INCHY BY INCH CHALLENGE : D

1" x 1"

I"m working away at filling up all the sides of my little 1" cubes.  I decided to leave the bottom side blank.  I will put an inchie on each of the 4 sides and then the actually letter they represent on the top.  Once I get a little more done, I will share a photo with you. 

Another "B" to add to my "B" cube.

One more completed for my "C" cube.

Haunted House Designs Challenge - Bridal Couture Challenge

2 1/2 x 3 1/2" ATC

This weeks theme is Haute Couture! 

I used a Digital Bride from Digi Boutique.  I'm not sure who the rubber stamp Trellis is made by.  I printed my digi on the grey dp to create her dress.  The background is a piece of a 12x12 DP by Creative Imaginations.  Colorizations - Copics

I wonder what her betrothed would look like??  teehee.

INCHY BY INCH CHALLENGE : C

1" X 1"

C is for Cupcake!

INCHY BY INCH CHALLENGE : B

Hello Inchy Fans!

I decided that I needed a way to be able to sit my Inchies out and show them off, so I bought these little wood inchy blocks and I will be adding them as I go along!  I'll have to show them to you once I get a few done!

Here is last weeks challenge to use the letter B.

1" x 1"

Stamp Set : Magenta

Colorization : Copics

Hey did you notice I figured out how to photograph better Inchy photo's??

I finally fiqured out if I set my camera on the Macro setting I got MUCH better photo's!

Just a little tip in case anyone else is struggling with this issue.

I'm sooo excited and can't wait to do the letter "G".  Some one loaned me a Great "G" stamp!!

See ya next week with the letter "C". 

Haunted House Designs Challenge - Fallen Angel

ATC 2.5" x 3.5"

Hello bottom dwellers.  I have another creepy creation to add to my Halloween ATC collection.

This one is designed for Barbs Haunted House Designs Challenge Blog!  I love Barb and if you haven't checked out her challenges, DO IT NOW! teehee.

Did I mention that she sometimes gives stuff away.  Yep I won!!  I LOVE free stuff!

I also was featured as a coveted "Gruesome Twosome".

Maybe someday I can have the honor of being "Master of the Macrebe".  Well a girl can only dream, teehee.

Go to Haunted House Designs HERE.

Ok,  so this Awesome Image is by an Artist duo I have fallen in love with.  If I were rich, I would buy every single one of their cute little creepy characters.  You can check out all of their wonderful creepy stuff at

Stampotique HERE.

I added a set of wings and a spider web in the background and I was good to go for this challenge.  Hmmmm but it just is quite complete without a clever sentiment.  Any idea's.  I really want to finish this one.  One of my GF's said "Your web or mine?".  But I'm a little too practical.  Her angel wings would get stuck in the web, right??  So what do you think?  Should I go with that one or do you  have a fun/ clever quote for me.

Wanna see a couple of other creepy stamps on my wish list??

Well then head on over to Stamp It Crazy and check these out!

I love the 2 at the top labeled Hal1 and Hal2

Maybe Santa will come early this year  ...  really early, teehee!

Small World of Inchies and Twinchies : Snow and Ice

Good Morning.  Today I'm sharing the inchies I created for the "Snow and Ice" Challenge.

You can join us for these tiny challenges HERE!

I painted the 1" chipboard pieces with blue paint, covered with Diamond Dust, and then added white paint around the edges for the backgrounds.

1" x 1"

I punched snowflakes, glued them on the background and Stickled the snowflakes.

1" x 1"

On this one I stamped this cute little mini from The Angel Company - " Little Penquins".  I added Fun Flock on the fur.  To view more of my TAC projects, you can go to my TAC Blog HERE.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

Eerie Elegance for Haunted House Design Challenge Blog

2.5" x 3.5"  ATC

So I went shopping for some images so I could continue to fill up my halloween ATC Revolving Holder by 7Gypsies.  I found some awesome gruesome images from a digi artist over at Etsy.  Itkupulli's shop was so much fun to browse through.  Here is a link to the "Dark/Gothic" images.    Perfect for Barb's challenge over at Haunted House Designs!!  Thanks for the challenge Barb!

So as I mentioned the elegant skeleton is a digi.  The tombstome is from a photo I found while googling.  I created my own background, sentiments.  I started with a piece of watercolor paper (it's thicker and can handle paint/washes/glazes without warping).  I just went to my cabinet of paints and pulled out a glaze (Golden's Crimson), and red acrylic paint and started layering.  I started with the glaze and felt is was too light.  I stamped the swirly background after the glaze driend with black ink and clear embossing powder, hoping it would resist my next layer of color.   I brushed on some of the red acrylic paint, but left some of the glaze exposed.  And then when it was almost dry, rubbed a paper towel over it to remove the paint from the swirls.  After the paint was completely dry, I loaded a stipple brush with black Palette Ink and applied it here and there to create more of a grunge look.  Then I applied black ink along the edges of the card.  The image was so dark that she got lost on the background, so I rubbed on a little white ink and after popping her off the card a little, I picked up some ink with my Dove blender pen (Brilliance) and painted just under and around the image to make her pop off a little more.  The whole project was truely an experiment of layer color until I got the look I wanted.  Sometimes it's fun to just sit down and play with different mediums, layer them and create background for future projects!!

I got my hands messy and had so much fun creating this one.

Thank you soooo much for stopping by and checking out my little piece of art!

INCHY BY INCH CHALLENGE : A

1" x 1"

I used dictionary paper for the background.

The apple stamp is by GinaK

1" x 1"

Stamp set is by Technique Tuesday.

1" x 1"

Stamps : Technique Tuesday

These are my latest Inchies.  I designed these for the first challenge of the year from Fiona at the Inchy by Inch Challenge Blog.  We would love to have you join us.  Each week Fiona will be posting a challenge to create and inchy with a letter of the alphabet.  And if you guessed next week will be "B", you would be correct!

Have a Spooktacular New Year!

Have a Spooktacular New Year ATC (2.5"x 3.5")

This one was soooo much fun to create! 

I did it for 2 challenge blogs, "Darkness Inspiration" and "The Play Date Cafe".

When I first seen the challenge I thought "how am going to come up with a spooky New Years card?"

I had actually saved a bunch of free Halloween digi's from "The Graphics Fairy" and as I browsed throught the images I found this spooky lady looking like the "Belle of the Ball", a spooky ball that is!

Then I started searching for a New Years clock and came across the one you see in the background.  I got this one from a cool Halloween site : "13 for Halloween".  He had a few vintage Halloween images up for grabs and this one was one of them, SCORE!  I printed it on transparency and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder, because it didn't seem like the printer ink was going to dry on the transparency I used.  I found some vellum with silver stars on it, stamped the 2010 with Staz-on and secured it to a piece of gold paper.  It was very frustrated adhering the vellum,  I have V2 spray which works GREAT with vellum when it isn't clogged.  So I had to go to clear glue and use a brayer over it.  It looks splotchy but I figured with this kind of artwork that wouldn't matter.  I gotta tell you, if it hadn't been for these 2 challenges I would have never came up with this.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THESE CHALLENGE BLOGS!

You pushed me to do something I would have never done on my own!!

ANOTHER SPOOKY ATC FOR MY REVOLVING HOLDER!!

Haunted House Designs Challenge !

Barb has fun spooky challenges over at Haunted House Designs all year round.  I'm working on gradually filling up my Halloween themed Revolving ATC Holder (7Gypsies). 

So this weeks challenge was to use the colors Violette, Blue, and Copper.  We also had to include flourishes and ribbon.

I started with a pre-made panel I had created month's ago.  At the time I thought it would be cool to just sit and create backgrounds for future use.  So I threw pieces of paper in the bottom of a box, sprayed with glimmer mist, added some texture with distress embossing powder and set them aside for later use.  It's really worked out, I've use several of them for projects.  Not sure if you can see the texture.  I don't remember the color of glimmer mist I used.  My GF has mine right now.  But the color was more of a lavender (blue-purple color).  So I grabbed my Palette Violette ink and started rubbing in on.  I used VersaMagic Night Sky around the edges as well to "distress it up some more" and embossed with Clear embossing powder.  I stamped the witch/swirls with the same ink and embossed as well.  Sentiment was stamped with Black VErsaFine.  The copper threw me off a little.  I spent quite a while searching threw me stash for something copper to add.  The only thing I could find was eyelets and I really didn't think that went with the "look" of this.  FINALLY, I remember that I had copper stickles, whew.

This ones a little dark, hope you like it!

Stamps : Inkadinkado

If you want to play along with Barb's challenges over at Haunted House Designs go HERE.

You can check out more Halloween challenges at Darkness Inspiration!

Everybody Art Challenge - Red and Green

Here is my second Christmas ATC's for my Christmas themed 7 Gypsies Revolving ATC Holder.  I have alot of Christmas ATC's to make in order to fill it up.  It may take me til next year to complete the project.

I designed this one to play along with Everybody Art Challenge Blog.  I like that they allow any type project to be used, so ATC's are welcome!

DP : Making Memories Vintage Findings Kit

Image : Dover Publications Holiday Vignettes Book

Inchy by Inch Challenge : Christmas Carol

Designed using 3 inchies inspired by the "Chirstmas Carol" Challenge over at Inchy by Inch.

Stamp Set : Crafty Secrets Christmas Joy

Patterned Paper : Penny Black

Ribbon and embellishment from local craft store.

Colorization : Prismacolor Pencils with OMS

I had soooo much fun adding white and red fun flock to the scarf and holiday hat!  Then I added a little glitter (stampendous prisma glitter).

Small World of Inchies and Twinchies Crown Challenge

For this challenge I designed a 2 x 2, twinchie.  I used my Crafty Secrets "Bird Notes" stamp set.  The background is sprayed with Glimmer Mist and the aged with ink.

Wanna play along ???  Check out Small World of Inchies and Twinchies!

