Brooke & Halloween

| Gayle Chrvala

Just how much fun is it to have a sleepover due to a school holiday on Monday. I will let you know that it’s a blast letting Brooke, my 11 year old granddaughter, take charge of my “elf” room and start designing Halloween cards. What a maker she is!!! This card was a combination of a fabulous patterned paper pack, Grumpy Pets and a Tim Holtz set. And if one card was not enough how about the rest of these amazing cards.

Brooke used some patterned papers, dies, pouncers, stickers, googly eyes, embossing folders and a whole lot of fun.

Just for fun I’m sharing Brooke’s cards with one of my favorite challenges:

Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge #8

Chase, Brooke’s brother, did his part, too. He ate all of the candy corn candy! And best of all chose his favorite card which was the top one.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care; be safe.

vellum christmas

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is another addition to my Christmas stash. I saw several Christmas cards using vellum on Pinterest and luckily I had some embossed Christmas vellum in my stash. Patterned paper is also from my stash. Sentiment circle is computer clip art cut with Spellbinders Classic Circles and popped up. Circle looks like it has splatters on it but it’s actually little stars and snowflakes. To adhere the vellum I ran it through my Xyron.

This will be entered at

https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2023/09/peace-on-earth-christmas-challenge-48.html

https://mostmagicaltimeoftheyear.blogspot.com/2023/09/challenge-12-most-magical-anything.html

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate your visits. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Roses in Red and Purple

| Lisa K

This is my second card for today. I colored these roses several days ago and then got sidetracked with Halloween and other things. So, today I finished the roses card.

This card was created with the Color Hues in mind: https://colorhuesthecolorchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/09/special-challenge-lindseys-legacy-hop.html

I used SU gray for the cardbase, Accent white for the roses and the embossed shape. The stamp set used is Technique Tuesday Sending Roses along with coordinating dies. The shape was cut from SU Deco Labels and embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I added gems from Taylored Expressions (purple ones) and Stampin Up (red ones).

Today was the perfect day for me to post a rose card. It would have been my mother’s birthday and roses were her favorite flower. Each year, I would purchase a new rose set to use on her birthday card. This was a new set given to me, so I was thrilled to use it. I think my Mom would have preferred her roses to be just one color, but she would have enjoyed this card. Thanks for spending time with me and reading about my rose card.

Halloween Slimline

| Lisa K

Continuing to create with the Spooky and Mice set from Simon Says Stamp, I made a slimline card.

I saw a few cards created by the Simon Says Stamp designers and used a few for inspiration. One had a background of stars, another had the images arranged like this, and another had different coloring and many used the gel pen for highlights. I took all of their inspiration in and created this card. I used Gina K Designs Layering White cardstock for most of the images, and while laying this out, I needed a few more images. I have a pack of white strips from SU Basic White cardstock very close to where I create, so I took a strip and stamped more candy images. Then went to coloring with alcohol markers and adding the gel pen.

I chose three colors for the stars–Lawn Fawn Fake Tan (orange), Manatee (light gray) and SU Misty Moonlight (blue). The star stencil is a very old retired SU one.

First challenge, http://cardz4galz.blogspot.com/2023/09/use-stencil-sentiment-image.html

I used the stencil, many sentiments, and several images to meet this challenge.

Most Magical Time of the Year: https://mostmagicaltimeoftheyear.blogspot.com/2023/09/challenge-12-most-magical-anything.html

Another Challenge: https://halloweencraftsallyearround.blogspot.com/2023/09/sept-15-oct-14-challenge-8.html

I think that is enough challenges. I will post this to splitcoast stampers and link to Two Old Bats from there.

I enjoyed creating this fun card. This stamp set was definitely a good purchase for my daughter. She is the Halloween fanatic as she loves the holiday and finds many clear and rubber stamps to create with. She owns then and I use them; works perfect for me. Thanks for reading my long post. Have a wonderful last day of summer.

window sheet anniversary

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our granddaughter & grandson-i-l. It’s been ages since I’ve made a window sheet card. As usual the pp was found online. Die used for the sentiment is one I found on Amazon but don’t have a name for it. Sentiment was printed on the computer, inside hearts are from a small hand punch. The bottom panel, for our signature, is also a gift card/money holder. The Cajun Craze cs from Stampin Up is one of my favorite fall colors. I really enjoyed making this and am pretty pleased with it.

Thanks for stopping by your visits mean a lot to me. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

CAS HALLOWEEN pUMPKIN

| Lisa K

I have been coloring Halloween images to create a Clean and Simple Halloween card. Sometimes I want to keep adding, but I think I was able to keep it CAS.

The pumpkins and candy came from the Stamptember collaboration with Simon Says Stamp and Whimsy Stamps, called Spooky and Mice Stamps. I colored them using alcohol based markers, then added a white gel pen for highlights. The greeting is from Lawn Fawn Simply Fall Sentiments set. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the spider web.

This will be placed at Splitcoast Stampers in this week’s Clean and Simple challenge with the Halloween theme. https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/3136679

It will be placed in the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/09/september-2023-mid-month-reminder.html This was actually lined from my Splitcoast Stampers account. We had reached the limit on the blog.

The next challenge is called Halloween Crafts All Year Round: https://halloweencraftsallyearround.blogspot.com/2023/09/sept-15-oct-14-challenge-8.html

It will be entered in the Most Magical Time of the Year: https://mostmagicaltimeoftheyear.blogspot.com/2023/09/challenge-12-most-magical-anything.html

That is quite a few challenges. I have made a few Halloween cards this year for the Dirty Dozen Challenges, which I didn’t post here on the blog and one for a swap. This is the first one I have made with new images where I took time to color. I colored all of the images in the set, but only used a few here.

Thanks for reading!

BIRTHDAY WOLF

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for my animal loving niece who especially likes wolves. Wolf image was found by Googling wolf clip art, pp was found by searching for fall woodsy background paper. My biggest challenge was printing “happy birthday” on a 1/4″ strip. Die used is Stitched Squares by Die-namics. I was not real sure about it till hubby said how much he liked it.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

fractured birthday

| Gerry Morse

Hello and welcome. I hope those of you on the east coast are staying safe from Lee.

After seeing so many fractured/faux shutter cards I just had to try one. I found several tutorials on Pinterest. Again, the pp’s were found online, sentiment square was printed on the computer and I brought in some clip art fall leaves. Die used it stitched squares by Die-namics. It wasn’t as difficult as I thought it might be and I’m very pleased with the end result.

I will enter this at http://cardz4galz.blogspot.com/2023/09/207-leaves.html

Thanks for stopping by your visits mean a lot to me. Have a great day and stay healthy & safe.

Autumn Greetings

| Lisa K

I used older product to create an autumn leaves card.

I used a set from 2016, SU Blended Seasons. I stamped the leaves in Archival Sepia ink, then used watercolor pencils and a blender pen to add color. It was die cut with the dies that were released with the stamp set. I embossed, GKD Dark Chocolate cardstock with the SU Layered Leaves folder; it is very retired. The greeting came from Your Next Stamp Autumn Greetings, with a date of 2015. I am enjoying creating with product from my stash giving it new life.

https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/2023/09/anything-goes-with-twist-of-trees.html

http://cardz4galz.blogspot.com/2023/09/207-leaves.html

https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2023/09/challenge-215-fall-scenes.html

We found this interesting fungus growing in our yard. I have never seen anything like this. I thought it looked like Mums, but we have none growing that I am aware of. Enjoy!

Fungus