Happy Fall -- for Paper ala Mode Challenges

 It's Saturday, and it's time for a new challenge at the Outlawz Paper ala Mode. We are sponsored this entire year by We Are 3 Digital Shop. One lucky person will get a gift certificate to the wonderful shop!

Our theme this next two weeks is 'Happy Fall'.  We want to see your Autumn projects.

I love Fall colors!  These papers and printables from We Are 3 Digital Shop are so beautiful! It was easy to put together an Autumn-themed card with them:

The papers are from the Pumpkin Delight papers. I used 4 different ones from the collection on this card.  The pumpkin printable is part of the Autumn Labels set. There are 4 in this set.  The sentiment is part of the Itty Bitty-Fall Sentiment Set. 

The doily behind the printable is by Cheery Lynn.  The pumpkin ephemera is a die from Yvonnes Creations.  The crinkle ribbon is from D.L. Art. 

I hope you can join us at Paper ala Mode Challenges for our Happy Fall Challenge!

Witches Hat -- a New Release at All Dressed Up Stamps

 Today is a great day!  It's the 22nd of the month, and it's the day I get to showcase one of this month's new releases at All Dressed Up Stamps. There are 3 new releases each month, and they are all fabulous.  This month, though.  They made me squeal!  And, I'm not a squealer! 

Here is Witches Hat...

I colored Witches Hat with Copic markers, and cut her out with a Spellbinders square die.  Then, I went searching for papers to enhance it on a card.  As always, I found them in the We Are 3 Digital Shop. The orange paper behind Witches Hat is one of the Moody Night papers. The purple web paper is from the Web Works Collection.  The bats are part of a Spellbinders collection. I thought they were the perfect finishing touch on this card!

I hope you enjoyed this new release as much as I enjoyed creating it!  You can find all the new releases, and all of Wendy's wonderful artwork in the All Dressed Up Stamps Etsy Shop. You can see what the other talented design team members created in the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook Group, and on the All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge Blog. 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

2 Old Bats Halloween Challenge --Anything Halloween

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a hand colored image

Passion for Markers Challenge -- dies &/or Punches (dies)

Crafty Gals Corner -- Halloween Colors

D.L. Art --October Linky Party

Giraffes on Holidays -- for The Paper Shelter Challenges

 It's Wednesday, and that means a new challenge is starting today at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog. Every Wednesday, a new challenge begins.  If you use a Paper Shelter image, and you're the lucky winner of the challenge, you'll win a $30 gift certificate to the Paper Shelter Store.  Use any other image, and you'll get 3 images of your choice from the Paper Shelter Store. We have a very easy theme this week.  We just want you to use a digital image.  Of course, we'd love it if the digital image was from The Paper Shelter!

It's almost Halloween!  So, when choosing a digital image for today's challenge, I searched The Paper Shelter store for Halloween themed images and found LOTS of them!  It was hard to choose just one to use for today's 'Digital Image' challenge.  However, this one, particularly charmed me.  It's called Giraffes on Holidays, and I used the Halloween image from the set. 

I colored Giraffes on Holidays (there are 4 images in the set) with Copic markers.  Isn't he just so cute?  I wonder how long it took him to get his costume ready for his evening of Trick-or-Treating? 

I used digital papers from We Are 3 Digital Shop on this card, and the sentiment is from We Are 3, also. The background paper is from the Moody Nights paper collection. The sentiment is printed on one of the Inky Textures papers. The sentiment is part of the Halloween Wishes Sentiment Set.

The card base is part of a set of slimline dies by LDRS Creative. The elongated oval die is by Spellbinders, and the spooky garland is from The Scrapping Cottage. 

I hope you can join us this week (and every week) at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog. We Have such great digis that you can win, and I'd love to see what you create!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Crafting Happiness Challenge -- use any of the following colors: purple, orange, green, black

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a hand colored image

Passion for Markers -- dies &/or Punches

Word Art Wednesday -- ATG

AUD Sentiments -- ATG with a Halloween sentiment

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge --ATG

Classic Design Team Challenge -- ATG

Misty Reflections -- for Ching Chou Kuik

 It's Tuesday, and I'm posting today for the Ching Chou Kuik Inspiration & Challenge Blog. I love my Tuesdays!  These images are so much fun!  Our October challenge still has lots of time for you to link up, with the theme of Boo-tiful Halloween (or pumpkins or Halloween colors).

