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Happy Friday crafty friends! It's time for another challenge over on the Aloha Friday Challenge Blog and this month's theme is Back to School and Books, perfectly fitting August's release from Artful Angel Stamps!  I used the girl from the You Rule set from Artful Angel and colored her up with alcohol markers. After I fussy cut her out I created my own faux binder paper with blue and red markers, a corner rounder punch and a border punch to make it look like it was pulled out of a notebook. I inked the corner with Wilted Violet and Faded Jeans Distress Oxides and splattered in with water to lift a bit of color. I wanted a little bit of texture and so I crunched it up with my hands and rolled up the inked corner. I then added a couple of staples, and sprinkled rhinestones, pearls and stars around. My sentiment is a die from ErinCreative.com (I think it's out of stock now but she's got a ton of awesome word dies.) Thanks so much for checking out my card today! Make s

 Hello crafty friends! September's progressive challenge over on the LeAnn's World Facebook Group features the super cute Trick or Treat Trudy and of course I colored her up to look like me!  I wanted to do a little something different though, so I made her hair white and sparkly! I think it came out spooky cute and I'd love to see how you create with Trick or Treat Trudy so jump over to the LeAnn's World Facebook Group to join in he fun!

 Hey hey crafts friends! It's time for a new challenge over on the LeAnn's World 101 Challenge Blog! As always it's an "Anything Goes Challenge" and I my brain is in full Fall Mode so of course I created a Halloween card! I used the Witchy Boy on the Moon image from the Halloween Party set and colored him up using alcohol markers. I'm over the moon 😉 with how my moon turned out! I used 3 different greys, choosing one with blue tones and went with a really splotchy, patchy and overlapping application. I made sure to go back and forth between the colors, really thinking about how I was building up my craters. Then it was on to create my card. I started with a standard side fold A2 card and cut the front panel diagonally. Then I took a second side fold card and cut in in half, using it as my  inside rectangle panel. After I had my bases, it was just about finding papers to compliment my image and adding little bits of detail with black, white, and sparkly gel p