GO GREEN!

It's coming up on St. Patrick's Day, so it's time to get my green on! The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is offering up the perfect opportunity with their Challenge #260 - "G is for Green". 

I started my card with a sentiment left over from my personal St. Patrick's Day cards a couple of years ago - #RWD-995 from Funny Bones by Riley & Company. I top-folded a white card base and attached a full panel of green plaid printed paper that I die-cut with a stitched rectangular die. I die cut a deckled rectangular panel from avocado card stock, stamped splats of spilled beer and party debris with VersaMark watermark ink, and overprinted the sentiment in black. I matted the green panel with a bit of white cardstock and attached both layers to the plaid card face. The beer glasses were die cut (Tim Holtz #664435 "Happy Hour") in vellum for transparency and filled with beer - oh, whoops! spilled one of the glasses!

I'm not suggesting that I'm a sloppy drunk, but I talk with my hands, and have knocked over many a beer or wine glass! 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: Soss #260 - G is for Green

MARCH TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

SPOOKY!!

We're heading into March now, with all things green - the beginning of spring, St. Patrick's Day shamrocks, and our new inspiration board here at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge!

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: March 2025 Anything Goes Halloween

This week's card is a CAS version of our inspiration board. I liked the house and green moon at the lower right hand corner and decided to use a very old creepy house stamp that I've never used, along with a brand new sentiment stamp set (LDRS Creative "Wicked"). I stamped the house twice with black ink - once on a gray scrap and again on a piece of printed green Halloween paper. I die cut a circle from the green image and pasted it over the image on the gray paper. Then I framed it with a black square, stamped the sentiment on a white stitched rectangle that I had die cut a slightly larger square from. I stacked all of the layers and attached them to a white card base. The final addition was one of my favorite Tim Holtz's ghosts - glued with a piece of dimensional foam.

I made a coordinating envelope and then, because our challenge is 'all things Halloween',  started having all kinds of fun with treat boxes - each of them will hold 3 Ghirardelli chocolate squares.

I've been playing around with an old idea that I worked with some years back - Halloween treat boxes for Ghirardelli chocolate squares. I originally made them for Valentine's Day, but I thought it might be fun to produce a bunch of them as I go through the Halloween year and make them coordinate with my card. By the time Halloween comes around, I could have quite a pile of them in lots of different colors. I couldn't remember exactly how to make them,  so I turned to YouTube and found the following tutorial:

                                          Ghirardelli Treat Box Tutorial                                                       

I think Diane and Darlene are probably getting anxious to give away these sets of Whimsy dies if we get 25 challenge entries, so let's not disappoint! Get out those green and black Halloween papers and get with it!