Super Scary Halloween Haunted House

I completely LOVE that Joel shares my love for hangin' out in the craft room gettin' messy. He's been working on this haunted house for DAYS!!!

With some finishing touches this morning he has decided it's finished.

He punched and crimped the shingles for the roof, coloured and spritzed the screen door, stamped scary halloween-y vampires, bats and skeltons, used the cuttlebug to cut out a skull, made a row of pumpkins for the lawn and hung bats from the telephone wire! On the side that you can't see, he used the owl punch to make some googly eyed ghosts too!
I don't think the pictures do justice to all the hard craft work that went into this creation!!

 Here's a close up of the screen door (note the skull door knob & ghost inside)

Look what I made!!

Drunken Stampers Challenge 143 - Die Cuts

Happy Happy Saturday!!! The Yellow Canaries are back this week with a THING based challenge. Be sure to check out the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG for all the details on this week's challenge.  
 
I love Halloween!! Any excuse to make a Halloween card, I am all over it...so for this challenge I thought I would use my skull and crossbones die cut. Then I thought it would be fun to add Oct 31 in matching design paper using a different set of alphabet dies...so here's what I came up with...

I also used scraps of the design paper under the skull to make the eye and nose holes stand out a little more.

SUPPLIES: 

Basic Black cardstock (SU)

Retired design paper (SU)

Core-dinations cardstock (Tim Holtz)

Skull & alphabet dies (Provo Craft)

Sanding block (SU)

Want to play along??? You have until 11:59 PM on Friday October 4th to upload your project to the Drunken Stampers Blog...maybe you will be our next Life of the Party!!

 

Scraptures Finally Friday - Washi Cards

Time for another Finally Friday challenge at SCRAPTURES 

I love washi tape...love it love it love it...I love the bright colours, I love using it to hang stuff on my fridge instead of magnets. I was looking at washi cards on Pinterest and these two caught my eye
 
PINTEREST WASHI CARDS
 
I am NOT very good at CAS (clean and simple) cards, for some reason I feel like every piece of white space has to be filled in...yes I know...I am working on that...HA HA HA 

So here's what I came up with based on the Pinterest cards:
 

 SUPPLIES:

Recollections kraft cardstock (Michaels)
Whisper White cardstock (SU)
Tuxedo black ink (Momento)
Washi tape (ordered through Scraptures)
Healthy Vibes stamp set (Paper Smooches)
Treasures stamp set (CTMH)

Drunken Stampers Challenge #142 - Place - London

This week the Tropical Hooters are up with a Place challenge...and the place....LONDON!!

Be sure to visit the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG for all the details on this challenge and to show the Tropical Hooters some crafty love!!

I couldn't resist this challenge, I have THE perfect set of stamps (2 actually) and embossing folders. My Tim Holtz "London Sights" stamp set and London Icons & Union Jack set embossing folders practically begged me to get inky!! Through in the Carry On set from SU and Bob's Your Uncle!! So grab a cuppa...we're off to jolly old London!

Here's the first card I made for the challenge...I heat embossed directly on the sanded core-dinations cardstock.

SUPPLIES:

Pacific Point and Whisper White cardstock (SU)

Red Core-dinations cardstock (Tim Holtz)

Union Jack embossing folder (Tim Holtz)

London Sights stamp set (Tim Holtz)

Versamark ink

Black embossing powder

And here's the second card I made for the challenge (I like this one better so saved it for last):

 

SUPPLIES:

Midnight Muse and Whisper White cardstock (SU)

Red Core-dinations cardstock (Tim Holtz)

London Icons embossing folder (Tim Holtz)

London Sights stamp set (Tim Holtz)

Carry On stamp set (SU)

Barn Door & Faded Jeans distress markers (Tim Holtz)

Want to get in on the fun?? Link your project to the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG by 11:59 pm PST and YOU could be our next Life of the Party!!

 

 

Scraptures - Finally Friday - September 20, 2013

It's Friday....that means it's time to hop on over to SCRAPTURES for another Finally Friday challenge!!

For this week's Finally Friday I wanted to make a wedding card...but a different kind of wedding card. My cousin is getting married this weekend and he is a thrash-metal-drummer-tattooed kinda fella, so I didn't think the typical hearts and frills wedding card would work for him and his lovely bride-to-be. I wanted to make something kind of steampunk-ish, so this week's Finally Friday is a mish-mash of different things, including the gold bling which were "borrowed" from his sister's wedding in April...shhhhhhhhhh....

SUPPLIES:

Black & kraft cardstock (August card kit)
Design paper - Prima "Craftsman Collection) (August card kit)
Prima Decorative Wood Embellishments (August card kit)
Game spinner (SU)
Washi tape (from a previous card kit)
My Favourite Things "Mini Chicken Wire" stencil (September card kit)
Dylusions chocolate ink spray
Tim Holtz chit chat stickers

Drunken Stampers Challenge 141 - Person - Bartender

If there was ever a more suitable challenge for the Drunken Stampers, I am not sure what it is...this week's Person / Place / Thing theme is a person...our favourite person...a bartender!!

