HAPPY WORLD CARD MAKING DAY

Today is 

WORLD CARD MAKING DAY
You can click here and read more about the day's history
at Creations with Christina.

So I made someone special a Birthday Card.

I used the sketch from 

THE BURTONESQUE DOLLS 

CHALLENGE # 20:

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS'

CUTTING EDGE DESIGN

I took it and flipped it 

and substituted 

and adjusted

but I did start out with the sketch in mind

and that's the point right.

Be sure to click over there to
see how the design team used the sketch.

Stamps: Simply Betty Stamps

Cricut cuts: Happy Hauntings

Trick or Treating in Burton's Neighborhood of Horrific Haunts

Sounds like a ride at Disney World, looking at all of the other entries to it would be an awesome place to explore. The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge #  19 : Create a card or project inspired by Trick or Treating in Burton's Neighborhood.

I found this digi stamp at Make 'It' Crafty, and they have a challenge going on too, it's "Anything Goes Fun Challenge"  They have lots of Mushroom houses and Landscape Digis you could use with all of your character stamps. I thought this Haunted House of Rusted Tin would fit right in at Burton's Neighborhood.  I colored it with copic markers and "distressed it", I use that term loosely, with Tim Holtz distress ink. And it's not snowing, the background dots are supposed to be fog,LOL

I also used the Cracked Martha Stewart punch and the "Trick or Treat" clear stamp is from Inkadinkado I had gotten last year from Michaels.

I am also entering the Haunted House of Rusted Tin  in Haunted Design House's HDH057-Horrific Haunts. Could you imagine the echos and clanging of chains of a ghost in this house, it would deafen you.

Bottoms Up!

I've been wanting to try monochromatic coloring and so with the Haunted Design House Challenge, I got the chance.  Their challenge : # 56 Monochromatic Monstrosities.  Now I had to look up how to color monochromatic-ly.

I found articles at Copic Creations on monochrome and shading the background (all the little dots in the background, I got a little carried away). Of course there were lots of examples to study and gather inspiration from the Haunter Design House Design Team.

The stamp is "Perfect Posion" from Kraftin Kimmie Stamps, I also used two stamps from Tim Holtz, the bats and the label.  I cut the bottle from the October 31 cartridge on the Cricut, used Martha Stewart punch for the foliage and the rose came from iamroses.com.

Other Challenges I am submitting to:

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps Challenge Blog : # 46 - Mostly Black & White

Copic Creations Challenge : # 35 - Shading on & Around Images

More Halloween Cards and Challenges

It all started with one Challenge over at Simply Betty Stamps.  A One Day only Challenge to use a Non-Halloween image in a Halloween Creation.  Could it be done?  We gave it a Whirl and here are our entries.

The inside says "What's a nice GHOUL like you do'in in a place like this?"  I used School Girl Lola in a Cricut Haunted Mansion and DS used Christian Digi from Simply Betty.

and the inside of DS card just cracks me up.

I am also entering this in the Cricut Cardz Challenge # 42: make a Halloween card using the card feature on any cartridge and the Color Me Copic Challenge # 4 : Straight Hair. I need more practice coloring hair.

The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge - #17 Willy Wonka

The Challenge # 17: Create a new candy box, candy bag, chocolate bar, any fun and funky new candy you would find in Willy Wonka's factory. 


I thought he would come up with the perfect , no side effect, mood changing candy.  "Jekyl and Hyde Nice Pills".   


The first shot is the front of the card, then you open it up to see the transformation:

These rubber stamps from The Greeting Farm are so cute.  I used "Wednesday" for the Grouchy person and "Cheeky Beauty" for the nice side of Wednesday.  I also entered this card in the "Rule of 3's" Challenge on The Greeting Farm Blog

The layered Star shapes and Label were cut with the Cricut using "The Shaplies" svg files from Penny Duncan Creations.

I downloaded the Willy Wonka font from Dafont.com, cut the title out on the Cricut using Sure-Cuts-a-Lot  and also used the Carnivallee Freakshow and SwingSet BB fonts.

The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge - Vincent

This week's challenge at The Burtonesque Dolls  is to be inspired by this little movie by Tim Burton a while back, "Vincent".  #16 Vincent - Take a paragraph from the poem and use it for the basis of your card.



I took my inspiration from this part of the poem:

Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive!
He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was his mother’s flower bed

His mother sent Vincent off to his room
He knew he’d been banished to the tower of doom
Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life
Alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife

I could just imagine him looking at her portrait and missing her so much, lonely, and singing that song.

The papers were from My Minds Eye and the Digital Stamps were from Simply Betty Stamps, the Vampire series, colored with copics.

I also entered this card in the Cricut Cardz Challenge, which was : # 38...ANYTHING GOES! Make a card using any cartridges, colors or theme you'd like.

So on the skeleton border, I made it on the Gypsy with the October 31 cartridge.  I welded the skeleton bones to a square.  If you have the October 31 Cart and would like this file, you can download the Gypsy file here:

Skeleton Border Gypsy File

Derric, my DS, was home with me today instead of off riding 4 wheelers, so he made a card with me.  I love his color combination with the brown and red.  He made his border too, with the Gypsy and the October 31 Cartridge.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #10

Lavender, Green, Black, and White Color Challange

Cupid Comes Call'in
Love this color combination. I cut the heart from Potpurri Basket Cart and the cupid is from Southernbelle's svgs.  I heat embossed the text as soon as it came out of the printer and it worked.  You can't hardly tell in this picture, (I had to take it with by blackberry), it is raised and shiney.

The Gypsy Spot Challenge # 1

Here's my entry for the First Challenge from the Gypsy Spot : use the Gypsy Wanderings or Font cart on a project.

I used the Bracket shape which I could size to what I needed on the Gypsy and Grateful word art.  The flower I put together using a svg file provided by Penny Duncan. I also embossed the front of the card with embossing ink and clear embossing powder mixed with pink glitter.

On the inside you'll find a neat little Digi Stamp from Dustin Pike, Mr. Squrriel reminding us to be thankful for the small things too.

Copic Buzz Challenge # 16 

The Copic Buzz group at Paper Craft Planet has added their 16th challenge this week featuring KLM Digital Designs.  It's a wonderful group of bowing sunflowers.  You'll have to swing by and check it out.

Last week KLM Digital Designs provided a the cutest ghost with pumpkins digital stamp.  I barely made the dead line but it was fun.  Working against time some how helps me make decisions faster and I tend to stick with it.

I got to use my cuttle bug, my copics, my prisma color pencils (and the shading doesn't look half bad if I do say so myself )and I used the cricut to cut out the freebie "Barry the bat" over at SVGcuts.com.  It gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling inside when I've done something with all of the craft supplies and tools I've been gathering.

I'm off to get that fuzzy feeling again with the next challenge.

Mo's Digital Pencil Fall Color Challenge

I did get a chance to make a card this weekend.

The digital stamp is from Mo's Digital Pencil. The image comes with two images.  One, she has a calico dress on with flowers and the second, she is in a solid color dress.  I opted for the solid color.  I distressed all the papers with Peeled Paint Ink pad from Tim Holtz.

Colored the image with copics and prisma pencils.  I have a lot to learn about shading.