It's the 13 Days of Halloween! ~Day 7~

Hi, all! Onward in the celebrate of Halloween! It's the seventh day of the 13 Days of Halloween over at the Simply Betty Stamps Blog! The 13 Days of Halloween are an annual celebration at SBS throughout the month of October full of challenges, prizes, and surprises! So stop by and join in!

The seventh challenge of Halloween is use the colors Black, White, and Cream! And these colors are anything but boring.... They make for a wonderfully dramatic effect on your projects. I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Check out the Simply B Stamps blog for all the fun details!

This is what I made for this challenge:

 

Here is a card I made using the Amarantha & Archie image from Simply B Stamps, drawn by Abigail Larson. I love how the image lent itself to a wedding-ish theme. (I know that the edges of my card look like they are brown; they are not. I promise they are black, the flash on my camera was just not cooperating with me. Lol. )

For the love of Zelda!

Hello, all! I wanted to stop by really quickly to show you all some Converse tennis shoes that I customized for my daughter. First of all, Kassy just turned 17 and is a fan of all the Legend of Zelda video games. She wanted to have some unique shoes for school this year and she wanted them to match her backpack for this year (which happens to be Legend of Zelda themed).

Here is what I created for her:

Triforce Converse shoes. I bought all black Converse tennis shoes and used a gold oil-based Sharpie to draw the symbol and add the gold line at the bottom of the shoe. She's happy with them. What do you all think?

 

Thank you for stopping by!

Punky Scraps Get Picky Challenge

Hello, all! Time for another Punky Scraps Challenge! It's a Get Picky Challenge and this one is going to make you want to join in, it's so much fun! I love creating with a list of products or materials like this because it always makes me think outside the box and put things together that I wouldn't normally. Take a look at what I made for this Get Picky Challenge at Punky Scraps, then pop on over to the blog so you can look at all the fabulous DT creations and join in on the fun!

Here is the Get Picky List that was used for this month.

Make a page from the following ingredients:

• Stars

I used lots of stars (stamped in the background, cut out of cardstock and covered with tissue tape, star rhinestones)

• No patterned paper

 I used black and white cardstock

• Masking

I used a Crafter's Workshop stencil with opaque white ink on the background

• Staples

 I used mini staples on each of the corners

• Exposed cardboard

I cut out a moon and some stars from cardboard

• Book page

I used a page from one of my favorite story books (a duplicate copy), Alice in Wonderland

• Bottle cap

Did not use bottle caps

• Washi tape

I did not use washi tape but used tissue tape instead

Baby Mine Layout. I created this page, trying to get a dreamland, sleepy feel to it. I think I did okay. The photo is of my son sleeping when he was a couple of months old. I think he looked so sweet sleeping that I wanted to put the picture in a dreamy page.

Whatever Wednesday 3-16-2011

Hello, all! For Whatever Wednesday today I wanted to share another Scraps of Darkness project I was working on. This is a Prima Mist-a-bles canvas, although you can't tell any more! Lol! I kind of went overboard with the ink! I just saw Red Riding Hood yesterday and I was greatly inspired to use an image I found on the Internet almost a year ago (I think it was at the Graphics Fairy). I also completed a layout with the Thursday Sketch from the Pages in Time Blog for 3-10-2011, which I will share below.

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? layout. I was inspired by the movie Red Riding Hood, which I saw yesterday and remembered that I had this image saved. I used my March Scraps of Darkness kit on this. I used Be Positive and Stiletto Glimmer Glam on the background then stamped and embossed the flourishes with Lindy's Stamp Gang Gold Embossing Powder. I stitched on lace, and added a flower that I made using my own tutorial for Dechire Style Flowers (See link below) and some Prima flowers and Prima metal flowers. The gold rose was white and I misted it with Lindy's Stamp Gang's Gossamer Gold Moon Shadow mist. The wolf eyes are from my Immortal Love paper stack. The vine, Thickers, and black mini roses are from my stash.

Link to Dechire Style Flower Tutorial: http://scrapsofdarkness.com/TutorialDechireFlowers.html 

Thursday Sketch at Pages in Time Blog for 3-10-2011.

Birdies layout. I used the Pages in Time Sketch for 3-10-2011 for this page. The photos are of birds we saw while my family was visiting the Cameron Park Zoo in March 2010. I used Heidi Swapp papers and Thickers.

The Scraps of Darkness March Release post is below.