Something Spooky This Way Comes

Happy October everyone! It's the first, which means new release day over at So Suzy Stamps - I hope you're ready for some spooky fun.

I love the new little Halloween kitty! The sentiment is also epic, and did I mention we were given little chipboard pieces to play with? Oh yes, yes we were. The ghosts I coated with Ranger White Crackle Paint and the pumpkin I first painted with Orange Marmalade Distress Paint, then coated with Clear Crackle Paint when it was dry. They came out perfect and the pieces didn't warp at all!

The sentiment I simply stamped with black ink, but my kitty was stamped with black VersaFine then clear heat embossed for extra texture. Thanks to Pinterest, I found this great idea of adding on washi tape and those spooky eyes have just been sitting on my desk, waiting for me to use it.

A little blurry, I know, but you can really see the texture and shine.

A little layering of black and orange cardstock and this spooky card was done. I may have trouble parting with it!

Be sure to check out what the rest of the team came up with - we went Halloween happy this month!

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Happy Crafting!

So Suzy Stamps Stupendous Birthday Blog Hop

Hey everyone - enjoying all the birthday fun?? You should be arriving from Jenny's fun blog, but if you just stumbled in be sure to head on over to the So Suzy Stamps page for the full list of events, bloggers, and confetti!

It turned out that I actually had a few of the very first stamps in my collection to choose from, so I grabbed two of my favorite sentiments - "Happiness is..." and "Sending you an instant hug".

I stamped Happiness is... on a piece of 4.25"x5.5" Neenah Solar White cardstock in that luscious gold Delicata ink and then die cut three butterflies out of the panel. For some texture I ran it through an embossing folder and then made light marks on an A2 card base showing where my butterflies were. I then added some washi tape to the card base thus "coloring in" my butterflies. Some adhesive to hold it down and the second sentiment stamped inside with a little confetti heart and this pretty card was done.

All right, now I'm sending you off to Kim's blog! Be sure to join in all the birthday festivities we have going on today (psssttt...there are prizes involved!)

Scavenger Hunt on So Suzy Stamps Website - $10 Gift Certificate - 5 Winners

Blog Hop on...So Suzy Stamps Blog - $10 Gift Certificate  - Drawing (1 winner)

Instagram Photo Bomb - $10 Gift Certificate - Drawing (1 winner)

 - Be sure and use #SoSuzy1stBday

Facebook Birthday Party - $10 Gift Certificate - Drawing (1 winner)

Participate in all of the festivities - $25 Gift Certificate - Drawing (1 winner)

20% off everything in the store - No coupon required

Happy Partying!

Crafty Friends...

Happy almost Christmas everyone!

A few things of note:

The 12 Days of Cards has stalled out at day 5. I've learned that video editing can be much, much more time consuming than one thinks (and bravo to everyone that does it on a regular basis!) thus squashing my plan of "oh, I'll just film, edit, and type in one night!" Hah. It's a minimum 2 day job.

• There will be more videos. I'm just throwing in the towel for this series this year, not forever and ever. 
• Part of my plan for 2015 is to get a good posting schedule going for myself. With (3) design teams to keep up with is it any wonder a planner is on my Christmas list? ;)

Speaking of those Design Teams:

• There's still time to enter the Watercolor Challenge over at a2z Scrapbooking. Be sure to use a Hero Arts product to qualify. If you don't have any, feel free to sneak an order in and use coupon code JENNIFER15 to take 15% off your $25 purchase. Consider it Christmas shopping for yourself. ;)
• There's still time to enter the Anything Goes Challenge over at So Suzy Stamps as well! Be sure to use a So Suzy Stamp product to qualify; with all the lovely (and snarky) stamps she has, there's sure to be something that speaks to you. And may I just say, wait until you see the January release...
• Over at Mountain Plains Crafters, not only are we doing a just-for-fun challenge featuring glitter today on the blog, but we have a fantastic post coming up on January 4th featuring the new adornit line!

Speaking of glittery goodness, we made the remark at MPC the other day that glitter is stronger than blood, sparking MariLynn to challenge us to break out the glitter and craft it up! I grabbed one of those watercolor pieces I had stashed, added the sentiment with some gold glitter embossing powder, then made a striped background with some gold washi tape.

