Worst Craftroom Tour EVER!

Once you've tried filming it a dozen + times, you have to come to realization, that you're just going to have the worst craftroom tour ever.  And somehow, that will be okay.  

We've almost been in this house two months now.  I'm not completely finished (are we ever?) with my craftroom, but close enough that I'm willing to share - plus it was actually clean, and who know when that might happen again!

If you have any questions, please ask!

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Too Cute to Spook

Well, moving from a Christmas card in my last post, to something a bit sooner - today I have a Halloween card to share with you!

My image is "Too Cute to Spook - Witchy Wryn" from Tiddly Inks.  She's been colored up with pencils.  I paired here with some adorable papers from Doodlebug Ghouls and Goodies and were edges with Black Soot DI.  The black doilies under my image were from Michael's.  The two ribbon flowers are some I picked up at work.

I went a little embossing crazy again.   I love peeking through the bins of dollar stamps and am amassing quite the collection.  On this card, my sentiment, and the crows in the cage border, were from Studio G stamps, while the potion seal and haunted house were both Craftsmart stamps.

The inside was done up with the same products to coordinate with the front.

Challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown: Halloween Colors

Party Time Tuesdays: Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door

Cute Card Thursday: Trick or Treat

The Crafter's Cafe: Spookable

Creative Inspirations: Happy Halloween

Inspiration Destination

Have a fabulous day!  Thanks for stopping by!

Peace on Earth

Today's card was inspired by a couple of things I saw on Pinterest (here and here).  I've been really into using embossing lately, and this card fed into that. 

I used gold mirror paper and aqua cardstock to create the card.  The snowflakes are from the Simon Says Stamp Holiday Envelope Sentiments stamp set.  My sentiment came from a Stampin' Up Greetings of the Season set (unable to find in their store anymore).  I embossed all using Versamark and a gold detail embossing powder.

The inside of the card is about as simple as you can get - I embossed another of the sentiments from the SU set.

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenges: Embossing

Anything Goes with a Twist - Shimmer and Sparkle

Sister Act Card Challenge #79

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges: Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra

Through the Craft Room Door

Inspiration Destination #3

Have a wonderful day!

Hope-full Treat

It's time for another challenge over at 613 Avenue Create!  

This week the optional twist to our Anything Goes Challenge is "Candy Treats".

The image I'm using today was provided by Digistamps4joy who is one of our amazing sponsors this week.  

Some time ago, I read a blog post - written by a cancer survivor - that included a list of things small gifts/gift basket ideas that you could give a person undergoing chemo that were actually HELPFUL.  One of the items on that list was hard candies.  So, when I saw this image (during Breast Cancer Awareness Month) and the twist to this week's challenge, I knew exactly what I was making.  Sadly, it seems I always have a need for these, so I will be making more - in all sorts of colors because cancer comes in far to many forms, not just "pink".

I used a clear plastic pillow box as my candy treat container.  It is decorated with a "Dots and Stripes" paper from Echo Park, along with a small doily, and a bit of sheer pink ribbon from my stash.  My image was colored in pencils.

Please stop by 613 Avenue Create and see the other amazing candy treats and projects my teamies have created this week!

Challenges:

Through the Craftroom Door

Party time Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Tueday Throwdown - Awareness

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Think Pink!

Inspiration Destination

YouTube Video: Simple Christmas Tag with Plastic Overlay

You Warm my Heart

When this new Saturated Canary stamp was shown in the store, I knew I had to have it!  First of all, the penguin is ADORABLE!  And secondly, I love Krista's wintery images.  All of her images are gorgeous, but I just love the wintery ones especially.

I colored my image in with my eclectic mix of colored pencils.  The papers I've used are from the American Crafts "Hot Cocoa" pack.  On my Silhouette, I cut the little cup and hearts from card stock.  I used my colored pencils to shade in the cup, and then edged the brim of the cup and saucer with a gold marker.

I used a little Hampton Arts alpha set (I got it from the dollar bin at Walmart, back when they had a bit more of a selection), and gold embossing powder to create my sentiment.  The heart was punched with a MS punch, and then I used red Stickles on all of the hearts.  A few black pearls finished off the front of the card.

