Color Hues #96

I've been working on Halloween cards and thought the colors at Color Hues warranted another one.

I cut a circle to mask the moon before blending the background with Distress Inks.  A background stamp from Penny Black and some bats from Winnie and Walter made my spooky scene.  

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Inspired By #259

I happened upon the Inspired By challenge and I have just the Halloween card for their ghost challenge. 

The night sky sets the mood for my ghostly scene.  It was colored with Distress Oxides after masking off a circle for the moon. The haunted house is a die from MFT with yellow vellum behind the windows.  Both the ghosts and the sentiment are from EbyE. 

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Double D - Pink October

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month the the gals at Double D want us to use pink on our cards to support the cause.  I love the mood board and just had to make a Halloween card.

And a sparkly one at that.  The shoes and hat from MFT are cut from glitter paper.  The barrel is on loan from a friend and was colored with Mica Spray. The sentiment is from EbyE.  I'm having so much fun making Halloween cards.  One more and I'm done.

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Tic Tac Toe #228

I don't know if Felicita meant for us to do Halloween cards at Tic Tac Toe but the board sure suggests that to me.  I used the diagonal row bottom left to upper right.

The spider and web are from Honey Bee.  It was stamped on the card front after ink blending with Carved Pumpkin, Villianous Potion and Black Soot Distress Inks.  A touch of shimmer spritz was added before the sentiment from EbyE, that was cut from C9 black foil, was attached. 

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Color Hues #50

Orange and purple is the order of the day at Color Hues.  Of course I had to make a Halloween card.

So many different companies came together to make this card.  MFT witch legs, EbyE sentiment, HoneyBee postage stamp die, Sizzix swirl embossing folder and TH Distress Spray Stain. 

It's on my agenda to see the new Hocus Pocus 2 movie.  What about you?

 

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Tic Tac Toe #182 and CYHTP?

I love it when two challenges collide.  Today's card is for Tic Tac Toe and Can You Handle the Pressure? 

The background was made by smooshing some leftover Jack o -lantern mica spray that was in my tray.  When it was dry, I embossed it with the SU Subtle folder.  Over it I layered the house (also embossed with a woodgrain folder), some bats and a sentiment from EbyE.

I used the first column down, Halloween, Orange and Embossing.  The theme twist at CYHTP? is orange and black.

 

I've been having fun making Halloween cards the last few days.  I have one more to finish for the 10 I need.  You'll probably be seeing some of them pop up here in the next few weeks.

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AAA Cards #201

Today's card is for the AAA Challenge - use one corner, optional 'Boo'.  I hope 'Eek' works as well.

I'm sorry but the items on my card are from companies no longer in business. The web is stamped in black and glitter embossed and the spider is cut from flocked paper.  It looks way better IRL.

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Inspired By #192 and Two Old Bats Halloween - October

Inspired By has such a softly colored Halloween image this week but I'm afraid mine isn't.  I have all my cards made and didn't need any more so I'll post one I've sent.

It all started with an inky background and a die cut of birch trees from TH. I used ghosts from EH and MFT, drawing on my own faces so I didn't have a black outline.  I interspersed them through the trees and added a heat embossed sentiment from MFT.  If 'boo' is a requirement for the card, it's on the inside. ;)  

I'm also sending this to the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge. It's anything goes as long as it's Halloween.

I went with my daughter and her friend to a Witch's Night Out at a little shopping center last night.  If you wore a witch's hat you got a free glass of wine, which we did, and then had treats at some of the other stores including bourban balls, a blood drink and s'more snacks.  What a good way to get people into the darling little stores and have fun in the process. 

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Just Us Girls #604 - Word Week

Carol is our host for Word Week at Just Us Girls and she has chosen an appropriate word for this time of year.

I don't know how many of you send Halloween cards but they sure are fun to make.  I send to my grand and great-grand children plus I have a friend whose birthday is October 31 so I love to make them.  I don't have a lot of Halloween stamps with me but I did buy a few while I was here and this is the card I made.

