In the Spotlight at Zombies and Toys

Creepy Glowbugg here.

I just wanted to toot my own horn here for a minute.

I have been featured today on one of my favorite blogs,

Zombies and Toys.

I am a huge fan of the zombie and I love toys!

What else is there?!

Please stop by Z&T today and check out my spotlight post,

along with all of the other gruesomely wonderful artisans

taking part in the Z&T Undead Bizarre.

There are prizes involved....

Victorian Steampunk Fusion

Have you heard about this yet?

                                               

I am so excited to see the full range of new, and very

compatible digi images from the creative minds of

Tiddly Inks and Make it Crafty!

You had me at Steampunk!

I think these new images will be a perfect compliment to my

"sTeaMpUNkinS".

I am seeing them on "Thank you for purchasing my art" cards.

I can't wait!!!!



For the Foodies

My creative prowess lies far from the confines of the kitchen,

but my husband is quite the BBQer.

He decided to make his own version of

"Baconalia" using pig and yard bird.

Those are giant chicken breasts wrapped in 

Apple-wood smoked bacon.

Yum!!!

Now we are trying to figure out how to do the same thing to 

some shrimp!!!  

Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Red, white, and whoooo?

I have got a busy weekend planned for the

holiday, and I just wanted to pop in real quick

to show you this adorable little card I made.

My brother in law's birthday falls on

Independence Day, (as does my Grandma's)

and I don't really have any 4th of July images to use for his cards.

Once I saw this little cutie I knew I had to have him!  

This image is from 2 Cute Rubber Stamps.

And he is, right? Just too cute!

2 Cute also has a challenge blog, and I'd like to enter this

card in their "Red, White, and Blue",challenge this week. 

Have a great holiday!!! 

And for my Canadian readers,

"Happy Canada Day"!



Etsy find: Covington Creations

As you know, I have an Etsy shoppe.

As you also may have deduced from my previous postings,

I like to shop.

I mainly love to shop on Etsy for unique, and strange, hand crafted items.

I recently had the immense pleasure of doing a little

"artisan trading" with the lovely and talented,

Michell Covington, of

Covington Creations on Etsy.

I have been stalking and admiring her clay art for some time

now and have been trying to decide which of her creations

I wanted to purchase when she listed,

"Mr. Creepers".

I immediately emailed Michell and told her

I must have Mr. Creepers.

After a bit of negotiating, and a handful of pumpkins,

he was all mine.

Thank you Michell!

Please stop by Michell's Etsy shoppe,

Covington Creations

and if you're as cool as me, you'll

want to own a piece of her amazing art.

Wicked Wednesday - HDH095 - From the Bone Pile

Happy Hump Day!

This week's Macabre Monday challenge at HDH, is
"From the Bone Pile",

which loosely translated, means use your scraps!

I have so many scraps I should chase a ball and wag my tail!

Really, I have  5 drawers of color separated scraps, plus a few

photo boxes full of Hallowe'en and neutral scraps.

Don't even get me started on my ribbon scraps.

Anyhoo, I always need little note cards to add in with

my Etsy orders, and I usually just make one on the spot

which just slows this little turtle's operation to a crawl.

I decided to make the most of this challenge and kill two

zombies with one bullet.

I always punch out more shapes than I need when using

my Spellbinders so I have a couple of SU stamp cases full of

pre-punched die cuts.

I had fun using the white embossing on the pumpkin,

and then just sponging the color on with a dauber for

effect. I used a scrap of killer digi paper from

Crafty Chaos Designs,

with spiders and flies and bloody

finger prints on it. Perfect!

I used a push pin to pull the orange Stickles

out from the spider's body to her legs.

Nice. 

These are for my "less glittery" customers.

More masculine and less shiny. 

I kept everything really simple as these are just

giveaway cards and I didn't want to spend too much

time on them. I tend to spend way too much time

fiddling around with my cards.

Note cards for Etsy orders - check!

Macabre Monday "From the Bone Pile" - check!

There is still plenty of time to play along with us

for this week's HDH challenge.

This week's sponsor is 

Scrap Your Scraps, who are offering a $15 voucher for their online store.

They have Copics and some incredible deals right now.

Really awesome deal on a Glue Glider Pro and refills!

Just sayin'.  

Ahhh, the life...

...of a leisurely crafter.

I have recently, "opened up my dance card",

and am like a kid in a candy store trying to decide which

neglected image I want to color first!

I recently acquired some new Sweet Pea images from one of 

their newer artists, Anna Marine. 

This is the "Pumpkin Queen".

Isn't she awesome?!

I wasn't really feelin' the all white background, and I was tired

of sponging the edges, so I opted for my new favorite background

technique, painting with Distress inks.

LOVE the effect it gives. Now I need more ink colors to work with.

I went very unconventional for this type of image, and used

some ivory MS Hallowe'en paper and some ivory May Arts webbed

ribbon. I used even more ivory for the fleurs and then threw in some

pops of purple with the little rose and the stick pin.

I attached a loverly, bat charm from my buddy, Catherine ({{hugs}})

and this beauty is done!

No rhyme, no reason. Just cause I wanted to make something

new and unscheduled.

Stay tuned, lots more to come!