Halloween 5/5 Boo-Frickity-Hoo!

Saved my favorite for last!  Another Mo Manning -  and my favorite of her Halloween images.  The base card is a dark purple and has been embossed with a cobweb folder by Cuttlebug - can barely see it - but it is there!  Colored with Copics & Prismacolor Pencils, mounted over a ribbon & called it done - clean and simple!  I think I spend so much time coloring that I don't have the patience for fiddling - not to mention how many I made all together!
Inside sports some leftover DP and my all time favorite Halloween sentiment - 'Boo-Frickity-Hoo'!

Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny

INSIDE

CHALLENGES:
Crafting From the Heart -#178 ATG Always
Incy Wincy Designs – Dress Up [Costume or fancy dress]
Simon Says Wed – ATG

As You Like It – People or Animals & WHY [People - can't seem to color animals!]  TOP THREE Creative Knockouts – L:8- #217 Halloween Inspiration Destination #135 – ATG TOP THREE Oddball Art – ATG

Pile it On #135 – Fantasy/Spiders/Cobwebs

Halloween 4/5

Gena, my 'liddle' [she is actually MUCH taller than I am] pal from down the street and I were playing with bleach one day and we used some bleach on black CS.  The Skull and candle [Rubberstamp Ave.] were first heat embossed with black and we used white EP for the Halloween stamp [Craftsmart/Michaels].  There is another stamp of a candle in a candlestick on the far right under the ribbon - but I can't read the name on it.  Won't matter since you can't see it anyway.  I really like how the card looks in natural light - the contrast is more apparent and the images show up nicely.  I made two tags, one white & a slightly larger black one and stamped the 'boo!' using a set by All Night Media.  The font is 'Jazz'.  It is topped off with a snippet of ribbon with orange and black flowers and tied with black waxed linen in a bow.  Tags were mounted on foam tape for elevation.
All the papers used are leftover from previous projects including the base card which is an off cut.



I already wrote a personal message - so won't show the inside - I just know you are straining your eyes trying to read that!

Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny




CHALLENGES:
Incy Wincy Designs – Dress Up [Costume or fancy dress]
Simon Says Wed – ATG

Creative Knockouts – L:8- #217 Halloween Inspiration Destination #135 – ATG Crafty Hazelnut's DP Challenge – Always ATG + DP Pile it On #135 – Fantasy/Spiders/Cobwebs

Halloween 3/5

This Oddball Art image of a child Zombie is probably the ooogiest image I have done all season!  Perfect for a young person who is really into blood and guts and the Zombie Apocalypse.
The image was colored with Copics and Prismacolor Pencils.  The front of the base card was cut off and a double sided Designer Paper was adhered to the front flap.  The sentiment, which comes with the image, was punched and mounted on a 2nd larger punched shape.  A small hole was punched in the top and then I used a small quilters tool to insert a plastic 'hanger' [similar to how retailers attach a price tag to a piece of clothing.]  This allows the sentiment to swing freely on the front of the card.

INSIDE

The inside utilizes the black strip from which I punched the mat. This created a 'window' for the "hello..." sentiment and a mat behind the message panel.  LoVe when I can use my scraps like this!! 

So - here is the behind the scene story about this card...
Oddball Art offered a free image to anyone who would color and send a card to a 9 yo boy who had health problems.  I'm thinking  - ok 9 yo, a boy - he will love oooogie.  So I ordered this image and got it ready to send and got to thinking about his health problem... he has brain cancer and PROBABLY would be facing brain surgery!  OMGawd!  What was I thinking!  Just LOOK at that image - soooo inappropriate!  So I switched out another card and quick emailed the Oddball people and told them of my poor taste in choices - heavy sigh.  The kid got a card, I caught the problem in time AND I got a free image.  It was a very good day afterall.                                   

Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
CHALLENGES:
Crafting From the Heart -#178 ATG Always
Incy Wincy Designs – Dress Up [Costume or fancy dress]
Simon Says Wed – ATG
Penny's Challenge #348 – ATG

As You Like It – People or Animals & WHY [People - can't seem to color animals!] Inspiration Destination #135 – ATG Oddball Art – ATG

Pile it On #135 – Fantasy/Spiders/Cobwebs
Fussy & Fancy  #199 – So Spooky

Halloween 2/5

Another Mo Manning image - I feel these images can stand alone with her wonderful detail!  Copics are my go to coloring medium with occasional use of Prismacolor Pencils for detail work and shading.  I did use a "Floating Image" technique on the card base to create a more interesting frame since I did not use embellishments. 

This technique is so simple to do...

• Cut CS 11" x 4.25" - fold in half with a top fold
• From the front panel - cut 1" off the bottom and then a 2nd 1" piece so that you end up with two strips, each 1" x  4.25"
• One strip ends up in its original position at the bottom as you see in these photos 
• The "magic" key to holding all this together is the 2nd strip that is turned vertically and connects the upper and lower portions of the front panel.  This should be affixed with a strong double sided tape as in a red liner tape or the like. 
• The focal image panel is then laid over that strip, again use a strong adhesive, and place it to hide the strip.
• Note: the vertical strip does not have to be centered, you could move it slightly one direction or the other - perhaps to reveal a sentiment on the inside.

Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny

INSIDE

CHALLENGES:
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG Always
Crafting From the Heart -#178 ATG Always
Incy Wincy Designs – Dress Up [Costume or fancy dress]
Crafty Sentiments – ATG
Tuesday Throwdown #366 – Spooktacular
Simon Says Wed – ATG
Penny's Challenge #348 – ATG

Crafty Creations - #352 – ATG As You Like It – People or Animals & WHY [People - can't seem to color animals!] Inspiration Destination #135 – ATG

Oddball Art – ATG
Pile it On #135 – Fantasy/Spiders/Cobwebs
Aurora Wings #59 – Darkness Falls
Crafty Girls Creations – #40 - ATG Always
Fussy & Fancy  #199 – So Spooky

Halloween 1/5

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
I have several Halloween cards that I will post - this is #1 of 5.

This is a Mo Manning digital image that I have colored with Copics. Purple brads to secure the corners to the mat and a rubber stamped one word sentiment are the only embellishments - makes a flat, easy to mail card.

Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny

CHALLENGES:
Crafting From the Heart -#178 ATG Always
Incy Wincy Designs – Dress Up [Costume or fancy dress]
Crafty Sentiments – ATG
Tuesday Throwdown #366 – Spooktacular
Aud Sentiments - #191 – Halloween + Sentiment  TOP FIVE
Simon Says Wed – ATG
Penny's Challenge #348 – ATG

Crafty Creations - #352 – ATG As You Like It – People or Animals & WHY [People - can't seem to color animals!] Inspiration Destination #135 – ATG Pile it On #135 – Fantasy/Spiders/Cobwebs

Fussy & Fancy  #199 – So Spooky

Creative Knockouts – L:8- #217 Halloween [Sorry! I didn't follow the instructions of 8 only & I can't delete my submission]

If the Shoe Fits...

Can you imagine having your birthday on Halloween and growing up with your whole world dressing up and celebrating by having home after home give you free candy?  Barb, my friend, you were a lucky little girl - and no wonder you grew up loving witches!


The legs with witches' shoes are from a Stamps Happen rubberstamp.  The sentiment is a freebie from Ginger's House which was die cut with Spellbinder's Celebrations "Tag That".












I colored the image with Copics, fussy cut the legs and mounted them on foam tape to elevate them.  The purple CS on top was cut in two and elevated to give the appearance of a stage and curtain or wall hiding the rest of the witches.  

The inside sentiment is by Penny Black.

Envelope

I hand drew the web and the spider on the envelope.  I will use an address label stuck just below the web's center to mail this.

Spider's Red Jewel

CHALLENGES:
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG Always
Crafting From the Heart -#178 ATG Always
Incy Wincy Designs – Let's Celebrate
Addicted to Stamps & More - #263 – Holiday
Crafty Sentiments – Halloween/Fall TOP THREE
Shopping our Stash L:13 – SOS #324 – If the Shoe Fits TOP THREE
Penny's Challenge #348 – ATG TOP THREE

Fab & Funky #366 – Word Art Crafty Creations - #352 – ATG Inspiration Destination #135 – ATG

Oddball Art – ATG  Top Three #2
Pile it On #135 – Fantasy
Crafty Girls Creations – #40 - ATG Always

Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny

Aviator Birds...

613 Ave C has a new challenge... "ATG /twist of Masculine Card".  You have the month of October to show your creative talents!  For details of the challenge and for some very creative ideas - check out the DT inspiration concepts HERE!

This is what happens when I print out images and color them for fun... and then forget where I got them!  Somebody help me and let me know where to find these birds?  I know there were four different ones together. 
So, here is what I did - birds were colored with Autumn colors with Copics, fussy cut, sculpted and elevated with foam tape.  The clouds are from a die cut and the tree was cut free-hand from CS that had been embossed with an embossing folder from Tim Holtz / Sizzix.  The sentiment is one of the fabulous freebies from the very funny Ginger's House.  

CHALLENGES:

Sweet Stampin' – Autumn Colors
Crafty Girls Creations – #39 - ATG Always
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG Always
Addicted to Stamps & More - #261 – ATG
Crafty Sentiments – ATG
Simon Says Wed – ATG
Shopping our Stash L:13 – SOS #322 – Mildly inappropriate
Penny's Challenge #348 – ATG

Fab & Funky #364 – Fall Colors [Rust, Y, Orange, G] Inspiration Destination #134 – ATG Crafty Creations - #351 – ATG

Oddball Art – ATG
Pile it On #135 – Fantasy Sweet Sprinkles Award from Pile It On
Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny