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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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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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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Addicted to Stamps and More #308

This challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More is for a holiday card - any holiday.  Most people will probably chose Christmas so they can get a head start on the number of cards they need but I chose to go with Halloween instead.  I do send Halloween cards to my grandchildren and they are fun to make.

For this card I was inspired by one that Kelly Griglione made here.  She used Brutus Monroe Color Bursts for her background and I have Brushos but you can get similar results.

I sprinkled my powders on Mixed Media paper and sprayed them, adding more powder in different colors until I was satisfied.  Then I took a stencil from CPD, added black powder and misted.  Okay, I sprayed. Maybe a little too much water here but I still like it.  To top it off I splattered some Inka- Gold. The sentiment, spider and web are all from W&W and heat embossed.

There are many holidays represented by the Design Team cards.  Why not check them out for inspiration and then enter a card in our gallery.

CASology #219 and Less Is More #298

I had this card made for CASology (Spooky) and it ended up being just the thing for the Less Is More challenge (Spiders).

What could be spookier than a jar of spiders, especially when they begin to crawl out.  Eek is right. A number of companies played together to make this happen.  PTI jar and spider, W&W web and word, and CP for the stripe background.

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AAA Cards #50

I don't think you can get a Halloween card more CAS than this unless you put two eyes on a white card and called it a ghost.  CAS is what they're asking for over at AAA Cards and I aim to please.

I got a new Texture Fade from Tim Holtz and tried a technique that didn't work the way I expected but still liked the results.  I inked it up with Unicorn White thinking the web would be white.  I guess not but it still shows the web off and that was the point.  A little sentiment from W&W embossed in Verdigris and a die from PS embossed the same and that's all there is to it.

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Curtain Call, W & W Rerun, and The Challenge #45

I've been on a Halloween card making streak and to day I have two for three different challenges.  First up is for Curtain Call - Going Batty.

I masked the moon and then black embossed the two sizes of bats from W & W's Moonlight.  The sky is inked with Distress Inks and I liked the way the moon looked with ink over the edges of the mask so when I removed the mask I did a little more inking.  The sentiment from MFT is embossed in white on a scrap of black.  I wiped off the static powder before the sentiment was dry which left streaks that I quite liked.  This will be my second entry into the Winnie and Walter Moonlight Rerun.

Card number two started out with me inking up a Tim Holtz 'shattered' stencil in black on white just to see if it would look like a spider web.  It looked great but then how would I use it.  The Challenge to the rescue.

The circle, vampire and sentiment are from MFT and that black embossed spider from W&W.  I'm sure there will be more Halloween challenges before the end of October.  Can I come up with any new ideas?

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Paper Smooches Sparks

This is my first time entering a Paper Smooches Sparks challenge but since I was planning a Halloween card using their dies, I thought why not use the sketch and enter.

The web is cut from vellum and the spider from glitter paper.  The DP is something I've had forever and the sentiment is from W & W stamped in Unicorn White.  Simple, easy and a little scary if you don't like spiders.  Here's a close-up.

This is my second post today - something I don't do often.  I'm glad you came back to check this one out.

Color Throwdown #356

When I saw the colors for the Color Throwdown I immediately thought of Halloween.  

That's not quite true.  I thought of Halloween after thinking of a Monarch butterfly but that's too close to the inspiration photo.

First I stamped the web from Winnie & Walter in the corner and then cut a panel with a LF stitched rectangle.  My new Twisted Citron along with Dried Marigold Distress Inks added the color and then a few spiders and the customary shriek finished it off.  

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Addicted to Stamps and More #153

It's Holiday Week at Addicted to Stamps and More.

I decided to do a Halloween card using my Winnie and Walter stamps that I bought after Halloween last year so they've never seen ink.

The smaller center panel is die cut on one side to let the black card base show. I thought it followed the shape of the stamped web.  A scrap of Halloween paper runs along the other side of the popped up panel.

Now it's your turn.  Make a card for any holiday, enter it in the challenge and you may win 3 digital images from Stitchy Bear, this week's sponsor.