A CAS card today with a pumpkin theme which was achieved by using Gina K’s Harvest Flourish stencil and pumpkin trio from Haunts to Harvest stamp set. Sentiment was stamped from SSS Happy Haunting stamp set. A pretty simple card today but I kind of like the way it turned out.

My card today will be shared with:

Simply Clean & Simple: October 2025 Challenge — Pumpkin Theme

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My card today was made with traditional Halloween colors in mind. The patterned paper is from Whimsy Stamps Haunted paper pack and my flying-by witch is a good old Inkadinkadoo stamp set. Sentiment is a SSS sentiment strip and tree was die cut from a Tim Holtz set (I think).

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Love Those Pretty Papers October Challenge — with a theme to use Halloween colors.

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Taking time before the excitement and trick or treaters arrive the sister witches decided to have some “tea” and get ready for a busy night! For my card today, I decided on Great Impressions Witches Brew red rubber. After inking and stamping in black ink, I cut a mask of the witches, positioned the Tim Holtz layering moon mask in place and began my background ink by blending Distress Oxide Inks in wilted violet, black soot and twisted citron. I wish I would have kept the stamp in my misti to reink the image after completing the background. A bit of water splatter and some black soot. I added the detailed stencil of the moon and used yellow and orange inks that were on my dauber. Sentiment, bats and spider are SSS Spook up some fun stamp set and cut a frame using Taylored Expressions Squiggly Stacklets.

My card will be shared with Double D Challenges with a theme of the Trick or Treat Smell my Feet song. My treat today is “tea” and maybe a bat or two.

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I’m still loving Whimsy Stamps and their Halloween products. This card Misfits card fronts and Chunky Checkers die set. I sponged white clouds with pigment ink on the black note card then covered it up with the focal image…..LoL. After adding paper spider web paper doily sections and three Tim Holtz spider dies and sentiment from the card front set, I can call this one complete and am loving it too.

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Colorful Options: October 2025

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My leafy card today uses the debossed embossing blackout technique however I actually used a brown (TE Hot Fudge) ink instead of black. A variety of TE’s reds, yellow, orange and a bit of blue inks were used on my debossed panel of TE’s Lovely Leaves embossing folder which was part of the Combo Club I participate in receiving. I decided to make a gatefold card with a bellyband that was stamped with TE’s Check In background stamp and then die cut a number of leaves from Garden Variety-Fall dies using the same colors as the debossed panels as well as a few cut in honey cardstock with the edges swiped with hot fudge ink arranging them on a hexagon die cut. This card is one I made for a cardswap for the upcoming Taylored Expressions Virtual StampJoy Stay-cation event so all my products were Taylored Expressions.

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Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes with a Twist of Trees/Leaves (9/25)

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It only took four attempts to create my own background for this card. When I was finally happy with the TE Squiggly Stacklets die cut panel which was stenciled with a combination of SimonSaysStamps’ Mixed Match Circles and a second that I cannot recall the name inked in Kitsch Flamingo DO ink then stamped in black with Hero Arts bat background stamp!! I then started work on my focal image and more Distress Oxide inks and a spritz of water a layer of Memory Box Pasture Grasses and my IO trick or treaters. It only took me two attempts to stamp the black notecard with the white pigment ink HA’s bat stamp (first attempt my bats were upside down)!!! A few Martha Stewart bat punched bats and thankfully this is completed. My card will be shared with:

Double D Challenges: Make Your Own Background

Pretty mood board which inspired me to use pink circles for my background. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and stay safe.

A bit of a more subdued CAS birthday card today. After cutting a circle stencil, I ink blended Taylored Expressions Oyster ink, then stamped Gina K Designs Friendly’s Silhouette stamp in white pigment ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Thankfully I left the stamp in the Misti due to someone not making sure the ink was dry on the blended circle. Wiped off the embossing powder, heated the circle to dry the ink, then repeated the inking and embossing steps. Thankfully it worked. After die cutting a new circle panel and trimming to size my card , I curved the birthday sentiment around my circle and added a small butterfly in black which was from GKD’s Fabulous Frame stamp set

My card will be shared with two birthday challenges today:

Simply Clean & Simple: September 2025 – Birthdays

The Sisterhood of Crafters (9/10/25) Birthdays

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This is my interpretation for the As You See It Challenge #356 which is a sketch challenge using rectangles and circles.

After quite a bit of thought I switched out the circles for bats punched with a good old Martha Stewart bat punch and three different patterned papers from my stash. Sentiment is Simon Says Stamp’s Happy Haunting stamp set and Taylored Expressions Wavy Stitch Stacklets with a bit of black spatter. I had one tiny piece of orchid cardstock from Gina K Designs and used it as a partial corner backer. A fun challenge and I was so thrilled that my leaf card for last month’s speed challenge was chosen as “Featured Artist”! Thank you so much for the honor and mention.

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Taylored Expressions’ in person Stamp Joy event also has a Staycation option which is on line classes. I have optioned to do the at home on line classes but have joined in on the cardswap which I’m required to make 10 cards and mail before our event. Since this is a Taylored Expressions event all my products are TE and they include: Time to Grow stamp, stencil and foil it panel from the Combo Club subscription. After foiling the Foil-It panel in Pewter foil, my inks included a variety of fall-ish colors, the completed panel was die cut using All Planned Out 3 die set which included the sentiment and the button. I included a ribbon die cut over the button. The foiled panel was layered on Honey cardstock and the bottom portion is white woodgrain. I made several different cards for my swap but I did really like this one and will share with you and:

Crazy is our Fame – STENCILS are our game: September 2025 Stencil Fun Challenge The optional theme this month is nature.

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