Monday, October 31, 2016

Design Team: PIO #120 (Scraps/Cutoffs)

New Challenge at:
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This fortnight at Pile It On, we're focusing on Food/Drink
We're sponsored by Fresh Brewed Designs, and one lucky participant (chosen from challenges #119 & #120) will win 3 digi stamps of their choice! The Top Picks for this challenge will be posted on November 6, and the Prize Winner will be announced on November 20.
Fresh Brewed Designs is a small online company that has been offering a wide variety of digital and rubber stamps since November, 2010 designed to meet the needs of paper crafting addicts everywhere!  With over 30 categories to choose from and new additions each month, our range of products is expanding all the time. We would love for you to visit our blog and facebook page where fresh ideas are always percolating. We also have Challenges and would love to have you play along!
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My entries:


inside:


Inside:



Supplies:
I used paper scraps from previous projects for this challenge. More views:


And my pile of challenges:


Crafty Girl Creations - anything goes
Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes
Crafty Friends - anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - anything goes
Create and Makes - anything goes
Digi Choosday - anything goes
Inspiration Destination - anything goes
Simon says Stamp - anything goes

Sunny Day Crafting - anything goes

The house that stamps built: what-if-wednesday-sketch-challenge-o2616

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes


Happy Halloween,

Vicky Tovar

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Design Team: PIO #119 Food/Drink

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This fortnight at Pile It On, we're focusing on Food/Drink
We're sponsored by Fresh Brewed Designs, and one lucky participant (chosen from challenges #119 & #120) will win 3 digi stamps of their choice! The Top Picks for this challenge will be posted on November 6, and the Prize Winner will be announced on November 20.

Fresh Brewed Designs is a small online company that has been offering a wide variety of digital and rubber stamps since November, 2010 designed to meet the needs of paper crafting addicts everywhere!  With over 30 categories to choose from and new additions each month, our range of products is expanding all the time. We would love for you to visit our blog and facebook page where fresh ideas are always percolating. We also have Challenges and would love to have you play along!

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For this challenge I decided to use our sponsor's (Fresh Brewed Designs


The inside of the card:


Materials:


and dies by TH and spellbinders (nestabilities squares).

I hope you decide to join this fun-yummy challenge.
Have a wonderful week,

Vicky Tovar

I am Piling on this challenges:

Friday, October 14, 2016

Monster Mash Blog Hop



Welcome to the 
Monster Mash Halloween Blog Hop
Thank you for joining us for a fun weekend of Spooktacular Halloween projects! We have monsters, tricks and treats!!

You should have arrived from Sarah- http://sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com/
Connie Can Crop is the first stop in this hop. 
This is a one day blog hop and we appreciate your leaving a comment for all of these amazing crafters.

We have an awesome sponsor for this month! 



One lucky winner will win a gift certificate for a free Bundled Collection ($15.96 value)  
Be sure to check out their shop online HERE
Visit them on facebook HERE
Follow their blog HERE for inspiration!



What do you need to do to win? Easy... become  a follower of each of the fabulous blogs in this hop and leave each of them a comment letting them know what you like best about their projects.

You will have until 10 pm Sunday to finish the hop and leave your comments.
Winner will be announced on Wednesday 10/19/16 at Connie Can Crop.
Be sure to follow everyone and leave a comment along the way!

Ready to be Spooked?
Beware of the things that go bump in the dark!!

I ended up using this project for the blog because I never finished my intended one ;-)
I hope you still enjoy it.



I did many mixed media techniques on the house itself and on the different elements of this fun Reflections kit.

I added some of my children pictures here and there...


Some TH die cuts... on glitter paper...

Some prima rusted pastes to make a ghoulish sign... 

Some old CTMH candelabra stickers.


and some foiling...

I will have a Snap-guide with all the details by tomorrow... I will make a new post with the link...

This was a fun project to make.

