Fright Night Layout by Tonya Gibbs

Ok, how many of you are now on a sugar overload?  Go ahead raise your hands. I know you were hoarding all the good chocolates for yourself!   Come on confess....
Just kidding.....

My nephew, Cooper, came over a few hours last weekend and we carved a pumpkin. Then had a scary vampire photo shoot.  

For today's project, I decided to use the paper and embellishment packs that were left over from my Sept. Ustream class.  In that class we used Basic Grey's Persimmon line. My objective was to use as much of the left overs as possible and kill off this kit.

To make this process fun, I decided to give myself a few prompts.

PROMPT 1:  Use Burlap and Jute. I love the look of burlap and jute twine on a fall layout.  I think the natural tones really help to enforce the theme of fall, and give your layouts an organic element.

 

 

PROMPT 2:  Use chunky glitter nail polish and dark pens to help your title pop!  The nail polish gives a glossy texture to the lettering, and the glitter looks like bubbly potion (haaa) or night time stars.  The dark outline around the letters gives them depth and weight, making your spooky title pop!

 

 

PROMPT 3:  Use navy blue instead of black on your Halloween layouts!  One thing I liked about the Persimmon line, is its use of navy blue instead of black.  Love the unexpected color shift from the traditional black. Since chalkboards are super trendy right now, I used the solid navy blue from the 6x6 paper pad, and a white gel pen for my journaling.   

 

 

PROMPT 4:  Die cut your scraps from the collection and use them immediately. Gather up the scraps from this collection, pull those punches out of hiding, and eliminate the scrap pile! Great layers have multiple items of different sizes and textures. I used a Fiskar's Leaf punch and a small scrap of the patterned paper for my leaves.  Then another EK Success labels punch for another accent.  I challenge you to free your punches/dies and start making elements to use for layers.

My favorite neutral punches/die shapes are:  hexagons, banners, tickets, birds, butterflies, branches, leaves, flowers, cameras, labels, frames, hearts, arrows, chevrons, doilies, tabs, and tags.   All of these can be used anytime, and any place.  Your objective is to USE THOSE SCRAPS.

 

Here is a process video on me completing this layout. 

 

I hope you have enjoyed this layout share.

Thanks for stopping in today,

Tonya A. Gibbs
http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

Resources for this layout:

• BasicGrey - Persimmon Collection - 6 x 6 Paper Pad
• BasicGrey - Persimmon Collection - Chipboard Stickers - Shapes
• BasicGrey - Persimmon Collection - Die Cut Cardstock and Transparency Pieces
• BasicGrey - Persimmon Collection - Mixed Brads
• BasicGrey - Persimmon Collection - Printed Wood Veneer Cards
• Fiskars - Limited Edition - Squeeze Punch - Large - Leaf it to Me,
• Maya Road - Chipboard Set - Shot Through the Heart
• Spellbinders - Shapeabilities Collection - Die Cutting and Embossing Templates - Snapshot
• Sizzix  - Tim Holtz - Bigz Die - Extra Long Die Cutting Template - Word Play
• EK Success - Punch - Large - Flourish Square
• My Favorite Things Stamps - Dizzy Doily Die
• Ranger - Archival Ink - Coffee
• Prima - Distress tool
• May Arts - Jute
• Canvas Corp - burlap
• Gold Glitter Nail Polish
• Ribbon
• Do Art Ticket Die

"RIP" Tombstone Treat Holder

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Peggy Lee here sharing a quick and fun treat holder with you today...

"RIP" Tombstone Treat Holder

using

Marion Smith Designs paper collection "Nirvana"

I used my Cricut to cut out coffin, rip tombstone head

skull, match box holder, spider webs....

cut the pieces out of the Nirvana papers...embellished 

with Petaloo beautiful flowers..

trims and gems.

and every little trick and treat holder

needs splatters of glimmer!!!

Ranger's Perfect Pearl Mist in Heirloom Gold.

side view 

(this was a hard piece to photo)

everyone has crape paper on hand

just cut a 8" piece fold and gather....

Crape paper to me is Holiday must have!!

Shadows....eek

and

in this photo is my complete set

of

Trick or Treat Candy Holders

for Halloween

You can see more about the "french fry treat boxes" over on the 

Marion Smith Designs Blog!!!

