The Graveyard and the Bat

      Well, it's been more than a month since I posted anything to my blog but it's been a busy one.  One more craft show is under our belts and we have one more coming up in less than 3 weeks.  I'd love to tell you that we're all ready for that one (our last one of the year) but alas, we have at least half a dozen projects waiting to be finished.  I have two sets of Christmas gnome ornaments, a rather tall, "Winter White" gnome (18 inches), and I still have to get our inventory list finished so that we can keep track of what we sell.

     But for today, I want to share the cutest (spookiest?) graveyard scene made by my sis-in-law and an adorable bat gnome I made.

The ghosts have flickering lights inside them and the cobwebbed trees

 have strings of mini lights on them.  When it's dark (as it couldn't be

 for a good photo), it's really quite spooky-cute.  :-D

And here's my bat gnome made from faux fur and craft foam.

    

     When we get the sets of Christmas ornaments done, maybe I'll find time to do another post.  In the meantime, thanks for visiting and Happy crafting.  NanaConnie

Fright Night

      Once more it's time for a Halloween card for 2 Old Bats  where the theme is always "Halloween."  I've played there pretty faithfully since the challenges first started.  I love making Halloween cards and I figure if I can do Christmas cards all year round, why not Halloween?  I seem to be gaining new family members as my grandkids marry and have kids of their own so it's not like I have nobody to receive them. :-D

     This spooky Fright Night card was done using one of the images sent to me by a dear friend early last fall after I lost all my digital images (nearly 10,000!) due to a flash drive crash.  It was printed in gray scale and I colored it with ProMarkers and gel pens.  

     The graveyard fence was made with two die cuts, one orange and one black (Spellbinders die) which I offset before adding them at the bottom of the card.   The sentiment was printed and cut with an Avery Elle die.  I really wanted the scary jack-o-lantern head to be the focus of the card so I left it without any embellishments.  I'd classify it as a CAS card but many people think it has to have lots of 'white' space to be CAS so I'll leave it to you to decide.

     Challenges:

Angie's Digitals

A Perfect Time ...

Cardz TV

Classic Design

Colour Crazy

Crafts Galore Encore

Dies R Us

Lemon Shortbread

Polkadoodles

     You really should come and play along at 2 Old Bats.  This month, they have a prize which is wonderful.  Of course, if you don't play, that means there'll be a better chance that I'll win it.  :-D  On the other hand, Halloween isn't all that far away since it's already August !  

  

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Haunted !

      It's the day we start a new monthly challenge at Jan's Digi Stamps and our theme is always "Anything Goes."  It's October and time for Halloween!  Jan's Digi Stamps has two new releases this month (both on sale so check out the store), one of which is a new Halloween set, but I wanted to use on of the older set called "Haunted!"

     The Haunted! set has so many secondary images that it's great for merging to get an entire scene.  For this card, I combined the tree, the tombstone, and the ghost, plus one of the sentiments using the merge tool available in MS Word.  If you go to the store (see link above which is the name of the set) and compare the thumbnail with the image on my card, you'll see how easy it was; nothing fancy, nothing complicated, just simple merging using the png images.

Colored w ProMarkers & gel pens

  (tombstone is pre-colored image)

Cut w Tutti Designs die

Satin ribbon scraps

Hand-tied bow

Spiderweb embossed w sparkle EP

Black card base

     Challenges:

Art Impressions

Aud Sentiments

Coloring in Scrapland

Colour Crazy

C.R.A.F.T.

Crafty Calendar

Creative Fingers

I {heart} ProMarkers

Penny's Paper-Crafty

Simon Says Stamp

     Come play with us and be sure to check out the sales at Jan's Digi Stamps.  We'd love to see what you create.  Remember, you may use any images from any company but if you choose to use an image from JDS, your entry will go into a separate draw just for JDS projects and that increases your chances of winning by a huge margin!  

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie