Happy Halloween--Not so Scarey Style

I thought I would share a cute image from Just Inklined with you to celebrate Halloween today!!!

I used some fun Halloween saying dp as a backdrop for this cute  Scarecrow Not from Just Inklined.  I love the MS goo border punch which I embellished with orange stickles to accentuate the goo. 

A narrow band or black ribbon on the goo band in the middle adds a little more seasonal fun without detracting from the image and the busyness of the dp. I added a glittery corner cobweb from Michaels in orange and a large orange button tied into the black ribbon on the center goo band.

Hoping you all have a wonderful Halloween and have a safe a fun time with the kids.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful creative day.

Cathy

 

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge--Favorite Holiday!!!

Yippee, time for another Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge and a fun one again.  I get to choose another fun character for my Favorite Holiday which is the next one coming up, Halloween.  I chose, Come Hither, just because I thought he would be so fun to create a double spread scrapbook page, not usually my thing but thought it would be fun to do something a little different....hey it happens LOL.

If you hadn't guessed this is pretty big, actually 8.5 X 11  since I was planning to add it to a 12X12 page for a double spread with kids Halloween pix on the other side...sounds like I really do this huh.  I don't make too many scrapbook pages but I have made a few LOL. I leave that to my girls, they are awesome.

Come Hither was colored with copic markers and the lining of his cape was highlighted with red Atyou spica glitter pen.  I added spiders, bats and the haunted mansion in the lower right corner with its resident ghost.

The huge gold key is a new dollar bin find from Michaels last week and it is metal.  The black swirley frame is a new cricut frames cartridge I just love since none of my cuttlebug dies are big enough to back my images. You just measure the height of the pix and wallah, easy peasy.  The red roses in the upper right are being invaded by spiders as well, so this Halloween card is complete.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to stop by and check out the rest of the DT favorite holidays.  Play along in the challenge too for a chance to win a Mo's image...Mo has been busy creating Christmas images and couples and kids oh my......

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful creative day.

Cathy

Time for Halloween Images--Just Inklined

I was so pleased when Just Inklined came up with some new Halloween images this week and couldn't wait to color some up. The first one I colored was this cute witch called Endora:

I colored her with copic markers and then traced a moon around her so she could be flying up in the Halloween night sky.  The sky was airbrushed. 

I found this wonderful dp pack on sale at Michael's last week and just in time for all my Halloween creations this year. The web photo corner piece is perfect for my card along with the punched bats.  I added a Caution tag which is a pack from Recollections especially for Halloween. 
Be sure to check out all of the other new images Just Inklined has for Halloween just posted for you yesterday.  They are awesome.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to stop by the Just Inklined Blog for more DT inspiration daily.

Cathy

I did the SCS Sketch Challenge again this week!!!

I enjoyed doing the SCS Sketch challenge so much last week I decided to play again this week.  I love that I work nights so the challenge is posted before I go to bed so I get to play early!!!  Here is the card I created for the sketch challenge:

I love this scarecrow from Mo's Digital Pencil and decided to use this for my challenge card.  The sketch was pretty easy which is good for me.  I struggle sometimes to come up with card ideas, I prefer to color and well you have to do something with them so I make cards LOL...Having some wonderfully talented sketch artists makes my job so much easier.  Thanks
The image was colored with copic markers and mounted on black cs in a double layer with green in the middle layer.  The two band layers top and bottom as well as the main dp layer are from a Halloween paper pack from Target last year and I thought they were nice with the image.
I added a couple of pumpkin buttons to the polka dot black ribbon for a little extra detail along with a couple of MS punched bats in the upper right.
Quick and easy sketch, that's what I'm talking about!!!  Looks like I spent hours on it and I would have if not for the awesome sketch.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Cathy

Cute little Wizard James--Just Inklined Freebie

I know we all love free anything but free images are always welcome, especially when they are as beautiful and detailed as the images for sale.  Last week's free image at Just Inklined  was James the little Wizard.  Here is what I created with the image:

James was colored with copic markers and framed with a Spellbinder scalloped Frame.  The frog in the lower right corner is a Cuttlekids frog.

The rest of the design is fairlly simple. green and white layers with a green check ribbon and three green buttons in the upper left corner.James has a sister named Jenny if you want a female version of this image.  Just Inklined just offered another awesome skull freebie today for this week.  I think I may catch up one of these days.  They also offered up a bunch of new images on the website and they are awesome.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cathy

Final Sneak Peeks for Riley and Company Release tonight!!!

