Card Concept Challenge #41

Hi! I'm back today with a new Card Concept Challenge. We're getting into fall themes as you can see in the inspiration photo down below. Here's my card for the Clean and Simple category.

The image and the sentiment were stamped in black. Some pattern paper was added along the bottom and then finished off with some twine. Quick and easy!

Be sure to check out the styles here and all the inspiration from the rest of the design team and then get to making a card for the challenge. Happy stamping!!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Primitive Pumpkins (MFT)
Paper: Kraft (SU), Bitty Box Basics pattern paper (PTI)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Other: Black hemp twine (SU)

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 288

It's a beautiful day here in Washington. We are having just a wonderful September. I should be outside but instead I went up to my stamp room to make some cards. I'm feeling in the Halloween mood today.  I made this card for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

I stamped up the pumpkins and played around with colors and finally settled on a Tangerine Tango circle on a black square. This is all topped on some long retired SU DSP.

I ran the tangerine piece through my Big Shot with the Linen impression plate and the black piece with the Rustic Burlap impression plate. The pumpkins are popped up on dimensionals.

Here is the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by today!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Primitive Pumkpins (MFT)
Paper: Kraft, Black, Tangerine Tango, Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP (SU)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Other: Circle and Square Nestabilities dies, Fishtail Flag Stax (MFT), Linen & Canvas Impression plate, Rustic Burlap Impression plate (PTI), dimensionals

Halloween Pocket for cQc #212

I'm late doing my Halloween cards but here's one that I made today and it fits this week's colourQ Challenge #212.

Everyone else is probably done with their Christmas cards but I have to get to Thanksgiving next and then Christmas :-)  But first I have to sell my house!  Not sure that I'll get all that done! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Here's the colourQ challenge:

Supplies:

Stamps: A Pocketful and A Pocketful: Halloween (WP9)

Paper: Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Whisper White, ret Halloween dsp (SU)

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark

Accessories: Black hemp twine, white embossing powder (SU), A Pocketful die (WP9), dimensionals

Last Halloween Card

I guess I was on a roll today. Here's my last Halloween card. I stamped the clothesline from Heartfelt Mix in Basic Gray on Vanilla. Then I hung the four images from Spooky Bingo Bits. I added some Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP to the left side, a little strip of pinked edge in Tangerine Tango and a piece of black ribbon.  The sentiment from Primitive Pumpkins was cut with a fishtail tag die and matted on a piece of black. A black brad and a piece of Baker's twine completed this and it was popped up on dimensionals.  This card is also good for the colourQ challenge this week.  Thanks for checking out my Halloween cards!

cQc#160 color challenge

Supplies:

Stamps: Heartfelt Mix (wplus9), Spooky Bingo Bits (SU), Primitive Pumpkins (MFT)

Paper: Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Tangerine Tango, Lucky Limeade, Going Gray & Basic Black

Accessories: Baker's twine, brad, black grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals

Tools: Die-Namics Pinking Edge die (MFT), Die-Namics Fishtail Flag Stax (MFT)

2nd Halloween Card Today

Amazing!  I got a 2nd card made and I didn't even case anyone. It is for 2 more challenges.  Retrosketches RS#34 and the colourQ challenge cQc#160.  OK, here's the card.

This time I used the smaller pocket stamp from Wplus9 A Pocketful.  I must have given my Kiwi Kiss to one of my daughter's so I used Lucky Limeade instead. The cute little spiders jumping out of the pocket are from the Pocketful: Halloween set.  I used my Sakura Stardust gelly roll pen on the spiders to give them some added pizzazz.  From there this card turned into one of those where you tinker and tinker until you finally like it.  I just kept adding little strips of paper and I think that I like the result. The black strip on the right is from the SU's Neutrals DSP pack, then comes a strip of Tangerine Tango. On the left I die cut the scallops from Rich Razzleberry DSP, then there's a strip of black and finally a strip of Lucky Limeade. I tied some Baker's twine around and added a tag which is a PTI die cut from the Tiny Tags set and the Boo sentiment is from the SU Tiny Tags set.  

Closeup - Can you see the spidery shimmer?

 

Now check out the inside. 

The sentiment and little spider webs are from the MFT set Primitive Pumpkins.













Challenges:

               

Supplies:
Stamps: A Pocketful and A Pocketful: Halloween (Wplus9), Tiny Tags (PTI), Tiny Tags (SU)
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Neutrals DSP, Brights DSP (SU)
Ink: Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry and Basic Black (SU)
Accessories: Baker's twine, dimensionals
Tools: Pocket die (Wplus9), Tiny Tags die (PTI), Die-Namics Scallop medium (MFT), Sakura Stardust gelly roll pen

Edited:  My card was chosen as a colourQ Courtier!

1st Halloween Card

Well I'm finally getting to my Halloween cards. This is the first and I hope that I have more to come.  I get to play with new stuff and also meet a couple of challenges -  Dynamic Duos DD#25  color challenge including the dessert option of using a die and also the Pals Paper Arts PP145 sketch challenge.

