Zombified Farewell

Today, it's a new challenge at Stamp Insanity?! Today, we want to see you Trick Out Some Treats. That's right! Decorate a treat or treat container and play along with us at Stamp Insanity.

I admit, I messed up on my project this round. There had been a change in the schedule when we consolidated into one team, and I got all zigglyboo mixed up and did the wrong project for this round. Luckily for me, Beth was nice enough to let me use it anyway.

Before I show you my project, I wanted to announce, with a heavy heart, that this is my last project for Stamp Insanity. I have really enjoyed my time here and it has been a difficult decision to make. However, I feel in my heart that it is time to move on. I'm so honored to have had the opportunity to work with these fabulous ladies. Thank you so much Beth and Tanya for giving me the chance to be part of the team.

And now, on to my project. As I said before, I got mixed up somehow on what I was supposed to be doing, and I went with the "Zombiefy An Image" theme. I used two different papers from the Apothecary line by Echo Park. I distressed the edges of the checkerboard paper with my distressing tool, then distressed the edged with a distressing ink. After this was finished, I used a red Promarker to add what I hope looks like blood drippings to the white spaces on the checkerboard pattern. This layer is mounted with foam mounting tape to add dimension. I used the image Kassandra, from Stamp Insanity. She is colored with Promarkers and I "Zombiefied" her by adding some blood and stitches. Ive used black sheer ribbon with splatters of metallic silver. I used a black metallic flower where the two pieces of ribbon meet, and added foliage around it, punched with a martha Stewart branch punch. The image and the foliage pieces have had glitter and sparkle added with a clearstar gelly roll pen.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Spooky Fun at Creative Card Crew
Royal Digi Challenge #1 (Halloween) at The Scrapbooking Queen
Fall or Halloween at Fussy and Fancy
Challenge #31 Halloween at Craft Your Days Away
Challenge #134 You Choose at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #132 Halloween (Treats) at Cupcake Inspirations
GL27 Halloween at Gingerloft
Challenge #22 Halloween at The Sparkles Forum
Challenge #18 Halloween at Dream Valley Challenges
Free and Easy at Whoopsi Daisy
Something Spooky at Hooked on Crafts
Challenge #11 Halloween at Paper Creations Ink
Halloween at Paper Pretties
Fall or Halloween at Crafty Boots
Spooky Halloween at The Poodles Parlour
Challenge #11 Flowers, Flowers, Flowers at The Emerald Faerie Garden
Challenge #135 Flying Things (Flying Witch) at Corrosive
Challenge #20 Use Flowers or Felt at Heart Song Inspirations
Fall Or Halloween at One Crazy Stamper
Challenge #53 No Sentiments Allowed at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #18 Color Pick (Black, White and Green) at House of Gilli)
Repeat Impressions DCC1012 Designer’s Choice Challenge
Challenge #56 Layer It Up at Top Tip Tuesday
Taking To The Skies (Flying Witch) at Try It On Tuesday
Let's Get Gothic at Stamp-N-Doodle
Spooky Hues at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #133 Halloween at Digital Tuesday
PTT#38 Spooky at Party Time Tuesdays
IIC#29 Trick Or Treat: Halloween Spooky at Inky Impressions
Challenge #67 Halloween at Papercraft Star
Challenge #19 Halloween at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #12 Halloween at Crafting For All Seasons
Challenge #27 Distress Your Edges at Creatalicious
Challenge #42 Use Black at Paper Play Challenge
Challenge #95 Halloween at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #42 Halloween at Crop Stop

Naughty Or Nice? Santa's Watching!

Are you ready for a fun new challenge at Stamp Insanity?!

This fortnight, we have an ABC challenge! What is an ABC challenge, you ask? It's Anything But A Card! These are so fun because it gives us a chance to do other things! Make tags, treat bags, or alter an item! So many fun possibilities! And the holidays are fast approaching, so you can even get a head start on those handmade gifts!

Come and show us how you do your ABC's at Stamp Insanity!

