halloween in the spring

Hey, there! :) I know I'm posting later than usual... the weather is seriously luring me outside today! It's gorgeous. I'm really trying to appreciate it all that I can now, considering we may be moving back to AZ in a month or so. :/

Anyway, here's those two Halloween cards that I made and had pub'ed last year. I don't usually make Halloween cards, but they were for an assignment. This first one uses some Hero Arts owls that are actually line art images, but coloring them in with a black pen turns them into silhouette images! Perfect for that spooky night time scene:



I know the photography isn't the best here, but I was literally shooting dozens of pics the other night... didn't strive too much to make each one come out perfect, sorry. ;) You can click the images to make them larger to see more detail. Anyway, I punched out a piece of copy paper and used the negative from that to mask the entire sky so I could brayer the moon in with yellow ink. Then I used the punched piece to mask the moon and brayered the sky. Like I said, I stamped the owls, but then colored them in with a black pen and added googlie eyes to really make them spooky!

This card is pretty straight forward, but it was a fun one to put together:



The card base was stamped ("Sanded" from SU) and sponged, the pumpkins were paper pieced with their expressions heat embossed, and the bats were heat embossed. The alpha is from SU's "Typeset" alpha - pretty sure that's the name - also heat embossed.

Anyhoo, better get back outside! We're scheduled for rain this weekend, so it's now or never! OH - and my brand NEW Cricut Expression is on it's way! YAY! Can't wait until that gets here. :) I still have my original up for sale, and I'm now including an exclusive cartridge (Plantin Schoolbook) with it, so let me know ASAP if you're interested! And stay tuned for some really great clean and simple cards done on the Cricut machine with the Storybook cartridge, too! ;)

Thanks for reading today... see you soon!

SUPPLIES:
"Happy Halloween" - stamps are Hero Arts (Sparkle Clear Yoo Hoo Owls), Stampabilities (web), and Inkadinkado (sentiment), Vivid and Memories inks, glossy card stock and googlie eyes
"BOO!" - stamps are all SU!, inks are SU! card stock is SU!, ribbon is May Arts