YIKES!---A BITTEN BY THE BUG CHALLENGE

as a newbie for this

 

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Bitten by the Bug team,
i was very surprised they gave me the opportunity to host this weeks challenge. i had to pick an image for the challenge and i chose the vulture from life's a party, page #28. i hope you like the image and if you do not have this cartridge you know you can use another "cute" bird as long as is as handsome as this one, lol.

Yikes!

3.5" x 5.5"

so handsome, he even lost an eye in a battle.

life's a party is another wonderful cricut catridge. you can find this awesome vulture on page@28 of the handbook and it is image #8 on the overlay. i cut him at 2.50" high.

you know i have been onto layering for thickness. i cut several layers and glue them together for thickness. i hope you can see it better on these two pictures. the bat is from another punch and glossy accents was added for details.

the card base is from from the same cart: image #18 on the overlay. the black frame around the embossed red cardstock i made it inserting a smaller layer inside the original, do i make sense? i hope i do :P

the grayish marbled base was a gray cardstock i inked to make it look like a marbled tombstone :-) the RIP is from happy hauntings (image #30 of the overlay) and the bottom flourish is the negative from the card layer. i tweak things around and not everything is "by the book".

the nice brick embossing is from a tim holtz embossing folder called "bricked". look at the details. it is a must have!
*****i will have one embossing bricked folder for a lucky winner who participates in this challenge. you have to let me know you entered the challenge at Bitten by the Bug 2. i will go and look at it and next monday i will  post the person who won. you have 3 days to claim your prize.*****
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now, i will show you the completed card.

------you can always click on the pictures for a greater view------

 the inside was stamped with a my pink stamper stamp set called spooky puns. it is a set from last year. i purchased it this year so they still have it. you can click here to see what other stamps are in this set.

thank you so much for stopping by and i appreciate you participating in this week challenge.

you can click here to read about the BBTB challenge rules.

see you later!

MISS YOU

MISS YOU-MISS YOU-MISS YOU

i miss my son so much it is heartbreaking :( and when we were asked to use this image, i thought let me make it to show how i am feeling right now.

my son is doing very well and BU had planned lots of events for their students, especially for their freshmen. this weekend was packed with different activities and i bet you he was having a blast :). 

he has also decided to continue marching band, and on sunday he had his first rehearsal/meeting.

 as we all know life goes on and i will do my best to keep myself busy. i still have lots to do in the house and that will help me--  :)

anyhow as, i said the  

Bitten by the Bug

  challenge for this week is the winged heart from rock princess. you can find it on page #44 of the handbook. i cut this heart at 2.18 using my gypsy.

Miss You

4.25" x 5.5"

the background is kraft paper textured with the fiskars crimper and inked dirty with black ink.

the spiders and the sentiment are from my pink stamper stamps. the splashes of blood are a dollar stamp. the wings were dry embossed.

the script paper is from martha stewart and it also already had the splashes of blood. you can see some on the heart but on the bottom strip and top left, were stamped on.

the border is from an EK paper punch called binding edge.

     please, come to the 

 

clicking HERE, 

and have fun with us. you have to link your project there and when you post it on your blog don't forget to mention us. this will help others wanting to participate know where they have to go ;)

i will come back tomorrow with another project. hope you come back!

Love you all

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

it has been a while since i posted something but i still around. in my country there is this saying: weeds never die, hehe. that's me!

Happy Mother's Day

5.5" by 3.75"

anyway, i had no idea of what i was doing here, lol, but i knew i wanted to use at least once, the kate's abcs cart.

the mushrooms you will find on page 57----cut them at 3.25".  

the butterfly is from the same page and was cut at one inch.

this frame is from sizzix and the awesome greeting is from mps. 

i love this font.

oh! the dry embossing was done with the script texture folder from cuttlebug.

a bit of inking, a bit of bling.

 

something a bit different but not bad at all :P. 

I hope you guys are doing well.

 

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remember, this saturday is national scrapbooking day (NSD) and robyn will be celebrating with ideas, challenges, giveaways and new stamp releases. mark your calendars so you do not miss all the fun. 

i really enjoy participating in the different challenges and  hope you do too.

love you all!

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GET CHARMED

---THE CUTTLEBUG SPOT CHALLENGE--

this week we have to use charms on our projects.

 and of course, my project is a card--wink.

Birdhouse

7" tall x 4-3/8" wide

i couldn't capture the colors very well on some photos :(

i used cindy loo for the birdhouse: image# 40 and i used all its layers. the size is 4.75 inch tall.

 it is hard to see but there is a butterfly charm by the spanish moss.

i paper pierced around the birdhouse and stickles was added to the heart and to the yellow ornament below.

the birds were punched from a fiskars punch--- three times on different papers--- and layered with adhesive foam for dimension.

the "grass" was done with another fiskars punch and embossed with a new tim holtz sizzix embossing folder called "cracked" using my cuttlebug.

the pretty patterned paper is from k&co. i also used kraft cardstock for the card base and american crafts on the solid colors.

come and play with us this week and  

"get charmed" 

HERE

at the cuttlebug spot. have some fun with us. it is nice to participate in challenges plus you never know if you will win some candy. ;)

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remember, this friday we will have our monthly 

my pink stamper blog hop 

and i have some candy for a lucky participant.

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love you all 

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A BEAUTY OF A CARD

Hello, I will give you here just the basics for the card and you can embellish it however you desire. For the base of card I cut a piece of cardstock 4-1/2" by 11"; score at 4-1/2". For the insert: another piece of coordinating cardstock cut at 4" by 7". Thanks for stopping by! (You can always subscribe as a follower and/or to RSS feed).

A GRATITUDE CARD

Techniques used in the making of this card:

---embossing---stamping---inking---border punched---

 

Thanks for stopping by!