August 2014 ~ Cupcake's Creations

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Hi there! I hope you had a great weekend! It's the start of Stamptember over at Simon Says Stamp and I really hope you'll join us for a month long stamp party full of inspiration and celebrations. It's time for an all new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week's challenge theme is: bold stamping. Make a statement with bright ink, a large stamp, or otherwise be bold in your stamping! Whether you take a big chance in your art journal...

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Mona Pendleton | Sunday, August 24, 2014 @ 9:01 PM | Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge , Tim Holtz , Wendy Vecchi

Hi there! I hope you had a great weekend! It's time for an all new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week's challenge theme is: "Witch ~ Kraft". We’re a bit early with this one, but the word play combined with getting a jump on fall decor and a new color palette has us eager! Team member Sandra dreamed this one - in her words ”a challenge for Halloween. I love the word play, I love Kraft and I love Halloween.” What magic will you...

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Mona Pendleton | Saturday, August 23, 2014 @ 11:53 PM | Art Journal , MFT , Mixed Media , My Favorite Things , Prima , Ranger , Tim Holtz

Hi there! I hope you are having a great weekend! Scott and I made the road trip to the Los Angeles area to help move Connor into his college dorm room this weekend: while in the area, we visited THE Rose Bowl Stadium: and THE Prima Outlet Warehouse Store: I brought some of my crafting supplies on our trip and didn't touch them until tonight. I made an art journal page: I created the background using a variety of acrylic...

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Mona Pendleton | Sunday, August 17, 2014 @ 9:01 PM | Mixed Media , Ranger , Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge , Sizzix , Spellbinders , Tim Holtz

Hi there! I hope you had a great weekend! It's time for an all new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week's challenge theme is: Anything Goes! I was inspired to get inky and create a mixed media greeting card: Creating mixed media greeting cards isn't something I do regularly so I challenged myself to do just that. I created lots of texture on the background using texture paste along with the Latticework stencil. I had fun...

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Mona Pendleton | Saturday, August 16, 2014 @ 8:24 PM | Art Journal , Mixed Media , Pion Design

Hi there! I hope you are having an awesome weekend! Angie and I had some girl time last night and we both made a project to share. First up is a hanging that Angie made using beautiful Pion Design patterned papers from the A Day in May collection: As you can see, Angie and I have very similar taste especially when it comes to shabby / vintage beautiful things! Angie layered various papers, stitched around the pretty image and hand stitched the...

merry christmas 31

Mona Pendleton | Friday, August 15, 2014 @ 8:55 AM | Days of Winter , Pion Design , Simon Says Stamp Exclusive dies , Sizzix , Spellbinders , Tim Holtz

Hi there! Any big weekend plans? Not much planned here, just some R & R and hopefully some crafting ;) Today I have a couple Christmas cards to share featuring pretty papers from the Pion Design Days of Winter collection ~ a pink and a blue version. First up is the pink version: I die cut beautiful papers from 6 x 6" Days of Winter papers using Spellbinders dies then matted on top of a layer that was stamped / heat embossed using Tim Holtz...