The inside of the card was dressed with paper from the collection, and a second image that I printed in blue ink, faded out onto white card stock.


Challenges:

Sister Act Card Challenge #78

Creative Inspirations: Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Anything Goes with a Twist: Female

Through the Craft Room Door

Inspiration Destination #2

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

YouTube Video: Enchanted Embossing Card

Though it isn't always, there are times when I ABSOLUTELY love a card I made.

This is one of them.

Look at the embossing when it hits the light!!!

Everything I used/did is explained in the video.

Have a great night! 

Halloween Spoils

It is time again for another challenge over at 613 Avenue Create!  

This week there is NO optional twist to our Anything Goes theme - 

It's All Anything Goes!

This week, I was able to work with one of our sponsors, Decosse's Dynamite Doodles, and some wonderful digital papers from her Trick or Treat kit.  I used both the Bat paper and Dot paper from the Patterned Paper Set 1 in my creations this week.

I chose to make a few more "goody" containers for Halloween.  Between all of my grands and the littles in my new neighborhood, I'm going to need a bunch of these this year! 

I used a small "Paint bucket" container that I got at work, and put a strip of the bat paper on the inside.  I made a tag from some black card stock, mirror paper, and the dot paper.  My sentiment actually came from a larger stamp (from the dollar bin at Michael's), which I masked off, and was embossed with black embossing powder onto vellum.  I added a few "Halloween" colored gemstones (I believe I picked them up at Hobby Lobby last year) to the tag then popped it up on some dimensionals.    A few pieces of dotted Offray ribbon were tied on the handle as well.

I had to finish the top and bottom with circles cut from the dot paper.  I also added this super cute pumpkin 3D sticker that I picked up at Walmart last year.

For the treat bag, I printed the digital papers in a bit larger size, and created a rosette.  I edged all of my papers with Distress Ink, and embossed a sentiment from another dollar bin stamp with gold sparkle embossing powder.  

I edged the circle of paper with black pearls,  and also used my WoS pen to coat a few of the bats on the paper with some sparkle.   I wrapped the bag with some wide black satin ribbon from my stash and attached the rosette.  

I had a ton of fun making these!  Please be sure to check out the wonderful inspiration from my teamies over at 613 Avenue Create, and join our Anything Goes challenge this week!  

Challenges:

Anything Goes with a Twist (New Challenge Blog!)

Inspiration Destination (New Challenge Blog!)

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges: Halloween

Through the Craft Room Door

Iced Over

I was in the mood to color the other night.  Not for a particular reason, I just wanted to color.  So, I pulled out my file of printed stamps and chose this adorable "Fairy Sweet" from Saturated Canary.  I grabbed my water brush and Distress Markers and colored away.   Her dress was coated with my clear WoS pen, and her wings were coated with clear glitter glue and a bit of aqua closer to her shoulders.  

She started to look a bit familiar, so I went with it.  I decided to put her on a card.   I used Authentique "Glistening" papers, with white pearl paper as mats.  I matted the stamp on a piece of cardstock that I punched with my "Snowbubbles" corner and border punch.  I also wrapped some Offray Lace, and some Celebrate It silver glitter ribbon around one of the papers.

I punched snowflakes from both the pearl paper I had used, and some clear vellum.  I also added a few metal snowflakes (there's some craaaaaaazy snow in her world, ok?)  A few of the snowflakes that were in the top layer got some cream pearls added to the center.  I also dotted some white Enamel Accents around my image to add to the cray-cray snow.

Inside I added a sheet of paper from the same line, and a few more punched snowflakes with some sequins from my stash in the center.


Challenges:

The Crafter's Cafe: Use Punches and/or Dies

Inspiration Destination: Anything Goes (VERY FIRST CHALLENGE)

Crafting by Designs: October Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations: Lovely Lace

Through the Craftroom Door

Sister Act Card Challenge #76

Dream Valley Challenges: Lace and Ribbon

Have a wonderful and creative day!