Thursday Nov. 14th

 This morning, I am finishing up cards with Tonic Festive Fayre papers, and cute woodsy critters. I have 3 cards done. I absolutely love the paper. Promise I will feature it on the next blog post. 

Today will be a pretty long post. The cards are from an HSN special featuring Diamond Press dies. Loved the sizes of the sunflowers, leaves & pumpkin. Love the versatility of the stencil around the edge. The arch die came with the set. 

The next cards shows how easy it is to adapt. 

                 This would make a nice 'holiday' birthday card too. Probably Spellbinders flower dies here. I know I made a A-6 card in the original 'thankful' theme too. Only 2 weeks to Thanksgiving!

                                         Thanks for looking!

                                                  Mary

                                        

Saturday November 9th

 Just a few more to share. These are the Tim Holtz, from the vault. The words Peace, Noel and Wish. Just like the font. Again, these were super easy to make. 

                    mica sprays and regular spray. Love the random looks. These two were sprayed with water and smooshed.

                The words were layered. I even like the black glitter        'peace'. I think I might add some single layer word (tiny) sayings to compliment the bold. Sometimes you see things differently when you photograph. Maybe a simple 'merry christmas' under the bold word. 

                                              

                                      Thanks for looking!

                                            Mary

November 9th

 It is Saturday & 9 days of November have passed already! Wow, Dawn and I are discussing Thanksgiving dinner. Actually, Stacy planned it a week ago! Diana can't come today, (normal Saturday), as she didn't arrange the transport in time. So, the mess stays on the table and the craftiness continues! 

These are digi images from Polkadoodles. Did Christmas cards for kids and these are easy and sweet. If you haven't seen Polkadoodles, they do have stamps, dies & stamps, as well as the variety of digital.

            Winnies Wonderland digi's.  Spellbinder circle die. 

 I was just too lazy to add any props or get the dies out to view. The digis are either colored or black & white. And these are all on one 8 1/2 x11 sheet of paper. Yes, there are the colored one. 

                                      Thanks for looking!!

                                                 Mary

                                       

Thursday October 31st

 Last little spooky images from Spellbinders. This is Fiona the dancing witch. I know I don't need every one of the character dies, but they are so so cute!!!

              Used the bats and the bird from the Tim Holtz set

Change the dress, face and accessories. Easy

 Oh, they need a fence, a graveyard, a haunted mansion... This is just not quite enough. They did get the pet kitty & some bats??

 

Happy Halloween

Be safe!

Mary

                                        

                                               

Wednesday

         Spellbinders martini glass, and Halloween 'add ons'. And after tomorrow all the spookies will be gone. Oh no!

    Wanted to do more again, this time I'm not sure who to send them too!

            Even bubbles and frosty rims, and eyeballs, and skelton faces with red eyes. Word strips came from Etsy too. 

        I had to play with the martini glass and the Christmas 'add on'. Love the little hat, candy and gingerbread guy. The background  'glasses' are a Better press plate from Spellbinders. The black card           above is the same better press plate foiled.

                             

                                                       One more for tomorrow!

                                             Thanks for looking!

                                                       Mary

Wednesday October 30th

One more Halloween card idea! I had fun playing with mixed media again. Mostly the mica sprays and some oxide inks in the mix. This is Tim Holtz sketchbook prints. Wish I would have had more time to play with them. 

                                Then more spooky characters from Tim Holtz

                              But first Lucy Lou says 'hi' or 'woof'.

These are images from Etsy. Every one of them are fun!

                                                   Thanks for looking!

                                               Mary