Happy Halloween!

Low light photo of my pumpkin carving skills. Even though it's blurry, I love how the candlelight glows. The flash version had no spooky quality and was completely lacking in blurriness.

A forum friend alerted me to this lovely paper pumpkin. All my tools are metric so I just used the imperial measurements as a rough guide.

My ghosts are made using Paisley Leaves X-Cut Nesting Dies, Black ProMarker or googly eyes.

The mini pumpkins (shown back to front) are made using Swiss Dot embossed orange card & ProMarker coloured white paper cut with Oval Nesties. Stalks were cut with the Paisley Leaves.

My spiders are last years & I can't find the link.

We had great fun making our decorations & trick or treating.


Oíche Shamhna shona duit!

Bearly Mine Crafts Blog Candy

Bearly Mine Crafts have a Mega Candy on offer which will run until the 30th November.

Going Buggy Letraset ProMarker Giveaway

Going Buggy is offering the opportunity to win a complete set of Letraset ProMarkers to one of her followers. A winner will be drawn on 18th November & announced on the 19th.

Punches, Dies & Texture

This card contains so many of my go to items. My Martha Stewart Butterfly punch is always at hand, I use it so much I can justify buying more, can't I?! Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs is such a fun set, it can be used in so many ways & as soon as Quinn's 123s became available they were mine! A white gel pen was one of my first crafty purchases & it's still going strong over a year later.  From this you can tell I don't craft as much as I'd like, but I have a second pen ready to takeover from the first. Glossy accents provides my favourite textured finish & Cuttlebug's D'vine Swirls embossing folder is so versatile I've not tired of it yet. Spellbinders Posy Patch Dies & the matching Heartfelt creations stamps work so well together and last but not least my corner rounder punch. 

Oops how did I forget it, glitter glue- everything looks good when it sparkles.

 

Challenges:
Lawnscaping Challenge #43: Texture
Stampalot October Challenge: Punch Away
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog: Use Dies and/or Punches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Jessie's ABCs, Quinn's ABCs, Heartfelt Creations Posy Patch

Dies & Punches etc: Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly, Spellbinders Posy Patch, Corner punch, Xcut Circle Cutter, Cuttlebug EF D'vine Swirls

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Papermania Blue

Paper: White & blue card from stash

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles, Glitter glue, white gel pen, blue gems & seed beads

Colouring: Sharpie blue pen

Hope you enjoyed your visit.

Menswear

I don't use a lot of orange but when I saw the Runway Inspired Challenge photo the colours clicked into place. This is their first menswear collection perfect for a male card. I loved the solid blocks of colour on the top, mirrored by the solid stars & blocks of chevrons on my card. I've used the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch for this card and I really like the cluster of stars. Initially I could only visualise this as flowers (not exactly what I wanted for a male card) then I saw the star burst. The colours have a real Autumnal feel so I reached for my tiny trees & stamped first on scrap paper & then on my card for a softer look. I used black ink, stamped on the orange distress ink background which took on a slightly green hue.

 I went a little over board with the foam squares, but still managed to fit it into a regular envelope. A great find for me was how close shaded lilac distress ink is to ProMarker Blue Pearl and I'm still in love with chevrons, a hot trend that Young Crafters Unite is looking for.

Challenges:
Runway Inspired Challenge RIC#9: Iceberg Spring 2013 Menswear
Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #114
Young Crafters Unite Challenge #13: Hot Trends

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroes, Teeny Trees, Lawn Fawn Chevron Backdrops

Dies: Spelbinders Nestabilities Stars, Ovals
Paper:  White from stash
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Paris Dusk, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Spiced Marmalade, Shaded Lilac

Embellishments: Glossy Accents, White & silver gel pens, stickles, Papermania clear stars
Promarkers & Flexmarkers:

Thank you for dropping by, hope you enjoy your visit.

Birthday Bag

This is my first shaped card, a prototype! I created the template with a tent card as the starting point and an image of small rigid satin bags with dainty handles in my head. As you can see I need to work on the dainty handles. The bag had to be pink, just perfect for Jane. The gems sparkle & the edges appear less rough in person, but I think a slightly thinner card would work better next time.

Challenges:
Catered Crop: In the Pink Recipe Swap
In the Pink Challenge #3: Pink & Anything but Square
ABC Challenges: W for Wishes


Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs, Paper Smmoches Sentiment Sampler, Waltzingmouse Stamps Teeny Trees

Paper:  Pink card & acetate from stash
Ink: Tsukineko Versamark
Embellishments: White embossing powder, stickles, pink gems, eyelets, white ribbon, charm from stash

  

Hope you enjoyed your visit & see you again soon.

Hatty Birthday

This is my first chance to ink this lovely stamp I won from Little Miss Muffet Stamps April Release.  I've used my favourite colour combo teal & white with a swirly embossed background and teal lace. It's a fun sentiment to go with the stamp, to add a little humour to the 40th birthday card.

Looking  at my background I not sure if it is embossed or debossed. It seemed embossed when I stuck it down, but now with the photograph I'm not sure! The lace is strategically placed over the join and Stickles & Glossy Accents add a little sparkle.

Challenges:
Little Miss Muffet Challenges #43: Writing or Anything Goes with a LMMS image
Passion For ProMarker Week 164: Lace & Swirls
Sentimental Sundays #119: Humor Me
Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes Theme with the Optional Extra of a Non-Square Base Card
DYSU #88: Birthday

Supplies

Stamps: Little Miss Muffet Stamps Eleanor May Hatter, Lawn Fawn Quinn's 123s

Paper:  White card from stash
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments: Glossy Accents, white gel pen, stickles, lace

Promarkers & Flexmarkers:

Hope you enjoyed your visit & see you again soon.