Halloween card #1

Hello everyone, I've been crafting my fingers off trying to get some cards done for you guys. 

Here is the first card in my Halloween series.

Isn't this little guy from TGF just adorable?! I love him! Sooo cute.

I colored him in with my copic markers, added some wink of stella and that was it. 

Trimmed him out and grabbed a few halloween pattern papers from my stash

And for the inside I used my newest Peachy Keen stamp. 

Their new Halloween release had this great drippy goo sentiment. 

It's slightly blotchy due to my rushing stamping but it totally works for me.

Stay tuned for more cards in the Halloween Series!

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TGF Super Secret Stamp Club #007

Hi everyone! It's here! My very first stamp since joining

The Greeting Farm's Super Secret Stamp Club subscription.

What's that? Well it's a 3-month online subscription where they mail you a "mystery" stamp 1-5 months before it's scheduled to be released as an exclusive first look.

You get these stamps for $8 a piece as opposed to the regular $12! 

For more info on this SSSC click here.

The first one I received is absolutely adorable!

 Isn't he just too stinkin' cute?! I just love him!

This stamp is called "Puppy Love"-SSSC no.007

I don't have many boy stamps so this was a fabulous suprise!

 I'm very happy with how his hair turned out as well. I was a little worried with the side whip, but I think it came out fine. And this little pupperoo just called for a brown spot over his eye for personality.

I coordinated the circles into the inside of the card as well. The circles was inspired by Kristina Werner's July Mail Call theme. You can find her here.

Hope you all enjoy!

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Need a Lift?

Hello everyone! Today I have a super adorable elephant card to share with you. 

I just love, Love, LOVE this little elephant stamp from Lawn Fawn.

Elephants are, after all, my favorite!

This was a very tedious card to make I will admit. 

I thought I had a cluster of balloons as a stamp, 

but apparently I only had a single balloon.

Was that going to stop me? Absolutely not!

So I stamped one balloon at a time, cutting and masking off each individual balloon as I filled up the balloon cluster until I was satisfied.

Then I stamped and masked the elephant just below that.

With all of the balloons already masked, 

I cut some cloud masks and placed those down.

Using my new Ranger blending tool and some Tim Holtz distress ink I smudged a sky.

Then came the fun part...unmasking the tape to reveal the clean stamping under neath. 

I colored pretty minimally just using 2 colors for shadowing on the balloons then I added strings to the balloons and around the elephant using my Copic multiliner.

And of course it needed some sparkle so I added some Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to all of my balloons.

Took out my Anya Lifts stamp from The Greeting Farm for the "Need a Lift?" sentiment and placed it onto my Simon Says Stamp banner die cut. Dimensionals gave the perfect lift (hehe see what I did there) for my banner when I attached it to the card.

The tails of the banner flush against the card I secured using a little Tombow. 

Now for the inside of my card I stamped the other sentiment from the Anya Lifts stamp set as well as a couple more balloons. 

Colored them in with my copics and added glitter to them as well.

And there you have it! A super sweet, super adorable card sure to brighten anyones day!

I will also be entering this card into this weeks Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog.  This weeks theme is Anything Goes! so hop on over and play along.

The randomly chosen winner will receive a $50 gift voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store! Is it sad that I already know what I would use that for? hehehe

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Simon Says Stamp Challenge-Use an arrow

Hey there! Simon Says Stamp has a super fun challenge going on over on their challenge blog (www.simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com). This weeks challenge is to use an arrow in your project. The card I made for this challenge I'm actually going to send to my little sister, the Greeting Farm Riley stamp reminds me of her.

Supplies:

Cardstock from the March 2013 card kit

SSS White woodgrain cardstock

Sentiment is also from the March 2013 kit

Cardstock stickers from the March 2013 kit

The Greeting Farm-Riley

MME Dolled Up paper

Blue satin ribbon (dollar bin at Michael's)

ATG

Tombo

Foam Adhesive

Spellbinders Ovals lg

Big shot

Scissors

Copics

Sakura Stardust pen

I'm in LOVE with the white woodgrain cardstock from Simon Says Stamp! It's absolutely fabulous and I must have more lol. If you haven't signed up for the card kit of the month through them yet, you definitely should. I had been wanting to sign up for months and I finally did last week and I'm just thrilled with the amount of product they send you with the kits. It's great, I feel like I get a little present in the mail every month lol. The card kit is only $19.95 a month, you can cancel it at any time, and the kit always comes with a fabulous stamp set and tons of coordinating cardstocks and embellishments.  If you're interested and want to know more about the card kit of the month just click here and it will take you to their Q&A page about the card kit subscription. As always, thank you for following along with me today and I hope you'll come back next time.

Haul and Giveaway!!!

Alright, now it's time for more details on my recent haul. I was able to find some great deals at Hobby Lobby, Michael's, and SimonSaysStamp and here's what I bought and I'll post links to as much as I can for you if you're interested.

 The picture above is items from Michael's and Hobby Lobby. I bought 4 new Copics (E31, 0, C1, C3), and made sure to use my coupons :D I also got a new Martha Stewart Scoreboard for less than $10 but I didn't get it to fit in the picture.

 These 3 stamp sets from Recollections I found on clearance for $1.49 a piece! I couldn't leave without them. The robots will make adorable boy cards, the ocean creatures I will use for my daughters upcoming "Under The Sea" birthday party, and then the Halloween ones....well thats pretty self explanatory lol.   Then there is a sentiment stamp set from Hero Arts that was in the clearance bin, it's originally I believe $14.99 and technically it wasn't even on sale but because someone at the store messed up and through a bunch of them in the clearance bin I was able to snag this set for $7.49.    The bag of buttons is from Hobbly Lobby, which I used a coupon for so it was only $2.99. and of course the ATG tape was a necessity, I go through that like it's going out of style. I also got the canister of flowers on clearance for $2

  These paper packs I found on clearance at Michael's for $1.19, they are MME "moments" and "Miss Caroline-Dolled Up" collections. The recollections All Seasons Paper Pad was only $3.99 and it has 180 sheets of adorable pattern papers. Red sticky tape was on clearance as well for $1, and then I grabbed a couple of different brads for $1.99 each. I got glittered black brads, sea shell brads, and heart pearl brads. And the conversation heart stickers for $1 that i'll be using on my daughters Valentine school treats.

This is my most recent SimonSaysStamp haul, this is where I splurged a bit. Chevron backround stamp from Hero Arts, as well as banner die from SimonSaysStamp.

I have been dying to get my hands on this Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain stamp and I finally just couldn't keep it out of my cart. A few more stamps from C.C.Designs, the Coffee Kiki, Nora, and Bunny Lucy. Flirty Anya from The Greeting Farm, and this adorable little Elephant stamp from Stampavie

I also got 2 packs of pattern paper, Bo Bunny's Gabrielle collection and Basic Grey's True Love collection with matching cardstock sticker sheet.

I also got my first Magnolia stamp Tilda with dotbow. And as always whenever I order from SimonSaysStamp they always throw in a special little Thank you treat, this time it was some gorgeous blue rhinestones. 

Okay I know what you're thinking, enough already where's the giveaway?! So here it is...

These 4 adorable Valentine stamps! One lucky winner will receive all 4 of these little cuties. 

Just use the Rafflecopter box below to follow Craft About It on facebook for 2 entries and comment on this blog post for an extra entry. Don't forget to follow along with my blog for more giveaways and fun crafts.


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