Love Bites ATC

Ok can I tell you how much I love this Zombie...well, I do! Last year Rick St. Dennis offered this Zombie as a freebie and I had to snag him. Now I have to admit, I am still learning the how-to's of coloring. I don't have the fancy Copics or any other well known markers, I only have Sharpies and I do my best with what I have. So when I saw that Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge was Zombies Need Love Too I knew I was going to have to color this guy up.

Here you can see how the glossy accents make the eyes and mouth look juicy.

Here you can see the 3 dimensional sticker

I used these items to create this ATC:

• Rick St. Dennis  digital stamp (I don't know if he has it available anymore for purchase or not)
• Martha Stewart heart lace edge punch
• Sharpie Markers
• white gel pen
• 3-D sticker - "Love Bites" heart

I am entering my ATC in the following challenges:

• Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge #121 - Zombies Need Love Too
• Haunted Design House - Rotten Romance

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Love Bites ATC.

Just a Lonely Zombie

It has been over a month since I created anything, mainly because I was going through radiation for the breast cancer I had. Now that it is over and my everyday isn't being interrupted by having to go to radiation I feel I have the time and the frame of mind to be creative again!

So for my 1st project since being done with radiation I created this card for Halloween. I know, your thinking Halloween in May? Yes, I'm always thinking ahead to the next Halloween. While browsing through some of the blogs I follow I came across Airless Chambers which is another Rick St. Dennis (who has amazing digital stamps) blog. They were offering a FREE Singing Zombie digital stamp, plus a challenge to use that digital stamp in the currant challenge. I jumped on it and started on my creation.

I first started looking at some images of The Walking Dead zombies to determine how I wanted to color my zombie. Then since this is suppose to be a singing zombie I decided to search the Internet for songs about zombies and came across a couple I liked. I decided to use "The Zombie Song" as my muse. Then I just started pulling out things from my stash to finalize my card.

I used these items to create my card:

• Singing Zombie FREE digital stamp
• sponged white, brown and green ink on the zombie
• Sharpie markers - hair, eyes, mouth, exposed body parts and background
• red pen - blood shot part of the eyes
• Glossy Accents - eyes, mouth and exposed body parts
• Design Studio - weld ZOMBIE
• Alphalicious Cricut cartridge - font
• Brain from Creepy Glowbugg which I attached it to a skewer (painted silver) to look like a microphone
• misc. ribbon
• Studio 112 adhesive gems

On the inside I used these items:

• computer generated sentiment
• Martha Stewart Goo edge punch

I am entering this card in the following challenges and linky party:

• Airless Chambers - Singing Zombie
• Haunted Design House #166 - Stephen King - he has written quite a few things about zombies
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday - Linky Party - Anything

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Just a Lonely Zombie card.

 

Chicken Pot Pie recipe layout

 

Here is a little better pic.

 



First I must say sorry about the awful photos I will replace them ASAP but I wanted to make sure I was able to enter my Chicken Pot Pie recipe layout in the following challenges and linky party:

• Red Carpet Studio Challenge #24 - The Notebook - include journaling (mine is hidden)
• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #149 - Kiss the Cook - use a recipe
• DL ART- Thankful Thursday Linky Challenge - Anything Goes

This is the recipe.

 

 

 

This is my hidden journaling.

 

 

 

The 2nd page is my girls and my Mom

 



 

The chicken

 

 

I used these items to create my Chicken Pot Pie recipe layout:

• Design Studio - weld the letters
• Fabulous Finds Cricut cartridge - file folder and insert
• Jasmine Cricut cartridge - title font
• Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge - rolling pin (2nd page)
• Animal Kingdom Cricut cartridge - chicken (2nd page)
• Misc. clear stamps - "Traditions" and "Family"
• computer generated font - recipe and "Family" journaling
• Fiskars Sea Pearls corner punch - recipe
• round metal clip - hold file folder and hidden journaling together
• Black Sharpie Marker - rolling handles
• google eyes - chicken

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Chicken Pot Pie recipe layout.

