Good morning, crafters! I received my first every Hero Arts subscription box yesterday and couldn’t wait to play with it. This stamp set reminded me of autumn, when I was a young teenager in Wisconsin. Allow me to paint my memory: It’s a early fall day in rural Wisconsin. It is a sunny, late morning, about eighty degrees. You hop on your bike and just start peddling. All you can smell is sweet fresh air and you see nothing but fields of flowers for hours, rarely encountering anyone. Pure peace and beauty. Clearly, this was my inspiration for these tags. I was hoping to create some peaceful beauty with some inspiration and encouragement.

My tag recipe:

• Distress Tags #8 mixed media
• Distress Oxide Spray: Old Paper, Mustard Seed
• Distress Ink Spray: Rustic Wilderness
• Distressed Mica Stain: Bubbling Cauldron
• My Monthly Hero Kit September 2021 for the stencil, flowers, inks
• Memento Ink: Rhubarb Stalk (sentiment)
• Sentiments From Tim Holtz: Nature’s Discover CMS049, Photo Studio CMS013

“Every day may not be good, but there is good in every day.”

Challenges entered: SSS Monday Challenge, Double D Challenge, Time Out Challenge, 2 Crafty Critter Crazies, The Four Season’s Challenge, Stinkin’ Inkers Challenge

Welcome, foolish mortals. I invite you for a treat. It is beginning to look a little inky. It is indeed, Copic color YG21 followed by some distressing delight (Black Soot, Old Paper, Antique Linen) on bistol smooth cardstock. Is this haunted card glowing? or is it your imagination? It appears to be a glow from the spirits of LawnFawn and MissInk. If you decide to join in the fun, arrangements with Madame Leota can be encountered at Kindred Stamps. But I must warn you, should you decide to add the ghostly sentiment, your ghost writer can only be found at Whimsy stamps.

“Keep Calm and Watch Out for Hitchhiking Ghosts”

My happy haunts will be found visiting a few other realms: Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, SSS Monday Challenge, Watercooler Wednesday Challenge, Wednesday’s Creative Inspiration Challenge

Are you ready?….. for another weekend of crafting? What does the Shawdowman say? “The cards, the cards will tell….”

I am so honored to be chosen Queen of the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. Thank you sistahs!

It’s a twofer Tuesday! I used combinations of two for each element in this card. I love the CAS cards that are so very popular. I am NOT the best at making them. The white space is very scary! 🤣 Without further ado, on to my twofers:

• Two papers: Bristol smooth card stock, 80lb green card stock
• Two Distressed Inks: Old Paper, Bundled Sage
• Two stencils: Kindred Stamps
• Two stamps: Gina K Design
• Two embellishments: Ranger White embossing powder, Nuvo Simply White Drops
• Two layers: The tree and background
• Two borders: the green and white

The two challenges entered are: Cupcake Inspiration and ABC Christmas

Happy Sunday Funday, crafters! I am starting this week off with a CAS card. Max is all dressed up in his Halloween costume and ready to get out and “Get Candy”. He sounds all dog to me.

We don’t dress up our dog for Halloween, just our cat,. Pirate, Captain Andre, is ready for some high seas hijinks this Halloween.

Today’s 6 Ingredient Crafting Recipe:

• Cardstock: white & black
• Versamark Ink
• White Chalk
• Kindred Stamps set Undead Love
• Sizzix Thinlit: Stacked Deckle

Max will be found posted in the following challenges: AAA card challenge, Two Old Bats Halloween, 2 Crafty Critter Crazies, Time Out Challenge, Double D Challenge, Wednesday Creative Inspiration Challenge

Darlene and Diane have created a new challenge board for us. The Four Seasons Challenge. I can’t wait to enter! Enjoy, crafters!

Something Wicked This Way Comes! Nah…. just working on a spooky scene for my mantle. This tombstone was inspired by the makers for Tim Holtz 2021 Sizzix Halloween collection. Most of the Sizzix dies are sold out. So, as always, Cricut to my rescue. All the images (clouds, bats, cat, witch, cauldron, fence, gravestone) were cut from Cricut access. The tombstone was cut out of 3 layers of chip board. Everything else is 80 lb. cardstock. Oh the layers we will add to this little tombstone:

• Acrylic paint: Grey and Black
• Distressed Oxide paint: Brushed Pewter
• Distress Texture Paste: Grit-matte, Grit Crypt, Grave

The clouds had some inking with Distress Oxide Ink in Black Soot and Old Paper. The fence was embossed with an embossing daber and Distressed Oxide Walnut Stain Glaze and Emerald Creek’s Rocky Road Baked Texture by Seth Apter. My spider webs (Stampers Anonymous) were embossed on clear acetate with Sticky embossing powder and Rock Candy glitter added. The bubbling cauldron are green beads glued with Apple Sour Glows in the Dark Nuvo Drops.

“It’s just a bunch of Hocus Pocus”

Challenges entered include: Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, SSS Monday Challenge, Watercooler Wednesday Challenge, Pearly Sparkle Challenge, A Perfect Time to Craft, Double D Challenge,

Happy Stamptember, crafters! I have today, a simple fall card. I was inspired by the wood signs that you see in stores like Hobby Lobby, simple wood background and a sentiment.

Here is my wood recipe:

• Craft Colored Cardstock
• Wood 3D embossing Folder-Tim Holtz
• Distress Antique Collage Medium
• Distressed inks: Walnut Stain, Black Soot
• Distress Mica Spray Antique Bronze
• Distressed Oxide Ink: Vintage Photo

The sentiment is supplied by Cricut cut in orange and cream 80 lb cardstock. The leaf and the “&” sign are cut from a Tim Holtz paper pad. The cream paper was layered with Distress Antique Collage Medium, Vintage Photo Distress Crayon and a mixture of Vintage Photo Stain with Antique Bronze Mica Spray. The hardest part was gluing all the small pieces together.

“Autumn carries more gold in it’s pocket than any other season.”

Challenges entered include: Time Out Challenge, Wednesday’s Creative Inspirations, The Paper Players, A Perfect Time to Craft, Scrapping4Fun, Crafting Happiness Challenge, SSS Monday Challenge, The Four Seasons Challenge

Where did the weekend go, crafters?! I need another day, LOL! I was watching Tim Holtz’s newest Stampers Anonymous reveal on YouTube yesterday. My goodness, there are many wonderful artists out there. I was especially inspired by the envelope art by Nathifa Sligh and decided that my Halloween cards this year need corresponding envelopes. Boo Kitty was chosen to be the first to have an envelope friend. Here is Boo Kitty’s story.

As you can see in the card, she is following a butterfly and is in front of a somewhat scary house. As she draws near the house, she stops.

She sees a witch brewing a potion in her cauldron. She sees the green bubbles arising from the brew and tells her friend, Sam, they need to leave. Poor Sam… He doesn’t listen and gets too close.

He is forced to drink the potion and becomes the witch’s minion. Boo Kitty is sad for Sam. But Sam reassures her saying “I know right from wrong. Wrong is the fun one.”

Boo Kitty is sad that she will no longer have Sam to play with, but is happy to remember him before his eyes became glowing green.

The Challenges Boo Kitty and Sam will enter include: Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, Double Trouble Challenge, 2 Crafty Critter Crazies, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Watercooler Wednesday Challenge

“A coffee a day, keeps the witch away.”