Trick or Treat

Well it was certainly a trick Mother Nature played on us this Halloween:

we saw our first snow of the season !

Barely even a dusting, but it was still snow.

We are also setting a new low high temperature for this date,

remaining in the thirties all day. Factor in the wind

and it is in the twenties! Too soon to be this cold here!

The weather forecaster got everything else correct

for the day, I'm just waiting to see the skies clear as

was predicted. We are still socked in under heavy

cloud cover so it doesn't look likely. 

Halloween Home Card

This card uses the Holiday Home stamp and dies set

from Stampin' Up!

The house is colored with inks from my classic ink pads

from Stampin' Up! using an aqua painter.

It is attached to the tag with dimensionals. 

Trees, bats and sentiment are heat embossed black. 

Purple twine came from Target.

Patterned papers are from Die Cuts With A View.

The sky was made with Distress Oxide ink.

I dabbed Violet ink onto black card stock

and spritzed it with water. Heat set then dabbed

on a wee bit more ink. 

It looks a bit like my foot currently does:

I broke a toe the other day and am

waiting to see a specialist on Monday

for a determination if it will require surgery.

Fingers crossed oh so tightly it does not! 

I've had so many bad things happen this year,

I don't need that, too. Just dealing with a broken

toe alone the next month or so will be tough enough,

I don't want to add recovery from surgery, too. Ugh.

Thanks for looking =) 

Side Step Halloween Card

A fun side step card made easily using a card die

by Sizzix to create the step base.

The ghost, pumpkins and leaves were 

stamped and die cut with the Fall Fest

set by Stampin ' Up! 

Some are attached with dimensionals.

Hand cut banner, stamped with a sentiment

from Stampin' Up!

Boo patterned paper is from Die Cuts With A View.

Orange grosgrain ribbon.

Thanks for looking =)


Edited to Add;
WOW!
I was so honored that this card was chosen
by someone at Splitcoaststampers
as one of her favorites of 2019!

Boo Triple Panel Flip Card

This fun Halloween card was easy to make using dies !

Flip Card die, Sizzix

Ghost die, Stampin' Up!

Alpha dies, Micheal's/Recollections

Patterned paper, Die Cuts With A View

Card stocks, Stampin' Up!

Thanks for looking =)

Cat Silhouette Card

Playing with a cat silhouette die and 

Distress Oxide ink (my second try)

to create this Halloween card. 

I dabbed a wee bit of Violet ink onto black card stock,

spritzed it with water. Dabbed a bit more on top.

The "stars" are made by splattering white craft paint

with a toothbrush onto the card stock. 

The moon is a piece of copy weight paper punched out

with a circle punch. I sponged a teeny bit of grey ink onto it.

White craft ink was sponged onto the background around

the circle punch to create the moon glow.

Papers and stamp image were from Stampin' Up!

Cat die, unknown.

Circle dies, Spellbinders.

Thanks for looking =) 

Simple Jack O'Lantern Card

Another simple Halloween card, this one uses an old stamp image

from Stampin' Up!. Maybe I should have heat embossed it in black?

It is layered over a piece of decorative paper from

 Die Cuts With A View backed by green paper,

also by DCWV. 

The postage edge punch (that I used unsuccessfully)

is from Stampin' Up! 

The image is attached with dimensionals.

Thanks for looking =) 

Googlie Eye Ghost Halloween Card

No more sympathy card posts!

It's time to share the Halloween cards

I made earlier this month.

This is the first, a really simple one.

I die cut a ghost from the Fall Fest die set

by Stampin' Up! then added googlie eyes

and a simple hand cut banner. 

It's mounted to textured black card stock

with dimensionals.

Quick and easy !!!!

Thanks for looking =) 

Happy Purrthday

Enough sympathy card posts for now.

It's time to move on to sharing the half dozen cards

I made over the weekend of World Card Making Day/Digital Scrapbook Day !

I'll start with this adorable swing card with cute partying cat images.

I found this stamp set with matching dies at a yard sale recently. 

New, never used, until now when I made this card !

It is by Lawn Fawn and called Meow You Doin'.

I also used a Flip It card die from Sizzix

The images are stamped on water color paper

then colored with ink from my dye ink pads 

using an aqua painter. 

They are die cut then popped up on dimensionals.

All inks and papers were from Stampin' Up!

The stitched circle die is from The Stamps of Life.

Bonus Project:

a coordinating "candle holder cake topper"!

Topper stuck in a slice of home made New York style cheesecake

I made for the birthday girl.

I didn't really want to poke 28 candles into the

top of the pretty cheesecake, so I made this single

candle holder/topper for her slice.

This also tells me when looking back at the photos

in the future that it was her 28th birthday

and

it kept germs from being spread to the rest of the cake

as she blew out the single candle on her slice ;)

If you are interested, here is the recipe I used.

It turned out beautifully and was delicious. 

Thanks for looking =) 

Monochrome Sympathy Card

This is the second card I made for the current challenge at

Retro Rubber - Tic Tac Toe.

I was in need of more Sympathy cards,

so I chose to use the center row going down on

their tic tac toe board:

sympathy, embossing folder, monochrome. 

It could also be one of the diagonals:

floral, embossing folder, die cut or punch. 

Supplies from Stampin' Up! 

Stamps: Elements of Style (2010)

                 Close As A Memory (2006)

Basic Black and Sahara Sand card stocks

Memento black ink

Subtle 3D embossing folder

black organdy ribbon 5/8"

dimensionals

stitched rectangles die (Stamps of Life)

This shows the texture I created on the front

using the embossing folder by Stampin' Up!

I stamped the Toile image first.

The sentiment is attached to the card front

with dimensionals. 

This is the inside of the card.

Thanks for looking =) 

EDITED TO ADD 10/20/2019
My card was a Top Pick at Retro Rubber !

Sympathy For A Friend

A long time friend lost his father suddenly late last month,  so I made this card for the family.

Rubber stamp images are long retired from Stampin' Up!
Sizzix/Tim Holtz Botanicals 3D embossing folder texture fades
gold rub on paste
gold eyelets and brad
black embossing powder
gold metallic ink
vellum
Sage Shadow, Basic Black, Gold Metallic, Very Vanilla card stocks


Thanks for looking