Sunshine, Daisies, Butter Mellow...

Hello everyone, today I have exciting news. Well for me it's exciting. Last night I finished my second Halloween card!

I know, I know there are plenty of you out there who LOVE Halloween and make cards every year. For me, I'll be honest my Halloween Movie of Choice is 'Clue.' I don't want to watch 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' or 'Rocky Horror', it's just not my thing. So the fact that I've even made one card is substantial, but two is kind of  a "shout it from the mountains" moment.

There may have had a bit of maniacal laughter going on in my head as I made this card, personally I thought it was really clever, but that's just me. So now that youve put up with my rambling lets see my latest creation.

 How cute is this image? I colored him a little while ago with a very special little boy in mind and really wanted to make a card for him for Halloween. Then as I was assembling the card I had the idea to add the "Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow..." quote from Harry Potter. <this is where the maniacal laughter came into play. ;)

The bear is a little hard to make out, he turned out darker than intended so I ended up using the colorless blender on him. The end result, he looks well loved.

This card with the sketch from Kraftin' Kimmie in mind, I'll post a small pic down below and you can be the judge if it works. After struggling with the colors and layouts of my last two cards I just said 'to heck with it' and 'I am going to use this paper, and it it going to work!' And you know what? It did! I just used what I had in front of me, and got lucky! My favorite part is how the little wizard stands out against the background.

Everything is fairly straight forward on this card, the only 'special' thing that I did was to emboss the stars on his hat and robe with some sparkly gold. 

And that's all I have for today, I hope you liked it!

Items used:

Lili of the Valley - Abracadabra (digi)
Copic Markers

Spellbinders Nestabilities- Labels Twenty-Five
My Mind's Eye - Mischievous (pattern cardstock)

Stampendous - Embossing Powder in Jeweled Gold

EK Star Border Punch (stars punched in gold glitter paper and glued to the card)

Kraftin' Kimmie Sketch -

Challenges entered:

Kraftin' Kimmie - #354 Halloween + Monthly Sketch (ends Oct. 29)

The Crafty Addicts - #27 Anything Goes/Halloween Colors (ends Nov. 8)

City Crafter Challenge - #335 Hallo-ween (ends Oct. 31)
inky chicks - #74 Too cute to spook (ends Nov. 4th)

Harvest Fairy

Finally done!

Have you ever had a card that just didn't want to come together? For me, this was 'that' card. I hadn't realized when I printed the image that I didn't give myself enough room to die cut, and thus my struggles began. While this isn't the best card that I've ever made, I do like how it turned out and for how hard it was to bring everything together I'm rather proud of how it turned out.

For the first time on a card I tried out using cheese cloth which I placed in between the moon and the circle pumpkin die-cut, I'll have to play with it some more but I think that it worked out. On the base orange layer I used some Distress Ink's and then added in a hand drawn spider web to fill in the empty corner, I also added some Distress Inks to the pumpkin circle to deepen the color.

The green and yellow strip on the bottom was made with Distress Inks, I then took a white gel pen and added a border, then later filled it in with some hand drawn leaves to imitate the ones that I glued to the card.

On the Rose I used a white rose and some of my Distressed Inks applied with a aqua brush to give it some color and match it to my card. For a final touch I used some glossy accents to add some big craft glitter to the rose.

I also used the Zig, Wink of Stella in Glitter Clear to add some shimmer to the darkest parts of the bats and in some random spots on the moon to make it extra shinny

When I started this card I had intended for it to be a Halloween card,in the end I'm not sure if this really counts as strictly a fall card or a Halloween card. It might actually fall somewhere in the middle, but hey that still works!

Items used:
Lili of the Valley - October Fairy (digi)
Copic Markers
Wild Orchid Crafts - Rose
Distress Inks - Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Fossilized Amber, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge, Spiced Marmalade
Dies - Spellbinders: Pumpkin Circles, Cherry-Lynn Designs: One Free Wish
Embossing Powder - Stampendous: Stardust & Clear
Sakura: White Gel Pen, Zig: Wink of Stella-Glitter Clear, Interior Decorating Leaves (found in the floral department of my local craft store)

Challenges entered:
Kraftin' Kimmie - #354 Halloween (ends Oct. 29)
Kitty Bee Designs - #83 Halloween (ends Nov. 4)
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - #175 Shades of Autumn(fall) (ends Nov. 3)
Cute Card Thursday - #448 Halloween (ends Oct 26)
Cardz 4 Galz - #33 Use At Least One Die (ends Oct. 26)
Polkadoodles - #42 Anything Goes (ends Nov. 4)
Patties Creations Design Challenge - #127 Halloween or Autumn (ends Nov. 3)
inky chicks - #74 Too cute to spook (ends Nov. 4th)