Stamps, Paper, Scissors

YILMF!!!

Which stands for Yes, I Love My Fans!

Seriously, I was very touched for all the support for YILM. Thanks to all who commented, either here or on Facebook or emailed, you really made me feel loved!

This weekend was busy and no stamping got done still, even though I wanted to. Between hauling three children to the eye doctor, shuttlilng Emily to her friend's house, doing the church bulletin on Saturday, then church, and taking the girls to see The Three Musketeers (truly one of the WORST movies I have ever wasted my money on), there wasn't much left in the way of time or energy.

I do have cards from my last class in Septemeber to show. So I will show you the Halloween one, because today IS Halloween!

Ingredients: Stamps - Out on a Limb, Delightful Dozen; Paper - Frightful Sight DSP, Cajun Craze, Basic Black, More Mustard, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White; Ink - Basic Black; Other - Large Oval punch, 2-1/2" circle punch, Simply Scored, Basic Black Dotted Scallop ribbon, white gel pen, markers, Brights Glimmer brad, dimensionals.

STINKIN" CUTE!! YILM! I made things easier for my students:

The witch was stamped on the More Mustard before punching it out, then again on Whisper White. Just the head/hat and broom head were colored and cut out of the Whisper White before being put on the witch, so they didn't have to cut out the whole witch to get the broom and hat to projected out from teh edge of the circle. My GOSH, but I am clever! YILM!

Well, back to waiting for work. Hopefully, I will get some stamping done while I wait. Ta!

 

You gotta love....

Pumpkins with mustaches. As the mother of two teenage girls, I am very aware of the mustache fad, so when I saw these punkins with their 'staches, I had to have this set. Lookie:

Ingredients: Stamps - Out on a Limb, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper - Crumb Cake, Pick Your Poison DSP, Very Vanilla, Peach Parfait; Ink - Basic Black, Crumb Cake; Other - Word Window punch, Neutrals brads, Peach Parfait marker, White gel pen, Basic Black taffeta ribbon, dimensionals, sponge wedge, Simply Scored.

I had a fun time with my Simply Scored on this card! Lookie:

I scored a line around my image and then I started to think of how to make it even COOLER and this was the result. GOJUS!!! (YILM!)

Well, I'd stay and chat longer, but my body is trying to convince me it's not awake yet and I think it finally managed...nap time! Ta!

 

A Freaky Kind of Fall

It's that time again, time for a grand and glorious Tour de Freaks! It's kind of a small tour this month, due to so many of our members being away at the Founder's Circle retreat this past week.

If you've just arrived from Barb Mullikin's blog, you are in the right place! But if you started right here, fear not! You can manage to get all the way around the entire tour just by following the links at the bottom of each post.

This post is going live on the evening of the 19th, so if you find some posts in our tour have not yet posted, please be patient.  The entire tour should be accessible at some point this evening. Keep checking back!

The theme for this month's tour is Fall or Autumn, if you want to sound more poetic.  I have  been having a ton of fun with Halloween stuff lately, so I will just concentrate on that, shall I?

I have really been enjoying the soft, vintage colors of the Pick Your Poison paper, so I have a project where I have used it. Lookie:

 
Ingredients: Stamps - Out on a Limb, Delightful Dozen; Paper - Pick Your Poison DSP, Peach Parfait, Naturals White, Basic Black; Ink - Basic Black, Peach Parfait, Whisper White; Other - Decorative Label punch, Modern Label punch, Scallop border punch, Square Lattice embossing folder, Basic Black 3/8" taffeta ribbon, Neutrals Designer Series buttons, Basic Black marker, Neutrals brads, Early Espresso bakers twine, White gel pen.

STINKIN' CUTE!!! (YILM!) I love this set, which is somewhat retro, but not too much, so it is very versatile!

Next, I had gotten myself into a really shabby chic mood and had some inspiring ideas I had seen on line recent that gave me the idea for this card:

Ingredients: Stamps - Dark & Dreary, House of Haunts, Parlor Prints; Paper - Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla, Peach Parfait, Concord Crush; Ink - Sahara Sand, Concord Crush, Wisteria Wonder; Other - Ticket Corner punch, 1/2" circle punch, White gel pen, Basics Jews rhinestones, Very Vanilla seam binding, Elegant Lines embossing folder, sponge wedges, dimensionals, brown Sharpie.

GOJUS! (YILM) I stamped the house from House of Haunts using Sahara Sand on Very Vanilla. I then colored in the moon and all the windows with the white gel pen, then sponged more Sahara Sand over the time. I then erased the white gel pen off the image, leaving the moon shining brightly and all the windows in the house "lit". After that, I used the Stamp-a-ma-Jig to line up the Happy Halloween stamp from Dark & Dreary over the house image, stamped, and trimmed. I love the way it turned out!

The rhinestones were colored with a brown Sharpie, then most of the color blotted off with my finger, leaving nice light orange rhinestones that matched my project perfectly!

Finally, I have also gotten some of the Frightful Sight DSP from the big catalog and made a little project with it:

Ingredients: Stamps - Spooky Bingo Bits, Warmest of Wishes (hostess Holiday Mini), Tagtastic (Hostess IBC), Paper - Frightful Sight DSP, Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Cajun Craze, Old Olive; Ink - Basic Black, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry; Other - Owl Builder Punch, Curly Label punch, Scallop Circle punch, 1" circle punch, 1-3/8" circle punch, Basic Black scallop dot ribbon, Basic Black marker, dimensionals, plastic test tube/party favor.

STINKIN' CUTE!!! (YILM!) I was inspired to make this by the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers. The hardest part, honestly, was finding something that matched to put inside. Usually, there are M&M's that are the dark ones that come in dark colors that I thought I would be putting in this thing, but NOOOOO! Hershey didn't put any out or if they did, *I* didn't see them! I know you can get custom mixes at the bulk food store, but I didn't want to go there. So I bought some coconut M&M's and picked out all the white ones to put in here. That meant I had to eat the rest that were not the appropriate color, but hey, I am ready to make sacrifices like that for you! That's how I roll, yo! And I also am eating the bag of Peanut Butter M&M's I bought in the hopes that those would look right, which they didn't..and then there were the Pretzel M&M's I also bought that...well, you get the idea, anyway!

Well, it's time to bid you goodbye and send you on to Gretchen Barron's blog. Enjoy the rest of the tour! Ta!

 

Another swap!

Yes, I was dumb. I signed up for another swap with my pals at Stampin' Addicts while I was at convention. I got all caught up in the excitement of the new Holiday Mini so that I rashly joined another swap. And that is why I found myself making 32 swaps for Controlfreaks and 10 for this one. Yes. I r nuts.

I decided to use the set, Gift Givers. Lookie:

Ingredients: Stamps - Gift Givers; Paper - Pick Your Poison DSP, Peach Parfait, Crumb Cake, Basic Black; Ink - Basic Black, Whisper White; Other - Decorator Label punch, Basic Black taffeta ribbon, Basic Black marker, mini brads, Scallop Dot ribbon border punch, Watercolor pencils, Stripes embossing folder, Lace Ribbon border punch, Simply Scored, paper piercing tool.

Spookin' Cute!!! I got a black on black thing going here that I really like:

And the pleated paper above the Basic Black was done with the new Simply Scored tool. I wanted to add something different to this card and I think this fits the bill!

I hope you all are enjoying the weekend! Ta!