 Up next is the very gifted Tricia- http://mysticalcardcreations.blogspot.com/

Here's our line up in case you get lost:

Connie- http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
Kim- http://katydidcards.com
Michelle- michellekinder.blogspot.com
Angela- http://mermaidsnmonograms.blogspot.com/
Christi- https://tranquility1905.blogspot.com/
Lisa- http://lisaslittlerascals.blogspot.com/
Alicia- http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/
Sarah- http://sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com/
Veronica- http://vickyscrappingpassion.blogspot.com/          you are here
Tricia- http://mysticalcardcreations.blogspot.com/
Holli- http://sunflowerholli.blogspot.com/
Charmagne- http://sanurascraps.blogspot.com/


Have a lovely weekend and fun hop,



I was inspired by some wonderful challenges for mixed media:

www.creativecarteblanche.com: witchy-woman
the witch and little one costumes...


frillyandfunkie: author-author all the Goose bumps books... Author: R. L. Stine:  specially Trapped in Bat Wing Hall and Welcome to Dead House. Love all those ghoulish stories



Connie Can Crop Design Team: Dog's Life ;-)

Dear scrappers,

I am sharing with you a hybrid double layout I created using the NitWit collection Tailwags  for Connie Can Crop this month.

I call it hybrid because I printed out parts of this cute collection using my ink jet printer and colonial white card stock and cut out elements, which I used as embellishments, borders, and title for this layout. 



 A closer look to the right side:


To the left side:


I pop up some elements to add some texture:

Added some skinny washi tape to the border:


The sketch is from a "Embellish it" kit.


And don't forget to enter this month's challenge:


Connie Can Crop Challenge #51
due 11:59 P.M. Monday, October 31st

Pacific Time
Have wonderful weekend,

I am entering the following challenges myself:










Sunday, October 2, 2016

Connie Can Crop: Monthly Challenge #51

Dear Scrappers,

Time for a new challenge at Connie Can Crop:
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Welcome to October and a new
ghoulish Challenge for you!


Create a project using hexagons. You can use one or many..up to you!
You may create anything you wish: a layout, card, altered item...you name it!

Entries are due by Monday, October 31st at 11:59 pm.
Sorry, No back Linking Allowed!!

We have an awesome sponsor for this month! 


One lucky winner will win XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Be sure to check out their shop online HERE
Visit them on facebook HERE
Follow their blog HERE for inspiration!
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For my project, I decided to dust out my Fuse tool:





I made a shaker card with the fuse tool card base and some print out from the NitWit collection
Tailwags

I used some Creative Memories punches to cut out some HEXagons from the cardbase and added
cutouts from dogies printed from the NitWit collection:



I punched some printed buttons and the sentiment for my card:

 My fusing skills are still very rough, but I did it ;-), sequins shaker pocket and all.

For the inside I cut out another sentiment from this fun collection:


I hope you enjoy it and decide to participate in this fun challenge.

Best weekend for you all


I am participating in the following challenges:
qkr stampede: challenge-211-cut-it-up : all the hexagons, buttons, sentiments

Pile It On #118 - Sparkle

Dear scrappers,

This is my post as a designer for Pile It On Challenge Blog.

The Theme these next 2 weeks is: 

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 Sparkle. Whatever your favorite way to add a bit of sparkle to your project, pile on some challenges & let it shine!

We're sponsored by Doodle Pantry and one lucky participant (chosen from challenges #117 & #118will receive 3 digi stamps of their choice! The Top Picks for this challenge and the Prize Winner will be announced on October 23.



Doodle Pantry is honoured and excited to be sponsoring Pile It On!  We have a nice variety of all styles of digital images at the shop  from the whimsical to realistic. If you've never worked with digital images before we also have a full freebies page! We look forward to seeing what everyone creates this week. We also invite you to join our Challenges.
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Here is my project: I  used again our sponsor's SVG file: Mini rounded tote TEMPLATE/SVG to prepare for all the goody bags I will make for this thanksgiving:


This are the supplies I used:


To create the descending sun, I used:


Some further picks from my sparkling project:


dry embossed the treat box with Anna Griffing's and from another company for the wheat on the handles. I added fall ribbon leaves, a shippie (Creative Embellishments) for the fall leave and one for the acorn, which I distressed with TH distressing inks, as shown on a previous picture. And for accenting this glitter paper printed flower some gold sequins.




The back view:

To finish, I added a bow from 3 Girls Jam ribbon.