Halloween ATC

Hello! I wanted to show you the ATC I made for a small SWAP I'm in with a few of my friends. I love ATC's, mostly because of their size. I put them in my ATC album and I like drooling over them every once in awhile. They all look so pretty all lined up in the baseball card size pages I use. I hope to fill that album up someday!

Stevie our host said we could do any theme we wanted, but, she really liked Halloween. YIPPEE, another chance to use some Halloween goodies!

I used several stamps from different companies on these, my fave little ghost by Anna Wight from Whipper Snapper, a JustRite Halloween stamp from their limited edition set and a tree & cabin.

I used some vellum that I've been hoarding forever called I Do Wedding Collection by EK Success for the ground. The tree and booo circle are stamped on paper from MME called Boo to You. The ATC bases are mini Halloween Bingo cards by Jenni Bowlin. Other supplies are eyelets, Spica glitter pens, Copic markers, tracing wheel, circle punch, black rick rack, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher & blending tool.

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I hope you have a boooo-tiful Monday!

bingo party

YIPPEE, it's Friday eve and I'm SO ready for Friday! This week has gone by pretty fast though and it's slowly warming back up, that makes me very happy!


I'm using another Whipper Snapper stamp by Anna Wight called Cupcake Kitty, I love this grinning cat! How do you like his gold tooth, LOL!
I love how my friend Lisa Zappa started altering vintage Bingo cards last year during Christmas, the coolest idea! I'm always on the look-out for them now.

The butterfly at the top of the cats tail was made by punching 4 hearts from card stock and gluing them together in the middle and adding the little gem stickers for the body.

Supplies: Stamps - Cupcake Kitty by Anna Wight for Whipper Snapper Designs, Let's Party ($1 stamp from Michael's). Paper - GP white, SU! Lavendar Lace, Meg Paisley by Making Memories, vintage Bingo card. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, Copic markers, atyou Spica glitter pens. Acces. - ribbon, rick rack, button, Hero Arts Sparkle gems, Prima flower, Martha Stewart Yellow Gold glitter, SU! eyelet flowers, retired. Tools - Crop-a-dile, tracing wheel, Creative Memories small double heart punch.


I hope your Easter is filled with good times!
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a cute garden kitty card & april cuppie

Good morning! Happy Friday eve, actually it's Friday for me today, I'm off work tomorrow for an appt. YIPPEE!!!!!

I finally took the time to use my sweet stamp from Whipper Snapper by Anna Wight. I love her kitties, I have 2 of them, love their whimsical style and they are so easy to color!

I stamped the little bird, cut him out and popped him up with a foam dot for a little dimension.




Supplies: Stamps - Garden Kitty by Anna Wight for Whipper Snapper Designs. Paper - GP white, SU! Sage Shadow, Me & My Big Ideas Fashion District paper pad. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, Copic markers. Acces. - ribbon, button, Prima flowers. Tools - Martha Stewart flower border punch, tracing wheel, scalloped rectangle Nestie.



April showers bring May flowers ~ I'm really looking forward to those May flowers!!

Here is my April cuppie calendar page. Isn't she sweet? There's just something about those cute cupcakes!!

Supplies: Stamps - taylored expressions A Year of Sweets 1, Crafty Secrets Altered Art (brackets around April), Papertrey Ink Butterfly Kisses (little flower). Paper - SU! Apricot Appeal, DCWV Retro Prints paper pad, April calendar page. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, SU! Regal Rose classic, Copic markers, atyou Spica glitter pens. Tools - SU! scalloped border & corner punches, tiny flower punch from Michaels, scalloped square Nestie, tracing wheel.



I hope you have a sweet day, thanks for stopping by!

Today is my brothers birthday, I miss him so much.

Whipper Snapper Tag Time!

OK! I'm back in the Halloween frame of mind! I bought me a bunch of Brach's candy corn today at Wal-Mart, YIPPEE!!! They finally have their Halloween candy out, I got caramel candy corn, carmel apple candy corn and the regular candy corn......mmmmmmmm.......dang, I better snap out of it, if I eat all 3 bags, I'm in trouble, geeeeez. Oh, I found these great napkins too, cool, huh?! They had some really cute Halloween stuff, I had to control myself, LOL!ETA: I have received some questions about the dimensions of this tag card, so, here they are!
I cut a 12x12 piece of orange cardstock 4 1/4" x 12, score every 3", fold it closed accordian style. At the top of the tag card find the center at 1 1/2", draw down at an angle 2" on each side from the center mark, cut with scissors to form the roof top. Decorate to your hearts content!