I also had to buy the TH Halloween mica spray stains and they make the background of my card.  I must say I think there is a learning curve to using them or else I spray too heavy but I still like how it turned out.  The cauldron and heat embossed sentiments are from MFT.  I sprayed the appropriately named "Bubbling Cauldron" for my brew and it's accompanying bubbles.  The panel was cut with MFT's wonky stitches and placed on a black card base.  

Our guest designer for the month of October is none other than Nora Noll.  Be sure to check out her fabulous Halloween card and those from the rest of the Design Team.  If you join our challenge you have a chance for a guest designer spot in an upcoming month.  

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Inkspirational #224

The photo inspiration at Inkspirational was just what I needed to finish up my Halloween cards.

I smooshed a background with Distress Ink.  The trees are a TH die cut that I cut in half and ran a dark brown mini cube across for texture.  The witch silhouette is from GM and the sentiment from MCS (OOB).  

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Just Us Girls #558 - Color Week

 Maria picked these colors for Just Us Girls this week:

The colors reminded me of  Halloween and I had a partial background stamped so I just finished it up.

The side "banners" were made with a Christmas tree from RC.  I die cut the panel with MFT's wonky stitches and matted it with purple and orange paper.  The die cut is from Gina Marie and the sentiment is from EbyE.  

What do you think of when you see the challenge colors?  The Design Team and our guest designer Karen Walker all have some wonderful cards to inspire you.  If you join in and are chosen Chic of the Week, you could be our guest designer.

The Card Concept #122

I made this card a while ago to send to my great-granddaughter for Halloween and when I saw the inspiration photo at The Card Concept I thought it fit the challenge.

I saw a pile of pumpkins in my local WalMart that were in white, pale green and peach so that was my first inspiration.  Using a set from HoneyBee I colored and cut a variety of pumpkins and arranged them on my card front.  The sentiment is computer generated and to go along with that I added a flower to the peach pumpkin and although you can't see it they were both covered with WOS.  This completed my clean and layered card.

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CAS(E) This Sketch #340

I don't think the intent was to encourage Halloween cards when CAS(E) This Sketch posted their sketch but that's what it inspired me to do.

A little ink blending with DOX and some water spritzing made the background to place my PS web cut from glitter paper.  A silver glitter spider hangs from it to scare whoever walks by.

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Freshly Made Sketches #403

I'm squeaking in at the last minute for the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.  I had an idea in mind and took my coloring with me to the lake last weekend but with all the trim painting I never had a chance to do any.  I finished it up last night and here it is.

I used my NBUS RC Halloween gnomes, colored with PolyChromos pencils.  I added a little gel pen to the stars and moons.  The navy and purple don't show up true with my camera but this isn't a bad representation. 

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CAS(E) This Sketch #339

My NBUS EBE Happy Haunting stamps made it easy to make a card for this week's CAS(E) This Sketch. 

I altered a cut from PTI to make my background, coloring it with Distress Inks.  The jar was stamped and die cut and for the piece de resitance I added some eyes from Doodlebug to creep it real. ;) 

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Freshly Made Sketches #402

When I first saw the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches I thought leaves would be my go to image.  After receiving my Happy Hauntings from EBE I went in a whole other direction.

I think it follows the sketch pretty well and gets me started on my Halloween cards.  The spider border is from W&W. 

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Twofer Card Challenge #15

I know there are more animals than bears in the zoo and I have a few but I couldn't figure out how to do two cards for two occasions that are necessary for the Twofer Card Challenge.  So bears it is.

And I mean the bear from EBE with all his accouterments.   

Up first is summer bear.

This one is cut from Desert Storm and shaded with PolyChromos.  All the other images are colored with Distress Inks including the background.  His sunglasses have some Pearl Pen on them for shine. 

Next is Halloween bear.

I couldn't help but dress him up as Elphaba and print out the sentiment on my computer.  I don't know why the color is off and the card looks askew but you'll have to take it as it is.

This is such a fun challenge and if you haven't tried it, you should.  Here is the prompt for this challenge

and here are the guidelines.

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