Horsing Around

Hi there.  I have a birthday card that I made for one of Kierstynne's friends to show y'all today.  She is obsessed with horses.  She is even taking riding lessons now.  Dani loves them.

I decided to go with black and white for this card.  I used the running horse from the Inkadinkado set "Horses".  I inked up the stamp with Versafine Black Onyx ink and stamped it three times without reinking.  This gives the appearance of the horse running across the page.  The sentiment is The Paper Studio "Clearly Speaking".  I added some black and white gingham ribbon and three black rhinestones to finish off the card.

Dani's party was a Thanksgiving morning breakfast and when she saw this card, she had a fit.  Yeah, she loved it.

Thanks for stopping in.  I hope y'all have a great night and keep warm.  God bless y'all.

Day 27 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome, friends, to Day 27.  I have noticed a drop off of participants in the hop..it's been a long haul for some of you.  Thank you to all those who are hanging in there with us.  To my Wicked Blogger pals, I have thoroughly enjoyed each and every project you have created.  There have been some that piqued my curiosity, some that blew my socks off and some that totally creeped me out.  You guys are a talented bunch of artist.

Today's offering is a little card that I threw together quickly.  Today was catch up on chores day so I didn't have alot of time to craft.  I still have quite a bit to catch up on, but I'm getting there.  

I found this green web paper in my scrap bin and thought, hey, this would be good to make a card with.  I used a white gel pen to draw some faux stitching to replicate the spider's web threads and attached some little spiders from a confetti pack that I bought a couple years ago.  The stamp in the bottom corner is an old one from Inkadinkado.  I added some gems and that finished up this quickie.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Make sure to check Terra's blog for all the winners, sponsors and rules.  Hope on over to Lisa's blog now and she what she has created.

Day 26 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Hello there!  Welcome to  Day 26.  Can you believe our hop is almost over.  I don't know whether to be thankful or sad.  I'm going to miss seeing all these wonderful projects daily.  I have followed most of the blogs so that I can keep up with my fellow Wicked Bloggers.

Today's offering is a card.  It's a bit different than most Halloween cards.  I did not use any Halloween papers or colors.

I used a Delicious Doodles image.  She's colored with Crayola colored pencils.  I printed four copies of the frame and did the same technique as on Day 10 with the Gothic Bride.  I used a piece of The Paper Studio patterned paper with tons of sea shells on it. I used an Inkadinkado stamp set called Coastal to stamp the row of sea shells on my torn piece of Kraft card stock.  It's stamped with Espresso Truffle ink.   I used an Inkadinkado sentiment stamped in Espresso Truffle from Memento.  I used two punches from the Paper Studio to die cut the sentiment.  Adding some gems on the sentiment and on the inside of the frame finished off this card.

Thanks for stopping in today.  I hope y'all are having fun along the hop.  Make sure to check in with Terra to see if you have won one of yesterday's prizes and to see the sponsors for today.

Don't forget to check out my giveaway post here.

I am going to enter this project into the Scrapbook Stamp Society challenge for this week.

Finally Friday with QKR Stampede

Hello there friends.  Today is the start of a new challenge at QKR Stampede.  We had so many great entries for last week's Anything Goes with Circles.  I wouldn't want to have to pick the winner..whew..but, that winner is #28, Leslie Turner.  Make sure to email Jackie for your prize..You can find the email addy on the challenge blog.

This week's challenge is #61, Halloween Fun.  Boy, that opens a lot of possibilities.  Here's what I created:

I used digi #12306 Trick or Treat.  I colored the image with Crayola colored pencils.  I want a full set of Prisma colored pencils, but that's going to take a while..maybe my darling husband  will get me the 72 pencil set for Christmas.  I do have three...two skin colors and a pink.  I used Harvest Gold and Slate for the bandages.  I used Brown and Black for the bear and Red, Orange and Yellow for the punkin'.  The patterned papers are from DCWV and the card stock is Black Recollections.  The sentiment circles are from two sets...an old Inkadinkado set and a word set from The Paper Studio. I stamped the words with Versa Magic Puple Hydrangea.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all enjoy your Friday.  Have a wonderful day.  God bless y'all.

