Knee deep in fun stuff

I've got some fun things to post soon: my casket for Creep Over (Hilltop Memories)Scrap Retreat this coming weekend, my version of Gingersnaps Color Challenge, and a Halloween mask I am working on...but can't post a single thing right now!
But soon, my pretties and your little dogs too! ...love that line from Dorothy and the wicked witch( much abused that witchy woman, me thinks).

I've been wearing my pin proudly lately, " If the broomstick fits, ride it Baby!"...lol.

So stay tuned...BOO!

Free Vintage Halloween Post Cards

I inherited a slew of lovely post cards from my great aunt and my aunt. I share these as often as I can because I believe these are meant to be loved and appreciated, not sold. Help yourself! I have more to post at Christmas and Valentines and one or two for Turkey Day...both my great aunt's collection (dating from the late 1890s) and my aunt's (1940s-70s) are a delight. Enjoy!

Gingersnaps Creations Chestnut Theme Challenge: Gothic Elements

This is my first reveal as a member of the Gingersnaps Design Team and I did a back lit,haunted house incorporating the gate and scroll photo display, Webster's Pages wonderful new netting (the black patterned one) and the haunted house from a paper by My Mind's Eye. I distressed and aged the photo display with Ranger's alcohol inks and crumpled tissue to add depth to the back of the display under the netting. It was a fun challenge and you can share it with us...here is the challenge and how to from Gingersnaps.

Create something dark perhaps supernatural with an atmosphere of mystery, darkness, oppressiveness, fear, or doom. Basically, if you take a normal scene, put it in a dark and gloomy palette, and then add something rather disturbingly amiss, you will have a great gothic scene. With Halloween around the corner, this may get you right in the mood! It definitely got us into the spirit!

When the challenge closes on October 31, 2010, we will pick 7 Ginger Gems - fabulous creations that we feel really exemplify that challenge's objective. The Ginger Gems will appear in our wrap-up post and in a slide show in the blog bar for an entire week and their creators will have the honor of displaying our Ginger Gems blog badge.

For your chance to be eligible as a Ginger Gem or as a Home Page Artist, just follow the simple guidelines below:

1) Make a paper crafting or mixed media creation using Gothic Elements as your theme or inspiration;

2) Post your creation to your blog or online gallery with a mention and link to this post; and

3) Come back to this post and leave a comment including a DIRECT link to your creation or use the linky application below. Remember to make it a link to the specific post or picture and not just a general link to your blog or gallery. We need to be able to find your art!

For more information on our challenges and directions on linking, please check out our FAQ page.

One random winner and seven Ginger Gems will be announced from the qualifying submissions on November 2, 2010. You have until October 31, 2010 to enter!

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Tomorrow I'll put up the Grateful mini album I created for A Cherry on Top for my reveal which went live on the site this past Tues. So watch this spot! and thanks.

Very excited

to announce that I've been asked to join the Gingersnaps Creations Design Team along with the other talented members. This is such an honor. I was the Guest Dt for two months but never dreamed of being a full time designer for this blog. Thank you Sharon and Ali and what a delight and honor.

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and I have one other bit of news to share in a day or two. So bookmark Gingersnaps as the ladies here both members and Dt are amazingly talented and inspiring!

SIGH!

Life is too short...

I used Crate Paper's Restoration Collection for the papers, the Maya Road banner from CHA and Maya Road ribbons to make this layout along with Helmar's Liquid Scrap Dots to add dimension to the layers of flowers that make up the border.

Thanks for looking. (this is my pal, Janet Miller and I at the Columbia Restaurant in St. Pete Florida and the drink of the day is the house specialty, Sangria).

Vintage banner with Maya rose canvas and ribbons

I've had this banner since CHA (thanks Maya Road) and had been wanting to play with it since then. Posh Scraps, in Palm Harbor, just got all the new ribbons in and I was off and running! I dyed the banners with Glimmer Mist, attached everything with Fabri Tacand printed the vintage lovely ladies onto canvas paper then used Perfect Pearls in pink to high light their drapes and the flowers.

Thanks for looking!

Thanks for looking!

ACOT: Altered Objects Challenge for Sept

Every month, the CT members at A Cherry on Top, issue challenges for the membership. I do an altered challenge that centers around using objects most people would find around their house. In the past year, I have challenged members to use such things as coffee filters, empty boxes, ribbon, the cellophane packaging off embellishments, etc.

The challenge for this month is to open the tool box or odds and ends container for a tool box and use at least one of the items on a card, a layout or as an embellishment on either of them. I used a hinge and a rubber washer on this card.