Paper Cubed Challenge--Votive Decoration

WOW...Where on earth did October go? So it's now the first of the month and that means we have another challenge from P3. Our challenge this month is to make some type of votive (candle) wrapper/ decoration. It can be any theme.......ENJOY!!!!!!

Here's what I came up with after I seen the sweet Miss Debbie's project....you have to go and check out her project....it's simply darling.........let me tell you, I went round and round with so many different things I wanted to make. But in the end, I ended up with this very simple votive holder with just the flip of your wrists....lol....all you have to do is cut cardstock and pattern paper to the size desired, and bring one end around to the other end and softly pinch the middle top on opposite end to the two ends.......here I just used a 3" circle punch to cut my windows and layered my paper together...I took a piece of transparency and used Krylon frosted glass spray (found at Michaels in the paint section) and lightly sprayed the transparency for my window....I also added a piece of white cardstock to the inside to give the light alittle more glow as opposed to a darker background.......Mr Turkey is from a new place that a Dudette had shared with us called Imagenation....

just showing the top view so you can get the jest of it....very simple and easy to make....I hope that you will all join us this month....Why not make that special little votive holder for you holiday decorations......So stop by and check out what the rest of the team has created....they always blow me away every month....Hugs from Charm City.....

Paper Cubed and 12 Days of Halloween on SBS

WOOT WOOT!!!! Happy Friday blogland.....now normally I don't use the same project for more than one DT challenge, but I just had to use this one for P3 and 12 Days of Halloween at SBS..so I made this one extra special since it was for two challenges......

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For the month of October The Burtonesque Dolls and Simply Betty Challenges will come together for this event. There will be a total of 12 challenges, and you will submit your entry at the Simply Betty Challenges blog. You will have just one Day... that's right one full day to complete the day's challenge. The girls and myself will start to vote on the favorites of the day. On the next Day of the 12 days of Halloween the top 12 will be announced, now that doesn't mean that only 12 can enter the next challenge... the next challenge we will once again choose favorites, but this time only 11 will be chosen. That means that someone from the 12 will be eliminated... but again it doesn't mean that you can't participate again because in the next challenge you may bump someone off again. At the end, there will be just one standing! That one person will win the whole SHEBANG! What is the whole Shebang you ask? Well, each day will have a new prize, you won't win that prize on that day instead it will start to pile... and pile and pile until the prize consists of 12 fabulous prizes all together! How's that for a SHEBANG! Just to give you a little more umph the prizes will contain Rubber Stamps, Paper Lines, BRAND NEW SPELLBINDERS, Copics, and lots more goodies! I will make sure to upload a picture of each prize each day to inspire you to continue onto the next challenge just a few days later! So with all that said... let's get started... On the First Day of Halloween My Ghould love gave to me... One smiling Skellington Head! Your challenge is to incorporate one or more Skelletons on your cards or project. Pretty Simple eh? Okay here is the hard part... you have until October 2nd Todays Prize: Three Clear Stamps from the Hebbie Jebbies line by We R Memory Keepers

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This month at Paper Cubed--the challenge was to use Acetate...now how fun is that...and the first thing that came to mind was to make some sort of a candy dish/box.....well I started out to make a bag, but this ended up being a recipe box.....and I cut a window in the center to show case the chocolate pieces....lol....nothing like temptation, wouldn't ya say?......ENJOY!!!!!

We were asked to make something with skeletons on the first day of Halloween over at SBS..... Now I really have to say that I truly love how this project turned out. The skeleton motorcycle stamp is from Class Act which I stamped it onto a piece of grunge paper, tree -- cut from my Expression, and a bunch of ribbon/ danglies from craft store....I made this box from cardstock...I don't have the dimensions...sorry....

here's the inside....I thought of adding the answer to the question on front here, to make it Little more fun......now isn't this just the happiest skeleton you've ever seen....he just makes me smile every time I use him....Skeleton is from Stamp It Crazy......

this is just a side view....you can see the pom pom and beaded trims I used at the top...

here's a view with a big bag of Hersey Kisses inside...

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Thanks for stopping by today....make sure you stop over at P3 and the 12 Days of Halloween to see what the rest of the ladies have created for you.....have a wonderful Friday....hugs from a very soggy Charm City....

Paper Cubed Challenge - Book Mark

Do I have some great news for you.....I have been asked to be on the Paper Cubed Design Team..This is really cool....if you know me, I just love anything that's 3-D.....so I just couldn't believe it when I received an e-mail from Kim asking if I would like to join their team....WOOT WOOT!!!! Now that is soo cool....Thank You Kim I am very honored to be a part of your team.........if you haven't stopped by you should...it's a monthly contest with themes....and yes, you have a whole month to make your project and post it to the challenge.........so come on over to Paper Cubed (P3) and play along....it's alot of fun.....for my project we were asked to make a book mark for this month.....ENJOY!!!!!!

