JANUARY 2025 TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

Oh my goodness, how did we ever make it into 2025 - and is everyone as happy as I am to see the end of 2024? 

And so the Halloween cards continue...

We have a new inspiration board! The obvious imagery for this month is snow - and oh, pumpkins. Generally by this time each year we would have had a bit of snow here in the Rogue Valley, but not this year. It has rained non-stop since Christmas and I would really welcome a respite from the damp.

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: January 2025 Anything Goes Halloween

The main image on my card - the snow and tree outline - is a Christmas die with a snowman. I thought to just add a die-cut pumpkin head on top, but the scale was wrong, so I cut the snowman off and placed two ghost pumpkins (Tim Holtz) to the right corner. I blind-embossed snow from a Darice folder and glued it to the face of a black card base after slipping in a printed paper with eerie pairs of eyes in the night. I also cut out some of the eyes to use in the pumpkin's eye openings. The sentiment is cut from a piece of vintage Halloween paper. 

Let's get this year started!! Let's see what you can do with the new inspiration board - or whatever Halloween project you would like to share with us. Last month was understandably quiet, but if we can get to 25 entries this month, the random drawing will bring someone these really cute Whimsy alien dies: