Season To Be Spooky

It's OCTOBER at Two Old Bats, can you believe it?
We have a fun mood board for inspiration so get busy
you have an entire month to join us! 

I was inspired by the pretty witch in the upper left corner
and she reminded me of a witch I had in my stash from
Brutus Monroe creative card fronts.  There are 36 witches in this package
some are pretty, some downright creepy!!

I cut down an IO frame to fit around her image, added some
Simon Says Stamp bats (popped up of course)  all placed on 
Brutus Monroe Vintage Frights paper.

Come and have some Halloween fun with us at Two Old Bats!!

Entering the following challenges:
Pearly Sparkles #124 .... Trick or Treat
Simon Says Stamp .... ATG

Happy Fright Night

Today at Simply Clean & Simple we have an OPTIONAL theme
and it is 'Something Tiny (keep it small). 

Being October I went with a Halloween theme and using a much neglected
SU stamp set 'Eat, Drink & Be Scary, using just the fun little spider
in the set!  I also added a strip of glittered washi tape.  Don't ask me
where I got it as I have had it forever and was surprised it still had it's 'sticky'
strip on it.  Very very SCAS card!  It will be easy to mail!

We would love to have you join our fun challenge at SCAS!!

Entering the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge .... 'L' is for little people (kids card)

Spooky Night

Colorful Options is back this month with a spooky mood
board and a mix of colors perfect for October!! 

Option 1 — Black, Orange, Red & White

Create a project featuring black, orange, red, and white.

Use all four colors together for bold contrast and dramatic impact. Think fiery glow, deep shadows, and striking highlights—spooky, intense, or graphic, your interpretation.

Option 2 — Pick Your Color

Prefer to focus on a single color? Choose one color from the palette: Black (bold, dramatic, high contrast)  Orange (bright, fiery, energetic)  Red (intense, rich, glowing) White (clean, stark, high impact).

Let your chosen color take the lead—minimal, layered, or bold.

I definitely went with OPTION 1 using the colors
Red~Black~Orange~White.
It took me awhile to figure out how I wanted to use all those colors
together and a Halloween card seemed my only idea and perfect
for October.  I used a Lawn Fawn four sides different cloud stencil with TH Distress inks
and a moon created with a circle stencil I made using the negative piece from a SU circle punch.  ALL the dies used as well as

the sentiment rub on are from Spellbinders.  That fence is a real 'oldie'

I have had for years, it's a bit long but I just snipped it off to fit my A2 card front.
The bats are from a 2024 Sept die of the month, also SB.

I can't wait to see what your 'interpretation' is of the color board!!

Entering the following challenges:

Halloween Crafts All Year Round .... Halloween

Simon Says Monday Challenge ....Use 2 or more stencils

Craft Rocket #141 ....Autumn and/or Halloween

Inkspirational #377 .... Inspired by The Crow cupcake topper

Just Us Girls #843 .... Halloween Dies

Spooky

 Hello friends, we have a new challenge starting today for the  month
of October at Word Power, the challenge where your
BIG sentiments take center stage!

I'm back again with one of the 99 cent dies I purchased last
year at Simon Says Stamp.  It is a Simon die Large Outline Spooky.
The outline cuts separately so I could of outlined it in  orange, then the letters in black
but to save time and patience (lol) I just kept it all the same colors.
Because I die cut in both orange and black to reverse the letters
from the base I ended up with two cards, might as well make both
then add even more to my 'parts' bins.
Both papers used are Brutus Monroe  Just simple cards
that tell it all!

Card #1

Card #2

We would love to see YOUR BIG sentiments at
Word Power, so come on over!!

Entering the following challenges:
Halloween Crafts All Year Round ..... Halloween

Thankful

It is FALL at The Four Seasons and we have a mood board
for inspiration but you can create anything as long as you keep it FALL!!

There were lots of pumpkins in this mood board so I had to let
those inspire me, but there is plenty more including the colors!!
The pretty plaid background paper is Paper Rose Autumn Plaid, 
I die cut a Spellbinders Curved Matting Basics A and stamped my
image, also a Spellbinders Stamp of the month Sept 24 Autumn Wishes
that I purchased from one of their Warehouse sales.  It was colored in
with a mix of Copics, Olo's and Altenew alcohol markers.  The sentiment
is from a large Simon Says Stamp set Thanks & Leaves purchased during one

of their 99cent sales.

This is our second month of Fall so I hope you will join us at

The Four Seasons!! 

Entering the following challenges:
Little Red Wagon .... Autumn Colors
Simon Says Stamp .... Anything Goes

Tic Tac Toe #302 .... Orange~Plaids/Checks~Pumpkins

Time Out #323 .... Pick 2=Harvest and Apple

Autumn Splendor

 It's Amy's Woodblock Wednesday, the last Wednesday
of the month where your woodblock stamps come out of
'storage' and make their debut.

I used  Pebbles Woodland Forest paper for the background
die cut from a Waffle Flowers die.
Then stamped my woodblock Rubber Stampede Pumpkin Pals (1994)
stamp on a layered Tutti Designs Octagon die cut.

The sentiment is from a printed page of Autumn words
that I have had for a very long time and not a clue
where I got them.

I'm sure Amy would love to see YOUR woodblocks at her challenge.
It's a lot of fun and a perfect time to pull out those probably much

neglected woodblocks!

Also entering the following challenges:
Little Red Wagon #878 .... Autumn Colors
Simon Says Stamp .... Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesday .... Autumn's Beauty

Trick or Treat

 Today is my third and last card for the Whimsy Stamps
Halloween challenge using once again their Lil Friends
card fronts, leaving with just four more to use up!

The sentiment comes from the same set and I added a 
small stitched pumpkin.  I think this has to be one of my
favorite images in the set, though I do love them all!!

Isn't he just the cutest dragon??  I think I will finish up the other four I have left
instead of putting them away yet for another year!!

Happy Halloween

 Today is my second card for the Whimsy Stamps challenge
and the theme is Halloween using Whimsy Stamps products.

I once again used their Lil Friends card fronts
making a quick and easy card but non the less very cute!

Because of the spider image I added a corner web
as every spider needs a web, at least they do
in my house it seems.
The sentiment if part of the card front bundle.

Make sure to come back tomorrow for another cute
card using another of these card fronts!!

Brewin' Up Some Fun

 I have a fun and easy card today that I created for the
challenge at Whimsy Stamps with the theme being Halloween
and Whimsy Stamp products the focal point of your card.

Once again my color program was having it's fun with me
as the card base is a much brighter orange and the witches dress
a much lighter orange, go figure!!

But either way she sure is a cute plump little witch!

I used one of eight of their Lil Friends card fronts
and added a sentiment from the same set along with a die cut
bat from Tonic.  These make the quickest and cutest
Halloween cards to send out!

I'll be back the next two days with more of these card fronts,
each one so unique, cute and fun!!

Autumn Wishes

 Today at our challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure,
the challenge that is all about using your embossing folders,
wet embossing is okay but you MUST use an embossing folder!

Our OPTIONAL theme is TREES,
but you can create anything as long as an embossing folder is used.

I had a piece of yellow card stock just sitting there to be used
so thought it would be perfect for the fall card I had in mind.

Products used:
Spellbinders folder SES-027
Cheery Lynn Designs Birch Tree With Cute Critters
Impression Obsession Leaves
Spellbinders Stamp of the Month Sep24 Autumn Wishes
Pretty Pink Posh Party Gems

Get your embossing folders out as it's a great
opportunity to use them and join us at
Can You Handle The Pressure!

Stenciled Roses

 It's Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and since I had a 'free' day
I thought I would join in with these stenciled Simon Says Stamp
Elegant stenciled roses.  I stenciled about six of these in various colors
and these three cards have been waiting patiently on my desk 
for their debut!  All were stenciled with various colors of inks
from Altenew with the exception of the orange rose,
that one was all Simon Pawsitively Saturated inks!
The sentiments on all three are SU Warmest Regards.

Card #1

Card #2

Card #3

That's the last of these for now, this is really a great stencil,
easy to use and the end result is beautiful!

Entering the following challenges:
Just Us Girls .... Stencil week/ATG

Happy Birthday Bear

 Hello friends, since I don't have a DT post until Saturday
I thought I'd find a challenge to join in for today.
I chose The Paper Players CAS Bears challenge.
I hope my card is CAS enough for the challenge but I guess
everyone has a bit a difference of CAS.  I don't have a lot of white space
but I do have a lot of 'green' space and after looking at the DT cards
there, I thought mine was CAS enough!

