Halloween Pop up Bridge card

 Hi there.   I'm back to share my card for the final day of August at Die Cut Divas.   Our sponsor is Poppystamps and our challenge is Pop It Up

My card today used an older (now discontinued) Poppystamps die called "Cozy Kittens" and is a Bridge card.  As you take it out of the envelope it pops out! 

My background paper is a digital download I got from a magazine many years ago.  I printed it out and trimmed it to fit my bridge fold card.   To make the bridge, I used a Spellbinders die called "Wrought Iron"  I die cut it three times to give it stability.  I also die cut the cats three times and layer together and added on the fence.   I used my computer to generate the sentiment and added a second bridge across the top.   

Do come and join us - our challenge is open for till 9.00pm Pacific Time ( 3.00am 1st Sept NZ time) 

Halloween at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

 Hi peeps.  Time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin' Challenge and our theme is Halloween or Halloween Colours.   

I don't normally do Halloween cards but I remembered having a The Greeting Farm stamp set called Sweet & Toxic -and a Clearly Besotted set that had a Halloween sentiment. 

I stamped the girl and then used some very old H2O paints.  I found then at the back of one of my drawers and after having to get Hubby to open one of the little pottles (involved a pair of pliers and a vice-grip) I found they were still good to go!  In real life she is really shimmery.  I printed off the paper - a Shery K digi image I purchased such a long time ago.  The sentiment was stamped and trimmed out and layered onto some purple card.  

Do come and join us at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

Hocus Pocus Witchy Gnome

 Hi there.  It's the last day of the month so it's time for a card for Die Cut Divas.  Our theme this month is an Anything Goes Challenge... 

My card today is a Halloween one using the sweet Witch Nordic Gnome from Scrapflower Estudio 

I used some digital patterned paper and cut it with a Pink Fresh mini slimline die and its black layer.  I then printed the little witchy gnome and coloured her with Copic markers.  I then used some black card covered with clear packing tape to cut out the letters from a Hero Art Alpha dies.   I added them a little skewiff for a fun element. 

You still have a few hours to join us at Die Cut Divas 

Halloween at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

 Time for another challenge at Sweet Stampin'.  Our challenge this week is "Halloween" 

I used a digital stamp I've had for years.... not 100% sure who it's from.  I printed the image and and used some alcohol markers.  

I die cut the image and then added the sentiment which is a Clearly Besotted one.   I added a black layer and then onto a purple card base. 

Do come and join us at Sweet Stampin' this week.  

"Boo" at Die Cut Divas

It's the final day of the month at Die Cut Divas so just a few hours to get your creations in.

Frantic Stamper is our fantastic sponsor for October and the winner will receive a fantastic die.  Here it is!

Priced at $25.99 - Prize for October

The challenge for October is Fall or Fall Colors.  You can work with the wonderful Fall colors or any holidays in October - for Americansa , it's Halloween, so work your FALL MAGIC for us.

Frantic Stamper has so much to offer, stencils, stamps and dies.  Frantic Stamper carries their own brand as well as many other well known brands, such as Altenew, Elizabeth Craft Designs, and Hero Arts.


Today I'm sharing a Halloween card.

 A cute little Snoopy in his cape.  Used some scalloped circle dies and a Alpha die for the BOO


You still have a few hours to join us  HERE

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Halloween/Black & Orange.

Time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin' Challenge and this week it's Team Susan with a theme of Halloween/Black & Orange.

My card incorporated both parts of the theme.

I used a cute stamp from Penny Black for my main image.  I used Zig Watercolour Markers to colour my kitty in.  I made a mask and then did some ink blending and sprayed with some silver paint.  As I didn't have a Halloween sentiment to hand, I printed one on my computer.  My background striped paper was some digi paper I had sitting in my stash from a number of years ago.

Do come and join us at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

Pumpkin Time at StampNation

It's time for another challenge at StampNation and this week we are challenging you to add a pumpkin to your card or just create a card for your favorite punkin'.

Here in NZ Halloween is not as big in as in the USA, so I don't make many Halloween cards.  But recently I heard about a young girl (just turned 7)who has Behcets Disease and will be in hospital at Halloween.  I have made a card to send to her.

I used Bat Cat from Penny Black for my focal image.  I stamped and then used my Touchnew Alcohol markers to colour.  I made my background by clear embossing Hero Arts Tiny Stars background onto purple card.    The sentiment is from All Occasions Sentiments by Clearly Besotted.   I added glitter and glossy accents to the bat mask.

If you need any Hero Arts products, be sure to check out A2Z Scrapbooking. You can use code Dawn15 at checkout to receive 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. (before tax and shipping) 

Thanks for stopping by today.

"It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" at Red Carpet Studio

Hi all.... Well I hope you enjoyed the blog hop at Red Carpet Studio yesterday... if you missed it pop over here to see where to start.  And a big welcome to my new followers...

Now because of the hop, I'm a day behind with my posts  ~

This week's challenge over at Red Carpet Studio is inspired by "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."

Our fabulous sponsor this week is Fresh Brewed Designs! They are giving away 3 digital stamps of the winner's choice!

Along with the randomly chosen winner of this week's challenge, the card design team will also be taking a look at ALL of the submissions and voting on their top three "spotlight"submissions. The spotlight submissions, along with the random winner, will be announced on Tuesday November 6th and will receive a special badge for their blogs.  

I used some PP's from Mygrafico to make my background.  The fence die is from Sizzix.  My little Bat Cat is from Penny Black.  I stamped and then coloured with Copics.   My sentiment was printed in Word and cut with a Spellbinders tag die and I added some little dies in the corners and on the tag. 

So come join us with your Halloween projects.... would love to see them here

I'm entering this card into the following challenges

Penny Black and More ~ Animal Magic 

Just Some Lines ~ Halloween

And pop back tomorrow to see my Mygrafico post... 

Dawn

  

Mygrafico Challenge ~ Halloween.

Well I tell you, this week at Mygrafico is all about Halloween.  And the team got not one but two sets to work with.  Both are from Revidevi.

 Isn't this a fun project.  I found the template on this site. I started by printing one of the PP's onto card and then put it through the printer again and printed the template on the back.  I printed the other PP onto to plain paper and printed the lining on the back.

For the front of the shoe, I printed off the cat and cut it out.
With the leftover lining paper, I made a matching tag.

 

The hat and spider were cut out of the main shoe PP.  I stamped and embossed the spiderweb in the corner and hand wrote the "BOO!" with a white gel pen.  I've given these to a friend at work for her 9 year old for Halloween.

Be sure to pop over to Mygrafico and join us with your Halloween project.

Had a great restful weekend.  Lots of reading, lots of colouring and made some awesome watercolour sheets for backgrounds.

I've already made one card with one of the papers.  I did half of it yesterday and finished it this afternoon when we got home.

Enjoy your week

Dawn