Witchy Greetings

Midnight greetings, spooky pals, and a lucky #13 at that!  When I posted yesterday's Paper Players card, I mentioned that I had made three different cards with the challenge colors, and then let Ryan choose which one to post for the challenge.  So here's one of the alternates:

These are perfectly witchy colors, no?  I thought I'd have some fun with the Bewitching stamp set, which is image only so I picked up the "Best Witches" greeting from the eponymous stamp set.  For this one I used multiple shades of the Paper Players challenge colors:

I've got both Gorgeous Grape and Highland Heather for purples (seriously, when are we getting Gorgeous Grape Blends???), and Granny Apple Green and Lemon Lime Twist for greens.  Elizabeth chose the challenge colors, I'm just her stunt double for hosting challenges for the rest of the year, she just happened to choose my two favorites : )

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bewitching, Best Witches
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, VersaMark, Stampin' Blends in Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather
Paper:  Gorgeous Grape, Basic Black, Highland Heather, Thick Basic White, Halloween Spells DSP
Accessories:  Witch Hat punch, Circles Collection dies, Perennial Postage dies, white EP, Glitter Enamel Dots, Basic Black 3/8" taffeta ribbon

Hulk-Inspired Colors with the Paper Players

Happy Sunday y'all and get ready for a new Paper Players challenge!  I hope you enjoyed Claire's Halloween costume challenge as much as I did,  I am sure you've realized by now that I am all in when it comes to Halloween cards : )  Daphne is still blissfully unaware that I have an entire plastic tub of dog costumes, but she'll be finding out all about that soon!

Anyway, it's time for a new Paper Players challenge and Elizabeth has chosen some great colors for us to play with!

Seriously I was very tempted to make an Incredible Hulk card but I've done that already, so then I made three different purple and green cards and asked Ryan to pick which one I should post today.  He said that made him feel important, but unfortunately I just don't have the bandwidth to make multiple cards for every DT commitment, ha!  Here's the card Ryan chose for me to share today:

Wonderfully Wicked came out in 2019 and I still like to play with it every year, what's not to love about that giant die-cut word?  I still have some Iridescent Ice embossing powder, so I covered the word with that so it's green glittery sparkles and I love it.  I stamped the rest of the message and then had to add some punched bats from Spooky Sweets, another perennial Halloween favorite, and a few Granny Apple Green glitter enamel dots which are also quite old but I bought I think five packs.  I've used a lot of the green and purple enamel dots, I need to make a concerted effort to use up the Melon Mambo and Coastal Cabana ones.

Anyway, I hope you will enjoy Elizabeth's colors as much as I did, I am sure I will be sharing the other two green and purple cards I made later this week.  Don't forget to post your creation on the Paper Players blog, and most important, have fun!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

  and now me : )

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Wonderfully Wicked, Spooky Sweets
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Gorgeous Grape, Versamark
Paper:  Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green, Smoky Slate, Thick Basic White, Gorgeous Grape DSP
Accessories:  Wicked dies, Triple Bat Punch, Iridescent Ice EP, Mini Dimensionals, Glitter Enamel Dots

Halloween Spider

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  How is your October going?  I'm seeing more and more Halloween decorations go up in our neighborhood--we have inflatable decorations including the Sanderson sisters from Hocus Pocus as well as Bluey, which makes my little heart happy.  Ryan says we need twice as many Halloween decorations outside so maybe I'll see if I can get more half-price after the big day.  I saw a duck pirate inflatable (should it be duck pirate or pirate duck?) that he would love.

Anyway, my mom has a giant inflatable spider that she's put in her yard for years, but I prefer spiders to be flat, unmoving, and not alive.  Like this one!

I'm not 100% sure I liked this CASE-ing Tuesday sketch, but I gave it a shot!

I love the Wonderfully Wicked stamp set, but this time I skipped the giant die-cut word and went for the spider and web (usually I go with the cat or the bat since I don't like spiders!) and paired it with a fantastic plaid in Halloween colors.  I should mail this to my mom, who always texts me when she puts on her spider earrings for Halloween.