For my inspiration card today, I used the luscious image, Misty Refections, colored with Copic  markers.  

I used various circle dies,  and papers from AMB Illustrations.  The sentiment is from a stamp company no longer in business, and cut out with a die from Tonic Studios. 

I hope you check the CCK blog frequently for great inspiration!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar -- Halloween

Morgan's Artworld -- ATG

A Bit More Time to Craft --ATG

2 Old Bats Halloween Challenge --AT Halloween Goes

Crafty Animals Challenge -- ATG with an animal

D.L. Art -- October Linky Party

A Place to Remember -- for Dies R Us Challenges

 It's October 15th, and it's time for a new challenge at Dies R Us Challenges. The challenges are Anything Goes, as long as you use a brand of die sold in the Dies R Us Store.  The challenge will run for 2 weeks.

A couple from my church recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.  They met at a Bible camp, that is very wooded.  I thought this die was perfect to make a die for their special day...

I created this card using a Crafter's Companion A Place To Remember Create-a-Card die. The sentiment is computer generated unto a stitched tag by Tonic Studios. The red stitched heart die is one of the Just Stitching Hearts die by Lawn Fawn. 

The background paper of the card is by We Are 3 Digital Shop. It is one of the Fairy Land papers. 

I hope you can join us this next 2 weeks for our Anything Goes challenge at Dies R Us Challenges.  We give away a gift certificate and 3 designer choice awards every challenge.

For those friends in Canada, check out the Didi Crafts Store for wonderful crafting products and reasonable shipping rates. 

Halloween Duo -- for Ching Chou Kuik Inspiration & Challenge Blog

 Its Tuesday, and I'm posting today for the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration & Challenge Blog. Our October challenge is underway with the theme of Boo-tiful Halloween.  Ching-Chou Kuik has some awesome images that fit this theme in the GJZCCK Etsy Shop.

For my card today, I'm using the image called Halloween Duo. It comes in a set of 2 digital images. 

I colored Halloween Duo with Copic markers.  The papers on this card are by We Are 3 Digital Shop. The glittery paper is called Halloween, and the spider web paper is called Web Works.  The sentiment is by Tonic Studios.  

Check the CCK blog often for wonderful inspiration!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar -- Halloween

2 Old Bats Halloween Challenge Blog -- ATG

Morgan's Artworld -- ATG

2 Critter Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a critter

DigiChoosday -- ATG

AUD Sentiments -- ATG with a Halloween sentiment

Crafty Sentiments -- ATG

TTCRD-- ATG

Halloween Treat Box -- for Paper ala Mode Challenges

 It's Saturday, so there's a new challenge starting today at the Outlawz.  That's the Paper ala Mode Challenge.  For the next 2 weeks, we want to see your Halloween projects.  Cards, layouts, boxes, or bags.  Add them to our challenge!

As per this whole year, we are sponsored this challenge by We Are 3 Digital Shop. Bonnie will award a gift certificate to her shop at the end of the challenge. 

I thought it would be fun to create something other than a card for today's challenge, so I made  a Halloween Treat Box, using papers, a "spooky" printable and a sentiment from We Are 3 Digital Shop.

The papers on this treat box & tag are from the Cute Halloween papers.  The spider on the tag is part of the Itsy Bitsy Spider & Balloon Printable set.  The sentiment is part of the Halloween  Sentiment Set. 

The gift bag and tag were created with a die set from Diamond Press. I used a bit of twine from Timeless Twine to finish the box. 

I hope you can join us these next 2 weeks for our Halloween Challenge. I'd love to see your Halloween creations!

