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Fangtastic Liquid Refreshments for your Halloween Party

Do you want to serve some fun drinks at your Halloween party? I bought plastic wine glasses at the dollar store along with a pack of plastic fangs to create this "Fangtastic" refreshment. I thought tomato juice would look more like blood, but I didn't have any on hand! I used the Bone Appetit Stamp set on shrink plastic to create a fun tag to go with it.

Here is a close up of the fangs with the tag.

Halloween Yummy Mummy Chocolate Treats

Julie Griffith posted this clever idea for these quick & easy Yummy Mummy treats for Halloween. She even posted a tutorial on how to make them. Thanks for the inspiration, Julie!

I didn't have any google eyes on hand so I just use small circles from cardstock for mine. (Although they do look much cuter with google eyes!)

I used a Hershey chocolate bar and figured I'd give my "Mummy" a "baby" and wrapped up a Reese peanut butter cup as well.

Created with The Angel Company Rubber Stamp set: Bone Appetit

The Angel Company Blogs, Great Ideas from The Angel Company

Here are links to The Angel Company blogs that feature papercrafting projects using The Angel Company rubber stamps, designer papers, and projects featured in The Angel Company Catalog.

Butterfly Tri Fold Shutter Card

Created with The Angel Company Rubber Stamps & Supplies:

Rubber Stamps: Flutter By
(Greeting unknown)

Paper & Cardstock: Angelee Paper and Angelee Coordinating Cardstock
Hardware: Mimi Hardware and Mini Gold Brads
Ink: Violete Palette Ink, Versa Magic Niagra Mist, and Versa Mark Embossing Pad
Embossing Powder: Gold Embossing Powder

Other supplies used: White cardstock, leaf punch, lace trim, and spiral clip. White silk flowers colored with Copic Markers: RV32, and E000. Copic Marker YG93 also used to color leaves.

Inspired by: Bonnie Szwalkiewicz.

Peanut Butter & Jelly Scrapbook Layout

I think I'm getting my mojo back. It feels good to get back to scrapbooking. It's been a long time! I was inspired to create this page after seeing Pencil Lines Sketch 135.

Created with The Angel Company products:

Paper : Penelope SWIC
Cardstock: Penelope Cardstock
Rubber Stamps: Alpha Grunge & Sketched bet Numbers
Hardware: Amelia Hardware

Additional Bazzill Cardstock used: Cocoa & Sandcastle colored with Copic Markers E07,E21,E34

Stamped Butterfly Anniversary Card

I am celebrating 15 years of a wonderful marriage to my best friend! Here is the card that I will give to him today. It features one of my favorite TAC sets, Flutter By. This butterfly stamp set will be retiring in July 2009 . Do yourself a favor and grab this set while it is on sale for only $8.21. In fact, all of the stamp sets that will be retired by The Angel Company are ON SALE NOW at 25% OFF. Order before July 1, 2009 because these rubber stamp sets will not be in the new catalog.

In case you are wondering how I created this card let me tell you that it was not at all what I originally envisioned. My alcohol inks were feeling lonely because I hadn't used them in such a long time. I created a green colored background on glossy paper. Then I embossed it with one of my Cuttlebug templates. I thought I had made a mistake putting my paper in because the raised edge wasn't on the side that I wanted. Then I thought....hmmm...those leaves would really stand out if I swiped my black ink over the background. That made the leaves show up quite nicely. I ended up with a background that was just crying out (yes, sometimes my art work talks to me) for some butterflies.

I stamped the butterflies separately with black pigment ink and heat emossed with black embossing powder. I colored them in with Copic Markers, cut them out and then placed them on top of the card. I'll admit that I felt guilty cutting off the antennae and wondered if anyone would notice that they were missing....but it was bothering me so I used some really thin craft wire to re-create them.

Stamps:
Flutter By
Trendy Greetings

Supplies:
Black Embossing Powder
Graphite Black Brilliance Ink

April Showers Scrapbook Page

We've had some unseasonably warm weather here in New England. The kids were anxious to go out when I told them we were doing our school work outside under the sprinkler. It's nice being able to incorporate fun into our lessons!

The Angel Company Stamps & Supplies List:

Stamps: Toodle Bet, Hoppy Everything

Ink: Belle Rose, Chartreuse, Noir Palette Inks

Paper: Lilly Anna Paper Collection, Mia's Cottage Cardstock

Pencils: Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils

(NOTE: I used Copic Markers RV32, RV34 for the flower petals)

Hogs and Kisses Valentine

Here's a Valentine Card that I created with the Barnyard Birthday set simply by covering the gift that the pig is carrying with hearts. I sliced along the sides of his arms (or are they legs?...lol) with a craft knife so I could lift them over the hearts as if he were carrying them. I found a sentiment from a retired stamp set from The Angel Company that worked perfectly for this card.

Created with The Angel Company Rubber stamps:

Barnyard Birthday
Love Doodles
Running Stitches
Mimi Soar With it Paper Collection

Birdy toasts to the New Year!

Here's one of the cards that I created using the Barnyard Birthday rubber stamp set. All I had to do was cut out the glass from the For All Seasons rubber stamp set and place it in the bird's hand.....er...um...I mean...wing so he can toast to the New Year!

Created with The Angel Company Rubber Stamps:

Barnyard Birthday
Trendy Greetings
For All Seasons
Mia's Cottage (Soar With It) paper

Barnyard Birthday Rubber Stamp Set

This is such a cute set I just had to have it! The Angel Company is offering some new sets from December 1st, 2008 until February 2, 2009 as part of the Wonderful Winter Wishes sales promotion This is just one of the sets that you can get for free as a Hostess benefit OR you can just purchase it for $16.50 (when placing an order of $30. or more).

