Haunted Halloween Flower Wreath

 I love this wreath! 

I love making these paper flowers! 

Using the Concord and 9th floral wreath dies from C9 Summer Camp and another flower die set from C9 I cut out a bunch of flowers and leaves from some purple, black, grey, and vellum papers. I used a variety of inks to give some depth and shading to the flowers and leaves. 

After all the pieces were shaded, I used the Tim Holtz shaping kit and the Sizzix fold and form-making tool to shape all of the flowers and leaves. Once shaped I glued the flower layers together and then using a hot glue gun adhered them all to the grapevine wreath that I bought at a local craft store. 

Can you spot the spiders? I also glued on some plastic spiders and used the hot glue to make some spider webs. 

 I was going with a more Haunted Mansion feel to this wreath and I love the way it turned out! 

Thank you for visiting and sharing my love of paper crafting! 

Have a Spooktacular day! 

Cute & Spooky Halloween Flower Wreath.

 I absolutely love how this turned out!

The bright colors of the flowers against the white wreath really stand out.

All of the flowers, leaves, and bats are made out of paper!

I used some die sets from Concord and 9th to cut out all of the flowers and leaves, then I added some shading to them using various inks.

I then used the Tim Holtz shaping kit and the Sizzix fold and form-making tool to shape all of the flowers.

The little bats were cut out from the Lawn Fawn Haunted House add-on die set for the scalloped treat box die.

Thank you for visiting me today, I hope you have a fun and crafty day!

Leslee's Birthday Bag

Good Morning everyone, today I wanted to share with you a cute little bag that I filled with just a few fun goodies like some crafty embellishments, gum, body spray, etc.. for a friend of mine. We recently went to lunch together to celebrate both of our Birthdays, and I surprised her with this little bag! 

The bag came from a pad by Colorbok called Create A Box. It has a bunch of pre-cut and scored bags and boxes.  I used some Ranger Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to blend in and soften the edges of the box and then I embellished the bag with a stamp and die set from Sizzix & Lori Whitlock. I used my MISTI to stamp the images in Versamark, applied white embossing powder from Stampendous, then heat set with my heat gun from Darice. I used some watercolors to paint my images. I cut out the images with the coordinating dies using my Cuttlebug. To finish it off I applied some Crystal Clear & Marshmallow Sequins from PPP using Ranger Multi Medium Matte and then tied a bow at the top to give it that extra touch.

I tried to give links to most of my supplies, a lot of them are linked to the manufacturer but you can also buy most of them from Simon Says Stamp or Amazon.

Thank you for visiting today, I hope you have a fun and crafty day!

Birthday Card Set

Hello everyone, today I am sharing a project I made for my Card swap group. This month's theme is Birthday.  We were supposed to make a card and tag for this. We also started to use sketches each month to change things up a bit.
I don't know about you guys but I like to coordinate things together. So I ended up making my tag to match my card and I went ahead and made a matching envelope also.  I love the colors and had a great time creating this set, I hope you like it too!

Supplies:

Stamp & die set from Sizzix-Lori Whitlock

SSS Christmas 3x4 stamp set

SSS Happy & Smile stamp set

Memento Tuxedo Black ink and marker

SSS Audrey Blue ink

I used my MISTI for all of my stamping

 I stamped the sentiment for the card using Versamark and then heat embossed it using Stampendous Marcasite embossing powder.

SSS Nested Circles dies

My Cuttlebug was used for all the die cutting

SU 2 3/8 scallop punch and also the 1 1/4 scallop punch

I colored in the images with EK Success colored pencils

I used my ATG to adhere everything except I used the 3M Mounting Foam tape on the party hat and the small scallop circle on the tag.

I used the Zig two way glue pen to add some Crystal Art Glitter to the hat for an added bit of sparkle.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I hope I helped inspire you in some way.

Happy Crafting!

Have a Heart Challenge at SSS

I just finished this little 3 x 3 note card for the Have a Heart Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp. I think it turned out pretty cute! 

Close to My Heart: Sweet Love stamp set

Memento Angel Pink, Rose Bud and Rich Cocoa inks

Sizzix tag die 

Paper and ribbon from my stash

Zig brown marker

SSS sequins

DCWV gems

Fruit Punch Stickles

Wink of Stella Clear glitter brush pen

Glossy Accents

Mounting Foam

Thanks for visiting my blog! 

Let me know what you think about my project!

Card Swap Cards for October and November!

Okay so I have some catching up to do! I really have been doing a lot of crafting and creating. I now have a facebook page just for my crafting. It is called Imagination Attic of course!  I have been posting on it more than my blog but I really want get better at posting on both sites.  

My last post was the card that I made for the September card swap group that I am a part of, well today I will share with you  the cards for October and November.  In my group we do Christmas cards in October and November and then we make tags for the month of December.  So here is what I came up with:

 

For this beautiful blue card I used the stamp set Perfect Fit-Holidays from Close to My Heart. 

Memento Tuxedo Black ink for the bird and EK Success colored pencils

VersaMark ink and blue & silver embossing powder for the other two stamps.

Embossing Buddy from Stampin' Up 

Blue ColorBox ink for edging

Patterned paper and cardstock 

Silver twine

I made my own glitter spritz with Perfect Pearls powder 

Mounting Foam Tape 

 Create a Critter Cartridge

Cuttlebug-Swiss dots folder

Stamp is from Close to my Heart-Christmas Greetings

I made my own glitter paper with VersaMark ink & Kaleidoscope embossing powder from Stampendous

Tim Holtz-Tea Dye distress ink and Memento Rich Cocoa were used for shading and antiqueing

Mounting Foam Tape

Doodlecharms Cartridge

Cuttlebug

Recollections Stamp set-Merry, Merry

K & Co. patterned paper

Memento rich cocoa ink and ColorBox green ink for edging

glitter spray using Perfect Pearls powder

Mounting Foam Tape

Stampin' Up stamp set-Holiday Spirit

VersaMark ink and Pirate Gold Embossing powder from Stampendous

Embossing Buddy from Stampin' Up

Mounting Foam Tape

Ribbon

Create a Critter Cartridge

Cuttlebug with Diagonal Stripes from Sizzix 

Close to My Heart stamp set-Christmas Greetings

ColorBox ink in Green and blue for shading

Stampin' Up ink in Real Red for stamping

Stickles- Stardust, Christmas Red, and Waterfall

Mounting Foam Tape

Thanks for visiting my blog today and enjoyed my creations!

Birthday Girl Banner!

Good Monday everyone. Today I wanted to share with you a "Happy Birthday" banner I made to sell at my booth earlier this year.  I made it for a girl, but kept it very general. I didn't want to do any themes because you never know what people are looking for.  I really like how it turned out.  In person you can really see all the different colors and patterns better and the sparkle from the glitter looks better too!

 

 

I used the Pretty Pennants cartridge for the banner shape.

The patterned paper is from an old Imaginisce glitter paper pad, so it all coordinates together.  I used a brown cardstock for my solid base. 

 

 

I used an EK success scalloped circle punch for the scalloped circles, then I used a 1.5" circle punch from Creative Memories for the inside circle.  The cupcakes are from a Stampin' Up stamp set, stamped on different colors of paper and then pieced together.  I added stickles to the cupcakes for some sparkle.

 

The letters were cut out of an old sizzix sidekick alphabet and layered on brown cardstock, and then covered with pink stickles.  I used some eyelets to strengthen the corners and then tied it together with some bakers twine.

 

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I hope you liked my project and come back to see more!

let me know what you think!