It's A Anniversary Party!!

 

Hello and welcome.  Today starts the week long anniversary celebration for Conjurer of Dreams in our Facebook Inspiration Group.  There will be daily challenges and prizes.  All the fun starts today right here.

 

 

A Little Graveyard Dancing

 

Hello and welcome.  I'd like to share with you a card I made using the Old West Graveyard and Old West Dancing Ghost Couple from Conjurer of Dreams.  When I'm dealing with a bad migraine, I love pre-colored images and Conjurer of Dreams has some fabulous ones.  Just print them out and assemble when I can.  Whenever I use the ghost images, I keep hearing the Haunted Mansion ballroom with the music "grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize".

After combining the images in Photoshop©, I added my own saying before printing on to Neenah white card stock then layered and added brads.  Once I had distressed the edges of one of the layers, I adhered it to my card base using glue dots before adding some black/vanilla gingham ribbon I've had for who knows how long.  Taking my Martha Stewart punches, paper crimper and brown/black scraps, I punched out enough elements to make my own floral spray again.  After assembling the elements, I added diamond (moon) and platinum ice stickles to finish it off.  I'm pretty happy with how my card turned out.  That's one less Halloween card I need to make.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #66 - Use Your NBUS (images)

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge Sept 2024 - Anything Goes Halloween 

Digi Choosday Wk 36 - Anything Goes 

Halloween and Other Ocasions Sept 2024 - Anything Goes Halloween/Ocassions (ghosts at Halloween party in graveyard) 

Crafty Gals Corner #259 - Anything Goes Optional Add A Ribbon

 

 Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams

Ink: None

Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, MS Punches, Glossy Accents, Ice Stickles, Brads, Glue Dots, Paper Distresser, Ribbon

Kissing Toads/Frogs and Roads Less Traveled

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a couple of cards made just because.  The last month has been really hard on me between losing my mom and a "sanfu" at my bank freezing our account.  Between both, my migraines, and nerves, have been overactive to the point of borderline nervous breakdown.  So, I decided to try assembling some fun cards I've had printed out for some time using Conjurer of Dreams images.

First up is a card using a background image that was part of a freebie set, with a purchase, a couple months ago along with the Frog Prince.  I started out by combining the background with the frog prince in Photoshop© before adding my own saying (even though he's a frog not a toad) to the combined image.  After printing it out on Neenah white card stock, I layered it, distressed the edges using my paper distresser and then added brads before adhering it to my card using pop dots.  Taking my drawer of scraps, I then punched several flowers and ferns before running the greenery through the paper crimper then adding a bit of mowed lawn to highlight them.  I then assembled my own floral sprays in the lower corners before adding a couple of additional flowers throughout the scene.  The final touches was gold ice stickles to the flower centers and crown tip before adding diamond ice stickles to the water and throughout the rest of the scene to give a "magical" appearance.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #66 - Use Your NBUS (background, frog)

Critter Crazy #90 - Anything Goes With A Critter (frog prince) 

Try It On Tuesday Sept 3 - Make It Colorful 

CD Sunday Plus #141 - Anything Goes Digital (Conjurer of Dreams)

 

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams

Ink: Tim Holtz Mowed Lawn

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, MS Punches, Paper Crimper, Ice Stickles, Brads, Paper Distresser, Pop Dots

 

Next up is another fun one using the same background set from May, along with one of the freebies last month in the Conjurer of Dreams Facebook Inspiration group.  I just love these little mice and their ladybug car.  Aren't they the cutest?  I started out by combining the background, and mice, in Photoshop© before adding my own saying which is a quote from one of Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken.  I first read the poem in high school and the last line of the poem has stuck with me ever since then.  

Once I had the image panel printed, I layered it before distressing the edge of the final layer using my paper distresser.  I then added brads and adhered it to my card base using pop up glue dots. Taking my scrap pile and punches again, I once more made my own floral sprays before adding ice stickles to the center.  The final touch was a wooden ladybug sticker I've had for a while and not used.  In fact, the glue on the ladybug was dry so I had to add some glossy accents to make it adhere and diamond ice stickles to give the background more of a "magical" appearance.  I'm really happy with how both of these cards turned out.

Challenges entered:

 

Crafts Galore Encore Sept 2024 - Anything Goes 

Digi Choosday Wk 36 - Anything Goes 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 665 to 666 - Anything Goes Uplifting (Robert Frost quote)

A Place To Start Sept 2024 - Anything Goes 

Snippets Playground #488 - Anything Goes Using Snippets (floral sprays)

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams

Ink: Tim Holtz Mowed Lawn (edge of floral greenery)

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Ladybug Sticker, MS Punches, Glossy Accents, Ice Stickles, Brads, Pop Up Glue Dots, Paper Distresser

Magical Bookmarks

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a couple of bookmarks made using the Apple for Teacher freebie combined with Magical Library (reminds me of Harry Potter) from Conjurer of Dreams for the bookmark challenge in the Facebook Inspiration Group.    

I started out by combining the images in Photoshop© before printing onto Neenah white card stock.  Taking a couple of plastic bookmark sleeves I had ordered 20yrs ago, and haven't finished using, I measured the size I would need to trim down my bookmarks before layering.  I then added some star sequins from Picket Fence Studios before highlighting parts of the lamps, and images, using ice stickles.  Once they had dried, I added them to the sleeves, punched a hole and added some blue/green fibers I've had for years.  Quick, easy and so cool - in my opinion.  I'll be giving one to my daughter, and the other to a friend, who both LOVE reading books...real books not just digital ones.

Challenges entered:

 

Conjurer of Dreams Facebook Inspiration Group - Sept 2024 Bookmarks (use provided image)

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #66 - Use Your NBUS (apple books image)

Get Creative Challenge #135 - Inspired By A Book (Harry Potter) 

Ally's Angels #85 - Anything Goes

Crafting Happiness #191 - Back To School (bookmarks for library/textbooks)

Outlawz Paper Al La Mode (no cards) - Anything Goes In A Card Free Zone/Digital World (bookmarks using Conjurer of Dreams)

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams

Ink: None

Card Stock: Neenah White

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Bookmark Sleeves, Sequins, Glue, Fibers, Ice Stickles 

PIP Challenge 2436

 

   Sponsored by 

Polkadoodles

Polkadoodles FB 1

Polkadoodles FB 2  

Hello and welcome.  Today starts a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by Polkadoodles.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship and for providing the design team with images to use.  My card today uses their Gnometastic Birthday Cake image.

After printing the image off on Neenah white card stock, I pulled out my Copic markers and colored my gnome chef up before layering and adding brads.  My card is dry embossed using a Cuttlebug birthday embossing folder and my Big Shot.  Once I was finished with the embossing, I pulled out my Tim Holtz fired brick distress ink and ran the ink pad over the raised images before adding my layered image panel to the card using glue dots.  The final touches was some balloon stickers I received from a friend, yellow ice stickles highlighting the candle flame and some Simon Says Stamp warm tones gems.  I'm really happy with how this card turned out.

Challenges entered:

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #66 - Use Your NBUS (image, gems, balloon stickers)

Park Hopping My Happy Place Sept 2024 - Anything Goes Featuring Theme Parks (inspired by Epcot food and wine festival, plus Goofy's Kitchen in Disneyland)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking Wk 36 - Anything Goes 

A Place To Start Sept 2024 - Anything Goes 

Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Anything Goes 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 663 to 664 - Anything Goes Uplifting (happy birthday background)

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to enter this week's challenge at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.

 

Stamps: Polkadoodles

Ink: Tim Holtz Fired Brick

Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Glue, Glue Dots, Brads, Gems, Copic Markers

Dreams And Nightmares

 

 

 Hello and welcome.  Today is my day to showcase my inspiration projects for this month's Conjurer of Dreams Inspiration Group Facebook challenge.  This month the theme is Let Your Dreams Take Flight.  I went more with a nightmarish theme. 😏  My images, backgrounds and sayings were all combined in Photoshop© before being printed out on Neenah 110lb white card stock.  I'll put the digital sets used, and any challenges entered, under each picture:

Firefly Forest

Bat Woman

 

Challenges entered:

Paper Funday #69 - Anything Goes 

Inspired by the horror film The Swamp when I was a kid.

Firefly Forest

No Swimming 

 

Reflections

Bat Woman

Challenges entered:

Two Old Bats Halloween Sept 2024 - Anything Goes Halloween 

Galaxy Background

Aliens (special set made just for me)

Challenges entered:

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #66 - Use Your NBUS (images)

Inspired by Haunted Mansion at Disneyland

Ghost Dance

Victorian Dancing Ghost Couples

 

Challenges entered:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #237 - Anything Goes 

Park Hopping My Happy Place Sept 2024 - Anything Goes Theme Parks (Haunted Mansion) 
 

Firefly Forest

Bat Woman

 

Challenges entered:

CD Sunday Plus #141 - Anything Goes Digital (Conjurer of Dreams images) 
 

No Swimming

Reflections

Victorian Mansion Book Page

Mice Fliers

(Victorian butterfly was a free page in August)

I'm pretty happy with how all of these turned out.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to visit the store and join the facebook group and this month's challenge.

 

All

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams

Card Stock: Neenah; Recollections; Stampin Up; Scraps  

Ink: Memento Desert Sand, Rich Cocoa (Ghost Card only)

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Ribbon, Ice Stickles, Punches, Small Hole Punch (faux brads), Bling, Glue, Paper Distresser

 

Steampunk Fall

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a card made using this month's freebie over on the Conjurer of Dreams blog and the new Rustic Fall digital set.  Now as one who is SO DONE with summer and it's hot temps, wildfires and hot down-sloping winds, I cannot wait for cooler temps and the changing of the seasons. 

I started out by combining the digital elements in Photoshop before printing my finished image on Neenah white card stock before layering and adding copper brads then setting aside.  I then printed another image out at 5x7 size before adhering it to a white Neenah card base.  Taking some burlap ribbon I found at Dollar Tree©, I added a strip to my card base using Ranger Glossy Accents.  When that was dry, I added my layered image panel using pop dots before a few dusty Marvy and Martha Stewart punches to create a floral spray using leaves to fit the fall theme.  I then took my punched elements/snippets and rubbed then lightly over a Tim Holtz walnut stain distress ink pad using tweezers.  The final touch was adding a little copper ice stickles to the flower centers.  I'm really happy with how this turned out.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #66 - Use Your NBUS (COD images, burlap ribbon)

The Four Seasons Sept 2024 - See Inspiration Pic (inspired by the leaves, colors)

Digi Choosday Wk 34 - Anything Goes

Inspiration Station Sept 2024 - See Inspiration Pic (inspired by fall trees in background, colors)

Creative Crafting Uncles #56 - Anything Goes

FarmQuest General Store #19 - Anything Farm or Country Goes

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2024 - Use Your Unloved Stash( Marvy punches)

 

 

The Four Seasons

 

 Inspiration Station

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to grab your freebie on the Conjurer of Dreams blog.

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams

Ink: Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress

Card Stock: Neenah; Recollections

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Marvy and MS Punches, Glossy Accents, Ice Stickles, Brads, Pop Dots, Burlap Ribbon

Wood Block Wednesday August 2024 Edition

 

 

Hello and welcome to another woodblock wednesday where we're dusting off our old wood block stamps (we all have them) and using them again. For my card, I decided to dust off some of my old Stampscapes element stamps (I had bought long ago at a stamp convention) and combine them with a Conjurer of Dreams image from their Serenity digital set to create another sympathy card.

 

I started out by combining my chosen Serenity image, and Psalm, in Photoshop© before printing it out on Neenah white card stock.  I then took my Stampscapes images and stamped them in various places on the printed image, using Memento tuxedo black ink, before highlighting them using a white gel pen.  Once I was done with all of that, I layered my image and added some black brads before setting aside.  I then printed out another Serentiy image, layered it onto a white card then added my layered image panel using glue dots.  It was fairly quick and easy to make.

 

 

Challenges entered:

 

Woodblock Wednesday August 2024 - Use Those Woodblock Stamps (Stampscapes)

Gem of a Craft Challenge Wk 17 - Anything Goes 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 663 to 664 - Anything Goes Uplifting (Psalm 23)

CD Sunday Plus #141 - Anything Goes Digital (Conjurer of Dreams Serenity Image) 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams; Stampscapes

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Neenah; Recollections

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Ice Stickles, Brads, White Gel Pen