This is Halloween!

Well, Halloween is right around the corner! I love Halloween and the whole holiday time that follows : ) The challenge this week at CAS-ual Fridays was to create a Halloween theme card with no orange at all. Which was actually perfectly fine with me, because I mostly lean more toward the whole purple and green look.
I started off with a black card base and two black and white pieces of patterned paper. I thought the bats and the stars would look cool together, kinda like a night sky kinda thing. You can't really see it, but behind the label with the sentiment, I taped the two different pieces of paper together with some silver duct tape. In real life, it's neat looking, because it has that chrome-y look. I stamped the webs and sentiment with black dye ink and adhered some cool sparkly spiders. I set the purple piece with foam squares for that little bit of added dimension. I glued a purple bling to the top of a green paperclip and used it to adhere the green paper to the purple (I put glue underneath too). Below are the pictures, and a close up of the sparkly spider and paperclip and of the dimension with the foam squares.
Well that's it for today and thanks for stopping by to check it out! Till next time, happy crafting!

CAS-ual Fridays

This last week CAS-ual Fridays is having a special challenge with a blog hop. Head on over to their blog to get all the details, it's for a good cause! The theme was about smiles. They provided a sentiment that you could use with your card if you wanted. Below is the card I created for this challenge. I started with a white card and matted with a patterned paper from Basic Grey's Porcelain collection. I used my Spellbinders dies for the labels and the letters & the one circle sticker are from the sticker sheet from the same collection. I tied some embroidery floss in steps, then cinched them together and added some green bling. Well, that's my card for today, thanks for stopping by!

One more....

I'm having so much fun with these mini cards that I decided to make one last entry before the deadline tonight for the mini card challenge this week @ CAS-ual Fridays = ) I made this card with the Surf and Turf stamp set from Paper Smooches stamps. I colored and cut out the images and adhered some with pop up dots! My finished card is 4 by 2 1/2 inches, thanks for stopping by!

CAS-ual Fridays & Paper Smooches Sparks : 2nd entries

I decided I wanted to do a second entry for both Paper Smooches Sparks and CAS-ual Fridays, so I thought to myself, "Hey, maybe I can tie the two in together!" So that's what I did!
For CAS-ual Fridays, the challenge was to make a mini-card. I really love mini cards, I'm not sure why, but I just love the look of them.
For Paper Smooches Sparks, we were given an inspiration photo and the challenge was to create something from it.
I started with a lime green base and a white circle piece of paper. I used the three circle elements and the teeny tiny heart from Paper Smooches Sugar Rush set to make the circular image. I colored it in with Triart markers and stamped the word "friend" in the middle from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler set. I lined the white circle with peach embroidery floss and added some green bling. My finished card is 4 by 4 inches.

CAS-ual Fridays : mini cards!

This week's challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays was mini cards! Cute! The first thing that came to mind for me was a gift card holder. I started with a kraft cardstock base and inked the edges with Distress Ink walnut stain. I then sized a piece of cream paper and distressed the edges. This is actually the first time I tried my hand at distressing! I don't have an actual distressing tool, so I just used some sandpaper that was laying around. I stamped the root beer float image from Paper Smooches sugar rush set onto white cardstock, colored with Triart markers and cut it out. The root beer float is set with dimensional foam. The sentiment "celebrate" comes from the same set and I stamped it in the Distress Ink walnut stain. I finished off with some cream colored embroidery floss and red metallic embellies to match the straw in the image.

Another CAS-ual Fridays entry

.....or more like two more! Lol : D Here are two more cards I made for the challenge this week at CAS-ual Fridays - "stuck on you" ....stickers essentially (CFC17). The first one I used "A Touch of Jolee's" sticker for the flower and the sentiment is a faith-based vellum sticker by Sticko. The second card, the trees and clouds are both by sticko and the sentiment was a vellum quote that I ran through the Xyron to make into a sticker. I had fun with this challenge, even though alot of times I have a hard time figuring out how to make stickers look nice and not like I just stuck them on there and called it a day! Thanks for checking them out!

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge-Stuck On You

This week's challenge at CAS-ual Fridays was "stuck on you"-stickers (CFC17). Below is one of the cards I created with some stickers that I had laying around.

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge* CFC #16

The challenge at CAS-ual Fridays was to create a "clear and simple" project using an embossing technique. I just recently got the Surf and Turf stamp set from Paper Smooches in the mail and was itching to use it some more! I decided to create a simple thank you card using dry embossing. I started off with a pale yellow card base and I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder with a bubble look to it on some light blue pearl paper. I then stamped the whale from Surf and Turf and colored him with Triart markers, first layer was C2 Cool Gray No.2 and second layer was BG-11 Pale Blue. I also stamped the air bubbles from the same set and colored them with B6 Andes Blue. The sentiment "huge thanks" is from the same set and is stamped in Royal Blue ink by Stampabilites and then I cut it out with "bubbly" decorative scissors. I then added a simple piece of white emboidery thread in a knot.