Golden Goddess Designs: August 2025

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

On Wednesday's we wear black... Hero Arts Paper Doll

The wait is finally over and on Wednesday's we wear black!!! I own ALL the Hero Arts Lifestyle dies series, they are basically paper doll pieces that came in several themed sets. If you are a follower of my blog, you will know how much I love paper piecing. So this die set is one of my absolute favorites. I have only used it once. I made paper dolls of my besties that was over two years ago! I never even posted them. My Wednesday was of course created in anticipation of today. It's taken way to long to get a second season of this show.

I used hair from two different sets to create her look. I colored the face stamp with ink pens to get lip and eye color different.

The boots are from the Victorian Lady die set. Most of Wednesday's dress is from the Trick or Treat set but the boots in that set were a bit too "witchy". I cut the collar in two and manipulated the pieces a bit to create the cuffs. I cut the legs in black to create the tights.

Ingredients:

Hero Arts Fancy dies Lifestyle Forms

Hero Arts Fancy dies Lifestyle Trick or Treat

Hero Arts Fancy dies Lifestyle Victorian Lady

Hero Arts Hero Lifestyle Faces stamps

Kindred Stamps Gothic Vibes 6x6 paper pad

Kindred Stamps Spooky Family sentiment stamp

Sizzix Circle Nesting dies

Momenta Tuxedo Black ink

misc papers and card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2025/08/neglected-stuff-825-challenge.html until 8.25

hero arts dies-2 years

sizzix circle die-long time...I usually reach for Spellbinders but these were closer

https://craftingacutabove.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-challenge-time.html until 8.28

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-anything-goes-woptional.html until 8.31

https://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/08/challenge-222-ag-polka-dots-andor.html until 8.31

https://paper-rocks-scissors.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-7-challenge.html until 8.31

used paper and scissors to manipulate die cuts

Thanks for stopping by.

Leave a comment below letting me know if you have been waiting for this day for a long time.

Alicia

Monday, August 4, 2025

Barks Marvin Masculine Dog card: Grrrrrrrrrr

Hello all! I have been playing with this new to me stamp set. I purchased it recently at a creative reuse store, Scrap it up. The stamp set from Stampers Anonymous is called Barks Marvin the Crime Solving Dog. I was ecstatic to score such a great set of just a few dollars. I pulled out some premade backgrounds and started stamping away with this new set. I created several cards. This was my husband's favorite.

Since it was my husband's favorite, I figured it was the most masculine of the bunch, but they are are truly masculine cards.

My husband did note this image isn't as clear as some of the others which were stamped and embossed with pretty much the same ingredients. I believe it is the kraft paper. These images were also pretty large. I put this on a 5x7" card.