BOO!

Hi lovely peeps I'm a little late popping in with my post, it's been in draft for days but OMG what a week we've had here and I've only just managed to pop in now to finish it lol!!  

October for us is generally a very busy month.  Both my kiddies have birthdays, one at the beginning and the other at the end (didn't think that through now did I!!).  So this last week has been operation Birthday for my son who will be the grand age of 18 this coming Tuesday and I've literally spent the whole weekend getting things sorted.

Anyway, lets get to why I've popped in.  There is a new challenge up over at Polkadoodles so I am here to show you my DT make.  As always it's an 'anything goes' theme for all you lovely lot, but the DT were challenged with making a 'reveal' card.  Well I have to admit I was a tad stumped when I first found out, but after a little searching this is what I came up with.

Image:  Winnie Wednesday Witch & Cat

Pumpkin base:  Witchie Witchie download bundle

Tree and Headstone:  Witchie Witchie download bundle

I used a pumpkin digi from the Witchie Witchie download bundle and just resized it and cut it out to make my card base.  The letters were just done in word and I cut them out.  For the reveal part I didn't have all the fancy dies so just used a circle die I had in my stash and it works just as well.  You can see I cut a reveal in the last letter 'O' printed off 4 different items .. 2 are pictures and 2 are sentiments stuck them down on the reveal circle and when you turn it you have the choice of either a bat, a cat or 2 halloween sentiments.

A bit of a closer look in the next piccie.  You can see I've changed the reveal picture to a sentiment.

Okay so that's all from me today.  I'm off to do some birthday baking now.

Take care and happy crafting.

Ann-Marie

xxx

Challenges:-

Crafters Castle  -  anything goes (opt. fall/autumn)

Crafty Calendar  -  Autumn colours/Halloween

The Fairy and The Unicorn  -  anything fantasy

Cute Card Thursday  -  anything goes

Addicted to Stamps and more  -  anything goes

Little Red Wagon  -  pumpkin party

The Paper Funday Challenge  -  anything goes (opt. Halloween)

Halloween Treats - Polkadoodles Challenge Wk 34

Happy Friday folks, I hope you are all fine and dandy.

Well as it's Friday it's new challenge time over at Polkadoodles and I'm popping in with my new DT make.  I went with a Halloween theme for this one and made a little swing box to house some sweets.  I thought as I'm not sure whether my daughter will want to go trick or treating this year and secretly I'm hoping she does as I love it big kid that I am lol, I made a little treat gift box to give her just in case we don't go.  I'll still be getting candy in though for our spooky little visitors and the old Hocus Pocus dvd will get an airing with a side order or mum's Halloween candy!!

So I made my little swing box using the template from Polkadoodles Lemonade Fizz download kit.  Printed off papers from the Halloween Trick or Treat papers collection and made a little topper using Winnie Wednesday Witch coloured with copics.  I've popped the links below to the items I've used.

Image:  Polkadoodles Winnie Wednesday Witch

Medium:  copics

Papers:  Polkadoodles Halloween Trick or Treat collection

printed on to Ultimate Graphic paper

Swing box template:  from the Lemonade Fizz download collection

My usual close up of the image.  She really is a sweetie and I love the little pussy cat.

Copics list

Skin:  E000, E11, E13, R20

Clothes:  G12, G14, G19/BV02, BV04, BV08/

Promarkers Honeycomb, spice, burnt orange

Hair/cat:  C1, C3, C5, C7

Broomstick:  E43, E44, E47, E49

Okay, that's all from me today.  I've got one more day at work and then a couple of days off and it's meant to be rather nice weather so I fancy a walk in the forest as it's been a while since we've done that and I always find it so relaxing.  May even take a camera and see what interesting things we can find to photograph.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

Take care

Ann-Marie

xxx

Challenges:

Crafty Creations  -  anything goes

Love to Craft  -  August anything goes

Creative Inspirations  -  seasonal (I've gone with autumnal and Halloween)

When witches go riding .......

…. and black cats are seen, 

the moon laughs and whispers 

'Tis near Halloween ….

Hello crafty peeps, who love's Halloween? I know I do.  I'm not sure who has more fun trick or treating the kiddies or me lol and I love answering the door to all the little ones and to see them in their little costumes.  We always finish off the night with my favourite Halloween movie 'Hocus Pocus' every year without fail it's like a little tradition.  Of course it's only fair that I get to share a little of the candy whilst we're watching too.

So with Halloween fast approaching I've made myself a little hat shaped card and what better image to use with it than Polkadoodles cute little Winnie Wednesday Witch & Cat digi and I coloured her up to compliment the spookalicious Polkadoodles 'Halloween Trick or Treat' papers.  My card was real easy to do I just printed off a hat shape from the internet re-sized it in Word to what I needed and printed off a template.

Image:  Polkadoodles 'Winnie Wednesday Witch & Cat'

Medium:  mix of Spectrum Noirs, Copics and Promarkers

Sentiment:  Polkadoodles 'Halloween Trick or Treat' sentiments

Papers:  Polkadoodles 'Halloween Trick or Treat' papers 1

Ribbon and flowers from stash

And, of course, a close up of Winnie.

  

List of pens used to colour my image

Face:  copics E000, E11, E13, R20

Cloak/Hat:  Spectrum Noirs LG1, LG3, LG5, JG1, JG2

Purples:  BV02, BV04, BV08

Oranges:  Promarkers Honeycomb, Spice, Burnt Orange

So I'm rather in love with this little card so I shall be displaying her on my mantle come the 31st.

Okay so time for me to go cook tea as it won't cook itself, then I'm going to settle down at my craft desk I think with a hot chocolate, a movie playing on my laptop and do some colouring.  A perfect evening in my books.

Take care folks and happy crafting.

Ann-Marie

xx

Challenges I would like to enter my card into:-

Simon Says Stamp  -  anything goes

The Ribbon Girl  -  anything goes

Papercraft Business Papercraft Challenge  -  anything goes (optional Halloween/Fall)

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge  -  anything goes

Crafty Cardmakers  -  lace or ribbon

Trick or Treat

Hello my lovelies I hope you are all well.  I'm back tonight to share with you my make for Crafty Sentiments Designs release week Day 3, albeit a little later than planned due to pesky internet problems.

So let me introduce you to this cute little dude he is 'Trick or Treat' and he's a digi so perfect for lots of different size projects.  I love it when I can resize to whatever I'm working on don't you.

I've made a milk carton treat holder with my nephew in mind.  He will love this if my daughter doesn't grab it first!!

Image:  Crafty Sentiments Designs 'Trick or Treat'

Medium:  copics

My usual close-up.  I decided to cut him out and 3d him with some glue gel. 

Copics used

Skin:  E000, E11, E13, R30

Hair:  E43

Clothes:  C1, C2, C3, C5, C7, 100

Treat Bag:  Promarkers Amber, Pumpkin, Bright Orange, Burnt Orange

Okay, this cute little dude can be found over in the Crafty Sentiments Designs store here and if you fancy and a little looksie at some gorgeous inspiration pop across to Crafty Sentiments Designs Inspiration blog here where you can see lots of gorgeousness from my teamies.

Okay time for me to go.  I've a list of stuff to get sorted as my son is off on his Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award this weekend and it's his birthday on Sunday so I've that to sort for when he gets back to and as usual I'm not organised lol. 

I hope you have a fab weekend and if it's ploppy weather you have a perfect excuse to craft more!!

Take care.

Ann-Marie

xxx

Challenges I would like to enter:-

Cute Card Thursday    -  anything goes

Let's Craft and Create  -  anything goes (optional witchy/autumnal)

Halloween Outfit

Good morning my lovelies I hope your day is getting off to a good start.  We have the usual rushed school routine here before I head out to work on this absolutely beautiful autumnal morning.

