Dotty bat!

This card took aaaages to make ... mainly because the Halloween imps had hidden my stamp on me! Grr.  (...of course it ended up being right under my nose!)

Dracula coloured with copics and wee batty thing paperpieced.  I also used the stars punched out of the centre of my die cut to randomly stick over the orange bit /flags.
Very old Halloween stamp from Stampin Up and rickety fence stamp from Magnolia.  Practising Creativity bunting stamp.





Lots of Halloweeney challenges about this week....
Layout from Sunday Sketch and Stamp #128
Papertake Weekly - fright night
Simon Says .. eerie inspiration
Fab'n Funky #143 - orange, black + one other
Lexi's Creations #76 - Halloween
Marker Pop #09 - paper piecing + shading

The Count

Oops, I must have had my wonky eyes in when I took this pic!  I'll blame the weather, its been such a yeuchy wet dark and gloomy day today.  All the rivers on the way home from work are absolutely full to the neck, and another night of rain due.

I bought this wee vampire a while ago (Vic the Vampire from Kraftin' Kimmie) ... he reminds me of Count von Count from the Muppets!  All together now in your best Bela Lugosi voice .... "One Bat.  Two Bats!   Ah ah aa."!!!!

This card took aaages to make, believe it or not.  It's originally CASEd on Jackie's card HERE (Jackie is this week's featured stamper on SCS)

I first stamped the greeting (alpha set from Paper Smooches), then embossed the white panel, splattered black and purple watercolour paint (I LOVE this effect), and then coloured my wee vampire with copics and popped him up on dimensionals.  Black glitter added to the splodges on the ground and clear gloss to his eyes and shoes.  My purples do match better IRL, but for some reason my camera doesn't like them.
The metal web in the corner and purple bat on my twine are from an old pack of confetti bought at Tesco's a few years back.

• I'm entering this card into Simon Says Stampember blog candy bonanza
• Copic Marker Europe #09 - halloween
• The Corrosive Challenge #158 - animal companions
• Crafty Friends #7 - Halloween
• Charisma Cardz #37 - things with wings
• Simon Says Stamp - embossing

Suzanne's off to Canada

This card is for a friend who's taking a year out to go to Canada, possibly longer if she gets her visa sorted.  It's a bit weird making a card for someone who may or may not come back!  I wasn't sure what sentiment to use, so I just did 'here I come' on the outside and 'ready or not' on the inside.  Couldn't think of what else to use!  

Image from Kraftin Kimmie: 'Melanie' - coloured with promarkers.  I've never coloured 'dirty fair' hair before and had no idea what markers to use, so this is a mixture of about 6 different markers!  Added glossy accents to her bag, shoes and maple leaf, and a big silver S to the baker's twine (thanks Mags!)  Scalloped edge and notebook edge dies from Die-namics 

• Sketch from MFT Wednesday Sketch Club MFTWSC80
• Paper and Such - red, white and blue
• Lexi's Creations #69 - for a friend
• The Corrosive Challenge #153 - sentimentally yours
• Creatalicious Challenges #35 - anything goes
• The Ribbon Girl - girlie card