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

Skeleton Peter from Simply Betty Stamps

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

Creative Inspirations Paint - Halloween

Robyns Fetish - use an Embossing folder

PanPastel UK - Halloween

Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog - Halloween

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - 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

Always time for tea.

I am a tea-aholic, and when I saw this image at Simply Betty Stamps, I had to have him (along with a few extras shhhh!) It works perfectly with the Sarah Hurley Wonderland Digi Kit, which contains the most amazing papers, containing tea cups, rabbits and all the other fabulous pretties from Alice in Wonderland.

I made this card for a FB friend for a stash swap, where the theme was "Hot and cold drinks".  I tried to colour him as near to the Johnny Depp Mad Hatter as I could, and I hope you like the card.

Ingredients

Mad Hatter Digi

Papers, sentiment and "Drink Me" tag from Wonderland Digi Kit from Sarah Hurley

Coloured with Promarkers

Ribbon from stash.

I would like to enter him into the following challenges;

One Stop Craft Challenge - Time for tea

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Inspired by a song or film(Alice in Wonderland)

I Love Promarkers - Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Colour Crazy

One Stitch at a Time - Digis