I figured it would work well for any celebration (not just for birthdays) so I created a couple of cards to give you some ideas on how to make this set just a bit more versatile. You can see my creations in these posts:

Birdy Toasts to the New Year
Hogs & Kisses Valentine

Snowman Nativity Ornament/Pin

This Snowman Nativity Pin/Ornament was created by stamping Noir Palette Black ink onto Sculpey Clay. I baked it, let it cool and then colored the image with Copic Markers. I embellished the ornament with Icicle Stickles Glitter glue to give it a bit of sparkle.

Fall/Thanksgiving Sculpey Clay Pins & Embellishments

I made a few things with my Sculpey Clay Sunday night so you will be seeing several posts of ornaments, pins, and embellishments over the next few days! I'm going to add pin backs to the turkey and pilgrims and use them on name cards for Thanksgiving (either that or I'll use them as embellishments for napkin rings). I'm making the kitty into a pin and giving it to my "baby" who is turning 5 on Friday! I'm not sure what I'll do with the leaves. Maybe I'll add them to the autumn frame that I made the other day.

Created with The Angel Company Stamps:

Charcoal Leaves
Family, Food & Friends
Playful Kitties

I should mention that I stamped the clay before baking. After the clay was cooled, I colored the images. On the smaller pins, I just lightly stamped with black ink. On the leaves, I actually pressed my stamp into the clay a bit harder with a brown color to make an impression. Now...sealing the pins was another story! The only thing that I have found that doesn't smear the Copic ink is Modge Podge. It's not a shiny gloss that I would've liked, but it does the job! If anyone knows what I can spray on Copic ink for a glossy varnish, I'd love to hear from you.

Faux Cloissone' Technique - Mother's Day Card

OK...so I know it's November and you're probably not even thinking about Mother's Day, but when I tried the Faux Cloisonne Technique the card just morphed into a Mother's Day card...I really had no control over it. The technique is super easy. Just get out a magazine and stamp an image onto one of the glossy pages with your VersaMark inkpad and heat emboss with Gold Embossing powder. This happened to be a picture of a baby's quilt, but you'd never know it now! Grab some of your old magazines and a stamp...preferably one with bold lines and not too much detail and give it a try. You can even try adding some Crystal Lacquer over the top to give it some shine (I've got one drying now that looks pretty good.)

Created with The Angel Company Stamps:

Butterfly Swirls
Trendy Greetings

Autumn Swirls Altered Frame

I picked up a plain frame at my local dollar store a while ago and figured it was time to see what I could do with it. I stamped the frame using Burnt Sienna ink and colored in the leaves with my Copic Markers. After I did that I wanted to add the "Fantastic Fall" sentiment to the frame, but it didn't show up very well because of the design. I decided to stamp the sentiment onto clear acetate and then I very carefully heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I trimmed around the sentiment and then stuck it on top of my "mistake." It's a bit crooked, but it's there to stay...lol. I did use a bit of metallic rub on to the frame, but you can't really see it in the photo.

Yes, that is a photo of my children taken a couple of years ago in 2006. I remember it like it was yesterday (sigh).


Created with The Angel Company Products:

Autumn Swirls
Penelope & Sydney Ribbon
Burnt Sienna Palette Ink Pad
Clear Embossing Powder
Clear Acetate

Elephant Silhouettes in the Sunset

I just can't get enough of these brayered background cards! I used two different sized circles to create the sunset in the background. I put the smallest circle on first and brayered Paris Lights, then I added the larger circle over it and brayered the orange on top of that. I removed the circles and I just sponged on the orange and some yellow to blend the colors a bit. The bottom is simply torn cardstock with Noir black rolled along the bottom.

I had already finished this card and noticed that it resembles Heather Scott's Weekly Card Sketch Challenge! She made a great card using the Holiday Cheer stamp set from The Angel Company (Fall Supplement).

Take Pride
Always Remember
Trendy Greetings
Noir Palette Ink
Paris Lights
Orangerie
Black Scrapper's Floss

Glittered Butterfly Swirls

Created with The Angel Company Rubber Stamp Sets: Butterfly Swirls and Ordinary Greetings

Golden Autumn Leaf

Created with The Angel Company Rubber Stamps & Supplies:

Charcoal Leaves
Autumn Swirls
Burnt Sienna Pallette Ink
Gold Embossing Powder
Gold Brads

Autumn Embossed Shimmer Technique

I combined the SCS Embossed Shimmer Technique Challenge with Heather Scott's Card Sketch and got this as a result. The TLC185 Embossed Shimmer technique was a challenge for me since I didn't have exactly the right stuff. After much trial & error I ended up painting Vegas Gold All-Purpose ink on the back of the acetate over my previous failed attempt. Then I stamped leaves (which you can't really see that well in the scan, but it shows IRL) on the other side of the acetate...then ran it through the Cuttlebug.


Created with The Angel Company Stamps:

Charcoal Leaves
More Elegant Sentiments
Burnt Sienna Pallette Ink
Clear Acetate
All Purpose Ink (Vegas Gold)

Flowers in a Vase

(CASE'd card for a Featured Stamper Challenge at SCS)

Created with The Angel Company Rubber Stamps:

Spring Flowers
Trendy Greetings
Running Stitches
Genevieve Paper Collection