Trick or Treat

I'm easing into a new position at work and even though I've been on days since April trying to balance my work time, family time and crafting time is still an issue for me. I have very little time to craft, so I definitely need to try and adjust my evening schedule at home so I can enjoy more time in my craft room!

Today's card came together very quickly, it uses an image that I colored last month during the 30 Day Marker Coloring Challenge. The witch is a digital image from Mo's Digital Pencil, I just love her witch images! Shes added several new ones this season so I definitely need to print those out and play.

For this image I used the usual colors I grab for Halloween cards, green, purple and a hint of black on this one. The image is colored with copic markers and the paper is from a pad I got at JoAnn 's last year I believe. I die cut all of the pieces on the front of the card and then layered them for a nice simple layout (layout is from MFT Bluepriints 20 sketch guide).

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Happy Halloween

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun sketch from Heidi! I recently colored this fun Halloween witch from Mo's Digital Pencil and it's been sitting on my desk just waiting to be made into a card and Heidi's sketch was the perfect layout.

Purple and green with a splash of orange are my favorite colors to use for Halloween, I'm not sure why but that's what I always gravitate too. It's funny because I can't stand the color purple except for Halloween images and some flower ones. Go figure!

Make sure and head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created. We have a brand new DT member, Stef Perry, so come on by to give her a big welcome and then play along with us, we'd love to see how YOU interpret the sketch!

Hello, My Pretty

I have several Halloween images that I colored during the various Daily Marker 30 Day challenges so today I decided to start going through my stash and getting some cards created with them.

This image is a retired Pure Innocence stamp from MFT. Such an adorable witch! I had found a Halloween paper pad from JoAnn's last year and it had the perfect paper to use on my card.

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Hello, My Pretty

I've been wanting to play along with the sketch over at The Paper Players so today I made time to be in my craft room and get a card done. And then I stood in my craft room, just staring at my desk, watching the leaves fall out the window, I played with the puppies when they came in to see me....I had zero creative mojo happening LOL I finally decided to go take my shower and get dinner going and then I popped back into the craft room and ding ding! the light bulb finally went off!

I colored up a few of these PI witch images a few weeks ago and they've just been sitting in a pile on my desk. I grabbed one and then took some patterned paper from a recent pad I got at JoAnn's and started to put it all together. Die-Namics Set 18 from MFT made it easy for me to follow the sketch, and I used a stitched circle die from them to do the circle portion of the sketch. I popped up the little witch with dimensionals, stamped out my sentiment and called it good to go :)

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Witchy Greetings for LMMS

It's time for a new challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog, plus there are new images being released today! I am SO excited about the new images and was really torn about what to use, but since Halloween is a little over a month away I decided to go with the new Halloween image.

The new image is called Jr Hatter Agnes and she is just too cute! I colored her with copics and then I grabbed a pad of paper that I got from JoAnn's over the weekend, it's from DCWV and has some seriously awesome Halloween patterns in it. I grabbed 2 papers from the pad that made it super easy to have the image front and center on the card. The purple frame was cut from a 12x12 sheet that has other frames and sayings on it, I cut this frame out and adhered it to the green spiderweb paper and then popped up Agnes with some dimensionals. I wanted the colors and image on the front of the card to be the main focus so I decided to keep a sentiment off the front and to put one inside the card if needed/wanted.

Make sure you head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Stamps store to check out the 3 images being released today and then grab one and come play along in our Anything Goes Challenge! 

Happy Halloween

Yep, you read that right....Halloween in June! I received a custom request for a   Halloween card and so I was happy to oblige. I love making holiday cards throughout the year, and that includes Halloween.

The customer ordering these cards had gotten Halloween cards from me last year that used the MFT Witch Way is the Candy set and really liked the little witch from that set so I used her again for this card. To get my creativity going I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. My witch is a little bigger than the circle on the right of the sketch but I think it still follows the sketch.

I've had this retired SU Halloween DSP for a number of years so I used that for my 2 sections, mounting it on some Old Olive card stock. The image itself was colored with copics and then I popped it up with dimenionals. Thebanner was made using an MFT die.

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Stamps: Witch Way is the Candy (MFT)

Paper: Basic Black (SU), Old Olive (SU), Neenah Solar White, Ghostly Greetings DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Pumpkin Pie (SU), Old Olive (SU), Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: N3, N4

YR07, YR09

E50, E51, E53

YG63

E35, E37

E43, YR21, YR24

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Blueprints 23, Dimensionals

A Halloween Hello

Yesterday my family left the house at 8am to head to Anchorage to attend Arctic Thunder, the air show put on by the local military base. We didn't get home until 10pm so today we scrapped all our plans and decided to just veg out at home. This meant I headed into my craft room and sat down to get creative! There is still a little bit of time left on the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge so I decided to play along.

I don't usually make a lot of Halloween cards but I recently got this set from MFT and I think there will be more Halloween cards in my future this year. This set is too cute and I just love the little witch! I colored her in with copics used my Scan N Cut to cut her out. The circle is a MFT die, as is the banner that the sentiment is stamped on. I adhered it all to black cardstock and then used a stamp from SU to make the background look like a night sky.

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Being a Navy family we love the Blue Angels, and I can't even begin to count how many times I've seen them in my life. They never cease to amaze me though, and especially after the recent tragedy where they lost Capt. Kuss, it was good to see them flying across the sky. It was definitely the highlight of my summer!

Stamps: Witch Way Candy (MFT), Gorgeous Grunge (SU)

Paper: Basic Black (SU), Crushed Curry (SU), X-Press It Paper

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Cucumber Crush (SU retired), Crushed Curry, White Craft Ink (SU)

Copics: V15, V17

G07, YG09

YR20, YR21, YR24, E33

E13, E15, E17

N2, N4, N7

E09

Y35

E00, E21

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Blueprints Die-Namics 23, Die-Namics Zig Zag Stitched Circles

Halloween Fun for Freshly Made

I didn't have anything to do today so I was able to spend my afternoon stamping, I love it when that happens! I grabbed my stamps and sat down to work with the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, Linda C. has a great one this week.

As soon as I saw the sketch the houses from Holiday Home popped into my head. Linda C used them to make a great Halloween card and I didn't want to seem like I was copying her (yes, I'm weird like that LOL) so I grabbed the Halloween set Tee-Hee-Hee to work with instead. I don't make many Halloween cards but I could not resist this new set from Stampin' Up!, it is too darn cute (and will be available for purchase Aug.28!).

I combined some old with the new because as I said, while I absolutely adore Halloween and go nuts decorating my house for it I don't make a lot of Halloween themed cards so I've got DSP from years ago that I still haven't touched. I grabbed some of this DSP, Ghostly Greetings, to make the strip at the bottom of the card. I backed it with some Basic Black to help it stand out against the embossed panel of Pumpkin Pie. I used the Honeycomb folder for embossing and also sponged around the edges with Pumpkin Pie to get a little more definition to the panel. 

All the images were stamped and the cut out and adhered to the card. The witches dress and hat are popped up with dimensionals. The "bubbles" are non SU sequins I had in my stash.

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Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Tee-Hee-Hee

Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Whisper White, Ghostly Greetings DSP (retired)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Mossy Meadow, Blackberry Bliss

Accessories: Big Shot, Honeycomb TIEF, non SU sequins, sponge, dimensionals