WIP Wednesday: Frankie

Mornin' y'all!  No card today because I've been busy with Ryan on fall break and trying to keep him entertained without screens, but I do have a WIP Wednesday to share of my cross stitch:

Cross stitch projects do look pretty creepy when they're missing eyes like this, ha!  And then once you DO have the eyes stitched in, he stares at you nonstop.  He needs his face filled in, and then there's some candy bits on the sides and the buffalo check on the bottom and Frankie will be done.  Well, there's also the thick black border but that's pretty quick and mindless.

That's it for now.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies:
Stamps:  none
Ink:  none
Paper:  also none, unless you count the chart
Accessories:  fabric & floss : )

Toil & Trouble

Midnight greetings, ghoul friends!  Let's switch it up a bit and have a witch for tonight's card, shall we?

Instead of using Cauldron Bubble with the coordinating Toil & Trouble DSP (which also has lots of images you can die cut that are already colored in, you might remember them from my what's cookin' card), I stamped my little witch and her cauldron, then colored them to match the Halloween Spells DSP for a different look.  Who knew Pool Party could work for Halloween?

Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cauldron Bubble
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Highland Heather, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, Petal Pink, Smoky Slate, Basic Black, Pool Party
Paper:  Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green, Pool Party, Halloween Spells DSP
Accessories:  Cauldron dies, Wink of Stella, Dimensionals

Another Scaredy Cat for SUO Challenges

Mornin' y'all!  It is time once again for a new challenge from SUO Challenges, and this time we are CASE-ing the catty:

My card is a little catty too *snerk*  You know I cannot resist making everything into a Halloween card in the month of October, so here's what I made:

I chose the card on the left and switched out the DSP to the Frightfully Fun pack.  I kept one pumpkin but added an orange scaredy cat and oh hey look, the pumpkin is purple!  I used the iridescent black ribbon and to add some texture to the card base, I embossed the little star background stamp from the Oh My Fright stamp set for a little tone-on-tone thing.  Quite a few pieces to this card but I think I like it.  And I finally stamped one of the cats from Oh My Fright and colored him in!  I tried to give him a bit of stripey pattern and he's popped up on TWO layers of Dimensionals, that's how scared he is.

We hope you'll join us over at SUO Challenges!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Oh My Fright, Painted Pumpkins
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Versamark, Pumpkin Pie Blends
Paper:  Basic Black, Highland Heather, Basic White, Frightfully Fun DSP
Accessories:  Oh My Fright dies, Painted Pumpkins dies & stencils, Stylish Shapes dies, iridescent black ribbon, Dimensionals, foam star stickers, clear EP

Black Cat Binx

Midnight greetings, ghoul friends!  And tonight is extra spooky because it's the 13th night of the Hex-Travaganza!  So how about a lucky black cat:

I do love the Spooky Night DSP, and it did the heavy lifting for this card.  I think I need to go watch Hocus Pocus again.

Stay spooky, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Spooky Cat
Ink:  Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Thick Very Vanilla, Spooky Night DSP
Accessories:  Cat punch, Stylish Shapes dies, black rhinestones, Dimensionals

Hey Pumpkins

Mornin' y'all!  Hope you had a good weekend and you're ready to start a new week.  Ryan is on fall break for the next two weeks so that means I have to keep him entertained and hopefully not staring at screens all day.  Wish me luck.

I have two cards to share today and I'm not 100% sure how much I like them:

I used last week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I thought I could use some of the busier patterns in the Painted Patch DSP, and then I fussy cut some pumpkins and leaves from the same patterns to use on the greeting block so it says hey pumpkin.  I think maybe I should have done the same Calypso Coral + Golden Glow cardstock colors on the darker card instead of using Golden Glow + Pool Party, the pumpkin on that one looks almost radioactive but maybe I'm overthinking it.  Anyway, I'm glad I used some more of that super fun DSP either way and I always need more coordinating cards for my two friends.  It's kind of a game to send them both cards that are similar every week.

Have a great Monday, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Painted Pumpkins
Ink:  Cajun Craze
Paper:  Calypso Coral, Golden Glow, Pool Party, Painted Patch DSP
Accessories:  Secret Sea Faux Linen Ribbon

Shakespearean Halloween

Midnight greetings, ghoul friends!  I pulled out another Halloween stamp set and some less-traditional colors for tonight's card:

I have to be real here, this isn't my favorite card and I want to play with the Toil & Trouble stamp set some more.  Not every card can be your favorite though I do like the color combination of Old Olive, Summer Starfruit, and Basic Black.

Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Toil & Trouble
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black, High Tide DSP
Accessories:  Circle punches, Dimensionals

Midnight & Luna for The Paper Players

Happy Sunday, y'all!  Which means it's time for a new challenge from The Paper Players.  I hope you enjoyed Ann's landscape theme last week, the gallery was just beautiful!  This week, our lovely Jan has a color challenge for us:

I have been deeeeep into fall and Halloween mode lately so these colors threw me for a bit of a loop, but I had pulled out a bunch of Halloween stamp sets for other projects and that's when I spied Midnight and Luna:

This is a Sweet November stamp set I bought last year and hadn't used yet, which is exactly why I do the Halloween Hex-Travaganza so I can bring out all my Halloween goodies to play with every year.  And also maybe I buy MORE Halloween goodies every year!  Anyway, I wanted them to be on an Azure Afternoon evening sky and I found a scrap of the blue paper from the Lights of Aurora DSP Stack and started my card there.  The green is another scrap from the Artistry Blooms DSP because sometimes I make it an extra challenge to use up scraps.

Check out the other design team creations on the Paper Players blog, and you can hop through their individual blogs to leave some comments too:

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

you are here --> Christy Stanford

And then upload your card at the Paper Players blog!  Keep in mind a few simple rules:
1.  Create a new paper project
2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission
3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL
4.  Have fun!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Midnight and Luna from Sweet November
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Azure Afternoon, Stampin' Blends in Crumb Cake, Granny Apple Green, Smoky Slate, Basic Black
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Basic White, Lights of Aurora DSP Stack, Artistry Blooms DSP
Accessories:  Shimmery Star Foam Stickers, Dimensionals