Vintage Halloween Cat

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend!  We had a gorgous warm day on Saturday, then cool and rainy on Sunday! From one end of the spectrum to the other!  I have one last Halloween card for you, since I hadn't used one of my favorite images this year, and the JUGS challenge of CAS using just the center of your card, as well as the CAS on Sunday challenge to use an animal, reinforced my idea! 

So here we go:

I had a piece of Crumb Cake that was a wee bit smaller than a standard-sized card, so I used that and stenciled a "moon" of Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze.  I stamped my little vintage cat on a broom in Versafine Black and added an old Crafty Secrets sentiment:

I also embossed the outer edges wtith the Stitched with Whimsy dies....not sure if I should have done it or let it alone...but it is what it is!  I added a Rubbernecker sentiment on the inside:

This was quick and easy and still just one layer! Woohoo!  Thanks for popping in today!  And how about a couple more vintage Halloween postcards?

This one is from my great-uncle Hutch to his brother Bob...apparently he had a cold!  It strikes me funny that first he asked how his cold was, then he hoped everyone was well, LOL!  It's dated October 30, 1913!

This is one of my favorites, with those big pumpkin and moon faces!  I think the little boy's hair is standing straight up on end!

This is to my great-uncle Bruce from his Uncle John.  He tells Bruce he hopes he has all his pumpkins in by this time!  I remember Uncle Bruce and Uncle Bob, but Uncle Hutch and Uncle John were gone by the time I was born!  It's fun to have these remembrances though!

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Vintage Halloween (Crafty Secrets), Cat on a Broom (Victorian Greetings), Halloween Set 1 (Rubbernecker)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake
Ink	Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Versafine Black
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Blending Brushes, Circle Stencil

PP612 Black Cats

Happy Sunday, everyone! There's a new Paper Players challenge on deck for your creativity this week! Laurie is our hostess and her color palette is perfect for a Halloween creation!  Usually I try to think outside the box when we have a color challenge, but this one was too "Halloween-y" to pass up!  So here's the challenge:

And here's my card:

I actually started with stamping these Impression Obsession cats on Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green and Gorgeous Grape cardstocks to match the challenge colors, and then when I was looking through my Halloween stamps, I found this little verse and I thought it would be perfect to accompany my spooky kitties!  

I added some swirly stars (Close to My Heart) on each square's background wtih Versamark, then mounted everything on a Basic Black mat.  That went on top of another Basic Black mat that was diecut with the Dots & Spots die.  I ran a few strips of cardstock in the challenge colors through the die again, then (very tediously) glued in some random dots here and there into the black mat!  The inside sentiment is from the fun little retired SU set called Pictograms:

Little sparkly star sequins finished it off!  Fun!  I hope you'll have fun, too, playing with our challenge colors!  And if you're not into Halloween, check out what the DT created...there were several non-spooky creations there! Visit them at the Paper Players, then share your creation too!  Thanks for visiting today!

Here's a picture of me and Dana on the hayride yesterday!  It was a beautiful day but it was CHILLY! We are so blessed to live in the country where tractors and hayrides are doable, LOL!  More pix to come!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pictograms (ret), Black Cat Love (Impression Obsession), Halloween Set 1 (Rubbernecker), Swirly Stars (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, Gorgeous Grape
Ink	Versafine Black, Versamark
Accessories	Star Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Black Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Dots & Spots Die, Layering Squares Die (ret), Stamparatus

PP561 Spookiness and a VERY Special Visitor

Hi there stampers!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge with Laurie as our hostess--here we go: 

So many fun possibilities, just in time for Halloween!  I pulled out some spooky Tim Holtz patterned paper I've had for a long time and found a suitable stamp and went to work:

After stamping the image with Stazon ink, I colored in the moon, then did some sponging to give it the same hue as the patterned paper:

I added a fun little sentiment, "sewed" around the edges with the Stitchery stamp set and created a couple little stars to embellish the tag:

Finally, I stamped this fun sentiment on the inside and diecut it with an Ornate Tag die:

I hope you'll play along with us this week with our fun "spooky" challenge...be sure to share it with us at the Paper Players blog, and while you're there, check out what the other designers have created!  Thanks for popping in today!