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Wonderfully Wicked
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Plaid Tidings DSP
Accessories:  Hippo & Friends dies, Milky Dots

Magical Night

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  I'm back with another Halloween card.

This one is all about the bats and that beautiful Magic In This Night DSP, I do love that black harlequin pattern.  And here is the CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch I used as my jumping-off point for tonight's card:

The original catalog card was super springy in pastels:

Just more proof that a good sketch works in any season, am I right?

Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Hallows Night Magic
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Basic Black, Pretty Peacock, Magic In This Night DSP, New Horizons DSP Stack
Accessories:  Halloween Magic dies, Tags & Labels dies, Black EP, black rhinestones, Dimensionals

Pastel Pumpkins

Afternoon, y'all!  I am slowly starting to get back in the swing of things:  I've taken Daphne for her walk every day this week (which is currently the only exercise I can do, no core activation for a while yet which leaves out pretty much...everything), I've made a couple of cards for future DT commitments so I can be ready ahead of time, and this morning I made one for a couple of new challenges!  Here it is:

I think Pick of the Patch might be my favorite pumpkin-centric stamp set, unless it's my very old favorite Carved & Candlelit.  Anyway, I had to make a pair of pastel pumpkins for the Inspired By... challenge:

Which I paired with the hot-off-the-presses Festive Friday challenge:

I used cream (Very Vanilla cardstock), sequins, heat embossing, and clean & simple for my card, and a whole lotta Petal Pink which is not a color I tend to gravitate towards.  It's hard to tell in my photo, but the polka dots on the larger pumpkin, the sentiment, and the sequins are all gold, I've been having trouble getting good photos lately.  The little pumpkin is stamped in Peach Pie, but to soften the colors of all my stamping I inked up the stamps and then used sponges to lift some of the ink before I stamped on my cardstock.  Also a trick I use when an ink pad is extra super juicy.

That's it for now, peeps.  Until midnight, and another spooky card!  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pick of the Patch
Ink:  Petal Pink, Peach Pie, Soft Suede, Versamark
Paper:  Petal Pink, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Gold EP, gold sequins, Mini Dimensionals, Hearts & Hugs dies

Not Really Creepy

Midnight greetings once again, spooky friends!  I can't believe that we're already about a third of the way through October...let's start a petition to make October have like 75 days, yes?  Great fall weather and the lead-up to Halloween, of course we need more of that.

I've got a non-traditional Halloween card to share today:

No orange to be seen here, so how about Sumer Splash and Petunia Pop?  And a bit of Pretty in Pink because why not.  I love the Boo to You stamp set, it has this monster, a werewolf, and Frankenstein's monster and they're just cute.  Plus it was fun to play with unexpected colors for this card.  I suppose I *could* have made my monster orange and green.

This time I went in the way-back machine all the way to 2011 and made a card inspired by the very first Freshly Made Sketch:

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Boo to You
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Summer Splash, Petunia Pop, Pretty in Pink
Paper:  Summer Splash, Thick Basic White, Unbounded Beauty DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, In Color Shimmer Gems, Dimensionals

Happy Owl-oween

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  Are you tired of Halloween cards yet?  Obviously I am not : )

Ummm it just occurred to me that I should have stamped a branch for the owl to perch on but I didn't so I guess he's levitating.  Spooky?  We had two years of Halloween DSP featuring Summer Starfruit (the funky yellow) so I'm actually working through some of my stock of that cardstock.  I used another CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch:

Spooky Cat is another one of my Halloween acquisitions from earlier this year, I have been trolling eBay and the B/S/T groups on Facebook for Halloween stamps for months.  Now I feel like I need to make another owl card and give him something to perch on...

Stay spooky, y'all!  And maybe practice your levitation.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Spooky Cat
Ink:  Summer Starfruit, Pumpkin Pie, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Summer Starfruit, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla, Witches' Brew DSP
Accessories:  Radiating Stitches dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Tutti Frutti Sequins

Playful Boo

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  I am trying really hard to get back in my craft room despite the post-surgery fatigue...my surgeon said I would be feeling tired for 4 to 6 weeks after surgery and I do NOT want to sleep through October, so that's a bit of a bummer.  At least I still have lots of Hex-Travaganza cards to share, like this one!

I paired last year's cute Playful Ghosts stamp set with some very, very old DSP (Cast-a-Spell, still one of my favorites) and another eBay stamp acquisition, Scaredy Cat.  Put that all together with a CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch:

Anyone else remember when SU! had all the different colors of embossing powder?  I still like to play with them on occasion, I probably have at least ten different colors.  I also dug out the old Candy Dots embellishments for some Perfect Plum accents.

Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Scaredy Cat, Playful Ghosts
Ink:  Versamark, Perfect Plum, Stampin' Blends in Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Daffodil Delight, Ivory
Paper:  Perfect Plum, Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Cast-a-Spell DSP
Accessories:  Tangerine Tango EP, Dimensionals, Perfect Plum Candy Dots

Enjoy Every Bite

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  I hope you're enjoying the Halloween Hex-Travaganza as much as I am...hopefully I'll start getting some of my energy back so I can make MORE Halloween cards.

Tonight's card features another stamp set that I acquired earlier this year called Twick or Tweet, and here it is:

And here is the CASE-ing Tuesday sketch I started with:

I cut a stripe of DSP that says "yum" over and over, which I thought was funny with the image I chose.  I highlighted the image with just a little bit of color, and this was a quick card to put together.

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Twick or Tweet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Kiwi Kiss, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Kiwi Kiss, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Ghostly Greetings DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Layering Circles dies, Dimensionals

Frankenstein Castle

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I am still trying to recover from the appendectomy...it just seems like I have zero energy.  I can, at least, take Daph for walks now, which she appreciates since she didn't get to go for almost two weeks.  But then I require a nap afterwards.

Anyway, I do have a scrapbook layout to share today and I thought we'd go with Frankenstein Castle for a spooky vibe.

There are actually two different Frankenstein Castles in Germany, so we went to the one that was closer to our house and that supposedly has some kind of connection to Mary Shelley, though I have to say it didn't seem any spookier than any of the other castle ruins I've visited (which might be dozens?  I would have to count).  Then again, we didn't stay for the after-dark festivities either.

Today's not-really-spooky palette:  Sahara Sand (honestly I miss this color, Basic Beige has a sickly green undertone in my opinion so I find it hard to use), Groovy Guava, Mossy Meadow, Gumball Green, and white.  Nothing real special on this layout, just pictures, but that's okay.

Time to go chivvy Ryan along so we can get out the door on time, and then I have a doctor's appointment.  Probably followed by a nap.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Classic Alphabet
Ink:  Basic Gray
Paper:  Sahara Sand, Mossy Meadow, Gumball Green, Thick Basic White, Groovy Guava DSP
Accessories:  None

Smiling Pumpkins

Midnight greetings, spooky pals!  I wish October would slow down a bit because I want to enjoy it more.  My favorite month of the year : )

Tonight's card is all about the pumpkins:

I was inspired by a CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch and let the Spooky Night DSP do all the heavy lifting.

I changed the placement for the greeting to where it felt right with the pumpkins on the paper.  Isn't that a fun pattern?  I decided to do the Hex-Travaganza not only to get more use out of my Halloween stamps, but because I have quite the stack of Halloween papers and they deserve to get used too.  And even now it hardly looks like I've made a dent in the paper stack : )

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cutest Halloween
Ink:  Cajun Craze
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Spooky Night DSP
Accessories:  Tags & Labels Framelits, Dimensionals, Matte Black Dots

Paper Players Costume Party!

Happy Sunday, y'all!  Are you ready for a fun new Paper Players challenge?  I hope so, because it's coming at you right...now!

This fun theme is brought to us by the lovely Claire and it was all the excuse I needed to ink up a set of Lawn Fawn stamps for my card:

I need to show this to my kiddo, he loves birds.  Anyway, I knew right off that I wanted to use a very, very old DSP pack called Sweet & Sour, which is that multicolored polka dot pattern (a quick Google search seems to indicate that this DSP is from 2011!).  I colored in my three costumed pals and put them on a circle of Granny Apple Green pattern so they'd stand out against all that pink and orange.  This is the first card I managed to make after my appendectomy surgery--it's been about 10 days and I still spend most of my time sleeping!  But I could NOT let Claire's challenge pass me by.

I hope you'll join in the fun and post your Halloween costume card at the Paper Players blog.  Don't forget to check out the fun creations my teamies made, too!  Lots of eye candy for your virtual trick-or-treat activities.

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

  and now me : )

Supplies:
Stamps:  Fox Costumes Before & Afters
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Highland Heather
Paper:  Pretty in Pink, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Sweet & Sour Specialty DSP, Sunshine & Rainbows DSP
Accessories:  Fox Costumes Lawn Cuts, Circles Collection Framelits, Mini Dimensionals, In Color Resin Dots

Witch Way

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  How goes your spooky season?  I put on Hocus Pocus yesterday but I fell asleep in the middle, so I'm not sure if that counts as watching the movie.  Tonight I have a cute witch card to share:

This is the second Halloween card I made with this CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch:

I haven't shared the first one yet but the diagonal on that one goes the same direction as the sketch.  For Ms. Witch tonight, I wanted to use the other pieces of DSP I had left over from the first card, and I used the reverse sides for the black and white patterns.

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Haunt Ya Later
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Highland Heather, Stampin' Blends in Highland Heather, Pumpkin Pie, Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lolly, Old Olive, Petal Pink
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Cute Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies, Perennial Postage dies, Glitter Sequins, Dimensionals

Halloween Brews

Midnight greetings, spooky pals!  Here we are with night 4 of the Halloween Hex-Travaganza and tonight is all about the magic potions!

I got Sweet Hauntings a couple of months ago and had to do a trio of deadly poisons for this CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch:

The original catty card that inspired the sketch:

I had fun deciding what colors the bottles should be to go with the Halloween Spells DSP.

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sweet Hauntings
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Gorgeous Grape, Stampin' Blends in Highland Heather, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie, Pool Party
Paper:  Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Halloween Spells DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Party Dots

Fun with Frogs

Midnight greetings, spooky pals!  It's night three of the Halloween Hex-Travaganza and I have a fun card to share tonight!

Here is proof that a card doesn't have to be orange and black to be Halloweeny goodness!  I focused on my two favorite colors for tonight's card because green and purple are also great Halloween colors.  Once again I used a CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch:

And here is the original catty inspiration for the sketch:

I'm such a challenge junkie that it really helps me to start with at least one parameter instead of creating on the fly, and sketch challenges are perfect for Halloween cards.  So thank you to the CASE-ing Tuesday team for unknowingly inspiring a lot of the Hex-Travaganza cards I'll be sharing this month.

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bewitching, Trick or Tweet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Gorgeous Grape, Stampin' Blends in Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather
Paper:  Gorgeous Grape, Lemon Lime Twist, Thick Basic White, Toil & Trouble DSP
Accessories:  witch hat punch, Stylish Shapes dies, Purple Shimmer Gems, Dimensionals

Batty Boo

Welcome to night 2 of the Halloween Hex-Travaganza!  And tonight we're hanging out with a couple of spooky bats.

I love that Ghostly Greetings pattern with the orange swirls and I finally convinced myself that I really needed to use it on some cards.  The moon was super easy too--it's just a circle cut out of a marbly pattern from the retired Perfectly Artistic DSP.  The only thing that took a bit of time on this card was fussy cutting my bats, which are from the Autumn Apparitions stamp set (another eBay find from a couple of years ago).  I've spent this entire year picking up extra Halloween stamp sets just for the Hex-Travaganza and I still have some that I haven't played with yet.  So here we are on night 2 and I'm already certain I will have another Hex-Travaganza next year.  For the moment, I need to start mailing out these Halloween cards!

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Autumn Apparitions
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Granny Apple Green
Paper:  Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Perfectly Artistic DSP, Ghostly Greetings DSP
Accessories:  2 1/2" circle punch, Glitter Enamel Dots, Mini Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

Hello October!

