Spooky Halloween Wreath- Paper Craft Crew Tic Tac Toe Challenge #448

 The Tic Tac Toe challenge with the Paper Craft Crew challenge was perfect for Halloween, especially the column I chose - Halloween, Wreaths, and die cuts. I immediately thought of the Sparkle of the Season bundle. My card is below.

I love sponging, creating my own backgrounds ,especially with the blender brushes. For this card's back ground, Pumpkin Pie ink was applied on Bumblebee cardstock, applying the colour progressively lighter at the center.

Using the Seasonal Swirl die, a wreath was die cut using Black glitter paper as well as 3 bats. These were added to the card front using glue dots. The sentiment was embossed with white embossing powder on Basic Black card stock and added to the card front   across the wreath using dimensionals.

Penmanship Merry Christmas - Challenge 184 LNS

Challenge 184 with the LNS group is to CASE a Convention picture.  Since I did not go to the convention I had to search through quite a few blogs to find  picture I could CASE.  As it turned out the card I ended up Casing turned out to be in the Holiday Catalogue (Pg. 6)
The hardest thing about this card was the tulle ribbon.  It was a bit too wide, so  I ended up  cutting the ribbon in half and then applying it to the back of the panel 1/2 a strip at a time.
About the only thing I changed was the sentiment, as I did not have that stamp set, so I used  a retired stamp set: Hand Penned Holidays.

Stamp: Hand-Penned Holidays
Inks: Versa Mark
Papers: Very Vanilla, Green Gumball, Champagne glitter, Early Espresso Core'dinations card stock
Accessories: Green Gumball embossing powder, Scallop border punch, sandpaper, tiny star punch, 3 1/2" Scalloped Cherry Cobbler Tulle Ribbon

Need for Speed - Challenge 174 LNS

The challenge this week with the LNS group is Masculine Cards.

This card features a jet plane taking off.  Can't you almost hear the whine of the engines? The motion effect was made by repeatedly stamping the same image backwards from the main image.

This card reminds me of my father and of my hometown.
Not that my father was a pilot, but he worked as a civilian at an Air Force Base where planes like this were constantly taking off and landing. The stories he would tell!!
And, in the town where I grew up, our house was directly underneath the flight path of these jets.
Sometimes the noise was deafening!  But after a while you didn't hear it anymore- your ears somehow adjusted. Visitors would comment on the noise "How can you stand this?", but like I said, we didn't hear it anymore.

My Dad has been gone for quite a while.  Nevertheless,  Dad, this card is for you.

Stamps: Need for Speed, Best Dad
Inks: Basic Gray, Basic Black, SU Markers (Basic Gray, Cajun Craze), Not Quite Navy
Papers: Not Quite Navy. Crumb Cake, Well Worn designer paper, Whisper White
Accessories: Blender pen, Harlequin texturz plate, stampin dimensionals

Card makes Homepage at ORSA

My card "Christmas Eve at Frostwood Lodge" made the home page at ORSA (Ontario Rubber Stamping Artists Group).
Here is the card and the original post:http://craftymariasstampingworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/christmas-eve-at-christmas-lodge.html

Wicked - Creative Sketches 45H

The sketch challenge with Creative Sketches here has a theme attached to it this week - Fall or Halloween. I chose to make a Halloween card.

First I prepared the image.  On shiny cardstock I brayered Basic gray, and Cajun Craze, and then stamped the image of the owl on the tree and the bats with Black Stazon ink.
The tree was cut out using the Ovals die #2; the bats with the 1 3/4" punch.  The edges of both images was sponged with basic black ink.

The basic card is Basic Black, layered with Basic Gray , then Lucky Limeade and Basic Black again.  The final layer was embossed with the web embossing folder.

For the trim, I first cut a strip of Frightful Sight designer paper.  Then I made an edge by punching a number of bats with the bat punch (retired) in Cajun Craze and adhering them to one of the edges, creating a creepy edge.  Some black lacy ribbon (retired) was applied over the designer paper to hide the seam, and a trim of black rhinestones (retired) applied adjacent to the paper.  Rhinestones were also applied to the bat edge.

Here is a close up of the trim.

And a close up of the main image.



















Stamps: House of Haunts, Wisked Cool
Inks: Basic Gray, Cajun Craze, Black Stazon, Basic Black
Papers: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Lucky Limeade, Glossy Card stock, Whisper White, Frightful Sight designer paper
Accessories: Ovals die #2, 1 3/8" circle punch, Bat punch (retired), Curly Label punch, Black lacy ribbon (retired), Black rhinestones,Spider Web embossing folder, dimensionals, brayer