If the Shoe Fits...

Can you imagine having your birthday on Halloween and growing up with your whole world dressing up and celebrating by having home after home give you free candy?  Barb, my friend, you were a lucky little girl - and no wonder you grew up loving witches!


The legs with witches' shoes are from a Stamps Happen rubberstamp.  The sentiment is a freebie from Ginger's House which was die cut with Spellbinder's Celebrations "Tag That".












I colored the image with Copics, fussy cut the legs and mounted them on foam tape to elevate them.  The purple CS on top was cut in two and elevated to give the appearance of a stage and curtain or wall hiding the rest of the witches.  

The inside sentiment is by Penny Black.

Envelope

I hand drew the web and the spider on the envelope.  I will use an address label stuck just below the web's center to mail this.

Spider's Red Jewel

CHALLENGES:
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG Always
Crafting From the Heart -#178 ATG Always
Incy Wincy Designs – Let's Celebrate
Addicted to Stamps & More - #263 – Holiday
Crafty Sentiments – Halloween/Fall TOP THREE
Shopping our Stash L:13 – SOS #324 – If the Shoe Fits TOP THREE
Penny's Challenge #348 – ATG TOP THREE

Fab & Funky #366 – Word Art Crafty Creations - #352 – ATG Inspiration Destination #135 – ATG

Oddball Art – ATG  Top Three #2
Pile it On #135 – Fantasy
Crafty Girls Creations – #40 - ATG Always

Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny

Happy Anniversary my love!

My inside sentiment reads in part - "And they said it would happen when pigs fly... but look at us now - married 37 years!  The rest is mushy.

My hubby loved it and insisted I get a shot that reflected the holographic quality of the bow, arrows and his hooves.  He took this photo that lets you see the great effect you can get with Duo glue and Holographic Silver Foil.

And finally, this last shot gives you a better sense of the elevation of the two panels over the base card and of the pig himself.  Fun card to make - it amused me!

This card should be eligible for the following 

CHALLENGES:

Papertake Weekly – ATG

Inspiration Destination #65 – ATG

ABC Challenge L:10 – X is for Xtreme Bold Colors

That Craft Place – ATG

Crafting from the Heart #92 – ATG Always Tuesday Throwdown #274 – ATG Shopping our Stash L:13 – SOS #232 (used my precious heart brads FOUR of them!)  Top Three Art by MiRan Challenge #48 – ATG Simon Says Wed – Make it Sparkle

Create wildly and color with abandon!  ~ginny

Steampunk Fairy...

PROCESS INVENTORY

IMAGES: 

Drawing by
Sarah Trumpp

• I used Meridith Dillman's "Steampunk Doll" from the Fairies Collection at Sweet Pea Stamps.
• My Watermark is brand new - it is a prize for a challenge I won!  The sponsor, Sarah Trumpp, offered to draw what ever image I wanted so  I chose to have a Steampunk woman drawn in my image.  I am so tickled with it - I plan to use it as my watermark for all my projects!  Thank you Sarah!
• Inside assembled from leftover papers.

PAPER:  

• Neenah "Classic Crest Solar White" 80# Cover Wt. used for the image.
• DP used for matting is from stash.
• Corners rounded with a Corner Chomper.

EMBELLISHMENTS: 

• A metal "gizmo" purchased at a Bead Shop was strung with brown waxed linen twine to mimic the lines in the image.
• A Tim Holtz small paperclip was used to support one end of a very small tag with a sentiment.
• A green star shaped bling hangs from her ear.
• All the "metal" pieces of her costume were coated with Versafine ink, dusted with clear EP and heat embossed to give it shine.

If you like this image -
you can find it here

INKS:

• "Frayed Burlap" Distress Ink used to ink all the edges 
• Images were printed on an Epson WF-3520 printer
• Versafine Ink Pen used for the EP.
• Hand colored with Copics:

This card should be eligible for the following 

CHALLENGES:

Art by MiRan Challenge #38 – ATG

Sweet Stamps #235 – Masculine Card

Crafting from the Heart #73 – ATG Always

Fab & Funky #270 – Things with Wings

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG Always
Crafty Sentiments – ATG
Papertake Weekly – Use a Die Cut [Sentiment tag is a die cut]
Tuesday Throwdown #258 – Texture
Shopping our Stash L:13 – SOS #215 – Layer it on Me TOP THREE
Inspiration Destination #47 – ATG
Quirky Crafts #17 - 2015 – Embossing [all the metal pieces have been heat embossed with clear EP to make it shiny]
Lacy Sunshine #65 – Weird & Whimsical
Sugar and Betty's Challenge – Aug ATG WINNER

Create wildly and color with abandon!  ~ginny