myasperations 10-31-23

I had fun the last two weeks creating cards to enter into the Sweet November Stamps (SNS)  Halloween Celebration challenge on FB. But life got busy (again!) and I am just now getting them posted

Here are several more cards, this time featuring one of my favorite SNS' sweet digis named Boo Loves Scary Larry! Boo looks great printed on vellum and highlighted with a few touches of a white gel pen (or white colored pencil.) I usually print Scary Larry on white cardstock, color, and then fussy-cut him. (I also lightly sketch in the part of Larry's chest and left arm to  show "through" Boo's arm and add a bit of coloring to it. See photo for an example.) After also fussy-cutting our vellum Boo I trim around the top and left side of her arm, then slide Larry into place for a warm cuddle! Such a cute pair of friends!

An added note- since most types of adhesive show through vellum, I've found a better way to attach them. Before fussy-cutting them, I decide where I'm going to place them I create my background (scene, patterned paper, etc.) I position the vellum spook onto the background, and lightly pencil in little tabs where they won't be very conspicuous. Then, I cut small slits into the background paper, slip the tabs through and tape them in place. If I decide that any tabs are not needed- or are in the wrong place- they can be trimmed off. This takes a little extra time upfront, but I love not having adhesive show through... which kind of destroys the look of a misty apparition! (For this sample ghost, I penciled in random tabs to help provide a visual idea of what the vellum image might look like before you start the fussy cutting.)

     I’m entering this card into several challenges including Inspiration Station: Inspiration photo (both the photo and my card features sweets.)

Supplies: 

·  Ghost Digi- Sweet November Stamps (Boo Loves Scary Larry)

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

·  Halloween Subway Art Background- a Freebie found HERE

·  Candy Corn patterned paper- a Freebie from Scribbles Designs, download HERE

·  Inside Sentiment- TLC Creations Freebie (FaBOOlous Halloween)

·  All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Inspiration Station- Challenge #54 Oct  (Photo) Family Halloween Party

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #116 (Anything Goes Positive ) 

Paper Funday- #58 Anything Goes  (Optional Twist: Use Yellow, Orange, and Green)

For this card, Boo and Scary Larry are hovering in front of a window. (I slid the vellum flaps behind the window panes, taped them in place, and trimmed off any excess vellum. I also added tape behind Larry to hold him securely in place, since he can’t fly without Boo!)

    I’m entering this card into several challenges including Cupcake Inspirations-Color Theme: (my card features the three color, Coffee- brown shades in the window frame, Denim Blue-Larry’s jeans and a few smudges in the sky, Cream-stripes in the “wallpaper”).

 

Supplies: 

·  Ghost Digi- Sweet November Stamps (Boo Loves Scary Larry)

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

·  Front Sentiment-BOO Freebie from Skogstokiga (Blog now closed)

·  Inside Sentiment-a Freebie from decosses dynamite doodles (Ghoulish Halloween)

·  All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Cupcake Inspirations- #581 (Color Theme-Coffee, Denim Blue, Cream)  

Polkadoodles Challenge- Week #43 AG                                           

For this final card, Boo is waiting for the Great Pumpkin to arrive and instead of Scary Larry, she is holding a Halloween Snoopy… because we know that Snoopy so loves his GP!  

     I’m entering this card into several challenges including Outlawz- Tuesday Color Challenge: (my card features all the colors in various shades in the images, sky and patterned paper.)

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Sweet November Stamps (Boo Loves Scary Larry)

·   Snoopy Image- Photo of a Hallmark Plushie, found in an eBay listing

·  Front  Sentiment-Cut from a TlcCreations Bookmark Freebie (Welcome Great Pumpkin)

·  Inside Sentiment- Happy Halloween Freebie from Skogstokiga (Blog now closed)

·  All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #216 LeAnnes World

Outlawz- Tuesday Color Challenge- Theme Halloween Oct  

Gem of a Challenge- Week #22 AG