Gypsy Mermaid Witches Cupboard Halloween Swap

Sarah over at Gypsy Mermaid Life hosted the Gypsy Mermaid Witches Cupboard Halloween Swap. What a wonderful time we have had making things for your Partners. My partner was the Wonderful Stefanie from Germany has two wonderful blogs. One she displays her art and collections on, the Other her lovely cats and dogs, garden, and decorations. She is a sweet lady and mother of 3 children. I have really enjoyed making a new friend.

As I opened my gift from her, I found this wonderful Ghostly napkin and a Fall Napkin with leaves on it.

I removed the napkins, and found this postcard showing me where my gift came from. Look at all of the wonderful gifts in there. Orange witches hat, ATC, those awesome leaves..You can see the veins in it, and looks like it is made of thread. The green package is a package of Halloween Kleenex. So sweet.. Teddy Bear...( I love Teddy Bears =) )

Here is everything taken out of the box. I love the black and white wrapping paper. They were wrapped so beautifully I didn't think I would open them. HA HA NOT!!! I couldn't wait to see what goodies I would find.

Look at all these wonderful things. A Witches Recipe Journal, Magic Box, A wonderful China tea cup and saucer, "Olive/Pickle thongs, a Silver "Cauldron", Vintage buttons, and some YUMMY Chocolate from Germany. Close Ups follow.

Isn't the Tea Cup and Saucer, The Silver Dish, and Thongs beautiful. I just love them.

The Witches Recipes Journal, I love it...It is so beautiful!!!! I love the Mushrooms she put on the front. The Wicked witch and Velvet flower and trims..so awesome. She also sent me a Pumpkin Bread recipe. I have some recipes that I will start putting in it this weekend.

I love the leaves, I am not sure how they were made, but it looks like a bunch of woven threads, you can see the veins of the leaves, so cool. The miniature orange Witches hat with spider webs. I do not think I have ever seen a Witch hat that small, it is so CUTE. The napkins are wonderful also, leaves with smiling faces and ghost on them The Halloween Kleenex are cool, I love Teddy Bears, And this Teddy Bear is holding his Pumpkin.

Check out my Witches MAGIC box, it had many treasures inside of it. The beautiful Fall bracelet, Vintage buttons, and some WONDERFUL chocolates.



SHHHH!!! Some Sneak Peeks for Stephanie, please do not tell her, I haven't heard if she has received her box of goodies!

Everything so pretty in Orange, White, and Yellow...I hope she enjoys.

Ribbons and glitter everywhere, silvers, oranges, and blacks.. hummmmm

More blacks, purples, orange...wow wonder what they can be.
These little things looks spooky, Saying BOO and a Cute little Witch Tag.

And here is my Witch ATC that I made for Stephanie from Vintage Crepe Paper and some Vintage Rick Rack.

I hope Stefanie will enjoy her goodies that I made for her. We are going to have another ATC swap later, I can't wait to get started on them.

Thank You Stefanie for all the goodies, and laughs we exchanged. Keep in touch my friend.

Love,

Debxx

Deck Of Me cards

Thought I would go ahead and post the other two cards that I have completed for the Deck of Me ATC's.

"My Happy Place" (front) card was made form Basic Grey Mellow Series, Settle Down paper. With Making Memories Bubble letters. Distressed with Quick Quotes Mocha Momma Powder Puff.

"My Happy Place" card (back) was covered with the Mellow series, Equinox paper. I then used the die shapes for the boy, girl, and "dachshund" puppy from the Mellow Series. Aren't they just cute...I love them. I used embroidery floss for the leash that matched the pups collar. Which says. "our walks". I enjoy our walks and just spending some quality time with my husband and the our dogs.

Week 20 - Home is....... I used some scrap brown papers and papers from my stash to make my house. I took one of my stamps from my stamp craft "quilt" stamps - the windows are actually a quilt block, but I turned them upside down to make the curtains and window box, colored them, then drew and colored the flowers in the "window boxes". I drew flowers on both sides of the doors. The doors are closed in this picture. (front)

Same front view with the doors open, here I also used the "heart" stamp from the quilt series and stamped the heart inside of the door in red with my StazOn. (front)

"Home is....." (back). I stamped Home is Where with my snap together stamps. Used the same heart stamp from the front. Because that is the center of any home: is one's heart, love..without them it isn't much of a home. Then I just started writing things that I would use to call a house a home...family, memories, pictures, traditions, together, meals, pets, flowers, children, parents, love, happiness, family night movies, etc....many different things could be listed there. Background paper is from my stash. Distressed the edges.

Have a Blessed rest of the Weekend...I just wanna take the time also to THANK all who have made it possible for us to have our freedom.

God Bless,

Debxx

Deck Of Me cards

I am sorta WAY behind on my "Deck of Me" cards, so I have been busy working on them. I am not going in any order now, just going with the one that I have the most MO JO juices flowing for as I am going thru the list of 27 now, which will be changing shortly I know.

So here is my take on Week 4 Deck of Me ATC - 3 Words describing myself. The words I choose was "Goofy", "Free-Spirited", and "Creative"...which I think they all apply.

