Happy Sunday morning, everyone!

WOW! There has been so much inspiration over the past two days: Tim Holtz with Ideology and Kristina Werner at Craft Roulette. Here’s what I’ve done this weekend.

Have you had a chance to craft this weekend?

If you want to make this, here is what you will need:

• Bristol Smooth cardstock by Strathmore.
• Tim Holtz & Sizzix Die sets: Funky Wreathes, Vault Foliage Wreath
• Sewing machine with variegated pale thread
• Tim Holtz & Sizzix embossing folder: Foliage
• StampersAnonymous-Tim Holtz Ledger Script CMS241, Tiny Text CMS394
• Range White embossing powder
• Versamark Embossing Ink
• Distress Spritz: Spiced Marmalade Fossilized Amber, Peacock Feathers
• Distress Mica Stain in Fresh Balsam
• Distress Spray Stain in Salvaged Patina
• Acrylic Paints: Distress Paint in Picket Fence, Golden Paint CT Interference Green-Blue

Happy crafting, everyone!

Challenges entered:

• Can You Handle the Pressure?
• Double Trouble Challenge
• NBUS Challenge (New die set-Vault Foliage)
• Park Hopping My Happy Place
• Shopping Your Stash (Stampsets,Inks)
• SSS Wednesday Challenge
• Tic Tac Toe Challenge (Spring/Fall, Embossing,Layers)

Happy Saturday afternoon, everyone!

I was so inspired by Tim Holtz’s Eclectic Elements makes yesterday! I had his Regions Beyond material and had to make a french bulletin board out of it for Halloween.

If you want to make this, here is what you will need:

• Tim Holtz Regions Beyond Apothecary fabric
• By Annie’s Soft and Stable
• Sewing machine with orange thread
• Flair thread in Orange
• Orange Halloween ribbon from the stash
• Skull beads
• Small blackboard

Happy weekend crafting, everyone!

Challenges entered:

• Colorful Options Challenge
• Park Hopping My Happy Place
• Craft Roulette

Happy Sunday, crafters!

I have a sequel to last week’s copic creation.

Yes, I am CASEing another artist. This time it is Jim Tweedy’s Charlie, the Red Cat. He was most popular in the late 1990s, early 2000s.

I did used essentially the same items as last week, stamped a single TH Crazy Cat image and did a bunch of copic coloring. Hope you enjoy!

Challenges entered:

• The Colorful Options Challenge
• Park Hopping My Happy Place: The Secret Lives of Pets
• Craft Roulette
• Crazy Critter Challenge
• NBUS Challenge: The Sentiment & new Copic Markers that have never been used
• Show Us Your Pussycats

Happy Sunday evening, crafters!

I have a Rodrigue-inspired blue dog card today.

This card was stamped with Tim Holtz’s Crazy dog stamp and then spent a good time coloring with Copics. Below is the inspiration art I was CASEing.

Have a great week!

Challenges entered:

• Park Hopping My Happy Place: The Secret Lives of Pets
• The Colorful Options Challenge
• Craft Roulette episode 230
• Allsorts Challenge
• As You Like It Challenge: favorite coloring medium=Copics; I love their ability to layer colors.
• SSS Monday Challenge: The sentiment strip is from a previous card.
• Critter Crazy Challenge
• Shopping Our Stash Challenge
• Tic Tac Toe Challenge: Leaves-on the tree, Ink Blending-Copic blending, Multiples-I used three different sentiments to create the sentiment strip
• Time Out Challenge
• Triple B Challenge: The Tree Blooms

Your Next Crochet Project in Bold Green and Black

Welcome back to another exciting month at the Colorful Options Challenge! This month, we’re diving into a world of vibrant, bold colors that will ignite your creativity. Choose any shade that speaks to you and let your imagination run wild!

I chose to do a color pop entry with a bold green and black.

If you like to crochet & want to make this here is what I used:

• Plush & Blush Crop Top, by MJ’s Off The Hook Designs on Ravelry
• 4.0 crochet hook
• Limelight Yarn by Hedgehog Fibers, bought at Wool & Co.

Have a great month!

Hey everyone! Welcome back to another exciting challenge at Park Hopping My Happy Place!

We were thrilled with all the fantastic entries for our August challenge and can’t wait to see your creativity for this month. As always, our challenge is open to any theme park-inspired creation.

This month’s inspiration photo features Epcot’s Food & Wine Festival. With September bringing the promise of cooler weather, a relaxing stroll with a cool drink sounds perfect. Let your imagination run wild and show us your magical creations!

My color palette is directly inspired by this month’s photo of Epcot’s Food & Wine Festival’s brochure. My theme comes from the cat’s of Disneyland & balloons (you can find these at every theme park). Originally I was going to place the milk bottle with the cat, but the balloon just looked better.

Make sure you join in on the blog or on Instagram for your chance to win a gift certificate of your choice (Simon Says Stamp, Scrapbook.com, or Amazon). Visit the challenge to check out the amazing creations from the talented Design Team. You can’t win without entering! Come join the fun!!

For the Park Hopping My Happy Place Challenge, you have until Monday, September 30th, 11:59pm US CST time, which translates to 5:59am Tuesday, October 1st in the UK or 6:59am on Tuesday, October 1st in CET.

