Whirlpool of Imagination

No Orange Halloween

This week the challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays is to create a Halloween card without using the color orange(CFC24). Now I'm a big orange fan so that's hard for me. But since my little vampire stamp was out from yesterday's mini card, I decided to ink him up again for this challange.

Super simple A1 card - both the image and sentiment are from Taylored Expressions.

I added some black gems to add just a little extra and he's all set to spook.

Are you getting ready for a fang-tastic Halloween? Show me your projects - love new crafting ideas for Halloween!

Mini Vampire

I had a short window of time to escape to my studio so I decided to whip up another Halloween mini card.

This cute little vampire is from Taylored Expressions (I think the sentiment is Papertrey).

I debated on whether to color him in but I liked the black and white look and just went with it.

This week begins final preparations for Meg and Conor's halloween parties. Hopefully later on in the week, I'll have some pictures to show you.

Have  a great night!

Memory Keeping

Long ago before I started my card business, I used to scrapbook. But when my business got going, pictures and memory keeping went on the back burner. Lately I tried to get my hand back into it and I realized that I no longer am inspired to scrap the way I used to. So I gave myself permission to start over and scrap the way that feels right to me now.

I have been inspired by Tangie Baxter and her junque journals. They are easy to make and hello, I have something like 2000 composition notebooks on hand! I also like the smaller size. Sometimes I jsut add a photo or two and the page feels complete to me. (remember that for me clean and simple is not just a type of style, it's my type of style).

Meg headed off this morning on a big school adventure so I thought I'd show off a recent page of her.

Love the black and whtie photos at the beach. Added some white pen for effect and a page I love.

Have a great day!

Bubbling Cauldron

I love making mini cards. Their uses are endless from gifts to tags to even mini notes. In the spirit of Halloween, I went with that theme today for my mini.

 

The stamp is from Taylored Expressions and is colored with copic markers. I added some stickles for the bubbles so they'd "pop" a little - pun unintended :)

The small black layer is embossed with a cobweb - the flat layer was, well, too flat.

Now I'm studiously trying to work on Halloween invititations - I'm hoping that I'll have pictures to show you by the weekend (because these invites really do need to go out!)

Have a great day!

 

Thinking of Halloween

Happy October! I am officially thinking Halloween now. Today I have a quick card using my Stampin' Up set.

It's a quick A1 using a Papertrey sentiment and a SU image. I love adding the die cut shape with dimension to give the card a little something extra.

Now I think it's time to break out some pumpkins! Have a great night.