…as it doth float up from the damnéd Earth

This is my first post as a DT for PunkyouGirl and I’ve done a CAS card inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, our current theme.

I was trying to make it look like the raven was ripping pages from the book but I got confused on which page I needed, I was going to do the order the other way round but realised my raven stamp faced the wrong way!  I was also going to have my image, Poe Portrait from Simply B Stamps, featured on the page still in the book being ripped but it was way too small printed so you couldn’t see it.  If that had worked I’d have had another image printed on the ripped out page that matched a Poe story.

So this hasn’t really turned out how I planned at all.  I did like the sketch at the Fusion challenge and I think it still worked well for the improvised version.  I also didn’t want this to be colourful or bright, it was meant to be dark and sombre so I’ve stuck to mostly black and white, my book pages are a bit yellowy but that’s because they are supposed to be old.  As this is mostly black and white I am entering it in the current challenge at Crafting When We Can.

Ingredients:

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot & Walnut Stain

Studio 490 Embossing Paste ~ Black

Papers

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Black Cat & Great White

Kaisercraft Paper ~ Art of Life

Stamps

Echo Park ~ Spooky

Flourishes ~ So Distressed

Tiddly Inks ~ Open Book

Simply B Stamps Steampunk ~ Poe Portrait

Challenges

Crafting When We Can #81 ~ Black and White

Fusion ~ {Something Wicked This Way Comes...or Not...} sketch

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If the broom fits fly with me

My final project featuring the new release from Simply B Stamps, Betty Boo, features just some of the word art that comes with it.

To make up the cards I have followed the current sketch over at Deconstructed Sketch, I’ve just made them mini, they are just 2.5x3.5”, a bit of a challenge but also a great way to use up some scraps.  As these are mini cards I am entering them in the current challenge at Mod Squad.

The current theme over at ScrapbookerPhD is to add texture so I have done that in two ways, first with some embossing of the black-grey paper, it’s a bit hard to see on such a small card but the Tim Holtz Wood Grain folder was just perfect for a ghostly Halloweeny feel.  My second bit of texture was added with some embossing paste and a stencil on the brown paper.

If you want to see the fun image that comes with these sentiments you can see three different projects from me right here on my blog, one featuring just the image here, another featuring the image and the ‘fly with me’ sentiment at this post and the final one using the ‘if the broom fits’ sentiment here.  You can also see what the awesome DT have done with this set, Betty Boo, and the other just released image and word art set, Zombie Bride Betty, by heading over to the SBS blog or following the links at the bottom of this post.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Pebbles Metallic Chalk ~ Orange

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Memory Box Stencil ~ Texture Shine

Sizzix Tim Holtz Texture Fades ~ Wood Grain

Embellishments

Metal Bat & Witch Charms from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Studio 490 Embossing Paste ~ Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Rusty Hinge, Scattered Straw &

Walnut Stain

Wink of Stella ~ Black, Brown & Orange

Papers

Echo Park Chillingsworth Manor ~ Iron Gates

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Liquorice

Kaisercraft Timeless Collection ~ Fob Watch

Riddersholm Design Tailgate Marked ~ Farfalla

We R Memory Keepers Black Widow ~ Screech

Ribbons & Trims etc

Doodlebug Twine ~ Halloween

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Betty Boo Witch Word Art

Challenges

Deconstructed Sketch #158

Mod Squad ~ Marvellous Minis

ScrapbookerPhD #12 ~ Add Texture

Blog List

Celina

Corinne

Irene

Kay

Lisa H

Tanja

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Two blossoms on a single branch

This is my first post as an official DT at the Outlawz Sketch challenge, yes, my month guesting has rolled on to a permanent DT spot, whoop, whoop!  My card today features a beautiful image from Whimsy Stamps, Pregnant Woman.

And here’s this week’s sketch.

So I like to enter challenges for, well, the challenge, so before I made up my card I moseyed on over to the Whimsy Stamps’ blog to check out their current challenge, which happened to be tic tac toe.  Now I love a tic tac toe challenge as it gives you three elements to work with and I really needed that lace element on this card as I went and forgot the square behind the circle.  I improvised corners with some pieces of lace, which made a nice frame for my flowers.  I moved those closer as my stencil and die cut view finders were smaller than the circle element in the sketch and smaller than I thought but I really wanted to use my new Lovely View die and the stencil view finder was a serendipitous find in my stash.

It’s a bit hard to see the stencilled view finder and I think I should have used the actual die as the stencil one doesn’t quite line up with the die cut one.  I do like the effect though of the shadow behind, I used embossing paste in black but softened it up with some Aged Silver Fran-tage.  As this card also features a stencil I’m entering it in the current challenge at Quirky Crafts.

With my lovely Prima flowers I am also entering my card at Creative Corner’s current challenge.

So if you love a challenge too and need some inspiration with your layout won’t you come play with us at Outlawz, we’d love to see what you create.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E31, E33, E37 (R20 cheeks)

Lips E11

Hair T4, T6, T8, 100

Dress G03, G05, G09, G17

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Silver

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

The Crafters Workshop Balzer Bits ~ View Master

Spellbinders Little Darlings ~ Lovely View

Embellishments

Prima Jardine ~ Printery Flowers

Prima Stationer’s Desk ~ Typewrite Flowers

Prima Rosarian ~ Timido Flowers

Inks & Paints etc

Studio 490 Embossing Paste ~ Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Seedless Preserves

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock ~ White

Echo Park Little Girl ~ Grape

Ribbons & Trims etc

Lace from stash

Stamps

Whimsy Stamps ~ Pregnant Woman

Challenges

Creative Corner ~ All flowers 

Quirky Crafts #13 ~ Stencils and/or masks

Whimsy Stamps #72 ~ Tic Tac Toe (lace, die cut, flowers)

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