I just had to make a tag card out of Anna Wight's Whipper Snapper Designs sets, Hocus Pocus and Spooky Expressions. Those smiling gouls are just so stinkin' cute, they make me smile! I paper pieced the images, stamped them again on white cardstock, cut out the smiles and glued them on. I added some Martha Stewart yellow gold glitter on a few of their teeth. I punched the scalloped ovals and stamped them with some of the sentiment stamps for the background.

I put Glossy Accents on the candy and then I sprinkled them with SU! Dazzling Diamonds glitter for some sparkle.

I used my Crop-a-dile and set some SU! (retired) large purple flower eyelets at the top of each tag and I tied the ribbon through the eyelets.

The little black bling is gemstones by Hero Arts. I used my Copic markers to color everything that needed coloring!

I put the tag on my candle holder to take the closeup's, I had the perfect light!

I'm so happy to say
I hope your weekend is magical!

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When black cats prowl...

...and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween. Ewwwwww, SPOOKY!!!

Here's another card I made using Anna Wight's Spooky Expressions set by Whipper Snapper Designs. This one is made with the little stamps in this set, they were the perfect size for what I had in mind. I used my 3/4" & 1" square punches for the images, stamped, colored and I put Glossy Accents over them to give them shine and dimension. I really like this paper it's Halloween Words by Junkitz. I will be cutting some of the words and phrases out for cards and charms, love the white words on the black background.

Supplies: Stamps - Whipper Snapper Designs Spooky Expressions by Anna Wight. Paper - SU! Confetti White, Basic Black, Gable Green, Halloween Words by Junkitz. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, Copic markers. Acces. - 3/4", 1" square & ticket corner punches, black brads, ribbon, Janome sewing machine, Glossy Accents, Dimensionals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I've had internet issues again, arrrgggg!!!! Seems it always goes down when I need it the most, whats up with that?! I hope to get this post up by tomorrow, geeeezzzz! I haven't been able to get on for 2 days, now it's hit or miss, mostly miss, pffft. I'm hoping my ISP calls me today, they are supposed to... hopefully he'll call this morning, I'm praying for any minute, LOL!

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I hope y'all have a great weekend, I hope I have one too, LOL!

Thanks for stopping by!

Whipper Snapper Designs Hocus Pocus & Spooky Expressions...

...illustrated by Anna Wight, and boy, are these ever cute stamps! I love Halloween and these folksie characters make me smile!! The sentiments are so unique and fun, this is Anna at her finest!
Make sure you check out the other designers samples! Anna Wight, Carol Halvorson, Trudee Sauer

, Leslie Miller & Jami Sibly.

These witchie legs are a hoot, the hairy, prickly legs, the little ghost is horrified, LOL! I stamped the broom and then I made the bottom out of black crepe paper. The black photo corners are vintage from my friend Lisa Zappa . The ribbon was black & ivory, I colored it with a dark orange Copic marker, great Halloween ribbon now! I cut the waves in the papers with my Creative Memories decorative edge trimmer.
The bat on the tag is embossed with black EP and he has googlie eyes. I cut him out and adhered him with a Dimensional. I cut out the piece of candy corn, it has Glossy Accents on it. The Prima flowers have Stickles on them. I colored the large Prima flower with a Copic marker so it would match. The witchie shoes, hat and button have Martha Stewart black glitter on them. It was a nightmare trying to find the candy corn for the jar! I looked all over Clinton and finally found some at Harvest Foods, geeez, I thought Wal-Mart would have them or the dollar stores, nope.

