Happy Halloween!

Mornin' y'all!  I sent Ryan off to school this morning wearing his Iron Man costume and lugging our contributions to his class ice cream party.  This afternoon he's going to help me get Daphne dressed up in a costume and take a few pictures : )  We let her sniff the costumes this morning and I am 100% sure she is NOT going to cooperate for dressing up.

Since it IS Halloween today, I couldn't resist just one more Halloween card this year, especially since I hadn't used one of my favorite Halloween stamp sets yet--not sure how that's possible given how many Halloween cards I made this year!  But here it is:

Carved & Candlelit is one of my earliest stamp set acquisitions and I will never get rid of it : )  I had to pull it out for this week's Inspired By... challenge:

Which I paired with the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch:

But wait, there's more!  I really liked this sketch so I had to make another card with it:

Plus I couldn't pass up the Creative Colour Challenge this week:

The leaf stamps are from Lovely Leaves, another longtime member of my stamp collection and one I won't let go of, and the "hello" is from Love of Leaves because I was looking for a small hello and it was conveniently close to Lovely Leaves on my stamp shelves.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Daphne wants to go on her daily tour of the neighborhood : )  Hope you have a wonderful Halloween!  I get to debut my new Maleficent costume tonight!

Cheers!

Supplies, pumpkin card:
Stamps:  Carved & Candlelit, Spooky Cat
Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Pecan Pie, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Shaded Spruce DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Sunny Day Iridescent Dots

Supplies, leaf card:
Stamps:  Lovely Leaves, Love of Leaves
Ink:  Daffodil Delight, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Thick Basic White, Cajun Craze DSP
Accessories:  Banners Collection Framelits, Dimensionals, Faux Glass Dot

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

A Couple of Cool Cats

Hey y'all.  Today is my wedding anniversary, but my inlaws are coming in so I get to celebrate with crippling anxiety.  Hooray.

But I have a couple of cards to share.

This one was very quick and simple using the Atlantic Hearts sketch:

All the elements coming out from the central circle reminded me of this patterned paper from my stash, and I had to do a spooky cat card.  I had cats on the brain because of the Cupcake Inspirations challenge:

And of course thinking of cats made me think of my favorite animated kitty:

Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove.  I tried out the Creative Colour Challenge for this week:

I used the same sketch but this time I stamped some elements to go behind Yzma.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Cheers.

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  Spooky Cat
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Calypso Coral, Basic Black, Basic Beige, Cupcakes & Carousels DSP Stack
Accessories:  Layering Circles dies, star accents, Dimensionals

Supplies, second card:
Stamps:  Latte Love (splats), Poison Kitty from The Ink Road
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Bubble Bath, Melon Mambo, Gray Granite
Paper:  Melon Mambo, Gray Granite, Thick Basic White, Bright & Beautiful DSP Stack
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Festive Gems I think?

Witchy Hat

Mornin' y'all!  We had fall temperatures for a hot second last weekend and it's supposed to get up to 84 today, sigh.  But it still feels like fall in my craft room!

A couple of months ago, I bought a listing of various Halloween goodies on a Facebook resale group and the Inkspirational challenge was the perfect way to break in some of those new stamps:

I thought the playful nature of the Paper Players sketch would work great for my hat too:

I really don't know why I didn't buy Bewitching when it first came out, I love Halloween stuff.  Oh well, it's in my collection now, along with Spooky Cat, which is where I got the Halloween greeting.  I had fun going through some scraps of Toil & Trouble DSP for all the elements of the sketch and decided I wanted some black glimmer paper for behind the witch hat.  Then I discovered that I don't *have* black glimmer paper, whaaat.  So I made my own!  I smooshed my Versamark pad on some black cardstock and embossed with Shimmery Black embossing powder (really, SU!, why did that not become a permanent thing?  It's awesome!) et voilà, DIY glimmer paper.  I added a few shiny black star accents too because why not.

That's it for me today, peeps.  As soon as I get Ryan off to school, I'm heading out to get a mammogram done.  Ick.  Then I'll reward myself with a trip to Kohl's and Michaels : )  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bewitching, Spooky Cat
Ink: Gorgeous Grape, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Stampin' Blends in Lemon Lime Twist & Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Toil & Trouble DSP
Accessories:  Witch hat punch, Stylish Shapes dies, Shimmery Black EP, Shiny Stars, Dimensionals