Je m'appelle Creepy Glowbugg

Oui, oui! I'm feeling kinda European today, after I got all of my

French themed craft paraphernalia out to play with.

I have been wanting to play along with this month's challenges

over at Stampotique Designers Challenges, but the month has 

gotten away from me, again.  Now I have to make up for some

lost time.

After compiling my supplies, I felt that my dear old,

Kolassal, would best fit the French Flair theme.

Must have been the top hat. Or the bad teeth.

After coloring Kolassal with an aqua painter and TH Distress Inks,

I fussy cut her out, and added her on top of some distressed panels.

I used a harlequin and a fleur de lis stamp on the kraft base card.

I used the water brush to distress the Harlequin pattern and give it a

water colored look.   

 Lastly, I added the linen tag after Distressing it with inks.

I added a copper tag (distressed with Distress paint), some brads and 

some seam binding for the tag.

Voila! 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Stampotique Designers Challenges - French Flair

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Rhedd and Rosie's challenge blog - Anything Goes

Ruby's Rainbow - Layer it up 

City Crafter challenge blog - On the Road

Through the Craftroom Door- Anything Goes

Dilly Bean Brights

This week's challenge at Dilly Beans is bright colors.

I am actually a fan of bright, vibrant colors. I can do this.

I chose to use #395 Whimsy Trees.

I love these sweet little striped trunk trees. 

They remind me of cotton candy.

I decided to go with a clean and simple layout to keep the bright trees

and the ribbon as the main focus.

I added a bit of Stickles to the little hearts for some sparkle.

I couldn't help myself! 

I also just realized that I never posted last week's Dilly Beans "Distressed"

challenge ATC card that I made, using Zombie Girl w/Bow.

I really dig this color scheme. I may have over done the whole

distressed thing though. She looks a bit worked over.  

There is a fabulous Birthday sale going on right now over at the

Dilly Beans digi store. Buy 3 get 1 free, or buy 10 and get 10 free!! 

Sale ends August 20th.



So distressed... and some old Rat Fink

This week at HDH the challenge is to distress your project.

The sponsor for this challenge is

Smeared Ink 

and they have offered up a killer prize of a

$15 digi shopping spree to their shop!

Score!

I chose to work with this weird little candy corn monster 

from Smeared Ink.

He is so cute in a slobbery and chopped off head, kinda way.

I am in love with this guy. Or maybe it's just his little teefs.
I used some distressed paper from a random Hallowe'en
paper pack. Then, I added a distressed bit of the cover from a
TH Hallowe'en paper pack, and worked it over pretty good
 with a sanding block and the TH distressing tool.
I think I like using scissors better.
I added some cool webbed ribbon in green and black and even
snuck in that cool bug ribbon that I bought last season and
never managed to work into a project until now.

I still have another Smeared Ink project to fininsh up,
using one of their cool Death Cab images. Stay tuned.

You still have until Sunday at 5PM, CST to enter to win
a $15 digital shopping spree at Smeared Ink!!!


The three day weekend gave my husband time to clean up
his man cave (a.k.a. the garage), and he ran across a box of
goodies from my past.

I have always been a fan of Rat Fink and

Big Daddy Ed Roth's Kustom Monsters

 since the seventies.

This toy is from 1990 though. Not really vintage quite yet.

I even managed to keep the unused sticker card intact as well. 

I loved going into KayBee Toys and TRU, and hitting up the clearance

aisles. KayBee was always a good one for cool clearance items.

Some people just didn't know what was really cool back then.

Back in the olden days of the early 1990's.

When I die, my son is going to make his living off of

ebaying all of my cool shit.

Some of my schtuff is going to the grave with me though.

I have compiled a rather extensive list, with my original

Fischer Price stuffed Kermit the Frog from 1976, topping the list.

Still gonna be a greedy little miser even in death.