Conjurer of Dreams: Witch Wisdom

 Hello

Today I'm sharing some projects I made using Conjurer of Dreams images. I hope you'll pop over to the store and take a look at the Digital Art on sale for collage, scrapbooks, journals, cards and more.

We have a new, open, worldwide challenge at the Conjurer of Dreams Blog.

The challenge theme is always 'Anything Goes', and this month's optional theme is 

'Witch Wisdom'.

We hope you'll share your projects with us.

We also have a friendly Facebook Group where we would love for you to share your Conjurer of Dream projects.

Here are my DT makes:

A mini book

with words from The Enchanted Forest;

Here are close ups of the individual book parts:

The front has a circular aperture showing the first page along with the title. The book ties with a distress oxide-dyed, crinkle ribbon. 

The pages are finger painted with PaperArtsy Fresco Chalk paints.

The back is left plain:

The first page features a Twilight Moon background and a Blackberry Witch. 

All the images in the mini book are from these 2 sets.

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The forest, moon and blackberries held by the witch are sparkly - Stickles glitter was applied.

The images were die cut to give a slightly distressed appearance and they were inked in black around the edges.

The book is bound with painted strips of paper attached to two pages, then the pages are glued back to back.

The poem was typed and printed. It was cut into strips and attached to each page.

I'd like to enter these challenges:

* Allsorts Challenge #800 AG 04/10

* Crafty Gals Corner Challenges Use Ribbon 08/11 TOP 3

* Pennys Challenges. #581 AG 08/10

* I Spy With My Little Eye Something Magical 13/10

Halloween Crafts All Year Round 19 31/10

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A treat box/bag:

For the front and back of the treat bag, I used 2 die cut dex card and cut off the disc binder part. They were then covered with background paper and decoupaged with images.

The background papers are from the Potion Notes.

I cut a second potion Notes and fussy cut the bottles and added them on foam for dimension. The lovely witch is from the set called Autumn Witch. She's also popped on foam with some dyed cheesecloth behind her.

The back of the bag is plain - just the Portion Note paper edged with Vintage Photo ink.

It's perfect for Halloween treats like these yummy chocolate eyeballs!

   

The sides, bottom and top of the bag are created from a single strip of black card, which was glued in place and cut to form a tuck down lid. The card was covered with distress oxide smooshed card to match the colour of the Potion Notes background.

I used my crop-a-dile to add eyelets to the sides and I made a twisted wire handle which was threaded through the eyelet holes.

I'd like to enter these challenges:

* Double D Challenges To Spook or Not 13/10

The Four Seasons Challenge Oct AG Fall 24/10

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge Oct AG 28/10

Unicorn Challenge Halloween 28/10

Paper Funday Challenges #70 Colours of Autumn 03/11

The Outlawz Challenges (Tuesday Colour) AG using selected colours 04/11

 I used yellow, orange and black

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Notecards:

Made using the Witch Characters and Witch Potion Armoire.

The witch Characters are .png clip art files, so I digitally added them to the armoire backgrounds then printed them out. 

I added stamping, in the form of spiders' webs and spiders on threads., and heat embossed them. 

They were added to black die cut mats (Lawn Fawn) which have silver embossed webs stamped upon them. Then they were matted onto purple card and placed on a blank white greeting card.

The sentiments were taped, printed and adhered.

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Halloween Diorama 

I had fun making this diorama from paper cut outs and dies.

The houses are not from Conjurer of Dreams, but the Witch Characters are and the cauldron and potion bottles are from Witch Quotes and Elements.

Here is the diorama from a different angle - the witch next door is saying hello and giving you a wave!

I'd like to enter these challenges:

* The Sisterhood of Crafters #25 Hello 06/10

If you Give a Crafter a Cookie #197 Boo! Eek! 31/10

The Outlaws Challenge - Twisted Thursday October Holidays & Colours 06/11 (no word 'hello', but witch next door is waving to say hello!)
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Digital Art:

I used Potion Notes and Witch Characters to make these fun pages:

Autumn Witch and a Spooky Mansion background

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Anything Goes (option Witch Wisdom) Challenge

 

A new Anything Goes, monthly challenge has started this month - it is open worldwide to all participants, using any digis, stamping, mixed media etc

Please hop over, become a Blog Follower and join the fun.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Santa Gift Bag

 

Hello.

