DOUBLE DOUBLE TOIL...

. . . AND TROUBLE! This is my second card clipped from the same old brown envelope as the first one this month. We're reminding you that it's mid-point in our last two weeks before Halloween, and you still have plenty of time to share your cards or projects.

This time around the only thing this card has in common with our mood board is a green creepy face on the main character. I had an extra A7 red-orange envelope so I decided to start there and made a 5x7 top-folded black card base. On this I added a red-orange light-weight paper panel. I used an old PTI "Fancy Flourishes" stamp to make vapor coming from the witch's cauldron. I stamped it with VersaMark Watermark Ink and sprinkled on both bright green and white embossing powder. I then overprinted the sentiment (Unity Stamps "Toil and Trouble") with black embossing and added Tim Holtz splatters with gray ink. I attached the fussy cut cauldron and raven. The witch and cauldron originally had a purple background so I decided to add a scrap of purple forest with bats matted with a bright green scrap and glued them all to the right side of the card.

The witch was attached with dimensional foam - you can clearly see where her hat fell on one of the folds of the original envelope. I should have snapped a shot of the envelope before I disassembled it!

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: October 2025 Mid Month Reminder

 

The ladies will be giving away these fabulous stencils and embellishments in a random drawing:

BACK AMONG THE LIVING!

It's been almost a month since I've made a new card and posted it here. The last two weeks of September and into October are a bit of a blur. The family gathered at a local eatery on the 14th to celebrate our twins' sixteenth birthday (they actually turned sixteen on the 9th, but like I have said, September is birthday month and very busy). And four days later we all started dropping like flies with a nasty flu. Well, we thought it was flu, but then my daughter-in-law and I both tested positive for COVID and the month went downhill from there. I was sick through both my husband's and my birthdays and finally came out the other side on October 4th for a large, combined celebration of our birthdays and 40th anniversary with 40 of our closest friends and family - then I went back to bed!

So, I think a zombie card is called for here! The latest challenge at The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is "S is for Spooky".  While Edna is sporting fangs, blood, and a Dracula cape, I went with the drippy blood from the mouth of zombies. And they're spooky for sure!

I stamped the bottom third of Whimsy Stamp's "Zombie Faces Background" #DDB0064 onto a scrap of white cardstock and fussy cut the bottom rows of zombies out and colored their mouths with a red marker. Then I white heat embossed the sentiment from Tim Holtz on a black and gray patterned paper, matted it with a fine line of dark red, and attached it to a dark gray folded card base. The final step was to attach the zombies to the face of the card with dimensional foam.

Here's a link to the challenge:

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: SoSS #267 - S is for Spooky

OCTOBER TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

Here we are in the final countdown to Halloween 2025! How did we get here so fast? We have a brand new mood board for our final month. 

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: October 2025 Anything Goes Halloween

My card has a story. I didn't think I had a single scrap of Halloween paper or supplies that featured Frankenstein. Digging through some bits and pieces I found an old brown envelope made with double-sided printed paper that I made quite a few years ago. I opened it up and lo-and-behold, there was old Frankie! I salvaged enough scraps from the inside of the envelope to make this card and the next one you'll see on the 16th.

I fussy cut Frankie, the moon, the pumpkin, and his bat friends out of the inside of the envelope. (You may see a crease across his chin where one of the envelope folds was.)  I made a card base and coordinating envelope out of a 12x12 sheet and some scraps of purple printed cardstock. I glued the moon and bats to the face of the card and added a couple of layers of stitched die cut waves to provide a ground for Frankie to stand on. The layered sentiment is from LDR Creative "Large Word Halloween" dies. I attached Frankie to the face of the card with dimensional foam and glued the pumpkin to his hand to hold his candy. I think if he came to my door I would give him all of the candy he wants!

Watch on the 16th for the second part of this story where I show you what else got cut out of the inside of that old envelope!

And here are all of the items for October's drawing, regardless of how many entries we get!