Black Cats

 When Witches go riding you know it's near Halloween and the crew at Shopping Our Stash is inviting you to join in the Hslloween fun for challenge #584  Black Cats so include a black car or any other black Halloween icon ie Spiders, Bats or a Witch. I have lots of cat stamps and dies but I wanted to make a spider web/spider card for my great grandson who is very fond of all that creepy stuff.

I made the background with 3 shades of distress oxide inks the spider web is a cover plate die it comes with the spider as well and I have had it for many years, I added some glitter to the spider's body an he is on a spinner, I have a video but have no clue how to attach it even if I knew where to find it on my very antient computer. 

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The inside is finished with a scrap of inked cardstock one of my newer (still over 3 years) die cut sentiments. I added spider as well. 

I'm adding this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ anything Halloween

Thanks for stopping by today I'm looking forward to seeing your projects featuring a black cat or other black Halloween icons in our gallery.

W is for WITCH

 Hello again friends it's a new month and a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stamper and since it is October the theme is W is for Witch. Since I was at the cottage last week when I realized the challenge was coming up quickly it's a good job I had tucked my sleeve of Halloween dies, no stamps though but here is what I found in that hoard of dies. Sorry Edna didn't make it to the dinosaur of a desk computer that I'm using (left the laptop at the lake) I hope I can locate where the photos ended up.

Yay I found them.

I had one of the Halloween patterned paper pads with me so the background is a page from a DCWV  pad, The legs were cut from a strip of patterned paper the shoes out of black cardstock and attached over the stocking shoes, the skirt cut from patterned paper. Once the pieces were assembled my choice for the skirt was perfect.,

The sentiment is from a Halloween  snarky cats set, just a little snark today one we used to chant at Halloween when we were little kids. 

Thanks for stopping by and stop over at the SoSS blog and check out what the rest of the team have made. then get your pointy hats on make your witchy card and add it to our gallery.

Hey Ghoulfriend

 Hello and welcome to October and a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. Along with fall and the Canadian Thanksgiving October brings HALLOWEEN, so we would like to see your spooky, cute, scary Halloween cards. This is my second spooky card and I used a favourite "sheetload" sketch I would still like to get a oouple more done, perhaps when I get all my Halloween stamps and dies in the same place. 

Two sheets of  6x6 patterned paper made two cards, my stash is a pack of 6 stamps from Hero Arts, 2001 you can see them in the picture. I am positive these were my first Halloween stamps. Of course Monica looks cute in her flower costume this stamp is dated 2008, the patterned paper is a Halloween pack from Bo Bunny I think as there was no cover so I've had it for a long time. Both the image and sentiment are popped up more than I usually would but they are not being mailed this year due to Canada Post being on strike for the second fall in a row. 

Inside was finished with a couple of the stamped imaged and left over patterned paper made into flags. I will add the inside sentiment when I'm home. 

I am adding this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ Anything Halloween

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the rest of the Halloween cards on the Main Blog.

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.

H is for Halloween

 Hello friends it's time to get those Halloween steamps and dies out and join the challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. Normally I would do a Pink Halloween card but I'm Pinked out right now.

I used a digital image from Bugaboo Stamps (no longer in operation) masked the card and blended two shades of distress inks for the moon, The large bat and the spider are plastic pieces I found in my stash box. The Patterned paper is from Bo Bunny Fright collection which works great for the 5 1/2 inch square card.

I finished the inside with some left over scraps of paper and a computer generated sentiment.

No snark with this card but if you head over to the Main Blog you will see some that the rest of the design team have made. 

Thanks for visiting and have a lovely Halloween.

Frightfully Delightful

It's time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and the theme is Frightfully Delightful so we want to see a frightfully cute ghost, skeleton, vampire, witch or anything you consider Halloween. I knew immediately I had to use one of my super cute Halloween house mouse images, and I found this one already stamped in my stash. 

It's Maxwell dressed up Dracula and he is on a wobble. Super easy design I used a piece of patterned cardstock from DCWV Midnight spell matstack which is well over 5 years old, I also found some sentiments from Kraftin' Kimmie that were in my stash along with the black cat that is sitting on the fence. I have no idea when I bought the package of plastic Halloween pieces. I made a 5 1/2 inch square card The hardest part of the card was fussy cutting Maxwell.

Finished the inside with some patterned paper and a computer generated Halloween sentiment.

I'm entering this in 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes Option Autumn or Fall.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will join us in the gallery with your frightfully delightful Halloween projects.

 

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. 

A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge #3 is ~~ HALLOWEEN.

 Where has that last 30 days gone? just last week (it seems) it was the middle of September, being October its the perfect time for a Halloween ATC challenge....are you up for it? 

I dug out some of my Halloween House Mouse images to make my set of Artist Trading Cards (no coins this time) 

The backgrounds were made by blending Distress oxide inks adding some mini houses, bats, spider and the moon from other die sets. The sentiment strips are from a Kraftin'Kimmie halloween sentiment stamp, I stamped the complete stamp and cut sentiments as I needed them.

 

 isn't she so cute in her flower costume?

Super cute in a carrot suit.

Maxwell being Fangtatic in his Dracula cape!!

Monica Mouse pretending to be a monarch butterfly, she looks so adorable.

And here is a bonus ATC.

All of the mouse images were fussy cut and popped up on foam dots.

I'm entering this in:

ATCs with Heart ~~ #109 Halloween

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ October Anything Halloween.

Try it Tuesday ~~ Halloween

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ option Halloween

Thanks for stopping by today and check out what the rest of the design team have made for the challenge, You have untile November 14th at 11.59 to enter. 

It's October ~~ Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice.

 Challenge #456  at Shopping Our Stash is Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice. Since it's October we want to see Fall, Halloween Pumplins Jack-o-lanterns  or Pumpkin Spice coffee (yuk) Etc. Lot's of choices and I had trouble deciding what I was doing, I had way too many "irons" in the fire but picked a Halloween theme. 

I decided to give another try at a Mini Slim line card, 3 1/4 X 6 1/4 inches, of course I used a house mouse image of Maxwell trying to out run the garlic. I added a few spinders for interest,,  Patterned paper is from DCWV 4 1/2 X 6 1/2 Midnight Sjpell Halloween pad I bought years ago when Winners had great deals in crafting things. 

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and  a Happy Halloween (cut 2 and glued them together) attached it to the Shadow die.  As you see I couln't resist that little scrap for the right side.

I'm entering this in:

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes. Option Halloween.

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge ~~ everything Halloween

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out what the rest of the design team have made. 

 

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.

It's a NEW Challenge at Shopping Our Stash!! Halloween!!!

Shopping Our Stash has a new challenge and a very easy one since you need to be getting those Halloween cards done for the little ones. I have made this one for my 2 year old great grandson.  I used one of my favourite stamp company images....House Mouse, I've had this for many years, the patterned paper I used is a few years old, the die is only a year old but never been used until now, put them all together and here is what I've made.

It's a slider card, the carrot dressed mouse slide back and forth, action cards are always a hit with both little and big boys. 

Close up of the adorable image.

Just a simple Happy Halloween and a scrap of patterned paper.

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out the rest of the Halloween creations.