A witchy Halloween

Halloween seems to be a popular theme among the challenge blogs these past few days and I think I got 19 24 of them in with this one card!  

I received this witch digi image from Lindsay at Sassy Studio Designs during one of her release parties and had not yet had the chance to use her.  This image is now available for sale over at Modern Sugar Blvd.

I really liked the sketch from The Pink Elephant this week, so to make the image work with the layout, I cut out part of the broom and overlapped it on the side panel.  I had the card all done with the exception of the sentiment, and ended up smudging a bit of ink from my finger onto the top of the colored image panel.  I certainly did not want to color a new image, so I just added the pumpkin to cover it up. 

This card is for the following challenges:
The Pink Elephant - Sketch
Everybody Art Challenge - Halloween
My Time to Craft - Halloween Colors
Creative Inspirations - Halloween
Creative Inspirations - A card with numbers on it
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Things that go bump in the night
Crafty Creations - All Hallow's Eve
Copic Color Challenge - G99, V17, YR68
Gingersnap Creations - GC26 Spicy Supply - Brads
Kaboodle Doodles - Spooky
Stamp Something - Halloween Somethings
Stampin for the Weekend - Halloween
Paper Craft Planet - Cinema Saturday - "Hocus Pocus" - Halloween theme
Paper Cutz - 3 Pattern Papers
Paper Makeup Stamps - Black, White, Orange, Purple
Cupcake Inspiration Challenge - to me, the purple, green and orange colors stood out, thus reminding me of Halloween 
Stamp With Fun - Halloween
Pile it On - Halloween (although I missed the cut off for this one) 
Stamp with Us - 3 pattern papers, 3 colors cardstock, 3 brads, 3 different stamps
Tuesday Taggers - Halloween
Color Chef Challenge - Black, Orange, Purple and Green
Hand Full of Stamps - Layers, layers, layers
Crazy 4 Challenges - 3 geometrical shapes (oval, rectangle, star)
Colour Q - color challenge
ABC Challenge - F is for flying

Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps:  Be Witchy (digi image) Modern Sugar Blvd; Sentiment - KI Memories
Ink/Coloring: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics (E00, E01, E53, E55, E57, E59, V12, V15, V17, YR65. YR68, G94, G99)
Paper: Old Olive, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie; Gina K Pure Luxury White; DP - Recollections (Halloween Stack)
Embellishments:  Star Brads (unknown)
Tools: Drippy Goo Border Punch (Martha Stewart)

Pecan Nut Halloween Witch

Over on the Nutshells blog I discovered that they are starting Nutty Nutshells Wednesdays and they will be issuing a challenge twice a month.  For their first challenge, you had to make a Halloween card and use this adorable freebie digi image "Pecan Nut Halloween Witch".
 
I sewed the buttons on the ribbon with DMC floss and the stitching on the two panels is all done by hand with the same DMC floss using a back stitch ~ took a lot more time than I anticipated, but I do like how it looks.  The sewn panels as well as the image are raised on dimensionals.

In addition to the Nutcrafters challenge, this card is also for the following challenges:

ABC - F is for flying

Banana Split Sunday (2 Red Banana's) - Purple, Black and Orange

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - 1 ribbon, 2 buttons, 3 papers

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Buttons and Stitching
Cute Card Thursday - "Spookfest"

Digital Tuesdays - Halloween

Kraftin Kimmie - "Buttons, Buttons"
Mercy's Tuesday Sketch - sketch

One Stop Craft Challenge - Halloween

Paper Play - Use favorite embellishment (ribbon is up there)

Papertake - "The Dark Side" - Halloween

Pile it On - Halloween
TCP Tuesday - Use Buttons

Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps: Pecan Nut Halloween Witch digi image (Nutshells)
Ink/Coloring: Copics (E00, E01, R20, E33, E35, E25, E27, E53, E55, E57, E59, V01, V12, V15, YR12, YR14, T3, T5, T7)
Paper: Basic Black, Perfect Plum; Gina K Pure Luxury White; DP - Recollections (Halloween Stack)
Embellishments: Ribbon (Eggplant); Buttons (unknown); DMC Floss
Tools: Paper piercer, Needle

Cute as a Pumpkin

Awhile back Elizabeth from Soft Pencil was giving away this adorable digi image. If you haven't seen her images you definitely want to go check them out ~ they are just too darn cute!

I figured what better way to use her for the first time than to join in Soft Pencil's very first challenge over at PaperCraft Planet. The challenge is to create a card for someone special. I decided to make a Halloween card for one of my daughters.

I recently participated in a game over on Soft Pencils PCP group and Elizabeth was so sweet and gave all of us a surprise. I received the Little Girls Collection of digi images and can't wait to use those ~ I've already got some of them printed out, just waiting for me to get some free time.


This card is for the following challenges:
Soft Pencil - Make a card for someone special
Die Cut Dreams - Sketch and use the colors Black, Purple, Orange and Green
Pile It On - 3-D (can be image or embellishments)
A Spoonful of Sugar - Halloween
Copic Creations- Coloring Pumpkins with Copics
Creative Card Crew - Celebration
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Halloween
Secret Crafter - Celebration
Gingersnap Creations - Use Bling
Creative Belli Blog - Halloween colored bling or glitter (used orange sparkles on embossed panel and on brads)
Simon Says Stamps - Halloween
2 Red Bananas - Here's to Halloween


Card Recipe~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps: Little Witch digi stamp - Soft Pencil; Sentiment - Studio G
Ink/Coloring: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics (E00, E01, R20, E25, E27, YR12, YR14, YR15, YR16, T1, T3, T5, T7, V01, V12, V15, G20, G21, G24)
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Certainly Celery; Gina K Pure Luxury White; DP - The Paper Company (Jeepers Creepers Stripe)
Embellishments: Ribbon (Michael's); Self Adhesive Rhinestones (Me and My Big Ideas)
Tools: None