Happy Halloween!

I didn't get much Halloween stamping done this year, with the move and all, but I did sit down to make these little Halloween goody buckets tonight. I'll take them tomorrow when I go trick-or-treating with a friend and her kids. The buckets were 2/$1 at Target - a deal I just couldn't pass up! I added some Halloween stickers, some tiny notebooks, and some candy to them, alon with the Booglie Eye tags. I wonder if I will ever get tired of this set - it is so fun to work with, and I love all the different images. Hope you all have a fun, safe and treat-filled holiday!
Supplies:
Stamps: Booglie Eyes
Ink: stazon black, SU markers
Paper: orchid, green galor, SU white
Accessories: scallop punch, eyelets, buckets, ribbon

All that jazz!

The theme for this round of VSN is Cabaret, and my friend Vicki was inspired by the musical "Chicago" for her challenge. She asked us to use "roaring 20s" inspired embellishments on our cards - feathers, fringe, bling, etc. I love "Chicago" as well, so I was happy to comply! I used 20s colors, pink and black and some fringe-like fibers from my stash. I also used a bit fiber and a rhinestone brad to make a hairpiece of sorts for my party girl. I embossed the charcoal shimmer paper for a little dimension and added Stickles to the champagne glass for a bit of sparkle.
Supplies:
Stamps: Inky Antics, Lots of Thoughts (SU)
Ink: Memento black, SU markers, Copic markers
Paper: pretty in pink, neenah classic crest white, charcoal shimmer (Paper Zone)
Accessories: Cuttlebug tag die and swiss dots embossing folder, pink fibers, rhinestone brad, stickles

I'm back and I'm stamping!

Sorry for that long period of radio silence! I got moved, then got sick, so it's taken me a little bit longer than I expected to get settled and actually get back to stamping. My new stamping space is not totally together yet, but I am settled enough to get some ink on paper. Good thing, too, since this weekend was the mini VSN on Splitcoast. I couldn't miss that one! The challenges are open until Nov. 9, so there's plenty of time to play. You can find out all the details HERE.
I'll be sharing my cards throughout the week, with lots of new goodies to share, I hope.
This first card was for Kim's challenge to use scraps. None of this paper was a fresh sheet when I started; it was all in my scraps box. I organized the scraps just before my move and it has helped a lot. I have each color in its own file in a portable file box. The image and sentiment were a RAK from my sweet friend Patty - aren't they hilarious? I colored the image with SU markers to go with the scraps of Dots and Dashes designer paper. I also added some stickles for some bling.
Supplies:
Stamps: Starving Artist Stamps
Ink: Stazon black, SU markers
Paper: green galore, glorious green, orchid, tempting turquoise, Georgia Pacific, Dots and Dashes (retired SU)
Accessories: Corner rounder, ribbon scraps, Stickles

The end of WCMD!

It took all week, but we're here, at the end of the cards I made for World Cardmaking Day! This card was the for the Limited Supply challenge on SCS. The challenge called for no patterned papers and no pastel colors. I needed to make a card for my 6-year-old honorary nephew, so this was the perfect challenge. I used an image similar to the one I used in the football card a few weeks ago. On the background, I repeated the baseball several times on the bottom half. The top half is sticky red-line tape stars covered in microbeads and glitter. The picture doesn't quite capture the sparkle - they turned out pretty cute. I used a strip of real red, crimped in my crimper, as a divider for the two halves.
Supplies:
Stamps: Good sport, All Holidays
Ink: real red, Memento tuxedo black
Paper: real red, basic black, neenah classic crest white
Accessories: red line sticky stars, microbeads, glitter, crimper

CASE-ing Sherry

SherryLC05 was the featured stamper for the Worldcardmaking Day challenges on Splitcoast. Sherry was my VSN little sister a few VSNs ago, and she is an incredibly talented stamper. I was drawn to the circles she uses in frequently in her layouts, so I chose this card: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1059656?cat=500&ppuser=77415 as my inspiration. I used the layout, the butterfly and cuttlebugging in my version.
Supplies:
Stamps: Winged things, sincere salutations
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics
Paper: gable green, cool caribbean, prints dp, neenah classic crest white
Accessories: ticket punch, nesties, CB, CM cutting system, stickles, white twill

Back to WCMD!

