12 Days of Halloween

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I’m excited to show four more projects for the 12 Days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps. The ultimate prize, if you enter all 12 days, is a chance at a DT spot for 2012! After mulling it over… I decided to go for it! 😀 So here are four days, plus the one from yesterday, leaves me seven more days to work on – I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

On the third day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Three black cats

I needed a couple cards for school this week so that’s what I focused my efforts on. Each of them uses paper that I had stashed from last year which is Matilda from Cosmo Cricket. Where are the three cats? Two of the cats are from a die cut so I put one in the background and one on top of a jack-o-lantern; the third cat, of course, is Lynx.


The image is Lynx & London from Simply Betty Stamps and I used Filigree Jewels chippies from Make it Crafty. I had colored Lynx yesterday as a black cat so today I wanted to give him some color and went for a Siamese look in tribute to my college feline friend. I’m submitting this card into the Third Day of Halloween challenge.

On the fourth day of Halloween
My true love gave to me…
Four skeletons

On this next card I have a cork sheet for the center and cut it out with my diecuts. Then I stamped four skulls on it with images from Inkadinkado, however, you can only see three of them in the end – so it was a good thing that the image had one which makes the fourth.


The spiderwebs are also from Inkadinkado and instead of using chippies in the corners I stamped two of them in black. The main image is Mad Scientist Christian from Simply Betty Stamps and is actually a school themed image! I’m submitting this one into the Fourth Day of Halloween challenge.

My true love gave to me…
Seven pumpkins glowing

This one turned out to be my favorite out of the set and actually started out being my least favorite, go figure. The challenge is seven pumpkins and I’m sure if you count the half pumpkin images in the decorative paper then I have more than enough. LOL However, there are six mostly complete ones that are visable and the felt pumpkin embellishment makes the seventh – as I count them.


I used Ali & Snuggles from Simply Betty Stamps and corner chippes in Love Heart Swirls from Make it Crafty with gems on them. I also dug out my punchinella ribbon (can’t remember how to spell it) and added a strip to break up the busy decorative paper. Finially I used my marker to draw a dashed line on the white and assembled it all together. I’m submitting this one into the Seventh Day of Halloween challenge.

My true love gave to me…
Nine ghosts a-booing

This last card has plenty of ghosts to count but I couldn’t resist drawing one more in the image as well. I used a ghost on the paper as a guide and thought it would be fun to have it coming out of the pile of leaves. Since the leaves were already haunted at this point, I also added a few eyes burried in the pile – oh, what a surprise Oscar will be getting! LOL


The main image is Oscar Pile of Leaves from Simply Betty Stamps and I used chippies from Fancy Ribbon Slider and Filigree Borders from Make it Crafty (covered with silver acrylic paint). I had fun coloring this image and ended up coloring from edge to edge! This is the last one and will be entered into the Ninth Day of Halloween challenge. Hope you liked them and got some ideas to inspire you with. ;D

Update: I’m the 2012 DT winner of the 12 Days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps!

Lynx

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I’m ready for the 12 Days of Halloween over at Simply Betty Stamps! Time had gotten away from me so I’m glad that I didn’t miss in on the action – love the fact that I have this whole week to make up for my missed time. ;D

…my true love gave to me
An owl in a rotten oak tree!

The images that I used for this project are: Lynx from Simply Betty Stamps and for the background I used Old Oak Tree and Cave from Make it Crafty (as well as a chippie from Swirly Corners). The cat turned out to be fun and I think tells an interesting story. ;D


This was small enough that I put in my ATC Journal and kept the layout extremely simple – Other than adding a chippie and two gems, that was it and pretty much stands on it’s own. I loved how it turned out, however, next time I need to figure out a better transition between the sky and the cave – maybe put some details or grass at the top of the rocks?


The background was inspired by the Spooky Night Sky challenge over at Make it Crafty and since it was my “brilliant” idea, I thought I’d come up with another example but this one not so scary. I kept the upper corner with the moon bright then went as dark as possible in the other corners to hopefully give the feel of a spooky dark forest. The eyes were added for fun and rather completes the project, I think.

Update: I’m the 2012 DT winner of the 12 Days of Halloween at Simply Betty Stamps!

