PINK PUMPKINS AND SKULLS AND GHOSTS, OH MY!

Continuing with our pink-themed May Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge...

This card is made almost entirely of Tim Holtz Halloween die cut images of pumpkins, skulls, and ghosts. I layered and attached them to a black A2 card base and die cut stitched rectangular panel. The sentiment is another old rubber sentiment stamp that I black heat embossed onto some layered Stampin' Up tags. That's it, and now it's your turn! You still have 2 weeks...

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: May 2026 Mid Month Reminder

PEACE ON EARTH CHALLENGE

Today I'm taking a break from Halloween to immerse myself in a bit of Christmas. At the May Peace on Earth Challenge they have a lovely pale aqua/pink inspiration board that I couldn't resist playing with. I used the tiny houses in the lower left quadrant for my inspiration.

I started with a die-cut rectangular stitched panel of warm gray mounted to a white card base. Over it I layered a scrap of warm gray printed paper to suggest snow and then added a die-cut snowflake border and two stitched undulating layers of white snow cardstock. I stamped the Impression Obsession "Holiday Words" sentiment in Hero Arts "Wet Cement" ink. The final layers were several tiny houses and trees from Nellie's Choice "Village" dies.

Peace On Earth Christmas : May 2026 Peace On Earth Challenge # 111

MAY TWO OLD BATS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

May Day! And yes, we at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge make Halloween cards year-round - that's just how we roll around here! Old Bat Diane has provided us with an all-pink inspiration board for the month of May:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: May 2026 Anything Goes Halloween

The idea of making pink-themed Halloween cards has been a difficult one for me, but I think I'm starting to ease into it. If you look closely to the bottom left quadrant, you'll see a chandelier and bats - so that's where I started.

For this card I made a black card base that I added a Tim Holtz cobweb to with some Hero Arts "Unicorn" pigment die. Then I die cut a smaller black panel with a deckle edge, matted it with pink polka dot printed paper, and laid it over the front of the card and stamped the cobweb a second time. The pumpkin chandelier is an ancient Impression Obsession rubber stamp, long separated from its wooden block. I white heat-embossed it over the cobweb and filled in some of the open areas with white gel pen. For the pink pumpkins I stamped the image with black on white cardstock, colored them pink, and fussy cut them to glue over the top. I did the same with the bottom tassel, which I glued over the white sentiment tag. I added some pink tiny sequins to the base of the chandelier, tied off the tag with pink and white bakers twine and added a couple of pink bats for good measure. 

Check on what the other ladies have done with this inspiration board and try your hand at it - you have a full month. And remember that you don't have to make a card - any Halloween project is welcome!