Boom Boom Pow + Practical Scrappers White core Cardstock Challenge

Practical Scrappers' challenge this week is to use white core cardstock........so out comes the DCWV. I used a pretty teal piece from Indian Summer as the background.....distressed the edges with sandpaper....added a teal patterned paper from the "stash" and took a piece of red from last year's Christmas stack....ripped the edges....and added a distressed star effect for the rest of the background. I placed chipboard stars of varying shapes under the cardstock and went over it with sandpaper. The sign is cut from George at 5 1/2" and 5"....added thickers and distressed the cardstock with sand paper. The "POW" is from Indie Art....cut at 4 1/2" in white and teal....distressed and inked with silver metallic ink....and cut the "POW!" out of silver metallic paper. Attached it with pop dots. The photo is matted with teal star paper. Found a green chipboard arrow I liked...so I covered it with some striped paper to match. Cut double stars from George in varying sizes....distressed them with more sandpaper....and layered with pop dots. Picture is "Boom Boom" Brown on Halloween!   Head on over to Practical Scrappers and join in the fun!

Pumpkin Roll - Chirper Challenge

Chirper Challenge wants pumpkin recipes this week.   I used our family's favorite Pumpkin Roll.  Paper is Autumn Recollections.   Made the pumpkin rolls from various size circles....MS circle cutter.....and the lollipop layering feature in Mickey and Friends.   Lots of ink and pop dots....ribbon and doodling.   Title is American Crafts stickers.  Great, great recipe!  If you would like to try it, check it out here:  Pumpkin Roll Recipe

Halloween '09

My husband's family had a Halloween Bash this year.   Here are the adults!   Paper is a black polka dot glitter from DCWV.  The borders are dimensional stickers from WalMart and the bottom paper is imaginesce....as is the rub-on title.  I attached some of the pictures with pop dots for interest.  The haunted house is PDDU, cut at 4 1/2" real dial size.   I added black glittery paint to the windows...and put some little 1" PDDU ghosts in the house.   Used silver metallic ink around the whole thing.  Attached with pop dots.

Look WhoOo's 8! Tri-challenge

Tri-challenge time at Practical Scrappers (use 3 different ribbons), Frosted Designs (put an owl in your project), and Stuck on U Sketches (follow their sketch).   This was a fun layout to do.....decided to use an old birthday picture of Kati....and the owl inspired the title:   Look WhoOo's 8!   Used Imaginesce paper (Cool Summer collection) and yellow DCWV cardstock.   The "8" is from Mickey Font as well as "LOOK".  The flowers are George, double cut and layered with pop dots.   Attached a little birthday hat from Doodlecharms on the owls, who were cut from DCWV Fall Glitter stack (2008).   Everything is inked (I need a case of Cat's Eye Chestnut Roan) and some "bling" was put on the "8"!

Fall Ribbon Tree

My first project for Practical Scrappers was to make a layout featuring 3 different ribbons.    I adore ribbon anyway so this one was fun!  I divided my 12 x 12 cardstock into three sections:   in the first, I put vertical striped paper, the middle is a blue cardstock, and the third is horizontal striped.  I used red rickrack as one border and a brown stitched ribbon as the other.  I then added a moss green thin strip of ribbon down the middles of the patterned paper for interest and dimension.   I cut an 8" tree from Stretch Your Imagination......added interest with a gold gel pen and 3 different colors of brown inks.   I took bits of red, yellow, brown, and orange ribbon....folded them into "v" shapes and attached them to the tree for leaves....trimmed them out with buttons.  Used the maple leaf from Stretch Your Imagination....cut on shadow and regular, in sizes ranging from 1 1/2" to 2 1/2".....gel pen and ink for definition and scattered them all around the left side of the page.  And for Meg Beauchamp and Frosted Designs, I added a little sticker owl I had in my stash.