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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Golden Nativity

OK, I'm taking a break from Halloween today and am sharing something Christmas instead. I got some new die sets over the weekend and I admit I went a little crazy on making Christmas cards with them. I'll share those with you over the next month or so. Here's the first one.

Nativity die is from Cheapo Dies and I used it to cut a scrap of gold glitter paper. The "Christmas" sentiment was cut from Doodlebug glitter paper with a die from Memory Box. Snowflake EF by Cuttlebug. Everything was mounted onto red card base. CAS design for easy mailing.

Happy Crafting. NanaConnie

Monday, September 28, 2020

Happy Halloween Cat

A short while back, I was lucky enough to be a challenge winner and Dies R Us was the sponsor of that particular challenge. As my prize, I chose a Poppystamps die plus one other, then I bought a couple more dies because I never get away with spending only the gift certificate amount. I'm sure you know how that goes! ;-O

Anyway, the die cut cat is the one from Poppystamps and it's perfect for their "Cards for Kids" theme this month. The other layers behind the cat, including the scalloped rectangle, were cut with Memory Box dies and the witch's hat was cut with a Cheery Lynn die.

The bow was made on my bow maker and the ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Challenges:

Classic Designs

Crafts Galore Encore

Creative Craft Cottage

Are you tired of Halloween cards yet? Well, you may want to skip a visit tomorrow and again on Thursday, and again... oh, never mind. You know they're fun to make and to see. Happy Crafting. NanaConnie

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Live, Laugh, Love with Roses

Today I'm using another of the stamped images given to me ages ago by someone in my crafting group. I really wish I knew which company had made this stamp so that I could give them credit but I have absolutely no idea. I do know I love the way it colored up.

Colored w water color pencils, blended w Gamsol

Fussy cut w scissors

Green CS embossed w Linen EF

Sentiment stamped w black ink

Hand tied bow, 'dyed' w ProMarker

Background dp scrap from basket

Challenges:

Paper Girls (flower/polka dots/gold)

TTCRD

Word Art Weds

Happy Crafting. NanaConnie

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Ghost

Each and every month I like to play along in the progressive challenge at Limited Runs and this month they have given us a perfectly sweet Halloween ghost! He was so delightfully simple that I decided to keep the card CAS as well. I don't know what the image is actually called but I call him "Mr. Bowtie" in honor of the bowtie I made for him.

I think one of the things I love about Halloween cards (and I've done a lot of them this week - 2 of which haven't even been posted yet!) is getting to include my favorite color of purple. How many of you can remember when black and orange were the only Halloween colors? Two or three decades ago, purple got added to the mix and I was absolutely delirious. Then olive green showed up pretty regularly and now it seems we have four colors which are accepted as "Halloween colors." I'm OK with that as long as they don't take my purple away. :-D