Welcome Autumn!

We have finally started having some Autumn type weather here, well at least in the later evening and early morning! The days are still quite warm, but not as hot! On to my card!

I actually am working on creating more easy to mail items, so I decided black with Perfect Pearls might be nice. I used a foil (liner from a cake pan) panel, between the two black for what I was thinking to be like an old fashioned chalkboard!



After decided where I wanted my "Hayride" images from Artistic Outpost, they were stamped using clear embossing ink and then I applied the Perfect Pearls.

For the wooden sign, I stamped and cut this out and cut and trimmed another piece for the wording. Between the black and glimmer of the Perfect Pearls, I did find it a little difficult to photograph!

There is still a week left to enter in Artist Outpost's "October Referral Program" and it is Anything Goes, but just use those AO stamps! Thank you for stopping by and enjoy!

To Die For at FSC!

The newest challenge at FSC is "To Die For" and DT Sister, Joanna, chose this theme.  How fun is this challenge in which you can use die cuts, cut your own dies or even punches!  Just remember to include stamping along with your choice of "Dies."  There is always a prize and a Top 3 selection, so come on and join in!  All of us at FSC, love to see you and your fabulous creations!

The embossed background on mine was actually a leftover from a previous "CC2 Challenge," so that was my canvas!  I wanted to have a good portion of the background visible, so opted to go with shrinking my "Die Cuts."  This is what I did with the little ornaments and deer!  The ornaments were cut from white shrink plastic, stamped using Tim's stamps and Perfect Medium.  I then colored them with Perfect Pearls and baked.  Once heat set, I went over them with alcohol inks and blending solution.  The deer was cut from frosted shrink plastic, blended on Distress Ink, stamped the other side with Metallic Distress Stains using a snowflake stamp of Tim's.  I did add a little color to his nose and an eye.  All of these were coated with clear embossing ink and powder and heat set as well.  These were all baked in my toaster oven.  Added some red/white bakers twine for a more festive touch!



See the little baby snowflakes!

Hope you will join in with all the fun!  Have a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for stopping by!

Pearls for Christmas!

Moving away from Halloween and getting into the Christmas Spirit with the current CC2 #26 challenge at Studio L-3!  Linda has instructed us to open Tim's CC2 book to page 40, Crumpled Kraft Suede.  The Funkie Junkie Boutique is the fabulous sponsor for this week's challenge and Linda is offering a sweet gift certificate to her store for $25.00!  WooHoo!  I am also linking this tag up to The Funkie Junkie's 12 Tags of Christmas #6, in which I was inspired by Linda's tree and time piece!  Of course I did my own thing!  Simon Says Stamp and Show is also generously sponsoring their challenge of "Just add Pearl."

As with every CC2 challenge, we cannot tell you about the technique out of respect for Tim, so just buy the book!  I will say that Trader's Joe came to the rescue for my "kraft" material!  Love Trader Joe's!  I followed the technique and used Picket Fence and Pine Needles for stains and Perfect Gold Perfect Pearls.  For my chip board cut tree, I used up my excess ink on the craft mat.  Added some lights and garland with a little white dabber snow.  The little gifts are Tim's fragments, covered with paper and decorated.  Added some extra pearl trim and pieces for balance!  The time piece was gold embossed and then the raised numbers sanded, the little Christmas tree was embossed with my own little mix and I added little Red Stickle Ornaments! 

This was a fun project and did take more time than I thought it would.  Lots of drying and decorating.  As always I thank you for taking the time to visit and comment!  Those of you on the East Coast, I sure hope you are doing OK and actually able to read this!   Be safe!

Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tag and Bookplates Die	Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers 2pk- Mini Pine Tree & Holly Set	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Pine Needles	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Picket Fence White
Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Snow Cap White	Ranger Perfect Pearls Pigment Powder - Perfect Bronze	Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Stain - Antiqued Bronze	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Pine Needles
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Timepieces

Halloween is a Favorite!

As luck would have it, Linda has us on page 53, Challenge #25 in our CC2 books and we are playing with Perfect Pearls!  Now that is a favorite of mine, among many and as Simon Says Stamp is the sponsor, well they also have a challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show "A Favorite," so we are double dipping as I love Halloween and Perfect Pearls!   Will also link this up to the current "Spooktacular Decorations" challenge at Inspiration Journal!

I can't tell you about the technique for challenge #25, but I can tell you a little bit about that awesome skull!  I stamped this dude on recycled plastic, after scuffing the plastic up a bit.  I really wanted a ghostly effect.  Once I stamped him using Archival Black, I clear embossed.  Yes, you must be careful with plastic as it can easily distort.  The Graveyard was much fun to make and I will tell you about that at a later time.  Added a couple of shrinky dinks and a star was born.  All stamps are Tim's as are the Perfect Pearls, dies, etc! 

Keeping this short and sweet as it is kind of late here and I just wanted to get this posted tonight!  Thank you for stopping by and I hope you are having a fabulous week!

Perfect Pearls
Archival Black
Distress Metallic Stains, Vintage Photo
Distress Ink Vintage Photo