Quirky Halloween and Autumn

 I'm late for the new challenge at Quirky Crafts and the challenge is seasonal, it is Quirky Halloween or Autumn if you don't do Halloween. I was away for a lovely weekend with my Eldest son, heavily pregnant Daughter in Law and 3 year old grandson (photo on Cazzy Hookin' Time), and had a busy week before we went with no time to make my card.

We are sponsored by the wonderful Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet who provided the team with some great images and are providing three prizes to our top three entrants.

I used two of IkeSart images, Castle Room and Skelly Gossip which I merged together - they really belong! I coloured my scene with Chameleon marker pens, mostly in grey and some nice green mouldy walls and stones, with a brown floor and green door. You have to spend a lot of time lightening your pen for large pale areas and eventually they don't seem to lighten that much until you rest them again, maybe that is just me!

I added some Sizzix Tim Holtz stamped spiders and webs from a stamp and die set, and used the sentiment and frame from the set, I won this set recently as blog candy, and it is one I had on my wish list so I was really lucky.

The little bats are sequins.

I have entered the following spooky challenges:
Addicted to Stamps - #167 Make your Mark (Wed)
Chocolate coffee and cards - Halloween (Fri)

Ike's Art - #49 Halloween.
Pile it on - spooky or cute (Sun/Wed)
Cards Galore - Halloween (Oct)

Won.

Delicious Doodles - Halloween with no purple or orange (it's brown - it is)(Oct)

This little crocheted bat will appear on Cazzy Hookin' Time with details of the free pattern!

If you would like to play along with our challenge, either with Halloween or with Autumnal makes - any kind of project can play - hop on over to Quirky Crafts Challenge blog now!

Ghoulish - atishoo!

 I have no idea what I am going to do with this card, maybe keep it for Halloween! The image is from Bugaboo, and is called Slelekinz Baby the words are my own. The card blank is embossed with a Craftwell embossing folder, I tried it out and then put this blank away in a box, so it is a leftover. I coloured the little darling with Promarkers, die cuts are all using Spellbinders and the pink panel, with gold and spotty paper, and the ribbon is one that I made up and then didn't use and it has been hanging about as a left over in my spare die cuts box until now.

 Side view, showing the other embossed side of the gatefold.

This card has haunted the following challenges:

Left of Center (this one is specially for LOC) (Fri 23rd)
Catch the Bug - Bingo, buttons, something beginning with S, circles (May)
Passion for Promarkers - use your die cuts (Tues)
Papertake Weekly - Ooooh so cute (Tues)
Delicious Doodles - a bit moody (Fri)
Addicted to Stamps - anything goes (Wed)
Our Creative Corner - leftovers (great idea) (May)

This card is a work in progress, I am road testing some Crackerbox Palace digi images, just waiting for some sentiments to go with the tissue box. I got the idea of the tissue coming out of the box from the Crackerbox Palace blog, it was a Vicky make. I printed the digi out twice, plain card and spotty paper then cut them out and put them together to make it stronger, I only needed to print it once, stick it onto the card and cut round (sometimes I make extra work for myself lol). I kept the background plain, at least so far. 

Quirky pumpkins reminder part 3

I know, there is only one day to go to enter, well midday Saturday UK time, so if you have pumpkin makes get them into the challenge linky at Quirky Crafts quick!

I wanted to use this little witch hanging on the moon, which was a freebie of the week from Bugaboo, and she goes so well with the silhouette spooky tree background, also from Bugaboo. I coloured the white bits purple to tone in with the background, not sure that worked as it came out lighter! My pumpkin is in the silhouette picture, see it in the bottom right hand corner with a cat sitting on it? The card blank is made from sparkly purple card.

I coloured the little witch with Promarkers, die cuts are with Spellbinders Postage edge dies. Boo is from a Hero Arts clear set, it fitted the label perfectly. Ghost eyelets from stash and yellow glitter glue from Papermania, I got this everywhere as I found the bottle had split, and I remembered I had a couple of empty bottles so found one and decanted a lot of it to a new bottle, the rest was all over my hands as it ouzed out of the split in the bottle.

I have entered the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - use black on your card

Allsorts challenge blog - Autumn colours

Moving along with the Times - spooktastic (Thursdays)

Boo Crew

This is for the Unity Challenge at Inspired by Unity. You can follow one of the two sketches or use the inspiration colour photo, or both together for this Sept/Oct challenge but you must use Unity stamps.

I used the colour photo, and did a literal translation of it!

I used a Unity Itty Bitty stamp called 3 Boos with sentiment on this card, which has embossed Coredination card for the wall, the folder was inked first, embossed door, both embossing folders were Sizzix Tim Holtz ones. Die cuts are: door - Sizzix Tim Holtz movers and shapers arches, fence - Spellbinders D lites, chair stamped with Hero Arts stamp and die cut with Sizzix Framelit die from the same set, pumpkin - Accucut Zipe die, hinges - Accucut Zipe die, bats and boo's are sequins, ghosts coloured with Promarkers. Sentiment heat embossed in purple.

I have entered the following challenges:

Unity be Inspired monthly challenge - as above

Artful Times - Autumn Colours, Saturdays Fortnightly

Crafts Too - Texture, with something shiny - purple sequins,  Sept challenge

Anyone for spiders?

Here is that crow again, with the spider this time!

This is a much less scary spider, kind of cute and cuddly!

Inside is the scariest part!

Spooktacular card

This card is to cover two challenges, one is House Mouse BOO! challenge, the other is This Thursday The Spooky Season. I had to improvise with the HM stamps, the graduate became aWizard with broom, and the Christmas bauble became half a pumpkin, both got new wizard hats.

Spider webs, broom and boo stamped with Hero Arts Owl-oween set, and die cut Pumpkin by Accucut. I don't think I did a good job of the colouring trying to make the robes dark but not losing the definition was hard.

Haunted House

Another Halloween card, this time a Sizzix die cut house with Woolworth stickers, and the card front is cut so the house overlaps giving a more 3d look!