So before I dash out the door, I wanted to pop in and share with you my latest creation for Day 2 of Crafty Sentiments Designs new release week.  I got to play with 'Halloween Outfit' and she is adorable and she is a digi so you can resize for any number of projects which is just fab.  Now apart from the usual trick or treating I do with the kiddies we don't really go all out for Halloween which is a shame as I do love it and I think that just has to change.  So I decided last year that I would make myself a new decoration each Halloween to put up rather than buy any and this year I opted to make a fun Halloween wreath.  I'm so pleased with how it turned out I may just make another.

Image:  Crafty Sentiments Designs 'Halloween Outfit'

Medium:  copics/spectrum noirs

Papers and ribbon from stash

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

I thought I'd have a go at making myself a silver glitter cobweb to go at the back of the wreath.  I made this with my hot glue gun.  I just found myself a cobweb image to print off from Google, put some greaseproof paper over the top and used it as a template.  It was so simple and it turned out really effective.

My usual close-up of the cute image and I've used a mixture of Copics and Spectrum Noirs to colour her in.

Copics/Spectrum Noirs

Face/Body:  E000, E11, E13, R20

Hair:  Y21, YR31, YR23

Pumpkin:  YR00, YR02, YR07, E08

Outfit:  TN2, TN3, TN4, TN5/EB3, EB5, EB6

Candy:  PL1, PL3, PL5

Why not pop across to Crafty Sentiments Designs Inspiration blog here and have a good old gander at some of my teamies makes, you won't be disappointed I promise and don't forget this new release week are digis and can be found over at Crafty Sentiments Designs store here.

Okay, time for me to dash.  I'll be back tomorrow to share with you another little Halloween make I've made.

Take care and happy crafting.

Ann-Marie

xxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenge:- 

Cute Card Thursday  -  Trick or Treat

Craftaholics are us  -  Halloween

Boo!!

Yes you've guessed it ... another Halloween project to share with you today.  Again I've used the free cd rom that came with Issue 11 of Crafters Inspiration from Crafters Companion.  You know I've found creating for Halloween a doddle with the goodies that are on the cd.

So what did I make?  I've had a few of these large empty jars hanging around for a while actually I think they were coffee jars and if you're like me you keep these things as you know one day they'll come in handy.  Well now I've used one of them to make myself a little decorated Halloween jar to put lights in.

Images/papers:  Crafters Inspiration Issue 11 free cd rom

Crafters Companion printable vellum

Glue:  Collall tacky glue

Lace, ribbon and battery lights from stash

I wasn't sure it would work but I love how it turned out.  I just printed the images and paper off on the printable vellum, cut out what I wanted and then pasted it on with a weaker solution of the glue.  This jar is for me although my daughter seems to think she needs to claim it for her room so I'll probably end up making another!!!

Okay that's all from me today.  I'm in the middle of making a card so hopefully it won't be too long before I pop back with something to share with you again.

Take care folks and I hope you have a happy and creative weekend.

Ann-Marie

xxx

Happy Halloween ...

... yeah okay so I know I'm a tad early and I've jumped from Christmas to Halloween but hey who doesn't love a little Halloween craftiness!

I'm popping in to share with you my Crafters Companion Inspirers make today and I did have such fun making it.  All of the papers, sentiments and embellishments are from the free CD rom that comes with Crafters Inspiration Issue 11 and boy there were a lot to choose from and it took ages to decide which to use.  I think I may just keep this one for myself and bring it out on Halloween as I love it so much.

Images/Papers/Embellishments:  Crafters Inspiration Issue 11

Cardstock:  Crafters Companion A4 matt black, Sheena Douglass white stamping card

Adhesives:  Crafters Companion Extra Strong Permanent glue tape pen/Collall 3D glue gel

As you can see I made a stair step card which was extremely easy but most effective and brilliant for layering up your card.  The large tree image printed out black and white and I just highlighted it with Spectrum Noir marker TN5.

Okay just a flying visit from me today I have the fun task of sorting uniforms for school tomorrow.  I do think that's my only downside to my Sundays as I really do dislike ironing shirts .... a complete waste of crafting time in my opinion!!!

Take care folks and happy crafting.

Ann-Marie 

xxx

Whimsy Stamps - Art by Mi Ran Collection debut release - Day 1

Hello everyone and wishing you all a very happy Monday!

Whimsy stamps are celebrating the debut release of their new Art by Mi Ran Collection!  They are very excited to have Mi Ran Jung joining their team of illustrators!  Over the next 3 days we will reveal 7 new rubber stamps, illustrated by Mi Ran exclusively for Whimsy Stamps.   We hope you will join us each day at 12pm ET for our blog hops full of inspiration and chances to win some prizes too!

All of the new rubber stamps will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and selected Whimsy Stamps retailers on Wednesday, July 16th.  For this release, we are excited to be joined by guest designers Alyce Keegan and Mariska van der Veer as well as the Art by MiRan digital design team.

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! The lucky winner will be drawn from the comments left on the Whimsy blog and on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment to be entered into the draw.

Okay so let me share with you my contribution to today's hop.  I got to play with the gorgeous image 'Little Witch' and she is adorable!  I have coloured her with a mixture of copics and promarkers and took my colour inspiration from the 'Fright Night' papers.  I even had a go at making a little broom stick.

Image:  Whimsy Stamps 'Little Witch' by Art by MiRan

Medium:  copics/promarkers

Papers:  Whimsy Stamps 'Fright Night'

Flowers:  Wild Orchid Crafts

A bit of a closer view of the sweet image.

Copics/Promarkers

Face/Body:  E000, E00, E11, R20, R30 + W3

Hair:  V01, V05, V06, V09

Dress:  Ginger, Spice, Burnt Orange + W7

Hat:  W1, W3, W5, W7

Broomstick:  E43, E47, E49

Night Sky:  BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29

Moon/Clouds:  W00, W1, W3

 Okay you should have come from Ruza's blog but if you have just popped in or happened upon my blog and would like to hop along with us today please pop along to here and start the hop at Joey's blog.

Thank you for stopping by and your next step along the way is Shelby.  Don’t forget to leave a comment at every stop to be entered into the draw to win a $15 gift certificate.   There is a list below of all the stops just in case you get lost.

Joey
Jacque
Monica
Danni
Ruza
Ann-Marie (you're here)
Shelby
Desire
Alyce (Guest)
Iris

Take care.

Ann-Marie

xxx

New Challenge over at The ABC Challenge

Good morning folks I hope you all had a great weekend and are having a good start to your week.  My start has been quiet but I'm not complaining means I can catch up on a few things which is good.  

 

So pinch punch its the 1st of the month and that means its time for another new challenge over at The ABC Challenge and I have my DT card to share with you all.  This challenge we are on the letter W so that's W for Words so 'add a sentiment' how easy is that peeps.  We are being sponsored this time by Stamp Fairy and I got to play with 'Mimi Halloween'.   My teamies as usual have been busy making beautiful creations for you to feast your eyes upon so go and take a peek at all the gorgeous inspiration.

Okay time to show you what I made.  I decided to make a card for Halloween and used a Shape EZ template and I love how it turned out.  Anyway, piccie time:-

Image:  Stamp Fairy 'Mimi Halloween'

Medium:  Copics and Prismacolor pencils

Dies:  Spellbinders 'Fancy Tags'

Flowers:  Wild Orchid Crafts

 

The bats were a freebie template from this lady HERE.  Her blog hasn't been very active of late but she does make some wonderful creations and still provides loads of inspiration.  Once I'd cut out the bats I used my glue pen around the edges and middle and added flock mixed with glitter so its sparkly and soft in one - love it!

 

Okay, a close up of the cute image.

 

 

Right I'm off now to get crafty on another project.  I hope you folks are all well and enjoy the rest of your week.

 

Take care,

Ann-Marie

xxx