trick treat

Okay here's the final card in my series of "oldies".  I hope it wasn't too painful.  Happy Halloween!  I hope you your kids get lots of candy!  I'm personally hoping for Snickers, Baby Ruths, and Skittles.  What are your favorite Halloween treats? 

stamp: Impress witch & ghost, A Muse skeleton

ink: VersaFine onyx black

other: ribbon, stickers, brad

eek! lil' spooks

Another fun Halloween card from awhile back.

stamp: Stampin' Up! spider tag

ink: VersaFine onyx black

other: sticker, brad, ribbon, Marvy markers

boo to you

Simple but still fun.

stamp: Savvy ghost

ink: VersaFine onyx black

other: sticker, brad

wag more, bark less

My friend, Lydia and her family are HUGE dog lovers.  Everyone in her family has at least 2 dogs, so it came as no surprise when she brought this fun card for our ladies card night.

i can always count on you

I adore this simple but effective masculine card by Mary Dawn Quirindongo.  I didn't even change it one little bit.  With the a|s cling stamps and clear blocks, lining these wrenches up by just eyeballing it was a cinch!

stamp: AMuse wrench & "i can always count on you..."

ink: AMuse grass, sky, & ocean

other: black brads, distresser

Come back tomorrow for another a|s blog hop (this one is much shorter) and with my a muse|studio "family".

bunch of thank you's

Here's another stash of old cards that I came across.  The first two are Stampin' Up! cards that I made with my friend, Mandy.  The last two cards are ones that I made with Impress and/or Savvy stamps.  I always need reminders of a layouts.  I have a tendency to get in layout ruts.  

What about you?  Did you tend to stick to the same layout or same colors?  Or do create a different card every time?

thank you

One of my fellow teachers, Linda Barker, makes beautiful and intricate cards.  She teaches the calligraphy classes and the Halloween classes at Impress (and probably a few more I don't know about).  In fact, Linda has such a following of people who take her Halloween class every year that she has to buy new stamps to keep the variety up (because of it, no one has a bigger collection of Halloween stamps)!  

Our moms and daughters stamp group hired her out to teach a class for us.  I came across this old picture of a card we made.  That polka dot paper was so amazing.  It was a fuzzy velvet, but thin enough to punch out. The light pink paper were actually card fronts that Dave used to sell at Memory Box, but he no longer carries. You can easily make your own with a large circle punch though.

stamp: Impress "thank you"

ink: VersaFine onyx black

other: flower punches in 2 sizes, brad, circle punch

nicolle's card

Nicolle brought this cute card.  I really like double punched flower with a brad through it.

adriene's card

Adriene made this card out of a Target gift card.  You can load it for a special someone and then give it to them ON their card.

(blank: twins)

An old neighbor and childhood friend just had twins, so my mom asked me to make her a card to send to them.

stamp: Savvy onesie

ink: Brilliance pearlescent orchid & pearlescent sky blue

other: Making Memories flower brads, Marvy scalloped square punch, white grosgrain ribbon

pink & orange flowers

At first I was just going to copy the colors from this card, then I copied the design too.

stamps: Stampin' Up! flowers & leaf, Impress "thanks"

ink: VersaFine onyx black, ColorBox orange, ColorBox lime

other: Impress rhinestones, flower brad, Hero Arts paper flower