Foot Print Witch- MDS Blog Hop

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This week we are making Halloween themed projects!  I can't believe Halloween is right around the corner already!  I had fun with my post card this week.  I was looking at Halloween ideas on Pinterest and came across an adorable little foot print witch.  I knew I wanted to make one, but my daughter was already in bed, so I used MDS to create a digital one!  Here she is!

Isn't this just the cutest idea?!  I love seeing all the hand/foot print "things" you can make out there.  I am not sure if this idea is feasible for my daughter yet...the two toned foot paint maybe a little to much for a mommy and a 9 month old to handle, but this digital rendition makes me happy!

I used the Baby Prints stamp set and then used the coloring tool to color the heal part Blush Blossom.  The arms are from the All in the Family stamp set and I used the Freeform Brush to draw the broom, hair and hat.  The Freeform tool was perfect for the "handmade" feel I was going for with the project! 

What do you think?

Are you ready to hop on over to the next blog? The easiest way to do so is to click on the name right below mine, so that would be Mandy and then from her blog hop on over to Julie's blog and so on until you have hopped a full circle back to here!

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2.Rochelle Gould    (BOO!  You are here!)

3.  Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 
5.Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Holly VanDyne
12. Kimberly Van Diepen

Thanks for stopping by!

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Little Pumpkin- My Digital Studio Blog Hop

Welcome to week 6 of the MDS blog hop!  This week's theme is Halloween!  It is hard to believe that Halloween is right around the corner!  SU! has released some super spooky (and cute) digital downloads this week to get us in the fall-ish mood!  Again this week I used my cousins cute boy, Alex.  This was his first Halloween and he was only about 2 weeks old!

(click on the page to see it bigger!)

I used the new Pick your Poison DSP for my page.  This new paper made this page super simple and quick to make and I love it!!  I layered and changed the opacity of papers to make them just right.  I added a title in the "Problem Secretary" font added a little ribbon knot and the page was done!

Are you ready to hop on over to the next blog? The easiest way to do so is to click on the name right below mine, so that would be Mandy and then from her blog hop on over to Julie's blog and so on until you have hopped a full circle back to here!

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2. Rochelle Gould  (you are here!)

3. Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 

5. Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Alesha Walls

Enjoy the hop!

and thanks for looking!

Towering Trio of Sweet Treats- SCIC25

It's Thursday and that means it is time for another Stampin' Celebration Inspiration Challenge! This week we are celebrating spiders, pumpkins, bats, cats and plenty of bright fun colors! And I saw an awfully lot of sweet treats in the inspiration pictures too!

Here is what I came up with, a Towering Trio of Sweet Treats! I used Certainly Celery, Perfect Plum, Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black as my color scheme.

I die cut the boxes from the Bitty Box and Envelope die with my Big Shot and then used the Batty for You stamp set to stamp the images using the same color ink as the card stock. Then I filled the boxes with some sweet treats for a special trick-or-treat-er!

I stacked them all together and tied them up using the Basic Black 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon. I added a simple tag to the top by using the Batty for you stamp set, Basic Black ink and the 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches.

A simple yet fun project to make treats extra cute for extra cute trick-or-treat-ers!

Be sure to check out the other design team members projects this week too over at the Stampin' Celebrations blog and I hope I inspired you to join us this week!

Thanks for looking!

Textured Pumpkins- SCIC24 and SR#41

It's Thursday and that means it is time for another inspiration challenge from the Stampin' Celebration blog! This week we are celebrating pumpkins! It is getting to that time of year that pumpkins are all around us and we want to see what you are inspired to make!

Here is what I made, Textured Pumpkins. I just LOVE making these pun art pumpkins and this year I decided to give them all a little different texture using 5 of the Embossing Folders and my Big Shot. I got the idea from the picture on the top right (the rectangular shaped one) of the inspiration collage.

The colors I used were Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip and Basic Black. I used the Extra Large Oval, Large Oval and the new Oval punch from the Holiday Mini to make the pumpkins. I sponged the pumpkins after I textured them to give them a little more depth and detail.

I added a few Basic Black bats using the Large Bitty Bat punch to finish it off.....but then I kept looking at it wondering if the bats were too much....so I took them off. Here it is. What do you think? What card do you like better? The one with the bats or the one without the bats?

Anyways, I hope I inspired you to join us this week in making a pumpkin-ish project! Be sure to check out the other design team members projects too for some more pumpkin inspiration!

Thanks for looking!

Oh, I just found out that this card meets the standards for this week's Stampin' Royalty Challenge, Spooky Kooky aka Halloween so I am entering this card in it too!

Sweet and Spooky Halloween- CCMC-HM1

It's time for the first Create with Connie and Marythe Holiday Mini Edition! Woohoo! This challenge is for the subscribers to the Holiday Mini Edition to participate in and earn a change to win one of two $75 gift certificates or one of two free subscriptions to the next Edition of Create with Connie and Mary. If you want to participate, it is NOT to late to subscribe to the Holiday Mini Edition! You will still have access to all the previous posts and tutorials and have access for a long time after the session is over! What are you waiting for...come join us!

This week on Create with Connie and Mary, we've been focusing on the Dark and Dreary stamp set, Midnight Musings Jumbo Wheel and the Spooky Nights Rub-ons from the Holiday Mini.

I used the Dark and Dreary stamp set and the Midnight Musings Jumbo Wheel on my card for week 1's sketch.

Here is what I came up with, a Sweet and Spooky Halloween card! I call it Sweet and Spooky because it has a "spooky" image and a "sweet"little bow! The colors I used were Basic Black, Basic Grey and Very Vanilla. I had a lot of fun with the sketch!

I stamped the candle image from the Dark and Dreary stamp set onto Very Vanilla card stock using Black StazOn and then used my blender pens to get a little color and color it in very lightly. The sentiment comes from the stamp set Teeny Tiny Wishes and was popped up using dimensionals.

I wheeled the Midnight Musings Jumbo Wheel using Basic Black ink onto the Basic Grey card stock and then used the So Saffron Stampin' Write marker to highlight the words a bit. The bow is 5/8" Basic Black Grosgrain ribbon.

I mounted the Basic Black panel on the the Very Vanilla card stock base and it was done!

Thanks for looking!

I hope you decide to join us over at the Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition...if you haven't already!

Be sure to check out what the other Design Team members did with the sketch this week too:

Connie Babbert at INKspired Treasures
Cristena Bagne at Gettin' Crafty
Jenn Picard at A New Ink on Life
Mary Brown at StamperCamper

(Sorry my post spacing looks so wopper-jogged today, but I can not fix it!)

Cute Little Witch- CCMC115

This week over at the Create with Connie and Mary blog they have a fun fall-ish color challenge! The colors are Tangerine Tango, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla. They said you didn't have to make a fall themed project, but I decided I wanted to and I knew what set I wanted to use, the new Greeting Card Kids! I haven been wanting to use this super cute new set and this was the perfect color challenge to use with it.

Here is my card! I love coloring on water color paper and this stamp set is perfect for it! I stamped the little witch on to Water Color paper using Black StazOn and then used the markers from this weeks colors to highlight areas on the image. Then I came back in with my blender pen to blend and fill in the rest of the image.

I added the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes in Early Espresso and then tired a piece of Linen Thread around the image in a bow. I created the card base background by stamping the sentiment over and over again on the bottom half of the card and then I used Crumb Cake classic ink and the retired Canvas background stamp for the top half.

Thanks for looking!

P.S. Be sure to check back here frequently in the next week or so.....I have one free subscription to the Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition to give away!! And be sure to check out the Create with Connie and Mary blog...the preview period starts today!

Yummy Frog Eyes

Anyone want a frog eye?

I made these cute little frog eyes using Rolo candy and a few circle punches. The box was made using four acetate Stampin' Up! Scallop Envelope dies put together to make a box. I made the sign using some Big Shot letters and a piece of Basic Black card stock cut to look like a scary sign. (I saw the idea for the Rolo's on Splitcaost or Stampin' Addicts, but I can't find it now!)

Happy Halloween!
Have a safe and spooky day!

Spooky Branch Tree and Bats

Here is another Halloween card I made. This card features Vellum card stock. It is hard to see in the picture, but there is a layer of vellum over the Whisper White card stock. This gives it a little more of a layered-spooky look.

The card uses the Branch Out and the Halloween Frights Stamp sets and the retired Canvas background stamp. I stamped the card base, Soft Suede, with the Canvas background stamp in Soft Suede ink. Then I sponged the hill and the moon on the Whisper White card stock by doing some masking. I then took a piece of Vellum card stock the same size as the Whisper White card stock and stamped the tree using Black Staz On onto the vellum. I finished off the card by making a few of the bats using the scalloped square punch and adding the sentiment from the Halloween Frights stamp set.

Thanks for looking!

Sweet Treat Bone Mix

Halloween is just around the corner, so I thought I would share a Halloween project with you.

This is a card we made at club last month. It uses the Sweet Treat Cups from the Holiday Mini. I was trying to think of what you could put inside of it besides candy and saw these plastic skeletons while grocery shopping and thought wow...how easy it would be to cut him up and put the bones in the Sweet Treat Cup, so that is what I did!

This card has a few details that I will point out to you:

To the bone mix I also added a few orange beads from the Orange Duo and two small googly eyes and called it good (this picture gives you a better look at the beads and the bones).







