Bits n bobs

I was having a rummage for something that led me off at a tangent!

The upshot was that I ended up making some Christmas cards using bits n bobs that were lying on my desk & stuff that I'd forgotten about....

These baubles (inkadinkadoo) were stamped almost 2 years ago! I've added paper scraps, damaged wreath sections for these.

Die cuts +papers that a friend gave me together with cuttlebug embossed die cuts from a fund raising raffle prize 4 years ago!

Paper scraps & new Tim Holtz  "reindeer flight" "big pine" dies with some holly leaves "festive greenery".

There are more bits to be played with so let's see what comes next :-)

Doodle

The theme over at twinchie challenge #7 is doodle

I decided to take a Craft Stamper freebie and do some work on it! I don't seem to have many plain stamps or they are too big....

So here is my Rennie Mackintosh rose stamped with sepia archival and doodled with a sepia Pitt pen

the background is a piece of very lightly colour shiny card, cannot for the life of me remember what I coloured it with beyond the fact that it came in a spray bottle.

Storm

The storm has not been near north east Scotland so it's not been an issue up here but some of you that read this may have been affected :-( so I do hope that you are all safe.

Over at every inchie Monday the theme this week is thunderstorm so I thought id see what I could come up with....

I had a little inky remnant that was dark blues on one side & plain-ish on the other half, the blue became the sky the the pale had some trees stamped on in 2 shades of green + some sepia Pitt pen added to give a little definition. I've added some fork lightning with a gold Sharpie.

Recycling

I decided to have a tidy up of some of the drawers & desk top today....after my Halloween manicure!

I re-found the handbag inchies from a few weeks/months ago and decided to play with a new embossing folder. Thus was born the handbag industry

Take 1 dishwashed food container, remove edges & run through cuttlebug... Wonderful riveted surface :-) attach said inchies with brads & voila!

3 ATC sized items for swaps/toppers or whatever

Cat

Cats are the theme over at moo mania & I just happened to have one that I had diecut sitting on my desk.

A scrap of oil pastel coloured paper, my spellbinders kitty & a couple of very flat gems for eyes and we have a colourful cat with spooky golden orbs for eyes

Halloween time

Show us your twinchies challenge this month is Halloween so here is my "sweet" share

A cupcake in traditional Halloween colours of brown, purple, orange & green, I wonder if it's yummy?

creative Stamping cupcake, Tim Holtz flourish 

Party

TIOT - the current challenge is all about Halloween, of course! But the amazing coincidence is that I made this tag before I read what the challenge was to be :-)

So here is my entry:

Purple (dusty concord)& silver(brushed pewter) distress stains with a little DI in seedless preserves. Some cobwebs (Martha Stewart) Tim Holtz skull on cream card with white teeth thanks to a Gelly Roll pen, the glass & 'tash are this months freebie from Craft Stamper and his hat is from Paper Artsy's Lynn Perella stamp sheet 003. A few gems & a Jolees Boutique skull finish this party invite off!

Boo!