Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween!

No card today but something far better... 

 
Click on the picture to view full video clip of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'

Friday, October 29, 2010

Thank you and birthday cards + an ATC + a calendar

One of my online friends, Michelle from Sri Lanka, had her birthday lately. Here are a few things I sent her lately, both for her birthday and also to thank her for the fabulous prize I won on her blog in June.

Here is the thank-you card. You will probably recognize Betsy Bluebell from Penny Black.


I colored the stamped image with Promarkers and added a real tag to the bouquet.

Now, this is the birthday card I made using the pumpkin Nestabilities, embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, and Marianne D dies for the leaves. As Michelle's birthday was on Oct. 24th I gave it a little (a big!) Halloweeny feeling...



The pumpkin bear is a digital stamp by Dustin Pike (DoodleDragons) colored with Promarkers. The sentiment is by Hero Arts and belongs to the Cupcake clear set I won on Michelle's blog.

Then I made an Atc, still Halloween theme, inspired my the card I made a few weeks ago:
 The ghost, the spider and spiderweb are from the Owl-oween clear set by Hero Arts. The spider doesn't show very well even though there's some Glossy Accents on it. The background is made with alcohol inks.

To complete this, I made a little calendar for "dates to remember", using my Bind-it-all:

Again, the owl is a digi stamp by Dustin Pike. I really love his drawings. The clouds are from Hero Arts. I clear embossed the stamp and heat it with blue embossing powder with my heat-gun. I run the green paper through my Cuttlebug to make the grass.

The printable calendar is a freebie I found on the PaperCrafts Inspirations blog.


Thanks for looking!

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Voici quelques petites choses que j'ai envoyées à Michelle (du Sri Lanka) pour son anniversaire dernièrement et aussi pour la remercier du "blog candy" que j'ai gagné sur son site en juin dernier.

Sur la carte de remerciements, j'ai utilisé le tampon transparent "Betsy Bluebell" de Penny Black et ai ajouté une "vraie" étiquette au bouquet.

La carte d'anniversaire est très marquée "Halloween" puisque l'anniversaire de Michelle tombe le 24 octobre. La citrouille est une Nestabilities, embossée avec la Cuttlebug. Les feuilles sont des dies de Marianne D. A l'intérieur, l'ours habillé en citrouille est un digi stamp de Dustin Pike. Le sentiment est de Hero Arts.

J'ai ajouté à ça une Atc faites avec des tampons du set Owl-oween de Hero Arts, inspirée de la carte que j'avais faite il y a quelques temps.

Et pour finir, j'ai fait un petit calendrier perpetuel pour noter les dates à retenir. La chouette est aussi un digi stamp de Dustin Pike (que j'ai retournée et un peu effacée pour la faire de dos). Les nuages sont un tampon Hero Art et l'herbe est faite avec la Cuttlebug.

A la prochaine !

PS : t'as vu Laurence, j'ai pensé à la traduction ;-)

Friday, October 22, 2010

Welcome to Zombie land!


Here is the card I made for my October CCC partner, Linda aka Scrappin-Bari. Whenever there's the choice of a Halloween theme, I'm in! Not sure she has received it yet though but I would like to enter a few Halloween challenges.



I used 2 Kraftin' Kimmie stamps on this card: Haunted House and Mitzi the Mummy, both colored with Promarkers, cut out and glued on the background. I've had much fun cutting out Mitzi's curly hair as you can guess...... LOL.




I've added 3 more pumpkins from the Haunted House stamp in front of the house. The tree is from a Basic Grey clear stamp set and the bats are Cuttlebug die cuts.I made the background using the sponging technique. This is my first try... not too bad but I still have to improve it.

Then, for the inside of the card I used a Stampers Anonymous sign post stamp.


  Thanks for looking!

I enter this card in the following challenges:
Aly's Sunday Sketch
Crafts and Me Challenges
The Creative Cottage Challenges
Stamping Vacation: Occasion Oasis Challenge
Haunted Design House - Simply Sinister
Paper Playtime - Pumpkins or spiderweb
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Boo
Fab'n'Funky Challenges
Double Dutch Challenges - Boo to you
Stampin' for the Weekend - Halloween/Fall
Polka Doodles - Something spooky
Creative Inspirations Challenge blog - Halloween/Fall
My Time To Craft challenge - Ghosties & Ghoulies and Long Legged Beasties

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Blog candy at The Daily Marker

Kathy is having an awesome Penny Black blog candy on her blog "The Daily Marker"!

Have a look!

Yummy? Yes, I'm hungry when I see all these gifts! Thank you, Kathy, for the chance to win :)

Make sure you register on her blog before Nov 8th if you want to have a chance to give a new home to these beautiful stamps!

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Wedding wishes for Jenny

Jenny, one of the Hero Arts hostesses on Flickr got married on Sunday and Tami, our moderator, suggested us  a special mission: making a wedding card for Jenny and uploading the card on Sunday 10/10/10, the wedding day. Of course,  I was in!

So on Sunday I made this card thinking of her all day. I even had the "Love boat" song in mind (lol!) while dressing up my two owls! Some of you know how much I love Big Owl (remember Tropic'owl?) so I absolutely had to make a married couple! Hope Jenny will love this card.



It took me more time than I thought to add all the little details (indecison doesn't help...) but I really enjoyed making them clothes.

We had to add something new: this is the ribbon I won during Michelle's blog candy. Something old: this is the lace at the bottom of the dress and in the pocket of Mister Owl. It belonged to my grand-mother. And something blue is hidden under the bride's dress... ;-) .... The garter !!


Sorry I skipped something borrowed...

I'll will send the card as soon as Tami will give us Jenny's address.

Congrats on your wedding, Jenny and Jason! Enjoy your honeymoon! Happy married life!

Monday, October 4, 2010

Stamps + Bind-it-all = Calendar!

When I bought my Bind-it-all last year, making a calendar was one of my multiple projects. But as usual, time flies and there was still no calendar... until last week!

Sometimes I have obsessions and one week ago, during the weekend, my obsession was  making absolutely this calendar right now whereas I had tons of other more urgent things to do. Don't try to understand, sometimes I just can't help! And believe it or not, I made it within 2 days!! I still can't believe it... I suppose it is what happens when I really have the whole project in my head before starting everything.

My other excuse :-) was that one of the  girls of my cross-stitch club (yes I do attend monthly a cross-stitch club where we do not cross-stitch at all but where we chat a lot, laugh and have dinner!!), so one of the girls offered each of us a tiny 2011 calendar and challenged us to make something with it for our next meeting. I think most of the girls will do something cross-stitch related as we are only 2 or 3 (out of 10-12) who scrapbook.

Right away I "saw" my calendar made with these coasters I had. I would use the coasters for the covers and embellished them of course. Then I just had to find some stamps in my stash matching the 12 months. I loved looking for these perfect stamps! Finally I ended up mixing my favorite rubber and digital stamps companies.

Here is the result of my stamping, coloring, collaging and binding...


The coasters are 3,5" x 3,5". I used them to make the covers and cut scrapbook papers to size for the inside sheets.

I used a digi stamp from Dustin Pike for January and ran some white paper through my Cuttlebug to make the snow.

On February the snowboarding penguin is an Inkadinkado stamp. The snowy background has also been made with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

This bouncing frog celebrates Spring and is a Penny Black stamp. The clouds are cut from the "Clouds background" from Hero Arts.

This shy rabbit and the eggs are also Hero Arts clear stamps.


Here is Betsy Bluebell, another character from Penny Black and a Cuttlebug embossed tree.


For June I ised Miles the Mouse, from Kraftin' Kimmie and designed by Steven Leary. The clouds background is from Hero Arts.

Here comes July! These two stamps are from two different Stampin' Up sets I found on Ebay. I had dreamed of palm trees during the whole summer, I had to make a palm tree scene!

In August Miles the mouse is back with his surfing board! The sand is made with sandpaper.


For most of us September is usually a "back to school" theme... At this time of the year summer is still here and I still go and have a walk around a lake near where I live. And I like watching ducks dabbling... ok it's not a duck here! Not a problem I love this High Hopes stamp! (designed by Dustin Pike too)

October sees the Halloween spirit coming! This owl is a Hero Arts stamps that I love! The ground is made with orange scrapbook paper run through a pumpkin Cuttlebug embossing folder and the bat is also a Cuttlebug die.


This calendar wouldn't have been complete without Fluffles! I love this little cat from Stampendous!

December finishes the year with another owl from Hero Arts. Hoo hoo hoo!

I've added a piece of wire to hang the calendar on the wall but I will have to improve it. This doesn't really work! Otherwise it stands on the desk.

Here is a overall picture of the 12 months. I colored all the stamps with Promarkers and really enjoyed it.

I so enjoyed making this calendar that I've started another one... I just hope I will finish it!


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