Mornin' y'all!  I am continuing to recover from my appendectomy last week but I'm happy to report that I'm feeling better, though I still sleep a lot.  Hopefully I'll be able to get back in my craft room very soon, but in the meantime, I have a card that I made last week and didn't get to share with all the craziness.  Here it is:

Hello October!  I had to use the Gathering Together DSP for the Addicted to CAS challenge:

Which I paired with the sketch from CAS on Friday:

I couldn't resist adding a couple of stamped leaves and an acorn above my greeting but I think it's still CAS.

Didja see the first Halloween Hex-Travaganza card I posted at midnight?  I'll be doing spooky sweet cards for the entire month of October because it makes my little goblin heart happy : )  I've been planning for that all year and I'm tickled to finally get it started.

Anyway, time to get the kiddo off to school.  Cheers!
Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Gathering Moments, Everyday Arches
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Paper:  Basic Beige, Gathering Together DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Gold Cord

Spooktacular Monster Bash

It's the witching hour, y'all!  Last year I lamented how I didn't get to share nearly enough Halloween cards, and I love Halloween cards so I had to think of a way to fix that : )  The answer:  a month-long Hex-Travaganza of Halloween goodness!  Every night at midnight for the month of October, I will be sharing a Halloween card with lots of stamp sets and Halloween papers from years past.

We're kicking off the Hex-Travaganza with a monster bash!

Our friendly spooks here are all cut out of the Spooktacular Bash DSP so the only stamping is the greeting on the headstone-shaped die.  I started making cards for this last December (which is good because it means that last week's drama queen appendix won't affect the Hex-Travaganza) and I frequently start with the CASE-ing Tuesday Sketches as a jumping off point.  Here's the sketch I used for this card:

And the card in the annual catalog that the sketch is based on:

I am looking forward to sharing lots more Halloween goodness this month, this might just be my favorite type of card to make!

Keep it spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Spooktacular Bash
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Terracotta Tile, Basic Beige, Monster Bash DSP
Accessories:  Textured Notes dies, Ornate Frames dies, Matte Black Dots, Dimensionals

Hocus Pocus, It's a Sketch

Mornin' y'all!  I didn't get really anything done last week because I went back into the hospital on Saturday morning.  Turns out recovering from the appendectomy is just as challenging as the part leading up to the surgery!  I'm taking it slow, the hubs is taking great care of me with Ryan as his nurse and Daphne is the emotional support/physical therapy member of our team (because petting a doggo is physical therapy).  And my parents got here yesterday afternoon to help too.

All that to say, I have a Paper Players card to share today.

I had my card made well in advance, and luckily I had already added it to the Paper Players post, but as of last Monday I hadn't written my own post here for it because I thought I had lots of time to get it done but then my appendix had other plans.  But I couldn't just not share it here because it might be my favorite card that I've ever made.  Like EVER.  And here it is:

It's Winifred Sanderson!  I swear I pulled out ALLLL the Blends for this one and I am just so tickled with how she looks.  I made her cheeks VERY pink like in the movie; Bette Midler said she wanted Winifred's makeup to look like she put it on herself and couldn't see very well while doing it.  Probably should have put more eye shadow on her though.

Anyway, I found the perfect cloudy night sky in the Everyday Skies DSP pack and then pulled up a reference photo of Winifred to color her in.  I fussy cut her, popped her on some Orchid Oasis glimmer paper, and then used my Blends to color some rhinestones in Orchid Oasis for a little embellishment.

Here's what Winnie looks like from the back : )

Go check out the Paper Players blog to see just ow versatile this sketch is and don't forget to link up there, we love to see what you create.  Cheers!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Sisters and We Fly from C.C. Designs
Ink:  Secret Sea, Stampin' Blends in Pumpkin Pie, Shaded Spruce, Shy Shamrock, Petal Pink, Melon Mambo, Orchid Oasis, Pecan Pie, Darling Ducking and maybe that's it?
Paper:  Shy Shamrock, Thick Basic White, Everyday Skies DSP Stack, In Color Glimmer Paper
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, rhinestones, Dimensioanls

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

  and now me : )