Boughs of Holly

Today I am celebrating the Christmas Holidays with a card I made using Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blend Boughs Of Holly!!!  You can find more Sparkle Blends at DPP's exclusive retailer White Rose Crafts!

My card today uses pattern paper from Tim Holtz, a photo die I got in a bundle from Peachy Cheap, and the Boughs of Holly Sparkle Blends.  I think the polaroid full of sequins is a cute little addition to my card.  I really kept it simple, just the main focus of sequins and some twine and that's it!  I love it!!!

Thanks for joining me today!!!

Blueprint Card

Cute little card I made using the Tim Holtz mini Blueprint set!!!  

Mini Blueprint ATC

So last year I was trying to use up all of my stash of Halloween stuff. At the end of 31 Days last year I thought I had done that so I started buying more Halloween stuff while it was on sale, cause who doesn't love a sale?!?!?!!!  I was able to pick up this Tim Holtz mini blueprint stamp set for like $4 to use this year... Anyway long story short, we moved, I found more stuff that I had stashed so now I am back to using my stash!!

Here are another group of 3 ATCs I have made for the pocket letter exchange this month!

Left of Center

Hey guys, it's time for a new challenge over at Left of Center!!!  This week our sponsor is Moonflower designs!  Unfortunately, two of the inks in my printer need replacing and I didn't realize that I didn't have any on hand!!  AND my local stores didn't have them in store, guess not many people use laser jets out here in Idaho!!!  Anyway, I've ordered them, now I am just waiting for them to show up!  That being said, I wasn't able to print out an of the images that the lovely people at Moonflower generously gave us to use.  So I did something I have not done before... first I used a new stamp set, well new to me, I have had it for a few months now and haven't used it yet so I figured why not!!!  It's the Time Holtz stamp set called Bird Crazy.  I used watercolor paper and distress inks to color the images I used!

Day 11 of 12

Hello Lovelies, can you believe that Christmas is almost here?  I am so excited!!! 

Today I have to share with you a tag that was inspired from a swap last year.  I loved the fact that she put a little pocket on it and added some collage images for us to have!!!  So this is my tag that I made with a goodie envelope that was inspired by a tag from last year....

 

My goodies are from the 8x8 Christmas emporium paper pad from G45...

Remember to leave me some love and to visit the other bloggers and leave them love for your chance to win that $100 shopping spree!!! The Blog Roll is on the side bar and will remain there until the end of the month!!! Please look there for the next blog!!!

Day 5 of 12

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you another tag I made for another gift.  This one I used some of my Tim Holtz images I got on clearence last year.  This tag was cut from patterned paper, just a vintage with very tone on tone pattern, then I used tea dye distress ink to make it a little more and stamped my images with Fired Brick distress ink.  The little image charm came from the little envie of goodies I got last year in a swap!!!

Remember to leave me some love and to visit the other bloggers and leave them love for your chance to win that $100 shopping spree!!! The Blog Roll is on the side bar and will remain there until the end of the month!!! Please look there for the next blog!!!

A Very Merry Steampunk Holiday

Hello Lovelies,  today is super special for me... My friend and fellow APDT member Leslie Rahye has decided to have a Holiday Blog hop... What's special about this one, well it's steampunk of course.  We could do anything we liked with a steampunk theme so I decided to do a Snowman/Top Hat!!  Now my vision for this is to make a paper mache snowman to wear this hat!  No it's not done yet because I just thought of it so it's still a work in progress(the snowman) but the Hat is done.  I found these paper mache top hats at Michaels in October and snatched up a couple before they were gone.  Not really having any clue as to what I wanted to do with them then I heard about this blog hop and knew what one was going to be!!! I hope to be done with my snowman before christmas but if you have ever made your own paper mache items(big ones at that) then you know it takes a while to get them done. 

 

That key paper is tissue paper I got from Michael's it comes in a 5 pack... it's by recollections.  The band is some printed canvas also by recollections from Michales. 

 

The tiny gears are from Tim Holtz. The clear beads are dew drops.  They circle the band.

 

There is a double layers poinsetta with some greenery from the craft store as well.

 

 

Be sure to visit everyone and leave some love!!!  Cause everyone needs some love!!! 

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Blog Hop

Greetings fellow Twi-hards! Tonight is the night! It is the release for Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2! I cannot believe that the last movie is finally being released. Will you be at a premiere? I unfortunately will not be able to make the first showing but will be going first thing friday morning!!!