If you’re looking to recreate this card & envelope, here’s what you’ll need:

• Azteca Watercolor Paper, Pink & Mahogany paper from the stash
• Stampers anonymous: Crazy Cats CMS251, Crazy Things CMS237,Grunged CMS402,
• Tim Holtz Sizzix: Crazy Cat Dies, Crazy Things Dies
• Miss Ink “Swirl” stencil
• Distress Oxide Archival Ink in Hickory Smoke and Black Soot
• Distress Inks: Aged Mahogany, Tumbled Glass, Pumice Stone, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry
• Distress Oxide Crackle Paste Opaque
• Element Stencils Christmas

Wishing all the entrants good luck! Have fun, everyone!

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another exciting month at the Colorful Options Challenge! 🎨🌈 This month, we’re all about embracing bold and vibrant hues. Choose any color that speaks to you, as long as it makes a statement! And if you prefer a gentler touch, feel free to explore a soft rainbow palette instead. Whatever you choose, let your creativity shine!

This month, I decided to try something new and played around with alcohol inks. I used Copic Refills and rubbing alcohol on some Yupo paper. My focal image and sentiment are supplied by Sizzix & Tim Holtz.

Make sure you join in on the blog or on Instagram for your chance to win a gift certificate of your choice (Simon Says Stamp, Scrapbook.com, or Amazon). Visit the challenge to check out the amazing creations from the talented Design Team. You can’t win without entering! Come join the fun!!

For the Colorful Options Challenge, you have until Saturday, September 28th, 11:59pm US CST time, which translates to 5:59am on Sunday, September 29th in the UK or 6:59am on Sunday, September 29th in CET.

If you’re looking to recreate this card & envelope, here’s what you’ll need:

• Yupo paper, Black/Black cardstock by Fabiano, purple cardstock from the stash
• Alcohol inks
• Tim Holtz Sizzix: Mischevious, Shadow Script
• Miss Ink “Swirl” stencil
• Distress Oxide Archival Ink in Hickory Smoke or Alcohol Lift ink.
• Distress Ink Villanous Potion
• Distress Oxide Grit Paste Opaque

Wishing all the entrants good luck! Have fun, everyone!

Happy Saturday evening, crafters.

I was inspired by Tim Holtz’s live to create this afternoon.

I chose to use a slightly different color palette; I used a palette based on the color of porcelain berries.

Supplies:

• Azteca Watercolor Paper, Fabiano Black/Black Cardstock, Vellum Paper
• Tim Holtz Sizzix die set Postal
• Distress Oxide Ink: Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, Vintage Photo, Tumbled Glass, Evergreen Bough, Salvaged Patina, Black Soot
• Distress Oxide Archival Ink: Ground Expresso, Black Soot
• Embossing Folder: Numbered
• Stampersanonymous: Hodgepodge CMS490, Stamp Collector CMS338, Eccentric CMS448, Correspondence CMS225

Challenges entered:

• Park Hoping My Happy Place: Wizarding World of Harry Potter
• Craft Roulette: Faux envelope=yes; Porcelain Berries color; string=used to make inky background; overlap=the ephemera overlaps
• Double D Challenge: Squares & Ovals
• NBUS Challenge: I have never used the Hodgepodge stamp set
• SSS Wednesday Challenge : There are 2 tags in the envelope
• Can You Handle the Pressure?
• Die Cut Divas Challenge

Happy Monday, crafters!

Just a quick post.

Will be back on later to update supplies used.

Challenges entered:

• The Colorful Options Challenge
• Park Hopping My Happy Place: The Busy Bee Ride Dollywood
• Creative Friday Challenge
• Craft Roulette

Happy Saturday, crafters!

I made my first Halloween card this month. Too much fun!

Of course, it is a fun inky background with a bunch of die cuts from the “vault.”

Supplies:

• Strathmore Bristol Smooth Cardstock, Fabiano Black/Black Cardstock
• Tim Holtz Sizzix dies Vault Coffin Box, Vault Gothic Portraits, Vault Fright Night.
• Distress Oxide Ink: Pumice Stone, Scorched Timber, Evergreen Bough, Stormy Sky, Speckled Egg, Uncharted Mariner,
• Distress Oxide Spritz in Uncharted Mariner
• Distress Oxide Spray in Antique Linen
• Distress Spray Stain in Black Soot
• Distress Mica Spray in Brushed Pewter
• Embossing Powders: Distress Powder in Weathered Wood, Emerald Creek Allure in Oil Rubbed Bronze
• White Guache
• Spray Modge Podge Glossy

Challenges entered:

• Park Hoping My Happy Place: Halloween Horror Nights
• Craft Roulette: 4″x8″=yes; Mountains=blue sky,green grass, brown tree trunks; float=ghosts and clouds; water=water splatters on the background
• Chistmas [or not] BINGO Challenge: ‘B’ Blue-Stormy Sky, Frame=white, Watercolor=white guache
• Double Trouble Challenge (what makes me happy?=making cards+Halloween)
• If You Give a Crafter a Cookie (what makes me happy?=making cards+Halloween)
• NBUS: The die sets used are all new.
• Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge
• Halloween Crafts All Year Round