Halloween 2021

 Well. it's been a while since I posted, but I have been escaping to the world of card making and crafting every chance I get - just haven't felt like sharing since my Number 1 Fan, my sister, passed away.  But,  here I am and it's Halloween 2021.  

Yes, I HAD to have the Tim Holtz Moon Masks!  Of course I did : )   I used Distress Oxides for the background and added one of the witches from Toil and Trouble on her broomstick.  Love the spookiness of this card.

This is the second card I made using the Toil and Trouble die set.  I stamped and embossed Floral Outlines before getting inky with various Distress Oxides.  The die cuts are from black glitter paper and I cut off the legs of the broomstick flying witch and reattached them so that she could stand over the cauldron.   

Although I had firmly decided never to buy another Colorize set, I could not resist these little characters from the Costume Party die set.  (The genius of the Cricut die cuts lies in their initial shadow layer which enables you to piece all the subsequent layers in order.  TH and the Sizzix folks seem to have figured this out and these were much easier to build.  Plus, there are great little Colorize videos to help with the placement : ) )   This little monster is on an action wobble.  I love him!

 My last card, for my youngest DGD, is from the Costume Party die set, and is also on an action wobble. This little mummy is so much fun!   I even remembered to run the flaps of the envelopes of my cards through the Big Shot using an ancient Cuttlebug embossing folder.  Yes!

Thank you for visiting today.  Happy Halloween!   Love you and miss you, Number 1 Fan!     : ) Christine 

Sending Hope...

Our family was so happy to say goodbye to 2020!   We were hoping that 2021 would bring everyone much happiness but so far, not so much!    Even the weather has been atrocious and we've had flooding, landslides and beach erosion.   We happened to arrive for our usual morning walk on the beach on Sunday just before high tide and although we did not get our walk, we were treated to some absolutely amazing and awesome wave action.  A little silver lining there!   

Hero Arts included a wonderful two piece die set in the latest monthly kit and because I find paper piecing so relaxing and such fun, I used the die on four different floral backgrounds intending to recreate the word Hope by gluing in the colored pieces.  I was able to make four cards with the four cuts.  

And yes, there is one purple piece in there because I lost the green one I planned on putting there!    I transferred the die pieces onto an old, well used, Cricut mat that I had cut into four pieces, after running them through my Vagabond but still managed to lose 3 little pieces!   

Background: Distress Oxides, Speckled Egg, Broken China and Blueprint Sketch 

Sentiment stamps: Hero Arts, Sunny Studio

The innies:

And then as I was clearing my workspace, I noticed that I had put one of the die cut negative spaces on a piece of iridescent paper left over from another project and voila!   There were four more cards begging to be made!  

And inside:

'Hope' the recipients like their cards as much as I enjoyed making them.   Stay safe, stay healthy and stay dry!   : )  Christine