I die cut the pocket and stamped it in Pumpkin Pie. Then I stamped the bats and embossed them with clear embossing powder. You can't really see it in the picture but it does help pop them out on the card. Then I adhered the pocket with dimensionals. The sentiment from A Pocketful: Halloween was punched out, spritzed with pumpkin pie ink and then also popped with dimensionals.   I used my new Die-Namics Fishtail Flag Stax to cut the flag out of the Black DSP and then backed that with the PP DSP.  It's all on a black card base.  Check back as I hope to have some more Halloween cards soon :-)

Here's the inside

The Challenges:

        

The Supplies:

Stamps: A Pocketful and A Pocketful: Halloween (Wplus9), Delightful Dozen (SU)

Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Whisper White, Brights DSP, Neutrals DSP (all SU)

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, PP and BB markers used on the inside

Accessories: Pocket die (Wplus9), oval punch (SU), Die-Namice Fishtail Flag Stax (MFT), clear embossing powder, dimensionals & spritzer (SU)

Spooky Bingo Bits

This card accomplishes 3 challenges. Can you believe it!!  Yay!  The Dynamic Duos (DD#20), Retro Sketches (RS#29) and Casual Friday (CFC70).

The card base is embossed with the SU spider web folder.  I stamped 3 different images from Spooky Bingo Bits onto white and matted them with Lucky Limeade & then black. They are popped up on dimensionals on the Lucky Limeade DSP which has a piece of Lucky Limeade behind it. I stamped the "Boo" sentiment from SU's Tiny Tags set onto a die cut tag from PTI also called Tiny Tags. This is tied on with black/white Baker's twine.  Pretty simple!

The Challenges:

              

Supplies (all Stampin'Up unless noted):

Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits, Tiny Tags (SU) & Tiny Tags (PTI)

Paper: Lucky Limeade, Basic Black, Whisper White, Lucky Limeade DSP

Ink: Lucky Limeade, Basic Black

Accessories: Baker's twine (non SU), dimensionals

Tools: Tiny Tags die (PTI), Spider Web EF

One Last Halloween Bingo Bits Card

One final Halloween card using the ever so cute Halloween Bingo Bits. I just love these little guys!  Each image is cut with a 1-1/4" circle punch then layered on a 1-3/8" circle. Each circle is popped up with a dimensional.  The black layer is paper pierced all around the edge but I don't think that you can see that in the picture. This is layered on Eggplant Envy and that layer is also on dimensionals. The pumpkin layer is embossed with the spider web embossing folder.  A strip of black punched with the scallop border punch and a thin strip of Eggplant  with 2 brads finish off the pumpkin layer.

Here's a side view but it's still really hard to see the layering.

Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Kraft, Pumpkin Pie, Eggplant Envy, Black, White

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Eggplant Envy, Old Olive, Black

Accessories: spider web EF, 1-1/4" & 1-3/8" circle punches, scallop border punch, black brads, paper piercer and mat pack, word window punch, modern label punch

Another Spooky Bingo Bits

This is a CASE of a cute card I found at My Creative Corner.  I changed it slightly by using the spider web embossing folder on the black lower portion. I used a black marker to draw the spider's web.

See the inside of the card below.  It's a simple "BOO!" from the Spooky Bingo Bits set.  Sorry it's blurry but I took it with my iPhone and I was in a hurry.

Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black

Ink: Black

Accessories: spider web embossing folder, 1-1/4" circle punch, black marker

Techniques: embossing

Spooky Bingo Halloween Card

I'm so excited that I got the Spooky Bingo Bits set today. I've been eyeing this set since the catalog came out and I finally got it. I just had to make a card right away.

My only Halloween paper is the retired Halloween Fright which I used with the Top Note die.  I cut around the perforated edge and then used the Top Note die to make the Pumpkin Pie background. This is layered on the card with dimensionals.  The DSP matches Vintage Violet (also retired) which I used for the card base and embossed with the spider web embossing folder.  I stamped the cute little Halloween images in Vintage Violet on white & cut them out with the 1-1/4" circle punch. They are backed with 1-3/8" Pumpkin Pie circles and then popped up on dimensionals.  The "Boo" is from the Tiny Tags set and punched with the Jewelry Tag punch.  I used non-SU Bakers twine  to tie the tag on. Watch for more cards using these fun bingo bits :-)

Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits, Tiny Tags

Paper: Vintage Violet (ret), Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Halloween Fright DSP (ret)

Ink: Vintage Violet, Pumpkin Pie

Accessories: 1-1/4" & 1-3/8" circle punches, jewelry tag punch, Baker's twine, spider embossing folder, dimensionals

Halloween Adaptation

Here is a card that I adapted from the previous post for my daughter's workshop. I think I like this simpler version.

Stamp set:  Season of Friendship, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Cardstock:  Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, retired Halloween DP

Ink:   Certainly Celery

Accessories:   2 step Owl punch, Word Window punch, Modern Label punch, circle scissor plus cutter & glass mat, 1/4” black grosgrain ribbon, sponge, assorted glue, mini glue dot

Let's Try This Blog Thing Again

I've tried this several times and haven't carried it out very well, usually due to lack of time, but I'll try it again.  I'd like to post cards that I make in my workshops but also cards that I see on other people's blogs that I like or think my customers might be interested in.   So let's give this a go :-)

First off is a Halloween card.  The first card is a CASE of someone else's card. I've looked high and low for the original but can't find it.  I'd love to give credit and if I ever find it I'll post the original link here, but for now here my card.