Paper and Scraps Creations by Julia: September 2012

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Sending Hugs and Love!

It's time for a new challenge at The Stamping Boutique:

Embossing!

Your creation must include wet or dry embossing.

The images is from The Stamping Boutique and is called Champagne Fashionista.

Here is my inspiration piece for the challenge:

We can't wait to see your wonderful creations!!!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Make it Monday 108: Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays #77: Anything Goes

Pin and Tack: Spark Your Creativity Now Challenge #1: Anything Goes

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Happy Birthday!

It's time for a wonderful new challenge at My Time To Craft:

Transport!

We want to see your gorgeous creations featuring a transportation method, so think, trains, planes, cars, skateboards as long as it will get you from A - B its fine!
For the rules please visit the blog here.

The images is from The Stamping Boutique and is called Happy Birthday Car.

Here is my inspiration piece for the challenge:

We can't wait to see your wonderful creations!!!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Make it Monday 108: Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays #77: Anything Goes

Pin and Tack: Spark Your Creativity Now Challenge #1: Anything Goes

Jackson's Digital Expressions: Use Pink or Breast Cancer Awareness

Paper Makeup Stamps: Anything Goes with a Digi

Love To Create Challenge Blog: Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges: Celebrations

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Help Defeat Breast Cancer!

Jackson's Digital Expressions will begin a wonderful challenge on September 25, and they posted an early invitation:

Our upcoming challenge on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 is Breast Cancer Awareness and we want your help! Francine, me and two of my family members have pledged to donate $.25 to Breast Cancer Research for every entry in our challenge this week. We are not looking for money from you, just participation. Your participation alone with help in the battle against this enemy of our bodies. Please post a notice on your blog, encourage your crafty friends to join in. We would like for you to use Pink or a BCA theme on your card. But the truth is we just want as many entries as we can get. With the current pledges, we stand at $1.00 per entry. I can wait to see your design! Hugz, Chana

Let's help them get as many entries as possible.
Before finishing this post I would like to remember you all to do an auto exam and visit your doctor regularly, breast cancer can be treated if discovered in early stage, taking some minutes to do this can save your life.
Hugs,
Julia

Friday, September 21, 2012

Challenge # 3 at Delicious Doodles!!!

It is time for a new challenge at Delicious Doodles and the theme is

Use Metal

Anything metal will do, charms, chains, embossing metal, metallic card, whatever!

Here is my inspiration:

Image: Steampunk Fairy

I had so much fun coloring this beautiful image, used my new Spectrum Noir and Prisma Coloring Pencils.
The background was created with Distress Stains ( Bundled Sage, Dried Marigold, Mustard Seed and Vintage Photo), Distress Ink (Black Soot) and then heat embossed twice with Distress Embossing Ink and clear embossing powder.
My metal embellishment is a die cut using an aluminum metal sheet, I distressed it before to add some texture to the metal, die cut the border then aged it with black acrylic paint.
For more inspiration hop over to Delicious Doodles Challenge Blog! You have to see what Team A created for this challenge.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Mini Halloween Book!

It's time for a wonderful new challenge at Crafting By Designs:

Altered or 3D item!

I absolutely love altering things, it is so much fun to be part of the transformation process of an item.
For my project today I altered a matchbox and created a Mini Halloween Book, that will be a gift for my niece.
Here is a little inspiration:

Some details:

This amazing images are from Delicious Doodles and you can buy them individually or as a set. The set is on sale right now!
The images were colored with Copics and Prisma Color pencils.
The BOO sentiment is a stamp from Studio G, bats are from a stamp set by Inkadinkado, and the decorative border is paper tape from Martha Stewart.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Monday, September 17, 2012

Mermaids!

I have so much fun creating ATC's.
This one I created for the August Swap over at The Crafter's Cafe. The theme is Mermaids.
I also used four of them as inspiration for Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge over at Lady Anne's Paper Craft.

This was a set of fifteen ATC's and they are all different.

The image is from Retro Cafe Art. First I fussy cut the mermaids then added some glitter.
For the background I used Portfolio Water Soluble Oil Pastels and Faber Castell Metallic Gel Sticks.
Distress the borders with Distress Ink (Broken China).
Stamped the border with Recollections stamps and Archival Ink (Jet Black).
Created the corals with Tim Holtz Alterations (On the Edge - Twigs).

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges: