"Boo"tiful Candle Holder

This week's challenge at  the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog is to make/decorate a 3-D object--a candle!  I decided to make my son's teacher a Halloween candle holder.

I got this candle holder and pumpkin pie scented votives at the dollar store and used "Ribbons and Rosettes" and "Doodle Charms" Cricut cartridges to decorated it!  Then I used a Peachy Keen "Cornies" face and a sentiment from Pink by Designs' "Simply Everything" set.

I cut an extra oval and shadow for the spiders face and popped it up with a foam square, then inked the whole thing a little bit with a white chalk pad.  Then I thought he should have a "cutesy" face because it's for a First Grade teacher.  I used a little twine from We R Memory Keepers and some bling.

A close-up of the sentiment.  I put it on a treat bag cut from "Doodle Charms."  The little spider looks like he's holding it--ready to go trick-or-treating!

Here's the back.  I wanted you to be able to see the borders that I used--the spider and web and the stars.  Then I cut a few stars and stuck them on the candle holder with Glue Dots.  And of course, more bling!  A little more twine around the bottom, and it's finished!  Ready to take to school soon!

Check out The Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog.  Their current challenge can be found here.

A "Colorful" Layout

I had a "scrapportunity" today (since I was "ignoring" the laundry, the dishes, the . . . fill in the blank, lol!), and I wanted to enter Frosted Design's Fabulous Friday Challenge this week, which is to use stamping.  The prize is a stamp set from Pink by Design Stamps!  I have a few of their sets, and I have to say, "I love 'em!"  They stamp well, and the sentiments are very clever!  I even used some for sentiments on this layout!

My youngest was only 16 months in these pictures and had gotten her first crayons for Christmas.  She knew right what to do and was engrossed in her artwork!  These were taken on Christmas Day (hence the other toys right around her, lol), but I thought they were too bright and happy, so I had to use patterned paper from My Little Shoebox, Bella Blvd., and Recollections.

My crayons were cut from Cricut's "Locker Talk" cartridge, and stamped with Peachy Keen's "Wide-eyed Kids" set with Stampin' Up! ink.

I added a little faux stitching and some details to the faces with my Sakura Gelly Roll white pen.

I also used some flowers from Recollections and attached them with brads from my stash.

My sentiments are from Pink by Design's "Simply Everything" set.  I used three that mentioned "colors."

Hope you like this layout!  I'm glad I had the "scrapportunity" to get another page done, and I'm glad I had an excuse to get out my stamps to use in my scrapbooking!  Here's the link to the Frosted Designs Challenge one more time:  Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge: Stamping.

Feelin' Froggy!

Hey!  Two posts in one day??  Yes, I needed a card for a birthday party tomorrow, and needed a little inspiration, so I hopped over to Frosted Designs to check out their latest card sketch challenge.  I wanted to use this cute sentiment from "Pink by Design," and thought the sketch would work great for my idea.  You can find Frosted Design's Challenge #24 here.

I used Cricut's Animal Kingdom cartridge, Bazzill cardstock, Stampin' Up! ink, American Crafts brads, and Ranger's Glossy Accents.  The patterned paper was scraps from my stash.  The pocket paper made me think of little boys with surprises in their pockets!

Hope you like this card; I think the birthday boy will!

"Starry" School Layout

Here's a layout I made for my oldest daughter's school album.  I made this layout for some challenges, and I think it turned out just right for the Peachy Keen Stamps color Challenge #19.  I chose these pictures because my daughter was wearing a purple shirt, which matched the color scheme.  And, since it had stars, it made me think to do a star theme.  And, remember those foil stars we used to put on our charts or get back on our papers in elementary school?

(The pictures are with her two fifth grade teachers--I covered their faces, because I wasn't sure they would want me to post their photos online.)

Here's two close-ups of the happy little stars:

My supply list:  cardstock-Bazzill; Cricut cartridges: Base Camp-title (my teacher), Opposites Attract-title (& me) and stick pins, George and Basic Shapes-stars and tags, and Ribbons and Rosettes-"notebook" borders; Glimmer Mist-Tattered Angels "Marshmallow," ribbon-Offray, twine-We R Memory Keepers, flowers-Prima, brads-various from my stash, stamps: faces-Peachy Keen Stamps "Wide-eyed Kids Assortment and sentiments-Pink by Design "Our Kids" set, ink-Colorbox, Studio G, Stampin' Up!, pens-Sakura Gelly Roll: white and clear glitter, Creative Memories: green glitter.

I'm entering this layout in the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge #19:  Color Inspiration
Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #141:  Do something you are "afraid" of on your project.  (I'm intimidated by using all solid cardstock--or maybe I am addicted to patterned paper, IDK! LOL!  I also used that Glimmer Mist on the background, which is new to me.)
Frosted Designs Sketch Along Tuesday:  Sketch #42

I encourage everyone to check out these challenges and put something together to play along.  It was fun for me, and I got one more layout completed that would otherwise just be waiting on me to get some other scrapportunity.  Which might take a while, lol!