Sketch #492~ Halloween Card #8

Here is Halloween card #8 for the 2022 season.  

I put a fun little twist on this card.

I am not a huge fan of spooky Halloween stuff,

but I thought since I'm on a roll making creepy cards 

I'd twist this one up a bit and make it cute too. 

How cute is that little piggy dressed up as a witch, and

 pulling a pumpkin wagon? 

I thought those black flowers in the upper corner

matched the DSP wonderfully.  

Did you also notice the little banner on the wagon? 

I'm going to submit this card to the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Cauldron Bubble,

Tis Birthday Piggy, Cutest Halloween

Lawn Fawn:  Happy Harvest 

Sweet little HP is still wearing the donut, 

because of the bad allergies.  He is not happy about 

it, but handling it like a champ.  Hopefully 

we can get him into another vet, to get more Rx.

We just recently started him on supplements.

My orchids are blooming again this year.  I can't 

even believe it.  All seven flowers are open and gorgeous. 

I feel so blessed to have these beauties bloom. 

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

PP609~ Happy Harvest, Lawn Fawn

I made this fun harvest card for the challenge at:

The Paper Players

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Lawn Fawn:  Happy Harvest 

I forgot I had a stamp with a scarecrow until

this challenge.  What  a lovely reminder. 

This was a delightfully fun card to make because

the coloring and cutting was incredible easy. 

I stamped the corn stalks directly on the white

card stock, and then layered the other elements.

I did use dimensionals under the scarecrow.

Those tiny leaves are from an itty bitty 

leaf punch.  It's just like the old fashion

hole punches that were silver and collect 

the circles cut outs underneath in the 

hinged flapper.  Well this is a leaf style.

It's fabulous except for they get all over the place,

and to glue them down can really test ones patience.  

I thought it was the perfect day to make this card

since it's the first day of Autumn. So I will also

share a picture of my little festive fall tree.  

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

HSSSC398~Halloween Card #7

Halloween Card #7 for the season.  

I will submit this card to the challenge at:

Hand Stamped Sentiments

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Spooktacular Bash

Bewitching

Clever Cats

Cauldron Bubble

Happier than Happy 

I took quite a lot of artistic liberty with the 

sketch for my card.  As you can see I went

a bit larger in scale for the circle image. 

I had no intentions of going so far, but 

after the cute bear was glued down, all

I could do was keep adding more.  At least

that's what I told myself.  

Especially since my eyes were giving me 

quite a struggle today.  So lining things up

were not as easy as usual.  I set the bear a bit 

too high so I then needed to add something, 

which was the pumpkin to balance it out. 

I used 5 different stamp sets to create this 

card.  The cute witch hat on the bear was

way to big, so I notched it out a little so 

that it would not cover his eyes, and then 

added a little white trim to finish it off.  

Perhaps I should have stamped the bear

a deeper shade of brown, well next time 

I will do that.  Lesson learned. just 

hope I'll remember it.  

Puppers is resting, still not happy with having

his paws wrapped up, but his allergies are 

terrible, and he won't stop licking.  We just

got his new supplements, so we are praying

these will help him.  The Rx is doing 

nothing to stop the itching and licking. 

Poor little guy.  

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

Sketch #491~ Halloween card #6

Here is Halloween Card #6 for the season. 

Quite spooky for me. I have to tell ya this 

was a stressful card.  

I will first start off by submitting it to the 

challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Scary silhouette Dies, 

cauldron bubble, clever cats, 

everything festive. 

Now that we have the sketch up I will explain

the stress of my card.  You see orginally for that 

little circle on the side of the rectangle, I had

planned a cat.  Oh yes a black cat with green eyes.

I spent so much time die cutting and trimming all

sorts of paper from orange to green to white to finally

leaving it gray, then I realized I couldn't color the eyes

a brilliant green, so I had to ever so carefully stick a 

piece of white card stock under it.  This project took

probably 40 minutes, between my tired eyes, and sticky

clumsy fingers, things where not going well, finally

as I was about to remove the cat for the final time I ripped

his tail right off.  ugh!!  That's it I said to my self, I will

use a ghost but I  had stamped a cute cat sentiment, 

so I had to find a new one and layer that on some

 paper to cover the previous one. 

