Come And Get It ~ Autumn Thank You

Good Day!

Well here it's Sunday and I haven't gotten my house hold chores done, so no rest for me!  The rain has come back to make for a dreary wet day and the leaves are continually falling.......anyone up for a raking beside me??  LOL

I've best be telling you about the Challenge over at Come And Get It,  Cindy is playing hostess this week and she lives in Canada and they are getting ready for Thanksgiving.  So our theme is Thanks, Gratitude or Thanksgiving.

The background technique for my card is direct ink to paper, leaves stamped with craft white, clear emboss over entire sheet.  I then sprinkled embossing Opals for added golden tones.

 Sharing with these challenges:
SimpleCreateToo47 ~ Fall/Autumn
Polkadoodles40 ~ Autumn Crafting
ATCAS23 ~ Autumn/Fall
4CraftyChicks162 ~ Fall/Autumn
DivasbyDesign ~ CAS
CraftinDesertDiva's16 ~ Sentiments
ChallengesandSweets18 ~ Colors of Autumn
ParadeYourCrafts5 ~ Fall
CreativeMoments27 ~ ATG/Fall
CupboardTrilogy16 ~ Halloween/Fall

SGC ~ DT Card ~ Leaves

Good Day!

I'd like to invite you to come over to Southern Girls Challenge, this round we are playing with Leaves so put some leaves of any sort on your projects and hop on over to play!

I had the pleasure to use one of our sponsor images from Delicious Doodles called "Earth Mother"  

We've got some wonderful sponsors this round, Retail Girl, Flourish with a Bling and Delicious Doodles.....come check out my team mates fabulous designs

 The image is colored with copic markers, then using Pipe Dream Inks embossing powders for the marking on her forehead then clear embossed the entire image lastly

The sentiment stamp is from Stamp Oasis ~ Wind & Sea

Butterfly, Leave Swirl, and Flower Die Cuts ~ Memory Box

Sharing with these challenges:

My Heart Pieces~ Use Digital Image

Scrapper's Delights~ Die Cuts/Punches

Word Art Wed.86~ ATG

Craft-room~ Yellow and Blue make Green

Everybody-Art~ Butterflies

Oldie but A goodie~ Butterflies (Designer Paper around image & sentiment)

 Thanks for taking the time to drop in and leave a comment!

CGI~Holiday Hugs To You

Hello and Welcome 

After being gone for almost 3 weeks on vacation, I spent 2 weeks in California with family and 3 days in Seattle with my oldest son......which was the highlight of my trip because he took me for a Helicopter Tour around Seattle up to Snoqualmie Falls, yes he was my pilot!  I got some awesome photos to share later on, tho vacations are never long enough I'm glad to be back home!

  So now onto my posting for Come And Get It Challenges we are using a sketch this week, and you can rotate, flip or use a round format just as long as you use the sketch.

You really can't tell by the photo but I embossed the ornaments with Pipe Dreamink Clear Opals embossing powder and edged them with silver distressed inks to add dimension then I wanted more sparkle so stickles was rubbed on the snow flurries at the bottom of the card with a dab to the mini snow flakes

If you want to play along here's the sketch below to use

Sharing with these challenges:
Craftyhazelnut 99~ older than 6 months
Penny's Paper-Crafty 102~ ATG
Crafty Catz 159~ Lets have sparkle
Tuesday Alchemy 40 ~ATG
I Brake for Challenges ~ Holidays 
Crafty Calendar ~  Winter 
Victorine Stamps 47~ Anything Christmas
Card Crafter's Circle 49 ~ Textures

OH HAPPY DAY!

Hello and a Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there!

The the challenge over at Come and Get It this week is a using Brown, Pink and Blue

We are being sponsored by the wonderful Bugaboo Digital Stamps and I had the pleasure to use a digital image called Girlz- Bare feet and you'll be able to see it here.

What a big difference clear embossing does to change the color of card stock.....as in when I embossed the background on my card

I'd like to share with these challenges:
Catch the Bug~ Things with Wings
Crafty Calender~ Things with Wings
Anything Goes 66~ Things with Wings
Fussy and Fancy~ Butterflies, Ribbons and Punches
ATCs & Cards with Attitude~ Anything Goes/Butterflies & Blooms
Fat Pages and Cards~ Anything Goes/Butterflies & Blooms
Joyful Stamper~ Anything Goes
The Poodles Parlour~ Anything Goes
Pattie's Creations 43~ Mother's Day

Thanks for stopping by,  I love reading your comments!

Anything But a Card Challenge at CGI

Wow another week has flown by and it's that time again for another challenge over at Come and Get It.  

We'd like to challenge you to do something outside of the box this week as in "Anything but a Card"

Yes it's actually the lid of the Altoids Tin that I altered using a Rubber Stamp from Third Coast simply called "Fairy on Mushroom" FA-500-L, sentiment is from Impression Obsession and Fred Mullet weed stamp.
Stamped out image of  Fairy dry brush in distressed inks to color her and spray with Star Gazer Radiant Rains.( I just love the shimmery sparkle from these inks)

Cut Fairy out, attach to stamped background and using clear Pipe Dreamink Opals (these are embossing enamals from Australia) to adhere the the Fairy onto the tin as well as a little blue sprinkles along the edges.

I'd like to share with these challenges:
Prairie Fairy Fridays #77~ Anything with Flowers
Joyful Stamper #56~ Anything Goes
Inky Impressions~ Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash # 49~ Starts with a "B"
The Poodles Parlour~ Anything Goes
Fashionable Stamping #20~ Embossing
Wags 'n Whiskers #78~ Distressing
Pattie's Creations #42~ Photo Inspiration
Sweet Stampin'~ Anything but Square

Thanks for coming by!

Sketch Time CGI Challenges

Hello Everyone, this week over at Come and Get It  it's time for a sketch challenge and you'll find the sketch below that we'd like you to follow .........rotate, flip or change the shapes!

 For this challenge I was thinking of the birthday card that I needed to make for my son ......mind you he's a grown adult, but I just love this LOTV image that I used!
Hint~To get my compass image larger I stamped it out and scanned the image and re-sized it, then printed & cut it out for my card.

I finished my card and realized that I hadn't followed the sketch real closely, so I added this edge to fix my fooba......Ta Da a different card indeed.

I started out with a strip of brown card stock and put in through the bubble embossing folder adding glitter embossing powder and Pipe Dream Opals.

Then adding the cut out vine with more PD Opals to embed it, love my new embellishment........I must say that I'm very pleased how it actually turned out!

I can imagine a little boy having made his little sail boat and watching it float out on the water.......as I'm sure most boys probably have at one time or another.

This is the stamped image and sentiment that I placed inside of the card

I'd like to share with these challenges:
Prairie Fairy Fridays~ Anything Goes
Joyful Stamper~ Anything Goes
Crafty Purple Frog~ Distressed
Inky Impressions~ Create Embellishment
The Friday Mashup!~ Kids
Shopping Our Stash~ Masculine or Boy Colors
The Poodles Parlour~ Circles
Fashionable Stamping~ Nautical
Sassy Cheryl's~ Anything Goes

Thanks for dropping in this week!

Cracked Glass Technique

Well Hello again, yes it's getting closer to Halloween and I thought you might like to take a stroll and pick up some of these lovely pumpkins to carve that are for sale!  But beware that you'll have to cross the yard and dodge the bats getting to the Spooky house to buy them!

Oh man there are ghosts every where, even coming out of the Chimney.....I'm not sure I need a pumpkin that bad!!

 What do you think?

We are doing Technique week over at CGI and it's time to try your hand at Cracked Glass this week.  You can find the instruction at Split Coast Stamps and see how I achieved the effects for my card here.   I added ink into the cracks but some of the areas didn't want to take ink very well and others just look kind of smudged in the lines of the cracks.....oh well it was a fun technique to try this week at Come and Get It Challenges

Pumpkins for Sale, cracks included.......LOL

I'm entering my card for these challenges:
Fresh Brewed #67~Pumpkins
Crafting for all Seasons #12~Halloween
CMC Copic Challenge #29~ Fun Halloween

Thanks for stopping by, I so enjoy sharing my art with you!

Tapestry Background Sketch Challenge

Well Hello, this week we are doing a Sketch that Julie picked out at Come and Get It.  I wanted to try something different, so I decided to trying the technique "Tapestry" from Split Coast Stampers and you'll be able to find it here.  

 I added some sprinkles of the gold Pipe Dreamink Opals after the last coat of clear embossing powder and I think it adds just the right amount of sparkle......
I hope you get a chance to drop by the Design Teams Blogs to see what they've come up with!
Cindy
Julie
Leslie

I thought the little acorn from K&Company worked perfect especially since I use Oak leaves for my background.

Here's a close-up of the background

Thanks so much for stopping by!



Well hello there, I signed up to do some more Tag & Card swaps on a Yahoo group for this month and I worked on this tag for my first project, I'm pretty happy how the crane is silhouetted with the reeds & brush in the background......it was fun and easy!

Thanks for stopping by, hope your week is going well so far.........Happy Stamping!



Pipe Dreamink Tag

Just had a wild hair the other day...........I pulled out my Opals, and a few stamps to play well I finally got my tag finished added some lady bugs & Basic Gray fibre's.

If you don't know about the Pipe Dreamink Opals (Embossing Enamels) they are from an Australian company.

Opals are so fun to work with you do need a low temp embossing gun tho to work with these. OPALS are acid free and perfectly safe to use in your scrapbooks

Here's a website if your interested in finding out more about the Opals.

http://www.pipedreamink.com/index.html