Creative Inspirations #44

Hello Everyone! It's time again for another challenge at Creative Inspirations.

This weeks sponsors are:

Due to being in October are regular sponsor Fantastic Ribbons are here giving away to the lucky winner:A Mixed Bag of Christmas Pudding Buttons in Red & Green.

We also have Ellephantastic sponsoring us this week too and the lovely Heather is offering the winner 4 Digi images from her store.You will be spoilt for choice so go take a peek!Heather also runs a challenge blog here.So why not go take a look and join in.

We would like to thank both our sponsors this week for their kind generosity.

This week we have a theme, we would like to see some get well cards. Here's mine..

This is my first get well card and the first time I've used this adorable image(compliments of Loz!). No sketches or anything this time around, I did it all by my lonesome...haven't done that in a while, lol. I originally had some other papers in mind, but they were kind of dark and I thought to myself shouldn't this cheer someone up? So, I searched out and found some brighter colors and it's growing on me. Well, that's it for me today!

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to check out what the rest of the DT has come up with. I look forward to seeing your creations!

Have a great day!

xxAutumn

Creative Inspirations #43

Hey all! It's time again for another challenge at Creative Inspirations and this week we want to see pink and black I've been suffering from loss of mojo lately, sorry I have not posted in a while, but my last couple of DT projects have come together nicely, so hopefully it's back. Anyway, our sponsor this week is the wonderful Bugaboo Stamps and they are offering the winner 7, yes i said 7, digis of their choice...WooHooo! Ok, then, on to my card....

I've actually had this little cutie colored up for a while, but didn't quite know what to do with her...Hurray for a Pink and black challenge!!! I tried a few new things with this one! Been seeing people use feathers and I've been wanting to try and this paper just seemed perfect for a feather embellishment! The papers are Glitz, but I "had" to add some pink and black swirlies cause the pink on the paper was a lighter color and I wanted more dark to match her dress. Some of the swirls were already there, so I can't take credit for all of it, but I think you can tell what I did. I also made the little pearl swirlies with my new I-Rock...Love it! Those pearls really aren't that white though, my camera is in the shop and I had to use a cell, sorry.

Here's a little close-up of those feathers, and I made those pins too...had that stuff laying around forever, just haven't gotten around to using them, lol. I followed the sketch at Stampavie and that's about it. OH' the oval thing was cut with my circut and the Lacey Labels cart. Hope you have enjoyed my project today, I'll be back tomorrow with a SB layout...shocker there, but I do miss scrapbooking, so hopefully you'll see some more of that. Anyway, make sure to check to see what the rest of the DT has come up with, then lets see what you got!

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

xxAutumn

Challenges:

Stampavie: Sketch

Secret Crafter: Anything Goes

TGF- Grandparents

Today I've got some TGF grandparents for their Farm Fresh Friday challenge. It's a sketch this week...sorry, I forgot to download it. I've had my grandparents all colored up since Monday, but I just haven't had the chance to finish it off...Good for me though since now I get to take part in the TGF challenge.

Here's the close up of this adorable pair. I've paper pieced their clothes(most of them anyway.. not her blouse, slippers, & bottom of her dress). I added some shadowing with E1 to make them a little more realistic looking. Grandpa's pants were shaded with E47,49 and it actually blends quite well, not like it looks...Guess that's the price you pay for having a 18MP camera...it gets EVERYTHING! I've put stickles around all the white pieces and flowers. I popped the two up on 1/16" pop-up squares.

Here you can see a little bit of the dimension.

Close-up of flowers(Wild Orchid)

I embossed the diamond pattern on the white paper with my MS score board. Grandpa's papers were from my stash and Grandma's came from a MS pad.

Copics for skin are YR00, E000,&0000
Grannies hair C7,5,&3
Grandpa's hair W7,5,3

Guess that's it for me today. I hope to get some crafting done this weekend...gotta few maggies I'm coloring up, so hopefully I get the time. Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great weekend!

xxAutumn

Challenges:

TGF FFF: Sketch

Sweet Dee Dee

Hello everybody! Hope everyone had a great Monday! Today I have a the sweet little DEE DEE from TGF for you. My awesome neighbor has been taking my kids to school for me and so I am making her a little gift. This is the card to go along with the gift and I will share the rest as it gets finished. It's gotta be done by tonight so I'd better get on with it.

