myasperations 10-1-2022

The 1st of the month finds me making a DT card for the challenge at QKR Stampede. Stop by the challenge, which is always “Anything Goes” and several prizes are awarded. Maybe you’ll be inspired to enter a card or two yourself?

     This time I used a ghost balloon digi from Eureka Stamps to create two very different cards. The first, with purple background, features the ghosts printed on translucent paper (I used vellum, but “onion skin” stationary or writing paper will also work).  

     The purple card features a free B&W Halloween Subway Art sentiment, printed on white copy paper and torn along the edges. I adhered the background ghost to the back of the subway art with a strip of clear tape before adhering the subway art to the card front with double stick tape. The front ghost was a bit harder to attach as the tape shows through the vellum. So I had to cut very thin strips of double stick tape and place them on white sections of the subway art which hid the tape better than the dark areas. (I also positioned the ghost balloons so that the tied bottom hang over the edges so I could trim it off.)     

     The orange card was made in a similar fashion, but with a different sentiment background, and the ghosts were printed on plain white copy paper. This time, I attached the subway art to the front of the card with black photo corners.  I then used small amounts of snail adhesive to adhere the ghosts to the front of the card (playfully peeking in from two sides!) Also, since copy paper is barely translucent, I decided to use a plain yellow pencil to sketch the lettering onto the ghosts very lightly it can be read "through" the ghosts. (Skip this step if desired.)

     I plan to decorate the inside of the cards similar to a design I used years ago (pictured). It includes a freebie sentiment and a little ghost image. (Since the howling ghost I used is no longer available, you could print off another ghost balloon and use it… or maybe just add a ghost hand reaching toward the sentiment?!)

Supplies: 

·   Digi-Eureka Digital Stamp (Ghost Balloon) Also available in unmounted or cling-mounted

·   B&W Halloween Subway Art- Freebie from todaysfabulousfinds.blogspot.com (Halloween Subway Art)

·   Orange Halloween Eye Chart- Freebie from tatertotsandjello.com (Halloween Eye Chart)

·   Inside Sentiment- Freebie from TlcCreations (Wishing You A FaBOOlous Halloween)

·   Ghost on Inside- past Freebie from Patties Creations (no longer available) Find this month's freebie HERE

·   Pioneer black Photo corners- available from several sources

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Outlawz Sunday Challenge- Antigonish

Outlawz Challenges: October 2022 Linky

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- #99 Anything Goes

Leigh SB Designs Monthly Challenge- #110 Too Cute to Spook      

Leigh SB Designs- 31 Days of Halloween       

This card was created for the Wecraftcard “Gift for a Teacher” challenge. I made this packet of assorted stickers for a friend who is an elementary teacher. I think that her students will especially like the ones that promote a sense of adventure: dinosaurs, spaceships and aliens, mermaids and unicorns (plus a teacher never has enough sparkly stars and assorted school supply stickers.)

     You can’t see it very well in the photo, but the stickers are “held” in a small file folder from my scrapbook stash. I put a rubber band on it to hold the stickers securely in place, but the ribbon and bow can easily be removed. Also, I used minimal double-stick tape on the rest of the card, so that my friend could easily take it apart to use the separate pieces to upcycle on a card, for room decoration, bulletin board, etc.

     An added note- Back when I was scrapbooking. I discovered an online treasure chest named “Little Scraps of Heaven.” Artist/Owner Tricia Veinot Moore is transitioning to a new shop, so everything at her current shop is on sale. Most items (and sets) are just $1.50.

Supplies: 

·  Bear Digi- Little Scraps of Heaven (Bear Holding Pencil) 

                           The panda appears to be retired, but a cute colored bear digi is available for $1

·  Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen  

·  Teacher Label- paper pieced from scraps

·   Stars and pencil- fussy cut from Patterned paper

·   Other items from my scrapbook stash.

Entered into:  

Wecraftcards- Gift for a Teacher  9/26-10/2

The Paper Shelter- #527 Button and Bows

Di’s Digi Stamps- Include an Animal  

This final card was made for another of my favorite challenges, Double D’s, where the current theme is “Things that Fall.” I made a card like this a few decades ago at a card-making class in South Dakota. I had saved the template and used it to sketch the apple parts on paper scraps, cut and piece them together onto a scrap of lovely plaid paper. The leaves were made with a long scrap of cardstock, folded in half, and run at a diagonal angle through a corrugator. When cut into a leaf shape, they open up into these beautifully textured leaves! Computer-generated sentiments finish out the card, which will be added to the packet of cards I’m making for our church to use in thanking its many volunteers. 

I’m entering this card into several challenges including the Allsorts Challenge “Gardners Delights” (I was wondering if tending an orchard could be considered gardening, so I googled it and learned on THIS site that it is!) and Path Of Positivity Challenge "Celebrate Something Special about YOUR COMMUNITY" (During the last 45 years, my husband and I have had seven major moves due to jobs. We have learned that the best way to develop friendships in a new community was to find a church that felt like "family." As a result, we have been blessed with some wonderful friends that have laughed with us through good times and helped us survive rough ones.  

     
Supplies: 

·   Sentiments- Computer Generated

·   Plaid cardstock- Hobby Lobby

·   Pioneer Black Photo corners- available from several sources

·   Corrugator, a scrap of red satin ribbon, and other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Double D’s Challenge- Things that fall    

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #563-564 Anything Goes                   

Outlawz Challenge- Twisted Thursday Anything Goes  

Allsorts Challenge- Week 696: Gardeners Delights

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #104 

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- October