I whipped up this silly card for today's SCS challenge to use a non-halloween animal stamp to make a halloween card. I also used Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge number 14 for my layout. I colored his outfit with Prismacolor pencils and added orange stickles to his tie and hat brim. Today's challenge is a limited supply challenge so I didn't add ribbon or other embellies.
Penguin stamp: Memory Box
Trick or Treat stamp: M's $1 stamp
Orange patterned paper: Fontworks
Bat paper: Provo Craft
There is a one-day only sale today at Inkspirations. I bought the cute cupcake stamp and I think it will go great with my new Just Johanna sentiment, "Eat the frosting first."
Sorry I've been MIA lately. I've kept up on your blogs but I've neglected mine. I have a bunch of images colored and several projects lined up. I just need to finish them so I can share.
I am fortunate to be participating in Tami's Merry Go Round Swap on the Stamp Shack. These are two of the cards for that swap.
The first was colored with Marvey Markers and Prismacolor pencils. The face and pumpkins have glaze pen on them to make them pop.
Paper: Bo Bunny
Fall! Stamp: M's $1 stamp
Ric Rack from stash
sunflower from stash
The second card was colored with Marvey Markers and cut out.
Stiped paper: Anna Griffin
Bat paper: Provo Craft
Giggles and Grins stamp: Michael's $1 clear stamp
Purple Paper: unknown
Prima flowers
brads: Oriental Trading Company
Here are some fun pictures of my weekend shopping excursion. Picture 1: 
This is the tent sale at Stampington in Laguna Beach.
Picture 2: This is Julie 
on the phone with Kim. Julie, Tami and I were Kim's personal shoppers for the sale.
Photo 4 is some of the stamps for sale. That's Tami is the green contemplating.
From there I headed to our church beach party aka "The Corn Roast". I ate 3 ears! It was awesome. They cook the corn in the beach water on the fire pit. Then you dunk it in melted butter and top with whatever. I had one with parmasan cheese. Yum!
This card was really tricky for me. I challenged myself in several ways (some on purpose.) The layout is a Kerry Urbatch sketch on Barb's blog. That wasn't the hard part. I realized a couple months ago that I like the color purple but I don't like crafting with it. Like, it hurts my brain. But, I have this pretty shimmery paper that was cuttlebug embossed. It was a RAK from Jan and I've been wanting to use it for a long time. Okay, here's where it got tricky. I got this cute frog image a month or so ago. I started coloring him last night and realized (too late) that he is on watercolor paper. Note to self, Prismacolor pencils don't work well on watercolor paper. Also, my usual adhesive does not work with watercolor paper. But, I do have one watercolor pencil and it's purple. So, I watercolored around froggy in purple. Shwoow. Cardmaking shouldn't be this painful.
I received a sweet RAK of Hedgie images from Nancy from the Stamp Shack. I used my Marvy Markers and went a little crazy with my new Lumocolor pen that I just bought for doodling.
Jan from Far North Designs. She is such a pro. I love her tutorials.
Kim from Running on Ink. I love her fun style and out-of-the-box techniques.
Barb from Barb's Card Creations. Barb is always trying new things and sharing her inspiration.
Tami from Dapple Designs. I love her tutorials and color challenges.
This card satisfies two challenges. I followed another Kerry Urbatch sketch that is part of Barb's blog bingo game. The colors were inspired by the IC88 inspiration challenge at Splitcoast . I used up some scraps from some recent projects on this one.
Papers: Cosmo Cricket, Prism, Bo Bunny and unknown.
Prima Flowers
Brad: Making Memories
Stamp: Thanksgiving Greetings from Rubber Stampede
I cut out and popdotted a petal on the yellow flower and a little blue flower in the corner.
As I posted previously, I am super excited about our new LSS, The Scrapbook Garden. I am slated to teach two cardmaking classes on National Card Making Day on Saturday, October 6th. At noon we are doing a fall-themed class with 2 Halloween, a Thanksgiving, and a Fall card. At 3:00 we are doing Christmas cards and tags. I'm so excited! I just know it's going to be a lot of fun.
The top card is a sneak peek of my cards for Kim's Halloween card swap at the Stamp Shack. The second card is my niece's version. Notice the frayed edges. Oooh aahhh. And, she set up the card to be photographed. Notice the various papers for her backdrop.
For my card:
Patterned Paper: Collection II: Flouristics! Textured Inferno by Zsiage
Black Cardstock: Prism
Stamps: Autumn Leaves elegant flourishes by rhonna farrer (I used 5 from the set) Michael's $ spider web and "Happy" and "Halloween" and an unknown spider web stamp
Fake Spider: from a plastic ring. I cut off the ring.
Here are a couple of cards inspired by the culture of Southeast Asia. I used some fun new products. The giraffe pattern paper is a part of the new Screen Prints line by Hambly Studios. This particular paper is really thick cardstock with a very metalic shimmer. I think it goes great with the Spice of Life Collection from Frances Meyer. I cut out images of the elephant and the tiger from Bengali Jungle, inked the edges with Making Memories ink and added a little sparkle with Icons from Me and My big Ideas. Mounted the images on another paper from Frances Meyer's Spice of Life Collection and some Prism cardstock. Both cards measure 5 1/2" x 4 1/4"
Photo Removed. I'm getting published!
For the flower card I used my dot sticker technique to make the scallop border. Used faux stitching and paper piercing.
For the Flag card:
