JULY TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

Here we are in July and our favorite Ghoul Friends have a new inspiration board for us at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge - actually, you're not required to use the board. It's there for your inspiration, but I usually like using it to get myself jump-started.

 

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: July 2025 Anything Goes Halloween

I think you can see from my card that I definitely went with the lower right quadrant of the board! 

I die cut a deckled rectangle out of gray cardstock and then started assembling the scene with a variety of manufacturers' products. Using black ink from Memento I stamped a grassy knoll from Whimsy Stamps "Zombie Party" and a leafless tree from Newton's Nook "Spooky Street". I overlaid a moon that I had created from Tim Holtz's "Halftone Halloween" by stamping with grayish tones on  tan cardstock and then blending and die cutting it with circle die. I glued it to the face of the gray deckled rectangle and stamped the tree again. The bat is from Newton's Nook "Spooky Street" and the cat and pumpkin are from Unity "Toil and Trouble" - I stamped and colored them, fussy-cut them, and attached them to the face of the card with black dimensional foam. Finally, I attached all of this to a black card base and created a coordinating envelope, adding a sentiment and cat from LDRS Creative "Wicked" to the flap.  

It's now your turn! If we get to 25 entries the ladies can finally reward someone with the alien dies from Whimsy Stamps that have been hanging about for months!

And as long as we're on the subject of cats: Here are Tux and Tiger. Would you believe that these two boys were litter mates? It's hard to believe as they are so different - born to Chloe our calico a couple of years ago.