The Challenge - Batty about you!

I am thrilled to be The Challenge's Guest Designer this week!  With this challenge - every week is a whole new ball game....uhm...challenge!

This week is a sketch challenge so I brought out my new Reverse Confetti Treat Yo-self stamp set. My background patterned papers are from Reverse Confetti Fright Night 6 x 6 Pad- their NEW patterned papers! Using Your Next Stamp's Double Stitched Hills Die, I cut the patterned paper to make some scary hills - right?!

I stamped the sentiment onto the white circle cut from the Circle 'n Scallops Confetti Cuts and adhered it to the scalloped Confetti Cuts circle..  I popped it up too the patterned paper and flanked it with the cute bats from Halloween Bits Confetti Cuts.  I couldn't resist placing the ghost behind the scalloped circle peeking out and saying BOO!

I also made a little treat container using the Treat Tube Topper Confetti Cuts.  I diecut two toppers and stamped the sentiment in Reverse Confetti Tangerine Ink. This is the easiest container ever to put together - two pieces of tape per end is all you need! 

I tied black twine around each end and slid it onto the plastic tube that is full of Trident Gum - and it's orange - what a score!

My black twine was not in a co-operative mood.

Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz!

Good Morning!! Today is the Day - the 17th of every month, that we celebrate Waltzingmouse Stamps by having a Blog Party! 

To get this party started, you only need three things:

1. You need to be able to link your project on the Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog on the 17th, at the appropriate time, using a direct URL to your project
2. Your project needs to pertain to the current party them.
3. You need to use Waltzingmouse Stamps images

The theme this month is a colour challenge! and here are the appropriate colours for this month!

and here is my project, using Hallowe'en party Stamp Set

....I made a little party invitation and placed it strategically behind the little iron fence die.

Everything is on an angle in this invitation - you are not going wonky lol!

The little gift bag is also decorated with Waltzingmouse Stamps Hallowe'en Party! The circle around the little "scary" owl was made by stamping the frame from Very Vintage Labels No.1, and then die cutting it out with a circle.

.....and I know that green is not in the colour scheme, but it was the only colour of tissue paper that I had dang it......lol


Cardstock: (Royal Velvet, Orange Zest, True Black, Rustic Cream) Papertrey Ink 
Stamps: (Hallowe'en Party) Waltzingmouse Stamps
Ink: (Orange Zest, Royal Velvet) Papertrey Ink,  (Tuxedo Black) Memento
Accents: (Wrought Iron Fence) Memory Box, (Custom Waltzingmouse Dies - Opera Tags) Spellbinders, (Banner Borders Die, Favor-It Box 2 Die, Spiral Notebook Page Die) Papertrey Ink, (Circle Dies) Spellbinders, (Ooey Gooey Punch) Martha Stewart

Happy Hallowe'en!

Good day - these are the cute little treat abags that I am passing out this year!

We live in the rural area of Southwestern Ontario, and we only get  few little munchkins that come around - so I can really stuff the bags full of candy and treats!!

I simply decorated up some kraft lunch bags that I bought at the grocery store, with Echo Park Apothecary 6 x 6 paper pad and a Martha Stewart spider web punch. I also added the #13 (how spooky am I??!) using Papertrey Ink's number die cuts!

Hope you have a spooky and safe evening!

Apothecary Emporiam (Echo Park)

Spider Web Deep Edge Punch (Martha Stewart)

Tombow Glue

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Geronimo!

Good day and it's time for another The Cat's Pajamas challenge! This week the team is challenging us to use acetate on our projects - you know - those see through sheets of acrylic!

I decided to use one of the tutorils from Splitcoaststampers Resources page - there is a plethora or amazing projects and the tutorials to go with them.


I found an Acetate Box tutorial and decided that it didn't look too hard to put together - I'm all about being easy these days...in a crafty sort of way!

I decorated it up with my new stamp set - Geronimo! and my new Circus border die - love it! with the Circus Panels to boot!


This little guy is parachuting in to get all that candy that I have stuffed in this box!

Too late little buddy - it didn't last long after this picture was taken ;)!

Geronimo (The Cat's Pajamas)	Stampers Select White (Papertrey Ink)	Orange Zest Cardstock (Papertrey Ink)	Acetate Sheets (Stampendous)
Circus Border (The Cat's Pajamas)	Cloud Border Die (The Cat's Pajamas)	Circus Panels (The Cat's Pajamas)

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Happy Hallowe'en!

Good day!  I am off to the Brigden Fair today with my daughters and grandchildren - FUN!! It is the last fair of the season around our area and for once the weekend (our Thanksgiving weekend!) is totally gorgeous!

I am still doing the Hope You Can Cling To Challenges on Splitcoaststampers! Today the challenge is to have something hanging on your card!

The Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoaststampers is from the website Gelaskins - an ultra COOL way to dress up your tekky stuff - iphones, ipads etc!

So I have combined both of these challenges with this card!

See the little hanging bat...... that is part of the hanging challenge LOL.

My photo from the Gelaskins is this one - I LOVE the purpleness and lately (and heaven knows why..) I am really into purple!

To get the horizon effect, I dragged my small memento inkspot directly over the paper, starting in the middle and working my way - very quickly, over and over!

Well, I am off to the fair! yay!