Inchy by Inch Challenge : Yuletide

Ok I have to admit, I learned something with this challenge because I didn't even know what Yuletide meant.  Fiona had to clue me in:

"Its the original winter festival which was celebrated thousands of years before christianity. It was the celebration of light in the depths of winter so think candles, fairy lights, - it was the celebration of evergreen to show life continued so think fir trees, holly, mistletoe."

So here is mine.  Thanks for the challenge Fiona!

I used a tiny mistletoe branch from a my Crafty Secrets Christmas Joy stamp set and the sentiment is TAC.  I think this one will be perfect to add to one of my Christmas ATC's!

Now that I have my photo taken, I'm off to bling it up with some stickles and Shimmerz!

Witchy Women for Haunted Design House

Barb over at Haunted Design House wanted to see witches this week, but I didn't have any witch stamps.

I found this faded out vintage lady from a stack that I think is made by Paper Pizzaz.  I bought a tiny bag of heritage cut outs/photos years ago at Walmart.  She was actually standing with her arm on a man's shoulder.  I added a black triangle to make her hat a witches hat.  After I was done I figured out she would have looked better positioned to the right with a bird stamped on her arm.  Oh well, too late now.  The background is a FREE digi download from the Digital Two for Tuesday Challenge Blog.  They have some awesome FREE vintage downloads if you scroll through their post.

Thanks for the challenge Barb!

The Play Date Cafe Challenge Blog!

Thanks to Julie Campbell I came across a new challenge blog and decided to play along!  I was excited to read anything goes, so I have somewhere else to share my ATC's!

If you would like to check it out and join one of their play dates, go HERE!

DP :   Making Memories Vintage Findings Kit

Image : Dover Publications Holiday Vignettes Book

Red Pearls : Memory Box

It's Time ...

It's Time ATC
Designed for the following challenges!

Designed for Haunted Design House - Sinister Smirks
Three Muses - Time
Wednesday Stamper - Three

I love this images sooooo much I'm naming him.  From this day forward he will be known as Edward.  teehee.

Inchy by Inch Challenge - Gifts

This weeks challenge is Gifts.  You can join along with weekly Inchy Challenges at by Inchy by Inch HERE.

I used some mini gift stamps from Love Elsie to create this little 1" project.  "Giving" rub-on is by Making Memories.  Green DP - Bo-Bunny, Red DP SEI.

I got most of my Christmas Decorations up this weekend.  There is so much I want to do during the countdown to the big day.  I don't know how most people keep up.  I eliminate alot of the normal hustle and bustle by saying "No", and narrow it down to a few Christmas activities that mean the most to my family.  I don't do work parties or gift exchanges, in fact the only family we are exchanging gifts with are our children and parents.  With unemployment at greater than 10%, I felt that it would be much more meaningful to use the money would have spent on some extended family, on those in need by giving to charity.  I also donated to a fund for a co-worker who is having a hard time due to an unemployed spouse.  I think these are the gifts that will mean the most this year and I hope many more will realize this and reach out to those in need.  One of the charities I am giving to is "Feed the Children".  It is a Christian based ministry that packs up trucks full of food and delivers it to hard hit area's right here in the United States.

Spooky ATC

Spooky ATC

Created for Haunted Design House. Barb is so talented and great at taking a stamp purposed for one thing and turning it into a creepy image. I'm not there yet. I used a creepy tag from Pink Paisley that I trimmed down and this ADORABLE "Smile" boy by Daniel Torrente. The theme was graves. I just checked to see what today's challenge was, and it's "sinister smirks". I think I'm gonna have to use this little guy again this week. His face says it all, teehee! I used an embossing template for the background and rubbed on some orange shimmery chalk.

Small World of Inchies and Twinchies Purple Challenge

Passionate about Purple

Photo not so great. A little harder to photograph these little guys. Sorry. I created this one for Small World of Inchies and Twinchies. The theme was Purple. I kinda cheated, because I went shopping for some images specifically so that I could do inchies. I found these decorative sqaure stamps, perfect for stamping inchie backgrounds, by Inkadinkado. So then all I had to do was find a tiny butterfly stamp in my stash. I used 2 different shades of purple. I stamped the background twice, trimmed the darker shade down to the frame, secured /popped it up to the lighter base. Stamped the mini butterflies in the darker purple, cut with cuticle sissors and adhered with a tiny bit of glue at the butterfly body, so that the wings could "fly". I added some Stampendous Pearl Glitter! LOVE that stuff!

ATC #5

Paper : Water Color Paper. 2 pieces. The base piece : painted top and bottom edges with acrylic paint. I wanted a dark red on the edges. Top panal : is what I stamped the other 2 borders and background on then secured it to the base leaving a slightly wider border of red visable at the bottom.

Stamps : bear Great Impressions E583, God Bless America Stampabilities FR1017, star border at top Technique Tuesday, Oh Say Can You See background Victorine Originals.

Technique :

Masking : stamping top star border and "God Bless America" border, then masking them and stamping the background.

Paper Piecing : stamped bear twice for each card, cutting feet, hands, flag, and hat out separately, colorizing and then re-piecing them back together. Layer him over the background.