It's Almost Witching Hour~~~

Challenge #378 at Shopping Our Stash is Witching Hour we want to see Halloween/Spooky/Witchy. Donna is are theme maker for th is challenge and she loves Halloween and scary stuff so get in your craft room and create something for the challenge.

Since I need cards for my great grandsons I started with this one, my favourite stamp company is House Mouse Designs and I love the super cute Halloween stamps. I made it into a slider card, the garlic is chasing the Dracula mouse. The paper is from a stack I bought many many many years ago while in Florida.  

If I knew how to use the video on my camera I might be able to show how it slides.

I was really happy and surprised to find I had packed a Halloween sentiment (which was printed last year or maybe the year before) among my stamped/printed images.

We are all closed up at the cottage for the Winter, I have everything back home now the fun starts putting everything back where it belongs.  We have spent a lot of time there this summer although without internet it was a bit of a challenge, a few trips into town to use the WiFi at the library or if it was Sunday we went to Wendy's and enjoyed the .99 cent frostys. Thanks for stopping by today and we are looking forward to your spooky creations.

It's Rudolph Days for October!!! from the 25th to the last day of the month!!!

I'm so happy to be super quick with my card for Rudolph Days I look forward to it every month I'm not always as early as this, I'm usually scrambling at the last minute.

What do you know I have used my favourite "critters" a house mouse, he is so adorable "helping?" with the string of lights. A very quick card, it looked rather plain even with the polka dot paper so I glued two think scraps of cardstock to sides. HoHoHo is from a super cute set of self inking tiny sentiments, I bought two different Christmas ones at Winners a couple or more years ago and there is nothing on the little boxes to tell me who made them.

Carried the polka dot theme to the inside and one of my cute sentiments 

Challenges I'm entering:

Rudolph Days ~~ October

Jingle Belles ~~ While Shepherd Watched their Flocks

52 Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ October 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything goes Option fall colours.

Thanks for visiting today come back anytime you are always welcome.

Embossed Trees.......

Lindsey is the Muse at Christmas Visions,

I loved her second card and thought I would give it a whirl. I had a bit of break while packing up my crafty stuff at the cottage to play along.  We still have to finish closing up the cottage so we are heading back for the weekend.  Once I get everything home it will be a fun time finding homes for everything, you know how things gravitate to an open spot.  So here is my card for the challenge.

One of my first tree stamps I bought was this Scribble Tree, I embossed it in Pewter, gold and copper. The sentiment is from a retired Stampin'up set, Painted Poinsettia, I added some glitter washi tape to tie in with the turquoise base.

Here is Lindsey's card

On to the inside of my card.

I embossed the inside sentiment too. I haven't done wet embossing for so long and it was fun. I can see more embossing in the future.

I'm entering this in:

Muse: Christmas Visions

Thanks for stopping by today and check out this challenge it is a fun one.

It's Jingle Belles Time!!!

How great to be keeping up with the Jingle Belles this year!! I haven't missed one and it's a really cute challenge this time, While Shepherds Watched their Flocks which translates to they want to see CRITTERS on your holiday card.

I have a trio of cute critters for the challenge from Bugaboo designs and a fabulous sketch from Sketch Saturday. 

Close up of the super cute kitties.

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and an Impression Obsession sentiment.

I am entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ While Shepherds Watch their Flocks

52 Christmas Card Throwdown ~~ Christmas Pets

Sketch Saturday ~~ October

Thanks for visiting today and stay tuned Rudolph Days are coming soon.

Challenge #377 ~~ Not Your Average Card!!!

The challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Not Your Average Card, I know everyone gets in a rut making the regular rectangle, square (one of my favs) circle or oval shaped cards so we want to take you far away from that "rut" so we want to see nothing in the regular card shapes we want odd shapes. Stars, hexagon, flower, pumpkin you could even make a extra large takeout coffee cup.  The design team member you can "give credit" to is ME it was my idea so get your thinking caps on and create a special non traditional shape card.

Before I tell you about the card I must mention we are at the lake for the week and going to close it up for the winter and I hadn't had a chance to work on my card so when we got the cottage warmed up I got all my equipment out and OMgoodness (not what I was thinking) I forgot my C plate for the cuttlebug, that's the CUTTING plate and I had Hexagons to cut. Well trial and error and many shims I managed the cutting of the shapes but was very happy to find those gold snowflakes in my "extras"

The image is a long retired set from Stampin'up but one of my favourites every Christmas. The patterned paper is ancient I think it is SU as well. 

Close up of the gold snowflakes, these were cut last year and not used. The rhinestones are also years old and I coloured them with an alcohol marker.

I added some wink of stella to hat, mitts, earmuffs and white trim.

Since I know odd shaped cards do not stand up well I will send a easel with it,  it is a die from Elizabeth Craft Designs and cuts out of a half of 8 1/2 X 11 piece of heavier cardstock. 

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the rest of the design team's odd shaped cards. Just click HERE to enter.

S is for Skulls at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!!!

Challenge #121 at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is S is for Skulls!!! When planning my project for the challenge I realized how very little I had in SKULLS.  I've had a preview of a few of the design team and didn't want to head down that route so checked out Pinterest for skulls and settled on a colouring page. Here is the finished product.

I printed the image in a card size piece layered it on silver and black I decided to go with a quote I also found on Pinterest, then added a few bones (oddly they came from a dog frame die), I thought they added a bit of interest.

Finished the inside with a sentiment I found on a free verse and quote site and a scrap of silver paper.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out what the rest of the design team have made for the challenge. Just click HERE to have a peek.

Still Making Pink Christmas Cards for the Jingle Belles Rock!!!

This will not be the last of the Pink Christmas cards but it is my 4th!! It's for a good cause and I love to see the girls spend money, remember $2.00 each for a card posted on their Blog.

As you see I had a scrap of pink alcohol background left and I had the houses cut and in my "parts" box, I added the sentiment which I won in the tag challenge last Christmas, it's from Neat & Tangled. I then layered it on silver cardstock then on a pink base.

Finished the inside with a sentiment from Impression Obsession  and a die cut tree edge. 

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Pink Christmas for the Cure

Thanks for spending time here today and I hope you have started your Holiday stash with some Pink Christmas cards for the Cure at the Jingle Belles.