Hallowe'en Party (Waltzingmouse Stamps)	Midnight Feast (Waltzingmouse Stamps)	Asian Garden (Waltzingmouse Stamps)	Black Ruffled Edge Ribbon (May Arts)	Stampers Select White (Papertrey Ink)
Royal Velvet (Papertrey Ink)	Dimensionals glue (Sticky Thumb)	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink	Tombow Glue

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Happy Hallowe'en!

Good morning my dear friends! 

What a nice warm day here in Southwestern Ontario! Such a wonderful start to the autumn season...... And Hallowe'en is coming!! (what a segway....)


I just had these sweet stamps delivered to my door from Taylored Expressions so I decided to use the Taylored Expressions sketch challenge and make a Hallowe'en card. 

I am NOT a lover of Hallowe'en and I am sure it all stems back to having the most horrible weather - snow or sleet or pouring rain every year my children were dressing up and I was driving them around. 


But I LOVE making Hallowe'en cards! so here it is and I took a couple of liberties with the sketch - but hey - that's what it's all about right?!

I used the set called Toil & Trouble and stamped and coloured the jar of poison (oh yes, I'm sure it is poison!) and the skull using the warm colours of grey copic markers. The witch hat is a solid stamp so that was easy enough!


The little bureau is called Apothecary Shelf, and I stamped and coloured it with the warm greys again.....

Why don't you give the sketch a try?


I cannot let this day go by without a mention of September 11, 2001. My prayers go out to all of you today and everyday that lost loved ones on that day. It seems kind of weird that there is a "special" day of remembrance, as I am sure that those victims are thought of every day and not just once a year. But such as it is, it is a day of remembrance and we do remember.

Friend. Good.

I am loving these little Whimsie Doodle Freaky Little Friends!

They are digital images and just so cute!  I decided to make little tags that I can put on all the goodie bags for my little freaky friends that I will get at my door on Hallowe'en night.

We live in a very rural area and we only have about 6 - 10 little munchkins that come around so I can make these up in minutes! 

I ran off the images and sentiments on my computer,  coloured them up with my copic markers (yeh, I overdid the colouring!) and punched out the circles with the large (pink) Marvy punch!

I die cut the large tags with Papertrey Ink's Tag Sale #4, and the sentiment tags with the Spellbinders Tag Die Trio.  Then I tied some ribbon and twine and finished them up!

They will be super easy to attach to a treat bag! Woo hoo!

Thanks for coming around!

I"ve Got my Eyes on You!

This week's Hambo Hoedown challenge was to use texture somewhere on your creation, and since I played in last week's challenge, they sent me the free Moonscape digi  to use-- very cool!!

I paired it up with the Eye Monster - digi and came up with this creation! 

I printed the Moonscape -digi on Hopscotch Basic Grey paper and then shaded it with a copic marker. The Eye Monster digi was coloured with my copic markers - isn't he a pretty colour?! Maybe it's a she today haha!

For the texture part of the challenge, I die cut some stars from the Spellbinders star dies and then ran them through the Crafts Too hearts embossing folder, added a button and pearls and presto - done!!

Thanks for coming around today - we are off to a Volkswagen show with the old truck - it is NOT raining. woohoo!!

Witching You......

Good morning friends and happy Wednesday --also know as hump day - the middle of the week - getting closer to the weekend yay!

I have a couple of DRS Designs images from our new Hallowe'en stamps that you are going to L-O-V-E!

I used the Broomstick Stella Witch and the Spirit of Hallowe'en Greeting to make a case card! I just stamped Stella and then coloured her with my copic markers, making a small trail of C-1 behind her to give the illusion of wind. 

The greeting was stamped in the bottom corner so as not to interfere with lovely Stella and as an added touch, the wonderful Zva Creative black flourish - I cut these flourishes up to my hearts content and then place the swirls where I want - makes for a money saving tip!

Have a boo-tiful day!!

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Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #27

WHAT??!! We are on 27??! Yikes.....where does the year go?

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I took my inspiration from the colours and the pumpkins - love those cute little pumpkins and I had to use my new Halloween Party Stamp Set from Waltzingmouse Stamps!

I decided to make my own designer paper with some of the various stamps of this Halloween Party set to show you that you don't just need to use it for invites - you can also use it for a card!



I used my Martha Stewart oeey gooey drippy zippy edge punch and highlighted it with those luscious Jet Zva Crystals strung across the card.

I used more crystals at the top of the card and then left it sentiment-less because I just couldn't see where it should go!

Using Zva Adhesive Dots, I popped up the main panel just for a fun change!

Everyone is invited to play along in the challenge!! If you do, be sure to link your creation to Mr. Linky on the HSE blog.

Every week, Rachel picks the top 5 and highlights them on the blog!! If you upload to SCS or PCP, be sure to use keyword: CIC27

Now please take a boo!!! over to the other Sweeties blogs to see how they were totally inspired!! AND we have a Guest Sweetie this challenge!! -one of our faithful followers, Ida P. Krause is playing this week so pop on over to Ida's blog and give her a big hug!

Carolina - Carolina's Creative Pad
Rachel - Hope Stamps Eternal
Colleen - Glitter Ink
Michelle - Stop and Stamp the roses
Tammy - Stamp Happy
Natalie - dougnat diaries
Jessica - Shamrocks and Seashells
Kelli - Yard Sale Kind of Luck