Altered Lightbulb

My take on an altered lightbulb! 

Hurricane Irene

No words....

Wolf ATC

I used a Rubberstamp Ave stamp, and CASED the Michelle Zindorf style.  Love the way it turned out!

Mermaid ATC

I joined a Mermaid ATC swap, and realized too late that "my mermaid" was too big.  I found this mermaid digi stamp at Nice Crane Designs

I used my Twinkling H2O's to color her.  Not really sold on the digi stamping, but I do love this one!

Steampunk Book

I cased this Steampunk Book from Penny Bennington's post on Gingersnap Creations, see it here-http://gingersnapcreations.blogspot.com/2011/07/penny-bennington-inventors-notebook.html

Close up of Jules Verne, the "Father" of Steampunk! Below, the open book.

Close up of gears made out of chipboard, and aged. I need to age the whole book. Thinking the Grands can work on that for me!

Stamp Room Redo!!!

We have been moving furniture all day! Our office/stamproom is being converted to just my stamproom. We moved my desk into the bedroom, and we're making firewood out of hubby's! Here's a pic of part of the room before moving stuff around. Behind the blue shelf is a row of Iris carts and such, full of stamps. Hopefully tomorrow I can post an after picture!

Stampscapes!!!

I took a class at my LSS, using Stampscape stamps. Love how these cards turned out! Will be pulling out my Stampscape stamps and using them more frequently!!

Busy, busy, busy!!

Haven't been around much. Hubby was very sick. Spent 6 days in the hospital, 4 of them in the ICU! He's home now, making a slow recovery!

BUT....I found blog candy that I want to share!!! Roni, over at http://inkstainswithroni.blogspot.com/2011/04/half-million-visits-huge-give-way.html is giving away a tote full of goodies!!! I love Roni's blog! She is very talented, and shares so many ideas and techniques. Take a peek...become a follower, leave her a comment!

Halloween Arch

Another Arch! This one is a card. I put acetate in the window, and stamped a skeleton on it.

This is the card opened. Inside is a wooden gravestone that I bought years ago.

Jewelery

I made these necklaces this weekend. I found most of my supplies here-http://www.sunandmooncraftkits.com/

I used regular scrapbook paper. Love the Graphics 45 Steampunk papers. The top ones were from the Figgy Pudding pack, these were just scraps from my basket! Love when I can use up scraps!

Butterfly Arch

For the challenge going on at the Gothic Arch Challenge blog-http://gothicarches.blogspot.com/2011/02/butterflies.html

More Scrolls Work stamps! Just love them! And I used UTEE on the butterfly, that I cut from patterned scrapbook paper. I may need Ranger's Melting Pot!

Life Lesson 2

Life Lesson 2 finished!!! I'm going to bind these all together when I'm done. Not sure on which binding method yet!! Guess I better figure that out!

Life Lessons- 1

From Roni's blog-http://inkstainswithroni.blogspot.com/2011/03/mom-gothic-arch-life-lessons-pick-10.html

I used all Scrolls Works stamps, from the Steampunk collection. Love these stamps!

Please check out Crafty Dan's blog for an svg file for your Gothic Arches-http://dan99.blogspot.com/2011/03/freebie-59.html

It's Time...

To get back to this blogging thing! I've been working on a lot of projects that I need to share! Hopefully I can keep up!!

WOYWW

This is my cutting and die machine table. And where I try to take photo's of my stuff. I don't think Bailey is impressed with my skills!

And this pretty much looks like last week! I just finished the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge and the CCC. Looks like I never put anything away!!!

CCC #9 Distress Crackle

Turn to page 42 in Tim's Compendium of Curiosities, lets get cracking! I used Weathered wood on the skull, Aged Mahagony on the heart, and Rock Candy Crackle Paint on the scrap of paper. Check out the other fabulous artwork on Linda's blog! http://studiol3.blogspot.com/2010/08/compendium-of-curiosities-week-9.html

Simon Says Stamp Challenge

Check out the challenge http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.com/ This weeks challenge is Things With Wings, and mine is Time Flies.

Check it out!

Check out the blog candy that Stacy http://scrapwithstacy.blogspot.com/2010/08/tim-holtz-blog-candy-giveaway.html is giving away! Awesome blog candy! All Tim Holtz!!!!

Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday

I've been lurking around every Wednesday, mainly to see who is messier then me...Not many...I'm hoping by posting this, I will be inspired to clean up this mess! I've been doing the CCC's over on http://www.studiol3.blogspot.com/, which leads to trying something else, which leads to mass chaos on my desk! Looks like I need to take an hour...or two and clean this up!

Check out Julia's Blog,http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ to see more!

Turn to page 39, in your Compendium of Curiosities, and start Inking Grunge! Challenge #8, posted on Linda's blog, http://www.studiol3.blogspot.com/ is in full swing. I loved how this turned out, and I love inking grunge. It is messy though. I ran my tag through the Big Shot, using Tim's wood grain folder. The bird is left over from the Shabby Chic challenge. When I get done with all these challenges, I think I will put all my tags on a ring, and keep for future reference.