Happy Birthday to Scribbles Designs

Congratulations to Scribbles Designs!

They are celebrating their 9th birthday!

As part of the celebration, they have posted a free digi image on the blog for you to use, if you'd like, in their current challenge, 

#111 Get your Zen On.  

I had a lot of fun coloring this card.  You can find this digital image right here at Scribbles Designs.  I like how there are various Halloween elements within the design, a cat, bats, pumpkins, eye balls, sentiments, etc.  It comes in a large format which I reduced for on a card.  I think I'll send the card to my niece along with a full size copy of image for her to color.

After I colored it with markers, I added a layer of clear glitter film.

You might be able to see the sparkle better in this picture. 

 

 

 

In addition to the Scribbles Design Challenge, I am entering:

Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Frame It

Colour Crazy Challenge Week #35 - AG 

Two Old Bats September Challenge - Anything Halloween

Send A Smile 4 Kids September Challenge #229

 

The theme for the September Challenge at

Send a Smile 4 Kids 

is 

Cute Fall/Halloween.

 

Anything Goes for kids is always acceptable, too.

 

 I've made 2 cards for this challenge:

You may recognize Dudley, the handsome dragon digital image from Whimsy Stamps.

The Halloween Cat is also a digital image from Whimsy Stamps.

The dies for the frames are from Our Daily Bread Designs.

The sentiment stamp is from CTMH.

  

 It would be great if you joined the fun at the

Send A Smile 4 Kids 

September Challenge.

(Cards only, please. And they need not be donated.)

 

Please take some time and visit the fabulous blogs of my teammates.  They work so hard and are very creative! 

Bobbi

Sybrina

Mary

Karen 

April 

Celeste

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #574

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

Here's the sketch for this week and my card.

 

I'm not exactly sure why I am making Halloween cards.  I generally don't send them out.  Anyone need some Halloween cards?  

I do think they are fun to make and 

I have some great papers and stamps to use.

These papers and the Halloween sentiment are from CTMH.

The spider is an Inkadinkado stamp.  I stamped and heat embossed the image, black on black.  The background is dry embossed.
 

 I hope you'll play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

Andrea

Debbie 

Margreet

Melissa

 Patti

Tammy

You can be sure that one of us will be visiting yours!

Have a great and crafty day!

 

Challenges I am entering:

Daring Cardmakers Challenge - S for September (stamp, spider, string, scraps, sketch, sentiment, silver spider charm, seven layers); 613 Avenue Create Challenge - AG with optional charm; Crafting Happiness Challenge #68 - AG;

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #573

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

Here's my card for this week and Melissa's fun sketch.

The diamond shapes and the words are cricut cuts from the CTMH Artistry cartridge.  The ghosts are stamps from Inkadinkadoo.

 I hope you'll play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

Andrea

Debbie 

Margreet

Melissa

 Patti

Tammy

You can be sure that one of us will be visiting yours!

Have a great and crafty day!

 

Challenges I am entering:

The Paper Girls Challenge #208 - Pick 3 (I've chosen velum, polka dots and lots of layers.); Get Creative Challenge #95 - Black + one other color (I've used orange.); Everybody Art Challenge #475 - Orange and Black; Shopping Our Stash Challenge #429 - Make a mess (I took this challenge very literally.  Are you familiar with the mess a dried out sponge dauber can make?  Especially one that's been in black ink?  It totally disintegrates into tiny pieces all over your project when you use it!  You can't brush them off or they leave streaks! I had to use a bigger sponge tool on the paper to try and camouflage the mess, when all I intended to do was distress the edge. Yep. I made a mess.)

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #571

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

Here's the sketch for this week and my card.

The circles are Sizzix and LaLaLand Die Cuts.  Black glitter paper spiders and vellum spider web are Cricut cuts on the CTMH Artiste cartridge.  Stamped sentiment is also CTMH.
 

 I hope you'll play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

Andrea

Debbie 

Margreet

Melissa

 Patti

Tammy

You can be sure that one of us will be visiting yours!

Have a great and crafty day!

 

Challenges I am entering:

A Place to Start September Challenge - Children's Card; Through the Purple Haze Challenge #171 - AG, twist: stitching (faux stitching on circle die cuts);Stinkin' Inkers Challenge - Times 3(spiders, enamel dots);Aud Sentiments Challenge #259 - AG + a sentiment;Crafters' Cafe Challenge - AG; A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #123 - AG; A Perfect Time to Craft Challenge - AG;Love to Scrap Challenge #137 - AG;Love to Craft Challenge #50 - AG

Send A Smile 4 Kids September Challenge & Catch the Bug Anything Goes Challenge

 The theme for the September Challenge at 

Send a Smile 4 Kids 

is Cute Fall or Halloween Cards 4 Kids

or Anything Goes 4 Kids.

