AYSI206 Speedy Boo

Hi everybody!  Woohoo, it's Friday, so happy to have the weekend ahead!  It's also As You See It challenge time, and here's one we haven't had for a while...SPEED stamping!  

The goal is to create a card in ten minutes, once you've gathered your supplies! I like that part of the challenge because I really tend to dawdle on my cards and it forces me to CONCENTRATE.  But....shades of purple, oh my goodness!!  The first thing that came to my mind was Halloween, so I pulled out Spooky Bingo Bits and SU's Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape and went to work:

I started out with a sketch from Sunday Stamps:

I used Gorgeous Grape DSP for my layers, and stamped my images with Highland Heather, punching them out with a circle punch.  The "BOO!" is from the Boo to You Framelits from a few years ago, and I accented it quickly with a single rhinestone.

At this point, I was at 7 minutes and 26 seconds, so I took another minute to stamp some sentiments from last year's Spooky Cat!  So I made it under the 10-minute mark!!

Phew!  I hope you'll challenge yourself to do some speed stamping in shades of purple and share your creation with us at At You See It!!  C'mon, you can do it!  Thanks for popping in today!

These silly pups Eden and Ginger are all decked out in their Eagle's outfits, ready for some fall football!  I just bought Cassidy an Eagles shirt.....but it's at my house, LOL!  She'll have to wear it the next time they get dressed up!  Enjoy your day nad be blessed!

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Hi everyone!  Halfway through the week, yippee!  I love the Try Stampin’ on Tuesday sketch this week…it has THREES!  Yay, threes are so fun!

My card is a wee bit smaller than a regular A2 card, it measures 3.75 x 5 inches because I had a piece of this fun ghosty paper already cut and that’s the size card that fit it best, LOL!  I pulled out an old Favorite, Spooky Bingo Bits and went to work:

The images are stamped in Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black and Smoky Slate, with a little accenting on the ghost with a blender pen!  I punched them out with a 1” square punch, then matted them with punchouts from my Postage Stamp punch.  I also punched a 1 1/4” circle and popped up the sentiment from the inside, cutting out a little ghost from the scrap piece:

and added a sentiment from And Many More on the inside!  Fun!

The team at TSOT would love to have you play along, either on their blog or on the Facebook page!  Hope to see you there!

Cassidy really enjoyed helping me decorate for Halloween!  Here she is putting the candy corn stake in the ground!  And she picked a couple more pumpkins for the porch!  Enjoy your day!

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Happy Tuesday, peeps!  As many of you might already know, I’ve decided to step down from the ColourQ!  It has been a FUN ride with Arielle and all the other designers!  I am grateful and honored that she asked me to part of her team!  I checked back and my first post was on March 30, 2010, and here is the card I made:

So now, fast forward to 2014, and here is the challenge we’ve got today:

and here is my card:

This is one of my favorite layouts, and I’ve used the retired Spooky Bingo Bits for my images, along with some new sets for the backgrounds!  I added a little doodad—glitter, sparkle, twine or sequin—to each one, then a trio of banners at the bottom:

And a fun sentiment on the inside:

I hope you’ll play along with us this week and squeeze in another few Halloween cards using these colors---or maybe you can come up with another theme!  Can’t wait to see what you create!

Speaking of scary things, I stepped away from Cassidy for just a few minutes while she was painting and came back to this:

If any of you with children have never read “A Bad Case of Stripes”, you should read it!  Cassidy told me she was Camilla Cream, the character in the book!  Needless to say, a bath was next on the agenda!  Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Gorgeous Grunge, Chalk Lines, Festival of Trees, Good Greetings, Spooky Bingo Bits (ret), Just For You (My Creative Time)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Lovely Lilac, Lucky Limeade
Ink	Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Lovely Lilac, Lucky Limeade
Accessories	Sequins, Baker's Twine, Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, W+9 Pinked Square Dies, 1" Circle Punch, Nestie Banner Punch, Dimensionals

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Happy Sunday, players!  Nance is our hostess today at the Paper Players and she has a fun Halloween challenge for us:

At my manager’s retreat recently, my sideline Pam Joel gifted us with a little Ghiradelli chocolate holder, which had been given to her by our upline, Pennie!  She gave me permission to share them with you, and I’ve made them into Halloween candy holders:

Spooky Bingo Bits is one of my favorite Halloween sets and I know it is retired, but it is still available through MDS!  So I am using it here today, along with some retired DP:

This one uses a hexagon from Six-Sided Sampler, along with some heat embossing and a scary bat!

This uses a big glimmer paper moon and a sentiment from Googly Ghouls:

And this uses some more heat embossing along with some googly eyes from last year’s Halloween kit:

And in here, you can see how the candy fits in:

Since this is picture-heavy, I will be sharing a quick tutorial on my blog on Wednesday, so be sure to come back!!!

And my little trio also uses the colors at the Fab Friday 28 challenge:

We picked out some pumpkins at our little local farm this past week:

But I think she liked putting the money in the box the best!!!

Enjoy your day!

NAC#5 and the Great Pumpkin Blog Hop

I have been trying to enter another Nacho Average Challenge for a couple of weeks…..when I saw this week’s sketch, I knew I had to give it a shot:

Of course, I had to be off-the-wall and put embossing where the sentiment was supposed to go….sigh.  I must have never followed directions as a child!  Here ya go:

  

I finally was able to use some of my new Howlstooth and Scaringbone DP…..how’s that for a name, cracks me up!  I paired it with Spooky Bingo Bits, a 1” circle punch and the new CUTE 1 1/4” scallop punch.  Makes quick work of these little scary critters:

This is also for Terry’s Great Pumpkin Blog Hop! You can visit her blog to participate as well!

Swimming with Trent, my great-nephew:

 

Thanks for visiting!

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Happy Sunday!  Hope you are enjoying your weekend!  Today Nance has a color challenge for the Paper Players and all of you:

Since the Pals Paper Arts challenge this week was Halloween, I thought I would combine the two, and shoot, let’s throw in a third, a sketch from Create with Connie & Mary:

And here we go:

I just got my Spooky Bingo Bits earlier in the week, and I couldn’t wait to get it inky….oh, which images to pick?  I decided on these three, and added the spider web in the corners of my mats:

I also did some heat embossing as well, just to bring those images out a little better:

Fun stuff!  I hope you will be able to play along with us and show us how these colors inspire you!  Fly on over to the Paper Players blog to see what the Design Team as well as our new Fall Guest Designers have come up with!

Cassidy just happened to be wearing a close match to the challenge colors today:

 

I love her little tippy-toes!  And even though we’re not out of the woods yet she is feeling a little better every day!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Spooky Bingo Bits
• Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, WW, Basic Gray, Rich Razzleberry Patterns DP, retired Halloween DP
• Ink:  Craft White, Old Olive, Basic Gray, Rich Razzleberry
• Acc:  White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, RR Ribbon, Basic Glimmer Brad, Pinking Hearts Border Punch, 1” Circle Punch, Curly Label Punch, Dauber