All Hallow's Eve

      I'm hard into my Halloween cards because I make so many.  I give or mail to all my kids (yes, they are grown), all my grandkids (most of them are grown), and this year to all my great-grands (all still young or very young!)  Many of my friends receive Halloween cards, too, as do the wonderful Volunteers at the local senior center.  It means about 50 cards total and I'm still adding to the stash to get up to that number.

     I've done a series of cards using svg files (mostly from the Silhouette Store) because they are fast and easy, and there are some really fantastic, spooky, images out there for Halloween.  This is one of them.

     I added gel pen to the candle flames, then cut the orange CS and purple CS with rectangle dies from Spellbinders.  The sentiment was cut with an Avery Elle die.  Both the striped ribbon and the polka dot ribbon for the bow came from Really Reasonable Ribbon and the bow was tied using my bow maker.  A fun CAS design.

This is also my Day 2 entry into the 

LeighSBDesigns 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop. 

     Challenges:

Addicted to CAS

Crafty Calendar

Crafty Gals Corner

Creative Fingers

Creative Inspirations

LeighSB 31 Days

Outlawz Festive Fri

Paperbabe

Penny's Paper-Crafty

Polkadoodles

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Counting Autumn Blessings

      As a way to say "Thanks" in this month of Gratitude and Thanksgiving, I always recommend a count of all the blessings you've received throughout the year, and the blessings of the harvest and having family close need to be on that list, for sure!  

     This fun image from QKR Stampede, called "Farmer Crow" seemed the perfect one to use on my DT card for the new "Anything Goes" challenge starting today.  The image is colored with ProMarkers, then cut with an oval die from Memory Box.  That was one of the first dies I ever bought and it must go back at least 12 or 15 years.

     The background is made with layers of dp from an old DCWV stack.  The brown, sparkly ribbon on the left is from Really Reasonable Ribbon, as is the satin ribbon I used for the hand-tied bow.  I added an orange flower gem to the bow.  The pumpkin & flowers in the corner have had glitter added to them for a bit of sparkle.

My colors came from board #470 at CMH Color Dare

top row, middle row, and left hand column.

Actually, once I add in all the colors in his face and beak, I've

used all the colors except Sapphire!

     Challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's

Cutie Pie

Di's Digi Designs

Outlawz PAM

Outside the Box

Polkadoodles

Scrapping4fun

Taylormade ...

The Four Seasons

     I hope you're going to remember to come and play in our Anything Goes challenge this fortnight.  We love being inspired by you and if you're the winner (we have 2 winners each challenge - 1 for those who use QKR images and 1 for everyone else), you could win some fabulous digis!  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Thanksgiving Sharing

      Another challenge starts today at QKR Stampede and runs for the next 2 weeks.  My DT card features an image called "Scarecrow and Friends" and I thought it really reflected the sharing we do at Thanksgiving when we all gather and share the feast (if not the cooking - lol) before us.  Sharing is just part of gratitude and thankfulness, I've found.

     The image is colored with ProMarkers and cut with a Spellbinders die.  The darker paper (which is dry embossed and lightly sanded) and the kraft CS pieces are scraps from the basket, as is the dp framing the fussy cut sentiment.  The pumpkin is fabric and the ribbon is grosgrain.  Everything was mounted onto a piece of white CS which I embossed with my Linen EF.

       I love coloring critters and use far more critter images than people but I'm trying to improve my coloring on people so I've begun looking for and using images which combine critters and people.  Here's another one.  To me, coloring fur or feathers is easier than coloring human faces and hair.

I chose my colors from the board at CMH Color Dare #468.

blue/orange/brown/tan/red + B&W

     Challenges:

As You Like It

Crafty Catz

Colour Crazy

Cutie Pie

Di's Digi Designs

Incy Wincy

Outlawz PAM

Pixie's Snippets

Three Room Studio

     I hope you'll come over and play in our challenge this fortnight.  We always have an "Anything Goes" theme so you may enter any card you like.  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie