Buttons and Halloween -- for Get Inky! Stamps

Happy Hump Day, friends!  The theme for the current Get Inky! challenge is "Buttons on Halloween".  I absolutely love any chance I can get to play with the Get Inky! Stamps "Halloween Spooktacular 2013" stamp set, so I had a great time creating this card...

 

 

I give away many Halloween cards in the nursing home where I work, and I think someone will have a fun time getting this one!

I stamped the ghost 3 times, fussy cutting each of them, then "strung" them from the Halloween twine clothesline.  The ghosts and the wonderful sentiment, along with many, many more great images and sentiments, can be found on the Get Inky! Stamps "Halloween Spooktacular 2013" stamp set.



Wishing You a Beautiful Day! for Creative Inspirations Paint

Today is a very exciting day for me! It's my first day to post on the Creative Inspirations Paint blog as a design team member -- something I've dreamed about for a long time! I'm so excited about being on this team and having a chance to use these wonderful products! Let the fun begin!

Even though it's October, I'm still seeing butterflies. I live in NW Wisconsin, and they need to be migrating or building their cacoons, but instead, they seem to be enjoying our mild weather. They were the inspiration behind today's project.  I wanted to make something with fall colors, but using butterflies. 

I made a fun card to share today, and used Creative Inspirations Paint on the embellishments:

 

I cut this easel card out on my Silhouette, using a file from My Scrap Chick, found here.  The papers are from Close To My Heart, but are now retired (Stella paper pack). The sentiment is from Whimsical Designs stamp company.

Here's a close up of the embellishments:

 

 

The flower (from Close To My Heart) looked similar to this one before I painted it:

 

I painted the crocheted flower with fuchsia, Turquoise, and Sage Creative Inspirations Paint.  The button was white when I started, but I coated it with Mocha Latte Creative Inspirations Paint. I love how it brought out the texture in the button!

 

 

 

 

That beautiful beaded stick pin is from Pinque Peacock, and can be found here.

I'll leave you with another angle of the easel card, so you can see how the wings of the butterfly appear to be flying.

 

Have you heard about the CIP Giveaway?  There's two chances to win each day! Here's the details:

"Have you heard we have a few new DT members that will be sharing
their projects here on the blog soon?! To celebrate and waiting to see the new DT members reveals lets have a fun giveaway!! 
All you have to do is share on facebook and here on the blog your favorite CIP color! Every Sunday for the next 2 weeks we will be drawing names for 2 people to win their favorite CIP color!
Each day you leave a comment on the blog or facebook one a day per person on facebook, blog or both your name will be entered into the drawing for each day!
That means you have a chance for your name to be added 14 times for a chance to win, if you leave a comment each day on the blog and facebook!
The 2-winners will be announced Sunday night 10pm CST!
What's your #1 favorite Creative Inspirations Paint color?!
Go!!"
 

I hope you enjoyed my first Creative Inspirations Paint project. I had so much fun creating it!

 



Best Witches -- for Joy's Life

It's a scary week this week with the Joy's Life design team.  We're creating witches, ghosts, and monsters.  Yeah, we're in full Halloween mode!

I found an adorable witches hat card I wanted to try, and I'm pleased with how it turned out.  What do you think?

 

 

The sentiment is from the Joy's Life "Halloween Puns" stamp set. I cut the hat out on my Silhouette, using an SVG witch hat file from The Cutting Café. The spider is from The Silhouette  Online Store.

The woven bow is from 3 Girl JAM. I combined Harvest orange and Tuxedo black ribbons together to form the bow. Papers are all from Close To My Heart.

I hope you enjoyed today's "scary" creation!



Aaaaaah! Friday!

It's Friday -- and that means  Unity's "Friends With flair". This is my favorite post of the week.  This is my time to make whatever I want -- no need to stick to an assignment or theme.  I don't have to use a particular product or link to a certain company.  All I have to do is ink up one (or more) of my favorite stamps and just have fun.  Yeah.  I love Fridays!

