Monday the 30th Half-O-Ween 2022

 The Something Wicked This Way Comes Half-O-Ween Blog Hop for 2022 is in full swing at LeighSBDesigns!  Today I have an offering of dark, shadowy love featuring the tall, dark handsome stranger and a sentiment from the Dark Valentine 2018 Collection!

I added some left over bits and bobs from the Gothic Nightmare Catcher SVG Cutz Set and added the delicate Sage from the Treestump Cottage Set!  I added Sage in Photoshop so I would get the transparent wings!  The papers were throw aways I had used before or wasn't happy with and I printed the stranger on a lovely bit of envelope that was headed to the garbage can!

Half-O-Ween 2022!

I am super excited to play in the Half-O-Ween Blog Hop at LeighSBDesigns but so amazed that time is just racing past me in a blur! Since I cannot solve the time issue right now I will show you my Gothic Crystal Ball Easel Card featuring Vampire Balleigh Monster and senti!

I used the spiderweb layer and bats from the Gothic Nightmare Catcher SVG Cutz Set and printed out a starry night sky from Free Pretty Things for You!  I colored up Vampire Balleigh Monster with Copics and added one of the senties that comes with him!  I inked up all the edges with Distress Inks! He is my entry for Day 1 of the Something Wicked This Way Comes Half-O-Ween Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns!  Leigh has a great sale going on now so check it out!👻

Mermaids Letter Page Circle Book for MerMay at LeighSBDesigns!

What a totally fabtastic time I had creating this wonderful Mermaids Letter Page Circle Book Make a Book SVG Cutz Set by LeighSBDesigns!  I wanted to do a cool effect to show each page but alas I couldn't pull it off but it still looks amazing to me!

Mermaid Scales Layered Circle SVG Cutz File on top of the "M" page with Coral Balleigh MerMonster with senti from FantaSea Senties!  Everything is colored with Copics, Distress Inks, acrylics and watercolors.

Cleopatra Oddleigh Mermemaid and senties with Egyptian Elements Florals and Column!

Anubus DogFish FantaSea Pet and Bastet the CatFish FantaSea Pet with sentis from FantaSea Senties Set!

Meri Oddleigh Mermaid with Fish and Starfish Friends and senti from FantaSeaScape Set!

Neptune Balleigh MerMonster with Shrimp Friend? 😁 and senties!

Poseidon Balleigh MerMonster and senti with a senti from FantaSea Senties!

FantaSeaScape with senti from FantaSea Senties Set!

Friends from Meri Oddleigh Mermaid and Friends with senties from FastaSea Senties Set!

Senti from Meri Oddleigh and Friends Set on Mermaid Scales Layered Circle SVG Cuts (Mermaid Circle Book Add On) added to back page of book!

Whew!  I hope my spelling is not too wacky as I get this added tonight!  I fussy cut the images and added shimmer watercolors for some of the water lines adding white acrylic paint mixed with interference paint for waves and foam and bits of froth!  That also was added to bubbles and eyes!  I used lots of Distress Inks to ink all edges of the book, scales, sentiments and images!  I also added some gold acrylic dots for the Egyptian pages and some of the other pages.   I made my own also wacky book binding that would allow for expansion as I added lots of foam dots to pop things up!  It worked basically but Susan and Leigh could have given me some better ways!  They are the pros at book bindings! Some of the  pages I have just added  the images and sentiments on and will be adding more bits and bobbles to them later!  I will show them to prove I did them!  This was such an absorbing and interesting book to decorate and I loved every minute of it!  Leigh's SVG files cut beautifully and my Cricut only acted up on the pink scales of the add on Mermaid Scales Layered SVG Cutz and it was all due to my Cricut being haunted at times!👻 Which is a lovely line on which to mention today is the first day of the Something Wicked This Way Comes Half-O-Ween Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns!  Check it out HERE!  My new highly treasured book goes to the MerMay Challenge #5 at LeighSBDesigns!  All the details and linky party are HERE!

 

Through The Craft Room Door May 24th Challenge!

We are proudly sponsored by DRS Designs Rubber Stamps this go round!  The winner will receive a $20 voucher for the store and DRS Designs has so many marvelous rubber stamps!  For my project I used  the "Sunflower Bucket" with the word stamp "From my heart to yours" and colored with colored pencils.

I used papers from Garden Grove Collection by BoBunny and inked the sentiment with Distress Oxide and edges with Distress Inks.  We hope you will gather your supplies and come play with us where it is always Anything Goes!  

The Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge for May 23rd!

It's Monday so it must be time for The Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge!  We are sponsored by the fabulous Oddball Art Co. for the next two weeks!  I have been a collector of Oddball Art digital stamps for years and years and I love them!  I was so excited to be able to have a play with this fantastic image "Music Festival" CCC#115 from the Creepy Cute Chronicles!  Check out how you can receive these BOO-tiful images each month at Oddball Art Co. 👻

I colored up the image with colored pencils and fussy cut leaving a thinish white border.  Then I glued it onto a pale pink piece of patterned paper with a tropical fruit border around it.  I cut out random pieces of fruit, stars and dots and glue around the frame!  I added the senti and inked the edges with Distress Ink adding some dots around it and I am ready for some summer music and fun!  Come on in and sit by the air con with your crafty goodies and play with us at The Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge!

It's MerMAY!!

