13 Days of Halloween Day Two- Oct 19-31

Welcome to day two of the 13 Days of Halloween, if you are doing in the hop and came from Lisa's Scrapping with Lisa you are heading in the right direction. I decided to use the Fancy Pants Oct 31st Collection for my project. I used the Eerie and Strips paper along with the rub ons and design embellishments.
I took and place my Halloween embellishment on pop dots to give my card some dimension, I also used Glossy Accent on the dots at the top of the card to do this as well. I placed my ribbon down with red line tape and stapled it into place using my tiny attacher. I am so glad you came by today but it is now time to go to Janet's over at Create Believe Imagine At Dream Scrapbooks Blog and continue the hop. I hope you came back tomorrow and see what project I might have in store for you to enjoy.

Kaisercraft Photo Display with Chantuese Collection

I bought this fabulous Kaisercraft Photo Display awhile back and really didn't know what I would do with it until Paper Patch Crafts had the Chanteuse Collection by Kaisercraft on their site. I knew it would be perfect and I truly am glad that I waited for the right paper.

The Beyond the Page Photo Display has 4 different boards on it that fit into slots on a base board. All of the papers, rub-ons and journal tags are all from the Chanteuse Collection but every collection has to have some other special touches to it.

On the first frame I added some pink twine, a Philosophy Tag and some of the Symphony Tissue Tape from Tim Hotz. I took the Symphony Tissue Tape and accordion folded it before I put it under the Marcato paper that I used. I inked all of my pieces with Chestnut Roan Ink.

On the second frame I cut one of the frames from the Marcato paper, took some pink twine and laced it around the frame before I attached it to the top of brown card stock. My "Treasured" piece is placed on pop dots.

Check out the lace flower, it is made from American Craft Ruban Premium White Lace,I took Tim Holtz Spun Sugar, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen and Fired Brick Distress Stains applied it over the top, alternating the colors, when it was dry I gathered it and added a button that I had added some of the pink twine to the center of.

Frame three is an oval that I cut out of the S0prano paper. I added a Journal Tag and a Word Key to the bottom of the frame that I had cut out along with some more of the Symphony Tissue Tape that I had accordion folded.

Aren't these quilled flowers amazing made from this beautiful paper. To make them tear a circle from a piece of the pink paper, tear it into a spiral. Start from the outside edge and wrap it around a pair of tweezers to form a circle, allow the circle to release a little and glue to the enter circle.

Here is a closer look at the ticket, flowers and word key.

The fourth frame is made using the Con Brio paper and a tag from Mini Journal Tags. I cut my Tim Holtz birdcage from the Tremolo paper along with a piece of Tim Holtz Grunge paper.

I added some of the flowers from the Rub On sheet. I put Glossy Accent on my birdcage and allowed it to dry, this will give great dimension to your birdcage. I attached it to the front of the frame and added some pearl gemstones to the bottom holes.

All of my pieces were stained with the Tim Holtz Walnut Distress Stain. The last thing I did was add some of the flowers from the Rub On sheet.

Here is a side view of the Beyond the Frame Photo Display. Like I said it is amazing and I just love the paper that I purchased from my fiend Anne at the Paper Patch Craft.

Now who will I give this gift to.....

SUPPLIES:

Kaisercraft Beyond the Frame Photo Display

Kaisercraft Chanteuse Collection

Tim Holtz Walnut, Spun Sugar, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen, Fired Brick

Tim Holtz Philosophy Tags

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

Tim Holtz Word Key

Tim Holtz Symphony Tissue Tape

Tim Holtz Birdcage Die

American Crafts BlushTwine

American Crafts Premium White Lace

Chestnut Roan Ink

Glossy Accent

Pearl Gemstones

Beach Charm Exchange and Imaginsce May Challenge using Imaginisce and Memory Box

Wow, I have never done a charm exchange before but after I got my charms made I didn't know how to send them. I decided I would make some fun tags to attach them to and send them out that way, can't wait to see the charms I receive in exchange.
Also, Imaginisce is having a challenge and the criteria is:
1.)create a masculine themed layout/card/project
2.)use one of our Snag'Em Stamps from any Imaginisce collection
3.)you must use at least 75% of Imaginisce product
So I am entering my tags into the contest because I made a few extras to use as gifts for my the men in my life.
The tag is made with a Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers that I cut out using my Big Shot and white cardstock.
I then stamped the tag background with Memory Box Vintage Record Sheet and Black Memento Ink. My edges are distrested with Pumice Stone, Broken China, Mustard Seed and Shabby Shutter.
The cute Blowfish is one of Imaginisce Snag'em Stamps, stamped with Memento Black Ink and colored with G12,G14,R83,R85 and Boo Copic Markers. I then fussy cut them out with my scissors and added Glossy Accent to the eyes to give them dimension. After the Glossy Accent was dry I placed it on with the tag with pop dots. I got my charm pieces from Hobby Lobby and Michaels out of their jewelry department. The pink charm is to represent a flower lei that you might recieve at the beach along with some metals; fish, butterflies, dragonflies, etc.

Be My Valentine Gift Card Holder

I made this gift tag holder to give to one of my "Valentine's" in Feb. I thought I would share the details with you but I am really not sure of the paper company because it was made from some scraps that I found. Isn't it amazing what you can make from scraps.
I took an A2 card, held it together and cut the top to look like a tag. I placed a piece of Bo Bunny Pink polka dotted paper to the inside front of the card, trim and glued it into place. I then folded the front of the card over to form a flap and glued the right side and bottom together to form a pocket. I glued my paper to the front of the card and then the flap, once I had that done I glued the flap down.
I fussy cut the bee from one piece of my scrap paper. Once I had my gift tag holder completely made I then added the Glossy Accent to the bee but this is the very last thing and allowed it to dry over night.