Once I decided on using Dee Dee I checked out the All That Scraps challenge blog and decided to play along with that as well. The challenge at ATS is to use dry embossing. I have 2 different embossed papers...For the dark paper I used my cuttle bug and the lighter paper is Bazzill that already came embossed.

Here you can see I've popped-up Dee Dee's hair and bows...I think this adds a nice little touch. I cut the little banner with my Cricut and the Mother's Day cartridge. I didn't want to do layers for the banner so I cut the bottom layer and shaded with copics the parts that would be shaded. I added stickles around the edges and in the shaded areas then glimmer misted the whole thing. The flower is one of the Primas I just got from Suzanne and I cut the leaves with my Cricut and then embossed them. Think that's about it, I have a lot to do, so I'll list my copics later.

Thanks for stopping by,
Autumn

All That Scraps: Dry Embossing

Club Anya: Because I said So

I came across a fun challenge at Club Anya the other day and just had to join in. This challenge was posted on Mother's Day and is called Because I Said So. We are to let our kids pick our ingredients and see what we can come up with. So, here is what I made:

I got really lucky here when my four year old picked the papers. I thought having him pick the papers was gonna be a bad move, but he was only interested in looking through one pad, so they all match, yay! My two older boys were supposed to pick the stamp, but they couldn't agree , so my youngest chose from their two and so we have Soldier Ian

Here's a close-up of Ian. I have to say I didn't know what I was gonna do with at soldier card, but, my husband does happen to be a soldier so I figured I'd make it their Father's Day card.

I had one boy choose a punch...It's a good thing I don't have a lot of them. Then I let them all choose an embellishment. Right away my Jake said,"I want that", and pointed to the ribbon...one down. My oldest Hunter took a little more time deciding and wanted to look through everything. He started picking out rhinestones and had bunches of them and that's when I decided I was going to have to limit the number of embellies they chose or I'd never have enough room! I said he could choose three things and he picked three rhinestones. My youngest picked flowers, a red one and two pink ones at first, then, my oldest said they don't match and I told him if he wanted them to match he had to talk to his bro about it and if he didn't want to change them we wouldn't. Well, he got lucky and Alex picked 2 new colors.

That's it for this, I guess. Sorry this has been kind of wordy, but I thought it would be fun to post the story behind the card. I didn't get the copics photographed but I'll list them up here later. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you enjoyed my card and the story behind it.

Edited to add copics
E:000, 11, 33, 50, 51, 53, 57,49
R00, B21, C7, 100
G:12, 24, 28
For the really dark green I added C7 and 100 to the greens I used

Have a great day!
xxAutumn

This may not be the best card, but why not enter it into some challenges and get something for my boys if I win...they'll love it!

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp-Sketch (as I was putting this together I remembered seeing a sketch similar to what I was already doing, so I searched it out and tweeked a couple of things and here we have it)

Flutterby Anya Project

I finally got my project done! It's taken me lot longer than I thought it would, but my daughter has been extremely needy the last couple of days and that has left me with little time to work on this. I attached a lot of pictures so you will hopefully get the whole view.

The container I used is an old formula container. It's amazing what you can do with things like this!

These first pics are a top and side view.

The reddish color on the butterflies does match a lot better than it shows, but there is only so much you can do when taking a picture. I tried to get the photos as close to reality as I could.

Next, I have pictures of the lacing I did and the flower with the butterfly that are on top. All the butterfly shapes were cut with my cricut Home Accents cartridge and then hand colored with copics. The large butterfly on top also has legs that I shaped with jewelery wire and then glued inbetween two butterfly cut-outs. After coloring the butterflies I embossed them with a mixture of embossing powders. The flower is made by some flowers I bought at Hobby Lobby and then took apart to make my own flower. The whole grouping of flowers actually is held to the lid by the brad in the middle.

The next two pics are just close-ups of Flutterby Anya(copyright TGF) and the decorations around her. I was trying to show the glimmer on her and the butterflies and the rhinestones. The rhinestone pattern was done by me and then I glued around them to hold them into place better

This last photo is just for your enjoyment. I didn't think it turned out very well for the project, but I love it as a photo on the wall!

Well, this has been a long post, but I hope you have enjoyed my project! I hope I can get all these pictures in the order that I have explained them as I've updated my blogger and I'm having a little trouble moving the pics around. Please feel free to leave me any questions or comments.

Thanks for looking,

Autumn

My challenges:

Club Anya and Friends: Monday Mania ABC's Anything but a card

Pollycraft Monday: Anythng goes
Anya Ink: Anything Goes

Flutter By Wednesday: Use sparkle and of course butterflies, fairies, or angels

Practical Scrappers: Use your markers

Pixie Dust Studio Challenge: Things with Wings

Melijens Designs Challenge: Girly Colors

Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle: #34 Wings

One Stitch At A Time: #7 Anything Goes

TGF Battle Royal Challenge

Hello everyone, I'm in a competition that The Greeting Farm is having and this is the card I made and is going into that competition. For this competition we are in groups of four or five and every week one person in the group has to make a card. The card will be voted on by the public and players(we can't vote on out own groups card) so, please show our group, The Stampers of Darkness, some support and vote for our card starting Sunday. Click here to go to TGF gallery. You will need to register to vote, but that's pretty easy. Thanks for your support. Below I've listed the members of my group and my chalenges. Please stop by my teammates blogs and see their lovely creations! Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for your support, Autumn

Team members:
Loz
KmoRakefet
Amber
Challenges I've Entered :
Sew Many Challenges- #9 Punch It
Copic Creations- technique tutorial- I used Ethnic skin tones
Pollycraft Monday #36- Sparkly things-I glimmered flowers & have rinestones
Fab-N-Funky Challenges - favorite technique-glimmer mist (on flowers)
Oh, Alice - Fine print(some sort of print on your card)
Paper Sundaes - Picture inspiration
Roses On Paper -Punch it
Simple Doodles - Layers...I think I have a lot of those, my flowers, background of image, and of course the card itself.
The Creative Cottage- Sparkle -my flowers have been sprayed w/glimmer and have rhinestones

Fairy Anya Card

A friend of mines' daughters birthday is coming up and I needed to make a card for her so I thought I'd enter a couple of challenges( The Greeting Farm and Flutter By Wednesday) and try out my new Anya stamp from The Greeting Farm.
It's four in the morning now so I will write what I did tomorrow, or ah' later today I guess, lol
...It's six pm now and since I've been having trouble entering the contest at TGF I decided to make some changes to the card. I added the flowers, the pink border, and some pearls to the number...I think this looks much better. I knew it needed more last night or this morning, I guess, but I was just way too tired to think. So after making the changes I went back to TGF and had to re register in order to be able to upload...probably a blessing in disguise.

Moving on, for the card I used some DCWV cardstock that I had in different packs, border was one from MS, and the flowers from Imaginesce.

For the wings: Anya's outer wings were from Grafix clear craft plastic which I stamped with stays on jet black ink then went over with a ranger perfect medium pen and embossed with a mixture of embossing gels. I cut out the wings leaving extra length at the end. Next I cut around the outline of Anya's arms, just enough to slide in the strip from the wings, then inserted them in. I then bent them up a little and taped them on the back.

The crown was from the storybook cricut cartridge and for the underpart i took the same plastic and stamped it with stays on ink in a purple, embossed it,and cut it out the same size to go behind the white crown.

Sorry that was so lengthy but i thought for anyone who might like to know I'd put it out there. I think in the future I'm going to give myself a couple of days before I post to competitions... It seems lately that after I've taken a pic of my creation I can spot more things I can do. Anyway, hope you enjoy! Now I have to go delete one of my profiles on TGF and hopefully all will be good. Have a good one, Autumn