Early Halloween

Happy Thursday!  It's time for another challenge from Creative Sketches.  Creative Sketches, have a sketch and a theme for us today.  The theme is Halloween or Fall, and a user-friendly sketch.  

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

This card was actually fun to make!  I used a Stampin' Up! Halloween stamp set I purchased last year.  I didn't sell or trade this stamp set, because I just love the graphics.  So, I used the raven and the spider from the stamp set: Dark & Dreary.  How fitting, huh?  

I also broke open a new package of DSP - Pick Your Poison.  I love the black swirls and elegant lines of this paper.  To stay true to the sketch, I added the tomb stone shape sticker from the Pick Your Poison accents.  I also stamped 'BOO!' in Pumpkin Pie classic ink.  I added the circle accent to the upper right corner of the card.  I stamped and fussy cut the spider, then layered it onto the circle accent.  

I added a trim piece of basic black card stock that I cut with the eyelet border punch.  I also added a strip of First Edition DSP cut with the scallop trim border punch.  I layered the two border punches and tied them with some retired Raven Lace trim.  How pretty, huh?  I thought that the lace trim needed something, so I added a few black sparkle-y faux half-pearls at the top and bottom borders of the card.

Now, it's your turn!  Make a Halloween or Fall themed card using our sketch, and enter our challenge over @ Creative Sketches challenge blog.  You could be our next weekly winner!

Stampede Card Club

Here are the cards that we will be making in my Sunday Card Club: Stampede. The first card, we are stamping on fabric, and making crinkle ribbon. The second card we are making our own brads.

The 1st card: Halloween Wishes. We are using the new Sweet & Sour DSP (#117390). Isn't it just beautiful! We are making 'crinkle' ribbon out of the new Very Vanilla seam binding (#120999) and dying it with Pumpkin Pie classic re-inker (#105229). We are using the Stars #2 die (#113461) to create those shapes and spraying them with a mixture of Frost White Shimmer paint (#116854) and rubbing alcohol. We will be using Basic Black classic ink (#101179) to stamp our image on the fabric. I liked it better than Staz-On.

The 2nd card: Just Because. This card we are using some of my all-time favorite stamps! To create the texture on the Perfect Plum cardstock (#101889) we used the new Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder (#120175) and then sponged some Elegant Eggplant classic ink (#105210) over the raised areas to give the piece some depth. I wrapped a scrap piece of Old Olive Satin ribbon (#117292) around the lower half of that piece to get rid of the open space. To create the flower, we will be using three different colors of cardstock; Elegant Eggplant (#105126), Perfect Plum (#101889), and Old Olive (#100702). We will be making our own brad with some of the new Brights Collection DSP (#117155).

Thank you for looking. Posting a comment always makes my day!

Halloween Challenge JUGS#49

I needed to make a card for my downline group to complete at our next meeting, and I saw the sketch challenge #49 on Just Us Girls website.

My downline group, 'Hoot's Got Stamps' meets this upcoming Wednesday. I always do a make-n-take. But, I like to show them how to use a product or show a technique. So, for this month's meeting, I am showing my downline how to use 'Build-a-Brad' (#109128). Also, I want them to use their background stamps, so they can get full potential out of their supplies. I used the background stamps Sanded (#109294) and Bella Toile (#111598) to create texture on the card front, and a 'paper' for accent. The main image and spider are from the 'Dark & Dreary' stamp set (#121151). I created my tiny tags with the 'Tiny Tags' stamp set (#118592). I love how delicate the Raven Lace Trim (#120988) is, and how it gave my card a visual interest.

Thanks for looking, and you can purchase all of these Stampin' Up! supplies on my website @ http://www.inkwithsharon.stampinup.net