 



Wicked Best Witches Cauldron Treat Holder



 Tonight I bring to you a cute little treat holder that I created for my daughter's 5th grade Halloween party...28 of these cute little cauldron treat holders to be exact!  I created the base (orange part) in the Design Studio by welding them together and just cut out the coordinating pieces.

 

 

Here I applied Glossy Accents to the bubbling liquid (green part), to give it some shine.  I stamped on the front with the "Wicked Best Witches" stamp from Bug Bites Stamps  - All Year Round stamp set. 

I used a brown Sharpie marker to color the stick of the blow pop to give it the look of a big wooden spoon.  I then punched a hole through the bubbling liquid to push the end of the stick through.

 

 

I used these items to create this Halloween Treat Holder:

• Design Studio
• Mini Monsters Cricut cartridge - cauldron
• Glossy Accents - on the bubbling liquid
•  Bug Bites Stamp - "Wicked Best Witches"
•  brown Sharpie marker - on stick of blow pop
•  Blow Pop
•  Glue Spots - to hold blow pop in place
 

I am entering this Halloween Treat Holder in the following challenges:

• My Craft Spot - Monday Challenge #72 - Treat for You - create a fun way to package treats - open til 10/15
• Party Time Tuesday - #89 Anything BUT a CARD! - open til 10/15
• Decorate to Celebrate - Challenge #35 - Halloween Party (Part 1) - Create a NEW project for a Halloween celebration (banners, signs, decorations, table decor, centerpiece, cakes, cupcakes, party favors or any other item directly associated with party decorations or party supplies. - open til 10/16
• Cardz TV - Anything Goes Cricut Cardz Challenge # 118 - Use your Cricut to make a card, layout or craft project using any cartridge(s), any theme and any colors you'd like - open til 10/23 noon EST.
• My Sheri Crafts Challenge #96 - Anything Halloween related - open til 10/25
• Cricut Fanatics - Cricut Crafty Challenge #2 - Creepy and Spooky - make a Halloween project. This can be any project you would like to do. Or if you don't celebrate Halloween make a project for Breast Cancer Awareness month. The only rule is that you use your cricut to create it. - open til 10/26
• Corrosive Challenge #160 - Treacherous Treats - Any Halloween themed treat container - open til 10/28
• DL ART- Thankful Thursday - Linky Party - ANYTHING GOES - open til 10/31
• My Crafting Channel Challenge #1 - Ghoul Times - ANYTHING Halloween - open til 10/31

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Wicked Best Witches Cauldron Treat Holder.



The Jersey Devil

When I saw the challenge over at Haunted Design House - HDH #153 - Creepy Cryptids I knew right away what I wanted to do...The Jersey Devil!  Being a former Jersey Girl myself I know all too well about the Jersey Devil.

Legend has it that in 1735, a Pines resident known as Mother Leeds found herself pregnant for the thirteenth time. (Leeds is the name of one of New Jersey’s earliest settlers, and many descendants of the Leeds family can still be found throughout NJ to this day.) Mother Leeds was not living a wealthy lifestyle by any means. Her husband was a drunkard who made few efforts to provide for his wife and twelve children. Reaching the point of absolute exasperation upon learning of her thirteenth child, she raised her hands to the heavens and proclaimed “Let this one be a devil!”
Mother Leeds went into labor a few months later, on a tumultuously stormy night, no longer mindful of the curse she had utter previously regarding her unborn child. Her children and husband huddled together in one room of their Leeds Point home while local midwives gathered to deliver the baby in another. By all accounts the birth went routinely, and the thirteenth Leeds child was a seemingly normal baby boy.

Within minutes however, Mother Leeds’s unholy wish of months before began to come to fruition. The baby started to change, and metamorphosed right before her very eyes. Within moments it transformed from a beautiful newborn baby into a hideous creature unlike anything the world had ever seen. The wailing infant began growing at an incredible rate. It sprouted horns from the top of its head and talon-like claws tore through the tips of its fingers. Leathery bat-like wings unfurled from its back, and hair and feathers sprouted all over the child’s body. Its eyes began glowing bright red as they grew larger in the monster’s gnarled and snarling face. The creature savagely attacked its own mother, killing her, then turned its attention to the rest of the horrified onlookers who witnessed its tempestuous transformation. It flew at them, clawing and biting, voicing unearthly shrieks the entire time. It tore the midwives limb from limb, maiming some and killing others.

