GHOSTLY GREETINGS

Here's our November Mid-month Two Old Bats Challenge reminder! You have until the 28th to complete your projects.

I had a new die set of mini envelopes that I wanted to try out - Altenew #ALT10697 "Fun Little Envelopes" and had fun combining one of the envelopes with a postage stamp outline die. I constructed the envelope with printed cardstock and white heat embossed the sentiment. I attached the postage stamp at an angle on a black card base after stamping the corner cobweb, bat, and "31". I glued on the mini envelope and inserted a couple of  vellum die cut Tim Holtz ghosts into the envelope. I also die cut an aqua Tim Holtz cobweb, inserted it under the edge of the postage stamp, and tied on a black and white baker's twine bow. I think this is one of my favorite Halloween cards this year.

Here's our November inspiration board:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: Two Old Bats November 2025 Mid Month Reminder

And how could I not enter this in Time Out Challenges #301 - "Your Favorite Holiday to Celebrate. I love Halloween!

TIME OUT Challenges: Challenge #301

NOVEMBER TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

And here we are the day after Halloween (for me here on the west coast). I hope everyone had a spectacularly fa-boo-lous time last night! But, don't go away - stay around for a whole new annual 365 day rotation of Halloween cards and projects! Our new mood board features lots of black, white, and gray with some orange. I'm anxious to see what all of our followers make of it. 

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: November 2025 Anything Goes Halloween

My card is a take-off from the top right quadrant with a misty, foggy forest scene and witch in silhouette - except that I substituted the witch for one of my favorite Halloween dies from Whimsy Stamps, Count Dracula. When I started working with the layout I determined that it would work best in a square format and started with a dark warm gray card base. I added a panel of black and white printed branches matted with black and attached both to the face of the card. To obscure the background, I added a slightly smaller square panel of vellum to give it a "foggy" cast and slipped in an additional vellum moon between the layers and over-stamped a couple of Tim Holtz bats in black. The woodland scene was done with a couple of layers of birch trees from Impression Obsessions dies, cut from black and dark warm gray card stock.