Cute Vintage Halloween

A new month, so a new challenge starting over at This is Halloween.

This is Halloween is a Halloween and/or Gothic themed Monthly Challenge.

So both themes are accepted all year round when stated!

This month I decided to make 2 projects using the Cute Vintage Halloween Mini Scrapbook kit by Lilli Rain Designs. 

Using the Pumpkin background paper, I die cut a dex card for my base using my Heidi Swapp Rolodex die.

I then also die cut my black cardstock piece using the Imagine die from Bee Arty.

Last piece of the puzzle is one of the images from the kit and sponging all the edges with Black Soot distress ink and then adhering to finish my dex card.

My card centerpiece is using a playing card and adhering a piece of tissue paper from my stash that I had created when I played with alcohol inks a few months back. I did peel back a bit to have my 3 of Clubs peeking out a touch. I fussy cut another image out and sponged the edges of it and the playing card with Black Soot distress ink and then adhered together and then onto my black card base. 

Hope you get a chance to play along with us - enter here.

I am entering my Dex card in the following Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge # 678

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Icad 2022 - # 1 Asterisk

1st of June sees another round of ICAD starting.

The big test here is to see if I can make it through the whole 61 this year - I will be doing my best to keep up that is for sure.

#1 - Prompt is Asterisk

Week 1 Theme is: Drawing, Mark-making, pen, pencil, marker, ink.

Got to play with some fun mediums!

I had my Kaiser Mists out for my Full Deck Card last night so just added some gelato crayons, a distress crayon, pencil to draw my asterisk and word "Explore". Traced around them with my black uni pin and coloured my asterisk with an orange  Erin Condren marker. Water for spritzer my gelatos and inks to give some pooling and runs.

I love how it turned out and had fun Exploring my options.

I would love to see what you create, if you are playing along, just tag me @8806angela  if you are on Instagram.

See you tomorrow!

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Gecko Galz Monthly Challenges - June

Are you ready for this month's Challenges over on the Gecko Galz Papercrafting Challenge Facebook Group?

Some more super fun challenges to get you creative this month.

I think we have everyone covered with this selection!

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It's a wonderful community to be a part of!

Now to get my thinking cap on and see what I can create with these prompts!

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Coral Shimmer

Full Deck Challenge 2 - Card 7.

The prompts are out and they are: Book page, coral colour, zig zag and tree.

I grabbed a cleanup page from one of my books that had some orange and mauve on to add a strip to my card.

Next I got out my Kaiser Mists (iridescent spray inks) - orange and pink and gave the card a few sprays and then splashes to get my coral colour happening. It has the most gorgeous shimmer to it now!

For my tree, I used one of the stamps from my IndigoBlu Mixed Media Special 5 set with black archival ink.

My zig zag is using my orange distress ink with one of the stamps from Unity Stamps LOL JoJa Kit (Jan 2015) stamped in some random spots.

I love how it ended up, and shimmery to boot!

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Moonlight Magic ATC's

Did you see this month's ATC Challenge over on the Gecko Galz Facebook page?

Moonlight Magic is our theme and here's the set of 3 I created.

I used 3 of the backgrounds and fussy cut some of the images and had a play.

Once I decided on the images to use and when to place them, I then googled some quotes and found 3 that went with my layouts.

My 3 quotes are:

        Selenophile:  (n) a person who loves the moon.

        To the moon and back, remember? 

        Be someone’s moon on a dark hopeless night.

ATC's are a fun way to just play around with images and have fun. 

You can of course add other embellishments as well, I tend to use mostly just the backings and images supplied and then add some quotes to mine.

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Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Sweet Little Birds

Are you ready for a new month's Challenge over at Arty Divas Challenge Blog.

Yes, I am pleased to say I have joined the Arty Divas team - LOL, an appropriate title for me I would have thought!

This month's theme is as always "Anything Goes", doesn't get any easier than that does it!

This month we are playing with Lilli Rain Designs Sweet Little Birds as well as French Ephemera Set 1.

  

I started by resizing and printing off the images I wanted to use on 160 GSM Digital Paper - my go to now for prints.

After trimming and fussy cutting, I sponged the edges of all the images and card bases with Vintage Photo distress ink.  

For my Sweet Little Birds image, I die cut a stem and flowers from my Tim Holtz Small Tattered Florals thinlits and again, sponged the edges. I then gave the flowers some shape and adhered the sizes and then set aside.

Using a piece of Asian printed book paper, I tore the sides to a size I wanted and sponged those edges as well.

Now it was just a matter of placing it all on my card base and moving it all around until I got it to the places I was happy with. Then adhering it all down in place.

The same process for my second card using the French Ephemera images as well.

Now you have seen what I have done, it's your turn! I look forward to seeing your entry in our Challenges.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Smell the Flowers

Over at Michelle's Creative Warriors Facebook Page, there is a Challenge to use one or all of the Calendar month pages from this years calendar, and create your own journal page.

I have used March, which is Tammy's and I thought her girl was just right to have a pop of colour behind her.

When I started, I had intended to have more white and just a burst of colour, but you know how it is......and in the end I think it is a bit busy, but I still like it.

I used a heap of Art by Marlene products - Moody acrylic paint set, Dramatic Dots Essential stamp set, along with a stamp and 2 stencils from the 2021 Advent Calendar.
I also used a stamp from Unity Stamps JoJa Kit (Jan 2015) and the Vintage Text Mark Making stamp from Uniquely Creative.

Then some black gesso, black Posca paint pen and Cerulean Blue and Iris Koi Coloring Brush Pens.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!