I have always wanted to make a corner book mark and now I finally had a chance...I really do like how this turned out to.....I used one of Simply Betty new images called Tootsie....but I didn't use the whole image only part of it....she is just soo fun....and Simply Betty Blog and her team is doing a blog hop today so stop over there and check out what the team has put together using the images from 2 new collections....

here's just a closer view of the book mark....well that's all I have for today....Hugs from Charm City.......

P3 and Stamp It Crazy Challenges

Where the heck has this week gone? I remember it being oh that dreaded Monday, but now it's already Thursday. WOWZA!!!! Well, I have a couple things to share today. Let me warn you, this post is very long.......

First, I would like to thank P3 for choosing my project for last month as a top 3. That really made my day....thank you.....Now--over at Paper Cubed (P3)...their challenge this month is to make a some type of table top decoration. Well you know me, being a dork and all, didn't go for the traditional decoration...I went for something abit out in left field. I made a home made checkers table (with pull out divided drawer) Burton Style, game pieces, a counter bar and even a second game to play on top--Memory....so posted below are the photos of my entry into P3 July's challenge and then below that is my card for Stamp It Crazy's challenge of making a project/card using a witch, sentiment and ribbon......Enjoy!!!!!

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here's the game with the checker pieces on top all ready to play a game. You know I built this whole set around 1 1/4" squares. I counted out the squares on a regular board (cuz I had no clue how many were to go on it) and went from there...1" squares were to small for the bottle caps, so I went just a size bigger.....and just used printer paper to make templates of the drawer and dividers to make it all fit together.....I also added a heavy layer of glossy accents to the top of the game pieces.... This is the drawer that pulls out. It actually pulls from both directions so each player can retrieve their own game pieces. I used Jack Skellington's that I got from Stamp It Crazy Store. They were so fun to work with. Hop over and check out the fun stamps....I used the stamp and pressed it into polymer clay, baked and added it to an embossed spider web cut from Quick Kuts. this is the other side using a different Jack stamp...this one is the tree Jack....making it the same as above with the polymer clay...kind of like a bead...

here's the drawer with the dividers....the center is where I added the memory card game pieces....the open sections I was thinking about making some more games....

here are the counters I added using polymer clay, heavy duty wire and the head stamp. I did the same with these but I actually drilled holes so the wire could go through...do you ever play Foosball? I got the idea from that with the counters. I call this the best out of five game box....ohhh and lookee, you can see my feet I added to the bottom....this brings the box up off of the table...I think I got these from the dollar store last year...just plastic little decorations...I hot glued them to the bottom....

here's what I used to make 16 games pieces....these were all un-loved and dusty....lol....

this is the bottom of the pieces...so that if you get crowned all you have to do is turn it over and wala....I kept them really simple, just painted them....and I didn't want to change the coke bottle caps either....authenticity.....lol....

here's the 20 pc memory game....this isn't just any memory game...it's a Burton Style Memory Game....I really needed to make this sort of a hard game for teens and adults. So this is what I came up with....oh isn't Jack just the cutest....all cards made out of water color paper (both sides) and chipboard and glued using wet glue (makes it even sturdier)..... cards are 1 1/2" X 2" ...

here's the fronts of them....I used the smallest jack head and made 2 cards of each number of heads...I used the spider web stamps from Inkadinkado for a background.....let me tell ya, this really isn't easy to remember...our little one and I played a few times the other day and she was even amazed at how hard it was.....you have to really think....woohoo...I accomplished it...and she really loves this set....I can see us playing on this for a long time to come too.....Well there ya have my entry into the P3 challenge....I have to say that I truly like how this turned out....now I need to think of a couple more games I can add to this, Burton Style....lol......

And here's my entry for Barb's challenge over at Stamp It Crazy Blog. I just found her blog to. So pop on over and play along this week. You just need to make something using a witch, sentiment and ribbon. How easy is that........on my card above I used MS boo and fence border punches (bowed outwards), added 2 different layers of ribbon and cut out the kitty from quick kuts (embossed him with the cuttlebug diamond folder and then wet embossed him using distress embossing weathered wood powder) hung him upside down to scare the witch (starving artists--colored in with prisma pencils), I used distress inks to color in the background and added the lil devils (Inque Boutique), spiders (Inkadinkado) and branch stamp scapes). I printed off the sentiment from the computer and added some acrylic letters with a ribbon card opener....

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Well, if you made it this far, thank you!!!!! I mentioned it would be a long post....and I hope it was worth it for you. So come on over to Stamp It Crazy and P3 to play along...remember SIC's challenge ends this Saturday and P3's challenge ends at the end of the month....have a wonderful Thursday......Hugs from a very HOT Charm City.....