Happy Halloween!

My card today is my greeting to all of you on this Halloween day.

     I've used an image that's been in my Halloween collection 
for so long I have no idea which company made it.

Moon & witch legs colored with ProMarkers

Image cut with MFT Die-namics die

Yellow frame was a scrap cut with Sue Wilson die

Embossed card front - Birch Trees

     Challenges:

Color My Heart

Crafty Creations
Crafty Gals Corner
Digi Choosday
Double Trouble (orange, yellow, purple + bats flying)
Lemon Shortbread
Outlawz Twisted Thurs
Passion for ProMarker
Pattie's Creations
TTCRD

     Enjoy your Halloween day, and be safe tonight when the witches and goblins fly!  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Silhouette Witch - Second Take

     A couple of weeks ago I shared a card with this same silhouette image done in Harvest Yellow.  This time I've done it in another Halloween color - my favorite, purple.  I used gray-blue instead of purple on the moon and tied an orange bow to add to the Halloween feel.

Background colored with ProMarkers
Purple sheer ribbon
Black signature bow with pearl
Sentiment is 3D and adhered with Pop Dots
Orange bow is hand-tied

     Challenges:
Double Trouble
  (purple/orange/blue + flying bats & witch + Crafting Happiness)
Dragonfly Dreams
Dream Valley
Lemon Shortbread
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends
Outlawz SAR
Pammie's Inky Pinkies
Tues Throwdown

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Cat, Bats, and a Full Moon

     Back to Halloween silhouettes.  I played a bit with my ProMarkers to create the background on this one.  I used a scrap piece of watercolor paper which lets alcohol inks spread naturally.  After applying the colors with ProMarkers, I wet a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol (damp, not sopping) and rubbed the entire background.  After that dried, I went back over just the moon with a yellow ProMarker to define it a bit more.

     The silhouette cat and bats, plus the sentiment went on after the background was completely dry.  I ironed the paper to make sure it was completely flat and that took the texture out of it and made it very smooth.  I colored the eyes, then added a sheer ribbon and bow, and finally adhered the image piece to a card base and trimmed the top and bottom to fit.

     Challenges:
Cute N Crafty
Cutie Pie
Digi Choosday
Lemon Shortbread
Outlawz Greetings
Papercraft
Paperminutes
Passion for ProMarkers
SUYP Cats
TTCRD

     Have a wonderful rest of your weekend and wake up creative on Monday.  :-D  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Fright Night

     Another silhouette card today and this one started as a silhouette.  I printed it onto golden CS to give the moon its glow.  I loved it because it had 2 of my favorite Halloween animals - cats and bats.

Distressed edges on the image
Hand curled corners
Grosgrain ribbon scrap
Sentiment sticker (edges colored w ProMarkers)
Spider in the tree is 3D

     Challenges:
2 Sisters on the Blog
A Bit More Time ...
Archi-Scraps
Bastel-Traum
Craft-Dee BowZ
Crafts Galore Encore
Creatalicious
Die Cut Divas
Fabrika Fantasy
Your Scrapbook Place

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Sasayaki Witch

     I'm finally getting my card made for the Progressive Challenge at Sasayaki Glitter.  The image is one of the most adorable witches this season.  :-D

     I colored with ProMarkers, then cut the image with a Bo Bunny die.    I matted the image with a wonky stitched die from CUTplorations.   I printed the sentiment, hand cut it, and matted it with a scrap of purple CS.

     The jack-o-lantern doily is die cut from glittered paper and the Happy Bat die cut was sent to me by my friend, Christi, who loves Halloween almost as much as I do.  :-D  Thanks so much, Christi!

     Challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge
Angie's Digital Stamps
Crafty Friends
Cute N Crafty
Cutie Pie
Jo's Scrap Shack
Outlawz Greetings
Path of Positivity
Whoopsi Daisy

     I'll have a second post today in the early afternoon (my time) featuring my DT card for the World Wide Open DT Challenge.  Be sure to stop by and see what's happening with our newest challenge.  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Full Moon Bats

     We all know what happens when a werewolf is caught under the light of a full moon, Halloween or otherwise, but do you know what happens to bats?  Nope, nothing to do with vampires or Dracula. 