I found this locker sized corkboard in the dollar bin at Target and figured I could do something with it. I've had it for a few months, just sitting here, still in the package. I had no clue what I was going to do with it. And then this challenge came up, and I instantly thought of this lonely little corkboard just screaming for attention! I felt bad for it, so I decided to unwrap it and play with it! LOL

I tied some fun Christmas ribbon (From my stash) around the top of the corkboard. Then made a naughty and nice list and attached them to the board. The sentiment and image from from the Naughty or Nice set from Stamp Insanity. The adorable santa dressed Morgan is colored with Promarkers. I added Glitter and sparkle to her with a clearstar gelly roll pen, then attached her and the Naughty or Nice sentiment with foam mounting tape. The bulb and Christmas tree embellishments are brads from my stash.

This board is going to be fun to hang up for Christmas! Are you naughty or nice?! Come play along with us at Stamp Insanity to get yourself on the "Nice" list, for Christmas!


I am entering this project in the following Challenges:


Challenge #26 Anything Goes at Creatalicious
Challenge #77 Hats Off at Raise The Bar
Challenge #94 Book Or Movie Title (Movie - Bad Santa) at Pixie Dust Studio
Brads at The Poodles Parlour
Fussy Ctting at Frosted Designs
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Crafts 4 Eternity
Challenge #17 Too Early For Christmas? at Cardmad Fairy's
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #56 Totally Gorjuss/Pretty Girls at Crafty Emma's
Anything But A Card at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Challenge #82 Use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #21 Something Sparkly at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #79 Anything Goes with Ribbon at Craft Your Passion
Challenge #46 Anything Goes at Woodware USA
Challenge #9 Anything But A Card at Hooked On Crafts
Challenge #138 Create A Crafty Decoration at Crafty Creations
Challenge #78 Fabulous Fun + Any Other F Word (Fir Tree Brads) at Cooking It Up With Katie
Week #120 Alter Something That Is Not Square (Mine has rounded corners) at Passion For Promarkers
Make it Dimensional at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #94 Anything But A Card at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #123 Bright Colors at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #18 Anything Goes at Heartsong Inspirations

Bat Wings?! Yummy!

Stamp Insanity has a new challenge for you, today! A fun photo inspiration is waiting for you over at Stamp Insanity! Come on over and play along with us!

My project today uses this fun cluster of bats, from Stamp Insanity's Halloween Henry set. I sponged the background of the image in orange ink. I found this cool purple tye dyed paper in my stash, as well as a small scrap of Halloween paper. The skeleton and sign are stickers from Echo Park's Apothecary collection. The border is punched with a punch by Fiskars. Green checkered ribbon is from my stash.



I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #62 Fall (Halloween) at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Challenge #76 Autumn Colors (Halloween colors) at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Fall Into Fall (Halloween) at The Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #18 Things With Wings at Little Miss Muffet
Challenge #68 Halloween at Sew Many Challenges
Challenge #61 Snips, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails at Prairie Fairy
Challenge #17 Lots of Layers at Cardmad Fairy's
Challenge #7 Halloween at Floweret
Challenge #19 Anything But Square at Cards For Men
Challenge #26 Anything Goes at Creatalicious
Let's Create A Scene at Catch The Bug
Punches at Card Makin' Mamas
Shaped Card at Magic In The Air/Paper Cupcakes
Challenge #98 Nothing Square About Me at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #129 Just Sayin' at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #80 Punch It at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #32 Autumn at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Creature Comforts at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #38 Colors of Fall at Pile It On
Challenge #16 Orange Or Buttons at Heartsong Inspirations
Challenge #129 Anything Goes at Stamp With Fun
CCH#75 Men Only at The Crazy Challenge
HDH107 Apalling Apothecary (Bat Wings) at Haunted Design House
Things With Wings at Crafty Boots
Creature Comforts (Bats) at Papertake Weekly
To Die For at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #84 Include A Number at I Love Promarkers
PWC172 Fall at Paper Pretties
Things With Wings (Bat) at Crafty Boots
IIC25 Shaped Cards at Inky Impressions
Challenge #24 For Boys and Girls (boys) at My Mum's Craft Shop
Challenge #32 Anything Goes at The Paper Shelter
Fall Y'all (Halloween) at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #32 Autumn (Halloween)at Really Reasonable Ribbon

We're Doing It In Purple And Black

Here we are, again, with a new challenge at Stamp Insanity. We've combined into one wild and crazy ward, and challenges will now last for two weeks. That's more time for you to create and play along in each challenge! Whoo Hoo!

