FEBRUARY TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

Here we are in February, and if you're on the same page with me, I'm working to get my valentines completed and mailed out to family and friends. You can see an obvious theme here from Diane with her new February inspiration board.

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And my response to it:

I don't have any pink Halloween paper in my stash, other than the bright pick one I used for the mat and sentiment banner on my card, so I made some with pink ink. I started with an ancient corner cobweb (probably Inkadinkado) and PTI "Hibiscus Burst" ink and stamped it on a white cardstock panel that I had trimmed out with a deckle-edge rectangular die. I also stamped it on the corner of a second white panel and trimmed it with a stitched rectangular die. I blended pink ink on both panels, as well as adding a blended circle where I intended to stamp the spider's body. I added some Tim Holtz splatters in black and mounted the white top panel to a bright pink patterned paper and black heat-embossed my elegant little spider, adding a black line for her to dangle from. I added a black and white cobweb paper layer that I had cut with a larger deckle-edge die, stacked them all together and attached them to the face of the white card base after mushing some pink ink on the lower right corner. The sentiment was stamped with black ink on a strip of bright pink, before adding it and a bit of embellishment - black embroidery floss and a pink brad. 

This photo shows off the shiny surface of my little spider. I made a custom envelope from pale pink lightweight paper and lined it with a piece of coordinating black and white printed cobweb paper. I think I've finally used up all of my scraps of this paper years after purchasing a whole pile of it for Halloween cards way back when. I'm rather pleased with this card!

 

CONTINUING WITH VALENTINES

It's raining today, giving me an excuse to work on valentines instead of getting ready for spring in the garden. The garden can wait. February 14 will begin to close in on my this next week or so. I'm not sure I'll get a complete set of 30 cards ready, but I'll make the effort.

I had some scraps of printed paper in my Valentine's Day bin that I had die cut to make small postage stamps for the CAS challenge last month at The Paper Players. I ended up doing something else and set them aside, thinking I would use them somewhere along the line. Enter the first challenge of the year from Tic Tac Toe and Time Out Challenge as inspiration! 

I used Silke's diagonal row of Hearts/Red/Ribbon to reassemble my scraps. I had some iridescent pink scraps that I die cut with two sizes of stitched rectangles onto which I stamped a postage cancellation in gray and then glued the stamps in place and stamped once again. Then I die cut a PTI 'Love' from the stamped face of the smallest rectangle to use the spotlight technique (one of my favorites), building up the sentiment with several layers of pink cardstock and placing a red heart behind. I glued all of the layers together with an ivory watercolor paper as a mat, using the paper's deckle edge for the bottom. Finally, I prepared an ivory card base, punched a double rectangle on the right edge, wrapped a red satin ribbon around and through the punched openings, and assembled all of the layers.

TTTC263- Featured Designer Silke - Tic Tac Toe Challenge

 

This card is also appropriate for an additional challenge: Time Out Challenges #281 - "Pick 2", wherein we are challenged to use two of the words from their list for our cards. I selected 'Layer' and 'Love', but could also include 'Heart and 'Stitch'.

TIME OUT Challenges: Challenge #281 - Pick Two: Stitch, Layer, Heart, Food, Love, Warm