Poison or Potion - Tim Holtz Laboratorie Paper Collection

Well, I have been on a kick making book cards, so I thought I would pop on and share one more. I have The Tim Holtz Laboratorie paper stack and I thought it would be great fun to make a book card using that paper. I have this wonderful rubber stamp that was perfect for the front of the card.

What did I tell you, just perfect right?

The theme was Potion/Poison, but I threw in some spiders for fun.

I found this great spell on line. 

Here are those spiders I was telling you about. Just LOVE the eye on top. It is one of Tim Holt'z rub ons. He even has it in a rubber stamp.

I had to give a Poison warning of course.

I includuded an insert for the middle pocket so that a personal sentiment could be included.

Supplies I used:

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

• Amusing - Pocket Cards
• Addicted to Stamps - #89 Anything Goes
• Crafting At the Weekend   Anything Goes
• Just Some Lines  Anything Goes as long as it is Halloween
• Pumpkin spice - Harvest or Halloween
• Sunflower Fields Designs  Autumn/Halloween!!!
• Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge-   Halloween
• We Do Doobadoo Challenge-   Halloween!
• Simon Says - Anything goes

Celebrating 70

Good Morning and happy Monday! I wanted to share a very special card I made over the weekend. My Mother in Law is celebrating her 70th birthday today. She is the person that got me interested in card making several years ago and now it is hard to believe I probably have more toys that she does.

I have been experimenting with book cards, so thought this was a great opportunity to make one.

I wanted to make it a keepsake, with pull out cards that we could each write a little message on. The Pocket worked well to house those cards.

I used a combination of stamps, stickers and rub-ons to decorate the inside of the card. The date stamp is new, I just picked it up at Tuesday Morning yesterday. I have a feeling it will be getting a lot of use.

The paper itself was so decorative, I really did not need to add much to decorate the side flaps.

I made an extra side pocket to house a gift card.

It was a huge success!

This is a very simple design. It really is the embellishments that add to the card. I think the hardest part about putting this card together is getting the paper all the same size so that it matts perfectly on the card frame. I have purchased some 6" x 6" designer pads and am going to try those out. I figure these are pre cut, so they have to already all be the same size. I will be sure to let you know how it goes.

Hope you liked my project and MOM...hope you have a Very Happy Birthday!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

• Addicted to Stamps -   #89 Anything Goes



Cheery Lynn Designs  -  Challenge 155 Vintage
Eclectic Ellapu - PINK – Flowers - embellishments, background images, 
Fairytale Stampers -  #46 Something New
One Stitch At A Time - #222 Anything Goes with a Butterfly
Scribble and Scrap - #29 - 3 Entries Only Anything Goes

Halloween Book Card

Halloooo to all. I am excited to share with you a new project that I have been working on. As you may know, I have been doing a lot of traveling back and forth to Portland, which means a lot of down time at the airport. I have been watching You Tube tutorials, looking for new ideas and I found one I was very excited to try.

Surprisingly it only took me one try to get the dimensions correct, but I did have a great on line tutorial to follow. I didn't follow the tutorial exactly as that book card had more flaps, and I wanted to do a smaller version first. The overall book was very easy to create. I decided to go with a Halloween Spooky theme as I had just purchased some great Halloween designer paper and Tim Holtz Laboratorie collection that I knew would have some great paper to choose from.

Here is the front of the card. I think I will add ribbon on the next one to be able to close it. I kept the front pretty simple as I thought the paper was great and did not want to cover it too much. I did add a key to work as a knob to open up.

This is the left flap. I had a lot of fun decorating this card. I used Jolee's Boutique stickers that I purchased after Halloween last year for 75% off. Whoa...what a great deal right? I hope to do the same thing this year.

The skeleton is from the Tim Holtz paper stack collection.

When both the right and the left flap are open, this is what you see. It looks like an entrance to a spooky house to me. I thought the little pumpkin mans standing guard was a great addition.

On the inside flaps you can see that I put blank paper stock so that a hand written message can be added. I thought this might be a cute place for a picture....so many possibilities.

You open up the doors to a spider web. Pretty creepy right? Just like I hoped. I made a little pocket that I added a couple of spider tags, but one could also stick a gift card in there as well.

The tags were from the Tim Holtz collection, and went perfectly in my spider's cave.

So what do you think? Overall I am very pleased with the outcome. There are a few imperfections, but I expected that on my very first one. This is one I will keep for myself and continue to perfect. I have all sorts of ideas for this design, especially with the holidays quickly approaching.

As soon as I perfect it, I will put up a tutorial with all the dimensions, but wanted to at least give you a sneak peak. Isn't creating fun!

I would like to enter my design into the following challenges:

• Crafting At the Weekend - #5 Anything Goes + DT Call
• Hiding in my Craft Room -  #165 - Super Scraps Saturday!
• My Time to Craft -  HALLOWEEN
• Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge -   Anything Goes......
• Vandicrafts Artistry Challenge  - #8: All Hallows Eve
• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards -  No. 73 - (W2 of 2) - Vintage
• Fussy and Fancy -  No.122 - (W2 of 2) - More than one fold
• Polkadoodles -  No.36 -  Tag, you're it! (W2 of 2)
• Simply Create Too -  No.70 - (W1 of 2) - Fall/ Autumn
• A Step in the Dark -  dark theme req. - #10 Anything goes