Are you all ready for the Riley and Company Blog Hop and release of these awesome stamps to be available for you to purchase?!?
I have two sneak peeks for you today and my final two projects tonight during the Blog Hop:

Here is Raking Riley:

I have kind of gone back to some backgrounds that I really enjoyed creating last year with the embossing folders.  This is the second folder in the set and I really like the look.  I kept the colors in the browns and neutrals. 
The kraft back panel was the perfect backdrop for the MS corner punch.  I rounded the corners on the leaf embossed layer to show a little more of the corners without making the leave panel smaller.
Raking Riley was colored with copic markers and sponoged with distress ink.  I added an Autumn metalic brad from my stash.
I love the look of the wide striped ribbon and had some brown and white I thought would be perfect...what do you think?  I just tied a knot close to the edge because I thought a bow would just be too big. The final touch was a little metalic Thank you  charm tied on with twine.

My next project is not a card....yeah I know: you can only send out so many Halloween cards.

  I just wanted to show how cute the little Halloween Moose are as gift tags.  I love my pillow pouch die cut and used some cute halloween dp. The only think I did was punch a hole in the corner of the Chief Riley to tie the orange checked ribbon through.  Very simple, but I think it is perfect for a little Halloween treat for a co-worker or friend.
Be sure you check out all the DT projects for today and don't forget to stop by the Blog Hop which starts at 9:00 Central time at the Riley and Company Blog.  See you there!!!
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day..see you later :)

Riley and Company Sneak Peek #1 Fall and Halloween

It is finally Monday and I can start showing you the first of 4 days of sneak peeks for the Fall and Halloween Riley and Company Release.  Here is Mummy Riley:

 Isn't Mummy Riley just too cute with his bandages trying to look like a Halloween Mummy.  He is starting to unravel...LOL  Riley was colored with copic markers and the large scalloped rectangle spellbinder die was used to cut out the image.   A row of spider webs, a bat and a spider, black polka dot ribbon and my cute little treat box is complete.
The coffin was  created from a MS template I found on the web.  I printed it off on creamy caramel cs and hand drew the pine plank lines.  I used my Copic airbrush system to give the wood grained effect on the coffin.
I have another picture of the side to give you a better idea of what it looks like:

 Be sure to check out the rest of the DT blogs to see what sneak peeks they have in store for you this week leading up to the Thursday Blog Hop and Release at Riley and Company.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cathy

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge--Use a Gel Pen

The Challenge this week at Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Blog is to use a gel pen on your creation.  This should be easy, except I used an Atyou gold glitter pen from Copic and it looks wonderful IRL but doesn't show up worth a darn in a photograph.  If you enlarge the photo you can see it.  Here is another Halloween card:

Isn't this a cute little witch wondering why the little elf troll is offering her a cute pumpkin...must be a catch huh?   The image is called: Surprised Witch.

The image was colored with copic markers and cut out with my newest long curved rectangle spellbinder die.  Look ma no sponging LOL!!!   I used the Out of the Box  for the witches hat for two reasons, I like the look and I was going to use my new dies. 
The embellisihments are a large rickrack die cut, a large scalloped die cut and three flower die cuts.  I think I was punch happy on this one...oh well at least it isn't boring!!  The little spiral flower in the lower right corner fit the image.
I used my copic airbrush system to spary over a chipboard spider web and spider for a little background interest on the purple cs.  The lines were highlighted with my gold Atyou glitter pen as well as all of the gold on the Sassy Witch's dresss, hat and leggings.

I really like this image but am not crazy about the color, I guess I use purple because it is a halloween color, but it is not my favorite color to work with. 

Be sure to check out what the rest of the DT has for your viewing pleasure today and be sure to check out our two new DT members, Jeni and Lily...I peeked and their creations are awesome, so glad to have you on the team.

While you are at it, stop by the store and see all of the new images Sassy Cheryl has created for you this week and if you belong to the Paper Craft Planet group you better get over there and get your super cute freebie.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day and try to join in the challenge with us, we'd love to have you.

Cathy

Mo's Digital Pencil--Halloween!!!

