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

Vlad's Boo-quet

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  Tonight's Halloween card features one of my favorite spooky pals, Vlad!

I can't believe we're three weeks into October and Vlad has just now joined the chat : )  I usually do at least one card with Vlad or one of his pals from Best Fiends, Agatha and Frankie, every October.  Best Fiends and the coordinating greeting set Just Between Fiends debuted pretty early in my stamping career and I still love them--we've never had another set that's quite this style.

Anyway, Deborah's card for last week's Paper Players color challenge inspired me to break out the colored pencils for the first time in a long while.  Funny story:  I have a big set of Prismacolor pencils, but earlier this year I got a wild hare that I just *really* wanted a set of 100 Crayola colored pencils (I use the Crayola ones mostly for coloring in what I've done on cross stitch patterns).  Did I need them?  Hubs would say no.  Did I get them anyway?  I think we know the answer to that.  So I got out my brand new never-before-used Crayola pencils to color in Vlad here, and then I went looking for something in another drawer and I found...a SECOND set of 100 Crayola pencils.  So apparently I went through that same thought process and just forgot that I'd already bought the pencils.  I also have a brand new set of 36 and another set of 8 that are retired crayon colors, not to mention the 24 set that I actually use with my cross stitch stuff.  And the giant box of Prismacolors.

My erratic (but probably relatable) purchasing habits aside, Vlad would like to join the Color Hues Challenge:

I knew I was using the Happy Haunting DSP, so I matched my orange colored pencils to Tangelo Twist, but then I just picked purple pencils that I liked and then decided that Lovely Lilac cardstock was the best match after I had colored him in.  I finished with a few purplish stars from an embellishment pack a few years ago.

And I remembered to take a picture of the inside!

Just Between Fiends also has a stamp that says "This Boo-quet's for You" but for some reason I wanted to do this one this time.

Okay, I've been far more chatty tonight than I usually am with the Hex-Travaganza posts, but I hope you enjoyed getting to see Vlad.  I've got ten more nights to get Agatha and Frankie inked up so that just has to happen.  Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Best Fiends, Just Between Fiends
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Lovely Lilac, Basic Beige, Happy Haunting DSP
Accessories:  Hippo Friends dies, Crayola colored pencils, Dimensionals, star embellishments

October 2021

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  This time I remembered!  Okay I haven't scrapped in months because I've been obsessed with Nancy Drew--reading the books, doing the Nancy Drew challenge here (that will be returning this Saturday), and doing my in-depth look at the books on my other blog (still on hiatus for a bit), but one day I'll get back to scrapping and in the meantime I have this layout to share that I made earlier this year.

This is my monthly catch-all layout for October of 2021, when we lived in Germany.  Halloween is not a big thing in Germany so the Americans in the area have a bunch of trunk-or-treat activities; we went to those and Ryan *finally* got to wear his Scooby Doo costume that was comically large when I first bought it for him, I can't remember what year.  And this layout is the first time I used Ghoulish Goodies, another Halloween stamp set eBay purchase, and DID YOU SEE THE SCOOBY STAMP?!  Right next to where it says October?  C.C. Designs has *multiple* Scooby Doo stamp sets and yes I bought them all.  And the Hocus Pocus ones, of course!

Today's color palette:

I had a lot of blue in my pictures and of course I wanted to use orange since so many of the pics are Halloween-related, and happily for me the VERY old Jersey Shore DSP had exactly what I was looking for.  So today's color palette is Pumpkin Pie (which I almost never use for page bases, so I'm happy it worked here), Brilliant Blue (very similar to the now-current Blueberry Bushel), Wild Wasabi, and white.

Okay, the hubs is off work all week and Ryan is on his second week of fall break, so I don't know how much stamping I'll get to do this week even though I am *finally* starting to feel more like my usual self (stupid appendix).  But here's hoping that I'll get to do some crafting this week.  In the meantime, I need to take Daph-Daph for her walk and then we're going to a ghost town museum.  Cheers!

Supplies:
Stamps:  My Paper Pumpkin, Ghoulish Goodies, Best Buds by C.C. Designs
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Brilliant Blue, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi, Thick Basic White, Jersey Shore DSP
Accessories:  1 3/4 circle punch, Layering Circles dies

Toxic Treat Gravestone

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  How are you enjoying my favorite month of the year?  We've had some cooler temperatures in the last few days and I am loving it!

