SEPTEMBER TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

It's the beginning of September and we're starting the countdown toward Halloween - just 60 more shopping days left! If you've been following along with us all year, you have nearly all of your Halloween cards or projects completed.  

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: September 2025 Anything Goes Halloween

Our favorite ghoul friends Darlene and Diane have a great mood board for us this month - I'll bet you can't figure out which quadrant I chose for inspiration for the next two weeks!

I started with some orange card stock and black ink and stamped an old Impression Obsession background cover (#CC141 C-A-C "Spider Web"). I trimmed the image down to a rectangle using one of my deckle-edged dies from Tim Holtz. I like how the spiderweb above is highlighted with white, so I used my white gel pen to add a bit of interest to one area of the image. I mounted a black rectangle (cut from black spiderweb embossed cardstock) onto the face of an orange card base, edged the deckle panel with some black Copic marker, and mounted it to the front of the card. I added the die-cut "EEK!" (new-to-me Whimsy Stamps #WSD567 "EEK! Word and Shadow Die Set" and a fussy-cut spider from some printed Halloween card stock. I had some fun with the spider by fussy-cutting a tiny skull from a scrap of printed paper and adding it to her butt and a couple of tiny orange gems as eyes. 

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ON OR IN THE WATER

That's the theme this week over at the Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge. I was digging through my stash and came across this heat embossed and blended panel left over from a previous experiment long ago. 

For this card, I just overprinted a couple of dolphins from a Hero Arts (#CM317) stamp set. Of course, the heat embossing repelled the ink, making the dolphins look like they're "in the water". I stamped a third one, fussy cut him, and attached him over the waves with tiny pieces of dimensional foam after stamping a tiny sentiment and adding the panel and matting to a white card base. A bit of touch up with a Copic marker and white gel pen was in order. So easy, and one more scrap cleaned out of the stash! 

Also in my stash was a sheet of white wood-grained paper for a custom envelope - I think wood-grain often looks water-like - and scraps of a blue nautical-themed  paper for lining.

Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge Blog: SOS555 - On or In The Water