Bone-Jour

Midnight greetings, spooky pals!  I'm back with another Halloween card and I picked this one because I just mailed it off to my friend Krissy earlier this week.  Say Bone-Jour to our friend Pierre:

I'm bringing back the Bag of Bones bundle along with the very old Modern Label punch for the sentiment.  Fun fact:  I have visited the Paris catacombs twice, so I have in fact seen many many French skeletons.

Once again, my card is inspired by a CASE-ing Tuesday sketch:

See, you can turn any sketch into a Halloween card if you try hard enough.  That's it for tonight, y'all.  Stay spooky, pals!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bag of Bones
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Them Bones DSP
Accessories:  Bag of Bones dies, white EP, Modern Label punch, black rhinestones, Mini Dimensionals

SUO Challenges: Going In Circles

Hey hey hey, get ready for another challenge from SUO Challenges!  We have a brand new theme starting now....

We're going in circles this time around!  So you can use circle dies, circle punches, polka dot patterned paper, anything you've got that features circles as long as it's Stampin' Up! only.  I had so much fun with this, I made two cards!

I saw a card on page 57 of the annual catalog that inspired both of my cards for today.  For the first card, I wanted to feature some of the super cute forest friends on the Beary Christmas DSP.  I adhered a stripey paper to my card base, and then used the Stylish Shapes dies to cut three circles out of a panel of Balmy Blue cardstock (note to self:  find a way to use those three circles on another project!).  Then I fussy-cut three animals and a Christmas tree from another sheet of the Beary Christmas paper.  One simple stamped greeting and I have a cute Christmas card to send out!

I liked that one so much I had to make a Halloween version too:

For this one, I used the Deckled Circles dies and cut the Basic Black panel with a Deckled Rectangle die, and then stamped and die cut my three skelly pals, some spooky bats, and the sentiment.  Same basic idea for both cards, but they look pretty different, don't they?

And now it's your turn!  Find some circles and have fun making something, then share it on the SUO Challenges blog.  Cheers!

Supplies, Christmas card:
Stamps:  Beary Cute
Ink:  Misty Moonlight
Paper:  Balmy Blue, Beary Christmas DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies

Supplies, Halloween card:
Stamps:  Bag of Bones
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Orchid Oasis, Versamark
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Basic Black, Orchid Oasis, Them Bones DSP
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Deckled Circles dies, Bag of Bones dies, white EP, Dimensionals

Cowboy Skelly

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday!  I am once again procrastinating about cleaning up stuff in the house...but yesterday, I did eventually get out and work on the garage.  It took me 3 1/2 hours, but I've got it all organized and I can park in there again, so I'm happy about that.  Now I just have to impose order on the giant mess that is my house...

But first, a card.  I actually made this one for the current SU! Only color challenge, but I wasn't 100% happy with it and so I made the card that I posted on Tuesday.  So here's today's card:

Nothing wrong with it, per se, but it just wasn't grabbing me and I do try to do my best work for design team stuff.  Don't forget to post your own card on the SUO Challenges blog!

Okay, okay, I've got to get off the computer and get to work on the house.  I hope to squeeze in some time to do a card this afternoon but I really do need to work first.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bag of Bones
Ink:  Versamark, Gorgeous Grape
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Parakeet Party, Gorgeous Grape, Basic Black, Smoky Slate
Accessories:  White EP, Black EP, Bag of Bones dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Mini Dimensionals

Danse Macabre with SUO Challenges

Hey y'all, get ready for a new color challenge from SUO Challenges!

Aren't those colors great together?  Halloween is the obvious choice for using these colors, but that doesn't mean you *have* to make a Halloween card--check out the SUO Challenges blog to see what I mean.

I did make a Halloween card though, I love Halloween cards : )

I cut Deckled Rectangles of the three challenge colors and stamped tone-on-tone for all three, the top two with stamps from Bag of Bones and the bottom is Sketched Plaid.  For the Pumpkin Pie rectangle, I put all the assorted bone stamps on a block together and just stamped them all at once, easy peasy.  One dancing skeleton later, I had a card!

I hope you will be inspired to play along with these colors, I can't wait to see what you create!  Don't forget to link up at the SUO Challenges blog, and have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bag of Bones, Sketched Plaid
Ink:  Gorgeous Grape, Pumpkin Pie, Parakeet Party, VersaMark
Paper:  Basic Black, Gorgeous Grape, Pumpkin Pie, Parakeet Party
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Deckled Circles dies, white EP, Dimensionals, Matte Dots

Bone-Jour Doggo

Hey y'all, how's it going today?  Ryan was quite resistant to getting up today, he said that extra day off made it extra hard to get up today.  But we got there in the end and he had a good time with his cousins yesterday, even if that made him go to bed a little bit later than I wanted.

So today I want to start off with the most excellent theme challenge from the Paper Players!

Oh man, do I have a lot of stamps I could use for this one!  I even have a lot of different current stamps I could use for it, but I decided to go with a brand new stamp set and continue the Halloween haps from last week.

A skeleton doggo still has four feets, right?  I've seen quite a few projects made with the skeletons in this set, but only one or two with the dog or cat skellies.  I used the coordinating Them Bones DSP, and as it happens the little strip is the reverse side of the larger bone pattern.  I thought about going with black for the card base and circle element, but I thought Starry Sky would be more fun.  I do love that color!

I may revisit this challenge later this week, 'cause I do love me some animal stamps.  Have a great Tuesday!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bag of Bones
Ink:  Versamark, Starry Sky
Paper:  Starry Sky, Thick Basic White, Them Bones DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Mini Dimensionals, retired In Color Matte Dots