The Bestiest of the Bestest...

Fun With Crayons???

Little peek at my DT card for

The SQUIRREL & The FOX

I'm thrilled to announce the 3rd challenge at the still very new and

WONDERFUL CHALLENGE BLOG!

Today's challenge is...

ONE FOR THE GIRLS!

So stop on over to 

The Squirrel & The Fox 

and check out what the other mega creative DT's have made 

just for your inspiration!

Bestiest of the Bestest

When I saw this challenge, I just knew that I wanted to make a girly card that "looked" like it was finger painted by a little kid for her BFF.

BUT, not wanting to get elbow deep in paint I had the brilliant idea of "googling" techniques using crayons.  

OMG...what a mistake that was!

I found this REALLY easy technique and it looked wonderful.

Here's how you do it...

1.) Get out your iron and heat it up

2.) Once warm, take crayon of choice and draw (literally draw) ON your iron

3.) Place iron onto the cardstock in desired spot

4.) Iron will begin to hiss and steam out a waterfall of colors you've never imagined

5.) Iron will then begin to stink to the high heavens, fumes of which I'm certain, should not be inhaled

6.) At this time, frantically unplug your iron and run screaming- mad through the house to the front door.

7.)  Place iron on the front porch while it's still erupting rainbows of color...neighbors WILL stare.

8.) Slam front door and giggle

9.)  Just so inquiring minds really have something to talk about, retreat to your recycling bin and grab empty wine bottles and place them outside next to the iron.  

If they're going to talk....make it good!

10.) Return to your crafting table and state quite vociferously "NEXT!"

Sentiments were typed on the PC

Inside of Card

Added a little button that fit perfectly with the card and sentiment.

I refused to be defeated so I considered alternative heat sources...

1.) oven - no!

2.) stove top - uh uh!

3.) Solar energy - takes too long

4.) Talking to it with my hot air - LOL..didn't really consider this

5.) Heating tool - BRILLIANT

After making the BFF card, I played around with some other techniques and came up with this.  

I really love the textures that crayons give and it really does look and feel like you've finger painted!

Silly Crayon Doodle One

Crayon Doodle Two

Scenery Doodle Three

Phew...what a day, but the final result was a great deal of fun,
good laughs and fond memories and a trip to replace the iron.
Thanks so much for stopping by...I love to read your comments. :D
Remember,
The Squirrel & The Fox

Challenges I would like to enter:
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - #20 Girly Girl
I Brake For Challenges - Girl Power
The Stamping Boutique - Someone Special

DP Flower Power Mania.....

Flower mania going on over at 

Top Tip Tuesday

today!

A complete tutorial on gorgeous 

handmade flowers from

Janette

with sponsors from

4 stamps of your choice!

and

$20 gift voucher!

For this weeks challenge

USE DESIGNER PAPER!!

While you're there,

say hi to our newest and fantastic DT

DENEEN!!!!

Her creations are craaaaazy good!

A Beary Merry Christmas To You....

Grin & Bear It

The original plan was to make a window sheet ornament,

but these cute little images really needed room to decorate so I left the ornament window open.

This card is for 

MAKE IT MONDAY'S

OPEN LINK CHALLENGE

With our wonderful sponsor

Here is my DT card for Make It Monday's Challenge

Using Beary Merry Christmas from
Cupcake Cards & Craft

Fold a 6"x 6" cardstock on both sides to meet in the back evenly.

Select another cardstock solid or DP of the same size and adhere it onto the white cardstock.

Cut with a Spellbinder's Nestabilities Die, your window shape of choice, through both sheets of paper,

being sure to save one of the cut die shapes to use as your ornaments "roof' or topper.

Adhere the back sides together and decorate your ornament.

I used a hat pin for the hook and pierced through ribbon to make the hanger.  

There was a gap between the front and back of the ornament so I just folded a piece of cs into 3 sections and adhered one edge to the inside front to make a "stage" of sorts and then piled on mica flakes for decoration.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope to see you at 

Make It Monday

for another inspirational linky party.

Here is my

PICK OF THE WEEK

from last weeks AMAZING entries.

AWARENESS

From Cheryl at Sweeet Designs by Cheryl

Fantastic card and perfect reminder!!!

Thanks for taking a peek!
Lisa xx

Burlap Meets "Burrr Map"...

Directions To North Pole

The beginnings of my milk carton #5 for Linda's renowned

12 Tags of Christmas Challenge at

The Funkie Junkie

Here's her outstanding tag

Each challenge is about drawing inspiration from her tags and then creating ANY project that you want to based on what inspired you from her project.

Here's what I took from the tag

Linda's = Mine

*The Burlap flower = "Burr" & "Map" Snowmen, from burlap material, giving directions

*The gorgeous golden letters = The golden embossed conifer trees

*The golden vintage brads = hardware screws for sign posts

*Black stamped images = Black bold colors on the snowmen (made from electrical tape)

*The earthy tones = I used twigs from the yard for their arms

*Shiny bling - Stickles for berries, face, & buttons.  Mica Flakes for snow. Acrylic writer for snow.

5th Carton Assembled

The mom in her apron and bow in the hair

The daughter with her scarf and big bow

The son with his earmuffs and scarf

And dad with his top hat and scarf

Angle Shot

And so far, here they all are together...

Thanks so much Linda for a wonderful challenge.  I can't wait to watch the kiddos open these up the 12 days before Christmas.  You've certainly started a wonderful and fun tradition in our house!

Thank you so much for stopping by...

Have a fan-tabulous weekend!!!

Lisa xx

Challenges I would like to enter:

The Funkie Junkie - 12 Tags of Christmas #5

Monochromatic Magic

Monochromatic Storybook Card

There's monochromatic merriment going on over at

The free online stamping-zine

If you'd like to see how this and so many other cards and projects are made

 with step by step tutorials...

just click on the logo!

Thanks for stopping by,

Lisa xx

And People Look at Me Funny...

Say, What?

This is my Top Tip Tuesday DT card 

which is based off our our 

VERY COOL

challenge!

It's...

SKETCH TIME 

TOP TIP TUESDAY!!

Incredibly fun sketch by our very own

Samantha!!

(I've rotated the sketch to fit my card)

Here's our always fantastic sponsors:

2 digi images for a lucky winner

and 

Any 1 of their CD's.

and

Last but not least,

our NEW sponsor.

2 Awesome, AWESOME digis!

This is Tambry a Frankenstein,

from Saturated Canary

My tip for this week at Top Tip Tuesday is

 Give your stand alone images even more character
by adding a scenery to "explain" their pose or stance.

I love the expression on Tambry's face.  

It looks like she's trying to figure out what is going on behind her. 

So, I added a witch flying upside down.

Sort of to say, "And people look at me weird?..."

I hope you stop over and try out the very cool sketch

and check out what the other DT's have up their sleeves for you!

Supplies to note:

Cornstalk and witch silhouette - free from www.clipartpal.com

Stonewall - Beautiful Day Stamp Set by There She Goes

Colored with Derwent Watercolor Pencils

Challenges I would like to enter:

Nightmare Before Christmas...

If you're a Tim Burton fan, sorry I don't have any movie themed cards to post, 

but the songs keep ringing in my head. 

 "This is Halloween, this is Halloween..."

Halloween Window Card

I wanted to play around with some different card presentations and my new stamps,

so after a few hours of humming Halloween movie songs,

here is a card I came up with.

Window card with Stampin' Ups! Greeting Card Kids 

and some extra images I downloaded from the Graphics Fairy website.

Traced a photo stand off of a frame I had onto cardstock and placed it on the back.

I'm pretty happy with this little 3D vintage looking Halloween window card.

Here's another one I made that started out with great intentions, 

but I'm not sure where I lost track of the vision.

Mr. Hoo got Boo'd

I punched a circle near the center of the cardstock and then pierced holes around it. 

 Sewed a cobweb (using this term loosely as it looks more like a dream catcher.)

Made a frame from Nestabilities to hide the holes and then I was stumped.

Hand drew the spider and placed 2 branches to the right with the owl and 

then it looked like I had a floating spider web in the middle of the sky.

Decided to add more branches and now it looks more like the web is secured.

I'm not sure what I think of this one, but it has some cute concepts.

Happy Halloween card making!!

Lisa xx

Please scroll down if you missed the 

Make It Monday Post from earlier.

Challenges I would like to enter:

The Pink Elephant - #119 Trick or Treat

The Shabby Tea Room - #82 Autumn or Fall Theme w/photo inspiration

Come and Get it Challenges - Happy Halloween Challenge

I Did it Creations - #75 Halloween

How I Roll...

Check My Ride

I had such a blast doing this card.

This sweet ride comes from our newest sponsor at

MAKE IT MONDAY

and it is...

Beth

at

Squidgi Digi

Who is offering 4 images to our lucky winner!

So head on over to 

Make It Monday

and check out the other DTs fabulous creations

because our linky party is open again and find out if you

are one of the lucky winners from last week!

Front of my MIM DT card

Inside of card

The VW is called 

Flamin Bug from Beth 

at Squidgi Digi.

Backside View of Card

The sentiments are my own and I typed them up on the PC.

Well, that's it for me, but before you go,

I'd like to show you my 

(Not at all, not ever easy, always difficult to make)

PICK OF THE WEEK

From

Kaia's Creations

You think it's just a card, but it's sooo much more!

How gorgeous is this! 

A tea-lights container and a tag on the inside.

WOW!!

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Welcome to my newest blog buddy followers and

Happy stamping....

Lisa xx

Did he just say, "Bring It?"....

Yeah, I think he did just say that...

He's a spunky one!

Bring It!

Have you heard the word on the blog "streets" yet?

No, it's not The Bird Is The Word.

It goes something like this...

Gimme an S..."S", Gimme a Q..."Q", Gimme a....

Oh, I can't wait that long,

It's called...

The Squirrel & The Fox!!!!

A bran-spanking new Challenge Blog and

I have the great fortune of being a part of their fabulous DT group.

Check Out This Cute and Furry Banner...

They've already run their first challenge,

 but you have PLENTY of time to get in their

 SECOND challenge.

Here it is...

# 2 - Make It Sporty!!

To be honest, this challenge freaked me out a bit because I have zero "sport" stamps.

So, I took liberties on this one and went in my warped direction of humor and made Gramps here with his pimped out tricked out walker and added a little Nascar logo to authenticate the sports theme.

Nascar Logo of Authenticity

He's goin' up hill both ways,

 in snow...

This adorable image is called Albert 

from All Glued Up and he was such a hoot to color!

I've added Crystal Effects to the jacket, lights and horns for shimmer and tried to stick to the basic Nascar colors.

*As per Helena's request at All Glued Up,

 this card with Albert's image is only for inspiration 

and will not be used to enter into challenges.*

So, that's the scoop!

New challenge blog, new inspiration, new DT's and 

a wonderful time at

The Squirrel & The Fox!

If you have a minute, pop on over and give them a huge blog welcome!

Thanks SO much for stopping in and happy stamping!

Lisa xx