Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge #17

I haven't entered the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge in awhile. It's a fabulous challenge run by the amazing Gloria Stengel of Scraps of Life. You really must visit to see all the stunning projects by the designers.

I finally finished my Halloween configurations box. Digging into the bin where I hoard store all of my Halloween and fall goodies to make this was so much fun. I  also used lots of older Tim Holtz products, of course!

First I painted all the pieces of the box with Tarnished Brass distress paint. I added some tiny scraps of  paper from the Lost & Found Seasonal Paper Stash that I have left inside some boxes. Then I used Hobgoblin Tissue Tape that I've had forever on the edges of all the little boxes . After hot gluing the boxes onto the base, I added more of that fab tissue tape to the outside edges. (I don't think it's available anymore, and I only have a little left. Sigh.) 

Next came the fun of adding lots of goodies in the boxes. There's skeletons, skulls, caskets, a bony hand and a crow from Michaels, I believe. I put some alcohol ink into an Idea-ology corked vial and then covered it with a bat label. The skulls are strung on hemp that is hanging in a box. I die cut some Spellbinders Tomb Stones from grungeboard and added them behind some of the figurines. There's also a die cut spider web with some spiders.

I also added an Idea-ology skull & crossbones and some Remnant Rubs from the Apothecary set. There's a tea light in one of the boxes that also has tissue tape on it. The feet of the box are wooden balls painted black. 

I first saw one of these made by May Flaum on her blog a few years ago when I started to become interested in more than just scrapbooking. It was the first time I had ever seen a project done with these. Thanks, May, for the fabulous introduction to these awesome boxes! 

So, that's my project for Challenge #17 - Happy Fall Y'all! Nothing says fall like a spooky Halloween. 

Happy Fall Y'all!

There's no school Monday due to Columbus Day, so I'm enjoying this long weekend. How about you?

I spent today coloring some more images with Copics and making some cards. I am really having fun with some new card designs to go with my colored images. It's unusual for me to make an easel or a step card, but I really love them. Just takes a lot more time to make, but they're so worth it.

This is a stamp set from Sugar Pea Designs called Bountiful Blessings. I love this sweet little scarecrow that comes with 2 pumpkin images and 5 sentiments. Not sure how well she's colored, but I'm ok with how she turned out. This Copic coloring takes so much practice! I hope I get better as I keep practicing.

I made a side step card from Neenah 80 lb. paper and layered her up onto it. She's colored on Copic XPress It paper. The other papers are all from my stash.The grass is made with a Martha Stewart punch.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend doing whatever it is you love.
                                                                            Pam

Boo!

It's been quite awhile since I posted here. Sometimes life leaves little time for crafting.

I have been taking the Copic Online Card Class, as well as some fabulous classes from well-known Copic artist Rhea Weigand of Passionate Paper Creations at my LSS, Creativ You & Co. Wow, that girl is fantastic! Be sure to check her blog. It's just loaded with fabulosity!

I'm only a beginner. Not a very good one, I must admit. Lots and lots of practice is needed to master even the smallest level of skill. Whenever I can I try to get a bit of coloring in.

Recently, I colored some of the images in the Glenda & Frankie set from Penny Black. The images of children in Halloween costumes in this set are so adorable. I made a couple of cards with the mummy image, which requires very little coloring. Gotta start somewhere, right?

                                        

I made the cards with the same papers and ribbon. On the first one I added some twists of tulle with sequins, something I learned from Rhea. On the second card, I left off the tulle and added cheesecloth behind the image. I think that goes better with that cute little guy in his mummy costume.

I'll share some of the sweet little witch images from the set as soon as I get them made into cards. Meanwhile, enjoy whatever it is that you love.

                                                                      Pam
                                                                 

Just because ...

Hello!

Today I'm sharing a card that was inspired by Maile Belles of Simply Stamped. I couldn't resist CASEing the gorgeous card she shared on her blog today here.

I exchanged Maile's butterfly image for the Ruffled Flower image by Hero Arts, which was stamped with Dandelion ink from Memento . Rather than leaving white space, I stamped some clusters of dots from the Lots of Dots stamp set by Simon Says Stamps in Lipstick Red  ink, also from SSS. The sentiment is from the Loving Thoughts stamp set by CAS-ual Fridays Stamps.

 A thin strip of paper was cut from my Neenah card panel. I then added a piece of yellow polka dot Amuse paper from my stash to the card base. Next I popped up the panel onto the card base with Scotch foam tape. A scattering of flower sequins from Lawn Fawn's Let's Polka mixed sequins and a button from my stash finish my card.

A big thank you goes out to Maile for her inspiration! Be sure to visit her blog.

Thanks for visiting and happy crafting!

Hooray

Hooray, I finished a card today! It seems like I've been unpacking and trying to organize my new apartment forever. Hopefully, my craft space is completely in order and I can get back to playing. Now if I can just remember where I put everything ...

I love Mama Elephant products so much and have purchased several recently. Today I used one of the sentiments from the Splendid stamp set. I heat embossed it in gold, along with some gold embossed sequins from the Scenery: Big Bang Bling set made by Winnie & Walter. Some gold sequins were also added. I cut thin strips from DCWV Glitzy glitter paper in gold and added them on the edges of my embossed panel. The the panel was popped up onto my Neenah card base with foam tape, leaving a bit of white showing on the sides.

Our challenge for the next meeting of my local Paper Arts Club was to create a card with the sentiment as the focal point. I love this big sentiment and am pleased with how the card turned out. Now I have to get back to work on two more cards for Club.

As always, thanks for visiting and happy crafting. 

Pam

Learning to Color with Copics

Wow, I've been MIA for awhile. Moving into a new apartment, a granddaughter graduating and summer school have kept me very busy. I'm still settling in and trying to organize my apartment. I need my craft area organized so I can get crafting.

I'm so excited about some new classes I'm taking at my LSS, Creativ You & Co. The fabulously talented Rhea Weigand of Passionate Paper Creations is teaching Copic coloring. Rhea is such an amazing person. She is an outrageously talented artist and designer, and a fabulous teacher. She's teaching technique classes and card classes. So far, we've had one of each class.

Here's my first attempt at coloring an image. The image is the adorable Bunny Luv stamp from Stampendous.

My coloring is pretty pathetic. I know I have so much to learn and I need to practice, practice and practice some more. I'll never be as good as Rhea or some of my other blog friends, but hopefully each attempt will be better than the one before.

Now I'll let you in on a little secret:  I never liked to color. I'm probably the only person in the world who doesn't. Actually, I should say didn't like to color - til now. Thanks, Rhea!

Have a great week and Happy Crafting!

Graduation Centerpieces & Moving

Just popping in to say I haven't been posting because I'm moving. It's so hard to believe that I have accumulated so much in the 12 years I've been in this apartment. I have to admit that probably 1/3 of my boxes are labeled stamp or scrapbook materials. That's wild, considering I didn't do either of these when I      moved here. So, it's been time to sort and purge.

Yesterday I did take so time to make the table centerpieces for my granddaughter's graduation. Thanks so much to my dear friend, Rosalie, for helping me assemble them. Thanks also to another dear friend, Lorraine, for the idea.

Skyler's school colors are orange and black, and I thought that they'd turn out looking like Halloween. I'm so happy that they didn't. I used orange flower pots & ribbon, black flowers & deco mesh and graduation straws used as skewers to hold the Class of 2014 foam pieces, with a silvery glitter star glued to the mesh. All of the materials were purchased at Michaels. I love the way they turned out.

Time to go back to packing boxes. Oh, I can't wait until this is over!