My friend and fellow Twi-Hard Alison decided that since this was the last movie, we needed to do one last Twilight hop. One more hurrah before it was all over. So, she asked some of her fellow Twi-friends to hop along with her. Happily, there were 6 gals that wanted to joined. So there are 7 awesome stops in this Blog Hop. And we all made some fabulous, Twilight inspired projects! Here's what I came up with.

This is the front of my tag.  I used some digi papers from a Twilight themed digi set.  I am sorry I can't remember where it came from it was a freebie I got a long long long time ago when on a DT. The words were printed off of my computer as well as the images I found for free online.  The chess piece is popped up in a double layer.  I sprayed it with some red and black dylusions and then once everything was said and done, I thought, SPARKLE so there is some pearl glimmer mists over everything!!! Of course I had to give all the books their spotlight on this tag as it is the books that I am in love with... Ok honestly I never read one single book until I saw the first movie with my daughter... once she explained to me that the book had so much more info in it I read them... all four in one weekend... Thanksgiving weekend when Twilight first came out!  I was hooked... I can't tell you how many times I have read them.  My son will see me reading and say AGAIN mom!!!  And I just look up and say yep and keep reading!!! LOL 

Close up of the top of the front.  See some of the shimmer...

Bottom close up!  more glimmer and "blood"!

The back is covered with a scanned in book page.  It's the last page of breaking dawn and I thought it fitting that I use the last page of the last book for the last movie!!!  The images are some printed off the computer then I used Tim Holtz Fragments on them and adhered them to the tag after tying them with some embroidery thread.  The tag ready Yes! I am one of those TWILIGHT  people.  The book page is also sprayed with black and red dylusions and pearl glimmer mist.

 

Now as I said there are 7 stops on this hop and if you are starting here I would greatly appreciate it if you would head over to the beginning and leave all the blogger some much deserved love about their projects!!! 

 

Here is the Hop List:

 

Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com

Laura: http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/

Rebecca: http://bellacarta.typepad.com/

Kelli: http://cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com That's me!!

Danielle: http://fundamentalchange.blogspot.com/

Sugar: http://sugscardsnmore.blogspot.com/

Stephanie: http://www.apaperbuffet.blogspot.com/

Day 22 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have a very quick, very easy little project to show you.  I made these little candy holders for the kids friends so needed something that would go quickly....

A stamp, some of last years Tim Holtz kraft halloween paper and a paper mache tombstone...there you have it...a quick little treat holder.  These tombstones came in packs of 4 at michaels so I just grabbed a whole lot of them and we went to town....

Just a quick simple little gift and we all had fun making them!!!

 

blog roll on the sidebar as always!!!!

We are all a Little Mad here!!!!

Hello Lovelies, today I have to share with you a tag I made using an image from AlteredPages.com.  I love their collage sheets so many to choose from!  Today I took one image from the Black and Sepia collage sheet AP-2023 if your searching for it!  I made the image into 4 sizes just by resizing it.  If I would have thought about it I would have written down the sizes I used but I didn't!  sorry.  Anyway I took a tag and colored the background with Dylusions Ink Sprays: Lemon Zest, Pure Sunshine, Melted Chocolate, and Black Marble.  I love my sprays!!!!  I then ran the tag through my big shot using a Halloween embossing folder my Tim Holtz.  I fussy cut the skeleton images that I resized and layerd them like a totem and adhered them to my tag then added words from a dilly beans set called Cute and Dark sayings, added some black ribbon and a little walnut ink and there you have it!  A cute little Halloweed tag!  Hope you enjoy!

Forever Night #30

Hello Lovelies, this weeks challenge is all about Pirates!  Yep that’s right Pirates!  Our sponsor this week is Sassy Studio Designs and we were able to pick from some awesome images!   There are some awesome projects over at the Forever Night challenge blog that you really need to go check out!  That’s also where you need to go to play along with us!!!  Wanna see what I have made for you?  OK here you go!!!

Hey do you see that Bombshell stamp set back there!!!  It is called Homeward Bound.

see the little clip says treasure… It’s like Tim knew I was gonna need this, cause we all know he thinks of me when he is designing things!!!  LMAO

go see what everyone else has made!!!

12 Days of Christmas day 7

Hello Lovelies, it’s a Smeared Ink day today and I have for you a gift I have made for my nephews and niece!  I saw this on pintrest, which I LOVE, and couldn’t wait to make it!  I am not sure if you can see them as I stamped them in the same color ink as the cardstock but there are grumpies everywhere!!! 

Remember to head on over and see what everyone else has made! 


It's also a new Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls challenge!!!  Today we are starting a new challenge... it is make a project inspired by your favorite alternative christmas movie.  There are so many alternative movies out there plenty to choose from!!  Here is my project, inspired by A Christmas Story and Tim Holtz tags this year!

