Fall Sunflowers Round Easel Card

 Hello,

Fall, my favorite time is year! I will be happy to have some cooler days ahead, after the sauna like days we have here in Northeast Ohio. 

There is brand new beginning over at A Perfect Time To Craft challenge blog! Come On and get your craft on and enter to win some very nice prizes! Always Anything Goes, Cards, Atc's Mixed Media, you know it, create it!

Thanks goes out to our fab sponsor this month Sheepski Designs for the wonderful images to work with and prizes!

I chose to work with the Sunflowers. After coloring my flowers with colored pencils, I put together a round easel card, using various round die cuts and solid and patterned paper. I love how it turned out with all the rich colors of Fall. 

                          Add a few die cut leaves, a pretty bow and a butterfly to hold your top up

                                                                        What do you think?!

I hope to see your creations,

Robin

This is Halloween

 Hello,

Oooooo, it is quickly approaching......Halloween! Fall and Halloween are my favorite time of year and holiday!

My maternal Grandma's are responsible for my love of Fall and their favorite holiday, Halloween!

Family lore speaks about my Great Grandma running away with the circus at the age of 14, traveling with the circus for many years, as a costume designer! She shared many stories of her time with the circus, and shared her baubles she picked up in her travels, as a matter of fact I have you tarot card set.

I am sharing my project, I designed for the This Is Halloween Challenge Blog, 

Using the Grunge Tag die cut set from Studio Light, I die cut my pieces for the tag, adhered them together, adding a few elements from the tag set and one of the many Spooky Kooky, guys from Tim Holtz, paper dolls, Halloween set. Isn't he delightful?!!

Join me in the challenge and get your craft on!!

Robin

Merry Mermaid Shrine Gecko Galz

 Hello!

We at Gecko Galz challenge blog are all about Mermaids this month!! Get your craft on and join us over on the blog for a chance to win a $25.00 shopping spree at Gecko Galz!!!!

My first project made good use of pieces I had in my stash box. I love use upcycle items in my work and cast offs, as a matter of fact all pieces in my first project came from my cast off stash box. The base for my shrine is a wood stamp that is the date, day, time stamp, a piece of a dowel from another project, an altoid tin lid, from another projects, beads, and garlic netting! My image is from Gecko Galz of course!!

                                                                      First up my Mermaid Shrine

I painted and inked all the metal pieces with Tim Holtz Speckles Egg ink. Next wrap the dowel in jute, and drill a hole in the block to hold the dowel, I added a bit of glue to hold the the dowel in the hole. String beads on dowel if desired, set aside. For the lid part of the shrine, I cut out the image, lightly inked the edges with walnut ink. Cover the back of the image with pop dots or pop tape, adhere to the inside of the lid. Cut a piece of netting from your garlic bulb bag and adhere a little piece at a time to the back of the tin lid, taking care as you hot glue it on. * You my need to stretch to fit. I covered the back of the tin with a scrap for a finished look. Embellish till your hearts desire! I made a rosette using a Tim Holtz die, a piece of pearls on a string, and a flat back pearl.!!

My make to celebrate Mermaids again, is a set of mermaid magnets!  Upcycle Christmas magnets purchased for 25 cents each! after the season, covered with watercolor paper for a nice background for the images, that I pop dotted for extra dimension, with inked edges and added small beach worthy embellishments.

Thanks for taking a look

Robin 

Vintage matching journal and bookmark Arty Divas

 

Hello!

I proudly design for Arty Divas, challenge blog. Be sure to click the link and link up your creation for a chance to win some wonderful prizes!!  Anything goes! all the time!

Check out this gorgeous kit from Lilli Rain Designs that I got to work with!! I love all things vintage, so of course I fell in love with this kit!

Plenty of lovely paper, and embellishments, and gorgeous vintage ladies!

I created a journal and matching book mark, using an inexpensive bound notebook. Perfect for whatever you need to note or journal! 

Pretty straight forward instruction, cut all images out, ink edges, adhere paper of your choice to the                                               front  of the journal, and embellish till your heart is content!!

See you next time!

Robin

F is For F Words Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

 Hello Snark Lovers,

I have finally found a challenge right up my creative alley!! Yep, you read it right, F is For F Words!!

The Sisters over at The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are having fun with this challenge and I am                                                          adding my F word creation to the mash up!

                                                                 

                                                                Warning, F word ahead....

Using one of all time favorite papers, Graphics 45, and the Art Deco Lady stamp. from Graphics 45, I whipped up an Easel card, with the perfect F word stamps from Viva Las Vegas stamps.

Wish Me Luck!

Robin

Tea with Critters

 Hello,

Have I got a darling card for you! I am a animal lover, so I was drawn to this kit right away! Plus what is not to like about a card with cute critters and a tea pot!!

A new challenge has started over at A Perfect Time To Craft! Get your craft on and join us for a chance to win some wonderful prizes! Anything goes! Head over and check it all out!

Thanks to our great sponsor this month, Crafts U Print !! I worked with Tea Party Mini Kit! And what fun I had!

I began by printing the set twice, and then fussy cut all the pieces out. I used some scrap to cover the card base, by die cutting it with a stitched circle. After inking all edges, I began assembly, the second set was pop dotted over the first for extra dimension. Adhere your elements referring to the instructions for placement. I then added fussy embellishments, the pearls, the sheer bow, and few straight pins, and a curly cue!! There you have it!

Thanks You for stopping by,

Robin

Sea of Dreams, Double Stacked ATC Cube

 Hello Friends,

I can't believe it is almost the end of July! My family has been on vacation to the beach, and looking ahead for school to start in August. I will be going to the beach in December, to see me cousins in Florida! I am getting excited! 

When I think of the beach, it is sun, sand, shells, and of course mermaids, which was my inspiration for my projects for Gecko Galz this month.

I used the beautiful Mermaids Dreams Junk Journal Kit for both my projects! Yes there are more then enough images in this kit for 2 projects!

I began by painting my two, 2 inch blocks, while my paint was drying I cut all of the images out. I then cut mats for each image, and inked all edges of the images and the mats. I adhered the images to the mats and used a stencil and added walnut ink here and there on each image. After deciding placement on the cubes, I adhered an image on all 4 sides times 2 cubes. Next adhere the cubes together, I used a hot glue gun for this step. I then made my embellishments for the top cube. I recycled a small ribbon spool by adding cotton twine to it. I adhered a cog to the top of the spool, and carefully fussy cut the the Octopus frame out and added one of the sentiments from the kit. I hot glued a toothpick to the back of the frame and then hot glue the toothpick sign in the center of ribbon spool. I then filled a tiny bottle with sand, tied a little cotton twine to the neck of the bottle, and hot glued it in place. Added some small shells and silica beads for added texture. Save the little packs, that are stuck in products to keep them dry, that is where the silica beads come from!! Lastly I added 4 big beads for feet on my bottom cube.

                              My next project is always a fun card to make, a Waterfall Card,

                    I hope you enjoyed my work, thank you for stopping by, and be sure to visit again!

                                                                               Robin