Witches Trick or Treat

It's October and Hallween is just around the bend.  So it's time to post some Halloween cards.

Supplies

Stamps: Stampabilities (the witches legs), Stampin' Up (Holiday Best), Spider and web inside of card - misc acrylic stamps, perhaps Inkadinkadoo

Ink/Coloring: Stapin' Up Classic Ink, Copic markers, Spica Markers

Papers: Baseic Grey, K & Co.

Tools: EK Success (border punch), Cuttlebug (embossing folder), Stampin' Up (oval and scalloped oval punches, Martha Stewart (bird punch, inside of card)

Accessories: Ribbon (unknown brand)

Birthday Winner

I love the ColourQ combination this week.   The turquoise and orange are just such a fun and vibrant combination. I was also determined to use the elephant in this fun new stamp set called You're Amazing from Stampin' Up.   My local demo, Chris Galbraith and I were talking about the elephant and the birthday hat.  So I just had to make use of him.   Here's the card I came up with.

I used my Copic markers to color the elephant.   I stamped the Winner tag back ground using one of the stamps in the stamp set and several masks.   The little tickets are stamped, punched and pop dotted out. 

Here you can see the dimension and all of the layers. 

Lastly, the inside of the card.   Most of the supplies used are Stampin' Up,

Here's the ColourQ inspiration for this week.  The only black I ended up using is the ink for the stamped image, but it's there.

I also used some guidance from this week's Retro Sketches challenge, though I deviated some.  I just needed more white in the card to balance it all out and reduced one of the strips. 

Supplies

Stamps: Stampin' Up (You're Amazing)

Inks/Color: Stampin' Up Inks (Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie), Memento (Tuxedo Black), Copic Markers

Papers:  Stampin' Up cardstock and printed papers, Neenah cardstock for the elephant colored with Copic markers. 

Accessories: Stampin' Up ribbon, misc. brads,

Tools: Stampin' Up Embossing folder, Stampin' Up large scallop circle punch, circle cutter, EK Success tag punch,  EK Success border punch used on the inside of the card.

Challenges: rs25, cQc151

Friendly Monster Birthday

Here's my card using this week's Mojo Monday sketch.  I stamped and colored the little monster image some time ago using my Copic markers.   I can't color right now as my hand is still heeling from surgery, so it's a perfect time to put this little one to use.  Oh and I have to add that the colors are for my 8 year old daughter.   It's a bit busy for me, but she thinks it's wonderful.  :-)

Supplies
Stamps: Close to My Heart (Party Animal), Stampin Up (Vintage Labels)
Paper: Basic Grey (Lime Rickey), Stampin' Up card stock
Tools: Spellbinders, Stampin' Up punches, Fiskars border punch
Coloring: Copic Markers, Memento Ink, Stampin Up inks.

Thank You Mouse

My kids just love House Mouse stamps.   And I confess.  I kinda like them too.  They're just too darned cute.

I did use a little trick on this card.  I didn't have ribbon to match, so I grabbed some white grosgrain ribbon and dyed it with the ink pad.  

Supplies: 
Stamps: Stampabilities House Mouse, Stampin' Up (Oval All)
Ink: Stampin' Up
Coloring Media: Stampin' Up Watercolor Wonder.  
Paper: Stampin' Up (Blushing Bride), Misc White
Tools: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Stampin' Up punches, Spellbinder dies,
Accents: Ribbon (died with SU ink), Prima flowers, handmade dew drops (plastic accent beads from the floral department died with alchohol inks)

Santa's White Christmas Card

This was last year's Christmas card.   Since I made dozens of these, it had to be a design that I really liked.  Thanks to my local Stampin Up Demonstrator, Chris Galbraith, I found the layout I wanted to use.  Hopefully she doesn't mind me posting her name and linking her blog.  She's a great gal.   I did turn that layout into a white and silver color scheme with this Santa stamp I picked up ages ago and he really needed to be put to some use. 

I started running out of ribbon and brads.  After digging through my stash and a trip to Hobby Lobby, I found a few alternatives.   Here's a sampling.  They still turned out quite similar. 

Supplies: 

Paper: White cardstock, silver shimmer paper I picked up at Xpedex.

Stamp: Unknown - I unmounted it and regretfully didn't track the mfg.

Ink & Coloring: Stampin Up Black Classic Ink and Stampin Up Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star sparkly gel pen

Tools: Cuttlebug embossing folder, aqua painter

Accessories: Misc ribbon, various brads

Technique: 

I colored the stamped image using Stampin Up's Watercolor Crayons and an aqua painter.   After the imaged dried, I added a bit of sparkle to the berries and bell on Santa's hat.