Halloween card for design team

I am on the design team for Wimsical Scraps and Bugs. For our first "Celebration" Challenge....
we were assigned a 3-2-1 Challenge!

3 Colors.... Orange, Purple & Black
2 Stars.... from any Cricut Cart you have
1 Stamped Image

This is what I came up with. The pumpkins are circles and ovals from George, the starts are also from George and the bats are from PDDU. The stamped image is from Stamp up! This card will actually be given to Merrill for letting me borrow her stampin up stamps. I hope she likes it. The ribbon in the upper left hand corner and the pumpkin paper on the inside came from my dear dear friend Joy Sikes who sent me a bunch of goodies. Thank you Joy!

Thank you for commenting and I hope you like it.

floating ghost halloween card

OH OH OH, I am so excited for you to see this card! Oh I am just so proud of this card. I have had this card pictured in my head for days now, I just wasn't sure that I could make it all come together the way I wanted it to. I am so proud that it turned out right. I am also glad that it worked out that this could be and Jeannie/Vicki challenge card. Jeannie and I decided that it had been too long since we did a challenge card together so here is what we came up with. I picked the ghost from PDDU but didn't realize that there were two ghost on that cart so I made sure that I used them both on this card. I knew that I wanted my ghost to be suspended in mid air like it was flying but I wasn't sure how to pull this off. Well I actually worked with my wedding card idea and came up with the idea to hang the ghost from invisible thread and hang him from the center of cut out on the card. I hope the pictures really show how he is just floating in the air. I added layers of the zooballo grass behind of the ghost. I hope you can see that there are several layers of the grass. I inked around the edges to make it look better and of course I used lots and lots of pop up glue dots. I also added a spider to the grass area because what kind of card would a halloween card be without a spider. I also added two of the pumkins from PDDU and layered them and popped them up too and then I cut out ivy and inked and glued it around the pumkins. Added a moon and the word BOO to the left side and bats and stars to the right side. This obviously is a card that does better being left open. Go figure, a card that looks better on the inside than on the outside. On the outside of the card I added the cat, tombstone and other ghost from PDDU. I also put a lot of the inked ivy around the cat on this part as well. This card was way too much fun to make. I love it when I make a card that I am really excited about seeing it when it is done. I hope you like it and please be sure and leave me a comment. They mean so much to me....

You mess with the bull...

OK, I admit it....I am a child of the 80's and one of my all time favorite movies is the breakfast club. There are so many great lines from this movie but this one is one of my favorites and it just happened to work perfect with this card. Anna, a lady I work with, has a son that rides bulls for a living. Well, he fell off a bull a few weeks ago and got pretty bruised up. I wanted to make him a funny get well card so this is what I came up with. If you are a fan of The Breakfast Club you will remember this line. Bender who is played by Judd Nelson keeps calling the "self absorbed" principal whose first name is Richard by his nickname ( which is the nickname for Richard) well the principal keeps taking it and taking and finally looks at Bender and says "You mess with the bull youngman and you're gonna get the horns....and lengthens his detention. If you have never seen this movie then I highly recommend watching it for a good laugh. Anyway, I hope he likes the card and I hope it puts a smile on his face.

A spider and it's web- Vicki's take

This is a Jeannie-Vicki challenge card. I needed something other than wedding stuff to do today. Although I have went and got the arbor and am in the process of putting the flowers on it tonight. I will post pictures of it as soon as I am finished. But back to this card. I wanted to do a fun card so I suggested to Jeannie that we do a halloween card and use the spider and webb from PDDU. Well when I started the rest of the card evolved and the poor ol spider was no longer the focal point. This is what is so cool about this card. I used glow in the dark stickles on the skeleton, moon and web. This is so cool, it really glows in the dark. I have been running all around this house trying to get my silly camera to take a picture of how cool this really is. It is the coolest thing to turn off the light and watch it glow. I want to do one of my wedding cards glow in the dark now.....lol....I am actually thinking about putting some stickles on me tonight when Todd and I go to bed, lol... bet he would get a laugh out of that....Reminds me of the glow in the dark silly putty that I had as a kid and was all the time sneaking in my younger brothers room at night, he would scream..... ah the good memories of torturing my brother....lol....almost as funny as him trying to get the marble out of a can of spray paint, now that is a funny story. His body was siluited on the car....way to funny.... anyway, I hope you enjoy this card, it was a lot of fun to make, wish you could see it glow.

PDDU- skeleton at 3" , tree at 4" spider at 2", web at 2", cat at 3" cut three times and layered, moon at 2 1/2". The spider and web on the inside is cut at 3 1/2"

Wild card- Boo cut at 4 " and Happy Halloween cut at 4"

Thank you for looking and thank you for commenting....Happy glowing!

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

This is a Jeannie/Vicki challenge card and I have to tell you, it whooped me. I don't know if it was the tree cut that threw me off or if it was the fact that I can't get my head out of the clouds over being excited about our wedding. But either way, I just couldn't make this card come together at all. I actually have another card laying on my craft table with an elf and the tree that is done but I didn't like it at all so I started over. I like this one a little better. I do really like the look of the snow. I embossed it with clear crystals and when it dried it makes all the snow look really wet. I also embossed the tree with crystal clear embossing powder which dried the glittery color. I inked the deer and hung a ribbon from his mouth to look like he was holding the ornaments for the elf. The tree is from SYI and it is cut at 4". On the inside I put Oh Christmas tree because I love that song. I can hear the elf singing it while he is decorating the tree now. But to be honest with you the only song I really want to hear right now is the wedding march song...... whoo hooo. Can you tell I am a just a little excited....

The cow did what!

Ok, when I made this card I was so afraid that no one would read it the way I was reading it in my head. I thought is was cute and funny all at the same time. I wanted to do a funny card with a funny spin. I'm not sure where I came up with the cow jumped over the moon but I did and I am so glad that I did. I think this is one of my favorite cards to date. I hope you enjoy it too.

The cow is from PDDU and the moon is from there too. I cut the cow at 3" and the moon I think is cut at 1 3/4". The fence is also from PDDU and it is cut at 2". the sentiment is computer generated. I layered the cow three times and then I also cut it out in dark brown for the feet and face. I had to cut off the pieces that I wanted to layer with. I hope that makes sense. I hope you get a big laugh out of it, I sure did while I was making it. The front of the card says "the cow did what?" and the inside says "Holy Cow, who comes up with these things anyway" "Hope you havce a mootiful day"

Teacher Thank you cards

One of the ladies that I work with asked me if I could make her 4 Thank you cards. 3 for teachers and one for the principal. I wanted all of them to be different and this is what I came up with.

The owl is from paper doll dressup and is cut at 3" and the Thanks is from George

The #1 teacher apple is from DoodleCharms and is cut at 3" and the font is from Plantin Schoolbook.

The chalkboard is from Pooh and Friends, the font is Plantin Schoolbook and the apple is doodlecharms. The lady bugs are walk in my garden and the catepillar is from stretch your imagination.

The bushel of apples is from Pooh and friends and the thank you is from beyond birthdays. I used lots and lots of pop glue dots and lots of layers on all of these cards.

Graduation cards

Here are some cards I made for graduation cards. I used PDDU for the kids. They are cut at 3", I used George for the font cut at 1" and I used Mickey and friends for the balloons. These were really popular cards at Graduation time. I think I ended up making of 15 all together. I didn't take pictures of all of them.