I'VE MOVED!!!!

Hello all of my friends! I am so SO sorry I haven't been here. So much going on. I now have a new blog, please come visit me there to hear my long story!!

DANIELLA HAYES LAYERS OF CREATIVITY

I want to invite you all to join me there, I miss you all!!

I really hope to see you there very soon!!!

HOW THE HECK ARE YA????

Hello! Has everyone recovered from "31 Days of Halloween?". I hope you have! I can't wait to see what you've been up to! Terra has the stats, and the grand prize winner on her blog. Insane amount of people played, and crazy big numbers of posts, or comments. Go check it out!

I finally started the workshop that I am taking. It is at "Marit's Scrapworld". I signed up for it months ago, but when it started at the end of October, I was so involved with "31 Days", that I got behind!! SO, I have been playing catch up. Crazy. The workshop is called "mixed emotions". It is about art journaling your deep feelings. I LOVE Marit's work. She is an amazing art journaler. Check out her blog, she has a gallery too. AMAZING! AND, she is teaching this workshop with another amazing art journaler Michelle. Check her out here!

Before I show you my art journal pages, I wanted to share this card I made for Marit. It is her birthday card! I tried to make her proud with my collage work. I made the background from alcohol inks and a swirl stamp. I then collaged various images from random ephemera, clip art and items from one of the Saturday Evening Posts I got from the "junque" store a few months ago. The "Happy Royal To You", was an advertisement for a typewrite, and it was supposed to be to the tune of happy birthday. It was perfect! The pin up image is another advertisement too!!



What do you think?


This is one of the pages I've made for Marit's workshop. This prompt was "loneliness", and the technique to try was gel medium transfers. As soon as I saw the prompt, I couldn't stop thinking of the song "Eleanor Rigby" by the Beatles.
"All the lonely people....". SO, I was going to try to find a pic of me, and I saw this picture of Small. He is just lying on the couch, and I snapped a pic. He looks so lonely! I don't know why, but he does, so I used his picture for my gel transfer, and wrote the lyrics to that Beatles song on the page. I think the page really reflects "loneliness". I love this workshop!




Last, this is my first page from Marit's Workshop. The prompt was "Courage". And to cover your journaling with paint, as in the word courage on my page. But, I felt that too much of my journaling was able to be seen, and it is quite personal. SO, great idea! Cover the writing with dress pattern paper! It's tissue paper that is brown in color, with pattern, words, and numbers all around it (i'm sure you've seen this before!). It gave my page privacy and more texture too. Sweet!



So, this is what I've been up to since "31 Days of Halloween" ended! I hope you have found a way to stay creative! Have a fantastic day!!

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 31

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT IS THE LAST DAY? WE MADE IT! And I wouldn't have wanted to do this with anyone else but you!!! Thank you so much for visiting me every day, and leaving such sweet comments! You gave me the desire to go the whole 9 yards! And for all you Wicked Bloggers, you gave me the inspiration to keep creating! This whole experience has been amazing! Thank you to Terra and Kelli for starting this crazy awesome ride!!!

So! Since tomorrow is traditionally the "Day of the Dead" celebration (so I've read), I figured an ATC with pretty Sugar Skulls would be perfect!



Ingredients:

7 Gypsies Lined blank
7 Gypsies Paper
Bombshell Stamps Sugar Skulls stamp set
Color Box inks
Sakura Puffy Paint Pens
Prima Flowers
American Crafts Ribbon
Misc. Brads

And, I've added all the Wicked Bloggers, and Horrifying Hoppers to my favorites, so I can keep visiting you! All of you are so awesome!!

Thank you for visiting! Have a very Happy and safe Halloween!!!

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 30

Hello! And thanks for visiting my blog today!! I have an ATC, as usual. I call this "Simple Creepy". I might trademark that! It is simple, because the inking and stamping is not complex, and the embellishments are already made. How easy is that? And, it still has that creepy Halloween type thing goin' on!



Ingredients:
7 Gypsies Specimen card
Ranger Distress Ink Black Soot
Recollections Web
Smeared Ink Killer Bo Peep spider stamp
Web Ribbon from Michaels

Thanks for visiting! See you tomorrow, for our final day of 31 Days! *tear*

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 29

ok! How's everybody today?!?! I hope awesome!

This ATC is so complex, but so easy! It has many layers of ink, and stamps. And, this picture doesn't seem blurry!



Ingredients:
7 Gypsies Observation blank
Color Box Inks is many shades of orange and gold
Holy City Metal Fence stamp and Raven stamp
Prima Flowers
Stickles

Thanks for looking. Enjoy your day!!