Be sure to head over and see what everyone else created!

Happy Crafting!

Growing in Unity Day 1 - Shake It, Baby!

Good morning everyone! I'm the Growing in Unity gal this week over on the Unity Stamp Co. blog, which means I'll be sharing a project created with my Unity stamps with you every day. Five posts in one week; wow! I invite you to come back each day and leave a comment for a chance to win your choice of (2) Itty Bitty stamps! Woohoo! If you're new to my blog, I'd love it if you became a follower and join in the fun over on the Caffeinated Papercuts Facebook page. :)

I decided to start the week with a bang...er, shake! I love shaker cards, and they're just so much fun to make. Seriously, just try making one and not smiling.

Fun and summery, right? The floral washi tape is actually holding together two pieces of acetate; I made a pouch for the handfuls of Pretty Pink Posh sequins I tossed in there. The washi also hides my adhesive lines...sneaky, huh? Stamped behind the acetate pouch is my flower, and...

...greeting! Give the card a shake to see the 'hidden message.' The butterfly I simply stamped, fussy-cut, and popped on with a Glue Dot. Note to self: foam adhesive doesn't stick to acetate well. Unless you want to chase butterflies, don't use it again.

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope to see you tomorrow for Day 2!

Happy Crafting!

Red, White, and Blue Stars Card

Yes, sometimes I really do still get to post twice in one night! I have time to show off one more card I made for a challenge.

Remembering with you

 The stripes and polka dots you see as the background paper are actually washi tape! I covered a sheet of paper with them, then punched a bunch of stars out of a pretty shimmer white cardstock. I felt it needed just a little something more, so I stamped two of the star punches with tiny stars from Lawn Fawn. To finish them off, I traced the edges with my Distress Markers in red and blue before layering them on with foam tape. The sentiment is from Pink by Design.

Side view of the card so you can see all of those lovely layers

Oooo, layers!

I'm linking this one up to:
Washi Up! - use red, white, and blue washi tape

Happy crafting!

Pinwheel 'Happy Birthday' Gift Tags

So I have to say, I love Pink by Design stamps. They have fun stamps that give a nice, clean impression time after time. So when I discovered that they're doing weekly challenges now I just had to jump on board!

You can find this week's challenge on their blog: Ink it Pink it Challenge PbD03: Red, White, & Blue

So, I was going to link up the sailboat card I made, but then I got the urge to make pinwheels. I've been wanting to make them ever since I saw the Lawn Fawn tutorial video a few months ago and today I had a brainstorm as to what to do with them. (Yes, it did hurt a little...all good brainstorms do.)

So I grabbed a piece of My Mind's Eye 6x6 paper and made a little 3"x3" square. Some cutting, hole punching, and folding got me an adorable pinwheel! I secured it with a pretty brad and attached it to half a lollipop stick with a Glue Dot. I then grabbed one of the shipping tags I had crumpled up, smoothed out, and rubbed Distress Ink all over and added some of my new addiction to it - washi tape.

I am absolutely in love with the stuff! I have 6 rolls I'm playing with now and more on the way...shhh, don't tell my husband! One of the really, really cool things about washi tape is that you can stamp on it! In keeping with the theme, I added a strips of red polka dot & blue striped washi to the bottom of my tag and stamped it with one of the Happy Birthday sentiments from the Pink by Design set Birthday, Birthday. It is quickly becoming my go-to set for birthdays. There are so many different fonts! I liked the fun feel of this one:

Are you seeing how cute this is?? I added my pinwheel onto the tag and I was DONE! It was so quick & easy!

All I need is a package or gift bag to put it on!

Of course, then I was standing there going "you know, I already have another square and lollipop stick ready to go..." and suddenly I had two gift tags. I reversed the paper and washi tapes in the second one to make them a little different.

They're just so bright & cheerful!

So then I realized that the baby was still asleep...and I wondered what they'd look like on the red tags I had done up...and suddenly I had four gift tags.

Making these might be a bit addicting...

Aren't they just so stinkin' CUTE! They would be such an adorable addition to a present...heck, they're practically a present within themselves! I'm putting them up in the store as well, hopefully they head off to a good home quickly. I like it when my creations get a good home.

So, are you all off to make pinwheels now? :)