My project today uses the image, Morgan, from the Morgan's Spell set, by Stamp Insanity. She's colored with Promarkers. I'm using one of my favorite new supplies... A New Felt Die Cut Spiderweb. Isn't it Cool?! Two corners of the card are blinged up with black shiny gemstones.


I am entering this card in the following challenge:


Anything Goes at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #36 For A Girl at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #16 Favorite Embellishments (Die Cuts) at Craft Us Crazy
Challenge #91 What You Want at Fun With Shapes and More
Digi Days at Stamp Something
Challenge #28 Going Digital at Card Makin Mamas
Challenge #1 Fresh Start (New Felt Die Cut Spiderweb) at Delicious Doodles
Anything But Birthday at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #7 Halloween at Floweret
Challenge #127 The Sky's The Limit at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #78 Use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #126 Photo Inspiration (Color purple) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #36 B Is For... (Black, Bling) at Pile It On
Challenge #71 Girly Girls at I Did It Creations
Anything Goes at Crafty Boots
Challenge #42 Anything Goes at Woodware USA
Anything Goes at Stamp-n-Doodle
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #61 Photo Inspiration (Colors) at Penny's Paper Crafty
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Layer It Up at My Mum's Craft Shop
Bling It at Delightful Challenges
Halloween at Crafty Sentiments
Challenge #75 Circles at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challeng3 #36 Texture (Felt Spiderweb Die Cut) at Do You Stack Up
Spooky at Squiggles and Giggles

Under The Sea

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the Stamp Insanity blog hop! We appreciate your wonderful support and all those wonderful comments you left for us. Be sure you check out Stamp Insanity to see if you won any free digi's from the hop!

With that out of the way, I just had to tell you about today's new challenge at Stamp Insanity! This fortnight, its Anything Goes! Whoo Hoo! I know how much all of you love that challenge theme, and I must admit, it's one of my favorites, too! Be sure you come on over to Stamp Insanity and play along with us! We love to see your creations!


My card layout uses the sketches at Sketches By Carly and at Corrosive. I've used a purple and blue combo this time. It seemed perfect for this awesome Mermaid image. The image is by Stamp Insanity and is colored with Promarkers. Glitter and sparkle has been added to the image with a clearstar gelly roll pen. I got busy with the punches on this one, too! I used oval and scalloped oval punches by Stampin Up, and a corner punch by EK Success. I absolutely love this layout! It's one of my favorites! The colored crystal accents are Tear Drops by The Robin's Nest.


I'm entering this card in the following challenges:


HSC7 Pantone's Fall Colors at The Hotspot
Anything Goes at AI Factory
The Sea at By The Cute and Girly
Sketch #37 at Sketches By Carly
Challenge #129 Sketch at Corrosive
Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
CCH#80 Movies (The Little Mermaid) at The Crazy Challenge
Anything Goes at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #17 Bring On The Bling at Bearly Mine Designs
Challenge #60 Sparkly at Wags 'n Whiskers
GL22 Make It Sparkle at Gingerloft
Challenge #70 Scrap Happy at City Crafter
Anything Goes at Try It On Tuesday
Glitter It at Clear It Out
Challenge #72 Sparkles, Shine and Glitter at Meljen's Designs
Challenge #48 Blue at Scrapbook Sisters
Challenge #48 Blue or Blue Green at Crafts And Me
PCJ Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Paper Crafting Journey
Challenge #86 More Than One Diecut at Sassy Studio Designs
Anything Goes at Poodles Parlour
No Sentiments at Crafty Sentiments
A Tween Teen's Dream at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #15 Anything Goes at Craft Us Crazy
Challenge #166 Your Song Choice (Mermaid Song) at Rainbow Lady's
Time For Some Bling at Scrappy Frogs

Hop With Us At Stamp Insanity!

Whooo Hoo! Stamp Insanity is Having a Blog Hop! I Love love love blog hops, so I was very excited to hear we were having one! You Should have arrived here from Tina's Blog. If not, please return to the Stamp Insanity blog, to start at the begging of the hop.

