Ornamental tags

Today I'm playing along with the Paper Trey Ink October Blog Hop.  They had such a gorgeous inspiration photo that I just had to play along:

I made these super cute little tags that could also double as ornaments.

 I used Dazzling Diamonds glitter on the snowflakes and a glittery gold embossing powder on the sentiment.  It's hard to see in the photos, but the sparkle is really fabulous in real life.  You can see it a little better in this photo:

Supplies:
Stamps: PTI "Damask Designs" and "Sparkle & Shine: Holiday Additions Mini Set"
Dies: PTI "Fancy Flakes" and "Tag Sale #4"; Verve "Sprightly Sprigs" and "Flag It"

Challenges:
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Wonderful Wednesday--anything goes
Creative Fingers--anything goes
Brown Sugar Challenge #169--anything goes
Little Miss Muffet #123--tags
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--wrap it up
Inspiration Destination #56--anything goes
Crafty Gals Corner #42--ribbon and/or flourishes
Penny's Paper Challenge #250--anything goes
Crafting By Designs--Get ready for Christmas
Our Daily Bread Designs #259--inspiration photo (I was inspired by the Christmas theme and the ornaments)

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long #58--set of tags

Truck Load

I've wanted a pickup truck & filler set for a long time.  Probably ever since SU! came out with their "Loads of Love" set and that was a loooooong time ago.  Well,  I finally have one, and it is adorable!!  This set is "Farmer's Market" from Craftin' Desert Divas and their are several holders, multiple fillers, and whole bunch of super cute sentiments and a bunch of facial expressions to add to the fillers.  This set is going to get a lot of use.  I only received it this week and my middle daughter already used it, before I even got a chance!  Anyway, he's the card.

I did some masking so I could stack up a bunch of pumpkins in the bed of the truck.  Then I stamped and cut out additional pumpkins for the embellishments.  I used the flourish die to accents those pumpkins as I thought it kind of looked like a pumpkin vines.

Challenges:
Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge #103--use some leaves
Cute Card Thursday #396--anything goes
DRS Designs #199--Fall-ing For You
Inspiration Destination #56--anything goes
Crafty Gals Corner #42--ribbon and/or flourishes
Addicted To Stamps and More #167--Make your mark
Sugar Pea Designs #21--anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #206--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
Creative Inspirations #332--sketch

Die Cuttin Divas #238--photo inspiration (inspired by the pumpkins and fall theme)

Crafty Cardmakers #150--autumn colors
Wags n' Whiskers #164--fall colors
Craftin' Desert Divas--photo inspiration

Cas-ual Chic--bingo (I chose the stitching, coloring, distressing column)

Supplies:
Stamps: Craftin' Desert Divas "Farmer's Market"; Repeat Impressions "3306W Falling Leaves"
Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle and stitched line and "Formal Flourish"; Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"

Give Thanks

Welcome to another What If? Wednesday challenge from The House That Stamps Built.  This week we have a gorgeous inspiration photo for you:

Don't you love all those fall leaves?  And the reflection is fabulous!  Here is my take on the challenge:

As I am a relatively new member of the team, I don't have any tree stamps from Repeat Impressions, yet.  So, I had to go with the Fall theme of the photo.  Plus, I just received this awesome pumpkin stamp in the mail this week and "had" to use it. : )  But, I did use the colors from the photo and leaves, and that's what inspiration photos are all about.  Create however they inspire YOU.  Make sure you hop on over to The House blog to see how the rest of the DT was inspired.
  My ribbon was salvaged from a treat packaging I received a couple years ago and the button came from a pair of pants.  Gotta love recycling.  Oh, and the rhinestones were left overs from some mosaic fairies that my daughters have.  Hand-me-ups to Mom!

Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "514W Prize Pumpkin", "3306W Falling Leaves" and "2826W Let Us . . ."
Dies: MFT "Blueprints #13"

Challenges:
Craftin' Desert Divas--inspiration photo (I was inspired by the colors)

DRS #196--color challenge

Crafty Cats--anything goes
Di's Digis--too cute to spook (halloween or fall themed)
Cas-ual Chic #2--bingo (I used the stitching {stitched die}, coloring, distressing column)
One Sweet Challenge--fall colors
Pattie's Creations #115--Fall or Halloween
Scrapper's Delights #49--Fall/halloween
Wags n' Whiskers #164--fall colors
Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge #102--autumn colors
Hiding In My Craft Room #221--favorite cutting tool (my favorites are my Spellbinders Wizard die cutting machine/and dies, my Fiskars paper trimmer and my SU! craft knife--used all three; I also used scissors to distress the edges of the cream card stock)
Sketch Saturday #383--sketch

YNS #25-- color combo or sketch (this week I went with the color scheme: brown, orange, yellow and white)
Crafty Cardmakers #150--autumn colors
Die Cuttin' Divas #238--photo inspiration (inspired by the leaves, pumpkins and fall colors)

Lamp Post

Welcome Fall, and welcome everyone to a new challenge on the Love To Scrap Challenge Blog.  This week is an all-time favorite: Anything Goes.  We have 3 awesome sponsors:

Sweet Stamps

Dr. Digi's House Of Stamps

Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet

I was given this beautiful image to work with from Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet.  Have I mentioned before that I love Fall?  Well, I do!!  Love the leaves and the pumpkins and the cider and the . . . well, you get the point.  And I love how this card turned out.  

I heavily distressed the edges of the papers with ink and it really gives it a great vintage feel and also kind of a darker feel to go with the light in the image.  Don't you just love those little patterned leaves??  I knew I wanted to use these dies, but I didn't think traditional fall colored leaves would go with the style of the card.  Non-traditional papers to the rescue!. : )
And here's a free tip for you:  I don't have any larger pieces of a really good, dark brown left anymore, so I used a lighter brown for my scalloped oval and then inked it up with some dark brown ink.  Perfect dark brown color.  I will be doing this a lot.  Can't believe I never thought of it before.
Head on over to the LTSCB blog to see the full details of the challenge and then get inky and play along.

Challenges:
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Wonderful Wednesday--anything goes
Jo's Scrap Shack #110--anything goes
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge--anything goes
Inspiration Destination #55--anything goes
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2--sketch

Fab n Funky #277--make it square
Word Art Wednesday #205--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
{Pin}spirational Challenge #151--inspiration photo (I was inspired by all the brown and the vintage feel of the picture)

Scrapper's Delight Challenge  #49--Fall/halloween
Pattie's Creations #115--Fall or Halloween
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper
Cards Galore--Halloween or make a card
Sugar Pea Designs--Falling for Fall

Supplies:
Stamps: Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet "Fall Lamp Post" digi
Dies: MFT "Falling Leaves"; Spellbinders "Classic Ovals, large" and "Scalloped Ovals, large"

Pretty in pink

The As You See It Challenge blog is dedicating this week's challenge to a brave little girl named Lola--a little 9-year-old battling cancer.  The challenge is to use some of Lola's favorite things to help cheer her up.  How could I not play along!!??  I have a nine-year-old and I can't imagine her having to deal with that.  My prayers are with you, Lola!  Here's my card, sending happy thought:

I tried the no-line coloring technique on this one.  It's the first time I've done it and I can't really decide if I like it or not.  I mean, it's pretty, but I might prefer seeing the lines.  I used a glitter pen on the wings to give them sparkle and a more "fairy" like look.   I spritzed the background paper with some gold glitter spray, you can see a bit of it in the next picture.  You can also see the glitter pen on the wings.

Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches #322--sketch

Creative Inspirations #331--CAS or Fussy & Fancy

Word Art Wednesday #205--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Inspiration Destination #55--anything goes

Aurora Wings #18--anything goes

In the Pink #80--pink ribbon

Cas-ual Chic #2--bingo (I used the coloring/spritzing/die cutting row)

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Cutie Pie Challenge--pretty in pink

Craft-Dee BowZ--anything goes with handmade bow

Card Mania #73--1 digi; 2 patterned papers; 3 embellishments

Crafting with an Attitude #8--anything goes

Unicorn Challenge #2--think pink

One Stitch At A Time #247--awareness or use pink

As You See It--pink, fairies, unicorns, sugar & spice and everything nice + gold for awareness 

Hiding In My Craft Room #221--favorite cutting tool (I used my three usual tools on this one: my fiskars paper trimmer, my SU! craft knife and my Spellbinders Wizard die cutter & dies)

Supplies:

Stamps: Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet "Who Me"; Verve "happy thoughts" freebie

Dies: Spellbiners "Floral Doily Motifs" and "Labels One"; Verve "Flag It!; MFT flourish

Sparkly tag

I don't usually make a whole lot of Christmas tags, but I was inspired by a bunch of challenges this week.  And let me tell you that this one is soooo pretty!  I used some heat n' stick powder to attach some dazzling diamonds glitter to the snowflake.  I love that glitter; it's so fine and sparkly!  Anyway, here's the tag:

 To make a spot for writing the recipient's name, I added a plain circle to the back of the tag.

This is a good size and after the gift is opened, it will make a lovely tree ornament.  A two-for-one!

Challenges:
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Wonderful Wednesday--anything goes
Jo's Scrap Shack #110--anything goes
Winter Wonderland--Christmas with ribbon
In the Pink #80--pink ribbon
Crafty Ribbons #130--Christmas to die for
C.R.A.F.T. #333--Christmas
ABC Christmas--U is for Unusual colors
Mod Squad Challenge Blog--Christmas & a die
As You Like It--monochrome or color & why (I'm definitely a color girl; monochrome is fabulous when done right, but I have a hard time creating something with only one color)
One Stitch At A Time #247--awareness (or use pink)
Unicorn Challenge #2--think pink
Crafting Musketeers #30--Christmas with ribbon
My Favorite Things--handmade tags

Supplies:
Stamps: Verve "Ornamental Christmas"
Dies: PTI "Fancy Flakes"; Spellbinders banner die and "Standard Circles, large"

Spinning snowflake

Here is is already mid-October!  Yikes, this year sure is flying by.  I'm popping in today with some mid-month inspiration for Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra.  We're a month-long, anything Christmas related goes challenge.  Here is my card:

 I decided to try making a spinner card; it was my first one; and it was pretty fun and rather simple, too.  Here is a photo of the inside;

 And a photo of the spinner in "action":

Thanks for stopping by.  There's only a month and a half left before Christmas!  Yikes!  Now is the time to get started on those Christmas cards if you haven't yet.  Play along with us and you'll have a good start.

Challenges:

Fashionable Stamping #104--changing seasons

Christmas Card Challenge #45--anything goes

Addicted To CAS #74--sparkle (I used gold glitter embossing powder on the snowflake and gold sequins)

A Gem of a Challenge #155--spots and/or stripes (green spotted paper)

Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge #101--something that begins with "S" (snowflake, sentiment, sequins)

Creative Fingers Challenge #95--anything goes

As You See It #107--sketch

Crafty Catz #296--embossing (heat embossing)
JustRite Stampers #128--back to Nature (snowflakes)
Little Miss Muffet #122--anything goes
Art Impressions--Let's go for a spin (make a spinner card)
Crafty Creations #200--don't be blue
Creative Inspirations #331--CAS or fussy & fancy
Mod Squad--winter and a die
Addicted to Stamps #166--anything goes
Inspiration Destination # 55--anything goes

Supplies:
Stamps: JustRite Stampers "Applique Christmas Labels One" snowflake and "Christmas Stitched with Love Vintage Labels Seven" sentiment
Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"