So THIS happened yesterday:

My sweet stamping friend Michele from I Card Everyone drove ELEVEN HOURS from Michigan with her patient hubby Tom to visit me at my yard sale in Pennsylvania, LOL!  I saw a couple walk into the garage and begin to talk to John in a secretive manner; I had a customer but I was keeping my eye on them!!  Suddenly, the woman turned around and walked to me and my jaw dropped!  What a surprise!  We had a lovely day---they went to Longwood while we did our yard sale---then we went out to dinner and chatted away!  I can't begin to tell you how special I felt!  THANKS, MICHELE!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitchery, Halloween (Graphic 45), Halloween Set #1 (Rubbernecker)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Seasonal DSP (Tim Holtz), Typewriter paper
Ink	Stazon, Soft Suede< Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals,
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Dies, Ornate Frames Dies, Stitched Circles Dies (Sissix), Stitched Tag Dies (Reverse Confetti), Blending Brush, Blender Pen, Wink of Stella

RetroRubber 120 Vintage Halloween

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Well, yesterday was the first day of fall and it certainly didn't feel like it!  The stink bugs were back in full force; they just love the heat and they were covering the screens and trying to fly into the house....I despise them.  Hopefully the cooler weather will be here soon and make them all go AWAY.  Anyway, it's time for another Retro Rubber Challenge---it's an "Anything Goes"!  Yay!  They are a double-edged sword...fun, but what to do, what to do?  In the end, I chose to do a vintage Halloween card!

I am a sucker for vintage Halloween images...I think they remind me of my dad and his era; he and my grandmother would tell us how they dressed up (with my grandmother taking out her false teeth--gross) in old clothes or homemade costumes!  Anyway, I have to rein myself in from buying every sticker, every 12x12 paper, every stamp set that resembles vintage Halloween!  Last year, I did treat myself to a little 6x6 pad from Authentique called Nightfall, and I used a few of their images on my card today:

These little 1 1/2 x 2" pictures are so cute together....I simply trimmed them from the 6x6 piece and layered them on a piece of spooky cobwebby paper and added a sentiment and some sparkly stars:

The sentiment is from Rubbernecker, Halloween #1, and the closest I can find is that it is from around 2009.  I know I've had it for a while!  I stamped it on a scrap of DSP I had in my stash, then diecut it with a Nested Label die and added some black glimmer paper to the back.  For fun, I stamped a witch silhouette on top:

On the inside of my Naturals White card, I stamped another sentiment, added a spooky tree and a trio of bats:

I am pretty sure I got this set from my stamping friend Broni....so glad she shared it with me!  Now...what will you create with your older stamps?!  Remember, they must be at least a year old, and you must tell us the age!  Then share your creation with us at the Retro Rubber blog!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Halloween #1 (Rubbernecker 2009)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Black Glimmer (ret), Nightfall DSP (Authentique), Misc DSP from my stash
Ink	Stazon Black, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nested Stitched Labels Dies, Country Star Punch (ret)

TSOT279 Coffee Card

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  The week is almost halfway over!  I liked this week's sketch at Try Stampin' on Tuesday, so I thought I'd give it a shot.  First, let me say that I LOVE coffee...I think one of man's greatest inventions is the coffee maker that has a timer so that when I get up in the morning the COFFEE IS ALREADY MADE!!!  BUT....I have not jumped on the coffee-cardmaking-blog bandwagon, for some reason.  I was pretty sure I didn't even have any coffee-themed stamps!  Not sure why....I guess I just like to drink it, not stamp about it.  But I saw this really cute Hero Arts set(CL758) and it comes with the frame and a lot of little words to fit inside.  And coffee was one of them!  So....I made a coffee card!

I have had this DSP for such a long time, I don't even know who makes it, but the bottom panel is the flip side of the big polka dot panel.  I embossed it with a Tim Holtz EF....and get this.  I didn't even realize this was a coffee cup embossing folder.  I bought it because I thought it looked like sand pails and I thought it was cute!  So I DID have something coffee-related and I didn't even know it!  Anyway, I sponged it to make it look a little vintage, and I stamped the frame in Early Espresso (hah) on Soft Sky, trimmed around it, then overstamped it with the Linen background stamp and some coffee stain images from Timeless Textures:

Then I remembered!!!  I DID have coffee stamps! I had a really, really old set from Rubbernecker called Coffee & Tea Inchies, so I stamped a couple of them on some brown polka-dotted paper and added an "enjoy" to finish it off.