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge this week is Halloween.  Our wonderful Team Leader, Peggy Marsh, is our hostess this week.  Have I mentioned lately that Halloween is my favorite Holiday :), yeah I know...Here is my card:

I didn't want to make the traditional colored Halloween card and I just love this darling little Halloween Witch.  I thought the browns, orange and black would be fun and I really like the way it turned out.

The image was colored with copic markers and the moon was created using a Fiskar's circle cuting template drawn in with a copic marker and blended to resemble moon glow.  The outside was sponged with distress inks in weathered wood and vintage photo distress inks.

The dp is from a Me and My Big Ideas paper pack called Harvest and a strip of MS spider webs created with a border punch.  I added little spiders highlighted with clear glitter pen. The spider webs are highlighted as well with the same glitter pen.

The spiral flowers in the lower right were created by cutting a 2 1/2 inch circle and cut the certer evenly in a spiral ending in the center and then twisting it from outside to the middle of the spiral on a tweezers.  It is fun to make them and a little smaller than some of the larger roses I have made out of square spirals.

Be sure you check out the rest of the DT members projects and now that the kids are back in school you need to play along with us and you may even win the free image from Mo's Digital Pencil store.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cathy

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge--Little Girls!!!

First important news...Jackie was chosen as the September Guest Designer by the DT.  There were so many awesome entries it was a really tough decision.   Congratulations Jackie!!!
Thursday's are good days for me, it is my last day of work and Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge day.  This week the challenge is to use one of Mo's Little Girls...easy you think...making a decision on WHICH little girl is the tough part.  I decided to use the new Kitty Kai which is one of Mo's new images for Halloween.  Here she is:

Isn't she just the cutest...look at that smile!!!  I wanted to keep the colors happy and fun so went with this fun dp from the K & Company Instant Pages. The paper pack is intended to be used for scrapbook layouts but I loved the colors and cut it into pieces that work for my cards.....sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!!!

The MS dripping goo border is a wonderful Halloween border and the possibilities are endless for color and uses, baby cards come to mind LOL....   The large scallop die under the goo border is a die-namics die from My Favorite Things...I love it.  Kitty Kai was cut out with a Spellbinder circle die after it was colored and the orange is a scalloped circle spellbinder die. 
I wanted to keep the colors bright and had this perfect pink and orange double sided ribbon.  I think it ties in the pink and orange wonderfully.  The pink grosgrain is some I dyed with SU ink refills. 
Thanks for stopping by and be sure to stop by the rest of the DT blogs and leave them some love.  Be sure to stop by the Mo's Digital Pencil store too and see all of the new images Mo has been creating lately including 3 Wizard of Oz images which are wonderful, can't wait to play with them.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!!

Cathy

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge--Stitch it up!!!

Peggy is our hostess this week on the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge and her challenge is for us to sew on our cards...This should be easy for me because I keep my sewing machine right below my computer table, plugged in and ready to go...but do I do it often?  Anyway, here is my Funky Scarecrows, Hallween themed card:

Have I mentioned that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays?!?  I love to see the little kids dressed up and soo darn cute you wish you still had little ones to costume?  Ahhh the memories.  Don't get me started on the older (high school) kids who come to my door with their pillowcases and have the audacity to ask for something for their brother who couldn't come out with them....ummmm NO!!!
Back in the dark ages, when I was a kid, we would have been too embarrased to dress up and go door to door trick or treating.   We did have Church Halloween parties and that was okay...but really if you are old enough to drive, don't come to my door for candy, drive to the store and buy your own, mine is for the cute "little" kids....sorry for the rant...

I love Sassy Cheryl's Halloween images, and her Snowmen, and her bears and her girls, and her boys LOL....Yep I love them all but I am in the mood for Halloween cards right now.  Loved this image when I downloaded it a couple of months ago and was just waiting for the right challenge to use it.
For some reason my sewing machine didn't like sewing on the thinner dp on the bottom layer and I tried to improve the stitching but even after ripping it out once and restitching it, it turned out the same. Didn't change a thing for the image layers except that there were 3 layers instead of 2 and it stitched correctly....what can I say...I guess a Ghost or Goblin was making the stitches...BWAHHHHHHH!!!
Don't you love the MS dripping goo border punch?  I also got a new 28mm button brad punch for the I-Top and cut out the BOO and attached it to the center of a Tim Holtz die cut flower that I had sponged the petal edges green to blend with the dp.

