Delicious Doodles #4 - Halloween...but...no orange!

Happy Halloween.... But NO orange! That's our challenge this next two weeks over at Delicious Doodles. Teri has some great Halloween images to pick from - I was drawn to this creepy fun image for this haunting card. A simple coloring job with my Copics, and then some crazy-edged cutting for the mat and edge along with some feathers and netting adds to the gothic feel of this Halloween card. The sentiment is from the dollar bin made by Inkadinkado. The papers are from Graphic 45's Alice in Wonderland collection. I colored my pearl stick pens with a Sharpie to turn them black...they add a little touch!
I'd love to see your Halloween cards - come join the fun for a chance to win some great digital images.
I will be entering this card into the following challenges:
Do You Stack Up (DYSU) #41 - Use Your Scraps
Hanna & Friends - #115 - Halloween
Everybody Art Challenge - #163 - Halloween
Make it Monday - #58 - Linky Party
Thanks and have a great Friday!!!

With a little Asian flair...

I was immediately drawn to this background stamp from Fiskars. I bought the set, not knowing for sure what I would do with it. The other night I stamped it and just started playing with my Copics - before I knew it, I had a beautiful background for a fun Asian inspired card. The sentiments and lamps are from the same set, but the Geisha is from an Inkadinkado set. I painted the flowers, kamono, and sentiments with a mixture of interference red pigment powder mixed with some water and just a drop of white glue. This gives those elements a wonderful shimmer that either showed way too much or not enough in the photos. I ended up loving the effect it had on the feel of the card.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Ribbon Carousel - #8 - Color It

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

A Spoon Full of Sugar - #157 - Ribbons and Bows

Cute Daisy May - Pile on those Flowers

Scrapbook Sisters - #41 - Anything Goes -DT call

Deep Ocean Challenge - #2 - Flowers

Emerald Faeries - #3 - Petals

Hoping your day is tops!

Color Throw Down #142, City Crafter #57, RCC3

I absolutely loved working with the colors at the Color Throw Down #142 this week. Lime green and black are two of my favorite colors to work with anyway, so adding the grey wasn't a hard task at all. The harder thing for me was keeping it clean and simple, as I don't always do simple very well. However, I think that it still fits that category, so I'm linking it to the challenge over at the Ribbon Carousel for their RCC3. I also had fun working with stripes and polka dots on this one, although the stripes were harder to find and add then the dots. That fits the challenge at City Crafter week #57.
I used an Inkadinkado stamp that I picked up in the clearance bin today... Love the fact that I only spent $.49 on it... LOL... Gotta love that. I clear embossed over lime green chalk ink by Clearsnap. Added some striped paper from my scraps along with some green that matched the stamped image. Ran the white cardstock through an embossing folder, added the grey and that's all it took.
Oh yeah... I forgot to take a photo of the inside... it says "Bring on the cake!" =)

Moxie Fab World: Card Style Week: Let's Do Classy

This one goes in the mail tomorrow... It's for a vendor as a thank you for their generosity! I loved the way it turned out, so I thought I'd share it here first.

I adore this new set of Inkadinkado angel stamps I just picked up... but then again, I love angels!

Happy Holidays

I just found this card last night as I was cleaning out my studio - It was my Christmas card last year. I try to always save one and not send them all out, but last year I thought I had blown it and sent them all. I was thrilled to find that I still had one left.