Supplies: Stamps - Whipper Snapper Designs Hocus Pocus & Spooky Expressions by Anna Wight. Paper - SU! Basic Black, Lavendar Lace, Georgia Pacific white, Daisy D's pattern paper from my LSS. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, VersaMark, SU! Lavendar Lace, Pumpkin Pie, Copic markers. Acces. - tag, black hemp, black EP, black brads, googlie eyes, Prima flowers, Stickles glitter, Martha Stewart black glitter, black vintage photo corners from LZ, black button, black rick rack, ribbon, Ball jar, candy corn, Glossy Accents, Tim Holtz ruler and piercer, Creative Memories decorative trimmer.
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Look at the loot that my friend Lisa Zappa sent me, HOLY COW, I'm in vintage trim heaven! Love the pom-pom trim, so many colors to play with, YIPPEE!!
Last time I went to my mom's I went to Ritsy Rags and picked up the vintage rick rack and this cool button book, it's full of the cutest button jewerly patterns. I can't wait to give it a try! I got the orange wooden tool box out of my dad's shop. I'm going to paint it and use it for supplies.
Don't forget to go and check out the other Whipper Snapper featured designers samples on their blogs. If you love all things Halloween, you have to add these cute sets to your collection!
I hope ya'll have a creepy kinda week, thanks for stopping by!!

Blossoms pocket & a color challenge!

Here's another card with Whipper Snapper's new Blossoms & Butterflies and Blooming Expressions sets by Anna Wight! I decided I wanted to do a SCS challenge card. I went to the color challenge that Emily hosts every Tuesday and I loved the idea of using a soon to be retired SU! In Color, CC177, for this weeks challenge. The colors she choose were Whisper White, Sahara Sand & Groovy Guava. Be sure and click on the CC177 link above, you can play too!

I wanted to do all white flowers so I picked out the flower stamps that I thought would be white. I stamped the flowers on the Sahara Sand, then using Craft White or Pine White as some of us call it *grin*I colored the flowers with a small paint brush. The sentiment says count your blessings one petal at a time.

Supplies: Stamps - Whipper Snapper Designs Blossoms & Butterflies & Blooming Expressions by Anna Wight. Paper - SU! Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Groovy Guava. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, Copic markers (leaves, stems, butterfly, flower centers) SU! Groovy Guava, Inkssentials white pen (faux stitching) Spica clear glitter pen. Acces. - SU! circle and border scallop punches, Groovy Guava ribbon, Tim Holtz poker and ruler, Dimensionals.
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This will be my last post until next week, some of the Hanna Stamps design team and Texas girls are gathering at Tex's house for a few days to stamp, see the sites and do some chit-chattin'! Ahhhhh, good times!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Friends are like flowers...

Here's another card using Anna Wight's flowers and a butterfly by Whipper Snapper Designs!

The possibilities are endless with the Blossoms & Butterflies set. There are so many cute flowers, seems I'm going back to this one, black-eyed Susan, daisy or purple cone flower, depends on how you color it, I love it! The sentiment is from Anna's Blooming Expressions set.

Supplies: Stamps - Whipper Snapper Designs Blossoms & Butterflies, Blooming Expressions. Paper - Daisy D's Beacon Hill 8x8 paper pad, Prism Sunflowers medium, SU! Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, Georgia pacific white. Ink - Ranger Distress Walnut Stain, Copic markers, Chocolate Chip marker, So Saffron, Ruby Red. Acces. - Damask Vintage Glass Art Glitter, ribbon, new SU! buttons, tracing wheel, Marvy scalloped & oval punches, new SU! scallop border punch.
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I bought this huge Angel Wing Begonia earlier in the summer, it has bloomed the whole time. I picked off some stems to root so I can get another plant started, I love flowers that bloom so much!

I hope y'all have a wonderful day, thanks for stopping by!

truest language

Here is another card using the new Blossoms & Butterflies set by Anna Wight for Whipper Snapper Designs. The flowers in this set are so fun to play with and there are so many pretty sentiments to choose from in the new Blooming Expressions set. Click on the Whipper Snapper Designs above, Anna has 2 more new sets that were released, LOVE!! Oh, Oh, Oh~just wait until you see the August releases, OMG!!

Supplies: - Stamps - Whipper Snapper Designs Blossoms & Butterflies, Blooming Expressions. Paper - SU! Confetti White, Chocolate Chip, Long Notes Wild Wasabi and envy. Ink - Ranger Distress Walnut Stain, Copic markers, Chocolate Chip marker, Spica clear glitter pen. Acces. - Hodgepodge Hardware Antique Brass, scalloped scissors, ribbon, Dimensionals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is a tigerlilly that's blooming in my back yard. They are really showing off now, some of them are as tall as I am!

I hope you see some pretty flowers today, they are sure to make you smile!

Thanks for stopping by!