Henry Claus

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There is some exciting news over at Make it Crafty and we’re having a little inspiration hop to celebrate. I’m excited to share that the full range of Make it Crafty rubber stamps is now available for sale direct out of the USA from CC Designs Rubber Stamps!
You’ll be able to order the MiC backgrounds and Characters or as we have done today, mix up your MiC backgrounds with the gorgeous CC Designs characters! You’ll see below that they make a perfect scene when used together.
The MiC range is not only available direct to MiC fans, but will also be available to craft stores through CC Designs. If you would like to order MiC stamps for your store direct from the USA, please do contact Christine for details. If you’re an MiC fan in the USA and would like your local store to carry your favourite rubber stamps, make sure to let them know you’d love them to contact CC Designs for details.
You should have arrived here from the amazing NICOLETTA! 
Or if you’ve gotten lost you can start at the beginning: Make it Crafty Blog Post.
For this project, I’ve used these three images to make the scene:  

Remember that Roberto’s Rascals Henry Clause counts towards the 
Toys for Tots fund raiser at CC Designs too!
For a chance to win a CC Designs Character & MiC Background, make sure you comment below!
 There are a couple of hidden prizes along the way too!
Your next stop in the hop is the wonderful JENNIFER!
Thank you for hopping along with us today!!

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:
Brown Sugar Challenge #63 – Anything Goes
Card Crafter’s Circle Challenge #96 – Three Embellishments
Crafts-Too Challenge #4 – Christmas Festivities
The Paper Shelter Challenge #132 – Charm Us
QKR Stampede Challenge #60 – Anything Goes with Circles

Update: I was lucky winner at The Paper Shelter for this project!

NEWS – Halloween Box

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Don’t you think it’s about time I started giving stuff away again?  I don’t know about you, but I sure think so!  LOL  I have a couple Halloween crafts for this month that I’m sure you’re going to want to win… starting off with this little Halloween box.  Click HERE to see the full project.  ;D  (But hurry – you only have until October 16th to enter!) 

I’ve decided it’s time to pass it along, so lucky you, I’m having a give away!!
Here’s the regular details and how to participate in this blog candy:

As a huge thank you to my Followers, I’m giving away this fun box to one lucky commenter!!  You’ll have from now until October 16th to enter and I’ll post the winner shortly after that.  All you have to do is … 

This give-away offer has expired.
1. Be a Follower of this blog 
2. Leave a comment below

If you would like to post the NEWS Badge on your sidebar then that is optional, however, it is a great tool to be notified of the next freebie or blog candy.  Sounds impossible?  Na, it’s simple and has worked great! Here is the code and details on this badge…

ForgottenScraps News
NOTE: This is important … make sure you use the code above when grabbing the blinkie as it’s the only way it will be will update automatically. Once it’s on your blog, the blinkie will change when I post another offer and you’ll get to see the latest news right from your sidebar!  It’s a great way to get alerted whenever there is another freebie, blog candy or giveaway posted!!  😀

I think that about sums it up and thank you for stopping by!  *Hugs

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Cocoa

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Sometime I just get lucky and today is one of them… there is a new challenge at Little Miss Muffet Stamps opening up today and the theme is “It’s a Doodle!”  I thought I was doomed and didn’t have a card ready.  😦  I had been working in the background on some new images and completely forgot about it, to be honest.  So I was just about to hang up my hat… er, put my Copics away, when I found this card already finished.  AND it has doodling on it!  How awesome is that?!

You may not recognize this image right away but it’s a Sugar & Spice Dolls named Cocoa from Little Miss Muffet Stamps.  When I inked her, I cleaned off the rubber stamp on her arm and her foot.  Then when I was coloring, I added “stuffing” that was coming out.  Also this is one of the images I colored using only 4 Copic colors!!  That’s right… only 4!  I used  N6, G46, V17 and YG21.  (Plus the blender marker but I wasn’t counting that.  LOL)  You should give it a try.  ;D

My doodling in around the edges of the image as well as doodling on the image itself – I added extra stitching, tears in the clothing, and thread where there are holes in the doll.  See, there’s lots you can do with a doodling challenge!!

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:

Skeleton Luka

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It’s October and that means the scary images are out and ready to be colored!  This project features Skeleton Luka from La La Land Crafts combined with images from Make it Crafty (Egyptian Chair, Egyptian Vase #1 and Egyptian Vase #4) to create this spooky scene.  Looks like the LLLC Customer Gallery is gone but if it comes back up then I’ll enter this into the mix.

The face was directly inspired by Jennifer‘s amazing skeleton image she colors with another Make it Crafty image – one, that I’m proud so say, that I own!  Eeek!  Jennifer put it in an awesome frame and I’ve got it out for the season – it’s amazing!  (If she doesn’t post pictures soon then I might leak a few of my own.  LOL)

One of the challenges at Make it Colourful this month is to color eyes and so this one, though red and yellow, is one of my attempts at doing realistic eyes.  I goofed on the highlights and should have kept the white parts the same on both eyes instead of mirroring it – but hay, learn and live.  😀

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:
Stamp and Create October Challenge – Halloween or Thanksgiving
(I remembered the flat part but didn’t see the A2 size until now)
Cards in Envy Challenge – Now That’s Scary! (Just for fun only)

Maiden with Long Golden Hair

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I’ve adored the fantasy collection ever since it’s come out and for some reason it’s taken me this long to get to them – for shame on me!  LOL  For this scene that I created, I cropped the character and then reduced the background.  This, I hoped, created a photo look as if she was on holiday at some famous location.  But hay, maybe this is her backyard and she has this awesome view everyday!  LOL

The hair color is actually what inspired me to color this image – they’re the same colors I did the “Demon Clown Mommy” but this time I wanted to see how it looked on a princess image.  It was such a gorgeous combo!   The colors were Copics YR31, YR14, YR27, E07, E18 and E49.

The images I used on this project are:

Make it Crafty Images:
Forbidden Tower

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations Challenge #62 – Anything Girly
Lunagirl Moonbeams Challenge – Lady Blue
Make it Monday Link #161 – Anything Goes
Make My Monday Challenge – Elegant Ladies

Fancy Sunbonnet Winter

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It’s October and starting to get chilly already… but I’m cranking away (I hope) on my goals for the end of the year.  These are goals I’ve set for myself and so the end date is flexible, but having it so close is also getting me motivated.  😀  I’ll share “my numbers” as of now but first…. who’s up for some ice skating?

Here’s a couple links that I’ll share, the first one being the image I used on this project which you can find in the Little Miss Muffet Stamps store.  And the second link is to the LMMS blog and LMMS gallery where you’ll find lots of other inspiration using these images!

plus accessories from the other Forest Friends rubber stamps
LMMS Blog and Gallery

As for writing this post, my goals on the upper left side of the blog are pretty small.  LMMS is 16 out of 44; MiC is 7 out of 150; SBS is 1 out of 13; and the overall C2C is 12 out of 252.  Now you can compare those number with the current numbers and let me know if I’ve progressed any – because sometimes I like to ignore them!  LOL