Bobo Petal Sprite

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I finally got the colored image onto a journal page for the Make it Colourful challenge – coloring snow! To get close up images and details of the scene… check out a previous post HERE. The images I used are all from Make it Crafty: Bobo Petal Sprite, Festive Elements, Winter Objects and Winter Scene Elements, plus some Snowflake Stars chippies too.


I wanted to keep a feel for winter and snow so I used light colors in the paper and embellishments. The pink was chosen for the ribbon to give more of a focus to Bobo Petal Sprite and pull out those pinks of her petal hair.


The chippes were covered with acrylic dauber paints in a pearl – which looks like a mix between silver and white. Then a quick sentiment was found and that sums ups all the embellishments. Hope you like it and once you get your snow project finished you can upload it into the Make it Crafty Gallery!

“Fantastic Project Award” – Thank Linda for such a sweet reward!

Agent Cupcake Aiming

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Welcome to the second day of previews for Little Miss Muffet Stamps and today I’m showing off the newest Agent in the Operation TREEHOUSE series… Agent Popcorn Aiming! Be sure to head on over to the store to see the Agent Popcorn in her cute pose too. ;D


Phew… this project took the longest time to finish as I had one mental block after another. I had colored Agent Popcorn a couple days ago then printed out a background to work on. However, today I made the mistake of changing out the kids summer clothes for winter ones before crafting and now I wish I had done it the other way around! LOL Now as I “rest” and enter in my details, I’m terribly distracted by a cute little movie called The Gruffalo. It’s darling and I’ll have to get the book from the library tomorrow.


Anyway, back to my project. He he he. This is Agent Popcorn taking aim against the boys next door. But don’t let those jumbo popcorn pellets fool you as I’m sure they’re filled with something gooey… maybe even something smelly too.


The background is Pebblestone Path from Make it Crafty. I had merged the images and printed them out together then realized I wanted to use dimensional for her so I colored the background ignoring the character. This gave me the opportunity to work on the grass and sky without worrying about lines. Afterward I colored the character black in case you could see between the layers. Once the project was finished I used dimensional foam and “popped” that girl right on. Enjoy!

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

Lollipop Crafts Challenge #53 – no sentiments
Jen’s Digi Stamps Challenge – fight like a girl
My Mum’s Craft Shop Challenge – food and drink
Shelly’s Images TTT Challenge – anything goes
Use it Tuesday Challenge #17 – metal (I hord these brads and chippies!)

Mitten & Button

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It’s new release week at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and there are four adorable images going out! Today I’m using a couple Animal Friends, Mitten and Button, to create a warm holiday scene next to the Hearth & Home fireplace from Make it Crafty.


These two images were inspired by a few animal friends of my own – our little Ginger was a recent addition to our home but there was already an image of that name so I named her after my childhood pet dog, Mitten. We couldn’t have someone getting a puppy for Christmas without a kitten in the mix too so I drew Button after another past companion.


The Hearth & Home fireplace is from Make it Crafty and gave me another opportunity to color a fire. I wanted to focus on the inside of the fire pit as I wasn’t sure how to color it so this time I looked up images in Google and found a good image to reference. It’s not exact but still turned out nicely.


I colored each of the images large so creating the journal page would be quick and easy. I covered the back with decorative paper, wrapped a large ribbon around and positioned my images. Then added some MiC chippies, couple of pearls and lastly a few snowflake buttons – finished! 😀

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

Crafting When We Can Challenge – Christmas
I Did it Creations Challenge #77 – animals
KB Cute Monday Challenge #31 – anything goes
Karen’s Doodles Challenge – animal antics
Make it Monday #59 – anything goes

Mystic

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Here’s a project that I created for the Whimsy Magazine online that was published back in August and if you head on over there you can see the newest release published just last week! The August issue has all the supplies extra supplies listed for this project but the main stamps are Mystic and Birthday Letter Seals from Whimsy Stamps and the Tropical Waterfall from Make it Crafty.


This was actually the first project that I made in my second journal and it wasn’t too long ago that I finished my last page… so I guess to answer that question it takes me two months to fill a large journal. ;D


Most unicorns I’ve seen have been colored white so I wanted to give a try at a black one – but to keep the details showing I colored the tail a fiery orange. To balance out the project I also elements of the waterfall in darker colors too. Oh… and the page behind it is ripped out of a Winnie the Pooh book that I have on hand just for this occasion. ;D Hope you enjoyed the project as much as I enjoyed making it.