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...if not you can view it here :) 

Creative Team member Sandra Strait supplied me with her beautiful marker rendering abilities and turned out the picnic table and the flowers in the backdrop :)

I stamped some of our foodie stamps and our ants from the ant plate with archival black ink. I gave them all a nice color with Distress Markers and then added our info!
Watermelon
Apple

Apple core

Plate o' Ants

Candy Cane (as a straw)

Mason Jar 

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Beware the Pumpkin Eater!

The Pumpkin Eater card by Joe Morgan

Halloween, my favorite holiday, is almost here! For this week's post, I made a cute card using three different pumpkin stamps. To start out, I stamped the three stamps on white cardstock, and colored them with Copic markers. I cut out all three of them. One of them includes a graveyard scene in the background, but I cut that off so that I would just have the pumpkin by itself.

For the sentiment, I wrote my own, and then printed it directly on a 6”x12” piece of the light brown cardstock. The font is called Centaur, and I thought it looked like a good storybook font. Be sure to click on the pictures to enlarge them for easier reading. For the tree, I cut some dark brown cardstock with a Tim Holtz Sizzix die. I cut out a silhouette of a man to use for Peter Peter the Pumpkin Eater.

When assembling, I glued down the moon and then the tree. I glued down one man silhouette and then placed black pop dots on top of him and then put an identical silhouette on top for a 3D effect. For the pumpkins, I glued down the center one, and then used pop dots for the two on the outside to add dimension.

Here are the three stamps I used for this project:
Pumpkin in Cemetery #6264
Jack O’Lantern #5896
Pumpkin Sneering #6490

For an added Halloween bonus, I am posting a second card that I made for Viva Las Vegastamps! ad in Rubber Stamp Madness magazine.

Frankenstein Collage Card by Joe Morgan

For this card, I used Frankenstein stamp #5842, some colored paper and acrylic paint dabbers from Ranger. To start out, I cut eight colored squares of paper about 2.5”x2.5” I adhered four of them to the front of a 5”x5” card.

I stamped on the four remaining squares using paint dabbers instead of ink on my stamp. I stamped blue paint on the greenish white square, black paint on the purple square, purple paint on the blue square and green paint on the yellow square. You can do it any way you like. I then cut out my monsters and adhered them to the squares on the card in the order I liked best. You’ll want to wash your stamps ASAP when using paint. I doesn’t hurt them, but the longer it sets, the harder it is to clean.

Be sure to visit the Viva Las Vegastamps! blog to see what the rest of the design team have created for Halloween! There are lots of great ideas this month!

I hope you have enjoyed my cards as much as I enjoyed making them! Feel free to check out my blog at Create & Craft for more fun ideas! Thanks for stopping by!

That Darned Owl...

I have quite a bit to share today .. three projects in fact.. but I'm /sort of cheating/ because 2 of them I did for the reapply of the Viva Las Vegastamps! design team --- I can't believe how close we are to a term ending!!

Anyways the three projects are all featuring the same stamp.. this here:

<a href="http://www.vlvstamps.com/horned-owl-1-3-4-x-2-1-2.html"><img src="http://www.vlvstamps.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/1/6/16704.jpg"> <br> Horned Owl - $8.25 </a>

Isn't it FAB??? here are the projects!

This one is a 12x12 Layout where Mr. Owl just fit so nicely as a little henchman!

I used Basic Grey's Eerie collection, cut a circle and glued it down.. most of the stickers are from the collection.. I did hand stitch the circle spots as well as distress the circle with my fingernail. The cheesecloth is dyed with Distress Ink and the flower is made from satin and a handmade cabochon. The owl was stamped on white cardstock with Memento Ink (find it HERE @ VLVS!)

here is a Christmas card (which will be featured in the Holiday issue of RSM!! AHH!) in which I also used the NOEL stamp found HERE. I had dyed the muslin for the flower with Distress Ink. The owl is embossed with a smooth black embossing powder and fussy cut, and the NOEL was stamped in clear and embossed with smooth red on kraft paper.. then I cut the letters apart to give them a bit of whimsy!

And in this piece Mr. Owl becomes a Miss.. a QUEEN in fact! This is titled "Queen Owl has a Visitor" and it's an eclectic little mixture of handmade and filled embellishments.

Queen Owl herself was stamped with Momento Ink and Embossed with Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder!! 

--Thanks for stopping by today!! -DeeDee

Santa + RSM Ad

Hey all!! DeeDee here =)

Hope your weeks since my last post have been wonderful! It just so happens that I've got a christmas-y type card for you with one of my FAVORITE Christmas stamps EVER. I seriously could NOT go without this stamp...


Holly Santa - 2.75"x3.75" - $11.50

this stamp just takes my breath away!

I grabbed a dark kraft card, some permanent black ink, a nice green paper, some Miracle tape, and some photo corners and I got to work on this:



As I was getting ready to mount my stamped image I decided that the background needed a little work... so grabbed this stamp:


Swirl - 2.5"x3.25" - $10.25

and did some background additions! Finish off with stickles, some black cord, a flower center and brad... and Done!!!

Thanks for coming back this week!! -DeeDee

P.S. Remember that tag I showed off a couple of weeks ago??? Voting has opened, and if you're so inclined, I'd love for you to hop on over to the Spotted Canary page and cast your opinion! You can vote DAILY until early September, thank you in advance to anyone who does this =)