A Pair of Jacks

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  The hubs took this week off from work and Ryan is on his second week of fall break (uh, I think he should just have one week off) so we've been doing all the touristy things around our area this week.  We've seen some cool things, but I haven't gotten to spend any time in my craft room this week.  At least I have Halloween cards already ready to go for the Hex-Travaganza!

Here is tonight's offering:

A couple of cute jacks and also the card that made me realize I need to ink up my Flirty Flamingo and Highland Heather ink pads.  We have low humidity where I am in Colorado and I don't think about it until I have to ink up yet another ink pad.

You've seen me use this CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch before:

My Witch Way card is actually the second card I made with this sketch, and tonight's card was the first one.  I had to use the other two triangular pieces of DSP : )

Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Jack of All Trades, Cutest Halloween
Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Highland Heather, Flirty Flamingo, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Old Olive, Thick Basic White, Cute Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Perennial Postage dies, Dimensionals

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

Cute Little Boo

Hey y'all, how's it going?  I am currently eating the last piece of pumpkin coffee cake (I waited until Ryan was at school so he won't see me, ha) and thought I'd write up a blog post before I head to a class at the Y.  So here it is!

I think I need to find a different place to take photos in this house, the colors look a little bit off to me.  The circle behind the cute little boo is Flirty Flamingo.  I suppose I could have gone orange for a more traditional Halloween look, but I liked the pink.  I made this for the current Global Design Project sketch challenge:

I continue my Halloween stamp retrospective with Cutest Halloween, which also has coordinating super cute DSP.  This card came together really quickly; I found some scraps of the DSP for my strips, and the ghost was already stamped and cut out--I ended up not using it for an earlier project but it was perfect for this card.  Once again I used the shimmery black EP from a few years ago for the sentiment on this card, I loved that stuff!

Haven't talked to Ryan about what he wants to be for Halloween this year, but I'm putting my money on Spider-Man.  I think half of Ryan's clothes are Spider-Man themed.  Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Cutest Halloween
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Highland Heather, VersaMark, Whisper White
Paper:  Highland Heather, Old Olive, Flirty Flamingo, Thick Basic White, Cute Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Halloween punch, Dimensionals, Shimmery Black EP

Happy Halloween! 2012

Happy Halloween, y'all!  We'll be taking Ryan out tonight to go trick-or-treating with his cousins.  But first, I have a scrapbook layout from Halloween past to share!

Here's my furbabies dressed up for Halloween.  These costumes were pretty hilarious, even if the "riders" wouldn't stand up right--Sadie was the steed for the Headless Horseman, while Vader's rider was a pretty pretty princess.  The hubs thought I got them backwards, but personality-wise this was 100% correct : )  You can see the original pictures here.  I just put this layout together last week and what took the longest was choosing the colors and where each one was going to go.  What ended up deciding things was the haunted house pattern on the lower left--once I'd chosen that, I settled quickly on an Old Olive page base and small accents of Pumpkin Pie and Highland Heather.  Though I suppose I could have done Highland Heather for the page base.  Ehh.

Today's color palette:  Old Olive, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Highland Heather, and Whisper White, plus a bit of Basic Gray/Smoky Slate if you want to get picky about it.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cutest Halloween, Wonderfully Wicked
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Highland Heather, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Old Olive, Basic Black, Highland Heather, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Cute Halloween DSP Stack, Ghostly Greetings DSP
Accessories:  Halloween punch, Stitched Rectangles dies, Stitched Shapes dies



And now for Halloween present:

Marshall is all fired up!  His school is doing a storybook characters parade today, so they're allowed to dress in costume and bring a book featuring their storybook character.  Happily he has *lots* of Paw Patrol books from which to choose : )  The costume has a little Pup Pack velcroed to his back AND it has a tail--Ryan was very excited to show me how he can waggle the tail.  Meanwhile I'm wearing purple sweats and I have a purple top hat, so I will be a very comfy Mayor Humdinger and it will be 100% in character for me to steal all of Marshall's candy!  Hey, dogs shouldn't have chocolate anyway, right?

