Celebrate

Hey guys, I am here again today sharing another birthday shaker card with you.  Again I've used my scan n cut 2 to cut out my shaker window.  I am featuring the Amethyst sparkle blend today which is part of the Birthstone collection!  The colors in this blend are amazing!!!  All the purples, who knew there were so many shades of purple!  Well ok probably a lot of us knew there were multiple shades of purple, but mix them all together and it looks amazing!!!

I kept my card simple today.  I distressed the edges of both the card base and the shaker window with Seedless Preserves distress ink and added a multi loop purple and white twine bow to it.  The background paper is a beautiful shade of purple with Happy Birthday sayings all over it in white.  I hope you enjoy my birthday series of card over the next few weeks!  

Remember you can only find Sparkle Blends at White Rose Crafts along with other amazing products!!!  

Go check out the Doodles Paper Playground Blog to find out how you can win a years supply of Sparkle Blends!!!!!!!

DICC 78~ The Stamping Chef

Hello Lovelies and welcome to our last itinerary for a little while. We decided to take a break for the Summer, so we hope you will play along with this challenge before our little vacay! 

The itinerary is as follows: 

1.  Distress it.

 2.  NO FLOWERS!!!

 3.  Monotone.

 4.  Not a Card.

 5.  Use a funny quote or saying.

 6.  Make it sexy for that love in your life!

 7.  use at least 3 pattern papers

 8.  emboss it 

 9.  use ribbon

10.  use metal  

Remember, you must use at least 3 items from the itinerary and you must mention in your post which 3 (or more) you have used. We are sponsored by The Stamping Chef this time around.

I used #'s 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7!!!  Please head over to the DICC blog and see what the other DT members have made for you and enter your creation!!!!

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!!!

Day 4 of 12

Hello Lovelies, hope this day finds you all doing wonderfully!!!  Today I have to share with you a tag I made to put on one of the kidlings gifts!!!  As some of you know Grumpies are my most absolute favorite Smeared Ink images... don't know why, can't explain it, they are though!!!  So of course I had to make a tag with the holiday grumpy on it!!! 

He is sporting the only colored lights in my house... I colored him with my sakura glaze pens and sakura souffle pens then once completely dry I smeared the whole image with tea dye distress ink... The background tag is cut from some patterned paper.

I am not sure if the grumpies have a name, seems like at some point eons ago Terra and Tori had a name for one but I can't remember, anyway I have named this one Jingle and he shall be my Jingle and I shall love him and call him Jingle!!! (sorry, got finding Nemo on blu-ray and just had to channel Dori!!!)

 

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 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 13 of 31

***If you are looking for the Forever Night Challenge Blog blog hop please click here!!!****
If you are here for 31 day then please continue reading!  Today I have for you a card I made using Simply Betty Stamps  this is Pumpkin Carving Alex and he is just the coolest little dude!!! He is carving his little jack-o-lantern with not a care in the world.  I paired him with some jack-o-lantern paper and some spider paper… 
I colored him with my copics in mostly black but I love his little purple and green spot of hair!!!  Totally wish I could pull that off, but alas I cannot!!!  I'm going for purple instead!!!  Distressed his cardstock a little and there you go!!!

Remember to go and see what everyone else has made for you today!

Day 1 of 31

Hello Lovelies, Welcome to another year of 31 days of Halloween!!!  There are so many more participants this year than there were last year, almost double!!!  Today I have to share with you 3 projects I have made. One for world card making day which some members of  the Bombshell DT have decided to participate in (this same card is a Sneak Peek at what we will be doing on the Beyond the Burtonesque Blog when it goes live on October 4th!!!)..The 2nd and 3rd projects are recipe cards the Bombshell Dt have made.  We were issued a DT only challenge and that was to make 8x8 recipe cards using our Bombshells!

  The theme our bombshells decided to go with for world card making day is friendship. I colored them all with warm greys, yet each witch has her own personal touch.  Cause we all know that we are unique in our own way!!! 

Here are my recipe cards, I made two of them cause I couldn't decide between the rest!  So head on over to the bombshell blog to find out what you can do to help me win a free stamp set!!!

I hope you enjoy and remember to be entered to win the prize for 31 days you need to leave a comment on each and every blog everyday!!!  You can find the blog roll in the right hand sidebar!

Also go and check out the Bombshell Blog to see what the other DT members have made for you and also the forum for challenges for world card making day!!!

Forever Night Challenge #10 and Bombshell Tutorial

Hello Lovelies, I hope this Friday finds you all doing well!  I am finally getting over the yucky that was going around in my house so I am doing much better!  First I would like to say I am sorry I flaked last friday on Challenge #9, I hope you all had fun seeing what the other DT members created! Secondly let me say that I had loads and loads of fun with this challenge! 

