A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

And it is a beautiful day in my neighborhood as we finish out the month of June. It's been a minute since I posted any new work, so with today's post I'm hoping to get back into some sort of rhythm of card making again. Since I work a couple of months ahead on my duties as a Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge design team member, the last time I posted a non-Halloween card was actually May 18th! Hopefully today's post will get me back on track. 

I've been wanting to join the challenge over at Color Throwdown #835 in which we are challenged to use only the colors yellow, green, and turquoise + neutrals. I thought it would be fun to be literal with the photo and create my own row of Victorian houses.

These little houses are from PTI's "Winter Hills" stamp set. I stamped them with black ink on colored papers, fussy-cut them, and glued them over the top of a pre-stamped row of trees and gray-matted rectangular die. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things "Right at Home". 

                              Color Throwdown: Color Throwdown Countdown #835

 

JUNE MID-MONTH REMINDER - TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

Back again with our mid-month reminder at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge!

This time around I used up the scraps of a page in the 12x12 Halloween stack that I made a card from at the first of the month. The main things in our mood board brought forward as inspiration are bats, cat, and witches.

I started by die cutting a circle from the printed orange paper, laid it over a rectangle of purple cardstock, and trimmed out the two layers with a stitched die cut rectangular panel. I black heat embossed the sentiment and the cat and matted it with the last bit of printed orange cardstock. I glued it to the face of a black card base and added the die cut Whimsy bats and witches. I used the same purple two-sided card stock for a coordinated envelope.

You still have 2 weeks to get your Halloween projects completed and shared with us:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: June 2025 Mid Month Reminder

Are you getting a bit tired of seeing these same cute Whimsy dies that the ladies have been trying to give away if we get at least 25 projects? I know I am. Well, let's get with it!

JUNE TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

WOW! The 6th month of 2025 has arrived, along with a new June mood board with some very cute images for your inspiration.

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: June 2025 Anything Goes Halloween

You know how you can start a card with an idea and then end up with something completely different? That's what happened here - I was working on a card influenced by the top right quadrant of this month's mood board and the only thing that survived of the original idea was the colors!

In my final iteration, I started with a 12x12 printed sheet from  an American Crafts stack called "Boo Crew". I cut the sheet up, using only part of the overall printed image of a haunted house and nearby trees. I trimmed out a 5" square with the moon and attached it to a 5-1/2" side-folded card base and then overlaid the trees and pumpkins with black dimensional foam, adding more fussy-cut pumpkins and bats. The final addition was a die-cut sentiment from LDRS Creative (#8321 "Large Word Halloween") cut from the darkest orange portion of the sheet, and a custom envelope from a coordinating two-sided cardstock in the same stack. 

The ladies are still trying to award these cute dies from Whimsy Stamps if we can get 25 or more entries: