Two Lil' Halloween Cards

Hello! I thought I would bring you a couple of last minute Halloween themed cards today! For the first card I used Samantha Rawlings sweet Lil' Witch. I made a frame around her using four fancy corners cut with a Sizzix die and I tried to "connect" them on the long sides using tiny black gems. It is a little more crooked than I had hoped....but I still like the original idea!

The Details:
Stamp: Samantha Rawlings Lil' Witch - (sheet 2, Plate 62) - Sweet Pea Stamps
Paper: K&Co (I think), Black and White (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin: E000, E00,E11,R00,R20
hair: YG21,YG23,YG25,YG17
Clothes:V04,V06,V17,C5,C7,C9
Pumpklin and Car: Y15,Y17,YR16,YR18
Misc: Sizzix Corner die, Spellbinders Label Die, Taylor's Tiny Twinkles, Darice Gems

For my second card I used Elaine Cox's Little Witch Cat. I colored the image with Copics and added a little Diamond Stickles around the moon and a little Crystal Effects to the kitty's eyes. I am not sure I really love how that turned out, but it is good to try something new sometimes, right?


The Details:
Stamp: Elaine Cox's Little Witch Cat (Sheet 9, Plate 59) - Sweet Pea Stamps
Paper: Bo Bunny, Black and White (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Cat: W5,W7,W8,W10
Hat: V04,V06,V17,Y06
Background: BG32,BG34,BG16 all w/W1 over, YG03,YG25,YG17,Y000,Y00
Misc: Martha Stewart Web Border Punch, Ribbon (Papertrey Ink), Diamond Stickles

Happy Halloween!
:-)Traci

Birthday Witches......

I wanted to share with you a card I made for my dear Sister In Law's birthday. It is in the middle of October so I thought the witch was fitting.  I didn't want to make her scary since I hold nothing but loving feelings for her. I chose ching-chou kuik's "Pick a Pumpkin". I thought she was classy yet still was the look I wanted. Fall, Halloween, beauty......... You can buy her as a single stamp or on a page with three others at where else, Sweet Pea Stamps.

I colored my image with copics and then dusted her here and there with some stickles. I love my sparkle.  My background was done with chalks and then I cut her out with my scalloped nestie that I edged with distressing walnut ink. The sentiment was computer generated and received the same treatment.  I tied a tulle bow around the card and then added three prima flowers with a gem stone in the center.  To finish it off I tucked raffia in two colors behind the bow and the flower to give it a bit of a rustic look, as if she just came out of the pumpkin patch! 

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Connie-Eat More Cake!

Isn't she just the cutest?  

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Sweet Pea Stamps

Especially those Samantha Rawlings images.

I stamped the girl and colored with Copic markers.

Then I added some Scribbles 3D paint in shiny white to the brim of her hat.

IRL it stands out but my scanner doesn't want to share.

I have a closer view below but still not showing well.

The tiny red brad in the verse is from Oriental Trading, 

the paper by 7 Gypsies.

Thanks for looking!

Connie

Puppet Angel

This image is ©ching-chou kuik's Puppet Angel in the Circus.  It is one of the images that I found a bit more difficult to decide how to color, but I absolutely LOVE the end result.  I will be honest and admit that even after it was colored, it didn't really come alive until I was making up the card.

I did the face just a touch different than the body thinking about the old porcelain dolls and how they were often made of different materials and didn't quite match.  The papers are a combination of Basic Grey and Pink Paisley with everything mounted on black cardstock to set it all off.  ©ching-chou kuik's Puppet Angel in the Circus is one of the many images currently in the sale section.  I hope you love her too.  She is easy to add to your collection.

Happy Halloween times two!!

Here's a wonderful stamp from the Gum Drop Gang! It's one of my favorite Halloween stamps. I just love this little girl (Hayden). I colored her in pretty watercolor pencils and then added a light touch of water before coloring over it with darker colors.I used the Happy Halloween stamp from the same Halloween sheet of rubber stamps. In the background I took a sheet of polka dot bazzil swiss paper and rubbed it lightly with colorbox chalk ink to give some bumpy background along with several colors of purple and pink textured plain and metallic colored papers. Of course being my card, you know there has to be some buttons added on!!

Hayden from the Gum Drop Gang and I have been loving sharing all these Halloween creations with you this year, I must confess that I may not be able to wait too long before I have to share more of these creations as I just LOVE the Halloween season and there are so many awesome stamps in the store that I are just calling out to me, Halloween is not just a seasonal thing to me!!Just to prove this point, I had to get in another card today, this card is using an adorable image from Elaine Cox
This stamp is called "Little Witch Cat". For matting the image, I used a combination of AC Black paper and beautiful metallic/mica papers. The card base is bazzill bling. The text on this card comes from Plate #59. I added some dew drops to the cards to give it a little more texture and the image is raised with tall pop dots to make it stand up as high as the dew drops do. I think this witchy stamp is purrrfect for any season, but most especially for Halloween.
Hugs all, Holley

Halloween by Elaine Cox

I absolutely LOVE both the images Starry Halloween and Twilight Halloween by Elaine Cox.  The images are so detailed they stand by themselves and anything else I do is just additional.  The faces on these witches are just so sweet.

Starry Halloween

Twilight Halloween

I am bummed that it is almost Halloween and these will have to be put aside for a month or two.  Maybe.....

Little Stars Witch

Happy Halloween! Continuing with my love of the season, I am making another Halloween theme card. This cute witch was designed by artist Elaine Cox and is called Little Stars Witch. She comes on a wonderful plate (plate #59) full of Halloween images along with adorable owl images that are good for all sorts of themes.The wonderful saying on this card comes from another sheet of Elaine Cox stamps, plate #67, to go with the saying, I added some adorable dimensional black cat stickers and some bling that was sparkly and black as well as some glitter on the cats and some bling to the flowers. Hope you have a wonderful time making your own Halloween cards!
Cheers, Holley

Little Pirate and Ready for Bed

I created 2 cards with 2 of Samantha Rawlings images Sheet #1 Plate #58 at Sweet Pea Stamps. This first one is Little Pirate. I colored her with copics and used some distressing inks to age the paper. The sentiment is from a ching chou kuiks set. I added some Daisy D's DP to a piece of chipboard and then stamped the BELIEVE on it.

I added a vinyl decorative border from K&Company. The newspaper DP is also from Daisy D's.

This sweet little image is called Ready For Bed.

I added a spellbinder cut out classic die frame and covered it with glitter and added some adhesive stars in pink to the background.

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I added some pastel chipboard hearts and the sentiment is also from the same set.

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Boo-tiful scenery

I've had a blast working on today's card. I have used the very sweet trick or treat stamp from sweetpea stamps, designed by Elaine Cox. The little owl is also a part of the stamp and aren't they the cutest pair you've ever seen? I really love Sweet Pea stamps as they are so easy to work with. Even with a theme like Halloween that I've never really celebrated they make it easy. It's almost like having a friend helping you out while you work :)

I started out with the house that I had laying around, cut out in Halloween paper using a qk die. As we don't celebrate Halloween in Sweden like the US I don't have many H papers. This is actually a scrap from a paper I bought years ago and keep using every year - I still haven't run out. It's a perfect way to use those smaller pieces not to mention a cheap way to make a card. As you can see it mainly consists of cardstock which is the most basic thing you can get. Both cheap and always available.

For the four background panels I have used four different cuttlebug embossing folders. The "boo" sentiment is from the same embossing folder as the green panel. I embossed it and cut out with a circle nestie that had the perfect size. I cut out an orange circle in bling cardstock using a circle nestie. The black tree is from the same set as the house and the black bat is a single qk die. The little witch and owl is coloured with promarkers.


Here are the lyrics to the song that works quite well with this card. It's from the movie  A Nightmare before Christmas:

Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody screm
In this town of Halloween

I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Round that corner, man hiding in the trash cam
Something's waiting no to pounce, and how you'll...

Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green

Aren't you scared?

Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night

Everybody scream, everybody scream

In our town of Halloween!

I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair

I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween! 

Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare

That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween

In this town

Don't we love it now?

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everyone scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween! [Repeat]

Halloween Beauty

A new type of Halloween card for me! I think this image is so cool...I love the transparency of the candles. Since the image is busy I went with a very simple layout.

Supply List:
Image
Exotic Halloween, Sweet Pea Stamps

Ink
Memento, Tuxedo Black

Papers
Neenah Smooth Card stock
Black solid card stock, Stampin Up
Designer Paper-"Hocus Pocus" Doodlebug Designs

Copic Markers
Skin tones-yt0000, e00, e21
Hair-t5, t7, n9, v15, v17
Dress-v15, v17, v09, t7, t9
Pumpkin candles-yr15, yr18, w1
Eyes-b00, b01

Misc Supplies
Chalks for cheeks and candles
Stickles "Crystal or Stardust"
Sakura "Clear Star" Metallic Gelly Roll pen
Smooch "Silver"