Be sure to stop by the rest of the DT blogs to see what they have created.  Sassy Cheryl is back from vacation and has some new images in the store and they are cute, cute, cute!!!

Well, since I have been home sick all day with a debilitating headache I didn't get anything done today, hopefully it will be gone by the time I get up in the morning.  I am going to try to assemble the 4 cards I have laying on my desk so I have something to show you the rest of the week, LOL.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge--Inspiration!!!

Happy Thursday,  It's Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge day, yep...This week's hostess is our mega talented, Peggy Marsh, who chose an Inspiration Challenge for us.  Here is the Challenge iinspiration:

I chose the thread in the upper left corner for my challenge card here:

I loved coloring this adorable Halloween at Bat Cat.  The irridencent look of the bat mask doesn't show up very well in the photo but it is a beautiful shade of bright yellow green.  I added the orange checked ribbon to tie in the pumpkins color, although the owls in the dp are pink and orange and green,  I thought the ribbon would help.

I kept the other embellishments to a minimum, as the dp is pretty busy , only adding a flower in the upper right coenr.  I used three different 5 pedal flowers and used an orange brad for the flower center.

Thanks for the great challenge Peggy, wonderful as always.  Be sure to check out the rest of the DT projects and see which part of the inspiration they chose.  I hope that is what we were supposed to do :)  If I don't ask I can plead ignorance  LOL.

I think the Guest Designer will be announced soon, check the Challenge site,  The DT has voted, it was really tough as there were soooo many incredible entries.

Have a great day.  It is supposed to cool off a little bit next week so I am staying in until it does.

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day

Hanna Stamps Friday Challenge--Pumpkin Pie!

The Hanna Stamps Weekly challenge by Jeanne this week is to use Pumpkin Pie on the card.  My pumpkin pie is the label 4 behind the main Nurse Riley image  and of course one of the stripes in the dp is the same color.

The striped dp is from a halloween paper pack from the dollar bin at Target.  The green border is the outside edge of the Quikutz labels die, I think they make a cute outline.  The white are the smaller size of the same label die. 
The bat,  Trick or Treat bag,  and Trick or Treat sentiment are from the Trick or Treat mini set from Hanna Stamps last fall.  If you have time you should scoot on over to the Hanna Stamps weekly Challenge forum and play along. 

Hope that everyone has a Happy and  safe Halloween !!!  I probably won't see you again until Sunday as I have company coming for the week-end. Have a good one!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Artful Sentiments by Kimm BT Copic Challenge

It is Saturday and that means Artful Sentiments by Kimm BT Copic Challenge. The colors this week are: Y15, YG06 and V06 Lucky me I had them all this week.

I used a Mo's Digital Pencil freebie from a few weeks ago for this color challenge. Check this out:

I don't think that Bronte the dog is very happy with his cat costume, do you? Bella reminds me of the reason that Halloween is my favorite holiday. Little kids are so happy and love dressing up and I love seeing them all have so much fun.

I hope you all have a great week-end. I hope to get some coloring done ahead but there is a Husker football game and it may be one of the last really nice week-ends so need to get my perenniels winterized, but we will see.

Check back tomorrow you just never know what I am going to find to show you.

Go check out what the other design team members have come up with for this challenge with some of my favorite colors.

See you later,

Cathy

Wanna See?!?

Wanna see what you can get done if you don't do anything else for two days :). Hey, my kids are grown, my dogs don't care and my husband can pick up after himself!!!

Besides the projects that I have already shown you today I finished 4 more, here you go:

Elf Hanna from the Elf Hanna Mini stamp set, that was released in September at Hanna Stamps, is taking a rest while decorating the tree.

Colored with copic markers and sponged with SU kiwi kiss classic ink. Tied with a gold cord and a Noel button in the upper left corner complete this Happy Christmas card. There is a lot of sparkle that doesn't show up in the picture on the tips of the collar, the christmas balls, Hanna elf's slippers, belt buckle, and the bells on the end of the elf cap.

Not sure what this Riley's name is, but isn't she just too cute in her Halloween costume?

Colored with copic markers and designed around spellbinder nestibilities for the ovals and sentiment tags really a pretty simple card.
Next I have two Mo's Digital Pencil cards. A Karate boy and a Cute Witch:

I colored this little witch in purple and grey. Can you see the cat hanging on for dear life.

