Tweety Bird

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  Tonight's card is dedicated to Ryan, who is obsessed with ducks (and has been for years at this point) and likes all other birds, particularly chickens--to the point where he complains if I'm making chicken for dinner.  Behold the tweety bird:

I don't know why it hasn't occurred to Ryan that there might be a duck costume out there for Halloween, but I have a duck onesie in an Amazon wishlist and might get it for him for Christmas or his birthday.  It's a thought.  Anyway, you might not think of bright yellow as a typical Halloween color but I think Tweety here demands it.

Once again, I started with a CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch:

Hope you are enjoying the Hex-Travaganza, not much longer to go this year...and I'm sure I will be doing it again next year because I do love to make Halloween cards.  Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Trick or Tweet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Pineapple Punch, Pumpkin Pie, Highland Heather
Paper:  Pineapple Punch, Gorgeous Grape, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Cutest Halloween DSP Stack
Accessories:  Word Window punch, Modern Label punch, Faceted Gems, Mini Dimensionals

Fun with Frogs

Midnight greetings, spooky pals!  It's night three of the Halloween Hex-Travaganza and I have a fun card to share tonight!

Here is proof that a card doesn't have to be orange and black to be Halloweeny goodness!  I focused on my two favorite colors for tonight's card because green and purple are also great Halloween colors.  Once again I used a CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch:

And here is the original catty inspiration for the sketch:

I'm such a challenge junkie that it really helps me to start with at least one parameter instead of creating on the fly, and sketch challenges are perfect for Halloween cards.  So thank you to the CASE-ing Tuesday team for unknowingly inspiring a lot of the Hex-Travaganza cards I'll be sharing this month.

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bewitching, Trick or Tweet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Gorgeous Grape, Stampin' Blends in Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather
Paper:  Gorgeous Grape, Lemon Lime Twist, Thick Basic White, Toil & Trouble DSP
Accessories:  witch hat punch, Stylish Shapes dies, Purple Shimmer Gems, Dimensionals

Sugar Skulls and a Tricky Bird

Hey y'all, how's your weekend going?  Ryan and I are going to see the Paw Patrol movie for the second time here in about an hour, but first I want to share a card.  Here it is:

I've talked before about how I send at least one card a week to my friend Beth, who has been fighting stage 4 metastatic breast cancer for TWO YEARS.  She is a fierce warrior, to say the least.  Last year she asked if I could make her a card with a Dia de los Muertos card, so I had to go find some stamps and/or dies to do that and sent her a sugar skull card last year.  Her birthday is coming up soon so I had to do more sugar skulls for her, and I even found a Baylor University mug with sugar skulls on it (we were roommates at Baylor for a semester).  Take a look at this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I rotated the sketch to accommodate the skulls (I tried it vertically but my card would have had to be at least an inch taller).  As per usual, I paired the sketch with the Color Throwdown:

I used Call Me Clover, Pumpkin Pie, and Azure Afternoon for my colors.  A while back when Blueberry Bushel was an In Color, SU! had embossing powders in that crop of In Colors and I bought them.  I haven't used them much but occasionally something comes up and I remember that I have them, the Blueberry Bushel EP on black cardstock looks pretty good with Azure Afternoon.

I had started this card on Thursday but didn't get it done that day, so I finished it up yesterday morning and then Ryan wanted to get in on the action.  So he made a card too:

He wanted to make a Halloween card for his dad from him and Peking, his #1 pal who is a duck stuffie.  The closest I could get was this chick from Trick or Tweet, and that was good enough for Ryan.  And the Pineapple Punch embossing powder looks pretty good here!  (It was still out on my table from when I used the Blueberry Bushel one.). Ryan did all the stamping and die cutting, and I even helped him learn how to use the embossing tool.

Here he is writing the message on the inside.

I usually help him with spelling, though he's getting better with that, and he does the writing with a minimum of arguing about it.  I hope the hubs is saving these for when we're all reunited next year, because when Ryan is 30 I think he'll enjoy seeing things like this.  D'awwww.

