Hiding in My Craft Room with Sweet 'n Sassy

Hello and thanks for stopping by today.

I'm happy to invite you to an all new challenge at

Hiding in My Craft Room.

This week is our always fun

Super Scraps Saturday.

So time to clean off your desk and clear out that bin of bits and pieces to see what kind of incredible new creation you can make.

Here's a quick peek at my card for this week:

This week we have a great sponsor offering 3 images of the winner's choice!  Thanks so much to Sweet 'n Sassy for the generous prize and for allowing the Design Team to play with some of your great images.

I chose one of the adorable Cocoa Mouse images.
Normally, I'm not a huge fan of mice...
but he's just so darned cute I couldn't refuse.

Along the bottom of the card, I first embossed
a row of snowflakes with clear embossing powder.
I then went back over with white embossing powder
using a larger snowflake stamp.

The tag I used to prop up the easel portion
is from a Recollections punch.
I punched it 3 times: once in kraft with the sentiment,
once in green and once in red.
I cut the green and red layers in half and
then glued them along the outer edge
of the one above.

I hope you'll be able to take some time

to go through your scraps to see what you can create.

All of us on the Hiding in My Craft Room Design Team

are looking forward to seeing all of the new projects....

and don't forget the chance to win a few great images from

Sweet 'n Sassy.

You can find this card in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar Challenges -- Christmas
Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards -- Happy holidays

Crafty Hands -- Season's greetings

Digi Haven -- Christmas cards

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!!

Friends with chocolate....

I saw that a couple of my favorite challenge blogs have calls out for Design Team members.  Bitten by the Bug 2 has a call for a long term member.  Mo Manning's challenge site, Bronte and Bella's Challenge Blog has a call for a 3 month long guest spot.  Being on either of these teams would be a huge honor given the beautiful and creative projects I've always seen from their current DT's.

So today, I thought I would do a project that could be submitted for consideration at both places.

Mo Manning's "Chocolate Smile" is an image I've been really wanting to use.  How cute can one image possibly be?  I mean, look at that face!

The main sentiment is from Inkadinkado's Friendly Advice: Kid Quotes stamp set.  For this project I didn't use the name of the child being quoted.  In order to give full credit, her name is Sophie Diehl and she was 11 when she said this.  I like the way Sophie thinks!  The "Happy Halloween" sentiment is from a cheapie stamp that I can't remember where I got it.  Both were stamped using Colorbox olive ink.  I smudged the main sentiment a little as I was punching it out but I liked the result so I did the same with the other.  

The base of the card is from Cricut's Create a Critter.  The pumpkin was cut a 5 1/2".  I cut 3 and put them together as an easel card.

(Yes, I know there are other kinds of cards...I just love those easels.)  The frame little cutey-patooty is sitting on is from Elegant Edges and was cut at 4 1/4".  I used Art Nouveau for the leaves.  They're from the base cut of the sunflower.  After cutting it at 5", I just snipped the leaves off of the stems.  I decided to use those because I thought they most resembled pumpkin leaves.  I used a stylus to give veins to the leaves and the stem of the pumpkin.  The stem was hand-cut.

The flowers, beads, and seam binding were all from my stash.  The image was colored using my ProMarkers.  The DSP is from Recollections' Habitat stack.  Love that stack!  I used Tim Holtz distress inks in Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo, and Spiced Marmalade in various places around the card.

I have to say that I'm quite pleased with today's card.  I'm not sure who will be receiving this one for Halloween but I have a feeling whoever it is will love it.

In addition to the Bitten by the Bug 2 -- Design team call, you can find this card at the following challenges:

Bronte and Bella's Challenge Blog -- Anything goes
Bitten by the Bug 2 -- Shaped card or layout
Eureka Stamps -- Shaped cards
Hiding in My Craftroom -- Artichoke craze
Papertake Weekly -- Child's play
Digitally Sweet Challenges -- Anything goes
Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog -- Autumn glow
Love To Scrap -- Anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown -- Anything goes #164
The Corrosive Challenge Blog -- All about fall

Peace, love and frogs

When I saw this adorable image over at Lacy Sunshine I just cracked up.  The thought of a hippy frog just tickles me!  To top it off, his name is Pickles.  I have no idea why I think that's so funny but I do.  The name of the image is Groovy Pickles and you can find it in Heather's "Retiring $1 digi" section.  Yeah, I said it.  A buck.  And there are loads of really cute images there.  I have no idea how long they will remain available so you may want to go take a look.

The background paper that's kinda' tye die looking was done with a set of My Cute Stamps, Versamark ink, clear embossing powder and distress inks.  I love the resist embossing technique.  It takes a couple of steps but is really simple.  The first time I remember seeing it was in this video.  Each time you do it, you get a different result and I enjoy the surprise.

I've used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches for this card.  Here's the sketch:

And here's the card:

I twisted the image just a bit....a hippy frog should be twisted.  Right?  The sentiment is mine.  I printed it using Word and I think that's pretty funny too.  Yes, I am a dork.  I neither deny nor resist it.  In fact, I embrace it.  The tag the sentiment is on was made using a Recollections tag punch.  The little "forever" charm is from the Michaels Dollar Bin.  The seam binding was white and I dyed it using 
Spiced Marmalade distress ink and a little water.
(Note to self: wear plastic gloves next time.  Dork.)

In addition to Tuesday Morning Sketches, you can find this card at the following challenges:

Lacy Sunshine -- Dies &/or punches

Allways Something Creative -- Beastly
Color Me Creative -- Retro fun/Funkify it up
Creatalicious -- For the boys
Natalie and Amy's Challenge -- Embossing
Chromatic Craze -- Color inspiration
Come and Get It -- End of summer colors