I had pulled out a different bear die to use but then caught site of this

little guy that has never been used yet and decided it was time for

his debut!!  He is a Cottage Cutz 'Campin Out Bear On Log die.

I die cut him from a scrap of white card stock then colored each piece in with

TH Distress inks, makes it easy and faster that way them trying to

die cut each piece single.

After he was put together I decided he needed some pretty posies to go

with him so some of my already finished Spellbinders Bold Blooms

were added.  The little sentiment is a leftover piece from my Katy Sue 3D cards.  

See his little cup of hot cocoa perhaps?  so cute with his little
paw print on it, I surely had fun with this guy and not near
as picky as some of the CC dies can be...total FUN!!

The colors are a much more deeper brown, so hard to get the correct colors sometimes, and the flowers on the right are much more a golden yellow color, sigh!

That's it for today, I am headed out to lunch and a shopping spree with my daughter!!

Make A Wish Birthday Card

Hello friends, today I am joining a few challenges  with a card
I created using 'snippets' of my pretty papers.
If you are like me you have lots and lots of not only pretty paper pads
but also plenty of leftover pieces from those papers.
The die is one I purchased a while back from Amazon
and I think it might be a Kokorosastudio die .
I had fun making several cards with this die with various scrap papers,
a perfect die for those scrap pieces.

Isn't it a fun card with those pretty scraps?

I am entering the following challenges:
Try It On Tuesday .... Pretty Papers
Craft Rocket #140 .... Use Dies
Snippets Playground #541.... Snippets
AAA Birthday #89 .... Use Patterned Paper

Hi For Fall

Time for our new challenge at Pick 3,
the challenge where you pick three of the elements below. 

My pick three was pretty easy as I decided to make a fall card,

perfect just to say 'hi' or for a fall birthday.

I chose Brown~Leaves~Checks.

Products used:

Paper Rose Wood Panel Embossing Folder
Cottage Cutz Stitched Leaves
Honey Bee Gingham Checks
Paper Smooches Hello Words
Distress Inks (several colors)

This is one of my favorite embossing folders, even though not a 3D
it embosses beautiful panels.  The leaf dies are a fist time use,
I like them so much that I am sure I will use them again and again,
the detail stitching on them is great, another set I picked up
during one of their fabulous sales.
The sentiment is one that I won from a challenge blog,
I miss Paper Smooches as they had great dies and such!

More true to the color of leaves and acorns:

Come and join us and  Pick 3!

Entering the following challenges:
Sisterhood of Snarky #278 .... 'L' is For Leaves

Tic Tac Toe #301 .... Woodgrain~Free~Die Cuts

Just Us Girls #841 .... Mood Board Week

Time Out #322 .... Seasonal Colors Where I Live
( all the pretty leaf colors of fall as shown above, in Michigan)

Sweet Holiday

It's the start of our second challenge this month at
Peace on Earth
and we have a mood board for inspiration.
You can however create any Christmas themed project you want. 

When I looked at this board I saw candy canes, candy canes and more
candy canes lol.  So of course that is what I went with.
I used a 'new to me' Newton's Nook stamp set but have no idea of the 

name as it was given to me and the stamp set says 2017 so am assuming it 
is retired, colored in with Copics and Olo markers.  I used some papers from P13 Santa's Workshop, a Cottage Cutz

die and a bit of Crystal Nuvo for the hat  and oval.  The sentiment is
part of the stamp set.

Come on over to Peace On Earth and join our challenge!

Enterieng the following challenges:
C.R.A.F.T. challenge #789 .... Christmas
I Love Pro Markers ....(Markers) Theme:  Animals
Addicted To Stamps and More #526 .... Make Your Mark
Sparkles Christmas Challenge #188 .... Something Sweet

Your Special Day

 It's challenge time at Double D and we are asking  to see PINK
as our theme is Pretty In Pink
with a PINK mood board for inspiration !

I had something totally different planned for MY pink card
but then received these Katy Sue 3D kits purchased with an Amazon

gift card I had received.  These are part of a 3D wedding set that you receive
2 each of three different designs.  When my grandson got married my relatives
all but cleaned me out of wedding cards, so I have slowly been trying
to replace them.