For this challenge you can use a bartender, drinks or a bar as your inspiration, or all THREE if you are so inclined. Don't forget to visit the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG for all the details on this challenge and to show my Yellow Canary teammates some crafty love.

In fact, in honour of this week's challenge, here is a Yellow Canary drink recipe for you to try out from GOOD COCKTAILS:

1 1/2 oz. Rum (Light)

1/2 oz. Cointreau® Orange Liqueur or Triple Sec

1/2 oz. Galliano® Liqueur 

1/2 oz. Lime Juice

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass.

Now that you've got your cocktail handy...here's my card for this week's challenge:

 

SUPPLIES:

lucky limeade, pacific point and whisper white cardstock (SU)

word window punch (SU)

orange polka dot DP (SU)

cheers to you stamp set (SU)

lucky limeade, pumpkin pie, daffodil delight and real red markers (SU)

champagne glitter paint (SU)

paper piercer and mat (SU)

black stazon ink

computer generated sentiment

Don't forget to link up your project for this week's challenge on the Drunken Stampers blog by 11:59 pm PST on Friday September 20th...maybe  YOU will be our next life of the party!!!

 

 

Paper Smooches...my new love

I love the awesome cards that my Drunken Stamper sisters Jessi and Chris (aka the evil doublmint twins) have made with PAPER SMOOCHES STAMPS.

Our other friend Barb has a bunch of stuff for sale on her blog (you should totally check it out!!!) I couldn't resist buying three sets of Paper Smooches stamps. They are freakin' fantastic!!! Such clear crisp images...super cute and funny!! I love them!!

So here are the first two cards I made with my new Paper Smooches stamps (thanks Barb....and Jessi for being a total enabler!!!)

 

SUPPLIES:

White cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina)

Black staz-on ink

Paper Smooches stamp set "Healthy Vibes"

Retired SU DP (for the edge and paper piecing)

SUPPLIES:

White cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina), red cardstock (Joanne's)

Black staz-on ink

Paper Smooches stamp set "Birthday Buddies"

Retired SU DP

SU markers - real red, marina mist, pumpkin pie, blossom blush, lucky limeade

 

 

Scraptures - Finally Friday - September 13

Happy Friday the 13th!!
For this week's Finally Friday over at SCRAPTURES I used the papers and element stickers in the September card kit for a quick and easy layout...the papers are perfect for a picture I took during one of our first family game nights.
Joel chose Monopoly and I think the look on his face says it all...

SUPPLIES:

Red cardstock (also from the September card kit)

Element stickers and design paper (Play On) from Well Played by Bella Carta

Scraptures - WCW - September 11, 2013

Every Wednesday is "WILD CARD WEDNESDAY" over at SCRAPTURES. This month Chelle is working with the September card kit featuring "Well Played" by Bella Carta. You can see her card here on the Scraptures Blog.

Here's my take on Chelle's card, instead of balloons I used circles punched from the chevron DP I had used on another project (you can see that one tomorrow).

SUPPLIES:

White cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina)

Tim Holtz black soot distress ink

Hero Arts "Awesome" stamp set (also from the September 2013 card kit)

Bella Carta "Well Played" chevron DP

 

Scraptures - Finally Friday - September 6, 2013

This month's card kit from SCRAPTURES features Carta Bella "Well Played" and I am loving the papers in the kit!  I made this card with a certain friend in mind who is going through some "stuff" these days...luckily she has a strong sense of faith and an excellent sense of humour, so I know that for her, the best IS yet to come.

SUPPLIES:

Kraft & black cardstock
Queen & Co. red rhinestones
Sheer black 3/8 ribbon
Carta Bella "Well Played" - Chevron DP & Element Stickers

(all from the Sept 2013 Scraptures Card Kit)

Cousins are a girl's best friend!!!

Recently my lovely "girl cousins" took me out for dinner to celebrate Joel's adoption. I have always felt lucky to come from a large family and have always felt blessed to have LOTS of cousins.

I made a set of six of these thank you cards for the girls who took me out a few weeks ago. I forgot to take the filmstrip frame setting off my camera when I took the picture...ooops :)

 

SUPPLIES:

White card stock (gift from my friend Georgina), kraft and black cardstock

Pink chevron DP - Amy Tangerine "Sketchbook" from the Scraptures July 2012 card kit

Twit Twoo stamp set (branch and sentiment) by Kelly Panacci (gift from my friend Jessi)

Versamark ink

Black embossing powder

SU owl & extra large oval punch