A Batty Elephant

Midnight greetings, ghoul friends!  It is already time for the penultimate Hex-Travaganza card for this year, and I pulled out an old stamp set but used a stamp that had never made its way onto a card before:

I couldn't resist saying "I'm Batman!" in a deep, gravelly voice once or twice while making this.  I also used some of this year's little adhesive bats though frankly I worry about how well they would do going through the mail, they stick up quite a bit but they were just perfect for this card.  I chose two patterns from an old pack of DSP and used a simple layout to show off my fancy dress elephant.

Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Trick or Tweet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Smoky Slate, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Basic Gray, Basic White, Ghostly Greetings DSP
Accessories:  Textured Notes dies, Dimensionals, Bats Ghosts & Dots

Pheasant Feathers

Mornin' y'all!  How is your week going?  I didn't sleep well last night but I'm still in a good mood and ready to tackle the day--I think that getting back in my workout routine has been a real mental boost, I love it.  I'm still having to modify some exercises from where Daphne tried to take me out and I twisted my knee...most of the time I'm fine, but every once in a while I move it the wrong way and it screams at me.  So I try to keep it from screaming.

Anyway, I had a lovely productive afternoon in the warcraft room yesterday (so called because the hubs and the kid use it for playing war games, and I use it for paper crafting), and here's my card for today:

This note is actually not so little, that pheasant image is large enough that I made this card 5x7 instead of the standard size so I could use the Hand-Stamped Sentiments sketch:

Congrats to them on their five hundredth challenge, that's quite an achievement!  I did modify the sketch a little bit by making it a landscape card instead of portrait, and while my ratios aren't exactly the same as the sketch I think you'll see all the pieces are there.  Plus ribbon, because lately I want to use ribbon?  What even is happening.

Anyway, yesterday I saw a gorgeous card on Jan's blog and that's how I found the latest Color Inkspiration challenge featuring a different bird:

I only added Very Vanilla and some touches of gold for accents.  My bird theme was solidified by the As You See It challenge:

Not only does my pheasant have some lovely tail feathers, I used the Fine Feathers stamp set to stamp the Cajun Craze panel with more feathers, just to make sure the feather theme was obvious.  Feather feather feather.  I think I need to ink up my Cajun Craze ink pad though, it's not showing up very well but I promise feathers are present.

Another thing to be happy about?  Two stamp sets will be delivered today, one autumn-themed and the other one (you guessed it) Halloween.  And I took advantage of the Spellbinders sale yesterday and got some witchy dies, as if I don't have more than enough Halloween stuff in my stash as it is.  More stuff to show off for next year's Halloween Hex-Travaganza!

Time to take my bestest girl for a walk, she's giving me puppy dog eyes.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Painted Pheasant, Fine Feathers
Ink:  Pretty Peacock, Cajun Craze, Darling Duckling
Paper:  Pretty Peacock, Cajun Craze, Darling Duckling, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Textured Notes dies, Ornate Frames dies, Dimensionals, Brushed Metallic Dots, Pretty Peacock & Gold Metallic Ribbon

Cheers, Witch

Midnight greetings, ghoul friends!  I can hardly believe we only have a couple of nights left in this year's Hex-Travaganza, I still have lots of Halloween goodies I want to play with!  I really need to organize my Halloween goodies, they're piled all willy-nilly right now, but I pulled out a brand new stamp set for tonight's card:

Eyeball martini, anyone??  I used the sketch from AAA Cards Challenge:

I had been thinking about this challenge for days, trying to decide if I wanted to do bats or spiders, and then eyeball martini happened instead.  My colors are Lemon Lime Twist and Blackberry Bliss, which didn't really photograph true to life but what can you do.  I used some Transparent Dots in both colors as accents on my card.

Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Spooky Spirits from Unity Stamps
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Blackberry Bliss, Lemon Lime Twist, Stampin' Blends in Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green, Smoky Slate, Pool Party
Paper:  Blackberry Bliss, Basic White
Accessories:  Textured Notes dies, Dimensionals, Transparent Dots

Pumpkin Pickin'

Mornin' y'all!  I think Ryan is getting back into his school routine, I got him out the door this morning without any drama.  Maybe because it's jammy day at school?  Anyway, I'll take it : )

Sooo...are you tired of pumpkins yet?  I hope not, because I have another pumpkin card to share today:

How did I make so many pumpkin and jack o' lantern cards earlier this month but I never inked up Pick of the Patch?  Well, its time came when I saw the Inkspirational challenge:

Love those warm colors.  I did have some leaves picked out, but they wouldn't fit with the Atlantic Hearts sketch that I wanted to use so I went back to pumpkins.

Yeah I didn't stray too far from the sketch, I even used pumpkins on my card.

That's it for now, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pick of the Patch
Ink:  Cinnamon Cider, Golden Glow, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Cinnamon Cider, Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  pumpkin punch, Dimensionals, Tropical Layers dies for the border

Oops, I forgot to post my WIP Wednesday picture for this week!

I did all the black first on this block (except the outside border and the ghost's eyes and nose) and just started on the lighter colors last night.  While I am absolutely loving this project, I am going to switch on November first and start a leaf mandala pattern...and then a Christmas pattern on December first...and then next year I'm going to rotate through those three projects each month because that keeps me from getting tired of one project and also I just have a zillion pattern I want to make.  But I shall enjoy working on this one for a few more days.

A Cauldron of Bats

Midnight greetings, spooky friends!  Tonight I have a cauldron of bats for you:

Did you know that a group of flying bats is called a cauldron?  I didn't either but that's what Google told me ; )  I had bats in my belfry when I saw the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches:

Since my sentiment is part of the bigger bat stamp, I put a little ribbon flag where the sentiment is on the sketch.  It's kind of an offbeat color combo for Halloween:  Highland Heather, Cloud Cover, and Secret Sea.

Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Batty for You, Frightfully Cute
Ink:  Secret Sea
Paper:  Highland Heather, Cloud Cover, Basic White
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Layering Circles dies, Dimensionals, Secret Sea faux linen ribbon

A Radiant Color Combination for SUO Challenges

Mornin' y'all!  Hope your Tuesday is off to a good start...Ryan was determined to be grumpy this morning but he's now off at school and I have my cuppa tea so I'm a happy camper : )  And in other happy news, we have a color challenge for you at SUO Challenges!

As it happens, those are the exact colors in the Sunflower Fields DSP, so I thought I'd let the paper do the heavy lifting for me.  Here's what I made:

I couldn't decide between the two multicolored panels, so I decided to make two cards.  The ribbon I used is retired, but everything else is current.  Oh wait, the Textured Notes dies are retired, maybe?  I can't keep track anymore.  Anyway, a simple stamped and die cut greeting from Radiant Sunflowers, a couple gems to decorate, and now I have two cute cards to mail out.

Hope you'll join the fun at SUO Challenges!  Check out what the rest of the design team made, turns out I was the lazy one this time around ; )

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Radiant Sunflowers
Ink:  Cajun Craze
Paper:  Golden Glow, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Basic White, Sunflower Fields DSP
Accessories:  Textured Notes dies, Radiant Sunflowers dies, Dimensionals, Old Olive polytwill ribbon, Radiant Gems

Spooky Hippo

Midnight greetings, ghoul friends!  For tonight's card, I thought I'd revisit the spooky sweet suite from last year and I made this:

I hadn't really done much with the scene builder patterned paper, so I used an image of a window, front porch, and sidewalk as the background for my spooky hippo, which is a punch-out piece from another piece of the paper.  I made my own greeting by combining two stamps in the Spooky Halloween stamp set, which is the only stamping here.

This was my first card for the Paper Players sketch challenge:

But in the end I made my pumpkin card for that challenge and kept this one for the Hex-Travaganza.

Stay spooky, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Spooky Halloween
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Petunia Pop, Basic White, Spooky Sweet Specialty DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Nested Labels dies, Dimensionals, Shimmer Star Foam stickers