Enter at Your Own Risk

I'm still in a Halloween Frame of Mind and decided to use an image I have had, printed off but never used UNTIL NOW!!!! Splitcoasters had a cute tutorial which I loved and thought this image would be purrfect! SEW, on Thursday, my BFF, Kimberly Pate, inspired me and we worked on my card and finished her's while Facebook chatting. We get sew much more done while doing this!!!

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• size A2 card using orange Recollection card stock with scraps for Frankie's background and DCWV Spooky Treats as his busting out background
• image had been a previous Promotion from Create with TLC which was colored with Whispers Markers, gel pen accents and Queen & Co. black pearls for spider
• "Enter at your own risk" is from Create with TLC Join Me For a Bite Vintage Image Transfer and Word Art Set which was chalked around the edges
• "BOOYAH" is from Create with TLC Potions and Spells S2 Digi Word Art and Image Set which was chalked around the ends mounted on scraps with border from the Martha Stewart Border Punch and googly eyes

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:
Simply Paper Craft Challenges: Challenge #14 
Craft Your Passion: Challenge #280 - Always Anything Goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Blog Challenge: September 26 Challenge #99

Inspiration Destination: Challenge #52
Crafty Calendar Challenge: Anything Goes

Potions and Spells and All Sorts of Smells

I'm in a Halloween Frame of Mind and Create with TLC September Mega Club has a great many Halloween images one of which is being showcased today - Cauldron Dictionary Page Vintage Collage page along with of course a few buttons!!!

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• size A2 card using lilac Recollection card stock with DCWV The Chateau Lavender for background
• image was chalked around the edges colored with a few gel pen accents
• Martha Stewart border punch for the goopie side border
• potion bottle and frog are actually buttons from my button stash with the shanks removed - I just love my buttons!!!
• "Potions and Spells and all sorts of smells" and "Witching you a Horribly Happy Halloween: are also from Create with TLC September Mega Club or can be found when clicking on the links - both are chalked around the ends with a side border of the Martha Stewart Border Punch with the "cut-out" portion being using also

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:
Craft Your Passion: Challenge #280 - Always Anything Goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Blog Challenge: September 26 Challenge #99

Inspiration Destination: Challenge #52

Happy Halloween

Yes, I know it's September but Create with TLC September Mega Club has a great many Halloween images one of which is being showcased today using Cat and Pumpkin Vintage Sketch.

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• size A2 card using orange Recollection card stock with DCWV The Spooky Mat Stack for background
• image was chalked around the edges colored with Prism Colored Pencils and Whispers Markers
• pumpkin sticker was a sticker which was left over from last year
• "Happy Halloween" is from Create with TLC September Mega Club but can also be found here which was mounted on scraps matching the front, chalked around the edges with light coloring using Whispers Markers and faux stitches

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:
Southern Girls Challenge: Whimsical, Cute or Fun
Craft Your Passion: Challenge #280 - Always Anything Goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Blog Challenge: September 19 Challenge #98

Inspiration Destination: Challenge #52
Crafty Calendar Challenge: Anything Goes

Happy 10th Birthday Sasha with Create and Inspire Challenge - Anything Goes

It's a new challenge at Create and Inspire - Are you ready to "create" with us??? The fabulous sponsor for this challenge is being Morgan's ArtWorld and I chose to use the beautiful and adorable Fae 9 which I thought would be a beautiful birthday card for my granddaughter, Sasha, who will be 10 in October!!!

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• size A2 card using lilac Recollection Card Stock and DCW Chateau Lavendar as my background 
• Fae 9 was colored using Prisma Colored Pencils and Whispers Markers with gel pen and Stickles accents  
• flowers were a gift from Edwina Brown and I put Rhinestones in the center
• sentiment, "Happy 10th Birthday!", was part of Create with TLC  August Mega Club which was fussy cut chalked around the edges
• sentiment is one of my very most favorite from Create with TLC, Birthday a Treat, which works for not only young but for any generation has rounded corners, chalked around the edges and scraps with Martha Stewart Eyelet Border Punch

Now, it's your turn to create for the challenge - I can't wait to see your creative inspirations!!!!

I thank you for stopping by and visiting today.  I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne

this was entered in the following challenges:
Morgan's ArtWorld: Challenge #7 - For the Kids
Through the Purple Haze Challenge: Happy Birthday
Kitty Bee Designs: Aloha Friday Challenge #56 - Make Music (Happy Birthday Song)
Love to Scrap: Challenge #62 - Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers and More: Challenge #148 - Make it Sparkle

Craft Your Passion: Challenge #280 - Always Anything Goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Blog Challenge: September 19 Challenge #98

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog: Challenge #14 - "B" is for - "birthday"

Inspiration Destination: Challenge #52
Crafty Calendar Challenge: Anything Goes
Crafty Catz: Challenge #293 - Special Occasion - Birthday

BOOOOOOOOOOO

Yes, I know it's September but Create with TLC September Mega Club has a great many Halloween images one of which is being showcased today using Black Cats with Halloween Pumpkin Vintage Sketch.