Now if you know anything about me at all you know that I am a Harry Potter FREAK!!!!  well this week our challenge is:  Wicked World of Hogwarts!!!  We got to work with the Har Repotter line from Bugaboo Stamps  I specifically got to work with “the sidekick” (Ron)!  You all know he is my favorite!  Anyway, this little image reminded me of when we first met Ron on the train when he was trying to work the spell that Fred and George had told him would work on his pet rat!  So that is where I went with this, of course the daughter told me I had to make him a true ginger so I tried my hardest using copics and colored pencils to get that right shade of red!  I hope it shows in the picture!  

So head on over to the Forever Night Challenge blog and see what the others have made for you and be sure to play along with us!!!  I can’t wait to see what you make!

NOW…

Bombshell Tutorial time…
Accordion Planner using a file folder!
Manila File folder
Scoring system
Stamps of choice (I used Bombshell Angel with dress up, A Pirates Life, and Bride)
Cardstock cut at: 3 7/8 x 7 (4), 4 ¾ x 6 ¾ (1), 4 ½ x 3 7/8(1), and 3 7/8 x 3 7/8(3)
Patterned Paper cut at: 3 5/8 x 6 ¾ (4), 4 ½ x 6 ¾ (1), 4 ¼ x 3 5/8 (1), and 3 5/8 x 3 5/8(3)
Strong adhesive
Corner punch ( I used the ticket corner punch from Stampin up)
Inks
Embellishments
I am trying a new way to give a tutorial… Let’s see if it works!!  Please click on the pictures to enlarge them to see the step by step instructions!

Bombshell Hop

Now I know your saying Kelli, it’s not the last Wednesday of the month so what do you mean Bombshell Hop!!!  Well let me tell you all about it! If you get the Bombshell Newsletter then you already know that Shannon released a new Halloween digi set called Halloween Costume designed to work with your Bombshell Angel stamp set!

Isn’t that cool!!!  I love them.. The DT members were give these a couple of weeks ago so that we could make some projects to show what we would do with them!  Therefore the hop!  So here we are… I have used two of the costumes for today, leaving one for another time.

The first is the witch costume.  I colored her with my markers and added some stickles.  Then I took the Bombshell sketch for this month and loosely used it for my card.  I lightly distressed the edges of all my papers and heavily distressed the sentiment!  I am thinking of using both of my projects today for Halloween sleepover invitations!

For my 2nd project I used the Bride of Frank dress up!  She too is distressed and colored with copics, no glitter on her but the patterned paper has plenty!! 

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Now hop on over to see what others have made and if you started here you may want to go to the beginning of the list so that you don’t miss out on some wicked awesome projects!!!

Bombshell Stamps Blog
Alaine
Alison
Mary G
Glittery Katie
Kelli
Kathi

Delicious Doodles Blog Hop Smeared and smudged Style!!!

Hello lovelies, 

Today we are having a wonderful hop!  Teri over at Delicious doodles is one of our sponsors this month over on Smeared and Smudged and offered the DT some wonderful images from her shop!!! I chose the Skeletal Candle Holder image.  Why you may ask, it's not Halloween you say, well why can't Halloween be everyday I ask, and I say to you one I love candles, two I love skulls, and three why not get something that has both!!!!!  When I started working on my card for this hop I knew I wanted to do something very basic with my image.  So I just sponged Antique Linen Distress ink all over it, then I set it aside because something just wasn't right with it to me.  I mean if is so beautifully drawn that it doesn't need me to change it much.  so I'm sitting here looking at it and think OK I need to add some color so I just reach over into my marker bin and pick the first one that touches my fingers, pull it out and there is orange.  I use orange as a highlight/color pop here and there and call it good.  Then I start searching for patterned paper to use that will go with it.  All the while thinking what am I going to make this look like.  Then I'm like DOH  you have a card sketch silly so there ya go.  A double dipper for the DD hop and the S & S card sketch challenge.  Yeah sorry for rambling there.....

Anyway I put the card together and it's sitting there waiting for it's glamour shots appointment and I start thinking,  I wonder why the color orange picked this project.  What does the color orange mean.... so I googled it... here is what I found.   It's the 3rd one down on the google page, cause 3 is a good number...

'Orange is a colour which is formed by mixing red and yellow. It is a colour which symbolizes energy, zest, enthusiasm and creativity. One who wears orange is known to be someone who loves to experiment. Orange is also an appetite stimulant.

