Brewin' Up Some Fun

 We are halfway through our challenge this month at
Two Old Bats and have a 'reminder' post in hopes
that you will join in with us!
Below is our fun JULY inspiration board
but you can create anything Halloween themed!

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I had purchased lots of new

Halloween goodies last year in the fall and this card front is

one of them. Whimsy Stamps came out with 10 A2 Lil Friends
card fronts, 8 images, each different and 2 sentiment sheets.

Each of the eight designs is different and all are little cute witches!
I was once again inspired by the bottom left corner and went

with the witch theme.  I trimmed the panel to 4" x 5 1/4"
so I would have an edge left around the sides.  the sentiment is
part of the Whimsy Stamps pack.

We have a couple weeks left for the challenge
so come on over to Two Old Bats and have some

spooky fun with us!

Let's Get Spooky

 Hello friends, it's a new month and that means a new
mood board at Two Old Bats to inspire you to play along!
You don't have to use the mood board and can create anything
as long as it is Halloween.

I was totally inspired by the witch in the bottom left corner.

Last year during the fall season I went a little overboard in purchasing

a lot of new Halloween goodies to play with.
Brutus Monroe came out with 36 3x4 card fronts that were ALL witches.
Some were pretty, some a bit spooky.  I went with a rather pretty one

for this card framed with a Hero Arts wood frame.

I used a scrap piece of designer paper from my Halloween scraps bag
and a sentiment from Whimsy Stamps.
She might be 'pretty' but I still don't think I would trust her...hah!!

It might be July, but we celebrate Halloween

all year long at Two Old Bats!!

Skeleton Fright

Happy June, it's time for our year round challenge at
Two Old Bats
and we have  a fun mood board for inspiration
that seems to be fitting for the month of June.  

While I had popped into Michael's last October I noticed that all their
Recollections Halloween was 50% off, so how could I resist and this

Halloween stamp/die set jumped into my cart with a few others.
I used some very old Websters Once Upon A Halloween
for my background and the trim is another oldie by
My Mind's Eye 'Wicked' chipboard.
The sentiment is Skeleton Stickles by Scrapbook Customs.
A few PFS silver half pearls were added.

Come join us at Two Old Bats.

Hauntingly Good Time

Hello Halloween fans, it's time for our monthly Halloween challenge at
Two Old Bats where we celebrate Halloween year round! 
We have a mood board for inspiration  but you can create
anything Halloween themed!

I totally let the colors and the grave stones inspire me this time
from the lower left photo,  though I certainly had plenty
of 'skeletons' I could of used.

My card is created with the use of a Spellbinders rub on.  These were/are
some of the best rub ons!  I added a scrap of Brutus Monroe paper and a few

die cut Simon Says Stamp bats.  The sentiment was a rub on as well!

Come on over and have some 'spooky' fun with us at Two Old Bats!

BOO

We are two weeks into our challenge at Two Old Bats where we
create for Halloween year round giving you the opportunity to
use your Halloween supplies all year!
We have a fun mood board for inspiration! 

Being May and after a long winter I let all those pretty pink colors

inspire me, yep, you can have PINK Halloween if you want to!
Back in September of 2025 I went a little crazy ordering LOTS of new

Halloween and the cards I created came from one of the pretty new papers

I had purchased from 'This Calls for Confetti' a new company to me.
The 5 1/2x8 1/2 pad had 12 fun designs and two of each which allowed me to make

four cards with one of the designs.  I figured I might as well make four since they were so
simple to create!  There were 2 of the designs on each page which fit an A2 card
front perfectly!!  I loved every single paper design in this pad!

All four of them:

Come on over to Two Old Bats and have some Halloween fun with us,

the design team always has some awesome inspiration as well!

Ghost Car

 Hello Two Old Bats fans!
It's time for our MAY challenge  and we have a fun
inspiration only mood board fitting for the month of MAY!
You don't have to use the 'PINK' colors shown as any colors for Halloween are acceptable!

For some reason each year around September I seem to go on a
Halloween shopping spree and last year (2025) was no exception!
I founds lots of Halloween I just had to add to my stash and this cute

Doodlebug Doodle-pop Boo Cruise jumped into my cart knowing it would be
perfect for our May challenge!  I stenciled a Lawn Fawn Spun Sugar
cloudy background, after all, he is a ghost and he is driving floating thru the clouds!
Those added tiny little clouds you see came with my cute little car driving ghost.

I know, it's May and a long ways til Halloween

but that is why we give you a chance to use your 

fun Halloween stash year round, you get way more 'mileage'

out of your Halloween supplies that way.

Come on over to Two Old Bats and have some

Halloween fun with us!!

Entering the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge .... 'A' Is For AIR (my ghost is floating thru
the clouds with his kitty friend)
Little Red Wagon .... Travel

Spook-tacular

 It's halfway time at our Two Old Bats challenges
and we have a reminder to hopefully have you join us!

Always a mood board for inspiration but you
can create anything Halloween themed!

It was a rainy day when my little Simon ghosts went to the
Cheery Lynn Designs pumpkin patch and because they overbought
they used their Spellbinders umbrella to carry them back to the spooky house.

The sentiment is one I received free from Scrapbookdotcom with an order.

The embossing rainy folder is Sizzix.
All pieces were cut from scrap papers, the pumpkins from white
that were colored with Copics.

It sure would be fun to see you over at Two Old Bats!!

Entering the following challenges:
Simon Says ....  Quite Quirky
Cardz For Galz #274 .... April Showers
If You Gave A Crafter A Cookie .... Rainy Days

Rainy Halloween

It's a rainy day at our Two Old Bats Halloween challenge
and we have the mood board to prove it, BUT, it is
for inspiration only and you can create anything with the Halloween theme. 

I did let the rain inspire me with a rainy day Halloween card using
my Sizzix Rain Clouds embossing folder to start.  My skeleton is from a free die 

I received from scrapbookdotcom with an order.
He is holding an umbrella from a die cut by Cottage Cutz Stitched 
Suns, Clouds, and Umbrella.  Funny thing about this die is that non

of my die cut pieces have stitches on them as stated or shown on their site,
I am 'stitch less' lol!  Anyhow I die cut it from a scrap that was just sitting here and

it happened to have a skull on it, so perfect.  The pumpkin is a

Cheery Lynn Designs die.

Come on over to join in with us at 
Two Old Bats!

Entering the following challengs:

C.R.A.F.T. .... Weather/Seasons/Anything Goes

Hocus Pocus #2

 Hello friends, I am back today with our reminder post
at Two Old Bats.  You still have a couple weeks to join in
our spooky fun with us.  And, of course we have a mood board
for inspiration!

As I mentioned a few weeks I am back with a second card using the 
Hero Arts Witches Hat die this time created in black.
The background is a Waffle Flower die cut on Echo Park's I Love Halloween paper.

The sentiment is die cut from the now out of business Cheapo Dies Haunted letter set.

These hats are a bit addicting to make, they are so fun!!

You still have a couple weeks to join our Halloween fun at

Two Old Bats...what are you waiting for!!!

Hocus Pocus

It might be March but it is still Halloween at Two Old Bats 
and we have a fun mood board befitting to March!
You can let it inspire you or create anything Halloween you want!

All those fun witch hats inspired me along with my new die I
purchased last fall from Hero Arts The Witches Hat.  It sold out
right after I purchased it so it must of appealed to many more besides myself.
It was such a fun die to work with that you will see it again in a couple of

weeks when we have our reminder.  The sentiment was created with the now

out of business Cheapo Dies Haunted die set.  The background die

is Waffle Flower cut from P13 Happy Halloween paper.

Hope to see YOU over at Two Old Bats!!

Boo To You

We are back today with a reminder post about our year round
Halloween challenge at
Two Old Bats!
We do have an inspiration board fitting for both Halloween and
February  but you can create any Halloween project of your choice!

Last year I purchased this Super fun paper from Whimsy Stamps
called Halloween Inks.  It is full of fabulous inky and colorful

Halloween papers and I couldn't wait to use it.

It is 6x6 but I cut it down to a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2" size to fit on a purchased

square card base.  I used a Spellbinders sentiment rub-on and if
you look closely you can see some added glittered hearts.

We would love to see your spooky creations over at

Two Old Bats!!

Creepy Fun

 Here we are again in the middle of winter in Michigan
and we are having some year round fun with Halloween
while the snow is blowing and the wind is howling.
What better time to sit in my craft room all cozy and warm
and work on some Halloween cards for our challenge at
Two Old Bats!

We have a rather spooky mood board for inspiration
but you can create anything for Halloween.

Gives you the opportunity to pull out those Halloween
things you have stashed for a year and put them to use!!

I was inspired by those fun spooky pumpkins in the upper
left photo and of course the hearts.
I used a newly purchased paper from last year 

Halloween Inks by Whimsy Stamps.
I added a few 'hidden' tiny glitter hearts spread here and there

and a Spellbinders rub-on sentiment.

I'll be back in a couple weeks with a TOB reminder,

once again using one of these papers, make sure to

stop back and take a peek at it!

Come on over to Two Old Bats and have some spooky
fun with us, we would love to have you!!

Halloween Snow Globe

We are halfway through our year round challenge at 
Two Old Bats and would love to have you join us!
As always we have a fun mood board for inspiration
but you can create anything as long as it is Halloween! 

I was inspired by the Halloween snow globe in the upper
left corner and let my Cricut help me out with that.
Funny, but I bought lots and lots of new Halloween supplies
the last couple years and had I looked at my Cricut Design space I
could of saved bundles as there is so much fabulous die cuts and print and

cuts there to use!  The Cricut is such an amazing thing but after all my years
of having it I am having to relearn it all over again and with all the updates
things certainly have changed. Anyhow, that is where my witchy snow globe came from,
the sentiment is a very old one from K&C Company, it has glitter all over it.
The design paper is LDRS Creative Haunted Halloween.

