Sunday 28 October 2012

It's almost Halloween...

And tonight I thought I would finally bite the bullet and enter one of the "13 Days of Halloween" Challenges over at Simply Challenged Challenges. They were ever so slightly short of entrants for a prize to be given out, so thought I would take myself out of my comfort zone and try a Halloween card. I am in the Simply Betty group on Facebook, and they are a great bunch of girls, I even met two of them today and had a great time.  The group also does swaps every now and again, and the gorgeous papers I have used came from my lovely swap partner Emily.

The theme I chose was "candy corn", so my card could only have yellow, orange, white and black as colours.  I used a Simply Betty digi Skeleton Peter, and coloured him with Promarkers. I then pop him onto a nestie cut shape, that I embossed with a Skull and brocade.  I added lots of diecuts(mostly from the lovely Anda), and tried my best to stick to the colour scheme. I hope you like him :D

 
Here is a close up(in better lighting) of the embossed die cut.
 
 
 
Ingredients
Nightlight papers by My Minds Eye
Oval Nesties
Cuttlebug Embossing folder
Promarkers
Sizzix, Cheery Lyn and Spellbinders Halloween Dies
Gems and bakers twine from stash.
 
 
I would like to enter him into the following challenges;
Simply Challenged Challenges - Day 11, Candy Corn
Robyns Fetish - use an Embossing folder
PanPastel UK - Halloween

CraftyMess Challenge Blog - Halloween
Di's Digi Designs - Halloween
My Time To Craft Challenges - Halloween
One Stop Craft Challenge - Halloween
Simply Create Too - Use Orange, Yellow and Black.
Sparkle and Glitter with Rick - Sweet Halloween
4 Crafty Chicks - Halloween
Milk Coffee Challenges - Halloween

27 comments:

  1. Looks wonderful!!! Love the cat!!! xx

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  2. Love it! You're a trooper for entering at such short notice too. was lovely to finally meet you today too. xx

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  3. So cute! love all the little embellishments

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  4. A super cute card with some great embellishments. Thank you for sharing this with us at Sparkle & Glitter with RSD

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  5. So cute! Love the image and coloring!

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  6. wonderful job! Thanks for joining our 13 days of Halloween at SCC
    Hugs

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  7. Awe this is super fun and super cute! Thank you so much for playing in our Halloween challenge this week at 4 Crafty Chicks.

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  8. Too cute! Love the cat and the corner spider web!
    {hugs}
    Regan

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  9. Very cute!! Thanks for playing along with us at Sparkle and Glitter.

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  10. Ah this is so sweet, what a cute Halloween Card, Thanks for playing on Sparkle and Glitter with Rick this fortnight, Love Hazel x

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  11. Very fun cards! Love the adorable images!
    Thank you for joining in on the CI paints challenge!

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  12. Beautiful card you made and I like that image!
    Thanks for joining us at One Stop Craft Challenge this week!
    Hugs, Andreja

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  13. Gorgeous card you made for CIS Paints Challenge. Hope to see you in the next challenge..

    Hugs
    Monica

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  14. Great fun card for this Halloween challenge. Love th colour choice and the colouring.

    thanks fortaking part with us at Craftymess.

    Angela

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  15. Thank you so much for joining us this week at 4 Crafty Chicks for our Halloween challenge! Awesome card! :)

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  16. amazing Halloween card Carol, love it!
    Debxx

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  17. Very sweet card. You did your candy cane color scheme so well! Thank you for joining us in the Sparkle and Glitter challenge this week!

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  18. Oops ...meant candy corn color scheme!!

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  19. Great card, just love the Trick or Treater and the cat.

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  20. Very cute card! Thank you for joining Robyn's Fetish Challenge! Lilia DT

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  21. this is a brilliant creation with a gorgeous image! And thank you so much for playing along with us at Sparkle and Glitter, good luck in the challenge.

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  22. Thanks for sharing at Sparkle and Glitter.
    Hugs Nataliya

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  23. Gorgeous! I love the adorable trick or treater image. Thank you for joining in with the PanPastel challenge blog
    Lindsay xx

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  24. What a fun card, love that cute image. Thanks for joining us at PanPastel UK this week and good luck
    Claire xx

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  25. Carol: Your card is So very cute--- Thanks for joining in our COLORS Challenge.

    Diane
    Simply Create Too Design Team Member
    http://DianesDigitalDesigns.blogspot.com

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  26. LOL...what an adorable Halloween card!!
    Thanks for joining us with your creativity this challenge at Di's!

    Rina

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  27. cute card and sweet image, thanks for joining us at Di's Digi Challenge blog and good luck! hugs Jess

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Hi, thanks for taking the time to comment on my blog. I really appreciate it, Carol x