Monday Funday #5 - Halloween challenge

Happy Halloween!  It's another Monday Funday at TGF's Farm Fresh Challenge blog and we are, of course, celebrating Halloween!  Are you a creeper or too cute to spook? 
The base of this card is Old Olive with layers of sparkling spider web by Reminisce and Basic Black.  The grave yard is made by tearing brown cardstock to look like rough dirt.  The tombstones are curved by sliding a piece of cardstock into a curved punch to round the top.  The other stone is a cuttlebug die and emboss set.  The moon is punched with a circle in Very Vanilla, then embossed with Swiss Dots.  The clouds are torn vellum.  The gate is punched with Martha Stewarts spooky fence.  The sidewalk is drawn in with a gel pen.  The image is TGF's Hallo Bride digi colored with copic markers.  I also printed it in vellum, coloring some highlights on the back of the vellum, before tearing around the image to give it a ghostly glow.  The sentiment is printed using Twilight font, punched with a wide oval, and mounted on the decorative label punch.  I added a decorative staples on the corners.
Head on over to the FFC blog and play along!  Thanks for looking!  April

Friday Spyday with AbbyGrimaldi!

Happy Friday Spy-day!  Today's challenge features a card by Abby Grimaldi.  I am a super fan of the Oliver & Amelia line, so I pulled out my "Just for You" set and chose Oliver.  (She features the Amelia stamp.) 

abby's card

The base is Kraft with layers of Pumpkin Pie and Very Vanilla.  I hand stamped the background papers using Stampin' Up's Eat Chocolate set in Timber Brown Staz-On.  The base layer is wrapped in Early Espresso baker's twine then adhered to the card.  Oliver is colored in copic markers then cut out using the nestabilities die.  To make it narrower, I moved the image to the side, than ran it thorugh twice, then popped up on dimensionals.  The sentiment was stamped on a scrap piece of VV, then again on Whisper White.  The white one I cut and mounted on dimensionals to make the candy bar pop.  The layer behind the sentiment is cut using a lacy scalloped circle from nestabilities, the popped up on dimensionals.  Hop on over to the Farm Fresh Challenge blog and play along!  Thanks for looking!  April

Heart Journal - week 14

This week's Heart Journal is "Two-Toned."  Yea, not terribly inspired for this one...until...I was coloring some of my Wild Sprouts!  The Greeting Farm has the super cute, cheeky little guys and gals and some of them are Twilight inspired.  Of course, with the newest installment ready to head to the theaters, I couldn't resist!  These two are Summer and Paul and have been colored in copic markers.  Don't they make a cute Jessica Stanley and Michael Newton?  The base is watered down Sunny Yellow acryllic paint that has been spritzed with Gold Glow and Sea Breeze Blue Smooch Spritz.  The lettering is Cricut's Base Camp for the "Forks High".  The quotes for each character come directly for a copy of Twilight and I tried to give them signatures that seem like the character.  Thanks for looking!  April

Monday Funday Embossing Challenge

It's another Monday Fun-day at TGF Farm Fresh Challenge blog and I am this week's host!  Today's assignment....emboss it! 
The card is completely Whisper White cardstock.  The layers are embossed with cuttlebug polka dots 5x7 folder and nestabilities dies.  The corners are punched with a 3/4" and 1 3/8" squares that are cut in a diagonal.  The corners and image are mounted with dimensionals.  The image is TGF's Kissy Kissy digi, colored with copic markers and accents of clear Spica pen to give shimmer to the dress and flowers in her hair.  Pearls accent the corners and a scrap of white organze ribbon with a heart charm sewn to it finishes the card.  Inside, the sentiment says "And they lived happily ever after."  Head on over to the Farm Fresh Challenge blog and play along!  Thanks for looking!  April

Friday Spy-day with PaperCrafty

Hello again!  It's another Friday Spy-day at TGF's Farm Fresh Challenge blog!  And, for some extra fun, the Bugaboo crew is playing along with us today!  See the FFC DT's Bugaboo creations here, then hop over to the Bugaboo blog and check them out!  Today's challenge is to CASE this fantastic card by PaperCrafty! 

card by PaperCrafty

The card base is kraft with layers of lilac and basic black.  The lilac layer is embossed using the domino cuttlebug folder.  (Can you believe I found it on clearance at Hobby Lobby for just $2.38?)  I used a white gel pen to add the dots.  The upper pieces has Early Espresso baker's twine tied on.  Once the lilac layer was mounted on basic black, I used dimensionals to adhere to the kraft base.  The blue quote sheet is from the Quotes Smash Pad, mounted on Basic Black.  The image is TGF's Wild Sprout Audrey digi, colored in copic markers.  She is one of my fav digis because she is such a cheeky tomboy!  The two layers are mounted with dimensionals.  The sentiment is stamped in Whisper White using Studio g alphabet stamps from Michael's dollar bin, then punched with 1 1/4" circle and mounted on a 1 3/8" basic black circle.  The sentiment is mounted to the card with a dimensional. 
Be sure to head on over to the Farm Fresh Challenge blog and show us what you can do with PaperCrafty's card!  Thanks for looking!  April