Posts Tagged ‘toad’

It’s Toad-ally Time for Halloween!

Sunday, October 1st, 2017

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Hop on over to my Youtube page and watch my tutorial for this fun Toad in a Jar Halloween card.

-Heather

Potions Class

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

I envision this scene happening in Snape classroom at Hogwarts 🙂

The current challenge at Lawnscaping is to make your own pattern paper. I used three different Lawn Fawn sets for my card, the broom from Making Frosty Friends, the witches hat and top hat from Hats off to You and the frog (toad), stars, flames and wand from Critters Ever After. I made two pattern papers, the purple uses stars from the Critters Ever After set and the stone wall paper is made from the top hat from Hats Off to You. I used a post it note to mask off the bottom part of the hat and stamped the top half for my stones (see pics below). Everything is colored with colored pencils and blended with Gamsol. The cauldron die cut is from Silhouette.

Potions Class Card

hat stamp:
hat mask

with post it note mask:
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This card won a Top Mow It All spot in the challenge, yeah!!
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Go Look It Up

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

When I was little and asked my parents what something meant they always told me to “go look it up”, i.e in the dictionary, encyclopedia, etc. It’s not that they didn’t want to help me, they wanted me to learn to use the books and find the answers for myself. Maybe that’s why I now love old dictionaries? I remember mine was red, with little cut out half circles on the pages where the letters where, funny how things like that stick with you.

Here’s a few soldered pendants made with illustrations from a wonderful vintage dictionary from the early 20’s. I added black patina to all the soldering and the backs of the pieces are their definitions.

a really cool raven:

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a fat little toad ( I just love him!):

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and a lovely bird in flight:

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