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 28

Seriously? Is this blurry? ugh.

We have a fabulous sponsor today!! Tiddly Inks!! They are a really fun company, and you can win an awesome prize too!! Go to Kelli's blog for details!!

ATC number 28! I've almost made it!! SOOOO close! This is another collage type card. Very fun to make.



Ingredients:
7 Gypsies ledger blank
Hero Arts Wood Circle stamp
7 gypsies tiny paper scrap
Gauche Alchemy image from their "Nevermore" collage sheet
Daisy D's stitches
Prima flower

Thanks ever so much for visiting!!

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 27

Is it just me, or is my image blurry? When I edited the pics, they all looked blurry. But, I (we) have been doing this for 27 days straight! I think my eyes need a break from the computer! But, here's my ATC anyway. Possibly blurry?

This one uses two of my many ghost stamps (as you have seen I have many of them). But, the thing I really love is how the glimmer mist almost looks like a ghost in front of the ATC! Really wicked awesome, I think.



Ingredients:
7 Gypsies ATC base
Color Box Inks in many colors
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
Plaid Enterprises Ghost
Close to my Heart small Ghost, Happy Haunting set

Remember to check out all the Wicked Blogs on my side bar. They have fabulous stuff for you to see. A visual delight!!

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 26

We are down to the wire!! 31 Days of Halloween is almost over!! It has gone by soo fast. I hope to continue to see your awesome work, and receive your awesome comments! I feel like we've climbed a mountain together. You are all fabulous!

We have a sponsor today!! Strange Skin is offering a prize! They are AMAZING! Check out their site for fabulous digi's!!!

Before I show you my ATC, I have to show you my Smeared Ink Card. I used the "Lonely Boy and Puff" set. I got these papers from Anna Griffen, who I think is awesome. She says her crafting is "elegant", and I totally agree. SO, while I have a bunch of gorgeous paper from her, I decided to use a couple of very busy patterns, and use them together with some border tape, and a weird sort of flower that I made. I wanted this card to be as outrageous as Lonley Boy. Then I put spiders all over the place. Puff is a spider, so I put a "real" spider over his stamped image. Hope you like it.




And here is my ATC. I am going to make it!! 31 ATC's!!




Ingredients:
Bombshell Stamps Sugar Skulls stamp
Ranger distress ink Vintage Photo
Copic markers
Stickles Orange, Black and Green

See you tomorrow!!

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 25

EEK!! I love this one!! This is soooo cool! I inked my background all up until my paper was "wet" feeling. Then, I inked up this foam head stone stamp with Ranger Distress Ink, and THEN, I sprayed water on the foam stamp! So when I stamped it, it came out with a ghost like appearance!! I am so excited about how this came out!!



Ingredients:
7 Gypsies Tag
ColorBox Inks
Ranger Distress Ink Black Soot
Headstone Stamp Plaid Enterprises

Thanks for visiting!

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 24

We have another sponsor today! The fabulous Tiddly Inks! Make sure you find the hidden clue, by hopping through all the Wicked Blogs!!

Here I go again! A Day of the Dead ATC with the addition of dots! Can't help it! I feel that they go so well with DOTD cards. I used my Souffle pens again. I also used them to color the flowers in the eyes. Gives so much dimension!



Ingredients:
Bombshell Stamps "Sugar Skulls" stamp set
StazOn Black Ink
Ranger Distress Ink Vintage Photo
Sakura Souffle 3-D Markers
Copic markers

See you tomorrow!

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 23

HI!

Another ATC for you today! I love this one! Smeared Ink's Holy City set is soo awesome! The addition of book paper and a skull charm, that I made, are perfect touches for this.



Ingredients:
Random Book Paper
7 Gypsies patterned paper
"Holy City" Stamp Set from Smeared Ink
? Skull stamp
Random Rope
Ranger Distress Ink Vintage Photo
Daisy D's rub on

Thanks for looking!

xxDanielle

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 22

Hello Again!

Today, we have another sponsor! Stamp Insanity! Be sure to keep your eyes open while hopping to find a clue!

Todays ATC uses my Chandelier stamp again! And some random beads from a necklace and bracelet set I got in the Dollar Store. Of course, after I'd taken the picture, I realized the beads were not quite where I'd imagined. But, you get the idea. I wanted them to look like they were hanging from the top of the changelier. Ok, maybe it looked better in my head.



Ingredients:
Multiple ColorBox inks
Ranger Distress Ink Vintage Photo
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Walnut Gold
Inkadinkado Chandelier Stamp
Recollections Dimensional Stickers spider
Misc. Orange beads.

Have a fabulous day!

xxDanielle