P is for Poppies or Pumpkins

Hello, I hope you are well, thanks for the visit.

Today we start a new challenge at Alphabet Challenges 

For the letter P - I chose Poppies or Pumpkins

 I have been poorly this week, there are

some wonderful creations by the design team, 

but to give you a little more inspiration I have 

resurected two projects I made way back, they

haven't been seen for many a year.  

I really like these pop - up box cards. If you fancy

having a go, dcheck out You Tube or Pinterest.

Papers from my stash, stamps are varied from

Inkadinkado and Tandastamps.

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For the poppies, I would like to share a photo of this

Ikea mirror, which I painted with blackboard paint.

I stamped the Poppies and the lettering with Elusive Images 

(now Chocolate Baroque). The buterfly is by Lyndsay Mason.

I used  TH Distress Inks to watercolour the images, which

were fussy cut and glued onto the board. 

Set off with small red pearls. 

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P is for Pumpkins

Hello again, thanks for your visit. Today at

Alphabet Challenges we have reached the letter P.

Tammy on the DT has chosen for this letter...

Pumpkins.

Please pop over to check out the DT's creations.

I have used the usual Orange and Black background to

display my design.

The pumpkins and the scarecrow are free digi stamps I found 

on Pinterest. I coloured them all with Promarkers and pencils.

Rather than make it a Halloween card, I thought it was just as

nice to say Happy Autumn - sending this message to you all. 

Boo! Halloween

Hi everyone, thanks for your visit.  I hope you are well and 

enjoying your crafting.

Today we begin a new challenge over at Cardz 4 Guyz. 

Not surprisingly, it being the time of the year we are asking

to see Boo! Halloween entries or if you're not into Halloween

for whatever reasons, we would like to see your 

Autumn Thank You cards. 

Please pop over to see the creations from the DT, it would be a 

shame to have missed them.

For my card, I have aimed for the younger male.

The background consists of DI blending, some ink sprays,

The Whitby Abbey stamp from Crafty Individuals, several stamps from 

within my Halloween collection of stamps. The main character of

Count Dracula is by Crafty Sentiments, coloured with Promarkers.

The main card is black cardstock. The glitter edging is strips of 

double sided tape sprinkled with fine silver glitter

Have fun everyone, take care of you and yours. 

A Kinetic Card (Movement)

Hi, thanks for your visit, please have a good look around. 

For the challenge for the next week at Cardz 4 Guyz we have 

something different , A Kinetic Card

A card with some movement, e.g. a waterfall, shaker, slider etc.

You may need to show us two photos. 

The DT have again excelled with a super variety for the theme. 

I decided to make a waterfall card, the theme again being 

Halloween, I think, my last for this year, (thank goodness)

(Bear in mind I do have 5 grandsons who also have friends.)

A black card, purple designer paper, stamped with 

Halloween images from Exchangeable Clear Stamps and

Indigo Blu stamps. 

Silver Wow! powder embossed around the edges. 

I Put A Spell On You

Hi everyone, don't the weeks go fast once summer (UK) is over.

Here we are coming up to Halloween already so the obvious choice

I made for the new challenge at Make My Monday is 

I Put A Spell On You.

Please pop over to check out the stunning work from the DT.

My card - Black main card matted layers of orange and silver.

White card blended with DI Stormy Sky and Chipped Sapphire.

All stamps by Tandastamps (old and no longer available).

Greeting by Craftyroo stamps. 

The moon was first masked , then, Quickie glue pen and Glamour Dust added. 

Halloween Fun

Hello, thanks for your visit.

Today sees the start of a two week challenge at

Fantasy Stampers.

The challenge is appropriate for the time of the year.

Halloween Fun

Please check out the blog, to see the samples from the DT.

Remember this is a stamping challenge, no digis will be

included when choosing the winners. 

I used several ink sprays to create the speckled background.

The large spider web is a gliterry sticker.

Count Dracula and the small bats are from Crafty Sentiments.

The large bats are from Tandastamps (so missed)

Promarkers used to colour the Count,

Sentiment from Craftyroo stamps.

Boo! Halloween

Hi everyone, thanks for your visit.

Of course being this time of the year there are a lot of challenges

at present for Halloween. We at Cardz 4 Guyz ae no exception. 

We would love for you to join us. The challenge

BOO! Halloween starts today for a week. Please pop and see the 

wonderful creations by the Design Team. 

For my card, I have used a 7" square card. All the papers and chipbord

 elements are from a Graphic 45 Rare Oddities set which I totally love. 

The additional Spook-tacular Sayings  are by Crafty Roo Designs

I Put A Spell On You

Hi, welcome to my blog. Today sees the start of a new challenge

at Sparkles Monthly Challenges. 

The time of the year of course has guided us in our choice for the 

challenge for the month of October - I Put A Spell On You - Halloween

Please pop and dcheck out what the Design Team have created. 