I added two brads and an Orange "diamond" to the card to give it more detail (the Orange "diamond" came from the circle Fire Rhinestone Brads, I just took off the brad part of it and used the "diamond" with a mini glue dot). I also textured the Basic Black piece of card stock using my Big Shot and the diamond texture plate.







The sentiment was stamped on Very Vanilla card stock is Versa mark, embossed in black embossing powder and then punched out using the Modern Label punch. Then two more Modern label's were punched and layered behind the one with the sentiment on it. All layers were sponged with some Basic Black and Sahara Sand ink and attached to the card using Dimentionals.






The whole card thought out the steps was sponged to make it look a little more spookier! Here is the finished product again. It measures 4 1/4" square.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Thanks for looking!

Full Moon Tent Topper

Here is the card I designed for everyone who attended our World Card Making Day event to make. It is a Halloween scene Tent Topper punch art card!

The punches I used to make this card were the Wide Oval (for the pumpkin) and the Scalloped Square (for the bats). I made the moon by rubbing the Sahara Sand Classic ink directly on the Very Vanilla card stock. The background of the Basic Grey was made the same way the moon was made. I finished off the card by making Old Olive grass and stamping the sentiment "Happy Halloween" from the stamp set Teeny Tiny Wishes along the bottom.

Here is a side view of the card, so you can tell that it is a Ten Topper better.

If you have any questions, let me know!

Thanks for looking!

Bag-Box Tutorial

What you will need:

-Ghostly Greeting DSP cut at 5 1/2" X 11" (or any DSP)
-Basic Black card stock cut at 4 1/2" X 4 1/2" (or any card stock, used for the base and decorating)
-Whisper White card stock (or any card stock, used for decorating)
-Batty For You stamp set (or any stamp set)
-Basic Black ribbon (or any ribbon)
-Scallop edge punch
-Scallop circle punch
-1 3/8” circle punch
-Tab punch
-Crop-a-Dile
-Stapler
-Double sided tape



1. Take your 4 1/2" X 4 1/2" piece and score it at 1" in on all four sides.

2. Cut on the white lines (shown below) so you can fold your card stock to make a box. Tape the box together as show below.

3. Take double sided tape and wrap it around the outside of your box.

4. Now take your DSP and attach it to your box with the tape you just put on. Make sure that the paper is lining up with the bottom of the box.

5. When you get to where you started with your DSP, you will need to put some double sided tape on the tall edge of your DSP (shown below with the black strip) so it will stick together.

6. Now take some more card stock and line the bottom outside of your bag box to give it a finished look. Attach it the same way we attached the DSP to the Box (step 3 and 4). I used the scallop edge punch on my paper.

7. Take your tab punch and punch out 2 tabs. Attach them to the top of your bag box with a stapler on opposite sides of the bag box. Use your Crop-a-Dile to punch a hole in each of them so you can put the ribbon through the holes.

8. Decorate your Bag Box as you please and you are done!

If you have any questions, please let me know!

September Club Cards

Here are the Cards that we are doing in my monthly stamping club. The first one is our Halloween card. It uses the Ghostly Greeting DSP, Elegant Eggplant, Basic Black and Whisper White card stock, the new 5/8" Tangerine Tango Grosgrain ribbon, Haunting Halloween stamp set and a few black eyelets. I think the way the card is folded makes it look taller for some reason.

I sponged all the edges of the DSP, Whisper White and Elegant Eggplant card stock with the appropriate colors. The inside reads "... a haunting Halloween!"

The next two cards each use a stamp sets that is currently on promotion with SU for 15% off. They are both brand new sets to this catalog and I love them both!!

This card uses the new Urban Garden DSP, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White and Not Quite Navy card stock, 1" double stitched grosgrain ribbon in Baja Breeze, the new Pocket Silhouettes stamp set, the new scallop edge punch, a 1/16" circle punch, the 1 1/4" square punch, a corner rounder and a silver brad.

This card could be changed so easily by using any of the DSP's and a coordinating stamp set.

This card uses the new Upsy Daisy stamp set (this set has sooo much potential!!), the Bella Rose DSP, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red and Whisper White card stock, the 1 3/4" circle punch and the Coluzzle Cutting System. The daisy's are stamped in Riding Hood Red and Tangerine Tango.

I use ribbon a lot on cards, but this card has no ribbon, and I think it looks good that way!

Halloween Faces

Halloween is just around the corner, so I have been making a few Halloween cards. Here they are! What do you think?





I have seen cards and bags and candy holders very very similar to these, so that is where I got my inspiration. I didn't use a single stamp on them. I used punches, ink and a sponge daubers, my scissors and a marker! They are pretty easy to make and I think they tured out cute! Can you tell what they are?