Boo!

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I love the funky colours at The Play Date Cafe challenge this week as well as the fun names they gave them - Slime Green, Frightful Fuscia, Putrid Purple and Black As Night.  They definitely put me in the Halloween mood so I pulled out this Purple Onion ghost stamp and got to work punching and layering circles and ghosts.  If you have a ghost you must have some "Boo" so I took some black letter stickers and sparkled them up a bit with some Gunmetal Stickles (which is also on the ghosts' eyes).  Wee Memories and Create are both having challenges for Halloween cards this week so I'm going to enter this card with them as well.  

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Black, Purple) Bazzill Basics, (Rich Razzleberry, Lucky Limeade) Stampin' Up
Stamp:  (Ghost from Halloween set) Purple Onion Designs
Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko
Impression Plate:  (Linen) PTI

Punches:  (1" & 1 1/2" circle punches) EK Success
Stickers:  Scenic Route
Glitter:  (Stickles Gunmetal)  Ranger

Use It Tuesday

You may remember a couple of weeks ago I had a jolly good time inking up stamps that had been sitting completely unused in the Craft Cave.  Having such a neglected collection helped me win Use It Tuesday's Uninked Stamp Challenge and my prize is that I get to be a Guest Designer for this week's challenge!  Whoo hoo!  The challenge is to use metal on your cards.  So I burrowed into my stash and came up with these leaf brads that I bought back in 2007 from The Stampin' Place which is the first place I ever ordered stamp supplies from.  I cut the backs off the brads and attached them with Pop Dots.  (The tree and stitches stamps were previously uninked and are glad to get their moments to shine alongside the brads!)  If you get a chance, pop over to Use It Tuesday and see the fabulous designs created by the rest of the design team then break out the metal detector and make a card!  :)     
Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Kraft) PTI
Stamps:  (Tree) Unity Stamp Co, (Stitches) Purple Onion Design, (Sentiment) PTI
Inks:  (Chocolate Chip, Old Olive)  Stampin' Up
Gems:  Doodlebug

Print Candee

Hello and Happy Monday!  I am so excited because today I am sharing some projects with you that I created for my first ever guest designer gig!  The fun and fabulous Jocelyn Olsen, Creative Team Co-ordinator for Print Candee, invited me to be the Guest Designer for October.  Now I must confess that while tickled to be asked I was also terrified.  Print Candee is a digital craft company.  I had never used digital goodies before mostly because I am not so hot in the computer skills department.  Things like Photoshop confound me and even trying to add a picture to Word has been a struggle.  (Not to mention the fact that the Craft Cave and computer are at opposite ends of the house from each other so there is a lot of running back and forth).  However, I decided it was time to face my demons and figure this stuff out and I'm so glad I did!  Print Candee has so much cool stuff from clip art to paper packs to templates and even Photoshop tools!  They currently have over 20 different designers so there really is something for everyone's taste and style.    

I used a mixture of Print Candee products and traditional stamping products for my projects.  I started with Digital Potpourri's Halloween Horrors 12x12 paper and the coordinating clipart set.  I stamped this card with the Hero Arts envelope pattern background stamp and a sentiment from Elzybells.  I printed a sheet of the spiderweb paper for the bottom portion of the card and then 3 of the clipart images which I cut and embossed with my Nesties.   

Once I started to get the hang of the whole digital thing I couldn't stop at one card so I made another card and a little treat bag!  The card uses the spiders and the stripy paper from Halloween Horrors, sentiment stamps from Purple Onion Designs and some Gunmetal Stickles on the spiders bodies.  And how cute is that Ribbon Treat Bag huh?  I used more stripy Halloween Horrors paper, one of the two pumpkin images and also a label from Assorted Labels.  The sentiment and little spider are from Elzybells and I got the idea of making the ribbon into a googley eyed bat from Kirsty!    

The crafty possibilities really are endless and now that I'm feeling more confident using the computer I'm looking forward to trying out some more digi projects.  To celebrate my conquering of my digital fear I get to give away a gift to one of my fabulous commenters! Have you dipped your toes into the digital pool yet?  Leave me a comment about your experiences and on Friday I'll draw a random winner to receive a $5 Print Candee gift certificate.  In the meantime check out the Print Candee blog and store to see all the fabulous supplies and projects they have on offer!  

You Make Life Bright

I like to use bright colours on my cards but this one hits a whole new level of bright even for me!!  I used the colours from PaperCrafts Connection's Colour Inspiration Challenge #9 and decided to just go big! I love that Woodware flower punch and it seemed to go with the crazy colours.  (Going to enter this in the 4 Crafty Chicks and Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenges too.)
Despite the ridiculous humidity, I went for a run today for the first time in ages and I have a feeling that I'm going to be pretty darn sore tomorrow.  Not sure what possessed me but hopefully whatever it was will strike again sooner rather than later!

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry) Stampin' Up, (Purple) Craft Supply
Stamp:  Unity Stamp Co
Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Die:  (Nestabilities Label 17)  Spellbinders
Punches:  (Pop Flower)  Woodware Craft Collection
Gem:  Queen & Co.

Paper Piecing Throwdown

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Another card from my WCMD weekend. This was made using the colours from the Colour Throwdown challenge.  I used a Woodware USA stamp and did some paper piecing. This works perfectly for the Wee Memories challenge this week as we are to use our favourite technique on our project and I love me some paper piecing.  :)  And, surprise, surprise (say it with me now!) - I'm going to enter this in the 4 Crafty Chicks and Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenges.  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and managed to squeeze in some crafty time.  I've had a blast checking out what everyone has been up to - so much amazing inspiration!      

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill Basics, (Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Chocolate Chip) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Image) Woodware USA, (Sentiment from Asian Fusion) PTI
Inks:  (VersaMark & VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Seafoam White) Ranger

Delightful Randomness

Hello!  Just popping in quickly with another card from yesterday's day of bliss in the Craft Cave.  This card is inspired by this week's Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World.  I love the gingham envelope, the sweet turquoise birdie and the buttons in the picture and I based my card around them.  All three stamps are seeing ink for the first time with this card even though some of them have been hanging around the Cave for quite a while!  The shopping ban is definitely not fun but it is forcing me to use what I've got so it has it's merits I guess.  I'm also entering this card into the 4 Crafty Chicks and Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenges.  Have a great Sunday!


Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill Basics, (Green) Pacon, (Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Sentiment) Hero Arts, (Bird from Fun and Fast Notes) Stampin' Up, (Plaid stripe from April 2011 KOM - Small Things Matter Most) Unity Stamp Co
Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Melon Mambo) Stampin' Up
Copic:  YR31
Buttons:  Craft supply

It's A Celebration!

Happy World Card Making Day everyone!  Luis is at work so I have had the whole day to myself to spend in the Craft Cave!  Whoo hoo!  (Soooo glad I got the cleaning done yesterday.)  It's also a perfect crafty day as yet another hurricane (Ophelia) is passing nearby so it's rainy and humid outside.  I've got lots I want to get done today and one of those things was my entry for this week's ColourQ challenge.  ColourQ is celebrating their 2nd anniversary (or would it be birthday?) and the challenge is to CASE a past ColourQ Queen.  I had so much fun going through all the past Queen cards and ended up with a shortlist of 6 that I wanted to CASE.  After much deliberating I finally chose to CASE this fabulous card by Nina:

I did lots of punching and die-cutting for mine and I added Glossy Accents to the centres of each star and Stickles to the centre of the main star (although you can't really see it).  I was thrilled that I had matching twine (thanks, Emily!) as I really didn't have any other ribbon that would work.  I like that sentiment as it works for so many occasions - including WCMD!  I'm also going to enter this over at 4 Crafty Chicks and at Simon Says Stamp as they are both running Anything Goes challenges.  Now back to the Craft Cave for more craftiness!  :)

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill Basics, (Early Espresso, Old Olive, Pool Party, Rose Red) Stampin' Up

Stamp:  (Sentiment from Birthday Bash Sentiments) PTI

Ink:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Seafoam White) Ranger

Dies:  (Die-Namics Stacking Stars) My Favourite Things 

Punches:  1" circle punch (EK Success), (1/4" & 5/16" hole punches) McGill

Twine:  The Twinery

Other:  (Ranger Distress Clear Rock Candy) Stickles, Glossy Accents