Crafty Calendar Challenge - All Things Spooky

Good morning.

It's the first Saturday of the month which means it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge.  This month our challenge is All Things Spooky with the optional extra of Recycle Something.

We get quite a few trick or treaters on Halloween so I decided to make a little gift bag and fill it with sweets.

I used the digi stamp 'Cherry Kisses Witch' from Pollycraft and coloured her with my Spectrum Noir pens.
I cut an oval mat from Core'dinations card to frame my image.
I printed the paper from Joanna Sheen's Cardmakers Year cd-rom onto a light weight card.
The ribbon is my 'Recycled item', this came wrapped around some pyjamas.

I think I'm going to make a few more of these in readiness!

My card is for the following challenges:

Stamp With Fun Challenge - Autumn

Heck of a Challenge - Spooktacular

Paper Pretties Blog - Fall/Autumn

Bearly-Mine Challenge - Halloween

Shopping Our Stash - Recycle (ribbon)

Crafty Creations Challenge - Colours of Autumn

Crafty Catz Challenge - Autumn

Alphabet Challenge - R for Recycle (ribbon)

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Digi

Clear It Out Challenge - Use orange, purple or black, or all three.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.  Please do visit the challenge blog and take a look at the fabby creations my teamies have made.

Have a lovely weekend.

Delivering Presents In Mulberry Wood

I've a Christmas card to share with you today made using the gorgeous Mulberry Wood cd-rom from Crafter's Companion:

A5 card blank.

Image printed onto super smooth paper.

Backing paper printed onto Satin Finish Paper

Darice Snowflakes embossing folder used on mat silver card, which was then divided into 3 equal sections and matted onto green card from PaperMill

Ribbon from my stash

Snowflake charm from my stash added using metallic cord.

Sparkling Snowdrift from Hunkydory added to the main image

Finally a vertical sentiment was added to complete the card.

My card is for the following challenges:

The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge - Sketch

CD Sunday Challenge - Allsorts (this is my second entry this week as this is one of my favourite challenges, hope that's ok)

Stamp n Doodle Challenge - Embossing Wet or Dry

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Christmas

Anything Goes Challenge - Early Christmas

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Sparkle and Bling

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Christmas Presents

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Sewing and/or Metal Charm

Rub A Dub Dub

The current challenge over at Divas by Design is a sketch to follow.  Here is my take on the sketch:

This is a card for my daughter to sent to one of her best friends who is a big cat lover.

Base card 8 x 8 decorative edged card from Cupcakecrafting

Image printed from Joanna Sheen's housemouse project cd-rom onto glossy photo paper and matted onto silver them lilac card from Papermill.

Backing paper from Housemouse inserts cd-rom, printed onto satin finish paper.

Central paper embossed using a Darice Embossing folder and then trimmed.

Sentiment stamp from a WOW Stamp Set, as is the flourish, stamped in silver metallic ink.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Paper Pretties Challenge - Square cards

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Animal Antics

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Animals

House Mouse and Friends Challenge - Double Trouble- Use an image with 2 or more animals on

Pile It On Challenge - Cuddly Critters

Bearly Mine Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Best Friends

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - Lots of Layers