     They fall in love and get completely twitter-pated!  Here's the proof in this cute Conie Fong image.

     The image is colored with ProMarkers, and cut with a simple Spellbinders' die.  The two-piece, black mat behind it was cut with dies from Cottage Cutz.  I layered those together, offsetting them for a visual effect.  They are stitched buy that doesn't show well in the photo.  I added one, small, flying bat (a die cut) to the upper corner of the image (Cottage Cutz.)

     The spider web dp is from a stack by Memory Makers.  I added the stitched, orange ribbon and tied a black, bow tie bow.  There was already so much visual interest that I didn't want to add much more by way of embellishment.  This way, it's flat and easy to mail.

     Challenges:
C.R.A.F.T.
Crafty Gals Corner
Crafty Hazelnut's 
Crafty Sentiments Designs
Cute Card Thursday
Simon Says Stamp
Try Stampin' on Tues.
TTCRD
Unicorn

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Too Cute to Spook

     OK, this weekend I've gotten inspired to make a few Halloween cards and I started with this darling little witch from Conie Fong.  Who could resist that cute face and that sweet little kitten cuddled in her arm?

I took inspiration from the sketch at The Outlawz

turning it a quarter turn and I also took a bit of a liberty with it.

     She's colored with ProMarkers, then fussy cut.  I used a set of framing dies from Spellbinders to cut the black piece behind the image.  I cut those from different pieces of scrap CS and inlaid them to make the one, large framing piece.

     The 'moon' is cut with a plain circle die from QuicKutz and the bats are cut with a Cottage Cutz die.  Those were also cut from scrap bits rescued from the trash can.

     I printed and hand cut the sentiment.  The three tiny dots are negative pieces which fell out of the Spellbinders die cut and I just used them like gem embellies.

     Challenges:
Crafter's Castle
Crafting by Designs
Double D
Hiding in My Craft Room
Jo's Scrap Shack
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends
Pixie's Snippet's
Scrappy Land
Send a Smile 4 Kids

     I'll have another post later this afternoon - not Halloween, but Christmas instead.  I'm still hoping our 103F weather will change and get cooler.  Throughout the summer this year, 5 out of every 6 days have been 100 degrees or higher, and even those which have been below 100, have been 98 or 99.  That started the last week of May and I'm really tired of it!  I'm trying to entice fall by doing cold weather cards.  :-D  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Buggy and Bats

     Ever since I spent an afternoon crafting and card making with my friend who introduced me to stamps from Victorine Originals, I've looked for reasons to buy some of their stamps.  I went on a spending spree right after I discovered them and now have stamps by them for most holidays or at least seasons.

     For this card, I combined two totally unrelated stamps but I thought they made a great Halloween scene right out of a Dickens or Poe novel.  What do you think?  Can't you just imagine an old, Victorian hearse on its way to the cemetery right at sunset with the bats swooping past?

     The "hearse" stamp is actually called "Buggy" and the bats stamp is called "Flying Bats" (I think -- not sure as I borrowed that one from my friend and the name is a bit worn off.)   I used both stamps as silhouettes, stamping them with Tuxedo black ink.  I used my ProMarkers to color the sunset sky.

     Then I started digging through my stash of paper scraps, building layers in alternating dark and light shades of autumn colors as I went.  I put everything onto a colored card blank, including the textured ribbon wrapped around the card front.  The sentiment is another Victorine stamp, also colored with ProMarkers, then hand-cut and mounted on dimensional dots.

     For final touches, I did a few die cuts (Cottage Cutz - Bird on the Branch plus Impression Obsession - the pumpkins) and added them along the bottom corners.  When it comes to die cuts (or even silhouettes), I much prefer animals to people.  Even the simplest shape of an animal, like the birds and bats above, are so easy to recognize regardless of what they might be doing.  :-D

     Challenges:
Allsorts
Aloha Friday
As You Like It
Aud Sentiments
Di's Digi Designs
Hiding in My Craft Room
Jo's Scrap Shack
Morgan's Artworld
Take It, Make It

     I seem to be coming down with a cold and am doing my best to fight it off.  What I thought was going to be fun crafting time turned into a day spent tucked under the covers, sipping hot tea with honey and lemon.  That's part of the reason today's post is so late but I'm staying up to get a post ready for tomorrow so it should be posted at a normal time (which for me usually means midnight my time. :-D)  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Bats on a Full Moon Night

     Another Halloween card today, showcasing one of my most favorite ever spooky/fun images from QKR Stampede, where we're starting a new "Anything Goes" challenge and this week we don't even have an optional twist.  Just Anything Goes!

