Boo Part 2

It's fall y'all!  But here in my little corner of the world it has been dreary.  The rainy season is here and that means not seeing the sun for weeks at a time.  BUT here in my craft room it is bright and sunny.  Time to share another BOO decoration with you.

The first BOO decoration went to my DIL's mom for her birthday.  Well, the kids wanted one also so here is what I came up with.  First off the lyrics...

~ Mix of Recollections and yucky paper in the shades I needed
~ ScrappyDew file Garden Gnomes 2013
~ ScrappyDew file Zombies 2013
~ ScrappyDew file Wizard 2013
~ Silhouette Tag Board
~ Various Inks for edging
~ Halloween paper from Paper Wishes
~ My new toy. a ATG by 3M

My DIL loves Zombies and my daughter loves garden gnomes.  So I put my thinking cap on and came up with zombie gnomes!!!  I took bits of the garden gnome file and using MTC resized the pieces to fit on the zombie shapes.  A little inking of the edges and here is what I came up with.

(sorry for the heavy pics)  Now here is the total completed project!

Many years ago, my kids found a rowen broom that was scented with cinnamon at of all places Trader Joes.  Strange Jana fact #1:  I collect witches and faeries and anything that fits in with this theme.  So a broom made out of Rowen fits right in!

Hope that you have enjoyed your visit today.  I just might have a couple more posts of Halloween projects before Sanhaim (last minute ones).  Then I will definitely be on to Christmas cards for the bazaar!

Until next week, Bright Blessings, Jana

Lantern Shaped Card

Tomorrow is my 46th birthday!!!!

I want to thank God for life, health, family and friends he had gave me a long this 46 years.

He has been my support in good times and bad times.

His hand has always been by my side.

To celebrate my birthday, I made a lantern shaped card with a lovely bear taken from ScrappyDew´s file "My Sunday Best"

Just take a closer look of all the lovely bear details.

Ebenezer

"Till now the Lord has helped us."

I Samuel 7:12

 
~Monica~

Just Spinning By!

Hey ya'll!  I have a very quick and cute Halloween card to share with you today.  I have just fell in love with spinner cards.  This is going to a friend who loves to get mail.  Not real fancy but loaded with fun.

Here are the lyrics~~

I used ScrappyDew's file called Spider Web.  It can be found in the vault. 

All the papers are Recollections

The spinner is made up of foam circles and 2 nickles.

Used the file created by Kreative Ken.  He has amazing ideas!

So here is what I came up with...

Isn't this spider just the cutest!

I'll write a short note later

Short sweet and to the point.  I might have one more Halloween project to share.  To tell ya the truth, I have already switched gears.  I am in full on christmas mode.  I am doing a bazaar the first weekend in December.  I decided to make sets of Christmas cards.  5 cards to each set.  I want to make 20 sets so that is 100 cards if my math is correct.  I have to get going on these.

So my friend, take care.  The rainy season is almost here and boy howdy am I ready.

Bright blessings, Jana

Fairy Happy Birthday

Tomorrow is Gabi´s -my sister- birthday, so I made this card for her.

By now you must now that I love fairies and the Fairy Doll Set from the Scrap Factory is one of my favorites files.

My Birthday Fairy recipe:

Body: no open toes

Hair Style: Ginger

Outfil: Fairy outfit 1

Accesories: Wings 5

For the last layer of my wings, due to the fine lines, I use vinyl instead of cardstock and works perfect.

Happy Birthday Gabi!!!!!

~Monica~

Brainy Treat Box

I was so flattered when Michelle invited me to be a guest designer for ScrappyDew a couple of weeks ago. I decided I wanted to continue the Halloween theme I've carried on the last weeks, so here it is. Brainie the Zombie.

Using the Zombies - 2013 pattern on my base box I covered all four sides. This is a different technique from what I've been doing, and it looks great (as you all know by now, I love dimensional stuff)

I  really wanted to give this box an apocalyptic feeling and decided the comic inking technique would do  the job.

Using distress inks on a watercolor brush to shade (Pumice Stone, Shabby Shutters  and Tea Dye) and an American Crafts 0.01 point precision pen I outlined all the cuts and added shadows. For highlights, as always, I used my Pilot choose white gel pen.

Finally, I topped the box with my own design of a bony hand, drawn with a Pilot V5 pen on the explore and colored with distress inks as well.

There's a lot of hand drawing here, but it also looks great without the inking. Scrappy Dew patterns rock! If you want to make this one go to the Scrappy Dew site and get this awesome pattern (comes with a zombie girl also).

~Omar~

Hay Ride

Layout using the Hay Ride 2014 file.

~Geri~

Up, Up and Happy Birthday

So here is the card in a box birthday card

The outside

side view one

side view two

The front of the card

Now for the lyrics~~~

Most of the paper is Recollections

Special paper used is : ColorBok Mirrored Paper, Fresh Linen and Nature

Spring Has Sprung file from ScrappyDew

Hot Air Bears file from ScrappyDew (can be found in the vault/freebies)

ColorBok Limited Edition Hot Air Stickers

I really like the way the flowers and the grass turned out using the mirrored paper.  I sure hope that she likes her mini doozie also.