Today is revealing my second favorite character from the new FantaSea Collection by LeighSBDesigns!  She is Pearl Balleigh MerMonster!  She is just beautiful and so serene!  I had so much fun working with this image!  I also  used the FantaSeaScape and Senti Set for Pearl's lovely home!

I hoard papers and this background patterned paper was one I printed out and didn't use.  I thought it was perfect for Pearl and I painted a piece of cardstock with acrylic paint and sponged some pink on it and believe it or not it matched the patterned paper a bit too much!  I colored all the elements with colored pencils and adhered the sand and pearls (yeah I colored them as bubbles for some reason?) with foam squares and tucked Pearl behind them.  I painted all the bubbles and pearls with DecoArt interference paint for a bit of shimmer.  I inked the edges of the senti with Distress Ink and I inked the edges of Pearl and the sand bed, too.  Pearl can't wait to join Bastet the Catfish over at Challenge #5 MerMay at LeighSBDesigns!  All the details and linky party are HERE!

I am also entering Pearl in the Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenge for May where the theme is Mermaids and the fintastic sponsor is LeighSBDesigns for fun cause I have exciting news that I will be announcing in June! 

Mermazing Ike

While crafting away for the MerMay Challenge at LeighSBDesigns I couldn't help thinking how lucky I am to have some amazing friends through design teams!  I had this lovely mermaid printed out for Ike's World Challenges and really wanted to use it for this month.  I saw that Dagmara, a team member from Ike's World Challenges, is posting her makes for the rest of this year even though the challenge is now closed.  It was such a sweet thought and wonderful way to remember our dear friend, Ike!  So I added Ike's mermaid to a canvas with Leigh's sentiment from the FantaSea Senti set and the pearl bed from the FantaSea Scape set.  It made me really happy to create with the beautiful mermaid and Leigh's sentiment seemed to go so well with it.

I wasn't going to post it anywhere but here on my blog but I decided that sharing Ike's images is something that I don't ever want to stop doing.  So I dedicate this to the amazing, loving and kind, Ike in hopes that we all take the time to treasure the true friends we have in our crafty universes 💖

All details and linky party are here.

I am also linking this to Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges for May where the theme is Mermaids and the sponsor is LeighSBDesigns.  I am only entering for fun!

Challenge #5 MerMay at LeighSBDesigns!

I know I say this about every new collection Leigh releases but I am totally smitten by this very new FantaSea Collection!  That brings us to Challenge #5 at LeighSBDesigns.....MerMay!  Here is my crafty bit using Bastet Catfish Fantasea Pet plue senti , another senti from the FantaSea Senties Set of 6 sentiments, the SVG Cutz Mermaid Scales Horizontal Slimline Card Kit and elements from the Egyptian Elements Florals and Column Set!

I started with a black card base and insert/front and added the mermaid scales I had cut with the Cricut from cardstock I had painted with acrylic paint in mixes of phthalo blue and titanium white.  I added the scales with glue.  I colored Bastet the Catfish with colored pencils and used the florals from the Egyptian Elements set.  I fussy cut the lot of them and popped Bastet up on foam dots and glued the rest to the card leaving the flowers loose to give some dimension.  I inked the edges of the sentiment that came with Bastet and adhered with foam squares.  

I added some of the light blue scales to frame the dark blue insert that I cut.  The sentiment is inked with Distress Inks and I added some gold floral bits to the corners of both senties!  The inside senti is on foam squares, too.  It adds some bulk to the card but I am fine with that!  I chose Bastet to play with first because I LOVE fried catfish!!  Bastet is too adorable to eat so no worries there!😜  So off he swims to join Challenge #5 MerMay at LeighSBDesigns and all the details and linky party are HERE!

I am entering (just for fun coz I have announcement in June!) Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenge for May and the theme is Mermaids and LeighSBDesigns is the sponsor!

A Card for Ike

We lost a shining star in our crafting world and a beautiful friend in so many lives!  Ike would be chastising us for our tears and telling us a joke to make us smile.  She was an amazing soul and I know she shines even brighter as a star in our skies watching over us now!  I can't put into words what she meant to me and the many wonderful acts of kindness she did for me as I know she did for so many!  I was in the process of making this card for a design team when I heard the news and when I went back to it all I could think about was Ike and her love for cats.  So I am adding this to her challenge sending all the love in my heart to her 💖  

SheepSki Designs and Sunday Songs and Rhymes Challenge at The Outlawz!

Time for The Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes Challenge and we are inspired by the poem "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" by Eugene Field.  I love this one so much and I took my inspiration from the line "The old moon asked of the three."  Our fabulous sponsor for this challenge is Sheepski Designs!

I used the image Purrr-fect Love with two sentiments!  I think this image is soooo sweet!  I colored the kitties, moons and roof with Copics and used phthalo blue watercolor for the sky.  The stars were created by splattering titanium white acrylic paint with an old toothbrush....do not use your teeth's toothbrush!  I made three of the stars sparkle by using the white acrylic and a liner brush to create the lines.  Oh, before splattering the colored image I cut out a second copy and used washi tape under it for a mask.  Pretty important to keep the kitties and roof from getting really starry!  I used fired brick Distress Ink for the sentiment and foam tape to adhere it and some patterned paper and red cardstock with a touch of glue was all it took!  We hope you will come play at The Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes with us!