Hello Autumn -- for The Paper Shelter Challenge

 It's Wednesday, and every Wednesday, a new challenge starts at The Paper Shelter Challenge blog.  Challenges have a theme, and run for a week.  Today, the theme is "Layer it Up".  I love to play with papers, so I used paper for my layers! Of course, any image will work for this, and we love seeing those Paper Shelter images.  If you are the lucky winner, you'll get a $30 gift certificate to the Paper Shelter Store!!  Otherwise, it's 3 images of your choice.

It's Autumn on the calendar, and leaves are changing and dropping fast where I live, so I was in an Autumn state of mind while coloring and creating my card.  So, I used the darling Autumn is Coming image to create this:

I colored Autumn is Coming with Spectrum Noir Tricolor Markers, and a few Copics.  Doesn't she look happy about the change of seasons?  She must not be the one doing the raking, lol!

I used 5 patterned papers, and they are all from a Crafter's Companion 8x8 Everyday paper pad.  The rectangle dies are from Spellbinders, and all other dies are from Tonic Studios.  The gems are from my stash.

I hope you can join us for our 'Layer it Up' challenge this week at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog.  I'd love to see what you create!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

D.L. Art -- October Linky Party

A Bit More Time to Craft Extra -- ATG

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge -- ATG

Dare to Be Artzy -- Fall

Chocolate Baroque Challenge -- Anything Autumn

Morgan's Artworld -- ATG

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a hand-colored image

Golden Fall -- For Ching Chou Kuik

It's Tuesday, and this is the day that I am fortunate enough to be able to post for the Ching Chou Kuik Inspiration & Challenge Blog. A new challenge is just getting underway, lasting the month of October.  The theme is Boo-tiful Halloween or pumpkins or Halloween colors. 

Speaking of Boo-tiful.  I  used the awesome Golden Fall digital image for my inspirational card:

I colored Golden Fall with Copic markers, then fuzzy cut her out. The doily behind her is a die by Cheery Lynn. The pumpkin is a die by Yvonne Creations.

That pretty strip of pumpkin paper is by We Are 3 Digital Shop. It is one of the Pumpkin Delight papers.

Check the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration & Challenge blog often for great motivation and talent, and of course, the challenge.  There's another challenge in the Facebook Group. 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

D.L. Art -- October Linky Party

A Bit More Time To Craft -- ATG

Challenge Up Your Life -- Pumpkins

Classic Design Challenge -- ATG

A Bit More Time to Craft Extra -- ATG

One Lasting Moment -- for Ching-Chou Kuik

 Ching-Chou Kuik is celebrating!  It's been 7 years of blog and Facebook challenges. To celebrate, there will be extra challenges this month in both places, and free images for entering.  There are free images in both challenges. This is the freebie for the blog challenge:

It's called One Lasting Moment, and it is a greyscale image.  I don't often color those, but I really enjoyed this one!

I colored One Lasting Moment with a combination of Copic and Spectrum Noir alcohol markers.  I framed it with a die by Crafter's Companion.

The papers on this card are by We Are 3 Digital Shop. The background is one of the Bokeh Blends  The sentiment tag is from a Spellbinders kit. 

I hope you check out the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration & Challenge Blog often this month to find out everything that is going on! You'll want all the details on how to own this!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

A Bit More Time To Craft -- ATG

Classic Design Challenge -- ATG

The Fairy and the Unicorn -- Fantasy

Morgan's Artworld -- ATG

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a hand-colored image

TTCRD -- ATG

Little Autumn Girl -- for Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

 It's the first Sunday of the month, and that means I'm posting on the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge Blog. Challenges are always Anything Goes, and it will run for 2 weeks.  For this challenge, our sponsor is All Dressed Up Stamps. With my love of ADU images, it doesn't get much better than that!

I separated out the Three Little Autumn Girls and used one of them for this card:

She is certainly all dressed up for fall!  I colored one of the Three Little Autumn Girls with Spectrum Noir Triblend Markers. 

The sentiment is 2 different die cuts.  The 'hello' is part of a 'hello summer' set, and the 'fall' is from a different set. The leaves are some of my favorites, used often on my autumn cards.

The plaid paper is by We Are 3 Digital Shop.  It is one of the Autumn Flannel papers.  A little Timeless Twine finishes off the card. 

