Hey there Pumpkin

| Gayle Chrvala
As You See It Challenge #260 ModSquad Challenge

Today’s card will be entered into two different challenges:

As You See It Challenge #260 – Perpendicular Sketch

challenge #260

ModSquad Challenge: Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere which of course must include pumpkins in your project hosted by Judy. The sponsor for this challenge is Gina K Designs.

Gina’s Haunts & Harvest stamp set is such a cute set that includes some Halloween and Fall images with fun sentiments. The strip of patterned paper also is GKD and her Spooktacular You. I used a piece of vellum to stamp and clear heat emboss my sentiment to follow the AYSI sketch. I added a few sequins to finish off this card.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Have a wonderful day and stay safe.

hey pumpkin

| Judy Inukai

Halloween is not really my jam, but I do usually make a card for my husband. Since Halloween is the word of the week at Just Us Girls I decided to get his card done early to save my usual last minute scramble. The pumpkin is part of the Jack O’ Lantern Fancy Die set by Hero Arts, cut from an orange scrap and brushed with Tangerine Twist. All stamped images inside and out are from Haunts and Harvest by Gina K Designs. After working on the layout, I decided the background was too plain. The Spiral Petals stencil by Hero Arts brushed with Soft Stone ink was the closest I could come to a spider web. For the panel that will go on the inside, I stamped the ghostly trio in Soft Stone to give them an ethereal look, then stamped the sentiment in Obsidian. I’m also entering this in the Mod Squad Challenge – Pumpkins Pumpkins everywhere.

Pumpkin chair

| Lisa K

Another card using Buffalo Check background with the Make the Cards Challenge in mind.

https://makethecardschallenge.com/make-the-cards-challenge-35/

I stamped the Power Poppy set So Grateful in Versafine Ink and dried it with a heat gun. I colored the image with watercolor pencils and a water brush which was very dry. This is not watercolor paper, so I didn’t want to add too much water. The buffalo check is stamped with SU Buffalo Check stamp set in SU Early Expresso ink, which matches the card base. The Kraft layer is SU Crumb Cake cardstock.

I’ll get you my pretty….

| Gayle Chrvala
The Paper Players Theme Challenge PP561

and the theme is: Spooky! When I was looking for a stamp, I came across this old red rubber mounted stamp from Great Impressions and immediately thought of The Wizard of Oz. The Wicked Witch of the West cackles at Dorothy “I’ll get you my pretty and your little dog too.” Such a classic movie that I still watch every year it’s on tv. Nichol Spohr recently made a card for Colorado Craft Company’s new release using Distress Oxide inks in Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover and Black Soot. Taking inspiration from that card, I used the same colors for my background, adding white pigment ink clouds using my “Bonnie” cloud stencil and GKD ink. The moon was made using Tim Holtz moon mask stencil and lightly adding some antique linen distress oxide ink. The sentiment is a Recollections set and at the last moment decided to stencil some stars in GKD Honey Mustard ink.

Not too spooky for this challenge and thought it funny that there is a cat in the basket instead of Toto!

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Have a wonderful week and stay safe.

Batty Boos

| Gayle Chrvala
Two Old Bats – October Anything Goes

It’s a new month and a new mood board with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge. I decided to take my inspiration from the black and white on the mood board. Using Pretty Pink Posh’s Boo stamp set, coordinating die and the Spider Web Stencil, I created my black and white Boo card. After die cutting out the letters and cutting down a transparency to size, adding foam tape, opted out on making this a shaker card. I know it would have been perfect for a shaker but I’m not always a fan of them and also not very successful either. Anyway using the stencil on black cardstock, I pounced white pigment ink from Gina K Designs over it and gave it a spray of perfect pearls/water combo. Adhered everything and the card was just a little too stark white for my liking so then stamped the spider included in the stamp set makings a spidery border. I also added some clear heat embossed spiders on black and die cut just incase I didn’t have enough spiders.

This is a great day to make some cards. I had three different events yesterday so we decided to stay home to watch the final game of a disappointing baseball season for our Phillies. Here’s to hoping they can pull out the final game with a win. Eagles already lost so it will not be a happy day for Philadelphia sports fans to have two teams lose game.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Have a great day and stay safe.

Greetings

| Gayle Chrvala
Just Us Girls Challenge #604

Love these Halloween challenges! It’s a great way to help finish my cards. For today’s card, I stamped, stenciled, ink blended, dry embossed and heat embossed a variety of my stash. It was a variety of stamp sets for the greetings like Simon Says Stamp’s Happy Haunting, a set from Recollections Halloween, bat stencil. This was fun to make and I should have noted all of the stamps and items used before losing them on my desk!!

This card will be entered into the Word Week – Halloween challenge at Just Us Girls.

Hard to believe that it is October but not so hard to believe that I have tons of card to make.

Have a great October day and stay safe. Thanks for stopping in for a peek.

Painted Flower on check

| Lisa K

I decided to give the Make The Cards Challenge a try since the theme has Buffalo Plaid and I like plaid. I found a few other challenge with the help from Buddy Bonnie, so will add those as well.

https://makethecardschallenge.com/make-the-cards-challenge-35/
https://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/09/favourite-autumn-or-winter-why.html https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2021/09/autumn-blessings.html

I used older stamps and retired product on this card. It is so enjoyable to pull out older product and use it rather than it sitting. The background is stamped using Stampin’ Up Buffalo Check, the flower is from Painted Harvest, both retired from SU. The greeting is from a set called So Grateful from Power Poppy. I added a piece of ribbon, matted the focal, popped it up on foam squares and called it complete.

Autumn is my favorite season as I love the cooler weather and the colors as the leaves change. I love mums in my yard and a pumpkin on my front porch. My explanation is for the As You Like It challenge to explain which is my favorite season between Autumn and Winter. I truly do not enjoy winter. I like seeing snow the first time it happens then get very tired of the cold and dreary weather.

Autumn is often a time to be thankful to someone who has helped me. I receive a lot of help from my Buddies and an honored to call them each a friend.

sunflower plaid

| Gayle Chrvala
Make the Cards Challenge #35

The challenge with the Make the Cards Challenge blog #35 is Country Life + Buffalo Plaid. So for today’s card, I decided that my sunflower will represent my country life and created not quite buffalo plaid stenciled background in blue to enter my card into this challenge.

Using Taylored Expressions Wheatfield Dreams stamp set and coordinating die, I colored the sun flower with markers and colored pencils mounting it on a vellum oval die cut from classic Spellbinders oval nestabilities. The plaid stencil is also from Taylored Expressions and was inked in GKD’s powder blue and navy inks. The sentiment which was gold heat embossed is GKD’s Skeleton Leaves.

Fun challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Hope everyone had a great day. Stay Safe.

Flutter By

| Gayle Chrvala
ModSquad Challenge: Butterflies

I just saw that the theme for the ModSquad Challenge is one of butterflies. How could I resist! My bright and cheery card uses the stencil from the April My monthly Hero kit Geometric Rotating Stencil and soft landscape window fancy die which was an add on to this kit. My butterfly was die cut from a complimentary green base with a light yellow detailed die using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Detailed Butterflies die set.

I will leave the message for the inside as I didn’t feel anything more was needed on the front.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek and stay safe.