STITCHING WITH CHOCOLATE, COFFEE, AND CARDS CHALLENGE

This is my second card for today, so please scroll down if you would like to see the first one too! If you have already seen it and are back for more, thanks for coming back!

I am participating in a new challenge for me called Chocolate, Coffee and Cards. Well they had me at chocolate but chocolate and coffee is irresistible. Add cards to that and I am totally hooked!!! I’m also entering this at Really Reasonable Ribbon.

The theme for this challenge is stitching, and anyone who follows me knows how much I love to stitch my cards! This one was no exception with stitching on all the panels with zig-zag at the top and straight stitching everywhere else. The purple base is embossed with a Fiskar’s embossing plate and is Craftwell paper. The other papers, image and sentiment are from Doodle Pantry’s Candy Corn Ants set. I used Spellbinders for the image and the sentiment, a ZVA crystal flourish and ribbon from RRR.

Challenges entered:

RRR Challenge #58 - Halloween & Ribbon Theme

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenges: Challenge 24 ~ Stitching

 

SUPPLIES
SIZE: 4.25x5.5″

Candy Corn Ants COLOR	Texture Plates - 6pk Asst. II	Fancy Tags Two	Beaded Ovals	Labels Four
Victoria White Crochet Lace	3/8" Black Multi Dots	Zva Creative - Self-Adhesive Crystals - Lovely - Lavender and Grape

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TSTR WEEK 85–HAPPY HALLOWEEN & TSG127

I cannot believe it is the last week of October already! Wow, Thanksgiving will be here in a blink and OMG Christmas is right behind it!  If you are like me, you have so much to do and so little time, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love being busy with fun projects and decorating.
The card I am sharing with you today will be entered into four challenges. Yikes! That is a first for me!!!  But first let me show you my card!!!

This card is entering these 4 challenges:

• TSG127 make a card or project with the theme of either Halloween or Autumn

• TSTR Week #85 – 'Happy Halloween' HALLOWEEN THEME in this photo AND USE PURPLE, ORANGE, BLACK & NEUTRALS WITH TWINE OR RAFFIA!

• Ptt#39-Anything Goes!!!

• Mojo Monday 212  (click here to see my Mojo Monday submission yesterday.  Quite a different take on the sketch!)

I am so excited to be entering more challenges! I am still learning a lot about card making and all of you are helping me with your gorgeous creations!  I love to sit and go through these challenges and see each and every card and see what you all are doing with papers, elements, inks, crochet, ribbons, LOL that list just keeps on going.
OK today’s card is a standard 5x7 card….white cardstock.  Gorgeous paper from DCWV’s The Four Seasons is used as well as plain black and white cardstock.
The black panel is folded lengthwise and then run through my crimper on the diagonal. I ran it half way through then turned it around to do the other half.  If you don’t do this, the paper is too long to crimp properly all the way down.   The result is the pretty inverted V you see below.

The medallion is made with some stamps that I have had for a long time, and unfortunately I don’t know where they came from. But I just love this little cat and the Trick or Treat sentiment.

The TSTR challenge called for raffia or twine. Since I had neither, I used some black hemp under the bow.
The instructions for making this are below. I hope you like my card and will leave comments! Thank you so much for visiting my blog.

Paper:

• DCWV The Four Seasons
• White
• Black

Accessories:

• EK Success corner rounder
• Fiskar’s Crimper
• Wire edged ribbon
• 1/4” purple satin ribbon
• Cuttlebug embossing plate (spider web on base panel)
• pearls
• Glitter glue

Measurements (approximate):

• The card is standard 5x7size.
• Base panel DCWV 4 3/4 x 6 3/4” 
• White for medallion: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4” 
• Patterned DCWV brown: 1 1/4" x 5"
• Black panel: 2 x 5 3/4”

Instructions

1. Cute all paper pieces
2. Emboss the base panel
3. Fold the black panel lengthwise and crimp. Run through the crimper on the diagonal. When it is about 1/2 way through, remove it, turn it and crimp the other half.
4. Stamp cat and cut out.
5. Adhere cat to small white cardstock. Use distress ink to distress the white but make sure a little white “shadow” shows around the cat. 
6. Adhere all layers and ribbon.
7. Add pearls and place small dots of glitter on the eyes and nose of the cat.

Spooky Cat

At last! Halloween cards are complete and I can move on to Thanksgiving. 

Today’s card is a clean and simple Halloween card with a black cat as the focus.

Haha! I’m not sure how spooky he really is. I think he looks to cute to be spooky.  The card is a black base topped by 4 neutral colored rectangles. The medallion is a Spellbinders die cut oval with black glitter, the little cat and the word boo.  The word boo is cut from the Sizzix Garden Delight set. 

Two corners of the card are stamped with Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Pumpkin Border Set. Wow that set has gotten a ton of use this season!

The card is finished with silver pearls and cream grosgrain ribbon and bow. 

Happy Halloween to all! Let’s get started on Thanksgiving.

The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC100

Hello all you crafty blogging buddies! It is another rainy day here in NC so that means another play day in the studio!  Today’s card is another Halloween card which is being entered into The Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC100. This is my first time playing at the PDCC. I really love that they chose the color palette and you design based on the colors.

Here is my entry that is based on the inspiration photo below.  The base of the card is dark green cardstock that is punched in the top right corner and edged in gold. The next layer is a cream cardstock that is embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and highlighted with Versacolor Umber.

 

The large round medallion is stamped with Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Pumpkin Border Set and topped with a quilled pumpkin.  I just love quilling items for my cards. I am never without the perfect embellishment since I can just make it! The small square sentiment is on scraps of orange paper and shaded using a positioning template from RST. 

Finally, the card is finished off with a beige grosgrain ribbon and flat bow, gold pearls and 3 orange buttons.

One more Halloween card to come and then on to Thanksgiving! Whew this is a busy time of year but I love it!! Have a great day and please visit again.

Week #80 - 'Vintage White'

Hi to all my blogging friends! I hope you are having a wonderful week. 

I am so happy to have finished my Halloween cards! The one I am showing you today is being entered into The Shabby Tea Room’s card challenge Week #80 - 'Vintage White'.  For this card we were challenged to create a monochromatic card or project using WHITE OR CREAM, KRAFT, BROWN OR BLACK. And here is my card…

I just love the way this card turned out! I wanted to do something with ghosts and these little guys that I quilled worked out just perfectly. The base of the card is embossed with a Sizzix Texture Plate and embellished with off-white grosgrain and grey silk ribbon.  The frame is Spellbinders rectangle and embellished with tiny pearls. The background is outlined in silver pen then stamped with silver leaves and bronze squigglies. 

The panel on the left is embossed with a Cuttlebug border and distressed with Jim Holtz Distress Ink.  The rose is rolled using an off-white grosgrain ribbon then distressed with Jim Holtz Distress Ink and finished with a pearl. The leaves were stamped using Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s leaves from the Pumpkin Border Set and then cut out to create a layered effect.

Last, the sentiment was made using my computer and Freebooter Script font. A black TomBow pen was used to edge the sentiment and then make the dots across the top and bottom.  Finish with pearls and done!

I hope you enjoyed my card. Thank you for visiting and please stop again soon to see the rest of my Halloween cards.  Until then, have a crafty day!

Another Halloween Card

Before we get to my new card, I have to say how totally EXCITED I am this morning! I won the TSTR # 79 Card Challenge with my masculine card. Click here to see it. And this is the awesome bling I get to add to my blog:

A BIG thanks to all you Shabby Girls for choosing my card!

OK enough celebrating. Time to get back to work.  Today I have another Halloween card for you.  Man, I really hope Miss Joy will let me finish these today. At the moment she is looking so sweet and innocent as she is sleeping at my feet.

This little Halloween card is so cute! It is a small 4x6 card that was really fun to make. I just love the black and orange combination and the Sizzix diecut adds a touch of elegance to this little cutie.

The medallion is cut from the Spellbinders Labels Two, distressed with VersaColor Ink and decorated with Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Pumpkin Border Set.  The Trick or Treat stamp is from a set that I have had a while. I don’t remember where it came from but I stamped, heat embossed and cut out the sentiment and attached to the medallion.  Finish off with ribbon, bow, pearl and brads.

Thanks for stopping by to see my Halloween card. I hope you like it. Stay tuned……more Halloween fun to come!

TRICK OR TREAT, SMELL MY FEET!

Hi All my crafty friends! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful early fall day as you stop by my blog.  Todays “treat” is another Halloween card.  I have to get really busy! I need to get these finished so I can make my Thanksgiving cards. Wow! Where does all the time go?

OK. Today, my card is called Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet! 

The gold linen paper is heat embossed with some cute Halloween stamps I found.  I used clear embossing powder mixed with gold Perfect Pearls to create the design. 

The medallion stamp is from the same Halloween set.  The witches shoes are glammed up with some purple Stickles glitter glue and the socks colored with marker. 

The gold small diamonds are decorated with Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Pumpkin Border Set, some gold Stickles and mini bat brads. The border of the card is stamped in bronze using a mini stamp from RST again. 

More Halloween fun to come tomorrow! Thank you so much for visiting my blog. I hope you enjoyed this card.