Cup Cards to Go - November Kit

I was asked to guest design with Cup Cards to Go for their November Kit Sugar Plum. I had fun playing with the various goodies that were in the kit.  The first card was inspired by the sweet ornaments. I thought it would be fun to cut out a circle for the ornament shape and hang two ornaments inside the main ornament!

The next project was created as a friendship bracelet kit!

I decorated one of the take out boxes with the papers and fun stickers.  I then filled  a tube with seed beads and added some fun colored thread.  I think this will be going to one of my daughter's friends.

There were some lovely vintage papers and I created this card using the vintage Santa image.

I finished off with a mini easel card featuring the cute little snow girl.

For all the details of the release go here!

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Happy Halloween!

Welcome to my  Haunted House!

Come visit it if you dare!    MWahhh ha ha!

Simon Says Stamp and Show  challenge is to show a house. I knew I had to throw together a quick haunted house today before Halloween had passed!

The house is made from Authentique pattern paper. I used tissue tape to hold together the seams and the roof on the house. Let's just say if the wolf came a knocking my little piglet wouldn't be safe. hee hee...

Then I stampe the tree and tombstones and cut them out.  (Hindsight I probably would have done my tree on acetate.)  The bat is cut out from black cardstock and covered in tissue tape.  The letters are from Stampendous clear set.

**** Edited to add the house with acetate tree****

The ghost is a cheerio inside of tissue paper.  (I was eating my honey nut cheerios this morning and thought it would work out!)

I added some fake spiderwebs from decorations around the house. I won't ever use this again... it is soo sticky and kept getting stuck on everything. :)

I hope you have a wonderful spooky fun filled day! We are going trick or treating later. I can't wait to see all the fun Halloween costumes. My youngest is a dead prom queen and her costume looks great! She is happy about it!  (A little glimmer mist, distressing, ribbon and stickers from mom!)

Have a spooktacular day!

Suzz

CR84FN41 & Paris Re-Visited

I get to share my second card for  CR84FN41:

I stayed with the Paris theme and created another shabby chic card. The images include: Stampendous Jumbo Cling Songbird, Stampendous Eiffel Tower.  The papers is My Minds Eye Lost & Found. 

The inspiration photos for CR84FN41:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

The wonderful CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Stephanie Kraft * Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville *  Cheryl Lea.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

Stampendous Monthly Challenge - CAS Holiday Card

This is the last weekend to play in the Stampendous Monthly Challenge.  The challenge is to create a CAS holiday card.

This is my version of a CAS card:

I found this super funny paper and it works perfectly with the handsome Santa. The pattern paper is all about letters to Santa.  Too funny!

I stamped the Stampendous Believe in Santa Jumbo Cling on whitewashed music sheet and colored him using watercolor pencils and a waterbrush. The rest was just layering and ribbon.

The prize this month is a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy set to a random winner. You have until Thursday, November 3 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool on the Stampendous blog.

To see the new designs by the Design Team: 

Pam Hornschu

Taylor Usry

Wendy Price 

Melinda Gleissner 

Stampendous Blog 

Have a fabulous Saturday!! 

Suzz

Holly & Berries

I was playing with my newest Memory Box dies and stamps and created this for the Outside the Box Blog.

 There is a new window die cut that I love and the scene outside the window is a new Winter Collage stamp that is so lovely.

I just dragged the ink pad to create the textured background which I love.  Sweet and simple Holiday card.

I also have been working on some cards for the November Kit at CupCards to Go and here is a sneak peak of one of my projects.

Still working on a few other fun projects.  Will be back on Saturday with a card for the Stampendous CAS Holiday Challenge that is finishing up this week.

Have a wonderful day!

Suzz

Dewdrops in the Grass

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I created a wall hanging using the color yellow which is for the Lessology Wall Art challenge and the Simon Says Stamp and Show one Color challenge.

The base is a metal sign that was purchased on clearance. I painted over it with two coats of white acrylic paint. I stamped the Stampendous Rose Hips stamp multiple times around the edges using a water resistant black ink. (Ranger Archival Ink).  Then stamped the verse in the corner. The verse and the bird are a new Stampendous jumbo cling stamp set. The bird was stamped on white cardstock using the same ink. everything was colored using watercolor pencils for the flowers and the bird was sponged with yellow dye ink.

Finished off with seam binding dyed to a yellow and paper flowers dyed to match.

Hope your week is going well!  I have been busy working on some commitments and haven't had much time to play.

Suzz

CR84FN41 - Paris

The colors this week for  CR84FN41 had me inspired right away. I created two cards really quickly. You get to see one of them now, the other is for next week. :)

How about Paris in Spring?  I started with the focal image of the Eiffel tower and just kept layering it on. :)

The stamps are all from Stampendous.  The main image is a new stamp and the background stamp is from the Eiffel Tower set. The background paper is My Minds Eye with a little stamping and distressing.


The inspiration photos for CR84FN41:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

The wonderful CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Stephanie Kraft * Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville *  Cheryl Lea.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz