Artisan Wednesday Wow - ALOT of Halloween Inspiration

  

Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! When I open our September box of Stampin' UP products from the 2013 Holiday Catalog, it was filled with Halloween themed products! SPOOKY HAPPY! You just came from the amazing Cathy Caines and next is awesome Connie Collins, but before go check out ALL the fun Halloween projects I made! I COULD NOT STOP!

This first card was so fun to make! I made my own glitter paper with the new Black and Orange glitter! I used Heat and Stick Embossing powder to get the coordinating cardstock sticky. I applied the glitter and then reheated with my Heat Tool. That is the Deco Label Collection Framelits Dies but I cut off the sides for a different look. You can see the Witches Brew Washi Tape and the Witches Brew Designer Series Paper was used as well.

I have been having fun with our ink refills and rubbing alcohol in the aqua painters lately. The watercolor look is very on-trend. This next card is created with the Build a Banner Simply Created Kit stencils and that look. I just used Basic Black ink and a sponge dauber to get my fading dots. I used the same washi tape, paper and stamp image in the card above here on this card.  That wonderful 3/4" chevron Ribbon in Pumpkin Pie was cut in half for a rough edge look. 

Ok, just one more! I have many Halloween picture frames of my girls in their costumes each year. I took a Tag Bag Gift Bag and made it the background for my frame. I used the clear bag, the orange strip and white flag embellishment from the Pumpkin Pie Simply Created Goodie Gear Kit .
Again, the Witches Brew washi tape is a great way to add pattern quickly to anything. I used the stamp set called Halloween Hello on this one. Love that spooky witch!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into Halloween!!!

 Cindy 

Move on to Connie by clicking the next button!

 

Check back Thursday! It is the MDS Blog Hop! Many inspirational projects to get you creating in My Digital Studio!

MDS Blog Hop Friday - Owl Theme

This week's theme was Owls. Where to start designing? Look on MDS2 at the Global Search and type in "owl" and see what comes up and inspires you. That is what I did! Add a little Pinterest inspiration from a scrapbook page and this is what I came up with. A boy's baby name frame!

 

That cute orange owl from Party Animal Kit just got my attention and had to use him! I was able to make those fake shelves with cropping the Fancy Frame. Recolored the one frame to Marina Mist. Added a banner from the same Party Animal Kit. Used different fonts for all the text boxes with some adjustments on the line spacing and tracking. All the info on the page is false but the picture is from one of my friends. 

 

So I wanted to print this out and put in a frame for ya but ran out of time this week. Here is a sample of what it might look like on a bedroom wall. You get the picture, right? (sorry for the pun LOL) I have been working on lots of MDS home decor projects for a MDS club class. I will be sharing them all next week on my blog and MDS.net when Stampin Up's MDS special week starts! If you like the owl that I used, the download kit called Party Animal will be 50% off from Oct 29th to Nov 5th! PLUS they are giving away FREE DOWNLOADS! Be sure to get yours!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you all for leaving comments. They really make my day!

Cindy

Check out what my talented MDS Blog Hop friends created this week!

 If someone is missing as you hop, just come back here and move to the next person.

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2.Rochelle Gould

3.  Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 
5.Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Holly VanDyne
12. Kimberly Van Diepen 

A Family Christmas Project 2011 - Merry Christmas!

On the Friday after Thanksgiving, we decided to skip the Black Friday mega mess and do a family project together. It was so GREAT! Just spending time together and crafting to Christmas music, of course! I got this idea from Pinterest HERE on my board.

My husband Howard cut all the wood pieces and sanded them. 

Then Megan, Allison and I painted the pieces. Megan did Joseph, Allison did Mary and I did the heads and the baby Jesus.  

Here they are all ready for final touches and assembly.

I made tags from MDS with the Punny Holidays brush stamp set.  As soon as I saw "the Reason for the Season", I knew it would be perfect for this project.  I used the Wide Oval punch on these and added a Decorative Label punch layer in Chocolate Chip.

Here is the final piece and below is how I labeled them with the other sheet of MDS.

We gave these to friends at church that have helped us in many ways over the past year.

I think this was my most favorite thing that we did the Christmas season and that we did something as a family together that reflects our faith!

Joy to the World! The Lord is come!

A very Merry Christmas to you!

Cindy

Holiday FUN Gifts with MDS Tags!

I found a cute idea on Pinterest for co-worker/neighbors/friends gifts for the holidays.  They gave you 52 items with 52 punny funny sayings with them. So my mom and I decide to make some of them for our co-workers this year.  They were super easy to make tags with the sayings on them to match the item.

I used the awesome "Savor the Season" hostess CD for MDS. Added stamp brush images and text. Here are some of my favorites.

 

Have a holly, jolly Christmas - bag of Jolly Ranchers

Orange you glad it's Chirstmas? Hope you Christmas is a sweet one! - bag of oranges

Remember the Reason for the Season - Star ornament

May your days be happy, your heart be light, your Christmas merry and your New Year bright! - candle

May the Sweet songs of Christmas make your heart rejoice! - Christmas music CD

Keep Christmas in you heart the whole year though. - 2012 Calendar

Here is all 11 gifts wrapped and tagged and ready to go. Everyone thought it was a cute idea and was looking to see what the others said because everyone got something different.