     This image is called "Bat and Moon" and the sentiment (can you believe it?) is called "Eeeeek."

     I colored with my ProMarkers and cut the image with a die from Sizzix.  The outer circle is cut with a QuicKutz die.  I should tell you that the image is only the bat and moon -- the other little bats are all die cuts (Impression Obsession) which I added to give the image more depth.

     The sentiment is hand cut and added to the image piece.  I embellished it using velvet ribbon tied into a bow.  I wanted this one really CAS and I think I accomplished that.

     Challenges:
Addicted to Stamps & More
Crafting by Designs
Crafty Addicts
Crafty Gals Corner
Creative Inspirations
Paper Shelter
Penny's Paper-Crafty
Scrappy Land

     Come and play with us this week, won't you?  Remember, you can use any image by any company to enter.  However, if you choose to use a QKR Stampede image, you'll be entered into a separate draw just for QKR users, increasing your chances of winning by a huge percent!  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Broom Rides

     What's the first thing that happens when new crafting supplies arrive in the mail?  We sit right down and make something with them, right?  Well, I had ordered some new dies and they were waiting for me when I got home which gave me an excuse to do crafting (instead of doing house work and a load of laundry) and this is the result.

     This one is all die cuts and papers so it was really quick and easy.  The card base is made from purple CS which I ran through my "Linen" embossing folder.  The black witch is done with a die from Yvonne Creations and I also used it on the orange frame so the image is inlaid into the frame instead of being adhered on top of it.

     The pumpkins were created with a die from Die-mensions.  I used Fiskars corner punches on the orange frame, then dug through my Halloween stash for the dp with the spiders and web.  The sentiment came from an old card kit and it seemed perfect for the witch on her broom.

     Oh, yes, the bat -- it was cut from charcoal gray CS with a punch which is so old the brand name has worn off.

     Challenges:
Crafting by Designs
Crafty Creations
Creates and Makes
Creative Moments
Lemon Shortbread
Outlawz Twisted Thurs
Penny' Paper Crafty
Pixie's Snippets
Scrapy Land
Simon Says Stamp

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie  

A Little Bit Batty

      Yes, I know it's only the fourth Friday in July and, yes, this is a Halloween card!  I've been doing Christmas all month long so I thought I'd throw in something a bit unexpected.  Actually, this is a perfect card for the new theme in our latest challenge at QKR Stampede, "Up, Up, and Away."

     The image is Digi 16309 "Blind Bat" and the sentiment is Digi 8902 "Happy Halloween."  I colored both of those with my ProMarkers and fussy cut them.  The bat is mounted onto foam dots for some dimension.

     The moon was cut from harvest gold CS using a stitched circle die which has the stitching both inside and outside the circle.  I used the same die to cut the background purple CS, then inset the gold moon into it.  I think stitched dies have become my favorite "go to" dies, but then, using dies is my favorite thing to do on cards anyway.  I used two different gray ProMarkers to make the shadows on the moon.

     For embellishment, I added a black bow and three little silver/gray pearls.  A very CAS design which works to showcase the image.

     Challenges:
AAA Cards
Colour Your World
Corrosive
Crafting from the Heart
Crafting with Friends
Craft Your Passion
Creative Moments
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends
Little Claire's
Outlawz Twisted Thursday
Pile It On
Simon Says Stamp
Sisterhood of Crafters

     That's all I have today and I hope we're going to see you playing along in our "Up, Up, and Away" challenge this week,  Just use anything that goes up into the sky -- the possibilities are endless.  While there's no requirement that you use an image from QKR, if you do, your card will be entered into a separate drawing just for QKR Stampede users and that really increases your chances of being a winner.  Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie

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