CCC17 / GC73 / TheCheerfulStampPad

The bewitching hour strikes again as the wonderful Linda brings us to page 64 of "The Compendium of Curiosities." Our lesson for the week is to create Fragment Charms and I know there will be those show-offs out there, who will make some incredible art! Then there is me!!! I can spend an entire day - no bull - and this is what happened! All I knew is that I was going to alter a box top. The outside back and sides are designer papers that I cut and glued down along with the inner frame. The back of the inside box top was done using a Batik technique in a previous lesson and in which I did the spider webs, then the "GROSS" spiders were embossed and highlighted using a technique from the Technique Junkies. The embossing folder is a new Sizzix release! This background would look really great on a card where you actually see more of it. Miss Skully is a new Tim Holtz stamp and she was white embossed on black and cut out. Now I first had her hanging via a chain and I just hated that she kept wanting to turn her back to me, so we added five layers of mounting tape to her back. We wanted a little dimension.  I understand she does not care for the hair, but we all have bad hair days and at least she has hair! We gave her eyes and the wiggly ones my DH so adores.

Now check out the necklace and belt on her skirt, she needed to feel a little pretty. BTW, the skirt is from some lace that Vicki so kindly sent to me. Also Vicki is having a little fun challenge of her own and because it involves "Women and a stamp," guess where this is going. I don't think this is what Miss Cheerful Ink Pad had in mind, but I want her to see the beautiful skirt! By all means pop over to Vicki's and join in with the fun, because it is all about the art and share and today is Vicki's birthday! 

I am also sending this beauty over to Gingersnap Creations GC73 - Gothic Elements. Not sure exactly how much Goth is happening here, but I am sure if you look hard, there is something!

Friday October 15th is the last day to post a comment here to be eligible for my blog candy drawing of a $25 gift certificate to Scrolls Work Stamps.

Gingersnap Creation Connection - Haunted

I am participating in a GC Creative Connection.  I heard about this month's GCCC - Haunted - From Helene (aka 2amscrapper) of LOTSA SCRAP.  Why not play along?  Post a creation to your blog mentioning my post and the Creative Connection post on Gingersnap Creations.  Let's all craft it forward and see how far we can get this connection to go!"  If you have not been by Helene's blog, go treat yourself and I promise that is not a trick!

The idea behind this card was to keep it more basic with no elaborate supplies.  The Devil stealing a candy bar and the sentiment are both from Scrolls Work Stamps and are embossed.  Satan was suppose to make it on a little bag I was altering, but after I added the two Spellbinders Nesties together, guess who was too big?????  So a card was born.  The DP is from Stampin Up.  Wisped Frames from the Technique Junkies was used on the orange Nestie.

Come on and play along and if you heard about this from me, please link me up to your blog!  Have fun and thanks for the visit!  Just keep a close eye on your candy!!!   

GC72 Color Challenge and Tag Tuesday Banners

Today is kind of a bitter sweet day for me, so I decided to just play!  This tag is for the newest challenge at Gingersnap Creations "Neutrals plus one Color" and also Tag Tuesday's Banners.  Yesterday I started to play with this awesome witch from Scrolls Work Stamps and I knew what I wanted to do with her, but then the rest of my stamps came in (Super Woo Hoo) and I got different ideas!  The background is smoked, literally!  I've done it in decorative painted and just carry it along with cards.  If you do this, keep your distance from the candle and be in a safe place.  After you achieve you desired soot effect, do a light spray of matt sealer.  I then stamped my image and masked the other clouds to do my sunset.  I also stamped a couple of extra times, because I wanted to emboss my bats.  Oh I guess I like spending a ton of time cutting out!  The tree has quite a few steps and yes it was cut out.  I love dimension!  The tree was embossed with black on ivory paper and then I added brown and black to the entire tree.  The fence and corner spider web are all new Tim Holtz Sizzix line and those came from my Local Enabler (Scrapbooking Made Simple).  I added a little grass near the base of tree which both came from Scrolls Work Stamp!  I used two techniques from the Technique Junkies, which if you don't subscribe, you really should!  It is a totally awesome group!

Hope you all are having a wonderful cool down and enjoying this first day of Fall!  I truly appreciate your visits!

Red and Black meets CCC13

Well what we have here is another combo challenge for Gingersnap Creations Red and Black and Linda's CCC week 13 Grungepaper Flowers! Obviously the red and black are self explanatory! Now the grungepaper flowers were cut from Tim Holtz Sizzix Tattered Florals. I added two way adhesive paper and then my tissue paper. About the tissue paper. The one with the writing on it, was gift tissue paper that my DH used for our Anniversary in March! When it first came off the die, I was very disappointed in it's appearance. You could hardly see the writing. Once I inked it with the red, it stood out just perfectly! The next tissue grungepaper flower was just plain red tissue and I crinkled it prior to adhering to the adhesive paper and ran black ink across the top. The canvas board was stamped using another technique out of the Compendium of Curiosities and then inked with black and red! Now the beautiful center piece is a romantic stamp from Scrolls Work and I could not wait to use Joan and John!! They were just screaming out to me to use them in the frame. BTW, the frame is another new not released Sizzix die! Is that image not perfect for the frame? I also did a Cuttlebug Highlight technique on the frame from the Technique Junkies Newsletter!

It took me so long to arrange everything and I am not sure if I like the layout! The frame, image, flowers were done yesterday, but I could not for the life of me figure out what was the next step! I realize I could have used just one flower, but I just had to display them all! Thanks again so much for stopping by and having a little visit!

Tag Tuesday Challenge #60 Faces

Faces are the theme this week at Tag Tuesday! For some reason with all the financial concerns that so many people are dealing with these days, I decided to make a little light of the situation. When I have an extra few dollars, I like to invest in the stock market and if any of you are in the market, I don't have to tell you how stressful it can be. So speaking of stress, all I could think about was "Loud Larry" from Scrolls Work just yelling about how stressed he is! The money used is mine and I reduced the size to make little monies! Some were reduced to 25% and that is how it feels at times!! The background paper is from Graphic 45 and is Wall Street paper! Oh "Loud Larry" does have blue eyes to go with the blue background paper. I did stamp out a few, incase I removed any body parts and lucky me, I did not. The extras I gave a little color to the mouth area only, but just did not like him colored with the style of this paper.

Hope you all enjoy my "Stock Market" humor! Have a most wonderful weekend and as always, the blog and I thank you for visiting!

GC60: Color Challenge - Shades of Blue

While I was working on the "Shades of Blue" challenge at Gingersnap Creations, I realized I have not done "Fairies." Oh well! Ever since I bought this lovely "Alice" stamp from Scrolls Work, I have so wanted to use it. When I was trying to come up with something for the "Shades of Blue," Alice just kept popping into my mind! I was not sure how to keep it as blue as possible, but I think I kept her pretty in blue! I will tell you that I actually masked off all the critters and Alice to keep the background blue from bleeding in. I also decided to present her in a couple of ways! Since I did three of these delightful images, I have a third to figure out what to do with!

Along with the Scrolls Work stamp, I also used one of Tim Holtz new embossing folders, alcohol inks, and a brand new punch I just bought a Michael's for $6.99! Did that come in handy or what to go with Alice's flying cards? The embossing of the little cut-outs was quite a job!  Here is a close-up shot of Alice.  Notice the pink eye I gave the rabbit!

As always I appreciate your stopping by and visiting my blog and commenting! Have a most wonderful evening!

GC58: Transparencies

Working with transparencies at Gingersnap Creations and this is my first attempt!  Very interesting the things you learn as you go along.  The Jesters are stamped on acetate and the little disk was stamped and embossed and then cutout and placed on white paper, which was framed with black glitter.  The little balls on the shoes and hats were embellished with tiny little gold stickers, which don't really show up in the photo.  All stamps are from Scrolls Work.

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