The DT has been hard at work creating some lovely works of art for you to view as you hop along with us! (Maybe you'll win a prize, too, for hopping along!) We were asked to follow a particular sketch and add some flowers.

Here is my creation to show you, today, as you hop along:




I went with the yummy color combo of pink and brown, and used a digi and sentiment from Stamp Insanity. Of course, I used my trusty Promarkers to do the coloring.The flowers, ribbon, gems and pearls are all from my stash. I used clear gems for the flower centers, and accented the ribbon with 3 pink heart shaped pearls

Please be sure to comment on all the DT member's blogs along the way, for a chance to win a fun prize! The entire hop order is listed, below, should you get lost along the way.

Your next stop on the hop is Audrey. I'm sure she will have a fabulous creation to show you, so hop on over and leave her some love!

Thanks, in advance, to all of you for hopping along with us.

Remember, the complete list is below, in case you get off track and need to find your way back.

Happy Hopping!


Stamp Insanity
Tina
Samantha (you are here)
Audrey
Beth
Kelli
Alison
Jane
Kapree
Sugar
Susan



I am entering this card in the following challenges:

HSC7 Pantone's Fall Colors at The Hotspot
Anything Goes at AI Factory
Challenge #82 Flowers at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #64 Tic Tac Toe (Glitter, Stamp & Ribbon) at Alota Rubber Stamps
Round and Round The Garden (Flowers) at The Poodles Parlour
Challenge #17 One For The Girls at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #31 Flowers at Mami Doodles
Grow Your Own at Papertake Weekly
Best Foot Forward at Creative Card Crew
Your Favorite Embellishment (Flowers) at Jellypark Friends
Challenge #93 Round and Round (Gems for flower centers) at Totally Gorjuss

Stamp Insanity Is Having A Blog Hop! Join us on Aug 13 and Hop Along!

Have you heard?! Stamp Insanity! is having a blog hop! Whoo Hoo! Fun! Fun! Fun! (Can you tell I love blog hops?!)

We really hope you will join us at Stamp Insanity! on Aug 13 and hop along with us!

Remember, Aug 13! Be there!

Favorites of The Past

Hey Hey Hey! It's time for a new challenge at Stamp Insanity! We want to see your favorite challenge theme from our past challenges, this time! Whoo Hoo! How's that for a fun one! Any project that fits any of our past challenges, will work!

I've chosen to go with anything goes, for my challenge choice! Gotta love anything goes!

For my card today, I went with a love them. I've used this fabulous image and sentiment by Stamp Insanity. This little cutie is colored with Promarkers. The papers and polka dot ribbon are all from my stash.

You can get this awesome image and sentiment for your very own in the Stamp Insanity Store!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Photo Inspiration at Jellypark Friends
Challenge #62 Anything Goes at Sew Many Challenges
Week #114 Free and Easy at Allsorts
Challenge #145 Monochromatic at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #105 Monochromatic at Incy Wincy
Challenge #9 Monochromatic at Heartsong Inspirations
Challenge #29 Sizzling Summer at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #17 Monochromatic at My Mum's Craft Shop
Best Foot Forward at Creative Card Crew
Anything Goes at AI Factory
Anything Goes at Craft us Crazy
Challenge #84 Let's Get Sentimental at Sassy Studio Designs

Going Goth

Are you ready for some fun?! It's challenge time, again, at Stamp Insanity. We want to see you "Go Goth!" That's right, get funky and show your Goth side! Got not your style?! Oh c'mon and give it a try! We know you can do it, so get creating and come play along with us at Stamp Insanity.


For my card, I'm using an image from the Stamp Insanity Store. She is colored with Promarkers. I went with a black and white +1 theme, and added red. The DP is from my stash. I;ve added black lace from my stash, and a punched border using the Martha Stewart drippy goo punch. The punched border is accented by coloring with red Smooch ink. The sentiment is also from Stamp Insanity, and is punched using oval and scalloped oval punches by Stampin Up.