Supplies, sugar skulls card:
Stamps:  Afterthoughts, all others from Hero Arts
Ink:  Versamark, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Azure Afternoon, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Call Me Clover, Thick Basic White, Painted Seasons DSP
Accessories:  Blueberry Bushel EP, white EP, Stitched Rectangles dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals

Supplies, bird card:
Stamps:  Trick or Tweet
Ink:  Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Pineapple Punch, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Pineapple Punch EP, Dimensionals

Spooktacular Pup

Hey!  Bit late with my blog post today, but I was working on a scrapbook layout this morning and didn't want to switch gears in the middle to make a card.  So I just got this done!

Check out the tic-tac-toe challenge from Retro Rubber:

I had stars on the brain thanks to a sketch challenge (we'll get to that in a minute), and using dies or punches was easy, but the blue part on the bottom row was throwing me a bit since I really wanted to use this pupster.  That is until I thought of a card that Joanne James made with this cool color combination:

Heyyy, Starry Sky would work for me!  I didn't use any silver on my card, but this color challenge definitely got me going in the right direction.  And here's the starry sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches that started me off:

I bought those star embellishments I think last year and I never used any of them until now.  But they were perfect for my spooktacular pup!  Oh yeah, he's retro too--he's four years old.

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm going to try to maximize my crafting time before the boy gets off the school bus in a couple of hours.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Trick or Tweet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Starry Sky, Mango Melody, Smoky Slate, Bronze
Paper:  Starry Sky, Mango Melody, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Cute Stars sequins, Dimensionals

Spooktacular Witch

Oy, y'all.  Ryan has been EXTRA two this week and uuurrrrgh.  I'm tired.  But I needed to make a card because the secretary at the hubs' work is quitting her job so she and her husband can go RVing all over the States.  We got her a little going away present, so here's the card to go with it.

She's a biiiiiig fan of Halloween, and decorated the entire building with all kinds of Halloweeny goodness, so I think she'll like this witch.  I pulled out a couple of retired stamps to play with today, and brayered the background to match the gift bag we're giving her.  And it's all on Shimmery White cardstock because sparkly.  Oh, I embossed the sentiment with that new Shimmer Black embossing powder because it's fun.

Here's the sketch from Fab Friday:

Just perfect for my little witchy-poo :)  I may try to squeeze in one more Halloween card this year, how about you?  Uh, maybe it would help if I actually sent cards out instead of just making them and letting them gather dust in my craft room...

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Haunt Ya Later, Trick or Tweet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Pineapple Punch, Mango Melody, Versamark, Stampin' Blends in Pineapple Punch, Mango Melody, Petal Pink, Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather, & Smoky Slate
Paper:  Shimmery White, Granny Apple Green, Pineapple Punch, Highland Heather
Accessories:  Layering Circles dies, Ornate Frames dies, Shimmery Black EP, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

Candy for a Canine

I still want to make ALL THE HALLOWEEN CARDS and it turns out that Halloween is tomorrow.  It's been sneaking up on me.  But at least I did get ONE card made with the last of the Halloween stamp sets that I hadn't used yet...

This cute lil doggy witch is from Trick or Tweet, which I tried to resist and obviously I failed miserably and I'm okay with that.  Really you don't see a lot of doggos on Halloween stuff, unless they're of the werewolf variety...Halloween seems more like a catty holiday?  But I love this pupper and I used him to practice with my Blends again.  I just got a couple new colors yesterday, including Highland Heather.  Slowly working on completing my set!  Anyway, you always hear about the old dog who won't learn new tricks, so I thought this little pup would go great with the "No Tricks, Just Treats" sentiment.

I used the sketch from the Paper Players:

It was fun picking papers for each layer and playing with Halloween colors one more time.  But pretty soon here it's on to all things FALL and THANKSGIVING!  And maybe a few early Christmas things too, we'll see.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Trick or Tweet, Spooky Sweets
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Mango Melody, Highland Heather, Smoky Slate, Basic Black, and Crumb Cake
Paper:  Mango Melody, Basic Black, Thick Whisper White, Toil & Trouble DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals