A Bespelled Frog for SUO Challenges

Hey hey, happy Taco Tuesday!  And it's also SUO Challenges day!  Check out our spiffy new badge:

And our theme this time around is Halloween!  I couldn't resist using Best Witches again...

I had stamped and die cut both of those pieces while I was working on my Paper Players card for this week, and I had intended to use them on different cards, but then I thought Judgy Frog was totally giving Sabrina the side-eye and I had to put them together on my card front.  The star accents are from last year and somehow I never used them until now.  Honestly I made this card and my Paper Players card weeks apart but apparently I just really liked that color combination, I wasn't *trying* to make my cards so similar.  But somehow I used the Paper Players colors again:

This time I used Gorgeous Grape, Parakeet Party, and both Mango Melody and Pumpkin Pie (last time it was Highland Heather, Parakeet Party, and Pumpkin Pie...so, totally different right?  No?).

Hope you'll have fun making a Halloween card to share at the SUO Challenges blog.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Best Witches
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Highland Heather, Parakeet Party, Pumpkin Pie, Mango Melody, Basic Black, Petal Pink, Neutrals
Paper:  Gorgeous Grape, Thick Basic White, Tea Boutique DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Deckled Rectangles dies, retired stars, Dimensionals

Halloween Ruh-Roh!

Scrappy Monday!  Man, I really need to get on the ball with Halloween costumes for this year.  Ryan said for months that he wanted to be Spider-Man, and then randomly switched gears and now says he wants to be Darth Vader.  And guess who he wants me to be?  Not Princess Leia--he wants me to be Obi-Wan Kenobi so we can have a lightsaber duel.  Okay so a lightsaber duel would be fun but...I'd rather be Princess Leia!  I'm thinking Hoth Princess Leia, because I can dress in warm comfy clothes : )

Anyway!  I just recently finished this layout from Halloween 2019.

This was the year that I chose Scooby Doo for our costume theme and then Ryan's costume was comically large.  He actually wore it last year and I bet that it would still fit this year.  Y'know, my Velma costume was pretty comfy too...

Anyway!  It took some stalking on eBay but I finally got my hot little hands on some Scooby Doo stamps just for this layout.  Actually I already had the "Ruh-Roh!" stamp, but I got two different Scooby stamps.

Today's color palette:  Cucumber Crush, Tangelo Twist, Basic Black, Pineapple Punch, Real Red, and Very Vanilla.  Plus a wee smidge of Soft Suede and Bermuda Bay for Scooby.

Have a great week, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Wonderfully Wicked, My Paper Pumpkin, Scooby-Doo from Rubber Stampede, Ruh-Roh! from All Night Media
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Tangelo Twist, Cucumber Crush, Stampin' Blends in Soft Suede, Pineapple Punch, Polished Pink, Bermuda Bay
Paper:  Cucumber Crush, Pineapple Punch, Real Red, Basic Black, Thick Very Vanilla, Happy Haunting DSP
Accessories:  None

Best Witches for the Paper Players

Happy Sunday, y'all!  It's October (my favorite), the weather is getting cooler, the leaves are changing colors, there's a new Hocus Pocus movie to enjoy, and a wicked color combination this way comes courtesy of the Paper Players!

Laurie came up with this most excellent witchy color combination, so I had to make a witchy card to go with!

I have *lots* of Halloween stamp sets but it didn't even slow me down from getting Best Witches and Scary Cute from this year's holiday catalog.  Can't help it : )  I also got the glitter washi tape which is helpfully in our challenge colors and I forgot to use it!

But check out the inside of my card:

Judgy frog is judging you.  He cracks me up!  This card is already on its way to its destination, if it's not there already.  Whether or not you're inspired to make a Halloween card, I hope you'll hop on over to the Paper Players blog and play along with us!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Best Witches
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Basic Black, Highland Heather, Parakeet Party, Pumpkin Pie, Petal Pink, Smoky Slate, neutrals
Paper:  Basic Black, Highland Heather, Thick Basic White, Parakeet Party DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Stylish Shapes dies, retired sequins

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Cindy Beach

Christy Stanford <-- You are here : )

Jennie Maier

Hey Sugar (Skull)

So I've been making cards for my friend Beth for *months* and recently she asked if I could make a Dia de los Muertos card.  Well, I had to do a bit of hunting around for stamps and/or dies, and then it took a while to figure out what to do, but Beth is getting her sugar skull in the mail soon:

What do you think?  When I saw the color challenge from Cupcake Inspirations, the Pop of Pink DSP popped into my head and I thought it would work for a sugar skull card.

And I paired that with the sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday:

I ended up putting a thin white border around various elements of the sketch because it just didn't look quite right without.  Hope Beth likes it!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Hero Arts
Ink:  VersaMark
Paper:  Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Pop of Pink DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Layering Circles dies, white EP, Black EP, Dimensionals

Definitely Haunted

Hey y'all!  Got some time in my craft room yesterday so...

Yeah, it's definitely haunted.  Sorry the colors are a bit wonky, I couldn't get it any better than this :p  This card is unusual for me in that I used ZERO stamps on the card front.  So I had to stamp a sentiment on the inside:

I got the idea to play around with the Scary Silhouettes dies when I saw this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I think my card qualifies for the Global Design Project theme challenge:

And I used the unusual color combo from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

Not gonna lie, I would never have put those colors together on my own, but I did end up liking the card I made with them.  I sponged Starry Sky ink on Pool Party cardstock to make the backdrop for my totally haunted house, and the only wee bit of Pumpkin Pie is in the windows of the house.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Scary on!  I think I might have to watch Hocus Pocus 2 again...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Scary Cute
Ink:  Starry Sky, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Starry Sky, Pool Party, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Pool Party DSP
Accessories:  Scary Silhouettes dies, Dimensionals

Guest DT: An Apple a Day

Hey hey!  I'm excited to be a guest designer today for the Color Throwdown!  This is one of my favorite challenges, I play along almost every week.  So check out the new challenge!

I read it as Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow, and Very Vanilla, and here's what I made:

Still loving the Apple Harvest bundle!  Hope you snagged the dies since they were only available in September.  I hadn't used the single big apple stamp yet so that's what I chose for today's card, and a trio of blossoms just because.  I also used the sketch from Fusion:

I have two friends who are undergoing treatment for breast cancer, and I send them both cards on a weekly basis so I'm always in need of more cards like this.  Very happy that I bought the DSP packs in allllll the color families, it's so great having patterns in every color!  And I like mixing and matching the patterns too.

Thanks, Color Throwdown team, for inviting me to be a guest designer this week!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Apple Harvest, Beauty of Friendship
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow, Stampin' Blends in Cherry Cobbler, Petal Pink, Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Blushing Bride, Thick Very Vanilla, Blushing Bride & Mossy Meadow DSP
Accessories:  Apple Blooms dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, retiree Cherry Cobbler stitched satin ribbon

Bonsaiiiii

Hey y'all!  How's your October treating you?  The trees are changing colors here and I love it!  I think the weather is punking us though, we had two weekends in a row of dreary, rainy weather, but yesterday and last Friday it was gorgeous.  Harrumph.  Maybe this weekend will be nice so we can get out and enjoy the October-ness.

Anywha, when SU! had that one-day stamp sale last month, of course I had to take advantage of it ; )  And today one of my new stamp sets is having its maiden voyage.

I really liked Treasured Kindness when I first saw it in the catalog last summer, but I haven't seen it used much in blogland.  I did have to stamp my main image twice...I discovered that it works better for me to stamp the green bits first, and then add the tree trunk afterwards.  The first time, I stamped the tree trunk first and I ended up with the leaves kinda levitating above the branches.  But now I know so I'll get it right the first time when I use this stamp set in the future.

Say hello to the Festive Friday challenge:

I had planned to do something farm animal-y but then Treasured Kindness caught my eye, so from the list I used green, die cut, kraft card, and a thank you sentiment.  I also used the sketch from Inspire. Create.:

Just under the wire there to enter my card before the challenge closes.  Thanks for a great sketch!

Have a great day, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Treasured Kindness
Ink:  Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, So Saffron
Paper:  Crumb Cake, So Saffron, Thick Basic White, Pear Pizzazz DSP
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Dimensionals