Colored with copics and sponged with Tim Holtz concorde grape distress ink.

Last but not least Karate boy:

Four of my grandkids are in Karate so to get these was a no brainer. The boys, Austin, Cole and Hayden are 8,4, and 7 respectively. Austin and Hayden are both blue belts and Cole is a yellow belt. Cheyenne is 9 and is a purple belt and I will do the little Karate girl for her.

I thought the dp that I found in my stash was perfect for the karate kids.

Well, I am coloring yet and my work week starts tomorrow, ugh, so I won't have as many projects, at least not multiple ones per day.

Hope you liked my projects and thanks for stopping by. It always makes my day to think that people actually take time to stop by and see what I have created.

Catch ya later,

Cathy

Hanna Stamps Friday Challenge card

The Hanna Stamps Friday Challenge this week was hosted by Ilina who chose an inspiration challenge. I don't remember if I have ever done but one other inspiration challenge but they are a little intimidating to me :O The picture had lots of rectangles and earth tones.
I decided to do a quilt square card with the Happy Halloween scarecrow colored in neutral tones, I think that meets the challenge requirements.
I drew the rectangles by hand with my Copic micro pen. I stamped some of the accessory stamps into the rectangles and sponged around all the edges including the inside edges. The accessories were colored with copic markers as was the scarecrow image.
I mounted the scarecrow image on foam pictures mounting tape on the brown mat layer to add some dimension to the card.
The only embellishment that I added was a trio of punched spiders and an orange button.
Be sure to go check-out the sneak peeks going on right now at the SCS Hanna Stamps company forum and see all of the awesome new sets and Riley's that will be released on Tuesday night.
I won't be able to attend the Release party this month because I am working nights for one more week and after that I will be there.
Thanks for stopping by and see you tomorrow.

Cathy

I Toad Ya!

Ha Ha, Isn't this cute! Another wonderful image form KLM Digital Designs. I love the warning sign. This wonderful image a several more equally as cute will be available for purchase September 1,

The brick wall was drawn in by hand because I want to order the brick wall stamp from Hanna Stamps but the site and I are having registration issues so it won't let me order and I haven't had time to remedy that yet. Anywhoo, I drew in the bricks lightly with a pencil and ruler and then colored with copic markers when it was all done and shaded I went back in and lightly drew in the lines again with my Copic multi lines pen.

The rest of the image was colored with copic markers and then I used my copic blending solution and a dirty rag (technical term) and added texture to the bricks and sign.

Added a brown checked ribbon, double prima flowers with a tiny orange button and three buttons in the lower right corner.

Does anybody besides me think that summer has gone much to fast but still anxious to start creating fall cards?

Saturday is the final project posting for the Hanna Stamps Guest Designs Project 3 which has to be anything but a card. I can't wait until you see what I created...

Sunday I will be off to see my new granddaughter and will be back on Tuesday unless I can get a couple of days off work :)

Gotta go fix something for lunch and shower for work.

Catch ya later,

Cathy

Vintage Halloween- Artistic Outpost

I have wanted to get this Vintage Halloween by Artistic Outpost set for awhile but it has been out of stock. I got it on Saturday and I just love it. I know it is early for Halloween but I am thinking of submitting some cards for publications so you have to plan a few months ahead :) a novel concept for me but I am working on it! What do you think?

I created this little scene with four of the stamps from the Vintage Halloween set by Artistic Outpost. I stamped the little girl, masked her and stamped the large pumpkin and wrought iron fence and the halloween sentiment abover her head. I colored with copic markers. My lighting wasn't as good as it should be to get the true colors. The dress is more purples than blues.

The coloring with copics was the easy part I wanted to create a evening sky with an ominous mood so I sponged with four different Tim Holtz distressed inks. I use the Tim Holtz foam applicators and work in a circular motion so as not to leave ink lines. It is amazing how much "muscle" it takes to create the background color, but it is worth the effort in my opinion.

Hey Robyn, (owner and stamp creator at Artistic Outpost), we need a spooky house?!?

What do you think, should I get brave and finish a card and submit it for publication? I have a real aversion to rejection and besides I am a big scaredy cat :)

Hope you like my Vintage Halloween preview, now I just need to make it into a card.

Have a great night and see you tomorrow night.

Cathy