Day 17 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome back for Day 17 of the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.  Make sure to check out Terra's blog for all the rules, sponsors and winners of the Scavenger Hunt.  And, if you need it, the entire blog roll is to the right of this post.

Today's card is a cute one.   I actually had this little image from Inkadinkado's Halloween Cat and Friends colored and just waiting for a project to put it on.   I found that project today.  

I have to apologize for the darkness of the picture.  My camera decided to break on me tonight and I had to scan in the image.  Nope, you're not seeing double.  I did a drop shadow on the sentiment using Versa Magic in Purple Hydrangea and stamp it twice.

The papers are all from Recollections Halloween collection Haunted Estates from last year.  I rounded the corners of the Orange Glitter Dot paper.  I used pop dots to add the image, which was colored with colored pencils, OMS and Sakura Glitter pen.

Thanks so much for joining me today.  Make sure to come back tomorrow for Day 18.

A Little Thank You

Hello friends.  Thanks for stopping in to see my latest creation.  The card I made is going to be entered into four challenges.  Sketch Saturday has the sketch, My Time to Craft has a Things with Wings challenge, One Stop Craft has a Sparkle and Bling challenge, and Sentimental Sunday's challenge is for Thank You cards.

I started this card with Basic Black (SU) card stock.  I made this into a 5" square card to follow the sketch.  I used a piece of American Crafts DP for the background.  I added Olive Green (SU) and then Crumb Cake (SU).  The side pieces are the reverse side of the background paper which I cut down to 2"x1.5" and rounded the corners.  Once everything was put together, I stamped different thank you sayings from an Inkadinkado stamp set.  I used Colorbox Cat's Eye inks in shades of green for the words.  For the center thank you, I colored it with a green glitter gel pen for the sparkle.  I outlined it with my white gel pen and added faux stitching around the edges of the Crumb Cake and Olive Green.  I used a dark green BIC marker to add faux stitches on the side pieces.  For the bling, I added large gems (Queen and Co.) to the three corners and a black die cut butterfly to the bottom right corner.  I added three small gems to the center of the butterfly to complete the card.

I sure appreciate you stopping in today.  I hope you enjoyed my project.  Stay tuned for more creations soon.  God bless y'all.

TIC TAC TOE

Welcome back.  So glad to see you.  Come on in, I have a card to show you.
Today's card is for the Crafts 4 Eternity challenge for this week.  It is a Tic Tac Toe challenge, which means you have to pick three items to use on your card from the board.  I chose the color blue, ribbon and snowflakes.

Isn't that a cute penguin?  I just love penguins.  I could sit at the zoo for hours and watch them play.  I received this image already matted on the scalloped ovals in a swap, so I decided to use it for this card.  I started with a piece of gray-blue card stock from Colorbok as my A2 card base.  It is a top opening card instead of the usual side opening.  I used some snowflake stickers from Provo Craft to give texture and design to the card base.  That swirling blue ribbon, that's from Recollections and reminds me of snowflakes twirling and swirling through the air as they float down to earth.  It's a felt ribbon so it gives added texture to the card.  I used pop dots to add the penguin image.  The little sentiment is from Inkadinkado and it's called Friendly Characters.  The sentiment is actually attached to a little penguin standing on a block of ice, but I just stamped the sentiment part of the stamp by masking off the image.  I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and cut it out to look like a spoken word bubble.  I inked it with Colorbox Cat's Eye ink in Light Blue.

That was it.  I think it took me all of 15 minutes from start to finish to make this card.  It has been one of the easier ones I have made lately.  I do thank you from the bottom of my heart for stopping in to see what I have been up to.  I pray you have a wonderful evening.  God bless y'all.