So now that I have a coffee card, I am not sure to whom to send this!  And for what reason?  I guess that's why I never made a coffee card before.  Perhaps I could get a Starbucks gift card for someone and stick it inside, right?!  Glad you stopped by to hear my little coffee ramble today!  

Grampy surprised Cassidy by jumping in the kiddie pool with her yesterday afternoon after he came home from work!

And of course, Grampy is so easily tormentable!

Have a blessed day!

AYSI059

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I am squeaking in one more Halloween card this week, using an interesting challenge from As You See It:

Hmmmm….not sure if I have ever used a triangle on a card…..well, I guess I have but not one quite like this:

I am still on the fence (or maybe I should say “I’m on the broom”) about this card!!  I just got this cute little vintage cat stamp, and I just am not sure if he’s really that impressive in white ink on black cardstock!  But I wanted to get this in the mail, so onward I went, adding some panels from MME’s Frightful DSP line; a sentiment from Rubbernecker (retired); some glimmer paper and silver ribbon, and some black and orange sequins!  Maybe next year I can use this little guy again in a different color, LOL!!!  Thanks for visiting today!

Bubble wrap makes for great entertainment!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Halloween (Rubbernecker ret.), Broomstick Kitty (Victorian Greetings)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals Ivory, Basic Black, Silver Glimmer, Frightful DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Memento Black, Craft White
Accessories	Sequins, Silver Ribbon
Tools	Star Punch, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Nestie Scallop Circle, Big Shot

Kraft Journal MIM194

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Yay, the middle of the week…downhill from here!  The Kraft Journal has a fun color challenge this week: 

and that vintage image inspired me to print out a vintage Halloween postcard and use it to adorn a box I created with the Gift Box Punch Board:

I used some of SU’s new Under the Tree Specialty DSP, which is heavier than regular DSP and makes great boxes!  Here are the front and back views:

and the top is a rosette, not attached, so the box can be opened, but adorned with some glittery bats and tied up with black organdy ribbon:

I had a ton of fun making this too….I really wanted to add some more Halloweeny images, but I kept it pretty simple!  And I am sorry, I don’t know from where this postcard came, it was just one of the plethora I have saved on my computer!!!  And Try Stampin' On Tuesday has a "Spooks & Other Scary Things" non-card challenge, so I am entering my treat box in that as well!   Take care, and have a great day!  I didn't do a recipe for this project, so if you have any questions, send me an email!!!

Cassidy getting into making cupcakes….again!  This girl loves to bake (and eat) cupcakes!

I keep a little piece of non-skid rubber under the bowl so it doesn’t slide out from under the mixer!!!

Yum…enjoy your day!

MIM 140

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Just a little Halloween card today, based on the sketch from The Kraft Journal this week. Here’s the sketch:

I hadn’t done anything vintagey for a while, so I pulled out a couple of stamp sets and went to work!

I colored my image with SU markers; the mat and stars are pieces of black cardstock covered with SU’s Adhesive Sheets and sprinkled with the black glitter from the Holiday mini!  Love it! The owl's eyes are also sparkly, which you can see in the photo.   I also added some glitter to the stars on the stamped image:

The striped panel was brayered with Crumb Cake ink so as not to be so bright and to keep with the krafty look of my card!

And here’s the inside:

Our leaves haven’t quite begun to turn colors, but they are falling and Cassidy was quite excited to see them on the ground!



Last year, she had to ring the wind chimes with a stick….this year she can reach up and touch them!

Have a super day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Halloween Set 1 (Rubbernecker); Vintage Halloween (Graphic 45)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Naturals Ivory, Adhesive Sheets,  Mischievous (MME)
Ink	Stazon Black, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Black Glitter
Tools	Tangerine Tango, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate and Sahara Sand Markers, Merry Minis Punch Pack, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Itty Bitty Banners Dies, Big Shot, Circle Nesties, Sponges, Dimensionals