I've had this little chipboard banner by Maya Road sitting on my work desk, left over from another project.  It's been needing to go on "something".  I saw a card at Simon Says Stamp, and inspiration struck! As is often the case with scraplifted ideas, I took an idea, ran with it, and made it my own.

 

 

I used some orange Claudine Hellmuth Studio acrylic paint on the chipboard banner, then a small piece of paper from the Lawn Fawn "Into the Woods" 6x6 collection, tied with a little natural twine for the banner.  There's some more "Into the Woods" paper down the side of the card.  The stamped image and sentiment are from one of the first Stamp of the Week's last Fall called, "Nuts but I Love Ya".  I stamped them both with Close To My Heart Cocoa ink.  The sequins are also by Lawn Fawn.  The woodgrain washi is from my stash.

Can you see the pretty leaves in the background?  That's my back yard.  I LOVE this time of year!

Have a great weekend, everyone!



I'm spreading Halloween cheer -- for Pinque Peacock

Hello, my crafty friends.  Thanks so much for stopping by today! I have a quick and easy card I made, showcasing a fabric button from Pinque Peacock.  I'm still making Halloween cards to hand out to my nursing home residents, and this is another one I'll have ready to go for the holiday:

 

 

The fabric covered button, with candy corn print, is a 3/4 inch button.  They are the perfect size for cards.  L-O-V-E!

The card was cut out on my Cricut.  I made it big enough to fit into a business size envelope. I used a printable stamp from The Cutting Café for the focal piece.  You can find it HERE.  I didn't even have to color it! I just printed it, trimmed it, and voila! it was ready to go. Super simple! I added a couple of spooky glittery brackets from Making Memories, some Halloween twine from Trendy Twine, and the card is complete.

I hope you enjoyed today's card! I had a great time making it.

Happy hump day, everyone! I had so much fun with today's card for The Cutting Café.  I was in total Halloween mode on this one!  I give out lots of Halloween cards to my nursing home residents, and I think someone will enjoy getting this fun one!

 

I used everything printable this week -- a first for me.  I tend to lean toward the wonderful SVG files from The Cutting Café. This week, though, I wanted to challenge myself.  Here's everything I used on this card: Googly Eyes background stamp set (printed 2 different ways -- white eyes, then black with white eyes) and A Bunch of Monsters printable stamp set.  I used one of the large monsters, and one of the large circles.  I colored the monster with Copic markers.  In real life, he's a pretty spooky orange color. Don't you love that green tongue?

Don't forget to check out The Cutting Café blog on Thursday.  Make a comment for your chance to win 3 sets of your choice.  Woohoo!



Silhouette Challenges -- Challenge # 6 -- Critters!

It's the first of the month again and time 

for another Challenge here at

A blog dedicated to the Silhouette Cutting Machines.
You MUST use a Silhouette somehow in your project.

Ch# 6 Critters

Begins: Tuesday, October 1
Ends: Thursday, October 31

Sponsors this month are:

My Scrap Chick
Prize: $10.00 GC


My Crafting Channel
Prize: $15.00 Amazon GC


Little Scraps of Heaven Designs
$15..00 GC

Critters!  October!  Halloween!

That was the sequence my thoughts took when trying to figure out what project to make for this month's challenge at Silhouette Challenges.  I did some snooping around, and found a really fun spider card at The Cutting Café.  Aha!  That would be fun, I thought to myself.  Is a spider a critter?  It is now!

 

I made a couple of them because they looked so good together.  They were, of course, cut with my Silhouette Cameo.  The cutting file for these cute spiders can be found HERE. 

I hope you make your own critter project this month and enter in the challenge at Silhouette Challenges.  You have until Oct. 31.

Don't forget to check out the other inspiration from the design team.  But don't get spooked!

I'm entering these in the following challenges:

 

2 creative chicks -- Spooktacular Linky party

Sister Act Card Challenge -- ATG