The colour orange signifies an open-minded approach. It gives vibes of friendship, fun and informality. Sexually speaking, the colour orange signifies passion and foreplay, an adjunct to the colour red which signifies erotica. If red is the colour of passion, then orange is known to be the 'igniter' of passion. The colour orange certainly draws attention as being liberal and unconventional. It is also known to be an immune booster. No wonder, one sees tonics, sexual stimulants and immunity boosting medicines sold usually in orange coloured packs.'

Now I know why it picked me and my project, it knew I needed energy and creativity!!!

Here is the hop list!  Please head on over and see what everyone has made!!!  IT's FUN!!!!

Teri

Kelli

Terra

Tori

Alison

Black Dragon

Lady Brayton

Meredith

Kapree

Lisa

Alex

Ingredients List:

Image= Skeletal Candle Holder

Cardstock= Stampin up Bacis Gray and Vanilla

Patterned papers = Pink Paislee (Twilight Collection) and Basic Grey(eerie/zombie)

orange copic

Antique linen distress ink

Day 26...Story Time

                                         

Hey guys, I just wanted to let everyone know that Terra is very sick as well as her kiddies so Alison and I will be handeling the sponsors.  So please email your responses to me(Kelli) here.  Today's sponsor is Strange Skin and there is a clue somewhere in my post about what to look for!!!  Now I know you have all been waiting for the winner of the devil doll digi so without further ado the winner is..... LADY BRAYTON!!!  LB Alison will be emailing you soon, I believe! 

Now on to Story Time:

Hello everyone who has come to my friend Kelli's blog today!  My name is a secret but I can tell you this, I am a 7th year muggle born student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.  Some would tell you I am the smartest to attend in ages, but I don't like to brag about myself!  I am on a secret mission for our Potions Master of the school.  You see some of our potions that we make require special ingredients  that your can only get from a muggle or from the muggle world.  Since I am muggle born, it was decided that I get them. 

So story time you ask, well that doesn't mean I am going to read you a story.  That means that I am going to show you my secret story time book!!

Isn't it cute!  Just a pocket size book of Poe.  I think it is wonderful.  Want to see more pages? OK!

Ok so it's a picture book!  Are you saying you have never looked at a picture book before?  That's what I thought!!  Now want to know a secret?  Look at the 2nd page again!

That's a secret compartment that's what that is!!!  Where else did you think I was going to hide my smuggled in potions ingredients?   Did you know that Mike has lost his Jack-o-lantern! Can you help him find it!  Anyway I digress...

Today, I am carrying crystalized human blood(given freely I might add), frog eyes(I really don't know why he couldn't get these in diagon alley, something about no harvesting with magic), and lastly belladonna(that's just for me to use in case a muggle is smart enough to find my secret compartment)! So I hope you have all learned the importance of  story time today!  I hope you come back tomorrow!!!

Smeared and Smudged Member Blog Hop

Hello lovelies, it's time for the Smeared and Smudged Member blog hop.  So this month we decided to keep it simple, well that's what we thought anyway. Here is what we decided... " This time our theme will be: Orange. Incorporate the color orange into your project, or make an all orange project."  Sounds simple really, right?  Well for those of us(like me) who don't use orange in our normal day to day project making it could turn out to be quite a challenge.  It's not that I have anything against orange, I don't, I really like the color, it's just not something I think to pick up when I go to coloring on my images.  So here is what I came up with.  I used the Carnies set from Smeared Ink. 

Card Deets:

It's an easel card!  I have just recently found these cards, I know I am probably the last person in the stamping world to make one, but they are totally cool.  I used Stampin Up whisper white, only orange and basic gray cardstock.  Memento Tuxedo black ink andRanger procucts distress ink in Marmalade.  I colored her with my copic markers, E21, YR07, C-3 and C-7.

Now off you go to see what these other lovelies have made for us to enjoy today!

Terra http://www.moresmearedink.blogspot.com/
Tori http://www.ndustrial-lemon.blogspot.com/
Alison http://www.alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Kelli http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/ Thats ME
Kapree http://www.kc-consultant.blogspot.com/
Black Dragon http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/
Meredith http://www.papercanteen.com/
Jane http://jcocraft.blogspot.com/
Sugar http://sugscardsnmore.blogspot.com/
Danielle http://www.scrappy-arts-n-thoughts.blogspot.com/
Lisa http://www.ldfdesign.blogspot.com/
Steph http://www.stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/
Lady Brayton http://ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/
Shelley http://shelleyscreations.blogspot.com/
Jean http://www.etsysdarkside.ning.com/