I'm entering this card in the following challenges:


Anything Goes at Lollipop Crafts
FF#86 Have A Ruby Kind Of Day at If The Shoe Fits, Scrap It
Week 112 Free and Easy at All Sorts
Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Challenge #16 Elegance and Lace at Sparkles Forum
Anything Goes at Clear It Out
Anything Goes at House of Gilli
Dream Color Combo (Black, white and red) at 365 Cards
Challenge #103 Black and White +1 at Incy Wincy
HDH098 Haunted Birthday Bash at Haunted Design House
PDCC91 Black and White With A Splash of Color (Red) at The Play Date Cafe
Challenge #45 Coloring at Sarah Hurley
Challenge #13 Anything Goes at Craft us Crazy
Layer It Up at AI Factory
PDCC91 Black and White With A Splash of Color (Red) at The Play Date Cafe

3-2-1 Recipe

Whoo Hooo! I'm so excited to announce that I'm now an official member of the Stamp Insanity DT!!!! I've been dying to spill the beans to everyone! It has been soooo hard to not tell everyone! Yay! I'm a Groovy Gurl!

Today is a new challenge at Stamp Insanity, too! This time it's a 3-2-1 Recipe challenge! We want to see your creations that follow this fun recipe:

3 buttons
2 (or more) patterned Papers
1 image

It's Ward 2's turn to show you some groovy eye candy, today, too! Come on over to Stamp Insanity and see what the Groovies from Ward 2 have to show you, and link up your 3-2-1 recipe project while you're there!

Ready, set, run over to Stamp Insanity and Show us your Insanity!

My card today was made especially for my friend, Eric, who lives in Florida. So it is inspired by Florida, summer and the beach. He's going to love it!

The sketches at Creatalicious and Inspirational Card Sketches were my layout inspirations. I've used three bright cheerful patterned papers, and a die cut lace doily. (Gottta love my spots and stripes!) All papers are scraps from my stash, as is the ribbon. The blue buttons are recycled from an old shirt I threw away when I cleaned the closet. If you look closely, you can see shimmer and sparkle on the doily - The doily is sprayed using Perfect Pearls shimmer spray. I love the look this spray gives and it's so much fun to play with. My image is by Stamp Insanity and is colored with Promarkers.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #23 Sketch at Creatalicious Challenges
Challenge #20 Layers at Iris' Spot
Bright and Blinding at Some Odd Girl
Challenge #44 Circle Frenzy at Sarah Hurley
Challenge #9 Photo Inspiration at Jay Gee's Nook
Anything Goes at Lollipop Crafts
Digi Day at Stamp Something
Challenge #57 Summertime (Relaxing at The Beach at Wags 'n Whiskers
Week #110 Free and Easy at All Sorts
Challenge #141 Here Comes Summer at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #69 Use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #27 Time To Relax at Pile It On
Challenge #9 Photo Inspiration at Jay Gee's Nook
Challenge #5 Spots and Stripes at Here Come The Boys
July Recipe (1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments: Buttons) at One Crazy Stamper
Challenge #74 On The Beach at The Crazy Challenge
Hot! Hot! Hot! at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #29 Frame It at Happileigh Scrappin'
Challenge #2 Favorite Color Combo (Yellow and Blue)at Little Darlings
HSC6 Time For A Vacation (Florida - Beach) at The Hot Spot
Challenge #5 Die Cuts And/Or Punches at Divas By Design
Challenge #27 Picnic/Summer Fun at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Day 128: Ad Inspired (Stripes and some colors from the ad. Bright and summery!) at 365 Cards
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #149 Use Shapes at Everybody Art
Your Pick (ICS112) at Inspirational Card Sketches
Challenge #77 Wet and Wild at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #21 Lots of Dots at The Paper Shelter
Summer at Scrap-Creations
Challenge #3 Cards at Deep Ocean
YNSC#46 Button Up at Your Next Stamp
Challenge #42 Favorite Image at Crafts And Me
Beach Theme at Whimsie Doodles
Challenge #10 Summer Scene at The Stamping Boutique
DDCC#120 Summer at Dutch Dare
Challenge #44 Just For You/Get Well/Just Because at Crafty Ann's
Summer Fun at Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #14 Spots or Stripes at Do It With Digi's
Anything Goes at MyGrafico