My flower was formed from 3 different size circle punches. (If you don't have circle punches just cut 3 different size circles, they don't have to be perfect) Now that you have the 3 circles, mist them lightly with water, wad them up, un-wad them and allow them to dry. Glue the circles together once they are dried. Add a brad to the center of the flower and attach it to the bottom of the card with Glue Dots. I then took my tiny attacher and placed some staples to my gift card holder.

The twisted piece of paper is 1/8" x 6" that has been misted, twisted around a small dowel, and once dried taken off the dowel. Attach it to the card to form a trail from the flower to the bee. I added a sticker from the SRM Thinking of You Sentiment sheet.

****Remember to do your Glossy Accent last and allow it to dry over night. Glossy Accent is a wonderful way to give dimension to your projects.

Imaginisce "Creepy Crawly" Card

I created my "Creepy Crawly" Halloween card using some of IMAGINISCE products that I had on hand. They are having a card challenge on their blog and you needed to make a card using the colors black, purple, green and orange and post your card here before Nov. 1st, 2010. I actually made two, I will post the second tomorrow.

I made these fabulous pleats using my new Martha Stewart Scoreboard. I scored the paper every 1/2" and just folded it and attached it to my ebony paper with the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. Here is a side view showing that I used the Imaginisce Frame stamp and placed it on pop dots after I colored it in. I also place an Imaginisce Falling Leaf sticker behind it. My little spider that is coming down is part of the Happy Halloween stamp from where the "Creepy Crawly" sentiment is on. I added a little Glossy Accent to the spider to give him just a little dimension. I stamped my frame using Memento Tuxedo Ink and used Copic Markers: YR04, YR07, V12, and V15. Here is an inside view from the left side of the card. I included some of the the Dino Roar Primordial paper to the bottom of the inside of the card along with some of the stamped spiders. The Dino Roar Primordial had brown circles so I had to use a 5/8" punch and punch some black circles an place over the brown so I would be able to stay in the color theme that was required.

Here is a better look at my little spiders from the Imaginisce Happy Halloween stamp. I drew my spider web up in the right corner with a Black Zig pen.

Our Cottage Christmas-Imaginisce Sketch Challenge

This is Cindy Stevens sketch that is being featured over on the Imagininsce blog. If you enter you have a chance to win a $75.00 prize from Imagininsce - you have until Oct 25th to link up your entry. I have tried many, many times but so far I have not won but the most important thing is the sketches - they are always fabulous. I love this one that Cindy sketched and selected a photo of my husband and I in front our Christmas tree. I used the Cottage Christmas Collection and a couple of pieces from the Lucy Bird collection to design my layout. I also used my Cricut Expression and 2 different cartridges to make my border strips that I added to the page. I wanted to mimic the trees that are on Cottage Collection Winter Woods, so the trees became my strips. I fussy cut the ornaments from one of the papers. I made sure that I had two of each so I could glue one down at the end of each branch I freehand and cut to place on one of my large trees. I then put its mate on top with a pop dot so that the ornaments would have dimension, added a very small ribbon and some glossy accent to each. I used my zig pen to do all my stitch and line work on my pieces.

On my tree that looks like a large leaf I added small red gemstones on the holly leaves. The tall Daisy May pink tree has holes in it and is layer on top of the Flower Power brown dot. I filled my holes with glossy accent. If you don't have this cartridge just draw triangles and punch some holes in your tree with some different size hole punches. My star on top of my tree is from the Snowflakes Quickutz die, but again you can use any star.

I used the strips from Christmas Countdown for my journaling, and added some brown Magic Mesh to my layout. I hand cut my flower pot for my tall pink tree and made some holly for the top of the pot; place the pot on page with pop dots.

I cut an extra house and placed it on top of the strip with pop dots to go along with my stamped Santa. I colored him in with Copic Markers and added some stickles to the roof of the house and the snow on the ground. He is also on pop dots.

SUPPLIES:
Cottage Christmas Collection:
Swirly Snowflakes
Peppermint Stick
Christmas Countdown
Happy Holiday
Gingerbread Village
A Than Glitter
Lucy Bird Collection:
Flower Power
Daisy May
Bazzil Cardstock: Redhot & Brown
Doddlebug:White Glitter Paper
Cottage Christmas Stamp
Memento Tuxedo Ink
Copic Markers: W10, G14,G17, R24, R27, R59, R81, E21
Brown Magic Mesh
Paper Studio Red Gemstones
Sheer 1/8" red ribbon
Brown Zig Pen
Stickles: Frosted Lace
Cricut Cake Cartridge: Holiday
Cricut Cartridge: Accent
Quickutz Snowflake Die

Imaginisce-August Sketch Challenge

I made this card for my take on the August Sketch challenge that was designed by Sarah De Guzman over at Imaginisce.

I chose the Splash Dance papers for my project. I used Bubble Bash, Polka Dot Bikini and Ocean Motion. I took the Ocean Motion and fussy cut my waves out to go around my 3 1/2" opening of my card. I used the Imaginisce Snag'em Stamps-Octopus, Crab and Blowfish. I colored them in using Copic Markers and gave their eyes some dimension by adding a little bit of Glossy Accents. I added some of the seashell stickers that I had left over from a previous layout.

On the inside of the card I took the Tim Holtz Cracked Embossing folder and embossed some white cardstock. I then used Rangers Juniper, Lettuce, Sandal and SnowCap Dabbers and painted over the embossing. Once it was dried than I distressed the top of the paper with Tim Holtz Broken China, Aged Mohogany and Tea Dye Distress Inks.

I cut the embossed paper up and layered it so that my images would fit nicely between the layers. I hope you enjoy my card, and try doing some layering on your next project.