms beautifully all summer long.
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Today I used the larger image of the single flower. I stamped it on some Claudine Hellmuth sticky back canvas with Versafine onyx black ink and then watercolored it using a water brush and Ranger Distress inks (Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Aged Mahogany, Milled Lavender, Wild Honey, Vintage Photo, Shabby Shutters, and Tumbled Glass).
Pretty simple, but I love the bold statement it makes. Just like the flower itself!
I cut the canvas with my pinking shears and adhered it to a piece of cardstock before attaching it to the card front. I did some machine stitching on the card front as well. The sentiment is from another Our Craft Lounge stamp set - Big Birthday Wishes.
Thanks so much for dropping by to see what I'm up to! I hope you'll come back soon!
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Yee haw, y'all!! It's time for another Color Throwdown challenge, and in addition to that we've got some very exciting news!!
We decided to expand our current team to give you even more inspiration to play along! We've added 5 new super-talented members, and we're so excited to be able to introduce them to you today!! I'd be willing to bet that you already know and love them all! Here they are:
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Can you believe that awesome line-up? Needless to say, we're pumped!
To make it even better, wait until you see who our October Guest Designer is…….
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As I said before…Yee haw, y'all!!
Now on to this week's challenge with Tammy as our hostess:
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I chose to use my new Unity Stamp Co. Itty Bitty Brave Boots stamp set. I picked it up at a recent craft show and it's just awesome!
Here's my card:
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Now it's your turn. With all the fabulous designs on the Color Throwdown blog, you're sure to find all the inspiration you need to play along with us! Check out the cards there, or just follow these links:
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Thanks for dropping by today! I hope your week is going well and gets even better as we get closer to the weekend!
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