PP612~Halloween card #10

Halloween card #10 for the 2022 season. 

I was so happy to find a challenge to 

play along with that incorporated 

Halloween colors.  

I will submit this card to the challenge at:

The Paper Players

The neutral color I chose to work 

with is black.  

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Spooky Sweets, 

autumn harvest, bewitching, cutest Halloween

Lawn Fawn:  Happy harvest 

The sentiment on the front of the card is from

a dollar bin at a local store. 

I used my new blending brushes, and oh 

my gosh they are fabulous.  It was difficult

because they are so pretty right now, 

and I didn't want to get them all inky,

but oh toss out (recycle, give away) 

 the daubers and sponges,

these babies are wonderful.  

You'll notice that the sentiment didn't 

stamp very well and I didn't put it low enough 

down so my whole card was a bit 

off centered.  I decided to add a bunch 

of little images to help it out, well as 

you can imagine, I didn't know when to 

stop, first the ghost, then one bat, then 

two, and lookie there, we have three.  

Then I added the orange stars.  My goodness.

I even put on some green washi tape atop the 

wagon rim for a little sparkle.  All of this 

just to glue the wagon and

 pumpkin down crooked.  sigh.  

  I chalk it up today as blurry eyes. 

Well I will be happy when these little fellas 

stop inviting themselves in the house.  

Where are the red lady bugs?  I guess

people call these the pumpkin spice beetle.

No thank you, It's not sweetening the deal. 

If you're interested, I shared a few pictures 

on my last blog post 

of  what Autumn looks like in our yard. 

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Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ

 

Sketch #494~Halloween card #9

Halloween card #9 for the 2022 season. 

I made this one for the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Everything Festive, Autumn Harvest,

Clever Cats, Spooky Sweets, Bewitching

I went a little bit overboard with the design.

Sometimes, I just can't put down the ink

and stamps.   But seriously how 

cute is that spider coming down from the witch

hat?  So perfect with the cobwebs throughout the

card. I really like how the washi tape brings it 

altogether so nicely. 

I had to add one more little item to the bottom,

because it was a bit off balanced.  So much 

for my planning things out with size.

Did you also notice the bat up in the banners?

This is a close up picture of my mums. 

I was getting all "artistic" today.  I took

a picture of the apples, while also getting

the colorful autumn ash tree in view too. 

These mums and pumpkins are by my 

backdoor.  Fresh from my pumpkin patch. 

The wild grape vine is turning a lovely

autumn color.  

A long shot of our yard.  We cut down

all the hostas that are beside the fence. 

and when I say "we" I mean my husband.

poor guy had a lot to do.  It just makes it 

easier in the spring for them to rise 

from their winter nap.  However, the

yard looks so bare without them. 

That aqua colored shed you see, is a 

snowmobile junk yard.  and beyond that

is the train yard.  So non stop noise 

but our yard is our own little private oasis.  

Trying to make the best of what we have.  

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Sketch #493~For all things, vintage leaves, forever fern, harvest hellos, Stampin Up

I'm so happy I was able to make a card today.

We have had a very busy weekend.  Then 

last night we noticed our vehicle was making 

a strange noise, so that's no fun.  Hoping

it will not be anything serious.  

Just very thankful for safe travels.  I'm so 

spoiled with my equinox, even though by today's 

standards it's old. A 2008 but, I love it.  

I made this card for the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  For all things, Vintage leaves,

Forever fern, Harvest Hellos

I stamped all the images, and colored in

the leaves and pumpkin, then it was 

a matter of placement.  I like the plaid ribbon

underneath, and the little bow a top the pumpkin. 

I think the gold paper diecuts add a little sparkle

to the card, along with the sequins. 

With pumpkins in mind I thought I'd

take a picture of what remains of 

our garden before we take it all down and

weed it out for the season.  I even found another

watermelon in there too.  How exciting.  

The autumn ash is showing us some 

gorgeous colors. 

Thank you to all who offered advice for Hunter,

and his terrible allergies.  We did get him a 

shot, He is still on the Rx and now also an 

antibiotic.    He is still taking finn supplements as well. 

So far he is doing really well, the fur is slowly growing

back and the licking has really slowed down.  

Praise the LORD.  

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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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💗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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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. 

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