I then decide to put the ghost lower down

 to cover the majority of glue marks. and right when 

I thought this fiasco was over.  I dropped the ink pad onto

my card.  See the lower right hand corner.  Well, at 

this point I'm considering it art, and embrace it's unique flare.

sigh. 

Don't even get me started on the moon.  The dies

come with one of those half moon shapes. That I tried in

a vast variety of colors.   Well that

was not "cutting it" haha for me.  So I opted for a 

full moon for this spooky card.  

Needless to say I was quite stressed with this card.  

perhaps because it's too scary, skeltons, bats,

ghosts, Oh my.  

On a happy note, look what came to our 

yard today for a visit.   I'm sure that gorgeous

hawk was just looking for some mice.  He has

good pickings in that junk yard next door. 

I hope ya all are able to enjoy a slice of pizza today. 

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

FUSION - Front Porch~Hello Friend, Wishing you well, on the horizon. Stampin Up

I'm going to submit this card to the challenge at:

Fusion

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Hello Friend,

Wishing You well,

On the horizon. 

I'm excited about this card because 

I made it for my daughter to give to a friend.

I incorporated her friend's favorite color.

which I thought is perfect for fall.  

I love this book binding fold.  It gives the card

such a unique look and an element of surprise,

since one would think it opens up fully.

It reminds me of the front door in the challenge picture

and shouldn't all doors have a welcoming

wreath on them?  haha. Well I don't~ at 

least not until later in the season.

To create that book binding fold just score

in a bit from your original fold, and glue shut.

I chose to add ribbon to this section so I glued

that to the inside as well.  Then just use your 

bonefolder to crease the new fold lines.  

The turquoise is undoubtedly the 

star of the show in this card. 

OOH friends, don't forget what today is:

I hope you all enjoy a slice of your favorite pizza. 

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

Sketch #490~What's Cookin' & Sweet Songbirds

 I made this card earlier this 

week for my daughter to give to the

 culinary students where she works. 

I totally forgot to submit it to the challenge.  

So I'm so grateful I still have time.  

I got a little busy making a card for my son's 

birthday which we are celebrating today.

He's off riding, and my daughter reminded me

while I was doing the dishes.  So I will

submit my card to the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  What's Cookin'

Sweet Songbirds

I had no intention of adding the ribbon and

bow.  However, I ripped the embossed paper

and I already had it glued down.  I surely

did not want to start over at that point,

so in comes the "clean up crew"  

ribbons, bows, embellishments.  etc.  

I thought it turned out ok.  Covered the rip

nicely.  and know one would know if I 

didn't blab it out.  

If you're interested I'll be sharing my son's 

fancy fold card this week, and a few pictures.

I'm happy to say we have a few more pumpkins in

our little messy garden.  The pumpkins went crazy. 

Also I love this picture of the bumble bee.  So pretty

on my pink flowers.  

OOH and most exciting we have a watermelon growing

too.  I will post pictures of that too.

Quick Health update:  I'm still not fully

recovered from Covid.  It's been 9 months out

now.  I imagine because of my underlining 

health conditions it might not ever get 

any better.  So It makes me sad, some 

days are better then others though. So I 

try to focus on that.  My eyes are still 

not very good, nor the smell and taste.  My blood 

pressure has still been a challenge for me

and the doctor.  But we are doing supplementing

for now and in Oct. or Nov.  I go back just for a

check to see what's happening.  Then she

might put me on some stronger pills. Hope 

It won't be necessary.  That the supplements will 

be helping me instead. 

HP (our dog)  is a mess of allergies, he has 

all four paws in bandages, and sleeps a lot.

His Rx is not helping him at all, so we

are actually going to start this week

using supplements and fish oil for him.

So once again thank you for your prayers 

dear friends. 

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

Week 407: HAPPY ~ Halloween card #5

I made this card for the challenge at:

CASology

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Everything Festive, Cauldron

bubble, Smiley Face 

I took my "cue" from the card and decided

to use a smiley face to reflect the "happy."

The smiley face is from a much older stamp set

I believe the year it came out was 2000.

I think it turned out cute with the little addition

of the witch hat.  

I added a few little stars for some magical spice. 

Thank you for your continued prayers and

encouragement as I recover from covid.  

And also,  for my dog, HP.

I'd love to have you follow me on instagram at: 

pjs.projects

 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