Paper Players: Safe as Houses

Happy Sunday y'all!  You ready for a new Paper Players challenge?

This fun theme challenge is from Laurie!  Here's what I made:

And the inside:

I think my card is in CAS-Plus territory rather than strictly CAS, but this was like the third iteration of this card and I couldn't get it to work with fewer elements.  I was inspired by the colors in the challenge graphic to dig out my old Retro Fresh DSP. 

But this wasn't my first idea.

Because I saw the word "house" and my brain yelled HAUNTED.

The image is so big that there really isn't much white space that's the hallmark of CAS, and I didn't want to get fired from the Paper Players for having wacky ideas ;) so I made the other card.  But yep, I was over here making a Halloween card in May.  That's how I roll.

Hope you'll join in the fun at the Paper Players blog this week.  Cheers!

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  From Our House to Yours
Ink:  Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, Coastal Cabana, Calypso Coral
Paper:  Thick Very Vanilla, Coastal Cabana, Retro Fresh DSP
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, Dimensionals

Supplies, Halloween card:
Stamps:  House of Haunts, Best of Halloween
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Old Olive, Smoky Slate, Basic Black, Cutest Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Border Basics dies, Black EP, White EP, Dimensionals, chalk marker

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Cindy Beach

Christy Stanford <-- You are here : )

Jennie Maier

Two Bats

My husband knows this woman who has the nickname "Two Bats" because she sounds like the Count from Sesame Street when she laughs.  He just told me about her and her laugh this week, so perhaps I still had two bats on the brain when I made today's card.

This card was super-easy to put together; those patterned paper squares (from last year's Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP) were direct from my scrap pile, so I made this whole thing in under, like, 5 minutes.  Easy-peasy.  And it was fun to break out the ol' bat punch again : )  Plus it's always a bonus to use up some scraps.

The sketch is a modified version of the current Fab Friday challenge:

I think I can manage another card for the Friday Flashback tomorrow to make this whole week Halloweenie.  Ta-ta for now, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Best of Halloween
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP (retired)
Accessories:  bat punch (retired), Dimensionals, Tangerine Tango EP

Quatrefancy Treat

Monday again already!  How 'bout we start off the week with a little Halloween card:

Lemme tell ya, it's all treats at my house right now.  I found a recipe for iced pumpkin coffee cake this morning and pretty much made it immediately; you can thank me later for posting that link.  IS YUM.  Here I sit with my first piece of it plus a giant Marauder's Map mug o' tea and the Bangles playing on my iPod and life is GOOD.

Anyway, my card for today is based on the latest most awesome challenge from Freshly Made Sketches:

Not sure why the pic shows up gray here?  I had a lot of ideas going on in my brain for this sketch too, it's a good 'un.  Eventually I went with Best of Halloween just because I wanted to make a Halloween card and I wanted to use all current stuff.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Best of Halloween
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Basic Black, Old Olive, Whisper White, Quatrefancy DSP
Accessories:  White & Black EP, Chevron EF, corner rounder punch, Dimensionals

Trick or Treat!

So it's only August, but I've got a Halloween card today.

I think I might need a new Basic Black ink pad, hmm.  I just got the new Best of Halloween stamp set last week, and it was the first one I thought of for the Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge, which I rotated 90 degrees:

The colors are kinda odd for a Halloween card, I admit.  I was trying really hard to use that Sweater Weather DSP since I didn't get the new Halloween DSP...I think it kinda works anyway?  Maybe?  Maybe my mojo has gone on holiday since I've been spending so much time uploading pictures to print out...

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Best of Halloween
Ink:  Basic Black
Paper:  Tangerine Tango, Soft Sky, Crushed Curry, Very Vanilla, Sweater Weather DSP
Accessories:  Corner rounder & square punches