Softpencil Thursday-Halloween Bag

Hi Everyone,

It's Thursday and that means it is Softpencil Thursday!!! Yay!! I love this image! She is just too cute. This is another new stamp by our talented and fearless designer, Elizabeth. Our design element this week was to make a treat bag. I love making treat bags and giftie things.

Sorry my post is a little late. I was up most of the night with Hubby and his yucky sinuses. I've had it all week and now he has it. I don't know if any of you have acid reflux, but when you have a sinus infection, the acid reflux rears it's ugly head and you feel like you're having a heart attack!! It is very painful. Ok enough whining, let's get to my project!

I used a Creative Imaginations treat bag and added my stamped images to make a really cute Halloween gift for someone special. The Little Witch and the Bats are by Softpencil Designs. Are those little bats not adorable?? The fence is a Hampton Arts stamp and the sentiment is a Studio G. The papers are by Bo Bunny and Paper Studio. I cut around the edges of the purple paper with my zig zag or pinking scissors. I colored my images with my copics and chalked the backgrounds with chalk. I popped the witch and bats up on pop dots.I folded the top down and tied pretty ribbon through it and my treat bag was born!! I made one of these recently and finished the top the exact same way but I just love it like that so I did it again! It's ready for some yummy candy, bath products, anything that you want to put in is fine. I hope you like my bag as much as I enjoyed making it for you.



I entered this project into the Belli Challenge #74 and the AiFactory Challenge. A twofer, yay!!

Don't forget that Softpencil images are digital images so you can resize them to any size that you need for your project. Please visit my other DT sisters to see their stunning designs. Their links are in my sidebar. Thanks for stopping by today!! Be sure to leave a comment so I may return the favor! I love reading your comments and leaving them on your beautiful blogs. Be sure to come back tomorrow to see what I have made for you. Have a wonderful day!!

Red, White and Blue...Oh My!!

Happy 4th of July Everyone!!! I know I'm a little late, but my post didn't go up as I wanted. Oh well, that's the way it goes!! I hope you've had a happy and safe holiday weekend so far. I also want to take a moment and say thank you to all of our servicemen and women who are protecting our freedom and the way of life that we know and love. I appreciate the sacrifices that you and your families make to protect our country and you deserve more than a big thank you.

Ok, onto my card. I have made a personal record with this card!!! I have managed to make this card fit into 5 different challenges!! WOO HOOO!! I'm usually doing well to get one or two challenges done each week so this is wonderful! This challenge fits the OCC-Our Creative Corner color challenge, the Try it Out Tuesday challenge over at Follow Your Heart (SCACD) which is also a color challenge, the 365 Cards Day 126 color challenge and the Dare U 2 Digi Stamp challenge #14 which is Embossing. I also used the SCACD June Sketch challenge over on Paper Craft Planet to create my card. There... 5 different challenges!!!!

I've edited this post to include the 2 Red Bananas Sunday Challenge to my list of challenges for my card!!! That makes 6 challenges!!!WoooHoooo!!

For my card I used Patriotic Ridley by Digital Delights by Louby Lou. When I saw this little guy, I knew I had to download him and use him for the holiday!! He's so cute!! I love him to pieces!1 I colored him with my copics and cut him out with my coluzzle. I stamped some stars by Autumn Leaves with red and blue Brilliance ink and cut them out and popped them up on pop dots. I went over the inside star on each one with a glitter pen for a little sparkle. I stamped my sentiment with my Studio G stamps. I went over the "4th" with my glitter pen, again the sparkle! My red, white and blue paper is by Doodlebug and my cardstock is Bazzill. I embossed the blue piece with my swiss dots Cuttlebug folder. I tied it all up with some red, white and blue ribbon from my stash (I mean collection) LOL. And that's it. Very simple but I like how it turned out. I hope you like it too.

I hope you like my multi challenge card for today!! Please leave me a comment so I knew you were here. I enjoy visiting your blogs as well. Come back tomorrow for two posts!! I know, I'm just going nuts!! Don't forget, we are releasing the Nutshells boys on Monday so be sure to stop by and see my card or cards for that day's festivities. I know that we are having a challenge on the Nutshells blog so be sure and go by there to participate as well. I'll have all the deets for you tomorrow!!! Tomorrow is also my 18th wedding anniversary. See ya then!! Have a wonderful day.