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

BOO

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies:

Marion Smith Designs-Nirvana Paper Collection

Cricut-cut outs

Petaloo-flowers in Textured Elements and

Darjeeling-Dahlias

Ranger-Perfect Pearl Mists in Heirloom Gold

and Distress ink in Black Soot

Crape Paper

Ribbons/Trims

Gems

Halloween Treat Bags by Tonya Gibbs

Halloween will be here in just a few days.  I know a lot of people love to make "special" treats for some of their friends and loved ones.

Today I wanted to share with you a little treat bag I created using the scraps from my last Ustream class.    Almost everything used to make the bag and the decorations were from the scrap pile! I chose the papers from Marion Smith Designs Nirvana  "Up and Away" paper.

The bag was cut from the Tim Holtz "In the Bag" Die.  Then I used a spellbinders square die to cut a window from one of the panels.   By using scraps each bag will be unique.  Here is a process video on how I made them.

 

 

Thanks for stopping in today, and happy haunting!

 

Tonya A. Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

Feature Artist: Leslie Rahye

Hi Artsy Addicts!

 

I am Leslie Rahye! I am wife of 21 years to my soul mate, mother to two amazing free-willed beings, and a daughter of devoted, loving parents. I've been crafting and creating since before I can remember, dabbling in everything from sewing, to oil painting, to scrapbooking, to photography to beadwork to crafty crafts--and many things in between. I've gifted my work. I've sold my work. I've used my work. 

I love to share projects and techniques with crafters of all skills. I continue to explore in creativity to keep myself fresh. I love mixed media and upcycled crafting as well as card making and hybrid crafting.

"I create because I have a need to share the most beautiful part of my soul." ~Nikole Casassa

I became a fan of Marion's a few years back when she was creating a Halloween Mini for Prima. I loved her style and personality and continued to watch and follow her through her creative adventures. It is an honor to share my project with you today on Artsy Addicts!

Today I am sharing a Spooktacular Halloween card that I made using Marion's Something Wicked Halloween Mini Book Printable. I LOVE the papers in this download and they are the perfect size for card making projects as well as their intended purpose. The flowers and embellishments were all cut from the Something Wicked papers as well!

for this card :

Something Wicked Halloween Mini Book Printable

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies : Daisy Strip B259, Embellishment #2 B188, Build a Flower #2 B187, Felicity with Angel Wing DL239 and Felicity Tiny Doily DL243

Black Soot Distress Ink

Distress Glitter

Bazzill Basics Card Stock

May Arts Ribbon

Arts Glitter, Foam Tape and 3D Zots.

Thank you for looking! You can connect with me HERE.

 

 

Leslie Rahye

Featured artist - Kimberly

I'm so honored to be asked to be a Featured Artist.  I've been a member of the Artsy Addicts group for almost a year and have been inspired by so many wonderfully talented people. 

Where to start?   I'm married to my jr high school sweetheart for 29 yrs. We have three amazing boys,  two beautiful daughters in-laws, a grandson and a granddaughter.  My family is my world! 

I've been crafting for six years.  I started out with a cricut then expanded myself from there.

I love to alter the unexpected. The things that people toss, I see as art!  Example is the Turkey Mesh bag used on the hot air balloon below.  One man's trash is definately my treasure!

 

 

I would consider myself a Grungy girl.   I love the vintage, and steampunk.  The dirtier the better!

If I had to pick one color out of the crayon box and say it was me,  I'd pick red, because I have a firecracker personality. I love to make others happy and engergized. If I were a scrappy embellishment I'd be a paper clip, because I tend to hold everything together for the people in my world.

 

Here are a few of my other projects I wanted to share with you today.

 

 

Talk about the unexpected.  The base of this steampunk dressform was created using mouse traps.

 

As you can see Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.  I think it is an excellent opportunity for me to show off my grungy techniques.

Thank you for asking me to be a featured artist. 
 

