Hocus Pocus

 👻 Happy Halloween! 🎃

Are you ready for spooks, ghouls and trick or treaters? We're ready here.  The Hubs is breaking out the Pooh costume.  Got the treats ready.  In honor of Halloween, here's on final spooky card...

This witch/crystal ball I recently got from Crackerbox Stamps and really needed to use it this year.  I stamped her, then made a mask, masked her and then ink blended my background before stenciling over the inkblending with a bat stencil.  Then I removed the mask, color the witch, ink blended the ball a little and added my sentiment.  Then I added a top colored layer of just the witch to bump her up slightly.  I used a postage stamp frame die for some extra interest.

For Following Challenges:

Stencil Fun Challenge - October Option: Anything Halloween

Have a spooky, creepy, and joyful Halloween!

Nance 🎃

EEK, Minions!

Ok, so I had a few more Halloween cards! LOL

And this is another Minion card! I was on the Crackerbox Stamps shop and saw the Franken Minion and had to have it to make a trio. My thought was to make a haunted like portrait of them.  So I masked off the Franken one to stamp my ghost Minion.  Then I masked them all off to stencil my background.  

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Card Supplies:

Stamps: Minions (Crackerbox Stamps).

Paper: Neenah Solar White 110#; 

Ink: PIxie Dust, Grape Crush(CP Designs); Copics.

Extras: Frame die (Penny Black); Word dies (CP Designs).

Thank you for stopping by for a visit.  Hope you come again soon!

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”  

Henry Ward Beecher

Nance

Gone Haunting

One more Halloween card - 

I turned my Sasquatch into a Pumpkin Monster silhouetted in front of a Halloween color inspired forest using the Wintry Forest stencil by Pinkfresh Studio.  I used two shades of orange and four purples. I thought the sentiment was perfect for it.

For Following Challenges:

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - #267 S is for Spooky

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Sentiment (Crackerbox Stamps).

Paper: Neenah Solar White 110#; Black cardstock.

Ink: Bellini, Orange Twist, Sugar Plum, Pixie Dust, Grape Crush, Drive-In(CP Designs).

Extras: Sasquatch die (This Calls For Confetti Stamps); Jackolantern die (Simon Says); Speech bubble die (MFT Stamps); Forest Stencil (Pinkfresh Studio).

Thank you for stopping by for a visit.  Hope you come again soon!

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”  

Henry Ward Beecher

Nance

Frequent Flyer

Happy Weekend!

It's a cool one finally here in Cary, NC. A little rainy. I'll take it. Was beginning to wonder if we were going to stay in a perpetual summer here. I haven't even bought any pumpkins yet. BUT, I've been watching my horror flicks and pulled out more of my Halloween decor. Guess you can say I'm in my Halloween Era! 🤣

So today I have a Halloween card to share.  I got a couple new Halloween stamps from Crackerbox Stamps.  This one I think is pretty wicked.  My hubs is afraid of it.  He refuses to watch Wizard of Oz because of the flying monkeys.  Says they traumatized him as a child. 

 

Card Supplies: 

Stamps: Flying Monkey & sentiment(Crackerbox Stamps); Sky icons (WaffleFlower).

Paper: Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock; 

Ink: Tiki Torch, Orange Twist, Tutti Fruiti, Midnight (CP Inks)

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you come back soon!

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” - Henry Ward Beecher

Nance

Spooky Minion Style

Hello Sunday!

It's warmish Fall-ish day here.  Some leaves are falling at least.  

AND it's my favorite month, October because of - - HALLOWEEN! Those who know, probably thought I meant because it's my birthday month.  Yes but, that even takes 2nd seat to the Halloween season for me.  

I may love Halloween, but the Hubs loves Minions and over the years has accumulated various seasonal/holiday Minion inflatables he sets in our front yard.  They tend to grow in number particularly during this season and Christmas season.  Sadly, though this year, we are missing one due to electrical difficulties.

So in that spirit, I made a Halloween Minion card.  

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

Card Supplies: 

Stamps: Dracula Minion stamp (Crackerbox Stamps); Sentiment - Betterpress Halloween Icon Sentiments(Spellbinders).

Paper: Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock; Black cardstock (Stash); Purple cardstock (Stash); Patterned Paper (Reverse Confetti).

Ink: Lime Rickey, Midnight (CP Inks)

Extras: Decorative Scallop circel die (Sizzix); Stitched circle die(Sizzix); Drippy Goo die (Your Next Stamp); EF (Tim Holtz/Sizzix); Bat dies (Stash).

I couldnt leave without sharing our Halloween Minions and the Hubs' Detroit Lions flailing guy. I have "allowed" him to have it during football season ONLY.  I have to draw the line somewhere! LOL

      

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you come back soon!

"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.” 

Cecil B. DeMille

Be Spooky! 👻

Nance

 

Wicked - Trick or Treat?

Good Morning!

It's morning but it's night time - so it's kind of Good Evening too.  I spent my Saturday evening and Sunday crafting after a busy non-crafty week other than Monday.  I did a bunch of die cutting and dry embossing this weekend as well as cutting cardstock for die cutting and also cardbases.  I did get three cards finished by Sunday night along with finishing a creepy audiobook and starting another.  The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones was very creepy with a shocker ending. I love that, it keeps you drawn in til the end. Now I'm on to The Death of Jane Lawrence.  So far, it has a tinge of creepy but expect it get creepier.  It is my favorite month with many of my favorite things - scary movies, creepy scary books, Trick Or Treat and of course, Halloween cards. So, on to the Halloween cards...

This is the first one I made on Sunday.  I used the current sketch challenge by Karren at Freshly Made Sketches as my inspiration for putting this together.  

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Card Supplies:  

Paper: Neenah 110# Solar White; Black plaid patterned paper - Stash.

Ink: Orange Twist (Catherine Pooler Inks).

Extras: Web cover plate (Waffle Flower); Tag Die (Catherine Pooler); Grinch arm die (Crackerbox Stamps); Spider die (Die-Versions); Sentiment die (Papertrey Ink); Tulle fabric.

I'm so glad you visited. Have a wicked good day! 

Be safe and

 Come back soon! 🧹💖

Nance 

 

You're One In A Minion

Happy Sunday!

And 

Happy Birthday to my hubs, Dave!  It's his last year in the 50s.

He celebrated early last week with our kids and today (his actual birthday) he gets to celebrate in Myrtle Beach while we are visiting my mom.  Also, along with loving Pooh Bear, he's even more a fanatic about the Minions, particularly Dave the Minion (I wonder why). So, you know what kind of birthday card I made for him...

I very accidentally stumbled upon (that's my story I'm sticking to 😉) some really cute minion stamps a few weeks ago and of course, I had to order some just for my hubs. It's a new to me company, Crackerbox Stamps.  They have several different movie character stamps besides the Minions.  I colored him with Copics and fussy cut him then popped him up on the top of the background. The background stamp I've had for several months and finally used it.

For Following Challenges:

Addicted to CAS #266 - Pun

TicTac Toe Challenge #255

I chose the middle column: Birthday, Rectangle, Die  Cuts

NBUS Challenge #66

My NBUS - Minion stamp and background stamp

Card Supplies: 

Stamps: Minion (Crackerbox Stamps); Background -Celebrate (Honey Bee Stamps).

Paper: Neenah 110# Solar White.

Ink: Oh Boy, Suede Shoes, Dress Blues(CP Ink); Versamark; Copics. 

Extras: Frame dies (My Favorite Things); Banner die (Catherine Pooler Designs).

Dave with our 2 kids - Ben and Arrow

Sept. 1, 2024

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Have a creative day! 

 Come back soon! 💖

Nance