Hope to see you over at Two Old Bats!!

Snowy Halloween

 Two Old Bats has a fun mood board for inspiration but you can
create anything as long as it is Halloween!!

I was inspired by the snowy ghost and turned to my poor neglected Cricut
for my fun ghost.  He is all bundled up in his warm hat and has a cup of
hot witches brew,  I had the bright idea to add some stickles to his hat

but found out both my black diamond
and orange peel stickles were all but dried up and empty

so I added some Nuvo drops instead.  The orange peel seems to be discontinued

but I was able to order the black diamond from Simon Says, thankfully!

A snowy embossed background along
with the bats (part of the Cricut design) were added,

in Michigan we have had plenty of Halloweens with snow on the ground,
though the last few years have been much warmer.

We celebrate Halloween year round at Two Old Bats giving

you a year long to use some of your Halloween supplies,
way better then just a few weeks a year,
come on over and have some spooky fun with us!

Hey Boo

 Hello friends, we are halfway through our year round Halloween 
challenge at Two Old Bats
and have a fun mood board for inspiration!

For my card I used a card front I cut from a Carta Bella 12x12 paper
I purchased last fall just for this purpose.
I layered it on a white card stock
then adhered to a brown card stock base.

Come on over to Two Old Bats

and have some year round fun with us!!

Ghostly Witch

Hello friends, yes it is December but at
Two Old Bats we challenge you to pull out those Halloween supplies
and have some  'off-season' Halloween fun with us!
As always, we have a fun mood board for inspiration but
you can create anything as long as it is Halloween themed!

I try to always let the mood board inspire me and this time it was no exception.
I fell for the cute little ghost and pumpkins in the bottom right corner.
Last year (2024) I purchased this cute Witchy Ghost die from one of the
Cottage Cutz sales, die cut her in entirely white card stock and colored her in
with  alcohol markers. She is a tiny little thing!  She is mounted on a scrap piece

from my Halloween scrap bag of papers that was die cut with an Elizabeth ATC die.
The base paper underneath is Crafters Companion Vintage Halloween.

Hope to see you over at Two Old Bats,
go ahead, take a break from Christmas and come on over
and have some 'spooky' fun with us!

TOB November 2025 Reminder

 Hello Friends,
It's time for our 'reminder' of our year round challenge at
Two Old Bats
and and we have s spooky fun mood board for inspiration!

I'm still using my Carta Bella 12x12 journal cards for my reminder
making an easy peasy Halloween card.
It was adhered to a Sizzix black card base I purchased from one
of their warehouse sales!
Not much more to tell about this card!!

Come on over to Two Old Bats and have some 
'out of season' spooky Halloween fun with us!

November 2025

 Hello friends, we are back into our 'groove of making
Halloween cards year round at
Two Old Bats!
We have a spooky fun mood board for you
giving you LOTS of fun inspiration!

I don't think I even have to tell you what inspired me
as it's pretty plain to see!
As soon as I saw the witchy woodsy scene I remembered I had
a die that would work well for my card, Memory Box
Medium Forest Archway (2015).  I also had a Lavinia Willow The Witch
stamp that fir perfectly inside.  I used a set of Altenew Gentleman's Gray inks
to blend on some white card stock.. Before adhering the die cut
I stenciled a full moon in the background.  A few Prickley Pear die cut
bats were added.

Come on over to Two Old Bats and join in with us!

Two Old Bats October 2025 Reminder

We are halfway thru our challenge at
Two Old Bats
and have a super fun and somewhat 'spooky'
inspiration board but you can create anything as long
as it it Halloween themed!

For this card I have to honestly say I 'dug' in my scraps of all Halloween
and came up with this scrap piece of paper and a bit of ephemera,
plus the black cat from a MS punch!

 We would love to see you over at Two Old Bats for some spooky fun!!

Two Old Bats October Challenge

Hello friends and happy 'almost Halloween!
Our year round Halloween challenge at Two Old Bats has
finally made it's way back to October!
We have a fun and somewhat spooky mood board for inspiration,
but your creation just needs to be any Halloween!

I let a few things inspire me, one being the silly fun Frankenstein
on the mood board and also the Frankie's I have seen on Pinterest
made with the SU Sizzix Bigz die.  I think this die might be the first
Sizzix die I ever bought and it sure was fun to bring it out again
to use for Frankie!  His facial features were made with SU 1" and 3/4" punches.
The mouth was hand drawn and I debated about putting stitches on it,
in the end I decided not too, I kind of like his goofy grin.
  If you want to see a good video on it
then visit HERE as the design credit goes to her! 
My background paper is Brutus Monroe Spooky Halloween.

Come on over to Two Old Bats,
after all it 'tis the season'!!

Entering the following fun challenges:
Craft Rocket .... Autumn/Halloween
The Paper Funday .... Twist:  Cute or Creepy #2