I also made these to go in the gift bags I sent to my family for Christmas this year!  So this on Pintrest(love that thing) and couldn't wait to do it!!

12 Days of Christmas day 3

Hello Lovelies, Welcome to another day of Christmas s&s style!  I hope you have been enjoying yourselves these last 3 days!  Isn’t there some wonderful artwork going on here!!!  Today I have for you another card.  Most of my projects will be cards cause I had to make them to send out anyway!  Today’s card was inspired by none other than a stocking!  I used some simple kraft card stock, some patterned paper,  some distress ink,and a cute little Santa stamp!

Told ya he was cute!  Now remember to leave me some love and then go off and see what everyone else has made!!!

Day 29 of 31

Hello lovelies, can you believe it’s almost Halloween!  I am so very excited!!!  I can’t wait!!!  As most of you know we moved to this new house in this new town in January of this year and I have had some not so very good times here.  I am sad to say that on our street of 10 houses we are the only ones who have decorated for Halloween!  I have no idea if we will have trick or treaters.. but we are having friends of the kids over so that will have to suffice!  That being said, and actually having nothing to do with my project I just wanted you to know what a weird place I live in, we are moving on to my project for the day!

Several days ago I showed you a charm I made for one of those little branch trees…. I have a few more to show you today!  I think I like this group better than the first one!  What do you think?

All the images are from inkadinkado and all the charms have been colored with alcohol inks!  Let’s see, there is a skull, a vampire, and two spider webs in this group!  The tree will be revealed on the 31st!!!! 
No off with you to see the next project!!!!!

Day 22 of 31

Hello lovelies, today I have for you another ATC I made using the $ spot inkadinkado stamps.  This little ATC has a special surprise! 

Isn’t that an awesome stamp?!  I used distress inks to color him, well not really color but make it so that it wasn’t white!  I used gathered twigs, and ripe persimmon.  Two of the new distress inks.  The patterned paper is also from echo park, I love that Apothecary Emporium collection!  Anyway, the ribbon is from Michaels. 

Wanna see the surprise?  Ok here it is!

The sentiment is also from inkadinkado!  Isn’t that cool!!!  The background is colored with distress inks, gathered twigs, ripe persimmon, and seedless preserves!   Thanks for looking! Remember to go and see what everyone else has made for you today!!! 

Day 16 of 31

****EDITED TO SAY I AM SORRY IT IS LATE, I FORGOT TO GO IN AND SET THE AUTOPOST ON THIS ONE..****

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a lovely little ATC I made using my new limited edition Distress inks….The colors are amazing so vivid.  I have used them today on craft paper!!!  The stamp is one for the $ spot at the craft store, by Inkadinkado.  Love those stamps!  I also used some echo park paper and my mini labels die cut!  I hope you enjoy this little project I have for you today! 

Remember to go and see what everyone else has made for you today and the list is on the sidebar! ---------->

Day 12 of 31

  
Welcome to the first Trick or Treat Blog Hop going on October 12th to October 14th over at Forever Night Challenges!
If you have just Trick or Treated ROSA, Then your in the right place! If you didn't trick or treat them you can start here at FOREVER NIGHT CHALLENGES to start your trick or treat journey and find out how you can win some great prizes!!
Each one of our Night Crew Designers and Special Guest Designers have created a design with an image provided by Tiddly Ink's You need to trick or treat and comment on all the stops to be counted for prizes!
Plus some of our stops also have some Trick or Treat Candy !!
Also as a part of the Trick or Treat Twist our 13th Freaky Friday Challenge is posted and will be available to LINKY up from Friday 14th until Oct 20th . Complete both tasks to be eligible for the prizes!

My project is using Owlette.

I am one of the DT that have a blog candy to give away but I have one extra stipulation for winning my candy, you must become a follower of my blog and complete the other tasks to be eligible for my candy!
Head over to the Forever Night Challenges Blog to see what you Have to do to win some of this wonderful prizes!!!
 
Your next Trick or Treat stop is JAIDEN
There are also some cool sponsors for our blog hop and they are:

Tiddly Inks is offering a $15 gift certificate!

They are offering a $5.00 coupon. 

Smeared Ink is offering a free digi image!

Strange skin is offering this wonderful Cameo Set!!

Thanks for Trick or Treating!!
NOW FOR THE BOMBSHELL SKETCH:
Hello lovelies, today I have for you a double post in one. Not only is it Bombshell sketch challenge day over on the bombshell blog, but it is also the start of Forever Night Challenge blogs 3 day blog hop!!
First of all the Bombshell sketch….