Not quite so sure I'm loving tonight's card, though.

Have you ever bought a stamp set that you like, and yet you have trouble when it comes to making things with said stamp set that you like?  That's me and Toxic Treats.  I like this stamp set but I've had trouble making things I like *with* it, even when paired with my favorite Cast-a-Spell DSP.  The sketch from CASE-ing Tuesday Sketches did at least give me a good way to use up some long and skinny scraps!

I converted the sketch to a regular A2 card size as I personally dislike making slimline cards.  Not because I have anything against the different proportions really, but because it seems more wasteful of cardstock when I can't get two card bases out of a single sheet.  Just my opinion though.

Stay spooky, pals!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Toxic Treats
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Cast-a-Spell DSP
Accessories:  label punch, Dimensionals

Falling for Foliage with the Paper Players

Gooooood morning stampy friends!  Hope your weekend is going well, and that you're ready to add a bit of fun with a new Paper Players challenge from Jaydee!  Take a look:

Yes please, I love it!  I've been posting all the Halloween cards lately, but I also love making fall cards so this challenge is right up my alley.  I actually ended up making FOUR cards altogether but this is the one I'm sharing today:

I did a simple two-color background wash with blending brushes and then added my greeting, popped up leaf, and some iridescent gems.  I had to buy the greeting stamp from Riley & Company after seeing a card by Linda Callahan because October definitely *is* my favorite color.  I have never related to a book character more than when Anne Shirley said she was so glad to live in a world where there are Octobers, and I'm pretty sure I will be starting off 2026 with a reread of Anne of Green Gables because it's been far too long.  Anyway, I showed this card to Ryan, my know-it-all 8-year-old, and he informed me in no uncertain terms that October is not a color.  Good thing he's not the boss of me *or* my stamps.

We hope you enjoy the challenge too and upload your creation at the Paper Players blog so we can all see.  Have all the funs and don't forget to check out what my Paper Players teamies have created too.  Cheers!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

  and now me : )

Supplies:
Stamps:  Best of Autumn (SU!), Funny Bones (Riley & Company)
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Mini Dimensionals, Iridescent Foil Gems

Haunted House on the HIll

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  I can't believe we're already over halfway through October and I would like to start a petition to make October be more like 75 days long please : )  For tonight's card, I present...a haunted house:

I have owned House of Haunts for many, many years and I still love this haunted house image.  Once again I started with a CASE-ing Tuesday sketch:

I moved the sentiment strip upwards to where it made more sense with my haunted house image.  I pulled out my Cast-a-Spell DSP and Perfect Plum Candy Dots, which are both also quite old by craft supply standards but don't they still look great?  I would love to have some Halloween DSP more like Cast-a-Spell.

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  House of Haunts, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Perfect Plum, Old Olive, Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Perfect Plum, Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Cast-a-Spell DSP
Accessories:  Squares Framelits, Word Window & Modern Label punches, White EP, Clear EP, Dimensionals, Perfect Plum Candy Dots

Spooky Couple

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  And today is a special day as the hubs and I are celebrating our twenty-second wedding anniversary, so I had to choose this card to share today:

I love love love the Monster Bash DSP, especially for the page of different spooky characters; the coordinating Spooktacular Bash only has Dracula and a mummy that go with this paper and I would have taken a stamp set with ALLLLL the characters on the DSP.  Also, side note, Gomez and Morticia Addams are relationship GOALS.  I bought the original Addams Family TV show on digital a while back and I need to watch it.  I need to watch the movies too, I am so far behind in watching spooky movies this month (stupid appendix has me sleeping through far too much of spooky season).

Anyway, this card ended up being a modified version of a past Just Add Ink sketch:

I had to move the spooky couple so that it allowed more of the haunted houses on the background paper to show up.  The only stamping is the "spooky" greeting and the Wild Wheat In Color Dots ended up being a pretty good match for the Summer Starfruit DSP.

Stay spooky, friends!  How many times did I use the word "spooky" in this blog post?  Well, it's warranted ; )  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Spooktacular Bash
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Terracotta Tile, Monster Bash DSP, Summer Starfruit DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals, In Color Dots