Day 12 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Hello there Horrifying Hoppers and fellow Wicked Bloggers.  Welcome to Day 12.  Thanks for taking the time to hop with us.  Our hop is sponsored by Smeared and Smudged and is put together by the fabulous Terra.  Please visit her blog if you need a refresher of the rules, want to see the sponsors for today or are curious to see if you are a winner of the daily Scavenger Hunt.  Remember that the blog roll is listed to the right of this post if you get lost along the way.

For today, I did another cute card.  The images are from Anne Fenton.  If you haven't seen any of her work, please visit her HERE and check out her artwork.  She also has an Etsy shop.  The two images on my card are freebies from Through the Craftroom Door emag.  

I used colored pencils and OMS to give some life to this cute witch.  I used my chalks to try and give the background some spooky gray clouds.  I fussy cut out the witch and used pop dots to add her to the card.  The card stock is Recollections, the patterned paper is also Recollections (from last years Halloween stack) and the sentiment is a freebie that I got online.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.   I truly appreciate all the visits and the wonderful comments that y'all leave for me.  Have a creeptastic Saturday!

Praying for You

One more card for tonight.  Thanks for coming back.  I truly appreciate it.

This card uses an Anne Fenton image.  Anne and Sandi are illustrators for the Outlawz Creative Freebie Challenge.  They also each have blogs.   Click Here for Anne's Blog and Here for Sandi's Blog.

I tried a new something for this card.  I have never actually sewed on a card before.  I have done the faux stitching, but never actual thread and a needle.  It was time consuming, but worth the effort.  I like the way it turned out.

I began by making a card 6x6 white card base.  I added a panel of DCWV DP.  I cut two purple strips of Recollections card stock and a strip of green Recollections card stock.  I layered those towards the bottom of the card.  The strip of DP in the middle is DCWV.  I printed out the image on Neenah card stock and colored it with BIC Markers and a white gel pen for highlights.  I cut out the image using my circle cutter.  I inked the edges with DI Vintage Photo and added some black stitching around the image.  The sentiment is from Tami Mayberry's Faithful Florals stamp set.  I matted it on the same purple card stock.  The green glitter "brads" are actually drops of hot glue with glitter pressed onto them.  It's a really simple process and you can make them to coordinate your project.  It takes about 6 minutes to make 7 of them. I found the technique on a YouTube video..Check it Out.

Thanks so much for stopping back in tonight.  I truly appreciate it.   God bless y'all.

Challenges:
ABC Challenges--#17 All Stitched Up
The Pink Elephant--#187
Crafty Cardmakers--#85 Blooming Images

Love is in the Air

Welcome y'all.  For this card, I changed up the usual color scheme a little bit. Most Valentine's or love cards use shades of red, pink, white or black.  Today, I chose to use blues and pinks.

This is another gorgeous Anne Fenton image.  Of course, as usual, it's colored with colored pencils and OMS.  I trimmed it down and matted it on a medium shade of blue.  The card base is Recollections and the DP is DCWV.  I found this cool flower in my stash.  I added a bit of Offray blue striped ribbon for contrast.  Tilting the image gives your eyes  a little bit of a change.  I have a miniature heart punch that I used to kinda frame the image.  I actually made a mistake when I was laying out the image and sentiment on my processing program.  I didn't catch it until after it was printed.  I liked the way it turned out with the  umbrella melding into the sentiment.  It definitely gives it interest.

Thanks for keeping tabs on me.  If my mind shows up asking for me, please send them towards my blog to find me.  God bless y'all.

Challenges;
My Time to Craft--#207 Love is in the air.
Tuesday Alchemy--#49 Anything Goes

You are so very special Mermaid

Welcome friends.  I hope everyone had a wonderful day.  Tomorrow is Friday so for those of you who have to go out of the home to work, I pray y'all have a great day!

This first card uses an image from Anne Fenton.  If y'all have never used one of her images, I have to tell ya, y'all are missin' out.  She is a fab artists with some of the cutest digis ever.

I colored this cute little mermaid with my colored pencils and OMS. I chalked the sky background and added a bit of sunshine at the top.  For this card, I actually picked the background paper first and colored the image to match the paper.  The DP is from DCWV Glam Girl pad.  I used Gina K heavy base weight white for the 5.5" card base.  The turquoise and pink card stocks are from Recollections. I used a beautiful turquoise ribbon from Offray and wrapped it around the back ground paper and tied a knot-bow.  The sentiment I printed off of my computer and matted it on Hot Pink card stock from Recollections.  I added three pink gems and three turquoise gems from Queen and Co. to finish off the card.

I appreciate y'all stoppin' in to check out my creation.  I hope to see ya back on the next post.  I just want to thank y'all for the wonderful comments you have been leaving.  It's a blessing to me.  Have a wonderful day.  God bless y'all.

This card is entered into the following challenges:

Through the Craftroom Door--Anything Goes
Penny's Challenges--One for the Girls 

Let it Snow

Good Morning crafty friends.  How is everyone today?  I have a cute card for you today.

For this card, I used an image from Anne's Stamps 4U by Anne Fenton.  Anne is also one of our sketch artists over on the Outlawz Challenge site which can be found HERE.  She is a very talented artist.  I used my colored pencils and OMS for this image.  I cut the image to 3.5"x3.5" and inked the edges with a light blue from Cat's Eye.  I cut a panel from True Blue card stock from Recollections that measures 3.75"x3.75" and matted it a little wonky.  The DP is a Christmas pattern from DCWV cut to 4"x5.25".   The sentiment is from Dessert Diva.  I printed it out on GP White 110# card stock and trimmed it down to fit the card.  I inked it with the same color blue from Cat's Eye  I attached it to the bottom right corner.  I used Whisper White card stock from SU for the card base.

I used four snowflake cutouts that I received from my precious friend, Jan, who has just moved into the blogging world a couple months ago.  Go check out her blog HERE.  She is an amazing card artist and also does a devotions page attached to her blog.  I took those snowflakes and ran them through my Xyron and then dipped them in white glitter.  I used pop dots to adhere the ones on the image and a glue dot to form the O in snow.  The left bottom was a little bare, so I added three dark blue gems to finish off the card.

I am entering this card into three challenges: Shopping Our Stash.  This is the first card I am entering on the challenge site.  The theme for #85 is Suits Me to a T.  We are required to use two items from our stash that begin with the letter "T".  I chose True Blue card stock and Tube as in snow tube.  Through the Craft Room Door has an anything goes challenge.   Also, QKR Stampede whose theme is #22 Cold and Frosty.  I do believe this cutie qualifies for cold and frosty, don't you?

Thanks for stopping in and taking the time to look at my creation.  I truly appreciate it.  Have a great day and God bless you all.