Cre8tiveGirls: October 2011

Friday, October 28, 2011

May the FORCE be with you!

Today I have a very special card to share.

My co-worker is getting married on Nov. 4th and everyone is dressing up in costumes for the ceremony. No, it isn't a Halloween themed wedding, they are just having fun with it. Since my DH and I can not attend I made him this card:

My friend and I share a love for Star Wars and I had to find a way to make Han Solo and Princess Leia.

I pulled out the Paper Doll Dress Up and Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridges and searched for all of the pieces that would work. For example: Han's vest is from the cowgirl, his holster is from the Policeman, Leia's dress is from the peasant girl, and her belt is from one of the super heroes.

To make the background look future-istic I used some embossing folders and some corrigated paper, I added some glitter glue and puffy paint and TA-DA all finished.

I hope you love my card as much as I do.

Best wishes to my co-worker and his beloved.

-Yvette

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Die Cuttin Diva's Challenge

If you are looking for my 200th Post and Celebrate the Occasion Challenge click HERE.

This week at DCD we have a color challenge: orange, green, purple, and black. As promised, here is the third and last coffin I made for Halloween. And those of you who visited my post yesterday may have guessed that Mr. Frankenstein was on this coffin.

I used puffy paint to make the cobwebs and the Happy Hauntings Cricut Cartridge for Frankenstein.

For the inside of the coffin I used my Sizzix cobweb embossing folder.

and then used some black ink to make the webs pop.

The side of the coffin was decorated with a few different DP.

All three coffins are sitting on my mantle.

I hope you will join us for our color challenge this week. All of the designers have done such a great job over at DCD.

Happy Haunting!

-Yvette

200th Post!!! & Celebrate the Occasion Challenge

I am celebrating my 200th post today!

I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than with my card for the Celebrate The Occasion challenge. This week we were asked make a Fall Theme card.

The stamps are from Inkadinkado, and the paper was given to me by a friend.

I wanted to show my gratitude to all of my followers for leaving me so many wonderful comments and encouraging me to become a better crafter. Thank you very much!

Head on over to CTO and particpate in our weekly challenge.

Thanks for visiting today!

-Yvette

Monday, October 24, 2011

Critter Sketch Challenge

Challenge #88: Pattern Paper Challenge

We were asked to use 3 different pattern papers for this challenge. You might remember a couple of weeks ago I decorated a coffin for another challenge. Well here is the second coffin I made. I had to add the bling since the Bride of Frankenstein is featured on this one.

I used the Happy Haunting Cartridge for BoF.

The three papers I used were the candy, the striped and the "Trick or Treat" star paper.

Now head on over to our Critter challenge and enter your project.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for the last of my Halloween coffins.

HINT: DH of today's featured character! ;)

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

-Yvette

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Die Cuttin Diva's Challenge

This week at DCD we have a National Reptile Day Challenge for you.

I was really excited for this challenge because I was able to use my new Cricut cartridge: Dinosaur Tracks. I showed my husband the booklet and he picked out the dinosaurs he wanted me to use.

I hope you get into the spirit of National Reptile Day and enter our challenge. Head on over to Die Cuttin Diva's and link up.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

-Yvette

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Die Cuttin Diva's Challenge

If you are looking for the CELEBRATE THE OCCASION post click HERE

This week at Die Cuttin Diva's we have a sweet challenge for you!

In honor of National Dessert Day this week we want you to create a project with any type of dessert.

When I woke up this morning my husband told me that we had to be at a birthday party by 3pm. When I asked who's party and why I didn't know about it, he said, "Oops! I forgot to tell you they called last week." So off to my craft supplies to make a card and a notebook for the birthday girl I went.

The gift set.

I used my sweet treats Cricut Cartridge for the cake and plate.

the stamps are from Hero Arts. I also used my MS punch for the notebook.

The notebook is a dollar store find that I altered using the same paper from the card.

We hope you have been inspired for this challenge. We would love to see your projects over at DCD and hear some feedback on all of our blogs.

Thanks for visiting!

-Yvette

Celebrate the Occasion!

This week at Celebrate the Occasion we have a color challenge for you.

Red, Black and White

I wanted to make a Halloween theme card and this is what I came up with:

"I vant to suck your blood!"

Since the vampire was cut in four layers I needed to add a 4th color, grey.

I found the perfect background paper that tied the whole theme together.

I also added googlie eyes to some of the dots on the background paper.

I had a lot of fun making this card. I hope you will join us over at CTO.

Thanks for stopping by.

-Yvette

Monday, October 10, 2011

Trendy Twine Challenge #2

If you are looking for the Critter Sketch challenge click HERE

Trendy Twine Challenge #2

-Use a Pumpkin or Jack-o-lantern & some sort of twine on your card or project.-

Challenge will run from October 4th- October 27th.

I have wanted to crochet a pumpkin for a while now, but I could never find a pattern that I liked.

So I picked up my embroidery floss and started experimenting.

I think it turned out pretty well.

When I read the requirements for the Trendy Twine challenge I was excited to be able to use this little pumpkin. I decided to make Pumpkin Pie.

I used a crochet pattern from the internet for the leaves.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

-Yvette

Recipe card! and My 1st post for Critter Sketch!

I am so excited to be a part of the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog design team.

We have a recipe challenge for you this week: one image, four buttons, and the color purple.

The card I made for this challenge is for our very own Melanie.

As we were all getting to know each other and preparing for the new term, Melanie announced that she was going on her honeymoon. I thought it would be fun to have the first card I use for Critter Sketch be a wedding card for Melanie. So here it is:

The buttons are purple. I don't know why in the photo they look blue.

This is the inside of the card. Both stamps were dollar finds from Michael's.

Now it's your turn to go on over to CSCB and show us your recipe cards/projects.

Thanks for visiting!

-Yvette

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Haunted Halloween Blog Hop LAST DAY!

Today is the last day of our Haunted Halloween hop. We hope you have had fun hopping from one Design Team member's blog to another, enjoying many fantastic cards, pages, tags, and assorted projects. Today we will reveal additional projects, so be sure to hop along. If you have had fun, then come join us November 1-4 as we showcase Christmas projects. Paper Primper is the sponsor of this hop.

So, let’s get started.

Paper Primper is the start of the hop. Follow along with us to:

Kassi http://kassicreations.blogspot.com
Tammy http://tammysmakingmemories.blogspot.com
Audrey http://www.paperartbyaudrey.com
Diana http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com
Patty http://creativediva98.blogspot.com
Giselle http://yuveriaseden.blogspot.com
Yvette http://cre8tivegirls.blogspot.com *YOU ARE HERE*
Kacee http://youhadmeatscrap.blogspot.com
Jessica http://paperdeckerations.blogspot.com
Suzanne http://suzannerosberryartfortheheart.com/blog.html

You should be arriving at the blog hop from Giselle http://yuveriaseden.blogspot.com.

If you came here by chance, go to Paper Primper to start. If you are ready to go to the next site, go here Kacee http://youhadmeatscrap.blogspot.com.

Here is my project from day 2:

For the last day I decided to make an altered project.

I took the scraps from my banner and decorated this coffin.

I purchased this coffin at Michael's. there were three coffins nested together for only $3.99. With my 40% off coupon I only paid $2.40!!! I am going to work on the other two coffins next week.

I used the Happy Hauntings Cricut Cartridge for the skeleton. I might even get around to decorating the inside of each coffin.

See you next month!

Thanks for visiting!

-Yvette

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Haunted Halloween Blog Hop!

Good morning everyone and welcome to Day 3 of the Haunted Halloween blog hop for Paper Primper.
All of the Honey bee DT members have been hard at work for the last couple of days and have cre8ted some great projects. Don't forget to leave them plenty of comment love.
If you haven't seen the blogs from day 1 or day 2 they are listed below.

Here is the line up for the hop:
Day 1:
Kassi http://kassicreations.blogspot.com
Tammy http://tammysmakingmemories.blogspot.com
Audrey http://www.paperartbyaudrey.com

Day 2:
Diana http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com
Patty http://creativediva98.blogspot.com
Giselle http://yuveriaseden.blogspot.com
Yvette http://cre8tivegirls.blogspot.com

Day 3:TODAY!!!
Kacee http://youhadmeatscrap.blogspot.com
Jessica http://paperdeckerations.blogspot.com
Suzanne http://suzannerosberryartfortheheart.com/blog.html

Day 4:
All designers will be showing their work. Have fun!

Come back tomorrow, the last day, and see what I have for you.

-Yvette

Celebrate the Occasion

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.
and over at Celebrate the Occasion they are showing their support.

Having lost my mother when I was 7 years old to this disease. I hope that in my lifetime we make even more progress to finding a cure. So for all people out there, guys included, you have my support!

The tickets were a freebie last year, I just love all of the different sayings.

Here is a close up of the details.

I also decorated the inside of the card.

Don't forget to check out all of the Pink going on over at CTO.

I know all of the designers would love to have comments from all of you.

Thanks for your support!

-Yvette

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Haunted Halloween Blog Hop!!!

If you are looking for the Die Cuttin Diva's Challenge click HERE.

Welcome to Day 2 of the Haunted Halloween Blog Hop.

Please stay with me for this is a long post. The banner that I made was too long to fit in one picture. There are many pictures for you to be able to see all of the details.

Mistyrose sent us all of the Halloween DP and asked us to be cre8tive. This is what I made:

Since the banner is so long I decided to take a picture of three or four of the panels in order for you to see them better. I used the Base Campand Cricut Essentials Cricut Cartridges, floss, brads, all kinds of ribbon, googlie eyes, rhinestones, and the Happy Hauntings Cricut Cartridge.

This is a close up of two of the portraits Frankenstein and his Bride.

I wanted this banner to fold up and look like a book when not out on display.

There is a lot of details that I would still love to add but I ran out of time. So by thursday I may have it completely finished. Don't forget to come back and check.

Here is the line up for the blog hop that started yesterday:

Day 1:
Kassi http://kassicreations.blogspot.com
Tammy http://tammysmakingmemories.blogspot.com
Audrey http://www.paperartbyaudrey.com

Day 2:
Diana http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com
Patty http://creativediva98.blogspot.com
Giselle http://yuveriaseden.blogspot.com
Yvette http://cre8tivegirls.blogspot.com

Day 3:
Kacee http://youhadmeatscrap.blogspot.com
Jessica http://paperdeckerations.blogspot.com
Suzanne http://suzannerosberryartfortheheart.com/blog.html

Day 4:
All designers will be showing their work. Have fun!

Thanks for sticking with me on this extremely long post. I would love to hear your comments, as would the other DT members. So have fun and share your thoughts.

-Yvette