The Cutest Boo for the Paper Players

Mornin' stampy friends!  It's already time for another challenge from the Paper Players, and Anne Marie has a fun one for us this week.  Take a look:

Black and white with a pop of red is an absolute classic; or try yellow and bees for another goodie, but I wanted to do something different.  Finally I settled on ORANGE and made this:

I used last year's Halloween goodies because I am (im)patiently waiting for an order to get here with new Halloween schtuff.  The Cute Halloween DSP stack has lots of black and white patterns to choose from, and I managed to find three scraps big enough to accommodate a variation on a Freshly Made Sketch from last month.  Stamped and punched my ghost and pumpkin, easy peasy, and die-cut the sentiment, and then I added a bit of Wink of Stella (ghost's eyes, pumpkin's eyes and mouth, the letters) for a bit of shiny. 

So yep, I made a Halloween card in August and it's already gone out in the mail!  My friend Sarah who visited last week *loves* Halloween, it's her favorite holiday and that was even before her daughter was born on Halloween.  So after she flew back to the States, I mailed her this card to say how much we enjoyed having her here.  Yay for more cards in the mail!

Your turn next!  Pick your pop of color and share your creation at the Paper Players blog.  Most important, have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cutest Halloween
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Cutest Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Halloween punch, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

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

Cutest Halloween Collection

Hey y'all.  Man, I didn't get to do ANYTHING in my craft room yesterday on my day off.  I couldn't get focused in the morning and then I had to go pick Ryan up from daycare at noon because the daycare provider's son came home sick from school so she had to close.  I feel like I wasted my only time off this week :(  Well, some days are just like that.

As it happens, I DO have something to share today.  Not only that, I have four cards to share.  I spent some time just playing around with the Cutest Halloween suite when I was working on my card for the SUO Challenges Halloween challenge.  But I made several other ones and I figured I'd better hurry up and share since Halloween is this weekend.

I was all set to resist this suite entirely *until* I saw that adorable Flirty Flamingo paper with the bats.  THOSE BATS.  I'm ded from teh cute.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cutest Halloween
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Cute Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Tasteful Labels dies, white EP, Dimensionals

I love the idea that skulls can blush ;)  And have you ever seen a cuter skull?

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cutest Halloween
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Highland Heather, Cute Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Tasteful Labels dies, white EP, Dimensionals

I made this with the stamped images first, and then decided to punch them out of the DSP after the fact.  Yeah, the DSP is totally what sold me on this suite.  The stamps are cute, but the paper is totally adorable.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cutest Halloween
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Cute Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories: Dimensionals

I was just trying to use up the rest of the sheet of bat paper from the other two projects for this card.  I love this pattern but I had a hard time figuring out how to use it!  If you use a die to cut out one or two of the bats then most of the rest of them are unusable because they get their edges cut off.  Frustrating!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cutest Halloween
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Highland Heather, Basic Gray, Cute Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Ornate Labels dies, white EP, Dimensionals

We're doing a trunk-or-treat thing tonight and another one tomorrow.  Wish me luck with my kid on a major sugar high...Happy Halloween!

SUO Challenges: Halloween!

Happy Tuesday, stampy friends!  Are you ready for a new challenge from SUO Challenges?

Our theme this time is Halloween!  I was tempted to pull out an old favorite retired Halloween set, but instead I spent some time playing with the Cutest Halloween bundle.  So here is my card for today:

Actually the only stamping on this card is the sentiment, the rest is the Cute Halloween DSP Stack.  Honestly I was not planning to get any of this stuff, UNTIL I saw that super-cute bat on the pink paper!!!  He has some friends too, but ironically I've had trouble figuring out how to use the paper effectively.  The bats have teeny bits that would make it difficult to fussy-cut, but die-cutting means wasting a lot of the paper.  Well, I have three more sheets of it to figure it out!

Share your spooky creations on the SUO Challenges blog!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cutest Halloween
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Highland Heather, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Cute Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Tasteful Labels dies, Dimensionals