I hand stitched the 2 layers together then decorated with stash letters and embellishments. Or used my scrapbook markers from Creative Memories.
Week 7 - Talents I want to use. Actually I would love to just sharpen what I have.
(front side)Back side. I listed different "talents" that I feel the Lord has blessed me with: sewing and crafts, decorating cakes and floral arrangements, altered art and scrap booking, cooking and baking, embroidery....I thank the Lord for the "talents"/ skills that He has given me. Using my sewing machine I stitched different borders and dividers from corner to corner. I used my stamps on this ATC also.

More to come....Thanks for stopping by.

Debxx

day six: good griddins

Good griddins was the 6Th project for the Teresa McFaydren's e-zine.






"Bringing order to chaos is easily achieved with the help of grids on your journal pages. This technique is also a super one to use when you feel like journeying, and again fearing white blank pages.

It's also great fun to do--sorta like a puzzle! Let's give it a go and see what happens. Keep in mind that this is the technique to try today--but you are always welcome to adapt the technique to your liking. Variations from the path foster growth--so if you feel like changing things a bit, do it! Be sure to share your pages on the Flickr site so we can admire your pages!"

Page one of my "griddin's" pages. I divided this page into 6 grids, "the take time to smell the roses" is a picture of one of my ATC's that I made.


The second page is also divided into 6 grids. I the lady in the top row, center grid is the back side of my ATC. The rose picture is from my garden.
I love the little garden fairy that I used.


This procedure was completed by using stippling with a paint brush.

Thanks for stopping by.

Deb

" A Deck About ME"

Here's a couple more of my Deck of Me Cards.

Week 3 - "Spice up my Life" (Front Side)
(Back Side)
Week 5 - "Advice to Me" (Front Side)
(Back Side)



I found this Challenge over at "A Place For Me" , Dianna has a really nice Blog.
Just realized I totally skipped doing Week 4, I will have to do that one and post soon. I will have more to post later.

Thanks for looking,

Debxxx

ATC Deck of Cards about Me

I have been busy trying to make an ATC about me each week. Actually I have been playing catch up. Here are some of my takes:

Week 1 Goals for 2008 (front)

Week 1 Goals for 2008 (backside of ATC)

Week 2 Quotes (front)

Week 2 Quotes (back side)

I have had a lot of fun doing these, I will post more tomorrow. Have a Blessed night and sweet dreams.

Love,

Debxxxx

Sunday Stampers -Little Ole Wine Drinker Me

This Sunday Stampers Challenge was to do something with wine.

Again, I am wondering what I can use. I do not have a stamp with Wine bottles, glasses, grapes, you name it when it comes to wine.

So I start searching some clip art I have, and ran across the two that I used for this weeks challenge. I first stained my ATC with my Violet and Soft Rose Ink Pads. I glued my clip art to my ATC. Using my Karen Foster - Small Formal Snap-Stamps using my Ruby colored Cats Eye. Then using the Rose Stamp from my Rhonna Farrer Flower collection, I Stamped the rose to the side.

Sunday Stampers - Cool for Cats

I am running a week behind for my Sunday Stampers Challenge

I am thinking what can I do, I do not have a stamp with Cats on it.
I have been wanting to make more ATC's, so I was looking through my Fall ATC Collection by Leisure Arts and I come across these cute children with their cats on Halloween. I know its awful early to be doing anything for Halloween. But I had to have something for this challenge.



First I mixed some orange acrylic paint with some Gesso and painted my ATC card. I glued my little girl and her cats onto the card. Using my Acrylix "Close to my Heart" Love Tag Stamps, I stamped "friends and love" onto the card. I distressed the edges of the card with my Color Box - Fluid Chalk Ink Pad in the Dark Brown color, I also distressed the whole top of the card with this. Then I embossed the edges of the card and used my word stamps to emboss the words. I used clear embossing ink.

I also painted this ATC card the same as before. I then stamped the card in black with my Stamp Craft small floral stamp. I distressed the edges of the little guy and his cat and glued him down. I stamped "Trick or Treat" onto the card with my Karen Foster -Small Formal Snap-Stamps. I also used the Dark Brown Color Box-Fluid Chalk Ink Pad on this card. I used it to distress the edges also. I then embossed the words and edges of the card.

Sunday Stampers Challenge

My ATC is for a challenge I seen on, Ink on my Fingers

blog. The Sunday Stampers Challenge was "WORDS".

Dedicated to a New Friend

Looking at others blogs, I guess the newest thing

is to make ATC's. So I am going to dedicate my

first ATC to a dear friend that I just met a few

months ago.

We met at a Scrapbook Retreat that my Dear

Sister Paula was having in Pinkneville, Illinois.
Although I (we) have only known Cat these

short months, we have connected in such

away, that we feel we have known her a lot
longer. She is a very sweet lady, a wonderful

mother and wife.

With her husband's job though, they are going to have
to move to dear ol' London for 4 years. I know that would
be a wonderful place to move too. We will miss her

dearly. I almost feel as if she is a family member moving
away. But I wish her and her family the best.

Alright, Enough of that before I start crying, didn't mean to

make it that serious.

So here is my first ATC:

Front Side

I used a Color Box cat eye, Rose color, to distress the edges and top of

the ATC. I used a Friend stamp from "Close to Heart". I have a small

clock face under friend, to show that time is flying by

way too fast. And a small calendar under friend also, with June

circled, representing when Cat has to leave.

Back Side

I distressed the back side with the same cat's eye. I used the word "cherish". Because we do cherish her friendship.

We will miss you Cat and wish you the best and safe

traveling mercies when you go.

Huggles,

Deb