I know it’s just after Halloween, but I had to get one more card in there for the holiday! Today I’m participating in The Alley Way Stamp Challenge.

Here’s the inspiration photo:

I was inspired by the siding on the house, and those slats became the background to my card.

I’ve never used The Alley Way Stamps before, but just look at that cute little bat and sentiment!

I used charcoal watercolor on that bat and gave him some orange glitter polka dots with Stickles. I popped him up with foam squares.

I added some polka-dot and striped pumpkins. And that dark tree branch to mimic the decoration on the door. Check out the challenge here. I hope you had a great Halloween!!

Also linking up to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge – Anything Goes (Monday), and Anything Goes (Wednesday).

Can you believe that tomorrow is Halloween? I really can’t.

But today I have a quick Halloween card to share. I played with some distress inks for this one to (try) to mimic a sunset…

I used Kristina Werner’s adorable cat in a pumpkin and sentiment for this one. Love them! I heat embossed them both with black, then watercolored that little cat and pumpkin. I’m loving my watercolors right now. 🙂

See those bats…they are made with Shrink Paper! So cool. And the paper (used for the hill)  is from an amazing Fall Paper Stack from DCWV.

I stitched around the whole card in order to attach the Halloween sentiment flag.

A very Happy Halloween to YOU!

Linking to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge here.

This is my second card I’m entering into the Paper Smooches card challenge here.

It is a cool shade challenge using these colors

(Teal, light purple, kraft, orange)

So here is my second card using the adorable acorn in the Paper Smooches “Falling for You” stamp set.

I clear embossed the acorn in the background on kraft paper. Can you see those shimmering in the background? Then I used some distress inks to ink up the banner with purple, teal, and orange. The “Hello” is cut using My Favorite Things hello dies. I painted it with watercolor.

I’m pretty happy about that watercolored acorn. I’m loving my watercolors right now. I popped the acorn up with some dimensionals.

Hello, Fall!

Edited to add: This card was a WINNER! I won the challenge…So Happy, Excited, and Grateful!

Last week I had a few computer challenges and so I couldn’t upload my card in time for the Paper Smooches Challenge! So this week, I have TWO cards I’m entering.

This week is a color challenge:

(Teal, Light Purple, Kraft, Orange)

I knew I wanted to use my little acorn stamp from the Paper Smooches “Falling For You” set. And this card changed quite a few times over the course of the creation process!

Here’s the first draft. It seemed a little plain to me, but I did LOVE how that plaid acorn turned out using watercolors and Inktense pencils. The “tree branch” was painted teal to match the acorn and embossing with a wood grain embossing folder. But that Sentiment seemed a bit out of place.

I thought it would be great to have the sentiment hanging from the tree. But it here seemed a bit too low, so I changed it to this:

What do you think about the evolution of this card? I used a little plaid paper to play off the plaid acorn. <3

Entering into the Paper Smooches challenge here.

I’m loving Verve Stamps. In fact, I have a couple sets now…and today I am going to use a stamp that I WON from Verve. (Thanks! I love it!) I thought I’d turn it into a tag card and enter into the current Verve Challenge here.

The fonts they used on this stamp are just BEAUTIFUL, and I heat embossed it in silver on my tag. Yes, I made that tag from scratch (I don’t have a tag die cut….yet! Wink*)

The flag on the left is embossed with a new embossing folder I found at Hobby Lobby (50% off; how could I resist?) I think it pairs nicely with this sentiment. You might be surprised to know that the “paper” I embossed is actually the backing to vinyl that I used on some girls camp water bottles! I loved how it had a bit of shine to it and I knew it would come in handy for something! 🙂

These little snowflakes I cut out with my cricut using the NEW Anna Griffen Winter Wonderland cartridge! I’m loving that cartridge so far, and I’ve only used it once.

I added a little glitter to those snowflakes and I love the shimmer it adds.

So there’s my first Verve Tag Challenge card ever! A little winter, a little glitter, a little embossing and a tag. Hope you like it!