Remember you can always email me or contact me on Rhapsody on Paper over in facebook land.  Would love to hear what you think!  Next week will be a couple of projects and a card for my daughters birthday.

Until then, bright blessings, Jana

70th Birthday

Tomorrow is my mom´s 70th birthday and I will celebrate her with this post.

She always take care of my daugther and son. 

She loves her grandchildren

I think my mom is the best!!!!

This card is to celebrate her 70th birthday.

"Sembrando amor" means "sowing love".

That´s what she has done all over her 70 years old.

To make this card I used "Sprinkled with love" another lovely ScrappyDew cut file.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

Happily Ever After

Let me tell you a story,,,

Back in March, I received a wedding invitation.  Now for me this is not an ordinary wedding invitation.  This is a BIG DRESS UP (wearing panty hose) type of wedding.  It's in the big city in a very prestigious church.  (gosh i feel like a country bumpkin)  So since this invitation is from a very good friend, I accepted.

In the last part of June, I found my dress.  (pics later)  Every once in a while I would get the dress out of the closet and make sure it still looked good on me. (still good there)  It's now 1 week before my daughter and I head out.  I have had the card in my minds eye for a while.  Time to get started.

Here are the lyrics:
I used the Wedding Day, Royalty Palz and Movie Night 2013 files from ScrappyDew.

DCWV Glitter Stack, Graphic45 Le Romantique series, Recollections card stock,
The Paper House Mulberry paper in eggplant and assorted rhinestones and pearls.

Now the weddings colors are eggplant and dark green.  The bride will be carrying a bouquet of fall colors.  (sure helps to have inside info)  The first wedding couple I made, the bride and groom are facing each other.  Groom in all black and bride in white. It looked horrid!!!  I fretted for a few hours and then it dawns on me.  Use the colors of the wedding and play it up big.  So here is the front of the card.  (oh, BTW the card is 7x6")

The groom is wearing the wedding colors and the bride's dress is embossed. The dress was cut out of white card stock.  I had some wide white ribbon and I covered the card stock.  Then used the bug to emboss the entire dress.   Remember those leaves I used for the Halloween doozie, that's what the bouquet is made of.

Here is a close-up of the faces and the bouquet.

Next, I wanted to make something unique and special for the inside of the card.  I don't think that a card is done unless the inside is as special as the outside.  So I decided that I could modify the Movie Night 2013 file.  I used the gallery from Make The Cut for a tag for the just married plaque.  The cans were the cylinder shape from MTC basic shapes.  A little bit of dark green ribbon and my car is complete.

Close up of the car

Now this card needed a very special envelope.  So I dug out my G45 paper and found a couple in an embrace.  It is from the Le Romantique collection.

So this is what I have been doing for the last week.  So tomorrow is the big day.  So you all get a special friday post of the blog.  

I hope to have pics to share of this fantastic event, must make sure to pack my camera!  (just hope that the shoes and my feet last, taking some other shoes just in case)

See ya next Saturday, Bright blessings, Jana

Christmas Cards - 2014

Well September is almost over and 

it´s time to start working on our Christmas Cards.

This week, I chose to use Mojo Monday 363 card sketch. 

Each Monday, Michelle My Belle, generously share with us free cutting files of each sketch.

You can find this one HERE

So, this is my Christmas version of this sketch

To embellish this card, I used ScrappyDew´s file "Reindeer Set 2", from The Vault.

For this one I used "Christmas Bears" also from The Vault.

You can read about "The Vault" benefits

HERE

A final look of both cards

Two ready, a lot to go :o)

Thank you for stopping by.
Monica

Halloween Mini Doozie

Hello everyone.  It's time for the mini doozie reveal!  So excited that you could join me today.  

So last week I revealed this...

She is such a cutie! For all of this mini doozie I have used ScrappyDew's Costume Kidz 2.  There were various papers used.  Mostly Recollections and then I bought a package of fall leaves from Joanns.  The Boo paper is by Hot off the Press and the tag board is by Silhouette.  I had the orange and black nylon net and the 1/4" orange ribbon just handing around in my storage rack.  Gosh what else can I tell you about this doozie....?   Not much I guess.  So my dear friends, HERE IN ALL IT'S GLORY IS THE MINI DOOZIE HALLOWEEN 2014.

The scarecrow is inked around all parts to show definition

What a cute ghost!

Now to show you them all together.

What do you think?

This project is all boxed up and is heading back east.  The package also includes a stunning birthday card for one special lady (will have a post on the card in a couple of weeks).  I have had a blast making this mini doozie.  It's really gotten me in the mood to make my Halloween cards for this year.  

Now next week I will be posting the blog on Friday.  The girls and I are traveling to a very special wedding on Saturday.  It's formal, i'm talking pantyhose ladies.  I have my outfit picked out and taking the girls shopping on Tuesday to get them all gussied up.  May have a few pics to share....just have to keep tuned to Rhapsody on Paper.

So until then, Bright blessings, Jana