I made an octagonal easel card. Used Distress inks to colour the front, 

stamped branches, the house and ghouls. Splattered water for atmosphere. 

Glitter touches here and there. Spider's webs, bats, and a large pumpkin. 

All of the stamps, except the branch were from Tandastamps, sadly no longer in business. 

The branch is from Sheena Douglas - Pinescape stamps.  

 Have fun everyone. 

For those who do enjoy Halloween I'm hoping you all have a super spooky time.

Anything BUT a Card

Hello and welcome to my blog, today sees the start of a two week challenge at

My Time To Craft (MTTC)  The challenge is 

ANYTHING BUT A CARD

Please take a look at the amazing projects created by the DT.

I have been playing with my Graphic 45 Rare Oddities Paper pad.

I first painted my little wooden chest of drawers with an orange

Acrylic paint. I then covered the drawers, both sides and back with

papers from my Rare Oddities paper pad. 

Here is the back.

I Put A Spell On You!

Hi everyone, thanks for your visit, I hope you like my card.

Thanks so much for any comments you may leave, I am very grateful.

It is almost Halloween,  with 5 grandsons, I do need all of the cards

to keep them happy.

Over at Cardz 4 Guyz we are also entering into the 'SPIRIT' of

Halloween, with a challenge this week which was my choice, 

I Put A Spell On You!

The Design Team have some wonderful cards to see, please pop over 

to check them out.

For My Card

I have made a stepper card with black card.

All of the papers and embellishments are from

Graphic 45 - Rare Oddities 8" Paper Pad with a piece of chipboard.

I hope you have spotted the 3 floating bats, if not enlarage the picture.

They are stuck onto acetate which is secured on the back of the card. 

Have fun making your project.

Use Inchies or Twinchies

Hi, welcome back, thanks for visiting and if you have left any comments

for these I am thrilled and truly grateful. 

Today at Make My Monday the challenge is for you to 

Use Inchies or Twinchies

( To use on your design 1 inch or 2 inch squares)

You'll see examples of this from the wonderfrul DT.

Here is my card.

I know, yes another Halloween card, well I do have 5 grandsons.

Paper is from Graphic 45 Rare Oddities, I adore these papers.

The inchies stamps are from Inkadinkado - Halloween set.

The spider, black card and black gems are from my stash. 

Have fun everyone, looking forward to visiting you. 

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Fright Night (Halloween)

Hi everyone, we are having a little extra fun at Fantasy Stampers

for the next two weeks with our theme of

FRIGHT NIGHT - (Halloween)

Why don't you fly on over to the blog and check out 

what ghoulish creations the Design Team have made. 

For My Card.

I made a white card - into a folded stepper card.

Black and white card to embellish.

Green paper, flashy ribbon, and glitter from my stash

Whitby Abbey stamp - Crafty Individuals

Count Dracula  and Bats - Crafty Sentiments

Pumpkins and Greeting - Varied sources.

Coloured with Promarkers. 

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I am so looking forward to seeing your FRIGHT NIGHT 

entries, I know you will be having lots of spooky fun. 

Myth and Magic

For the next week at Cardz 4 Guyz. it was my choice

for the challenge, I am hoping you will like it ...

MYTH AND MAGIC

So you can think, Wizards, Harry Potter, Dragons, Sea Creatures

Arabian Nights, King Arthur, Camelot, any where your imagination

takes you. 

For My Card

A folded tent card, template from 

Fabulous Folds CD by  Robert Addams

Starry mirri card from Kanban

Wizard stamp from Tandastamps (miss them)

Greeting from Kanban - Sugar Buttons Greetings.

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I'm really looking forward to you enjoying the challenge. 

Something Spooky

The challenge for the next two weeks at Fantasy Stampers is ' Somthing Spooky'. The only thing we ask is please use some stamps, as long as they are stamps you have had to use ink to stamp them, digis are NOT allowed. Pop over to see the inspiration from the Design Team. For my card, the piece of paper I used for the background was one I prepared months ago, when I had a messy background paper making session, with spary paints and some stamping. In addition for the theme I have added a few spiders and a couple of bats. The top right bat is suspended with some folded acetate, he wobbles when the card is moved.  My stamps are a mixture, leaves from Sheena Douglass, skull unknown make bought from E Bay, the bats and pumpkin are by Tandastamps. Have fun everyone, I look forward to visiting your haunted mansions and creepy corridors. 

It's Spooky Time

Not long to go till it's Halloween,  being a grandmother of five boys, I have a few projects to make.  So our challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz is - It's Spooky Time.  I really like these pop up boxes, they can be time consuming but they can be kept standing in the boy's bedrooms as a keepsake.(Hopefully) !If you fancy having a go, look on You tube or Pinterest,  I used papers from a paper stack Monochrome by Dovecraft. The stamps are from my collection of Halloween stamps - Exhangables, Inkadinkado and Tandastamps. I used thin strips of acetate to suspend most of the embellishments.  This pop up box/card  folds flat and fits into an envelope. 

Here is a close up of the 'floating'  embellishments

Please  be sure to pop over to the  challenge blog Cardz 4 Guyz  to see how the Design Team and Guest Designers have inspired you with their Spooky Time. Have fun and happy haunting times.

#187 Sketch - Harvest Time

 Try Stamping On a Tuesday is a sketch challenge blog, with a twist of adding a theme for you to be even  more challenged. Time to stretch, to allow your creativity and imagination to  take a journey.
Below you will find the sketch to work within the title for the next two weeks is HARVEST TIME.
I had fun with this card, yes it does take me out of my comfort box, but isn't that what challenges are for? I found some plaid and patterned paper in my stash. The Autumn sentiment is from a Sheena Douglass Autumn Leaves stamp set. The Leaves are from a freebie stamp with a magazine. The scarecrow and pumpkins are from a recent purchase, thrilled with the reduced price at  a craft event. I coloured the background with Distrss Inks and drew in the birds, my one claim to being an artist, I can draw birds. LOL I look forward to popping around to see your completed creation. Have fun.

Halloween

Boo! Oh! I just love Halloween. Spooky! Ghouls! Witches! I love the colours, the whole thing. I know I'm grown up and shouldn't be so excited but Hey it's this type of wonderment which keeps the mind young. This week at My Time To Craft it was my turn to choose the theme, being the time of year we are going to see lots of Halloween projects, so I thought, Why Not!? Let us be among the first. It's fun. I was inspired to make this card by one I saw on Pinterest though I have obviously changed a lot in the design. The background has been embossed with a swirly pattern using Black Wow! embossing powder, as has the witch and around the edges of the added panel. . Unfortunately the shimmer and glittery look doesn't show in the picture. Strips of green, orange and black papers, green fibre,  shiny green and black ribbon and a green gingham bow  all added to enhance. The greeting was computer generated. have you spotted the bat in the top right corner, stamped in black onto orange card.? The swirly stamps are from Creative Expressions, the witch and bat are by Tandastamps. I am so much looking forward to seeing all of the forthcoming projects for Halloween. I am sure you will all have fun who venture into the scary world of ghosts and ghouls. He! He! He! 

Fan Tastic Challenge - Halloween

Well Halloween is almost upon us, so this week we at FAN_TASTIC Challenges are asking to see a Halloween project. You may know we started this challenge for Fat Pages 4 inch square works of art, our logo being It's Hip To Be Square'. After a lot of discussion and and suggestions the group have decided to go SQUARE. but it can be any size. it doesn't have to be a card, but whatever project you make it must be square and fit in with the required theme. So here is my 5 inch square card, based on black card, then orange then mirri card. The main image is white card stamped with the witch and ghouls parade from Tandastamps, sadly no longer in business. I coloured the background with 3 shades of blue Distress Inks. There is some glitter in the moon and across the parade but not sure if this will show. I look forward to seeing your entries into our challenge and hope you find the new rules as exciting as we feel they are. If your celebrating Halloween have a good night and hopefully get lots of treats and very few tricks. I shall be busy all night, I've got my Nimbus 45 out of the cupboard and we shall be flying the night sky to our secret place for a witches and warlocks Supper, Spells and Dance night. 

S is for Scary at Alphabet Challenge

Not many days to go till it's Halloween - so no wonder Sheena at Alphabet Challenge has chosen S is for

SCARY .  Here I used a black card. The main image has been created, first by colouring the sky and the ground, using Distress Inks, an image of Whitby Abbey, from Crafty Individuals, the ghouls long stamp was from Tandastamps, sadly no longer in business. A light spray appropriately of Desert Moon Horny Toad Teal. I wish all the Halloween enthusiasts a Spooky - Scary time and for everyone else please just ignore we ghouls, but have fun making a project for our Scary theme. 

#179 Sketch at Sunday Stamp and Sketch

Another wonderful Sketch # 179 for the next two weeks from Sunday Stamp and Sketch with thanks to 

Sam.  One of my grandsons has a birthday very soon, around the time of Halloween, a time of year he greatly enjoys. I have followed the sketch with this in mind, for it will be his birthday card. I used some scrapbook paper I bought some time ago for my "in-progress - Halloween Book" - it grows each year, then Halloween passes and I put it away for another year. (You'll find it in the Labels List).  The main image is from an Indigo Blu set called Hocus Pocus, coloured with Promarkers. I wonder how many of you are thinking what is the Boo for, well I know my curious grandson will immediately get hold of the tab and lift it up, and this is what he will see.

Have fun everyone with the sketch, I look forward to seeing how you have interpreted the super design.