This is the wonderful sketch Ms. Kathi made for us this month! Here is my take on the sketch…

The other day I was having a Pumpkin Spice Latte and I thought, I wonder what a Pumpkin Spice Martini would taste like! So that led to this card! I used the Man’s Ruin stamp set. Kraft cardstock and Halloween patterned paper from My Minds Eye called Haunted. It’s pretty all the paper in this pad is printed on kraft! I LOVE IT! Stickles on the glass cause every martini needs a sparkly glass!!! The background is kraft paper smeared with the new Limited edition distress inks from ranger! I LOVE THEM!!! I hand wrote the name of the drink cause it just needed it!!

Day 4 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a project I made for one of those little branch trees, you see everywhere during this time of the year.  I used facets and alcohol ink .  Then stamped the spider image onto the flat side of the facets. I made similar charms for a charm swap for ATT yahoo group.  I am making more of these as you read this to decorate my tree!  I will have pictures posted on the last day of my decorations!!  

I also have my original card I made for the Beyond the Burtonesque Dolls blog jump off!!!  Today is the day the blog is live and we have an awesome challenge for you!  Make a project depicting your favorite Halloween movie or book and tell us why!  Give us the background story.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the movie Hocus Pocus… it’s not scary or gory but I freakin love it!


It was my jump off movie into my love of everything witchy!!!  Not to mention awesome actors in the movie!!!  Anyway, I know you have seen this card before but I wanted to explain a little more.  The witches, being sisters, are all dressed in the same color but as each sister is unique so is her outfit.  Each brings their own personality into their outfit.  The “ditzy” Sexy blonde, the normal often overlooked dark haired sister and the oldest, in charge red head!!!  If you haven’t seen this movie you should!!!  Like I said, I LOVE IT!!!

Remember to go an see what everyone else has made for you today to win that awesome prize!!!  Blog Roll on the sidebar------------------------------------------------------------------------------>

Day 2 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have to share with you are some tags that I made for a tag swap.  I recently joined a new yahoo group called All Things Tim… and as you may have guessed from the name this is a group for people who love Tim Holtz.. his techniques, products, you name it, if its Tim it’s all good!  So my first swap with them was a 13 Tags of Halloween swap.  So I used some of the techniques for the background with my distress inks.  It’s kinda simple really but I had to make a lot of them!!!  I know that’s no excuse but I am happy with them!!

Let me know what you think and remember to visit everyone on the list on the sidebar to be eligible for that wicked awesome huge prize!!!

Put me in the Movies…Bombshell style

Hello lovelies, you know it, it’s time for the Bombshell blog hop!  The ever lovely Ms. Alison has set forth for us this month an awesome challenge!  This is what Ms. Ali had to say…

This month, the theme is "Put Me in the Movies." Take a movie, and/or movie poster, and use it to inspire your Bombshell Stamps project! Any of your stamp sets will work! And, you can make anything you want!
To get the inspiration flowing...think about using a hot rod set for Cars 2, Sugar Skulls for a horror flick, ship for a Pirate's of the Caribbean movie, etc. And that's not even mentioning your Bombshell gals! 

Now doesn’t that just leave us open to do anything!!!  It quite honestly took me a while to find a movie I wanted to work with and then last week I found it…”Gentlemen Prefer Blonds” with Marilyn Monroe.  I have to admit I am not a big huge Marilyn fan but I found this poster of her one day while shopping with the kids and was sitting here staring at it trying to figure out what to do and DUH  look for Marilyn Monroe as she was nothing but a Bombshell!!!

Isn’t that a wicked sweet picture!!!

Anyway while looking through movie titles I saw this poster…

So I thought I would work with it!  Now I love the sparkly red they are wearing and it inspired this tag that I made.  I will use it for my cousin who’s wife is a brunette! 

  

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Now hop on over to see what everyone else has made!  Remember to leave a comment on every blog to be eligible to win a fabulous prize… More info on the Bombshell blog!!!

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com
Laura: http://craftylittlewoman.blogspot.com/
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/
Meredith: http://www.papercanteen.com
Kelli: http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com
Mary G.: http://www.mystampinhide-away.blogspot.com
Alex: http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Sparkly Engineer: http://sparkly-train.blogspot.com/
Celina Anthony: http://poniesandcrafts.blogspot.com
Glittery Katie: http://ferrishyn-frontier.blogspot.com
Kapree: http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/
Cheryl: http://inktrap.blogspot.com
Dianne: http://dkspinner.blogspot.com