I hope you can join us this next two weeks at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends. Our sponsor is absolutely lovely, with wonderful images, and Anything Goes challenges are so much fun! 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

A Bit More Time To Craft -- ATG

Classic Design Challenge -- ATG

Dare to Be Artzy -- Fall

Chocolate Baroque Challenge -- Anything Autumn

Halloween 2021 -- for SheepSki Designs

 It's October 1, and there is a new challenge underway on the SheepSki Designs Challenge Blog.  The theme this month is hot &/or cold colors.  You don't have to use a SheepSki Designs image, but we sure like to see them (plus you win an extra image if your name is drawn).

For my card for this challenge, I found another gnome to color up!  I love Andrea's gnomes!  This is Masked, and I thought it just might work for Halloween:

I colored Masked With Copic markers, concentrating on this hot reds and cold blue colors.  Then, I went in search of papers that would work for Halloween.  I found them at We Are 3 Digital Shop.  The spider web paper is from the Web Works collection. The other paper has been retired. 

I computer generated the sentiment, and used a die from Crafter's Companion to cut it out and back it.  The bats are a die from from Spellbinders. 

I hope you can join us this month at SheepSki Designs Challenge Blog.  I'd love to see your hot &/or Cold creations!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Classic Design Challenge -- ATG

A Bit More Time to Craft Extra -- ATG

QKR Stampede -- ATG

Crafty Calendar -- Halloween

Wild about Fall --for All Dressed Up Stamps

 October 1 (wow!), and that means it's time for a new challenge in the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook Challenge.  The challenge will run all month, and the theme is Autumn &/or Halloween.  You must use an All Dressed Up Stamps image to enter the challenge.  You'll find many wonderful images that fit the theme in the All Dressed Up Stamps Etsy Shop.

I used one of the Three Little Autumn Girls for the card I created for the challenge:

I colored the Three Little Autumn Girls with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers. The background slimline die is by Diamond press.  The word dies are from Spellbinders (wild about) and The Scrapping Cottage (Fall).  I finished the card off with a spot of twine from Timeless Twine.

I hope you can join us in the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook Group for our Autumn &/or Halloween challenge. I'd love to see what you create, and you could win some wonderful digital images -- like this one!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

A Bit More Time To Craft -- ATG

Challenge Up Your Life -- pumpkins

A Bit More Time to Craft Extra -- ATG

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge -- ATG

Dare to Be Artzy -- Fall

Chocolate Baroque Challenge -- Anything Autumn

Colour Crazy Challenge --ATG with a hand colored image
                                                              

Haunted House -- for Dies R Us Challenges

 It's October 1, the month of spooky cats, witches, trick-or-treaters, and of course, haunted houses, so when it came time to make a card for today's card at Dies R Us Challenges, I knew it had to have a Halloween theme.  You, however, can make anything you want.  Just use a brand of die sold in the Dies R Us Store. The challenge will run for the next 2 weeks. 

I don't make many Halloween cards, and when I do, I don't want them to be too creepy or spooky.  I prefer the cute side of Halloween.  Today, though, I went with spooky...

This Haunted Manor is a Spellbinders Die. This exact die isn't available in the Dies R Us store, but if you search 'haunted house', you'll find some that are very close.  The bats are by Impression Obsession.  The hillside has a row of stitching on it.  It is hard to see cut out in black.  It is a die by Lawn Fawn. (Stitched Hillside Border Dies) The Boo!  Is one of my favorite Halloween sentiment dies.  It is also by Spellbinders. It is part of the Boo Web set. 

The background paper on this card is by We Are 3 Digital Shop.  It is one of the Halloween Night papers. Some burnt orange Timeless Twine finished off the card. 

I hope you can join our Anything Goes challenge at Dies R Us Challenges this next 2 weeks. We give away a gift certificate to the Dies R Us Store, and 3 designer choice awards each challenge. 

For our Canadian friends, check out the Didi Crafts store for wonderful craft supplies and reasonable shipping rates. 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

D.L. Art -- October Linky Party

A Bit More Time To Craft -- ATG

Classic Design Challenge -- ATG

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge -- ATG