Here is my attempt at combing a bunch of different card challenges into one CAS card. My inspiration came from the MFT stamp set BB Our Story. I thought it would be cute for the ghost to be coming out of the book as the little girl reads a ghost story. The ghost comes from Lawn Fawn Happy Haunting. The sentiment is from MFT BB Magical Unicorns. The color scheme comes from the color throwdown challenge #565. The layout is from the Fusion Card Challenge. The image is colored with Copic markers and white gel pen for accents. The ghost’s aurora is E0000 and some clear wink of Stella. I hope you like it!?

Happy Holiday Crafting Y’all!

Simon Says Stamp is having a challenge involving anything pink. I made this card a while ago, but it is still one of my favorites. It is really a clean and simple type of card. I believe because of the patterned background, it would not be considered clean and simple. Anyways, A cute little bear with ice cream stamped & colored with copics. The stamp is from Designing Desert Divas (which is sadly closed). A simple sentiment for the top, and viola …… a clean and simple card.

Crafining wishes y’all!

Back to paper crafting. My daughters are having trick-or-treat at a horse event next weekend. So, as a good paper crafter, I created some candy boxes for trick-or-treating. There are some very young children at these shows and did not want the box to be scary. I used my Cricut machine and used Cricut Access files to create the box, frame and center image. The center image originally had the headless horseman and a green background. I didn’t like the green background and changed it to ice blue (looks grey in this photo). I also change the horseman to a single horse. It is posted to public access on Cricut if it helps anyone.

Happy craftin’ y’all!

What more could you want from a Halloween bag than three little trick-or-treaters on it’s front?! When I am not playing with papercrafts, I needlepoint, crochet and knit. There are few crafts that I don’t enjoy. I have been needlpointing since I was 10 and is therefore my favorite. This bag is made using many different stitches and threads. The pumpkins are turkeywork that is the cut back and sculpted. The kitty is angora. The mummy is simply random long and short stitches with an ivory ribbon. The belly dancer’s pants are french knots; her belt and bra are solid beads. The moon glows in the dark. The background is a variegated thread stitched in a darning pattern. We are using the bag as an indoor decoration and it is filled with candy.

Which little one do you like the best? I am partial to the little belly dancer; her hair just makes me smile.

Happy Stitching y’all!!

Happy October Y’all!

A question was asked about what type of card do you like to create? CAS? FAF? My preference is to have a larger single image placed over a background. My backgrounds might be inked with a gel plate, stenciled with Distressed Oxides, or stamped.

This witch is from a coloring book by Mega Mouse Arts. The background is a Distress Oxide blending over a stencil (Kindred Stamps).

Because of the backgrounds, these cards are not a CAS, however they are much more simple to create than a single layer card with tons of masking. Happy Crafting!!

I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since my last post?! I know that the majority of the crafting world is posting Halloween and Christmas right now. However, you can never have too many unicorns. Right? The lovely people over at Less Is More have a typography challenge being sponsored by Visible Image. I’ve had the Imagine, Dream, Inspire stamp set by Visible Image for a while and knew that the dream and this little unicorn girl just had to go together. I couldn’t resist doing an omber hair with a multicolor skirt to match. The sentiment is emobssed in lilac and the girl is stamped with Ink3 disappearing ink and traced with a silver pencil. Of course, copic colors were used to color the little girl. Clean and simple!! Happy Stamptember y’all!!

Material used:

• Imagine, Dream, Inspire stamp by Visible Image
• Versamark Embossing Ink.
• Ink on 3 fade out ink
• Nuvo embossing powder, lilac
• Prismacolor silver pencil
• Copic colors: BV000,BV00,R00,RV00,GY11,BG00,Y00,E0000,R20,

Happy Thursday!!

I saw this challenge last night from Simon Says Stamp. I loved the tree I used over the weekend for the Halloween card and decided to use it again. The background is a rubber stamp from Stampabilities with Gina K Sea Glass ink. The tree is then stamped with Tranquil Teal by Gina K. The smile is a layered die cut from my stash. Yes, I went into the stash. The stamp I used for this card is for sale on ebay; however, Technique Tuesday has one that is similar. Remember, “A lady never discusses the size of her craft stash.” Happy crafting y’all!

Halloween crafting has started! I saw these cuties and had to do something with them. They are from the same Tokidoki coloring pad as my previous post. The background for these lovelies started with black card stock. A clear embossing of the tree. Then some simple distressed oxide coloring using wilted violet and dusty concord. A little foam mounting tape and the card is finished. Not a CAS, but simple nonetheless. Happy Stamptember ya’all!!

A Labor Day Weekend Challenge of creating a card with no stamps. What? No stamps? Are you joking???? Nope. No stamps were used for this card. ‘S’ did not stand for stamp; instead it stood for simple, stencil, spun sugar, shadow and Scan and Cut. The simple image is out of a coloring pad by Tokidoki. I used the color palate from The Color Throwdown #558 challenge. I colored the image with Copic colors and used my Scan and Cut to cut out my image. I used a stencil to lightly add a shadow using some Spun Sugar Distressed Oxide. A very clean and simple card to make. Have a great crafty weekend, ya’all!!

Trying to get into the Halloween spirit in Texas. It’s a little hard when it is 105 outside. With Halloween in mind, I stumbled upon this stamp set ( Craftin Desert Divas’ Coffee Wizards ) and thought this could work. Then I realized that I forgot to pack my Copics and Prismacolors while travelling this weekend. YIKES!! What was I thinking??? I figured I’d give it go with what I had on hand, a school supply of 36 Crayola pencils. The ground and the yellow “fumes” are stencils from My Favorite Things used with Distressed Oxides. The remainder is colored with pencils and a bit of black ink I found in the bottom of my craft bag. All was done on X-press It Cardstock. Lovin’ this paper!!!

HAVE A MAGICAL DAY Y’ALL!!