You can read more about The Jersey Devil HERE

Here is a closer look at the title and the devil's wings, to show off the texture:

I used the following items to create this layout:

• Design Studio - I welded the wings, the horse body, horns, tail, and claws to the wings
• Wrap It Up Cricut cartridge - wings
• Old West Cricut cartridge - horse
• Animal Kingdom Cricut cartridge - horns and claws on the wings
• Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge - tail
• DCWV The Immortal Love Stack - background paper
• Fiskers Texture plate (leather) - on the wings
• Black Sharpie Marker - wings, mane, claws, claws on the wongs, tail, hooves and horns
• black ink - title
• Glossy Accents - title, claws, claws on the wings, and hooves
• foam squares - behind the title
• Pop-up glue spots - behind the devil

I am entering this layout about The Jersey Devil in the following challenges:

• Haunted Design House - HDH #153 - Creepy Cryptids - You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that has something to do with a creature or plant whose existance has been suggested but is unrecognized by scientific consensus and often regarded unlikely! - open til 10/7
• Forever Night Challenges - Freaky Friday #48 - Anything but a Card - open til 10/11

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Jersey Devil layout.

Fall Owl ATC

 

Today I bring you a simple Fall ATC with this adorable owl and tree limb (free) digital stamp from Paper Smooches.

I included some of these shiny Fall leaves.

I don't think you can see it in the photo but I used some foam squares on the owl to give the ATC a little dimension.

 

 

I am entering this ATC in the following challenges:

•  Dilly Beans Challenge - Owls - open til 9/13
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday - 1000 Post Linky Party - open til 9/30
• Getting Cricky - Simply Sunday Challenge - Happy Fall Y'all - open til 9/30    

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Fall Owl ATC.

Spooky Halloween Tag

Today I bring to you a Spooky Halloween Tag.  I don't know exactly what I am going to use this for, I don't ususally give gifts for Halloween...maybe I will this year though.  I had a blast making it and that is all that matters.

Here is a look at what this tag looks like on a bottle of wine and a close up of her bow:

I used these items to create this Halloween tag:

• Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge - tag and bats
• Dilly Beans stamp - #256-framed zombie girl with bow 1
• Sharpie markers
• Stickles - bow, hair, accents on the tag
• Martha Stewart glitter - bats
• Orange eyelets
• Black ribbon

I am entering this tag in the following challenges:

• Forever Night Challenges - Freaky Friday #43 - Creepy Tags/Anything - open til 9/6 
• Dilly Beans Challenge - Black and white plus one other color of your choice - open til 9/6
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday 1000 Post Linky Party - open til 9/30
• Getting Cricky - Simply Sunday Challenge - Happy Fall Y'all - open til 9/30

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Spooky Halloween Tag.

Frankie and His Bride ATC's

So I am totally digging doing these ATC's.  I'm enjoying the fact that I can plan, design, create and finish a single project in a day and that's with many interuptions.

Today I bring to you the very nervous Frankie and his Bride.  He is bringing his bride a bouquet of sweet candy.  You can see the look of uncertainty...will she have me or not?  None the less, isn't he too cute!!! 

Our Bride has the same thought and brings Frankie a box of candy.  True love in the making <3

I used these items to create these ATC's:

• Wooden rubber stamp from Michael's $1.00 bin from last year
• Sharpie Markers
• while gel pen
• clear stamp from Bug Bites - All Year Round set - "for you, from me"
• clear stamp from My Craft Spot - Inside & Out - set #2 - "love you!'
• Martha Stewart corner punch
• msic. candy stickers that I layered on white cardstock then cut around them
• white card stock rolled for the stems of the candy bouquet and Frankie's Bride's dress
• orange floss
• foam squares - to raise the candy bouquet and box of candy
• orange brads
• Martha Stewart glitter - for Frankie's Bride's dress and crown
• gem
• misc. stickers
• Cuttlebug - dress
• Swiss dots embossing folder - dress

I am entering these ATC's in the following challenges:

• Craft Your Passion Challenge #122 - Anything Goes - open til 8/12
• Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes - open til 8/13
• Wicked Wednesday ATC #44 - Frankie and His Bride open til 8/14
• DL ART - Happy Birthday Linky Party + GIVE AWAY! - open til 8/31

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Frankie and his Bride ATC's.

