Hiding in My Craft Room with Little Miss Muffet

Today I'd like to invite you to an all new challenge at

Hiding in My Craft Room.

This week we have the great theme of 

Super Scraps Saturday.

It's time to clean out that scrap bin or clear off your desk.  We want to see what you can do with the bits you have left from previous projects.

Sponsoring our challenge this week is

Little Miss Muffet Stamps

One lucky winner will receive a $6 gift certificate.

I used Little Miss Muffet's way too cute 'Babe Superstar' image.

This digi would work great for a baby boy or baby girl card just by changing up the colors and embellishments you use....love that!!

The sentiment in the star is one that I added.
It's from Recollections' Welcome Baby set.

The charm is one that I found in the Dollar Bin at Michaels.

To achieve the bluish hue around all of the layers, I ran a ProMarker around the edge of each sheet before I distressed them.  The effect was subtle but I really like it.

You can find the card in the following challenges:
A Creative Romance -- Something new
Graph'It -- Anything goes/yellows & blues
Left of Center -- New beginnings
4 Crafty Chicks -- Bows
Divas by Design -- Let's celebrate!
Fab 'n Funky -- Let's celebrate!
I Love ProMarkers -- Add a bow
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper -- Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments -- New



Make sure you hop over to

Hiding in My Craft Room

and take a peek at all of the Design Team inspiration pieces.

Of course, we would all love to have you join in the fun!!

Below are the items used to make this card.

Paper House Little Man 8x8	My Mind's Eye Playdate 6x6	Tim Holtz Distressing Tool	Martha Stewart Button Punch	Sew Easy Twine, Primary	Neenah Solar White, 80#
Bazzill Basics	ProMarkers	Swingline Guillotine Trimmer	Scotch ATG	Martha Stewart Button Punch

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CWLC #67 -- Anything goes

Today, I'm here to invite you to a brand new challenge at

Created with Love Challenges.

This week we have the crowd favorite theme of

Anything goes.

I love these challenges because there's always such a huge variety of projects that are shared with us!

Our sponsor this week is SKdigis.

The winner will receive a voucher for $6 (USD) to spend in their shop.

Sonia Kertznus is the creative force behind SKdigis and she is one talented lady!  Her images are fun and fresh with just a touch of silly....

I love 'em!

The Design Team members were lucky enough to get
to choose our own image for this week's challenge.

The decision was a tough one since there are so many great choices.

That was until I saw one with the name "Queen Bee."

Hello!

It was suddenly obvious which digi was meant for me.

The fact that the image is too stinkin' cute only added icing to the cake.

Here is she:

I'm going to consider this my first self portrait. Lol.

I kept the card at an A2 size and very low profile so it could be sent
in my November shipment to Operation Write Home.

You can find this card in the following challenges:

Lady Anne's Challenge -- More that one layer

We hope to see loads of new projects this week at 

Created with Love Challenges.

The theme of Anything Goes allows you to show off any of your new projects.  With the holidays so quickly approaching, I'm sure you've been busy getting gifts and decorations ready.  Come by a share 1 ~~or 2, or even 3~~ with us.  Good luck to all who are able to join the fun!

Stamp 'n Doodle Snowman Challenge

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Since it is that time of the week again, I'm happy to announce a brand new challenge at

Stamp 'n Doodle.

This week we would like to see your creations using

Snowmen.

Since it actually snowed enough for us to have a light dusting on the ground here in Indianapolis, I feel like the timing is just perfect for this theme.

The items used to make my card for this week were:

Card base: David Tutera 

Cardstock and DSP:  Recollections

Button punch:  Martha Stewart

Tag punch:  EK Success

Glitter:  Hampton Arts

Ribbon:  my stash

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

I hope to see lots of fun Snowman projects over at

Stamp 'n Doodle.

This would be a great opportunity to get another Christmas card or 2 completed!

TTCRD Challenge Nov 5 through 11

Today begins not only a brand new Anything Goes challenge at

Through the Craft Room Door...

it's also the very first time I will able to join in as a member of the Design Team!