Greeting Farm Blog Hop S&S style

Hello my lovelies, I am so happy that you have joined us today for the Greeting Farm blog hop Smeared and Smudged Style! I want to send out a big major thank you to the Greeting Farm for allowing us to use their images.  They are awesome! We were given the opportunity to pick which image we wanted to play with and I picked an image called Royal Pain.  She is so freaking cute it's not even funny, but of course those of you who know me know I don't do cutesy sooooooo, I guess you could say I did pain in my ass teenage "cute" if there is such a thing.  Let's just say I modeled her after my daughter, her favorite colors, favorite hair colors out of all the ones she has had!!! I am pretty sure I even put some of her attitude into the picture!!  I am also using this card for the Smeard and Smudged Guest DT member challenge for June.  You can find it here.  I made my card using SU cardstock Taken with Teal and Whisper white.  Ms. Pain is stamped with memento on the white and colored with copics.(#'s E00, R29, YR07, 100, BG09)  I used the same color over and over to shade on this card!  Then I took another piece of white cardstock to make the background that she is "floating"on.  I used a watercolor technique with regular cardstock, water, and Tim Holtz distress reinkers Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, and Broken China.  I love the outcome.  Now honestly I have to admit that I stopped there and pop dotted Ms. Pain on the card and left her be.  Then when I came back I thought to myself, now why the hell would you show something like that!!!    I mean honestly it wasn't very pretty! BUTTTTTTTT for the life of me I couldn't figure out what else to do! So I took a picture of it and shot it off in a text to our lovely Ms Alison so she could help me get past my creators block!!!  And she did and I have to thank her very much cause she is so freaking awesome it isn't even funny!!!!!!!!!!   MWAH Ladybird!  She gave me the stickle swirly idea so that is what I did, I took the Tim Holtz distress stickles in Orange Peel, Broken China(I love love love this color), and Xmas Red and made little swirly's on the background!!!!  Love it!  I printed out the words Royal Pain and then added them to the top covering them with some Close to my Heart Liquid Glass! What do you think? 

So now you should have come from Alison's blog to get to mine so head on over to Tori's blog to check out her wonderful creation and continue this hop.  Make sure you head on over to The Greeting Farm Blog when you are done seeing what everyone created for a chance to win prizes!!!

For more chances to win prizes including the love Digi stamp called Thursday from The Greeting Farm be sure to head on over to Smeared and Smudged join our group and play in our challenges!  If you like Alternative, Vintage, and Gothic Art Rubber Stamping, the Smeared and Smudged is the place for you!  Be sure to check out Smeared Ink for a new line of stamps!!!

Terra
Alison
Kelli
Tori
Kathi
Sarah
Danielle
Black Dragon
Kim
Lady Brayton
Meredith
Jennifer

Please visit The Greeting Farm Blog and The Greeting Farm website to view these cool and creepy images!  

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you believe it, HALLOWEEN is here! I am so excited. I can't believe this is my last project...it's exciting and sad at the same time, :) :(.
I hope you all have enjoyed this Halloween showcase that Terra and I have put on for you this month. We have had so much fun doing it! I also want to thank all of the DT members and Shannon for letting me participate in there weekly blog hop Wednesday! I had so much fun!

Today I am continuing and concluding my projects made from RAKs and Swaps from Terra, Kas, and Rosie. I made a decoration to put on my table outside, while I am handing out candy, that I could surround with candles and lights! I have had this wooden cube for several years so when I got the swap from Terra and Kas and saw all the lovely images and embellishments, I knew right away what I was going to do. I saw the paper napkins that were in there and immediatly thought, I am covering something with that!!!! So that is what I did. I used a mod podge like substance to attatch it to the cube and then covered the whole thing with it so that it would be a little shiny and stiff. Then I took the images and instead of coloring each one I used Slate alcohol ink, Fired Brick and Weathered Wood Distress inks from Ranger products on each one. I love the image on the top as it looks like he is crawling out of the box, and the shiny skulls just add a little sumptin, sumptin... I didn't add anything to the bottom as it would be sitting on the table the whole time but there is something for every other side! The ribbon is attached to around the edge using teeny tiny nails that I found in the garage...Hope the Hubby didn't need them for anything! Oh Well! It's plain and simple but the depth of the napkin and the distressed look of the images make it look like I spent days on it ( I think) when really it only took a couple of hours! I hope you enjoy!

*click for larger image!

Remember to go see what Terra has made for you today, I hear it is quite awesome!!!!! Also today is your last day to add comments or post links to your answers to our challenges or let us know you added one of our blinkies!!!! We will be drawing a winner by random number generator on the 1st!!!

Thank you all again for going along on our 31 Days of Halloween ride! We so enjoyed each and every one you, and all of your lovely comments!!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!