3D effect

Make sure to stop by Double D and see all the beautiful "PINKS" from the DT!

Entering the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #770-771 ....ATG
Everybody Art #606 .... Pink
Pearly Sparkles #123 .... Pink~Pearls and/or Sparkle

Halloween Greetings

We have a couple more weeks left for our year round
Two Old Bats Halloween challenge
and a fun mood board for inspiration! 

I was inspired by those spooky witches.

I had a Cricut cut witch in my spare parts box and she has been waiting
patiently for quite some time to appear.  I didn't want her to cast any

spells on me so I put her and her fun back riding kitty to use.
The paper is Crafters Companion Vintage Halloween.

There is still time, come join in our fun at Two Old Bats!!

Entering the following challenges:

As You Like It .... Favorite Halloween colors and why
Orange and Black as I like the traditional Halloween colors

Welcome Autumn

Hello friends, I am guest designing this month at the very fun challenge at   
I Spy With My Little Eye 
with the theme of TEXT.

I created my card with some fun fall background text from an OLD
and I do mean old paper from Pebbles (2016).
It may be old, but it worked perfect for my Cottage Cutz Acorn Owl.
I used several different colors of TH Distress inks to color my owl,
all pieces were die cut from an ivory/cream card stock scrap!
The sentiment (cut three times and stacked) is a die from 
Karen Burniston Word Set 7 - Autumn.
I also used a Waffle Flower Lacy Layers 2 to cut the text background.

I want to thank Ellie for having me a guest designer this month and
certainly hope YOU will come and join the fun challenge too!

Entering the following challenges:
Creative Moments #286 ... Autumn Colors

Thoughts of You

Beautiful Blossoms challenge starts today,
the challenge that is all about blooms!  As always there is a pretty
inspiration floral to inspire but any floral is invited! 

I had fun stamping and coloring this card with Copic's and
using a pretty Simon Says stamp set Vintage Garden.
I stamped two of the four floral images in this set.

The set also includes several  large sentiments, one of which

I used on this card.  A Poppystamps Nordic butterfly was added
left over from another project.

We would love to see YOUR florals over at Beautiful Blossoms!

Entering the following challenges:

Allsorts #858 ..... Thinking of You~Get Well~Sympathy
Aud Sentiments  #341 .... Thinking of You + Sentiment

Cloudy Day

At Can You Handle The Pressure our OPTIONAL theme is
 Cloudy Day
but you can create anything as long as you have used an
embossing folder, after all, that is what our challenge is all about.

I used a couple fun things for this card,
a Simon Says EB folder Heart Showers.  This folder also comes with the
cloud  dies, so CUTE!!
The stamp set is from Colorado Craft Get Together.
The heart balloons are some I picked up at a craft store a few years back,
I am slowly using them up.

We would love to have you come and join in our embossing folder
fun at Can You Handle The Pressure!

Rose Frames

 The  Sisterhood of Crafters monthly challenge starts today
and the theme is FRAMES!

 I have a nice and an extensive collections of the
Waffle Flower Postage collection and when I saw they came out with
frames for the stenciled pieces I was excited and ordered them
right away.  Good thing too as they went out of stock pretty fast
but am sure at the posting of this they are now plentiful to order.
I used the Waffle Flower Roses stencil and of course the 
Postage College die.  I die cut those cute frames from scrap pieces of
Stardream Emerald shimmer paper.  The back ground paper reminded of me of
an old vintage wallpaper and it is Mintay  City of Love.
The sentiment is from The Greetery!

Come and join us for some challenge fun at
The Sisterhood of Crafters.

Many Thanks

 The Neglected Stuff is back this month with a new challenge,
no themes, we just want to see your neglected stuff,
you know those things you just had to have but have yet to use
or have maybe used a long time ago!

For my card I used an Acorn die set from The Greetery,
the sample card saw I is what made me purchase the set
as I loved the soft fall colors and the great design,
I pretty much cased and copied it but I think theirs is a black
background, I used navy blue and then of course
changed the sentiment using a Spellbinders die of the month Sept 24.
I can't believe this is the first time using this die as I was so excited to
have it arrive, only to leave it sit and sit!

We would love to see YOUR neglected stuff
so come on over and show us what you've got!!

Entering the following challenges:

Craft Rocket #140 .... Use Dies