I don't know about the rest of you, but around this time of year my cardmaking and crafting tends to kick into a higher gear - with the holidays coming so quickly, I need to use every opportunity I can to fill my stash with the cards I'll need for the holidays. The WCMD inspiration challenge on Splitcoast was perfect for that. The inspiration piece was the fall catalog from Coldwater Creek, so I used the layout, colors and theme as inspiration for my card. I also added some glossy accents using Judikins Diamond Glaze to get some of the gloss seen on the magazine. The image was colored with blender pens.
Supplies:
Stamps: Happy Harvest, Gina K
Ink: Stazon black, pumpkin pie, more mustard, old olive, chocolate chip
Paper: mustard, black, neenah classic crest white
Accessories: eyelets, diamond glaze

Happy or sad?

Taking a break from the World Cardmaking Day cards to share a photo I snapped of Eliot! You think she's a little freaked out by the moving? She likes laying up high on shelves like this, but she still does not look happy! I guess moving is hard on her, too!

WCMD Part 3!

The packing is going OK - I wish I could've taken time off work to focus on the move, but that didn't happen, so I'm juggling work and boxes this week! I mainly just need to have the furniture emptied and ready to go; if I have to come back and pack the kitchen or bathroom, I can.
Anyway, since I was so busy stamping this weekend when I should've been packing, I have several more World Cardmaking Day cards to share. This card is for Suzy's nested flowers technique challenge. To make the flowers, you can hand-cut or use a cutting system on plain, patterned or other paper and layer them several times and attach with a brad. I used some SEI fabric paper from my stash - the colors match well with the colors in this Haiku DSP. I crimped some kiwi paper to make the flower stems.
Supplies:
Paper: Haiku DSP, SEI fabric paper, baja breeze, kiwi kiss
Accessories: crimper, CM circle cutter, filigree brads, gray taffeta ribbon

World cardmaking day, part 2!

One of Saturday's SCS challenges for World Cardmaking Day was to use a tree or trees on your card. That was the perfect excuse for me to ink up this beautiful tree from Snow Swirled and start working on a holiday card design. I had a design simlar to this in my head when I ordered the stamps to make my holiday cards; I may fiddle with the final version a bit, but I'm pleased with how this one turned out. I added some small rhinestones to the snowflakes on the tree for a bit of bling, and used one of my Cuttlebug border folders for the line of dots.
Supplies:
Stamps: Snow swirled
Ink: mellow moss, always artichoke
Paper: mellow moss, always artichoke, neenah classic crest white
Accessories: Cuttlebug, rhinestones, ticket punch, moss taffeta ribbon

World cardmaking day!

Lots going on for me at the moment - I'm packing up and getting ready to move about 30 minutes away - the movers come Friday and I have a TON of stuff to do. I'm sort of downsizing in the new place, as well, so I'm trying to be very deliberate about my packing. But none of that has kept me from celebrating World Cardmaking Day today. Challenges have been underway at Splitcoast all day and I've been playing along between chores and packing. I had hoped to get to a challenge or two at some of the other sites, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.
I'll be sharing cards from today over the next few days, since this is the last stamping I'm likely to get done for at least a week or two. This card was for the SCS WCMD sketch challenge. I inked the main image in ruby red, then touched my night of navy pad to the image before stamping. I then cleaned the stamp, reinked it in saffron and stamped it slightly off for a shadow effect.
Supplies:
Stamps: Upsy daisy
Ink: ruby red, saffron, night of navy
Paper: ruby red, saffron, not quite navy patterns paper, neenah classic crest solare white
Accessories: ribbon