 

It just so happens that I was asked to be a guest this month at

  Catch the Bug Challenge, 

which means this post is doing double duty. 

 

I love using Bugaboo digi images for the kid friendly cards I send to my SAS4K volunteer.  They are so fun and well received by the children who are patients in children's hospitals.  In fact, I think everyone smiles when they see these cute digis.

This image is called Bobblehead Witch Fly By.

 

The witch was colored with markers.  I used a punch on the corners.  The orange enamel dots were originally light pink, but an orange marker fixed that.

 

 It would be great if you joined the fun at the

Send A Smile 4 Kids September Challenge

and

Catch the Bug Saturday Challenge. 

You could use the same card for both!

 

 

Challenges I am entering: 

Stinkin' Inkers Challenge - Times 3 (3 enamel dots); Cute Card Thursday Challenge #650 - AG; Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #129 - Just Saying Hello

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #415 with Newton's Nook

  There's a new challenge starting at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge today.

The theme for this challenge is Crazy Circles.

With Halloween just a week away and Thanksgiving not long after that, I thought I'd make cards for each occasion using the Pick a Pumpkin stamp set and the Simply Seasonal sentiment stamp set available at the  

  Newton's Nook Designs store. 

 

The baker's twine also came from Newton's Nook, nicely wrapped around my order.

I hope you'll enjoy all the wonderful cards featuring Newton's Nook Designs made by Team B for this week's  Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.  When you get a moment, be sure to take a look at the wonderful stamps and coordinating dies at the Newton's Nook Designs Shop and stop by their blog for some great ideas and to play in the Inky Paws Challenge. 

 

Challenges: 

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Halloween/Spooky

Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #127 - Happy Halloween

A Gem of a Challenge #228 - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends Challenge #95 - Circles

My Time to Craft Challenge #382 - Halloween or Cats

Double Trouble Challenge #12 - Week 2

 Lurking in one of my sticker stash drawers was a sheet of cute felt goblins, which I decided to use for this week's Double Trouble Halloween/Fall Challenge # 12.  I used two of the goblins last week and the other two today.  In that seemingly bottomless sticker stash drawer, I also found some frames to use on one card, as they were requested by Twisted Sister this week.  The other card has a die cut frame.  And I've also linked upped with the Paper Girls Challenge, this week's Double Dare.

 

 

Challenges I am entering:

Double Trouble Challenge # 12 - Halloween or Fall

The Paper Girls Challenge # 162 - Halloween

Double Trouble Challenge # 12

Lurking in one of my sticker stash drawers was a sheet of cute felt goblins, which I decided to use for this week's Double Trouble Challenge # 12.  The theme is Halloween or Fall.  Twisted Sister requested frames this week.  And the Double Dare challenge is to link up with the Paper Girls Challenge, too.  

Challenges I am entering:

Double Trouble Challenge # 12 - Halloween or Fall

The Paper Girls Challenge # 162 - Halloween

Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #128 - Happy Halloween

Brown Sugar Challenge #283 - October Halloween or Autumn

Cut It Up Challenge #158 - Halloween

Hope you're having a wonderful day!  Thanks for the visit.

Double Trouble Challenge #11

Thing #1 at Double Trouble Challenge is requesting cards in Black and White and only one other color.  Here's my contribution:

At Thing #2's request I am also entering this in the Crafter's Cafe  Challenge.  But, sorry Thing #3, no wheels on this one.

The cute little bats are die cuts from Sugar Pea Designs.

The sentiment is a CTMH stamp. 

Challenges:

Double Trouble Challenge #11 - Black & White + one color 

Crafter's Cafe October Challenge - Black & White + one color 

Die Cut Divas Challenge - Autumn and Halloween

Crafty Hazelnut's October Patterned Paper Challenge - AG 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #19 - AG with a critter

Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #127 - Halloween

Cards in Envy Challenge - Something Spooky

Thanks for stopping by.   

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #366 with Lawn Fawn

Time for some Spooktacular cards.  That's what this week's Tuesday Throwdown Challenge is all about.  

Our fabulous sponsor this week is 

Lawn Fawn, 

a small company specializing in stamps, dies, paper and much more.

Come Halloween night, what will appear at your door?

 

 Perhaps, a cute pair of pirates!

I used the Ahoy Matey stamp set from Lawn Fawn for my Trick or Treaters and the 'Ahoy Matey' part of the speech bubble.  (I hand wrote the rest.)

