Bewitched!

I am supposed to be making Christmas cards, but I couldn't resist making a wee Halloween card - and when I found this digi stamp that I bought last year I had to use it!

Here is my card

The fabulously bewitching stamp is from Sassy Studio Designs, coloured with copics and I went over some of the shadows with a paintbrush and some black soot distress ink. I also used 3 colours of distress ink sponged around the image.

I had some small black roses but wanted a big one aswell, so I used a large white rose and coloured it black with a copic marker. I then dunked the roses in some wet glue and corresponding coloured glitter - it really sparkles in real life! The beaded leaf is from my local craft supply store. The black dangly is an earring! They were in a sale in Sainsbury's and when I saw them I knew they had to go onto a halloween card! And I still have another one to use - bonus! My sister hates going shopping with me as I'm always looking at things and thinking how they could be used on a card - she doesn't complain when she wants a card though!

The papers are from the Basic Grey Eerie paper pad - love these papers, I've had this since last year and this is the first time I've used it! I also used Labels One and Labels Sixteen nesties and a couple of purple swarovski crystals to finish it off - just to add another bit of sparkle!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Creative Inspirations; Spooky
Haunted Design House; Smeared and smudged
Magical Monday Challenge; Halloween
Sassy Studio Designs; Spooky
Simon Says Stamp and Show; Something Spookay
Stampin' for the Weekend; Halloween/Fall
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge; Halloween colour challenge
The ABC Challenge; F for flowers
The Corrosive Challenge Blog; Halloween
Tip Top Tuesday; Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss; Sparkle

Phew, a marathon number of challenges!
I hope you like it, thanks for dropping by!

I also just wanted to extend my sympathies to the familes of the 3 men who were killed in the helicopter crash which happened a couple of miles away from home on Saturday. Such a tragedy.

An Autumn Wedding

Doesn't time fly when you're having fun?! I made this card a couple of weeks ago but couldn't seem to find the time to get it blogged!
So I've managed to find ten minutes to do it now!

This is my card:

I found this digi stamp at Tiddly Inks and just fell in love with it, so I got so excited when I got a call from a friend that she needed a wedding card!

I coloured the cute couple with my copics and cut them out with a nestie oval. The names were computer generated and I cut them out, inked them up and stuck them to the back of the image.

I thought the layers of the wedding gown would go so well with a technique that was shown on the Whiff of Joy tutorials and inspirations blog ages ago. The papers I used are from the DCWV Once Upon a Time stack.

I used the same technique for the sentiment on the inside. I thought I'd leave it simple as there is so much detail on the front.

I also made a money wallet to match.

The tab pulls out the slieve to reveal the gift.

(See my generous gift??!! lol)

And here's the whole set together

The card fits the following challenges:
Allsorts Challenge Blog; Inspiration from a song title - I just thought of the Beatles classic "I wanna hold your hand"
Craftilicious Challenges; Anything goes
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge; Nursery Rhyme/Song - again the Beatle "I wanna hold your hand"
Create 4 Fun; To use a digi stamp
Sketch & Stash; I turned the sketch around and my papers have been sitting untouched for ages!

I hope you like it, thanks for dropping by!

Happy World Card Making Day!

Hope you're all having a good day!

Be warned, there are LOTS of pictures in this post!

We set up a card swap especially for today on the Mad About Cards forum and we were each allocated a partner to swap a card and some goodies with. This is the card that I made...

It's always difficult to photograph an easel card, isn't it?!

Our cards were to fit an autumn theme and I thought this fairy from Charmed Cards and Crafts fitted that theme well. I coloured her with my copics in what I think of as autumnal colours.

The paper is from the Basic Grey Pyrus paper pad which is full of all lovely autumny colours! The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! "Best Yet" set. I thought the new "Crown Circles" nestie shape went well with the stamp and I added flowers and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts. The skeleton leaves are from my stash.

I layered the frilly bit on the inside with ds tape on one side and foam pads on the upper end so the easel bit of the card had somthing to butt up to.

We also had to send each other a wee (suitably crafty) gift. I ended up making this to put it in..

I put some stamped images in with the tab to slide them out and stuck a wee box on the front for putting some ribbon and charms into..

My card fits the following challenges...
Alphabet Challenge Blog; W for wings
Copic Creations; Orange
Craftilicious Challenges; Autumn
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge; Easel Cards
Simon Says; Autumn
Stampin for the Weekend; Autumn
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge; Season's Change
The ABC Challenge; E is for Easel

My swap partner for the card was the amazingly talented Andria from Iona Rose Designs. Her card actually arrived through my door on Tuesday and it took all my willpower not to open it until today!

This is her card

She added a pouch to the inside for some goodies!

And she also included this gorgeous tag as October is breast cancer awareness month

Go and have a look on her blog to see some more stunning creations - not just cards either, her decorated candles are fantastic!

Thanks for dropping by! - and have a fabulous day!