Spooky

 Hello and welcome to my blog and a new month, October and you know what that means...........witches and goblins, bats and ghosts so for the month of October the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are helping you get some Spooky cards made, don't forget to read the updated rules on the main blog then add your creation to the gallery. Here is your invitation from Edna on our behalf.

Lee has outdone herself with this visual so we hope you will join the fun.

Here is my not very snarky offering, I had more plans but I haven't made the transition to crafting at home from the cottage and forgot the items I had planned on using but as you know every crafter does not have one idea she/he usually has many options so I found this cute Halloween cat set, coloured a couple (my markers came home) and decided this one looked a little more "Spookier", the sentiments are from the same set. First time using the 3D skull/web embossing folder, I'm already seeing more ideas for the folder.

Closer look at the EF and the Halloween cat.

I am adding this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the SoSS blog and see what the rest of the design team has made.

Halloween!!

 Welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and it's my great grandson's favourite time in fact his mom said I could make him Halloween cards all year. The prompt is to use the holiday for the theme or use Halloween colours orange, black, green, lime and/or purple, as you see mine is a super cute Halloween card using one of my House Mouse Halloween stamps. So when I saw the September 2024 Sheetload sketch I knew it was perfect. If you follow the full instructions it makes 12 mini slimline cards, I wanted to use up some 6 X 6 Halloween papers so I prepped for 3 but only managed to get one finished, be prepared to see the other 2 soon.

Now isn't Monica just adorable in her butterfly wings. One section on the front is folded back and glued down. I love this slimline design, find the link HERE

I added the Happy Halloween and shadow, this is a very quick and easy fold.

I put a circle where the sentiment will be when I print a suitable one from one of the "free' sites.

Well I couldn't resist a close up of Monica doesn't she make a cute butterly.

I am adding this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything Halloween Goes

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes optional theme "Fall"

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out SOS to see the scary inspiration the design team have created.

H is for Halloween *Pink is Optional

 Another new month another new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, Edna has gone overboard on her invitation to play along.

Kudos to Lee for the fabulous graphic.

As you see it is H is or Halloween *pink optional I usually make a pink Halloween card but I was just too excited with the snarky Halloween cat.

I have had all the components for the card but the background it seemed so daunting but with Saturday looming I needed to bite the bullet and git 'er done. I ink blended  spun sugar, villanous potion, uncharted mariner and black soot over a circle mask, bats are flat attached but the main image is elevated.

Picture to show the dimension.

The inside is finished with a computer generated verse and a scrap of patterned paper. (not sure I like it either, too late. lol)

I would like to add this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything Halloween

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the MAIN BLOG and see the fabulous Halloween inspiration the design team have made.

It's a Zombie Apocalypse

Where oh where has that last two weeks gone? I'm sure it was just yesterday I made  a non-snarky tag but The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and Edna a
re telling me it's a New Challenge.

Lee has outdone herself by creating a perfect Zombie out of our dear Edna. 

My Zombie card is not near as much of a winner as our theme badge, I went more for a cute Zombie.

I found a Zombie folder on my computer and this was one tat was in it and I don't know designer of it. I can't even begin to guess but maybe someone knows. Possibly Cute as a Button?  While looking in a ziplock bag of Halloween dies I found a couple of die cut pieces of fence, I must have used the gate for something, I added it just of an extra bit of interest to the design and because I can now add my card to the Snippits Playground challenge. The patterned paper is from a BoBunny Fright Delight paper pad. 

Closer look at the cute zombie and the fence die cuts.

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and a Happy Halloween die cut. I'm one ahead for October 31st.

I am entering this in:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything Goes as long as it's Halloween.

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out the Zombie cards the rest of the design team have created. 

It's Time for a NEW Challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!!!

 Time to gather your crafting supplies and enter the newest challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, and the challenge is.........

Edna is ready to be Wicked. Thanks Lee fore the awesome graphic.

And now on to my W is for  Wicked card.

The stamp I used is from Grapic Cat designs, coloured with spica glitter pens and a very lame attempt at staging LOL. Pattered paper is from DCWV the midnight spell matstack bought about 10 years ago at Winners. Enamel dots are from Dollar Tree, all layers are pieces of cardstock from Michaels.

Closer look at the card front.

I'm adding this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything goes as long as it's Halloween

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the wicked cards the rest of the TEAM have made. 

It's Halloween all Year Long.......

 There is a great challenge Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge and you can make and add Halloween cards all year and enter, if there are 50 entries there is a draw. Quite often I'm scrambling to get my Halloween cards made, it would be less stressful to make one  or two a month then when October arrives you are prepared and can mail the out of town ones early.  I was gifted this gorgeous Stampendous Halloween kitty witch and it's the first time I've inked her up. (NBUS)

The stamp is from Stampendous and it fits an A2 card I did add the spider (left over from another project)  I do need to work on the colouring of the kitty though. 

Closer look at the spider. I did elevate him a bit. 

I found a scrap of a blended background and die cut the Happy Halloween and added a vellum shadow diecut. along with a scrap of spider web.

I would like to add this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Chalenge ~~ November Anything Goes.

NBUS ~~ #32 November.

Thanks for stopping by today  and stay safe stay healthy. 

It's Pink Halloween....

 To honour breast cancer in October there are Pink challenges, Pink Halloween, Pink Christmas and Everything Pink. Since I was stamping, colouring and fussy cutting for A Tiny Card (ATC) challenge blog little pink butterfly Monica didn't quite make the fussy cutting part and I decided it would pair better with the other ATCs if she was wearing orange, of course I just couldn't let her sit in the damaged pile and was not putting her in the trash bucket either so I made another ATC for a couple of challenges. ATCs around the World is Pink Halloween and as always Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge lastly because I used that gate die for the first time it's NBUS time. 

Leftover bats and a pumpkin basket to go along with the super cute Monica in her butterfly costume. The gate comes in two pieces one side is attached to the gate so after gluing it down and trimming the leftover gate was glued to the other side. waste not want not. I'm sure the gate is atleast a year old and never been out of it's package. The sentiment is part of a large stamp from Kraftin' Kimmie stamps with many Halloween sayings, check them out here on my blog. 

Close up of Monica Mouse, she is so cute. 

I'm adding this to:

ATC ARound the World ~~ Pink Halloween

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ October Anything Halloween 

NBUS ~~ Challenge #31

Thanks for hanging out here today and checking what I've been doing. Now on to the Pink Christmas at the Jingle Belles. 

 

E is for Everything PINK at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

 Welcome to a new installment of the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and Edna's challenge.

E is for Everything PINK, well you can go Pink Halloween which honours Breast Cancer or Pink Christmas as well (note Jingle Belles is doing a Pink Halloween challenge) Then there is frilly froufrou pink, as long as it is PINK we want to see it.  Myself I decided to go with a very simple Pink Halloween, mainly as I was strapped for time and for some reason or other I used my brain power for Birthday cards that needed to get in the mail ASAP.

I was playing around with alcohol inks and photo paper for a Fall/Leaf project and as far as fall colours it was a fail but it looks great for the background of my Pink Halloween card. The spider web (is a NBUS never used before stuff) frame was cut once but the spider was cut three times and glued together, curled his legs and popped im up. I found the pink clitter scrap in the pink folder and thought perfect, I added a vellum shadow 

Closer look at the sentiment and how it sparkles.

See how the creepy spider is ready to spring when he spots a victim

Lastly there is no inside, mainly due to having to print one off on the computer and there just was not enough time in my day. Unfortuately I had no snark for the card either, here's hoping for better snarky days ahead. 

I'm entering this in:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything Halloween

NBUS Challenge #31 ~~ spider web frame and spider.

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything goes with Dies

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the MAIN BLOG and see the array of Pink masterpieces the rest of the design team have conjoured up. 

Happy Fall Y'all!!!

 Another two weeks has flown by and it's a NEW challenge at Shopping Our Stash, #41 Happy Fall Y'all!! create an Autumn thmed or a Holiday autumn themed card (thanksgiving/Halloween/thank you/Birthday) 

Autumn oolours are not my favourite but I can do Halloween using my favourite hallloween characters from House Mouse designs.

The haunted house, moon and bats are a die from Gina Marie dies. first time using it and I've had it over a year, because I wantd to use several images I decided to make a slimline card which we did last challenge ad it was trendy, Te background I did with distress oxide inks and layered it on a 3.5 X 8.5 100 pound black cardstock from Michaels. 

Now aren't these little guys cute in their candy corn costumes. 

And here is Maxwell in his Dracula costume

Found a new Challenge and it'a all about Halloween!!!

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~  Halloween Jumpstart.

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ ATG option of Fall.

Thanks for stopping by today and looking forward to seeing your Autumn themed cards on the blog. Don't forget to check out the projects the rest of the design team have made.