Our sponsor this week is

Nicecrane Designs

I decided to use my ProMarkers to try coloring in sepia tone.

This fantastic image felt like it would be the perfect one to try out this technique.

As you can see in this photo, this is a twisting easel card.
I love doing those or regular easel cards!

Ingredients of this card are:

Cardstock:  Bazzill, Papertrey Ink

DSP:  Basic Grey "Hey Boy"

Punches:  Martha Stewart button, Recollections tag

Ink:  Brilliance Coffee Bean

Ribbon and embroidery floss:  My stash

Here's one last look at the card:

You can find this card in the following challenges:

Whoopsi Daisy -- Monochromatic 
2 Sisters Challenges -- Christmas, no red or green
A Gem of a Challenge -- Christmas is coming
Crafty Calendar Challenges -- All things Christmas
Clear It Out -- Smores: brown and white

I really had a lot of fun coloring in sepia tone.  What new technique have tried recently?  Which ones are on your "to do" list?  My list seems to grow by the day!  But what a great time I'm having checking them off one by one.

All of the Design Team at

Through the Craft Room Door

looks forward to seeing more incredible new projects this week.

Good luck to all who enter!!

Crafty Catz Halloween Challenge

This week, I continue my fun role as Guest Designer at 

Crafty Catz

and today begins a brand new challenge.
This week we would love for you to share your new Halloween cards or if you've done a great Halloween layout show that off.
Any new Halloween themed paper project is welcomed.

I hope you'll check out the sponsors' great sites.  Here are they are and the prizes they have so generously provided:

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There will be a winner for each of the sponsors...so you have 2 chances to take home some goodies.  Pretty great right?

Good luck to everyone that joins in the fun!

For my card this week, I used Lacy Sunshine's Candi Corn Sticky Wings image....and I love my coloring on this card.  Yes, that is a trumpet you're hearing as I toot my own horn!

You've got to agree that she has one of the sweetest little faces.  Here are a couple more pictures:

Items used for this card:

Colored with my ProMarkers

Papers: Papertrey Ink, Recollections, K&Company

Oval cutter:  Creative Memories

Button punch: Martha Stewart

Seam binding and twine: Etsy

Rhinestone stickers: Michaels Dollar Bin

You can find this card in the following challenges:
C.R.A.F.T. Challenges -- Autumn/Halloween/Thanksgiving
An Inky Situation -- #12 Dress up

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

While you're here, why not check out my blog candy?

It's a great assortment of goodies!

You can find it here:  Queen Bee's Candy....yum.

Everyone at Crafty Catz looks forward to seeing your Halloween creation for this weeks challenge...and, again, Good Luck!!

Join us for a new challenge at Crafty Catz

I've been lucky enough to be asked to act as a Guest Designer all this month at Crafty Catz.  This is long-running and very well established challenge blog.  In fact, they just celebrated their 4th birthday last month.  Congratulations and many, many more!

You'll be excited to hear that this week the generous sponsor is
Bugaboo Digi Stamps.
The winner this week will have the pleasure of choosing 7 images.  SEVEN!!  Just how much fun would that be?

The Stella and Gus images absolutely crack me up!  Such silly faces and hilarious sentiments.  Jodie, the creative genius behind Bugaboo, has got a great sense of humor that I can really relate to.  Can't wait to use more of her images....I know that those will make cards that will get some of the biggest smiles and laughs from the recipients.

Our theme this week at Crafty Catz is always a hugely popular one:

Anything goes

I decided to use Bugaboo's fantastic image:
Flower Gals - Sunflower.  Isn't she adorable?  I love the expression on her face!  And to make it even better she was really fun to color with my ProMarkers.

Since I think of very earthy colors when I think of sunflowers, I decided to keep it a very tight palette.  Only hues that can be found in sunflowers were incorporated.  Because she is such a cutie, I worked with a pretty big image and let her take center stage on my card.  Very few embellishments were added.

The sentiment is from Stamper's Best and I couldn't have asked for a more appropriate one to go along with this image.

The other items used to make this card were:
*Papers: Bazzill and Studio G
*Punches: Martha Stewart
*Twine: Glitter and Kitsch at Etsy
*Rhinestones: My stash

I would really like to again express my thanks to all of the folks at Crafty Catz for the chance to help represent them this month.
I'm truly honored!

This card can be found in the following challenges:

Craftitude -- Anything goes with the letter S: sunflower
Digi Haven -- 2 colors
Totally Papercrafts -- Bring humor to your creations
4 Krafty Girlz -- Anything goes
Nutcrafters -- Show off your coloring
Penny's Paper Crafty -- Anything goes
Try It On Tuesday -- Going Dotty: Dotted background

My first Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown

Today over at Operation Write Home they are having their weekly Midweek Throwdown.  Today is my first time to participate and the last time a lady named Jan will be hosting.  From the comments I've read, she seems to be a very sweet and talented lady.  I'm sorry I didn't take the opportunity to join in the action sooner. 

The theme for the week is "Thank you" so I put together some cards today that I'll include in a mailing to OWH sometime next month.  I love the little bear image from Stamp Fairy!  It's one that I got for winning a challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday with this card.  The sentiment is a combination of stamps from Stampin' Up and Clear Dollar Stamps.

I'm quite proud to say that I didn't cut into a single full sheet of paper!  That's right, folks....nothin' but scraps.  Love that Scrap Wrangler!  Although I don't completely follow the "rules," I'm pretty close and my scrap box is a thing of beauty.

You can find the above individual card here:

Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown -- Thank you
Aud Sentiments -- Any sentiment
Lady Anne's -- Challenge #10, Anything goes

Gearing up for Halloween

I've decided to start listing some Halloween items over at my Etsy shop

and have started with a few cards.  Here are a couple of my favorites so far.

This cute little guy is trying to put on his best "mean" vampire look but I can't help but giggle.  His face was done with a stamp from the Peachy Keen Monster Mash Face Assortment.

I really like adore Peachy Keen face stamps.

I only have 3 sets in my collection....so far.

(She types as she fights the urge to go order more.)

The bat was cut at 1.25" using my Cricut and the Create a Critter 2 cartridge.  He's the icon found on page 59.  I cut his body out 3 times and, after trimming the ears off of the 2 bottom layers, glued all together with the wings staggered.  I did ink around all 3 layers with  Brilliance white before I attached them.  Cricut Craft Room was used to hide the features on his face.  As mentioned above, a Peachy Keen stamp added the sweet little face.  I colored his eyes and fangs with a white gel pen and covered the eyes with Glossy Accents.  The Glossy Accents just makes the eyes, in my opinion.

Papers from SEI, Bazzill, DCWV, and K&Company were inked with Momento Tuxedo black for the top layers and Brilliance white was used on the kraft card stock base layers.  I used a Martha Stewart punch to make a paper button using a scrap of the cute spider web patterned paper from K&Company and tied it on with orange, black and white bakers twine that I got at Glitter & Kitsch.

Hope you think he's as cute as I do!

This card will be joining the following challenges:

The Kraft Journal -- Cute critters
Peachy Keen -- Anything goes
Sparkles Forum Challenge -- Autumn colors
Addicted-to-Stamps Challenge -- Lots of layers
Kaboodle Doodles -- Anything with ink or paint
365 Cards -- Rounding the corners
Little Blue Button Stamps -- Use twine or rope

I used my Cricut again to make this evil beauty.  She is from the Art Nouveau cartridge and I love her.  She was cut at 3.5" and I decided not to use the back layer of the cut so that great harlequin patterned paper from K&Company could show through.  Glossy Accents was added to the "jewels" on her crown and just make them pop.  (Can ya tell I'm loving Glossy Accents?)

I used Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink to lightly ink the edges of her face, hair and crown.  Bazzill papers were used for all layers of the witch.

I cut the sentiment frame with Elegant Edge cartridge.  The "wicked" stamp, black and white ribbon and little purple brads were all from my stash.

Please leave me some comments.  I love to hear how others have used the same cartridges.  Or if you know of a challenge that either of these would work for, please let me know!

As always thanks for spending some time at my blog.