Trick or Treat Dragon

Today's card features one of my favourite dragons (from Dustin Pike's Doodle Dragon Studios) who is all dressed up for trick or treating. He's using his pillow case for maximum candy capacity and has a little bit of bling (see the clasp for the cape) to make sure everyone notices him as he wanders the streets. This card will be donated to Cards for Kids (Canada).

Challenges:

• Card Makin' Mamas - Go digi
• Colour Me Creative - Fall or Halloween
• C.R.A.F.T. - Children
• Creative Craft Challenge - Use a charm (the candy corn charm)
• Shopping Our Stash - Birds, bugs or beasts (no people)
• Sunday Sketch and Stamp - Sketch

Halloween

I'm getting ready to put my house up for sale which means I've had to pack away most of my crafting supplies. I'm feeling very deprived as I've put away everything but a few project boxes. To minimize what "needed" to be left out, I decided to focus my energies over the next couple of months on making Hallowe'en & Christmas cards to donate to the local Children's Hospital. I'm hoping to make at least 20 of each that can be given to Cards for Kids (Canada) and then distributed to hospitalized kids.

To start, I have 2 different Halloween cards to share - the first for a teenager and the second for a younger kid.

Bugaboo rocker:

The digi image is from Bugaboo (SKELB You Rock My World) and is coloured using Copic markers. The paper is from

Challenges:

• Card Makin' Mamas - go digi
• Cards for Men - "G" is for (guitar)
• Catch the Bug - anything goes
• Color Me Creative Copics Challenge - Fall or Halloween
• Creative Stamp Friends - for a man
• Less is More - CAS & metallic colours (gunmetal grey, silver metal button)
• Ribbon Carousel - all tied up (ribbon & floss)

Cutest bat in town:

The image is from The Stamping Bazaar (Marvin) and is coloured using Copic markers. The papers are from

• Creative Card Crew - anything goes
• Do You Stack Up? - friendly critters
• My Mum's Craft Shop - 1 (image), 2 (design papers), 3 (buttons)
• Papertake Weekly - sketch
• Partytime Tuesdays - anything goes
• Pile it On - "B" things (buttons, bat)

Take off for good times

I'm getting ready to put my house up for sale and so I've packed away a lot of my craft supplies. I've tried to just keep out the basics along with a minimum of patterned paper and embellishments. As a result I'm trying to use what I have still unpacked in more creative ways.

This boy's birthday card is completely without stamps (the good times sun is a rub-on) and as all my crafty friends now, I love my stamps, but they were one of the first items I packed away (except for some favorites, of course). I added brads in an unusual way (for me) by putting them onto the tree. And finally, I created the bike ramp by using strips of scrap paper. The design of the card is out of a magazine but unfortunately I can't share which one because all my magazines are packed now and I forgot to write the magazine name down when I made note of the sketch. The papers are all Abby Road.

Challenges:

• Bling It On - A-B-C (Abby Road, Bike, Clouds)
• Cards for Men - Anything goes
• City Crafter - Use scraps
• Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes
• Paper Issues - Let's ride
• Paper Playtime - Anything goes
• Secret Crafter - Create a scene
• Unstampabelles - Wheels

A little birdie told me

Today's card is a pretty simple one - I coloured a stamped image from Whipper Snapper using the Paper Pals colour challenge combo as my guide. The sketch is from Midnight Madness. I used Basic Grey's Life of the Party background paper and embellishment (the flower). Once again I've left off any sentiment so that I can use the card for a multitude of occasions although I am leaning towards using it as a congratulations card ("A little birdie told me you ...").

 

Challenges:

• Crafts & Me - anything goes
• Divas by Design - summer
• Glitter Geeks - furry & feathery friends
• Pal's Paper Arts - color challenge (the colours match much more closely in real life)
• Simply Create - favourite animal (cats!!!!)
• Tuesday Throwdown - summer

A dragon for any reason

UPDATE:  365 Cards chose my card as one of their Spotlight Designs! I also won the random draw at Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday! It's been a great week for winning!

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I coloured this absolutely adorable little dragon awhile ago and finally got my act together and made him into a card. I haven't decided whether he'll be for a birthday, thank you or just because so he'll go without a sentiment for now. I just love how the colours and image are perfect for a boy even though the main embellishment is a pair of stacked canvas flowers.

The papers and flowers I used are from Basic Grey's "Life of the Party" set and the dragon is from Bugaboo. Isn't he cute? As usual, I used Copics for my colouring.

Challenges:

• 365 Cards - pair of opposites (first set: colours - blue & orange - that are opposite to each other on a colour wheel; 2nd set: masculine image - dragon - with feminine embellishment - flowers)
• Anything Goes Challenge - flowers
• Basic Grey - sketch - too late to enter the challenge :(
• Craft Us Crazy - anything goes
• Fabulous Friday - colour in an image
• Lil Red Wagon - critters
• Scrappin' Chic - banners/pennants (on the patterned paper)
• Stamp Something - use a digi

Road work ahead

I was inspired to make today's card by an article in the June issue of Cardmaking & Papercrafts about making masculine cards using die cuts. I apologize for the poor quality of the picture but my camera battery died and I had to scan the card - my scanner never seems to get the colours quite right.

The papers and die cuts are all from Abbey Road. The wheels on the van are circle-punched from the patterned paper, then attached loosely with brads (so they actually turn).

Challenges:

• Bling it On - A-B-C (abby road papers, brads, car)
• Here Come the Boys - travel
• Come & Get It - anything goes
• Corrosive Challenges - male
• Craft Us Crazy - anything goes
• Crafts & Me - anything goes
• Craft Your Passion - anything goes
• For Fun Challenges - anything goes
• Heidi's Hobbystuggu - card for a man
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes with optional metal
• Unstampabelles - wheels

Getting zipped

Last week I found a zipper laying on the floor of the laundry room. Of course I didn't throw it away, instead thinking to myself "how can I use this on a project?" Well, I decided to try my hand at an ATC.

I only had the zipper pull so I started by creating a zipper strip out of embossed paper. I then attached stars to some coated wire and inserted them so that it would look like the stars were shooting out of the unzipped pocket. Oh, and just in case you aren't already horrified impressed by my use of garbage reclaimed materials, the backing for the ATC is scavenged from a MacDonald's Happy Meal toy package. I am the Queen of Cheap! And now I must go shopping .... LOL.

Challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge - "M" for metal
• Blogger's Challenge - embossing
• Crafts & Me - anything goes
• Crafts 4 Eternity - anything but a card
• Craft Us Crazy - anything goes
• Crazy Amigo Challenge - anything goes
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes with optional metal