KJ244 Spooky Witch

Happy Friday, peeps!  Thank GOODNESS the weekend is upon us!  I snagged this cool digital image from the Graphics Fairy, and I just had to put it to use on a Halloween card for the Kraft Journal’s Halloween or Harvest Festival challenge:

It’s hard to tell, but I used Crumb Cake as a base for my card, and added some grungy polka-dot paper for a mat.  The image was printed on Crumb Cake as well, then sponged with black ink and the moon was colored with Copics.  I finally cut into my hoarded Tim Holtz holiday papers, choosing a little “Halloween Greetings” image:

The panel with the verse was more of an orange-pink color, so I colored it with a yellow Copic too…..it helped bring the color closer to my moon!  Finally, I added a shabby seam binding bow and some black glimmer paper stars:

And for the inside, an oldie but goodie sentiment and a few well-placed bats!

Thanks for flying by today!

The little mama, soothing AJ! 

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Happy Thursday, everyone!  The beautiful fall weather prompted me to make this card for the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

I already had some of this whimsical Into the Woods DSP, so I cut some panels to fit the sketch, then created a pumpkin as my focal point. 

Using the extra-large oval punch, I punched out three ovals from Pumpkin Pie, then ran them through the Arrows embossing folder.  I sponged the edges and layered them to make my pumpkin!  I used the “give thanks” sentiment from And Many More, isolating the “thanks” with my Early Espresso marker to make my little tag:

As a little extra embellishment, I cut out an acorn from my scrap and popped it up atop the pumpkin!  Thanks for the visit today!

Cassidy helped me  with some more decorating, including a vintage Halloween noisemaker…she LOVED making noise with it!

Have a blessed day!

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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!  I am moving in slow motion the past couple of days; allergies again!  I love fall, but the seasonal changes as well as all the damp weather we’ve had do a number on my nose!  We have quite a mushroom crop in our yard, LOL!  I managed to squeak out a pumpkin-y card using the Mojo Monday sketch:

So here we go:

I pulled out some MFT pumpkin stamps, along with a cute little sentiment gifted to me from my friend Martha (I don’t know who made it) and some “ahem” hoarded Halloween DSP from Cosmo Cricket.  There were actually a few pink stars on the paper, so I colored them in with a marker!!  I stamped the pumpkins in Hello Honey, Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango, then shaded them a bit and added the tendrils in Early Espresso.  The sentiment is stamped on Smoky Slate and I added a few stars and dots, then finished it off with some Hello Honey twine and a few sequins from my stash!

Thanks for popping by today!

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Hi peeps!  Time for another Paper Players challenge, with Joanne as our hostess!  Here’s a theme just in time for the upcoming spooky day: 

I think the Happy Haunting DSP is the cutest ever, so I pulled some of my favorite patterns out along with my Circle Card thinlet and created this spooky creation:

I used Among the Branches and Happy Scenes for my images and sentiments on the front, using Cool Cucumber as my accent color.  I made a belly band with the CC Color Me Irresistible paper and added a little banner on top:

On the inside, I added a sentiment from A Little Something:

Fun!  I know you’ll come up with a Halloween creation, be it spooky, scary, funny or cute!  Share it with us at the Paper Players blog and be sure to check out the others’ creations as well:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

Dana did this cool braid for Cassidy the other day!  And just as a funny note, we were walking around our neighbor’s little pond the other day, waiting for the bus, and the water was quite green from the recent rain.  Cassidy said, “It’s full of “owchie”…..(algae)!  We had quite a giggle over that!

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Saturday, peeps!  We are in the throes of some nasty weather, thanks to Hurricane Joachin!  We’ve been hunkering down and trying to stay dry.  Good stamping weather, right?  TLC has a cool digital image available and I thought it would be perfect for a spooky Halloween card!  I printed it on Very Vanilla cardstock and colored it with some Copics:

I found some retired SU Halloween DSP that worked well, and added a sentiment, leaves, ribbon & candy dots!  To make the moon, I cut a circle from a piece of scrap paper and merely colored inside with a Copic:

Don’t those eyes look eerie?!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge too!

A little play-doh action!

Two Cards…..

…for today, the first of October, because there are so many awesome challenges out in blogland, I can’t get them all done in time!  My first card is for the Paper Craft Crew sketch 164 and the Color Throwdown challenge 362 :

I pulled out an older SU stamp called Harvest Home and did some watercoloring:

The background is a piece of Color Me Irresistible embossed paper that I sponged with Chocolate Chip ink to give it a darker color…the embossed portion resists the ink and looks really cool!  The banner was stamped every which-way with the sketchy line stamp from Gorgeous Grunge; the sentiment, leaves & acorn are from September’s Paper Pumpkin..what a great kit!  This is also for the Stamplorations Project 40 challenge; I chose this card as my inspiration!

My next card is a little 3 1/4 x 4” card for a baby shower; it’s for the Kraft Journal’s CAS baby card challenge as well as the CAS On Sunday challenge to use polka dots:

I used Crumb Cake for my card base, embossing it with SU’s Large Dots EF and giving each dot a little highlight with some white craft ink and a sponge dauber.  The “stitched” panel is from Stitched Shapes by Simon Says Stamps, inked up in Lost Lagoon, and the heart and duck are from Sweet & Sassy, Polka Dot Silhouettes.  The duck was stamped in Crushed Curry; the smaller heart was actually a larger image;  I heat-embossed it in white on Mint Macaron, then punched it out with a smaller heart punch:

The sentiment is from A Dozen Thoughts, and I made a custom envelope for the card with some retired Christmas DSP from last year and my Envelope Punch Board!  This card is also for Little Red Wagon’s embossing folder challenge!  Phew!  I think I got them all in!  And here’s a little peek at something I made for the shower as well:

Cassidy is becoming quite the little chef; this child can break an egg on her own and not get any shell in it!  She prefers to mix her cake batter by hand, rather than use the mixer:

but she still does love to lick the bowl:

Enjoy your day!