At Lost Cost Portal to Creativity this week, the challenge is 'It's A Wrap' and with this in mind, I made a decorated gift bag using Gnome Santa in Chimney, a stamp I won in one of the recent challenges.

I made the panel for the gift bag and coloured and stamped some tissue paper to fit inside.

I stamped the Santa in Memento ink and coloured him using Copic markers. He was fussy cut with a thin white border and popped onto a stencil-stamped background which has some die-cut snow banks adhered.  I used white acrylic ink to add splatter as snow and die cut a banner for the sentiment.

I made a starry stamped background to mount the panel upon, using the Reverse Stars stamp from AALL & Create and a combination of Distress Oxides spritzed with water.

I made some matching tissue paper. I took some plain tissue paper and dabbed it into puddles of Distress Oxides and dried it thoroughly so that it could be stamped with the Santa in Chimney stamp. Whilst I had Oxides on my mat, I added some seam binding and made a pretty ribbon as well.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Aud Sentiments #288 AG 29/11

The Male Room #156 Gnomes 30/11

* Lost Coast #133 It's A Wrap 31/11

* CRAFT Challenge #619 Winter 31/11

* Creative Knockouts #429 Winter 01/12 WINNER

Addicted to Stamps #419 Any Occasion 10/12

The Holly and Ivy Challenge #106 AG Christmas 30/12

Romantic Gift Bag & Tag

Hello and welcome to my latest follower, Carla!

Today I made a tag and a bag which, I feel, have a lovely romantic theme.

I love the colour washed flowers and have included a link to the blog where I discovered this technique.

I won DT Favourite at Crafting From the Heart with this project!

and 3rd place at Crafting Musketeers

TAG: I die cut the largest tag from the X-Cut tag collection. I used Trim Craft 'Wildflower' paper for the background and inked the edges with Memento Rose Bud ink.

 

The images are from Gecko Galz's  'Pretty in Pink Jewels' collage sheet . The lady image was cut and left as a domino rectangle whilst the cherry blossom image was fussy cut. I mounted the lady image on foam pads to give some dimension and glued the blossom to overlap it.

Rosebud ribbon was adhered down the left hand side of the tag. I used a hand held punch to die cut two butterflies from pink and white glitter paper and stuck these together just in the centre, so that they were 3D. I made some flowers from die cuts, colour washed and shaped them, and added small ivory pearls to the centres. 

Colour washing has become my new favourite technique and I found it here on Kittie Kraft's blog. 

A 'Love' charm was adhered to the side of the main image.

Light pink organza ribbon was threaded through the tag. I made a bow and stuck this at the top along with a few short strands of pink pearls.

BAG: Really I only altered/decorated this bag, as it is a shop bought craft bag from The Works - they are sold in sets of 4.



 I cut a piece of the Wildflower paper to 3 inches by 4 inches and adhered this to the front of the bag. Rosebud ribbon was attached to the top and bottom edge. The image again is from Gecko Galz's 'Pretty in Pink Jewels' collage sheet. She was surrounded with pink pearls and die cut flowers which had been colour washed and shaped. A bow and pearl strands were added and a 3D butterfly. I wrapped doubled ribbon around the handle and added a butterfly made from two die cuts which were glued together back to back.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Unstampabelles Challenges Challenge 60 - Anything but a card


Gecko Galz Facebook Challenge August - Tag


Crafty Boots Challenges Anything but a Card

Crafting From The Heart #124 - AG


Altered Eclectics August Challenge

Crafters Cafe - Bling


Crafting Musketeers Challenge 40 _Anything but a Card


Lunagirl Moonbeams August - AG


Things To Alter August - AG

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