Inspired by Sheena Douglas...

This is one of the cards inspired by the Sheena Douglas workshop I was lucky enough to attend last weekend. It's more or less identical to the one we made in class except that on this one I didn't test the 'heat resistant' acetate to it's limit resulting in a buckled creation!

Materials used:

• Sheena Douglas Scene Stamps
• black card, thick acetate
• green stazon for stamping branches on to acetate (mental note should have used same green for trees but too late now)
• white glaze pen and ultra fine glitter
• Promarkers and gold sentiment peel off

This card fits the challenge at:

• My Time to Craft - 'rip it up' - the snow scene has ripped paper to create the snowy edges
• Winter Wonderland - open theme
  

I think Sheena's idea of the folded card sandwiched between a sheet of acetate is just fantastic and I will be using again and again I'm sure.

As I needed a Halloween card to send to card making buddy in a forum I belong to I thought I would have a try at a black version. This was just so much fun to make - wish I needed some more Halloween cards.


Materials used:

• black card and thick acetate
• clip art by PC Crafter
• sentiment stamp by unknown(but really rubbish one as peeled of wooden block and really awful to stamp with)
• bat die cuts made using Cuttlebug die and embossing folder
• glitzy border peel off by Anita's

My card is for the following challenges:

• The Cuttlebug Spot - Boo - orange, green and black
• Rainbow Lady - Halloween
• Stamping for the Weekend - Have a hauntingly good time.
• Stamp Something - Halloween
• Bubbly Scrumptious - ghosts and ghoulies
• Project Tuesday - stair step card - this is a variation on that theme - a sort of stair step with an acetate roof.

Have a great day everyone and speaking as someone who once screamed the place down after opening the door to someone in a 'Scream' mask do be careful if you hear a knock at the door!!. The little lad who scared me half to death was only 8 and I scared him as much as he scared me. His mum made him come and apologise - oh why am I such a wimp?

Birthday Celebrations...

As promised here is Tony's other birthday card. This was made using the same stamp set by Inkadinkado, but this time I chose to stamp the images of skulls and crosses. These were stamped on to core'rdinations card stock and then sanded to give a really grungy look.

The background paper with stars and guitars is from the Rock Star stack by DCWV.

My card is also for the challenge at the One Stop Craft Challenge where they are celebrating their blogersary and have the theme of 'celebrations' as their challenge this week.

Pink Elephant Day and an abundance of challenges...

Yeah, Monday again and time for a new challenge at The Pink Elephant. This week it's a recipe from Ella's kitchen and her ingredients are black, (could be black stamping, black card or maybe black embellishments), distressing and hardware (brads, clips, eyelets, etc).

I decided to have a go at some super simple Halloween treat bags made mainly by using my scalloped and plain circle nesties. The black part of the recipe is pretty easy to spot and on my 'You're driving me batty' bag I distressed the embossing and ripped the sentiment on the tag too. My hardware is the brad holding the tag in place and a some cool paper clips to hold the bag closed.

The circular images - bat - witch's hat and cat are all digis by my super talented friend, Robin, at The Pink Elephant and if you like the look of them pop over HERE and pick them up for free. Thank you so much for these Robin - they are just great.


Now as I am a great believer in combining challenges my treat bags are also for the challenges at...

• Everybody's Art - Halloween
• My Time to Craft - Halloween Colours
• Digital Tuesday - Things with Wings (bats)
• Crafty Creations - All Hallow's Eve
• Creative Inspirations - Halloween
• Rainbow Lady - Halloween
• Cute Card Thursday - Candy Corns
• Stampin for the Weekend - A Haunting Good Time
• Dare You to Digi - No squares allowed
• Stamp Something - Halloween Somethings
• Daring Card Makers - at least FIVE of your favourite things on your project - mine are gems, gem brads, swiss dots cuttlebug embossing, tags, and scalloped nesties. Oh and those jellies are pretty good too, but they don't usually feature in my craft work.
  
• Bubbly Scrumptious - Ghosts, Ghoulies and long legged beasties.

Oh my goodness think that could be taking challenge combining to the next level - phew think I will take the rest of the week off, but then again I need to play with all the fantasitic ideas I picked up at the Sheena Douglas workshop.

Wow Sheena is just so inspirational - Saturday really was a day to remember - so many good ideas and so much craft shopping too. I will be showing my makes, but having said that I don't want to spoil the course for anyone else going so maybe it might be better kept secret.

Oh forgot to add to this post - a little puzzle! For those who follow my blog regularly can you spot the bag of goodies for Laura?

Yep I know it's just tooooooooooooo easy - have a good week everyone.