Sugar & Spice ATC - My 1st ATC!!!

Ok so this is my 1st attempt to create an ATC (I hope I did it right)?  I was graciously invited to try my hand at this by Jenn over at Wicked Wednesday ATC so here it is.

I used these items to create the ATC:

• Dilly Beans digital stamp #256-framed zombie girl with bow 1
• colored with Sharpie Markers
• pattern paper
• computer generated title "Sugar & Spice" - outlined with black ink pen
• pink gingham ribbon
• Genuine Kids button
• Green and pink stickles - the bow, hair, eye lid and lips
• Pop Dots - layered the green bow in her hair

I am entering this ATC in the following challenges:

• Shopping Our Stash Challenge #61 - Something New - use something you haven't used before (mine is the pattern paper and gingham ribbon) - open til 7/30
• Wicked Wednesday ATC #42 - Sugar and Spice - open til 7/31
• Dilly Beans Challenge - Ribbon - open til 8/2

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my 1st ATC - Sugar & Spice

Candy Witch card

I know, I know, a Halloween card?  Yes, a Halloween card!  If I haven't said it before I'll say it now, Halloween is my favorite holiday!!!  I love making cards, crafts, decorations, absolutely anything for Halloween.  I believe this is my 2nd card already this year for Halloween.  I was inspired by the challenge over at Dilly Beans.

I used these items to create this card:

• Dilly Beans digital stamp
• Sharpie markers
• Stickles
• Martha Stewart punch
• misc. Halloween stickers
• Glossy Accents - on all the candy parts and the "inside" parts of the easel card
• silver star brad

Here is a close up of all the stickling  and glossy accent:

Here is a closer look at the "inside" part of the easel card:

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Party Time Tuesdays #76 - Let's Get Punchy - open til 7/16
• Dilly Beans Challenge - Sparkle and Shine - open til 7/19
• Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Challenge - Anything Goes - open til 7/20

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Candy Witch card.

Easter Bunny in a Basket Shape card

Happy Easter to my fellow crafty bloggers!!!!  I had a fantastic morning with my family at church...cooking dinner now but super tired.  I worked til 12:45am last night, came home, did the Easter stuff and went to bed around 3:30am only to turn around and get up at 6:00am to help the girls find Easter eggs and check out what the Easter Bunny left in their Easter baskets.

Today I am sharing with you my Easter Bunny in a Basket shape card.  I am super excited about how this shape card turned out...in fact now that I think about I don't think I have ever done a shape card!  I made this card for my 2 year old daughter.  This is the 1st year she will start to understand Easter and what it is all about...and of course the Easter Bunny. 

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio - to weld the basket together
• Dilly Beans digital bunny stamp
• pink Sharpie marker - for the bunny
• Recollections white flock - for the bunny
• pink bow - for the bunny
• foam squares - to give the bunny paws the appearance he was going to jump out
• Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge - for the basket and eggs
• ribbon - for the basket
• Martha Stewart glitter - for the eggs
• Brown gel pen - to create the faux stitching around the basket.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Scrappy Moms Stamps - Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Easter - open til 4/9
• Cooking with Cricut Challenge #80 - Easter - open til 4/10
• More than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #68 - Easter/Spring theme - open til 4/10
• Dilly Beans Challenge - Easter or Spring - open til 4/12

I know my 2 year old daughter will not appreciate this card until she is much older and that's ok, I'll keep it in a very safe place until then. 

Thank you so much for checking out my Easter Bunny in a Basket Shape card and I hope you have a very Happy Easter!