Won't you join us at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge this week to share one of your Spooktacular creations?

I am sharing this at these fun challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge #191 - Halloween and a sentiment 

Art Impressions Challenge #219 - Stamp a Scene

Hiding in my Craft Room Challenge #323 - Lots of Layers

Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #103 - Halloween Hoopla

Come and Get It Challenge - Add a Pumpkin

Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #128 - Anything Goes, option Halloween

Allsorts Challenge Week 438 - Halloween

Cards in Envy Challenge - Let's Play Dress-Up, Halloween Costumes

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Dress-Up

Pile It On Challenge #135 - Fantasy and/or Spiderwebs/Cobwebs

Wishing you a Spooktacular Halloween Season!

 

Bugaboo Halloween Pumpkin

Yesterday I thought I'd share this card which features the Bugaboo Halloween Pumpkin Digi Image.

But my internet connection was so sticky I could only type one word, wait 30 seconds, type another, wait 30 seconds.... and it was just too frustrating!  So I shut down the stupid machine and put off trying to post until today.  So far, so good!

I used CTMH stamps for the orange frame and halloween sentiment, stamping on white cs, fussy cutting, mounting on purple cs and fussy cutting again before popping onto the patterned paper.

Challenges: 

Catch the Bug October Bingo Challenge - bottom row ( 3 layers, orange, and ribbon) 

 

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge # 174 - AG with ribbon 

Aloha Friday Challenge #106 - Halloween 

Crafty Catz Challenge #389 - AG with autumn colors 

The Ribbon Girls October Challenge - Any Image and ribbon

Allsorts Challenge Week 438 - Halloween 

Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #103 - Halloween Hoopla 

The Paper Girls Challenge #138 -  Pumpkin Spice

Pile It On Challenge #135 - Fantasy and/or Cobwebs, Spiderwebs

A Gem of a Challenge #205 - Spots and/or Stripes and/or Halloween

Enjoy your Monday!

 

Going Batty

Sometimes there are so many cards in the process of being completed on my work table, that I have to take a day, or two, and force myself to finish them all before I go on to anything else.  

This card was all but finished.  It just needed "something".  

Then I saw the challenge at Crafty Gals Corner.  

It was like it spoke directly to me.

"Add a bat"  

So, I did and now it's done.

(Sentiment and frame stamps are CTMH stamps, bat and ghost are CTMH cricut cuts.)

Challenges: 

 Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #143 - Add a Bat

Craftaholics R Us Challenge #39 - Halloween 

Through the Purple Haze Challenge - Anything Goes 

Southern Girls Challenge - Stripes 

DLArt Thankfil Thursday Challenge #213 - Halloween 

Hiding in My Craft Room Challenge #321 - Halloween Colors 

 

Which Witch?

Here are two cards featuring two different Bugaboo Witches?  

I just couldn't decide which witch to post.

 The sentiment stamp and frame are from CTMH.

Challenges:

Bugaboo Crafty Challenge #9 - Anything Goes with a Bugaboo Image 

The Ribbon Girls September Challenge - Any Image + Ribbon

Show Us Your Pussies Challenge #22 Week #4 - Furrything Goes

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #261 - Anything Goes

DLArt Challenge #213 - Halloween

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #497 - Trick or Treat

Aud Sentiments Challenge #189 - 2 Word Sentiment

 

Bugaboo Witch

We have a couple hours between my grandson's baseball games on this beautiful late summer day.  

It's just enough time to post this Halloween card.  

The digi image, colored with markers, is from Bugaboo stamps.

The bats are from one of the CTMH cricut cartridges.

And the embossed sentiment is a CTMH stamp. 

Challenges:

Catch the Bug Challenge:  Bingo (I used the bottom row: Sentiment, Sparkle, Bugaboo Image.)

 

Jo's Scrap Shack Challenge #206 - Anything Goes with Bugaboo Stamps

Daring Cardmakers Challenge - 4 of Something (bats)

Crafty Catz Challenge #384 - Halloween

 

Halloween

Today I'm packing up some cards to mail off to SAS4K.  

I made these 4 cards this morning to add to the box.

Halloween sentiment and cricut cuts are from CTMH.

Challenges:

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge Week 36 - Anything Goes 

Colour Crazy Challenge Week 36 - Anything Goes 

Cardz 4 Guys Challenge #177 - Something beginning with "D" (Devil in Disguise) 

Aud Sentiments Challenge #188 - Anything Goes + a sentiment

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - no digis 

Back to my packing.  

I may even get to the post office before it closes.