Kimberly
Blog:  Newkimber.blogspot.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Kimberly2595

Trick or Treat - Halloween 2012

Mr. Cooper, my 5 year old Nephew, decided this year he wanted to be the "Dark Knight" for Halloween. I asked him why, and he said "Because he is cooler than Spiderman".  I believe he was Spiderman last year (lol).  I love to ask all the little ones year after year, why they have decided on their costumes. It is a fun way to add journaling to your layouts, and makes for interesting topics as they get older.

 

This year, I used Marion's digi downloads from the Something Wicked Halloween Mini Album to create my 12x12 layout.  By layering the smaller designs and fussy cutting out the iconic elements, I was able to make the layout interesting and fun.

 

I dropped some Tattered Angels - Clam Bake - Glimmer Mist on the background cardstock,  then blew on the droplets, to create a splattered effect.

 



 

I have shared many times, that I love incorporating older products. Sometimes you need to give them a fresh look to match newer lines or themes.  The chipboard letters that spell out Treat were PINK - yes - PINK, and I painted them with Orange Extreme Glitter Paint from Plaid. It took several coats to hide the pink - but it was well worth it.  I used the heat tool to bubbled up the paint, so that it would look grungy.   The buttons were a set of old buttons from 2002 Daisy Dee (who is no longer in business) - it is nice to have them completely used and out of my stash.  From the scrap pile, I used some scrap canvas that I had painted orange for a Prima BAP layout, to create the tab.   Since I didn't have enough letters to spell out Trick or, I just hand wrote them on the canvas.  The 2012 is a piece of Mylar confetti that I got for Brittany's Graduation party.  I love to collect these, they make great date references on your projects.

 

 

 

 

The real treat here - is the joy I get seeing the kids excited.  I love when they ring my door bell, I act scared, and they just giggle. 

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogpost.com

 

 

Resources:

• Black cardstock
  
  
• Marion Smith Designs Digi Downloads - Something Wicked Halloween Mini Album.
• Plaid - Extreme Glitter Paint Orange
• Tattered Angels - Clam Bake Glimmer Mist
• My Favorite Things Stamps - Curly Bracket Tab Die
• Daisy Dee - Buttons
• Devine Twine - Orange Bankers Twine
• EK Success Pumpkin dimensional, Washi Tape - Polk-A-Dot  
• Ranger, Black Soot Distress Ink
• Prima - Distress Tool
• 2012 - Confetti
• Chipboard Letters
• Stamping Up - Mini Label Punch
• Canvas
 
 
 

 

 



Spooky Something Wicked Halloween Mini Album

With Halloween being this week I couldn't resist to create with Marion Smith's new Something Wicked Halloween Mini Printable kit that you can purchase here from her website.

Here is the cover with glimmer misted Prima flowers and leaves with Marion's little printable tabs tucked in with the flowers.

 Here are some inside pages of the Spooky Mini, it's of my two girls and their friends getting ready for trick or treating the costumes went perfect with the printable. I decided to create my own faux washi tape, using the printable I just cut small strips of paper ripped on both ends, edges inked and taped down...what a great way to use up the little scraps that are leftovers.

 When you have multiple photos tape them back to back and punch holes and add them as pages with little tabs to add some cool interest in the mini. Don't you just love Marion's pages are so perfectly distressed all you have to do is add your photos, thanks Marion for wonderful digital printable to create with.

 Hope you all enjoy your Halloween Holiday and be safe....need some Halloween  party decoration purchase this kit and create cute little decorations to adorn your party. Like a BOO banner, cup cake flowers, treat bags, etc...

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Something Wicked - Mini Album

Something Wicked is Marion's latest Mini Album Printable themed around Halloween.  You can order the download here.   Although this mini has a gothic feel to it, many of the designs could be used with her other printables.  

 

I created this little mini in just a few hours.  My daughter wants to use it to display her Halloween costumes from the past, and incorporate some of her future costumes for years to come.  She has always loved Halloween, and playing dressup, so it should make for an interesting book when it is filled.

In addition to Marion's downloads, I was able to incorporate a lot of dies, and vintage Prima tube flowers, with scraps of lace, and fibers.

When making the album, I cut some tickets from the scraps to make extra journal spots - so save those scraps!


Here is a video showing each page in detail. 

Did you download this mini?  If so please share your version with us on the Artsy Addicts Facebook Page. 

Thanks for stopping in today,
Tonya Gibbs
http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com