You can see the rest of the tags Here on MDS.net on my page of samples.

Our MDS Blog Hop is on hiatus at this time. But we will be back in full force come January 6th, 2012!

Some ladies are still posting their Christmas MDS creations so go check them out if you want.

I will be back tomorrow on Saturday with a very special post!

Enjoy your day!

Cindy

Christmas JOY MDS Blog Hop Friday!

For the rest of the month of December, us MDS Blog Hop Designers will be showing the Holiday items we have been creating with MDS. I can tell you that I have been using MDS TONS for home decor and gifts this season.

You should know by now that I LOVE BANNERS! So I wanted to create a banner for my mantel. Last year, I changed my mantel to showcase my beautiful Willow Tree navity scene.  I knew that I wanted to use the pennant banner style from the Hello Baby Kit.  But what to say....PEACE, JOY, REJOICE, and then I saw this on Pinterest and it was perfect!

So I changed the background of the pennant to the NEW You're My Sunshine DSP download Pattern 1. I love how it looks like snowflakes but not. Then the pennant layer was changed to Baha Breeze and opacity at 50% to tone it down so you can see the pattern thru it. The letters are from the Sweet Details Alpha in Chocolate Chip. 

Here is a close up of the banner so you can see how it printed out. I printed this at home on Whisper White cardstock. I used hemp twine and 1/8" circle punch to put together.

So pleased with the results!

What are you making with MDS for the Holidays? Please share!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cindy

Now move on to see some fabulous HOLIDAY projects from our MDS designers.

Jeanna

Rochelle

Mandy

Julie

Amber

Terri

Aly

ME - HERE!

Erica

Heather

Alesha

Holly

Teacher's Gift

I wanted to show you all the small gift that Allison and I made for her teacher's return to school after materity leave.  I found some clips, stapler, thumb tacks, binders and more in our school color of blue at a local office supply store. We live in Woodstock so Woodstock from Charlie Brown is a theme of ours. I selected this DSP because one..it was blue and two..it has birds on it. 

The colors are Pacific Point and Night of Navy. I printed the letters on whisper white thru MDS program. I punched them out with the pennant punch. The ribbon is retired which I love using up what I have and that it matches perfectly! Love that about Stampin Up products!

Allison found out that her favorite candy is Snickers and Kit Kats. So we put a few in there for a quick boost of sugar for her teacher.  Mrs. Cloud loved it!

Have a great day!

Cindy

Pantry Finale

So you know you just can not have PLAIN white scraps of paper on those corkboard fabric tiles from yesterday's post!  I had to MDS it and add some design flavor to it!

I took the To Do List MDS download # 125775 and sized it down to 4 x 5.5 which gave me room for 4 on a 8.5x11 page.  Then I wanted the "To Do List" part to be replaced with "Items to Restock". To do this, I just added a small square punch to fit over the words and filled it with whisper white.  Then I copied the pasted three times over the other ones on the whole page.  Then I added a text box. Typed my words and changed the font to Nashville 22 to match my labels. Copied and pasted them in place on the other three.

I liked having the date there so that I left that. I also liked the completed boxes to the right. I can take them with me to the grocery store and check them off! Still something was missing. Too plain.

I added the stamp image from the MDS download Charming # 123988. Copied it to each one. Changed it to Basic Gray and opacity to 10% giving it just enough to see.

I printed several on regular paper in two sizes, cut them and have them pinned on my tiles.

Very functional with a flare!

Sorry for the blurry pics. Ipad are NOT quality cameras but they work in a pinch!

Check back tomorrow for MDS BLOG HOP FRIDAY!

Have a great day!

Cindy

I (heart) Pinterest! Pantry style.

I have to confess. 

 I am a Pinterest addict.

I...need...help!

My favorite is the DYI - do it yourself section. The projects will spark some craftyness inside you! 

So remember the pantry makeover with labels on Friday's post. I was not done there. I wanted a place to put remember notes or a grocery needs list. That way when we are low on something I could just jot it down and post it all in one place then collect them all when I was heading to the grocery store on my weekly run there.

You need the following supplies:

12x12 corkboard tiles

hot glue gun and sticks

scissors

spray adhesive

1/2 yard of fabric 

Cut fabric 14x14.

Spray the adhesive (doing this outside would be better) on one side of the corkboard tile. Just a little will to the trick. Then position your fabric on top and smooth out the wrinkles.

Flip over and start to glue down the fabric sides with the glue gun. Everyone has a way to the corners differently.  I did two opposite sides then trimmed the corners. Then did the next two sides and tried to lay as flat as I could. The first one was a trial run and the next two tiles went smoother.  I used LOTS of glue.

This is what it looks like all glue down and finished. 

Then I took the super sticky adhesive tabs that came with the tiles and put them on. 

Here are my finished pantry boards.  What do you think?  I just need to find some cute push pins and cut some white 3x3 paper and perhaps attach a pen on the side of one with some ribbon.

Then I made two smaller versions in the 6x6 corkboard tiles for another cabinet holding our spices and meds.  Then I can remember the next time to get more Claratin!

Go check out Pinterest HERE and find me there! You can become a follower of my boards and see what Pinterest things I will be making next!

Have a crafty day!

Cindy