Happy Halloween

Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend! It has finally turned cooler and feels like fall here. I'm loving it!

I have a couple of Halloween cards to share with you today. The first one features the new Halloween greetings sentiment.

I started by stamping the goblin, hand and RIP Tombstone images onto purple, orange and green CS with Versafine black onyx ink, die cutting and layering them onto black CS. The purple layer was stamped with the accent bat image using the same black ink. The greeting was stamped onto orange CS and a strip of punched spider webs was attached at the seam of the two panels.

This second card was super easy. I started with a black card base, added the orange layer which is from a Recollections Lasercut Paper Pad I bought on clearance last year. The new Drink Up greeting and Witch's feet image were stamped onto white CS with Memento Black ink, colored with Copics, die cut and layered onto black CS.

Thanks for stopping by today.

shelia

Count Your Blessings

My card today uses this week's sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. My image is a bit big for the actual sketch since I didn't go with a square card, but I think I made it work.  Here's the sketch:

I started with some water color paper, stamped the image with Archival Black ink and then colored it with some Nuvo Watercolor pens. Once it dried, I die cut and layered it onto the purple die cut. The greeting was stamped with Versafine Black Onyx ink, die cut with a banner die and layered on the same purple CS. The white panel was embossed with a CB Pumpkin Swirl folder. I like the way this turned out. This pumpkin image is one of my favorites from DRS Designs.

Thanks for stopping by today.

blessings,

shelia

Halloween Greetings

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a great weekend! I have a bridge fold card to share with you today. I've seen these cards in the past and decided it was time to give it a try. And it's pretty simple to do.

The card base is 8 x 4 1/4, scored at 1 1/4, 2 1/2, 5 1/2 and 6 3/4. The front strip is supposed to be 1 by 5 1/2, but I made my taller since I wanted the iron fence to be stamped on it. Anyway, here's my card:

I used black for the card base and added the orange panels after stamping them with the accent bats and the spooky eyes background with Versafine Black onyx ink. The iron fence and Halloween Greeting were both stamped with VersaMark ink onto black CS and embossed with white EP. I cut the greeting down and glued it to the top of the middle panel. The fence was layered onto orange CS and attached to the two folded edges to form the bridge. The little ghosts were die cut from vellum and the cat from black CS. These are both from the Spellbinders Small Die of the Month set for September.  There is space on the back of the middle panel to write your message. I decided to make bridge cards for my grandkids for Halloween this year. I think they'll like them and they fold to a standard A2 card, so mailing them is no problem.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great week!

blessings,

shelia

Get Well Soon

Hi Everyone. My card today is for a friend who broke her shoulder recently. I used the sketch from  this week's challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

I started by stamping the little images from MFT Get Well Soon set with Memento Black ink onto white CS, coloring them with Copics and die cutting them with the matching dies. The square white panel has the get well greeting stamped over and over with SU Barely Banana ink. I used some square dies to cut it and the black layer. The large white layer was embossed with the CB Swiss dots folder. The greeting was stamped with black ink, die cut and layered on the same black CS. The little images were added with foam squares for dimension. I couldn't get the yellow to show up very well in any of the pics I took. Oh well, it does look better in real like. Anyway, I'm certain my friend will like it.

Thanks for stopping by.

blessings,
shelia

give Thanks

Hi. Today my card uses the sketch from this week's Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge. You can see the challenge here. Below is the sketch.

Here's my card:

I started with the filigree pumpkin from DRS Designs. It was stamped with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with copper EP and layered on some copper colored CS. The greeting, also from DRS Designs, was also stamped and embossed with the same EP. The leaves were die cut with a SB die set and glued onto the card. The pumpkin piece was attached with foam adhesive for some dimension.

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Shelia

Trick or Treat

Happy Monday! Trust you had a good weekend and found some time to get inky! I've been having fun playing with the new images and greetings just released by DRS Designs. For today's card I created a little scene using the new iron fence (771P), Trick or Treat greeting, Spooky Tree and  Ghost Family images. I stamped the tree and ghosts first, colored with Copics, sponged on the grass and sky areas and then stamped the greeting and fence with Versafine Black ink and heat embossed. I smudged a bit of ink behind the fence, so I added those pumpkins to cover it up. :-)

On the inside I stamped the rest of the Trick or Treat greeting and added some candy corn.

Be sure to check out the on line store to see these images and more from DRS Designs.

Thanks for stopping by today.

shelia

Expect the Unexpected

Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend! DRS Designs is about to release some new Halloween images and greetings which I think you will like. My card today features a new greeting, Expect the Unexpected (751E) on the front and a new image and another greeting on the inside, but first the outside...

The greeting, accent bats and Silhouette graveyard were all stamped with Versafine Black ink, heat embossed with clear EP and then Distress inks were sponged on for the sky and ground.

On the inside the new Deco Halloween greeting (707E) was stamped with Versafine Black ink and then I added the Scary Skull (712G), which was stamped, colored and fussy cut. I used an Action Wobbler so when you open the card it kind of pops out at you and moves around a bit. I like the effect.

Be sure to check back all this week to see more new images from the DT Members. Check the on line store here on Wednesday for the new images.

Thanks for stopping by,

shelia