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• size A2 card using black Recollection card stock with DCWV The Spooky Mat Stack for background
• image was chalked around the edges with pumpkin colored with Prism Colored Pencils and Whispers Markers
• buttons spelling the word "BOO" from my fabulous button stash
• "October 31st Happy Halloween" had been from Create with TLC October 31st Digital Image and Word Art Set which was cut using Fiskars 2.5 inch circle and chalked around the edges 
• chalked and embossed using Sizzix Happy Halloween and mounted on paper which was from Create with TLC Halloween Club 2013 

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:
Craft Your Passion: Challenge #280 - Always Anything Goes
Sweet Stamping Challenge Blog: Emboss It - embossing is inside sentiment

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Blog Challenge: September 19 Challenge #98

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog: Challenge #14 - "B" is for - "boo"

Inspiration Destination: Challenge #51
Crafty Catz: Challenge #293 - Special Occasion - Halloween

You're So "Nauti"

"you're so nauti" was originally from Create with TLC July Mega Club but if you weren't part of the club, this is now available for you in Paulette's Artfire Store and can be purchased here.

Don't you just love the play on words in this set??? This then became the purrfect vehicle for a "thinking of you card" for a male!!!

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• size A2 card using royal blue Recollection card stock with scraps for background
• image was chalked around the edges and placed at a "jaunty" angle
• star and round button with jute added to the round button from my fabulous button stash
• "just because" had been a previous freebie from Create with TLC which was chalked around the edges and mounted on scraps matching the front with an additional piece behind the sentiment 

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:
Without Words Challenge Blog: September For the Boys
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Blog Challenge: September 19 Challenge #98
Crafty Friends Challenge Blog: Challenge #14 - "B" is for - boat
A Gem of a Challenge: Challenge #153 - Boys Boys Boys
Hiding in My Craft Room #217 - Freestyle
Inspiration Destination: Challenge #51

I'll Get You My Pretty . . . . AND We're Off to See the Wizard!

I'll get you my pretty!!!!

Oh no, watch out for the flying monkeys!!!

Just click your heels twice and say "there's no place like home - there's no place like home"

I'm Melting!!!!!

We're off to see the Wizard the wonderful Wizard of Oz

I had made this pop-up box card for a previous challenge with the 613 Avenue Create Design Team Project, but my health and my blog were not on speaking terms at the time. I absolutely love love love the Wizard of Oz and love how my pop-up box card had turned out and just had to share this card with you today . . . 

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• background was green cardstock and cut per Splitcoaster's instructions which can be found here
• yellow cardstock was embossed using Cuttlebug Reptile Embossing folder - doesn't it look like the "yellow brick road" with a bit of imagination??
• green cardstock is from DCWV Stack
• Melonheadz Illustrations Wizard of Oz characters were colored with Prisma Colored Pencils and Whispers Markers with gel pen and Stickles Accents
• "The Rainbow of Life . . . " was from Create with TLC July Mega Club 
• "believe and all of your wishes will come true" had been a previous freebie from Create with TLC which was chalked around the edges
• Darice Wizard of Oz Stickers were used for final accents

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:
Crafty Calendar Challenge: Anything Goes
Challenge Up Your Life: Challenge #24 - Inspiration Foto - the Flying Monkey, the Cowardly Lion, the yellow brick road and the green for the Land of Oz

Crafty Catz: Challenge #293 - Special Occasion - birthday
Hiding in My Craft Room #217 - Freestyle
Sweet Stamping Challenge Blog: Emboss It
Allsorts Challenge Blog: Week 329 - Sparkles  - the Stickles on Dorothy's red shoes and Glinda's crown and dress
Inspiration Destination: Challenge #51

Sewing Mends the Soul

Several of my "quiltie" friends try to meet every other month with a big retreat the 2nd weekend in October (and that one is getting super close!!!). In May, we met at St. Francis where I took pictures along with creating a lay-out of my friends using Create with TLC Friends Make Life Blossom Vintage Image Transfer and Word Art Set. 

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• background from DCWV The Crafting Stack - don't you love it as it looks like a mat for my rotary cutter
• image was colored using Prisma Colored Pencils with gel pen accents and chalk for background
• "Sewing Mends the Soul" along with the scissors and thread spool from Create with TLC June Mega Club which were chalked around the edges
• tape measure Washi tape were added to side of the pictures which I made as wallet size
• comments were made with a white gel pen
• AND of course there are safety pins and spools of thread buttons!!!!!

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:
Hiding in My Craft Room #217 - Freestyle
Crafting with Friends: Challenge #6
Scrapping Everyday Miracles: Birthday Bash Mini Crop: Challenge #6 - Inspiration Challenge - quilting lay-out
Crafting With Friends: Design Team Call 
Crafts 4 Eternity: R#244 - Handwriting
Brown Sugar Challenge Blog: Challenge #164 - Anything but a Card
Sisters of Craft: September Anything Goes Challenge
Crafty Gals Corner: Challenge #37 - Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination: Challenge #51
Where the Heart is Challenges: Challenge #1 - Add some text
Not Just Cards Challenges: Challenge #24
Crafting From the Heart: Challenge #77

Ring Around the Rosie - Rosie Had a Birthday

One of my dear fabulous friends is Rosie. Rosie and I have known each other which seems like forever. We met when we each started at JoAnn Fabrics. I knew how to read a schematic thus they put her and I together - me to read where the product would go and her stocking the wall and finding the products. WELL, we giggled sew much - they separated us shortly. My aunt who was working with us and had lunch with us thought that Rosie and I had been friends with how we carried on and cackled (my daughter expected eggs to be laid with how we would carry on!!!) Thus is my friendship with Rosie. Her birthday was in July and of course I didn't share the card I made for her with you - shame on me!!!!

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• card is a size A2 with blue Recollection card stock and DCWV The Kiddie Stack for the background
• Ring Around the Rosie was from Create with TLC July Mega Club and was colored with Prisma Colored Pencils and Whispers Markers with gel pen accents and placed on the card in a jaunty angle for interest
• "Rosie you are amazing" was from Create with TLC June Mega Club where Paulette had taken request to personalize the sentiment and was colored with Prisma Colored Pencils and chalked around the edges
• Darice Satin Edged Organza ribbon was tied into a bow
• inside sentiment, " Squealing with DELIGHT and doing the happy Dance!" was from Create with TLC June Mega Club chalked around the edges with faux stitching done with gel pen
• "Ring around the Rosie - Today is Rosie's birthday" was hand-written, chalked around the edges with faux stitching done with gel pen

Rosie love the card and we "lunched" at Wendy's after going to our arthritis water aerobics. Did I mention our lunches are epic and can last as long as 3 hours just gabbing, giggling, cackling, and of course eating our lunch (baked potato, butter, sour cream, chicken nuggets, large coke, and of course our free Frostie (half vanilla, half chocolate, and strawberry syrup which is our special order)!!!

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:
Kitty Bee Designs: Aloha Friday Challenge #56 - Make Music (Ring Around the Rosie)
Through the Purple Haze Challenge: Happy Birthday
Crafts 4 Eternity: R#244 - Handwriting - on the inside sentiment
Inspiration Destination: Challenge #51
Where the Heart is Challenges: Challenge #1 - Add some text

The Angus Family

Paulette the fabulous owner at Create with TLC has a September Mega Club where she offered to personalize an image with a family name - of course, I took advantage of it with my daughter's name, "Angus" where I made a sign for their front door.

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• printed image at 5x7 inches which was then chalked around the edges
• heavy cardboard measures 7x10 inches for my back which was covered with the cute Halloween bats on a lime green background
• the cute little witch cat had been a previous freebie from Treasure Box Designs and spiders were cut using vinyl
• AND of course there are buttons!!!!!

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:
Sisters of Craft: September Anything Goes Challenge
Die Cut Divas September Sketch Challenge
Crafty Gals Corner: Challenge #37 - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: September
Inspiration Destination: Challenge #51
Where the Heart is Challenges: Challenge #1 - Add some text
Not Just Cards Challenges: Challenge #24
Crafting From the Heart: Challenge #77

Let's Roll - Weekend Road Trips August Mini Calendar

OOPS . . . I had been creating but not sharing my projects and it's now September but I just had to share my August mini calendar!!!!

Bob and I do "road trips" on the weekend and when I saw this image from Create with TLC July Mega Club - Let's Roll Collage Piece which can now be found in Create with TLC Artfire Store and can be found here.

RECIPE and SUPPLIES:

• mini calendar measures 6.25 x 6.5 inches with black Recollection card stock as my backing and Pixie Press for my calendar
• Let's Roll was colored using Prisma Colored pencils and chalked around the edges with gel pen and Stickles accents
• had scrap road map  paper which I folded to resemble the infamous road map which we keep referring to during our trips
• AND of course there is a button!!!!!

Road trips are going to be made into lay-outs which will be coming soon I hope. Some of our trips included McConnell's Mill, Lake Erie, Marine State Park, Ligonier, Mr. Ed's Candy and Elephant Emporium, Adams County Winery, Big Round Barn, Train Museum in Conneaut, Ohio, Conneaut, Ohio, and of course our covered bridges that we explore!!!

Thank you for stopping and visiting today and hope you come back again!!!

I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? If you have any questions or need to contact me, I can be reached at hercraftiness@gmail.com

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card was entered in the following challenges:

Inspiration Destination: Challenge #51
Where the Heart is Challenges: Challenge #1 - Add some text
Not Just Cards Challenges: Challenge #24
Crafting From the Heart: Challenge #77