Die Cuttin' Diva's Challenge with the color Brown

It's Tuesday and time for another Die Cuttin' Diva's challenge. This week the challenge is to use the color brown.

I know its early for Christmas, but it's time to start thinking about those holiday cards. You're thinking what does Christmas have to do with the challenge to use the color brown.
Well, this week I used an image and sentiment from a stamp set called Presents from our sponsor, Marks Finest Papers & Stamps. 

As you can see, my card has plenty of brown on it even though it is a holiday card. I used the Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Sentiment Spots file set to add the vertical banners. Instead of coloring the whole image, I decided to paper piece the gift box. Makes it a bit more interesting. 

I used an EK border punch on the dark green mat across the bottom and added a button with a bow. 

Be sure to stop by the Die Cuttin' Diva's blog this week for some great apple inspiration from the the DT and link up an apple creation for us all to see.

Trick or Treat!

It has been cold and rainy this weekend so I have been in my craft room working on lots of fall and Halloween projects. 

I picked up some of these MDF little stands at my local craft store and through they would be great for some holiday decorations for the window sill.

I started by brushing some brown Tim Holz ink all over to give it a more finished look. 

Next, I traced the back drop piece onto my paper and then hand cut it out and attached it to the wood. From there I just built the display as if I was making a card. 

Here is what I used to finish this project:

Witch SVG file from SVG Cutting Files, Subway art stamp from Jaded Blossom, Spider circle stamp from Jaded Blossom, the Martha Stewart  Spiderweb punch, a couple candy corn stickers and a tiny clothes pin covered with washi tape to hold my sentiment card. 

I will be linking this project up to the Jaded Blossom Halloween Monthly challenge. 

Hope your weekend is going great. 

A Nerdy Halloween!

Welcome to my first post as a new Design Team member for Digi My World!
If you have not stop by Digi My World yet, please do. You'll find some adorable digital images.

Today there is a new release called Nerdy Halloween. Oh they are so cute.

Each design team member today picked one of the images to showcase. I was lucky enough to get the Nerdy Bat!
I know many of you are nervous about coloring with copic markers and all that blending stuff. Well, I am here to tell ya, that you can still design with these little beauties without even picking up a marker!

For my bat, I just imported the image into the Silhouette Design Studio and colored him there. Then I just printed and cut him out. If you don't have this software, you can still print these images and use any marker you have on hand. There is no right or wrong when it comes to creativity, It's all great!

I put my nerdy bat on a wobble for a bit of action on this card  and added a sentiment from the BugBites Magic Spells Stamp set.

Here's a picture of the whole Nerdy Halloween images. Aren't they cute!

Stop by Digi My World to see all that's new!

Enjoy the game!

Wow- where has the year gone. I can't believe I am talking hockey season already. As a season ticket holder of the local D1 college hockey team, we are getting excited for the season to begin in a week.

I have to miss a game due to travel for work and therefore will be giving the tickets to the neighbor to  use. I can't just hand the tickets over, I need to do a card for them! They have a little boy that I am sure will enjoy the game and the card with this little hockey player on it.

I used a hockey clipart set I had in my files for the hockey image. behind him is an image of an ice rink from the same set. I used the print and cut feature on the silhouette to cut the mat and player. Then I traced, printed and cut the hockey puck and attached it with some foam tape. 

Boy, that Silhouette Design studio is fun to use. I have so much to learn  yet. 

Hope they enjoy the game!