Easter Fence Basket

This was such a fun project to make.  I wanted to create a little Easter scene and found this perfect fence box on on the Wrap it Up Cricut cartridge and this is what I made. 

I used these items to make this Easter fence basket:

• Design Studio
• Wrap it Up Cricut cartridge - for the fence box and grass
• Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge - for the eggs
• Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge - for the bunny
• Flower brads - to attach the strip of cardstock to create the handle of the basket
• Recollections flock - for the bunny
• google eyes -  for the bunny
• Pink Sharpie marker - for the bunny nose
• Martha Stewart glitter - for the eggs
• brown ink - to dirty-up the fence

I just added the stuffed bunny and eggs for display purposes.  I plan on giving this to my mom with some Easter candy in it.  I also thought this stuffed Easter froggie I got her would fit in it, but no he was too big.

Here are some other views of each side and an angel view to see 3D look created with the foam squares:

I am entering this Easter fence basket in the following challenges:

• Paper Sundaes Challenge #114 - Happy Easter - open til 4/7
• Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge Me Monday #105 - make a project with an egg on it (I have 8 eggs) - open til 4/8
• Scrappy Moms Stamps - Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Easter - open til 4/9
• Cooking with Cricut Challenge #80 - Easter - open til 4/10
• More than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #68 - Easter/Spring - open til 4/10

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Easter Fence Basket.

Zombie Love card

So I couldn't resist when I got this FREE digi from Dilly Beans to do her up in time to make the

• Zombie Love Challenge 
• Forever Night - Freaky Friday Challenge #25 - Create a project with the theme Alternative girls, plus the color challenge (red, black, grey and white). 
• Haunted Design House - HDH #119 Freakers Free For All

Once I got to coloring her everything else just fell in place...the glossy accents, then floss, the prefect paper and here she is.

I used these items to create my Zombie Love card:

• Dilly Beans Digital Stamp
• Sharpie markers
• Glossy Accents and floss - for the hearts
• white gel pen - for the eyes and accent in the hair
• metal charm - Love
• ribbon
• heart brads
• scissors - to hand cut the large heart
• misc. clear swirl stamps
• black ink

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my Zombie Love card.

If I couldn't have him, NO ONE WOULD!!!

For those of you have been following me might remember back in September I had displayed my Appalling Apothecary.  Well a piece of that apothecary was the heart of a (former) sinful boyfriend (in the jar to the right). 

Today I give you a little back story how that heart got there. 

My relationship with my former boyfriend was just like any other relationship, except I was in love with him but he was in love with someone else.  Once I found out about this, I felt that since I couldn't have him, NO ONE WOULD and I "took care of him!"

Here is how my memory box use to look like when were together:

Valentine's Day use to be a favorite holiday of ours until I found out that he was also planning to spend it with the other woman.  So I decided that Valentine's Day would be the perfect day for me to "take care of him!" 

I found a voodoo priestess and she instructed me how to make my very own paper voodoo doll.

Then when I knew he was with her, I did it!  I then claimed the heart that belonged to me and would NEVER belong to another! 

This was his hearts first resting place along side the wonderful memories we created together:

Now NO ONE will ever have his heart but ME!!!

I used these items to create my paper voodoo doll:

• Wonderstrange arts Free digital image Voodoo Doll which I printed out on craft paper (to give it a burlap look) and altered by cutting off the candy cane
• red Sharpie marker - for the heart
• Silver Gloss paint marker - for the pins
• white gel pen - for the heads of the pins
• Glossy Accents - for the entire pin to give it a more realistic look
• buttons - for the eyes
• floss - for the eyes, mouth and around the heart
• doily heart
• ribbon

I am entering this Paper Voodoo Doll in the following challenges:

•  Dilly Beans Challenge - Freaked - This week theme is "FREAKED" take it how ever you wish & get creative!
• Haunted Design House - HDH #117 - Shot Through the Heart - You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that includes a heart and a hole somewhere on the project

Ok, so obviously this is just a fictious story that I created to go along with my creation.  I hope I didn't freak you out too much!