YCU Challenge #17

Hi Everyone,

Just dropping in for a quick hello and to share my card for the Young Crafters Unite Challenge #17: Something Sweet. 

I don't really have any stamps of sweet foods like ice cream or cookies, so I improvised a bit. Here's my card: 

I started by stamping the Hero Arts Snow Dots background in pumpkin pie ink (SU) and punched a hole out of the panel.  I then used a scallop die to make a frame around the circle with some patterned paper from American Crafts.  The sweet little girl and sentiment are both from Eat Cake Graphics, which has a bunch of great stamps and clever sentiments.  I thought the little girl and the sentiment would count for "something sweet."  I colored the girl with copics, cut her out, and mounted her with foam tape in the center of the circle.  I then cut out of the sentiment and also mounted it with foam.  Because I couldn't stop there, I added some stickles to her bow and socks and some glass effects gel to her shoes to look like patent leather. 

Lastly, I rounded the left top and bottom corners to help balance the card.

Thanks for visiting today.  Hope you're having a relaxing weekend! 

-Lizzy 

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween Everyone! 

I can't believe it's the end of October already!  This fall is just flying by.  It's going to be Christmas before I know it!

I don't have a lot of (e.g. more than 1) Halloween stamps, since I don't really send out Halloween cards.  However, when I saw this cute little bat, I couldn't pass it up.  It's an adorable stamp from Eat Cake Graphics.  I stamped it twice, colored it with copics, and cut it out.  

I had a lot of fun masking and playing with distress inks.  I masked the scene so the top and bottom of the card were left white.  I started by sponging the harvest moon with a variety of yellows and oranges and then daubed the clouds with memento london fog and a little dusty concord distress ink.  Next I stamped the bats on the card and placed their cut-out-versions on top.  This way I could preserve all the little details on the stamp that I wasn't able to cut out: 

As I mentioned before, since I don't own Halloween stamps, I had to create my own sentiment.  I did this using "smitty's ABCs" from Lawn Fawn, which was really easy to do since the letters line up so nicely.  Lastly, I added a border below the scene with another Lawn Fawn stamp "Belinda's borders."  The border and sentiment were both stamped with dusty concord distress ink.  

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a Happy Halloween! 

-Lizzy