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