Happy Little Stampers - Mixed Media Challenge October

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Here is my inspiration for Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge

Do pop over and see my teamies fabulous makes!!

Recipe:

1. Green card base.

2. Layer of lilac card.

3. Layer of white card with Tim Holtz Mixed Media die cut from it - alcohol ink background placed behind the holes.

4. Faux stitching around the first two layers with lilac fineliner.

5. Tim Holtz Umbrella Man cut from lilac card.

6. Birthday stamps stamped on tags - dies and stamps from Craftstash.

Hope you will join the challenge!!

Happy Crafting!

October 6th - Day 6 of 31DOH, Hiding in my Craft Room #372

Hiding in my Craft Room

Do pop over and see the inspiration from my teamies!!

Here is my make for HIMCR #373 - Halloween Colours!

The sponsor is A Day for Daisies!

The giveaway is $12 gift certificate to A Day for Daisies!

Recipe:

1. This is one of my favourite card folds - I used it the other day for a Christmas card - it is so easy just taking a 4 inch strip from a 12 by 12 and then scoring and folding at 2,4,8 and 10 inches. It folds down to a 4 by 4 square.
2. I used papers from Magic Moments Paper Pad from The Works, using another paper to mat each section.
3. I used a few Copics to add colour to the image which is Candy Corn Broom from A Day for Daisies. I then cut it out and stuck it to the right hand side with white glue, so that the image overlaps the middle folds..
4. Halloween is a die cut - using a die from last year's Tattered Lace Advent Calendar.
5. The cat came from Australia - it was stuck on the back of an envelope from Sarah Nancarrow in December 2016! 

Hope you will join the HIMCR challenge!

This is also my make for Day 6 of 31 Days of Halloween...

This year Leigh is hosting 31DOH!

🎃LeighSBDesigns 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

Oct 1 - 31, 2018

The Blog Hop linky party opens Oct 1st at 5 past midnight PDT and ends at 5 to midnight on Oct 31st!  

For more details go to
🎃 LeighSBDesigns annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

I will be sharing today's Halloween make on Leigh's page....

Thanks to everyone who entered my first SPOT PRIZE draw.

What was my main 31DOH make last year?

I made an ATC book, upcycling some packaging and covering back and front with gelli plate pulls.

 I added pages and then started decorating the whole with Tim Holtz ephemera, stickers, embellishments and my ATCs.

The final page looked like this:

There were also tags throughout the book:

The book tie incorporated another ATC using LeighSBDesigns - Tangled Witch Hat

Many of you gave me the correct answer and one of you will receive a prize!

The name was picked from the hat by an independent observer (my husband!!)

The winner is ... Sue Eisenhauer (Ike) 🐈🐈🐈🐈


Congratulations!

Please email your address and your prize will be shortly be on its way...

susanrenshaw0404@gmail.com


Watch out for the next SPOT PRIZE!!

Happy Hopping! So pleased that some of you have noticed the return of the skellies!!

Crafty Hazelnut's Weekly Challenge #406 - Include a flower

a new Christmas Challenge every Saturday!

Today Crafty Hazelnut brings a new weekly Christmas Challenge

with the theme 'Add a flower'.

Do pop over and see the inspiration from my teamies!

Here are my cards...

Recipe:

1. Rectangular red and green card blanks.
2. Happy Christmas stamped directly onto the card blanks with Versafine. Stamp from Craftstash.
3. I stamped many poinsettia in red and green using Brushos. I then cut these out and layered them on the cards. Stamp is from Happy Little Stampers.

I hope you will join the

CHNC Challenge 406

Happy Crafting!

October 5th - Day 5 of 31 Days of Halloween

This year Leigh is hosting 31DOH!

🎃LeighSBDesigns 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

Oct 1 - 31, 2018

The Blog Hop linky party opens Oct 1st at 5 past midnight PDT and ends at 5 to midnight on Oct 31st!  

For more details go to
🎃 LeighSBDesigns annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

I will be sharing today's Halloween make on Leigh's page....

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Don't forget to keep watching and commenting for the chance to win spot prizes and some of my makes!

I mentioned my first SPOT PRIZE on Monday - email the answer to susanrenshaw0404@gmail.com before midnight October 5th - this is your last chance to go in the draw for this first prize...

What did I make as my main 31DOH project last year?

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 Day 5 of 31DOH... an altered chocolate box!

My husband and I enjoyed a short trip to Prague earlier in the year - 
I brought back a box of chocolates for my Mum and Dad...

Of course I hoped that Mum would give the box back eventually for me to upcycle - and she did - a couple of days ago!! I wanted to keep some of the features of the box but make it generally more spooky!!

Here's how the sides of the box look now:

This is the back - I covered the centre of the panel with part of a paper from The Other Side by Craft Box. I had first embossed this using copper embossing powder and two stamps designed by Rick St Dennis for Smeared Ink in 2013!

I then added a sparkly spider and a metal skeleton.

This is the front side, similarly decorated but leaving the clock parts visible.

So...no chocolate inside...but untie the ribbon, pull on the piece that is clipped by the top spider:

 I will also link this altered chocolate box to...

Dream in Darkness - because this is the BEST MONTH OF THE YEAR

Lost Coast Portal Challenge #62 - I have used two rubber stamps!

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My original plan was to place one of these inside the box:

But they were both too big...!!

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All these orange sparkly spiders were in my Halloween box - and as I was looking through it, I decided to start adding things to my vintage treadle sewing machine 
to start my Halloween display:

The candles were made by stamping that SU witch on tissue and melting them on to the candles (one was showing the reverse). I also added my 'hallo kitty' and 'Devil Boy' pegs to my calendar. I made these using two of my favourite Smeared Ink digis some years ago!

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To finish today... I had a few scraps on my worktable so I made a couple of ATCs:

Happy Hopping!

October 4th - Day 4 of 31 Days of Halloween

This year Leigh is hosting 31DOH!

🎃LeighSBDesigns 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

Oct 1 - 31, 2018

The Blog Hop linky party opens Oct 1st at 5 past midnight PDT and ends at 5 to midnight on Oct 31st!  

For more details go to
🎃 LeighSBDesigns annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

I will be sharing today's Halloween make on Leigh's page....

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Don't forget to keep watching and commenting for the chance to win spot prizes and some of my makes!

I mentioned my first SPOT PRIZE on Monday - email the answer to susanrenshaw0404@gmail.com before midnight October 5th -

What did I make as my main 31DOH project last year?

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 Day 4 of 31DOH... Another trio of ATCs.

However I decided to go a little less scary!!

I have been collecting the Sainsbury's Lego cards for some little people I know - I still need about 6 but I have ended up with lots of swaps.

I thought I could use some of the swaps on ATCs - and I recently made this set for the
 ATC SWAP UK  on Facebook:

But for 31DOH I needed more appropriate images, so I came up with these 3:

I started with rectangles of card from my stash matted with scraps of background made by sprinkling Brushos through a tree stencil and spritzing with water.
I then added the images and some embellishments - a metal owl, red gems, a hat brad.

Happy Hopping!