October 2024 Beautiful Blossoms

 

 

Hello Friends ...

Welcome back to a new challenge over on the Beautiful Blossoms Challenge Blog.

 Here's this months INSPIRATIONAL mood board ...

 Today, I have used an older but still fun to color rubber stamp
by Stampendous called 'Pink Magnollia'.  I've used Tombow markers
for my coloring and then fussy cut.  The Memory Box 'Wrapped
Stitched Frames' (30117) die cut from black card stock, gave me
the black element I was looking for to offset this beautiful
magnolia flower.

Here's a friendly rules reminder for this challenge:

• The challenge will be a Monthly Challenge, starting the 15th of each month and ending the 12th of the following month.
• The main focus is FLOWERS!
• A Monthly Mood Board will be provided, you will use it as inspiration.
• You are limited to 8 entries per challenge.
• Please link back to us in your entry post and play often!

Thanks SO MUCH for taking the time to stop by my blog today ...
I can't express how much it means to me!

As always . . .

Can You Handle the Pressure - Twist - Monsters/Halloween

 Hello Friends, thanks for stopping by today!

We have a new challenge starting today over on our new Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge Blog and the TWIST theme is ...

MONSTERS/HALLOWEEN

Remember, the twist is optional but you MUST use an embossing folder on our projects to qualify for the prize.  Heat embossing is also permitted but only in conjunction with an embossing folder.

 Here's what I've created to inspire you today.  

Products used:

Darice 'Brick Wall' Embossing Folder
Recollections Clear Stamps - Halloween
Jolee 3D spiders

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink

I do hope you'll come check out our challenge blog and play along.
AND yep ... we will be offering prizes at our challenges ... that's always a fun surprise!

Here's today's prize offering . . .

Challenges to share in:
CAS on Friday Challenge #294 - Halloween
Craft Rocket Challenge #119 - Autumn and/or Halloween
Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #260 - ATG or Make It Spooky
Shopping our Stash #532 - Halloween

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,
I appreciate it more than you'll ever know!!

As always . . .

UPCOMING CRAFT SHOW

 

I hope you'll come see me at Booth #103
on Saturday, November 2nd.

ORANGE, BLACK, PURPLE at the Sisterhood of Crafters

 Hello my friends!

Today I have a card for the new challenge over on The Sisterhood of Crafters!

 

Our theme today is:

 

ORANGE, BLACK, PURPLE
(1, 2 or all 3)

 

 

 

 

 Today I've used the Altenew 'Build a Garden - Dear Dahlia' stamp
as my focus and colored it using Tombow markers. 
A few little dots of Nuvo orange crystal drops for accent and
this card is ready for the mailbox.

 I hope you'll come join in our challenge fun at The Sisterhood of Crafters!

My 'sistahs' have created some fabulous creations to help inspire you ... 

be sure to pop over and check them out!

 As always, thanks SO MUCH for taking the time to stop by!

 

Word Art Wednesday Guest Designer

 

Hello friends . . .

Today I'm honored to have been asked to be the October Guest Designer over on the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog.  Thanks so much Karen & Company!!!

 They always offer such beautiful scripture that you can actually grab and use for your own creations (sharing below).  On my card, you can see the words of wisdom for today.  Be sure to pop over and check 'em out.  Then of course come play along!

 

I've let this beautiful Mintay 'Lilac Garden' designer paper be the background for this beautiful verse.  I've also fussy cut the butterfly from the back cover of this paper pad as my embellishment.

The sponsor this challenge is Altenew and they are
generously offering a $25 voucher.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Have a wonderful day!
As always . . .

It's almost SHOW TIME . . .

 Hello friends . . .

As a lot of you know, I do the local High School craft show each year
so that's what I'm working on in the craftng cave at the
present time.  This show is always the 1st Saturday in November.

I've already got several tissue box holders made and with that
comes a long strip of scrap 12x12 decorate paper.  So
as not to waste, I have cut some of them into smaller
strips and used to create backgrounds for fractured card designs.

But this week I decided to use some of them and create
gift card / money holders for this years show.
They are pretty easy peasy and I think will be well received.

Here's the easy peasy instructions . . .

 You can get two holders from one sheet of 8 1/2" x 11 card stock.

 The gift card holder size will be 5" x 7"

 My scrap strip of decorative paper is 3 14" x 12" ... I cut those in half (at 6").  That gives me the correct width for my holders and just need to recut the length to 4 3/4".  That little scrap left of decorative paper is used for the inside so hang on to it.  AND, when I cut my card stock, I cut the width from the 8 1/2" side to 7" ... giving me a white strip of 1 1/2" also for the inside gift card pocket element.

   

 
I use 1/8" score tape to adhere the panel that will hold your gift card or money.

You can decorate the front as simple or fancy as you wish.
I simply created a couple circles and added a stamped sentiment.
There is plenty of room on the inside cover if the
recipient wants to add a message.

Here's the final ...

(inside)

  RECAP

 Main cards size is 5" x 7" scored at 3 1/2".
Decorative scrap is 3 1/4" x 4 3/4".

Inside gift card holder slot panel is 1 1/2" x not quite 3 1/2"
with the decorative paper panel being 1 3/8" x 3 1/4".

Well, that's it for me today ... lots going on here so I'd better get busy!
As always, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and

One EF - Four Cards

 Happy Monday Morning Friends

Here we are at the start of another week ... geeze where is the time going?
Can you believe we are in the 2nd week of October already??
The days are getting shorter and I'm NOT ready for it yet!

Anyways ... I had a little crafting fun yesterday and thought I'd share it with you.

I bought several 3D Embossing Folders over the past several months and some I'm just now getting around to playing with.  This particular one is by Lisa Horton and is called 'Candles'.  The package shows A6 which I thought was GREAT since I make A6 cards.  But, low & behold, the folder is a true A2 size folder. It's gorgeous and I love it anyways.

Here are four different ways I've used the folder to create today's cards . . .

First I chose to ink the inside of the folder ... one card using the negative side and one card uses the positive side.  Both were done using Brilliance Gold ink.

   

These next two cards were matted on gold metallic paper after being embossed on white card stock.  A gold heat embossed sentiment on vellum was created for the sentiment panel on both.

As you can see, I left the one card just as a white embossed panel ... the other I painstakenly water colored with Tombow markers, water and an artist brush.

    

With time flying by, I'm happy to have another 4 holiday cards ready to go. 

BTW ... there is a layering stencil available for this embossing folder which would make it a lot easier for coloring ... you can find that HERE.

Challenges to share in:

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #165 - Use the word Christmas
The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up #115 - ATG or Twist/Chevrons

Here's wishing you a FABULOUS week ahead!
I'm getting ready for a Nov. 2nd craft show so guess I'd better quit playing around and get busy!  LOL

As always . . .