FEBRUARY MID-MONTH REMINDER - TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

Here we are at the half-way mark of February and yesterday was Valentine's Day. Despite all of my best intentions, I didn't get Valentines cards into the mail this year. 😞 Instead, I spent the time I would be making Valentines painting the window trim around three very large windows in my living room. The 20-year-old blinds crashed a couple of months ago and I ordered replacements. But I didn't want to hang the new blinds before I re-painted the trim - no easy task with 6 cats watching my every move and wanting to participate!

Here's my contribution for this 2-week period at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge.

For the background, I had a scrap of old Valentine's Day paper and I stamped tiny spiders everywhere that a white dot was on the paper. I trimmed it out with a stitched rectangular die and mounted it to the face of a black card base. The little lovelorn ghost, mug, mug contents, and little dangling spider are all from a die set by Trinity Stamps - #TMD-088 "Boo Brew". I decided the mug needed to sit on a tabletop so I constructed a doily out of a couple of die cut circles and added some hand stitching with a Sharpie. I glued this to the card face and wrapped the front with black and white baker's twine and a white heat-embossed sentiment tag. I added tiny die-cut hearts to the ghostie's eyes and assembled the mug and its contents (I punched out some black drips for the edge of the mug) and added it to the face of the card with dimensional foam.   

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: February 2025 Mid Month Reminder

Remember that this is an anything with Halloween challenge and the inspiration board is just a suggestion. If we get 25 entries we'll be awarding the following dies using a random drawing and you can add a couple of other entries if you wish. You have until the 28th!