Cheery Lynn Designs - Halloween Challenge

Good Morning fellow crafters and bloggers! :)   Dont ya just love autumn? 

 

I adore this time of the year, the misty mornings, glorious colours, wind, rain, dark nights and things that go bump in the night! lol :)  October is also my favourite month as its my birthday - I was born 2 days early for Halloween, although my mum used to say I was quite a little witch anyway! :D lol.

 

This weeks challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs is Halloween and my card today uses some of my favourite Cheery Lynn Dies ever!  I started off with a 6 x 6 blank card base and layered MME papers onto black American Crafts cardstock.  This is also the same paper and card I used to cut all my dies with.

 

For the border I cut 6 of the spider web corners and then added the gorgeous French Lattice Die (which is sooo elegant) on top.  I layered the smallest of the 2 of hearts die for dimension and tucked that behind. The cute bats (yes I think bats are cute!) look brilliant when they are cut and come in 3 sizes.  The flowers are made from my favourite Roses dies and the leaves and stamen are from the increasingly useful Build a Flower set.

 

The gorgeous Morticia image was gifted to me from my special blogging buddy Judy who thought I needed cheering up after having a tooth removed last week :) aww !  It certainly did the trick - I LOVE this image !  Thanks hun ! :)

 

All dies used on this project are:

 

Lace Corner Deco H

French Lattice Small

Going Batty

Build a Flower #1

2 of Hearts

Large Rose

Medium Rose

Miniature Rose

Silver Stackers - Ovals

Scalloped Stackers - Ovals

 

 

You still have lots of time to enter our Halloween Challenge this week, so I hope you find time to join in and I look forward to seeing some very spooky creations!  Dont forget there is also gorgeous and fresh inspiration from the rest of the uber talented DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog.

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today and have a smashing week!

 

Spooky! - I ♥ Promarkers

Morning bloggers :)

Today sees the start of a new challenge at I ♥ Promarkers and our theme this week is 'Spooky'.  We are sponsored by one of our regular and most fabulous sponsors Joanna Sheen who is offering the winner a £10 voucher to spend online.

I followed the fab sketch over at Saturated Canary and the gorgeous image is Witches Cauldron. The spiderweb background was cut out with my digital die-cutter (and it took blimmin ages!) lol, and the bats were also cut on that.  The flowers are WOC, charm and ribbon from stash.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Saturated Canary - Fab sketch
Moving Along with the Times - Spooky Halloween
CES Challenges - Gorjuss Pretty girls
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Halloween
Emerald Faeries - Punches and Dies
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and Bling
Allsorts Challenge - Flowers
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Halloween

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, and good luck to everyone in the challenges,

Oooh Arrrgh - a recipe @ I ♥ Promarkers

Wow!.. Wednesday comes round so quick! :)  

Today is the start of a brand new challenge at I ♥ Promarkers and this week we have a recipe to follow of 1 Ribbon, 2 Brads/buttons/gems and 2 backing papers.  Now I have made this card for a good blogging friends' special birthday, so if you are reading my blog today Karin - dont look!! :D lol.  We are sponsored this week by Sassy Studio Designs who gave us a couple of images to play with.

Now, remember me mentioning my new digi-die cutter that arrived the day of my accident?  Well, this is me well and truly putting it through its paces! ;)  Everything on this card was made using my Silhouette SD machine (except the paper tearing round the image).  I always said if I got one of these machines I would be dangerous!! lol.

I had been hankering after one of these machines for a few years and knew I wanted one with its own software, as I didnt want to be restricted to cartridges.  I took to it like a duck to water, as its just like using a printer, the software was easy-peasy.  It will never replace my trusty Cuttlebug, but I love to have the ability to just create something quite random and 'one-off' without being stuck with a die that has limited use.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Totally Papercrafts - The Beach

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - No Flowers

Allsorts - Free n' Easy

Papertake Weekly - Hot, Hot, Hot

Ladybug Crafts - Summer Birthdays

Lexis Creations - At The Beach

Cupcake Challenges - No 29 - use a number

Sketch Saturday - I followed this great sketch

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today and good luck to everyone in these challenges,