CH #59 - Halloween

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

Today I'm jumping in with the Kitty's for a fun new challenge at the Aloha Friday Challenge blog.  Here are the details:

CHALLENGE #59

HALLOWEEN

Create a project with a Halloween theme

See the rules tab for more details. Entries close at 5AM (Hawaii Time) on Friday, November, 6th. 

Winners will be announced the Sunday after the challenge closes.

SPONSOR: The Paper Shelter

Please stop by the blog to see all the cute makes from the DT featuring sweet sponsored images from The Paper Shelter.  I'm working with one adorably cute witch.  I tried to go with simple and girly.  I think I accomplished that...

This is Bewitched Night and I thought to myself, she is one adorable witch.  =D  I added several different flowers from Recollections & Leeza Gibbons in varying colors and designs.  I've got no green thumb but I do like the contrasts.  It's been a while since I incorporated clouds into my projects, so I thought this image needed some.  I used some Distress ink (Pumice Stone) to create the clouds and went over it with E40 & E41 to give it a vintage feel.  I love how the doily goes off the page just a little bit.  I didn't have a handy Halloween sentiment so I hand wrote one myself.  

This is surely one of the easiest challenges to date, and I hope you'll join us because the prize is something very sweet from our sponsor, The Paper Shelter.  Mahalo for stopping by on this beautiful Aloha Friday.  Have a fabulous weekend!!

Challenges:
Halloween at the Paper Shelter

KBD - DT Spotlight Frankin Owl

Hello!

Today's share is for my DT spotlight over at the Kitty Bee Designs blog.  I'm sharing a card I made last month around the same time as our blog hop.  Say hello again to Frankin Owl.

I tried to go for a spooky scene in honor of Halloween.  I printed out quite a few of this adorable image as well as the MIC background.  I used Copics and Distress inks again.  Had fun with the scene.  This time I printed out Frankin owl fussy cut him and adhered him to the fence.  Matted the scene on to black cardstock and some orange cardstock then all on to a kraft card.

Hopefully you took advantage of the awesome sale from last month and picked up this guy along with all the other adorable images illustrated by Kitty Bee Designs owner, Ruth Johnson.  She's truly awesome!!  If you didn't no worries, head on over to the shop to pick him up along with any of the other cool images and add them to your collection.

Thanks for stopping by!
Leanne for Kitty Bee Designs

She's too cute to spook

Hey everyone!

It's only a couple of days before Halloween, are any of you dressing up?  I guess I'm what you call a non-dresser for Halloween, but I do like the event.  Not sure if we're going to get the same 10-15 people coming to trick or treat at our house so just in case I'm getting a few bags of my favorite candy because if none come at least I'll enjoy eating the leftovers.  hahaha!

Today I have a Halloween card, but did not use a traditional Halloween image.  This little girl is another one of the cuties from the Three Little Autumn Girls set at All Dressed Up that has been sitting on my desk for a while.  Thought it would be fun to get her dressed up in Halloween colors (black & orange) with some grays and hints of purple, as in purple hair!  :)

Autumn Girl - All Dressed Up

I used a new Sizzix die for the intricate black background.  It was a bit difficult to work with, but the end result was a worth it.  I'll have to figure out a better way to remove it from the die next time.  I hadn't done clouds in a while and thought gray to black looked cool here.  I used a Studio G spider web to add a bit more spookiness but didn't add the spider cause it just wasn't cute enough. (hahaha)  See the flower?

There's the spiders!  I used the poinsettia die from Paper Smooches and some new Recollections Halloween paper to create the spooky spider flower and added a nice big orange gem to the center.  The sentiment(s) is from CC Designs, AmyR Ghostly Greetings sentiment set and I used another Sizzix die to cut it out.  I'm going to join in the All Dressed Up Halloween challenge with this card.  Wish me luck!  (haha)

I have one more Halloween post coming up on Thursday so hope you'll stop by again.  In the meantime, stop by the Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog for the newest challenge.  We've got a color challenge (orange, black, green, purple) going on and if you use those colors why not link up?  Go HERE to see all the details.

Autumn Girl - All Dressed Up

Mahalo for stopping by!!   Have a great day!!

xxLeanne

Other challenges:
Crafts 4 Eternity: #147
Sister Act Card Challenge #30 - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Halloween or Halloween colors

Yumi & Fumi Handmade and Perfect Paper Crafting Blog Hop!!

Aloha Everyone, 

Today Rosemary, Denice, Renate' & I, representing Yumi & Fumi Handmade, are blessed to be teaming up with the amazing Design Team from Perfect Paper Crafting, the makers of the Perfect Layers rulers, for a fun-filled and creative blog hop.  If you just hopped over from Patti's blog then you are on the right track.  If you stopped here just to say hi but want to get in on the fun, all you have to do is start at Laura's/Perfect Paper Crafting blog which is the first stop on our hop. 

In case you get lost here's the line up:

Laura & Perfect Paper Crafting - http://blog.perfectpapercrafting.com/

Yumi & Fumi Handmade- http://yumifumihandmadecrafts.blogspot.com/

Eva - http://craftingthisandthat.blogspot.com/

Rosemary - http://rosemaryscreations.blogspot.com/

Pam - http://expressionswithheart.wordpress.com/

Denice - http://being-craft-de.blogspot.com/

Patti - http://www.cherisheachpreciousday.blogspot.com/

Leanne - http://liloshaggymoto.blogspot.com

Kim - http://www.kimoconnell.com/

Renate' -   http://hapagirlren.blogspot.com/

Roxie - http://paperscaper.blogspot.com/

Did I mention there will be prizes?  You bet!  Perfect Paper Crafting is giving away a very generous $50 gift certificate to one lucky hopper and we're giving away a single stamp from our Kigurumi series (a value of $40) to 4 lucky hoppers:

Prize 1 - Yumicorn (It could be you)

Prize 2 - Fumi Panda (It could be you)

Prize 3 - AJ Lion (It could be you)

Prize 4 - Chasezilla (It could be you)

All you have to do to be in the contest is to leave a comment on everyone's blog.   That easy!  ^.^  You have until Oct 28th, 12am PST.

This just in:
**You can use the code, YFH5%, for a discount on your order at PerfectPaperCrafting.com**

As you know the team from Yumi & Fumi Handmade is spotlighting each of the Kigurumi images on their blogs.  I get to spotlight one of my favorites, Fumi Panda and I used Perfect Layers ruler #1 to mat all of my papers. 

Fumi Panda - Kigurumi Series Y&FH

Here's what I came up with, hope you like...

Boo with Fumi Panda

Since Halloween is just around the corner I decided to make this Halloween themed card with Fumi dressing up as a Panda Munster.  hahaha!  Do any of you remember the tv show The Munsters?  It was mostly a black & white program, but they did have a couple colored movies and I took my inspiration of color from that.  It was a lot of fun to color her up in shades of what I like to call Munster green, with red-orange eyes and purple hair.  The only thing normal here is the color of her outfit.  

After coloring and distressing my image I grabbed my Perfect Layers ruler #1 and an Exacto knife to do the following cuts all with the intention of layering up my papers. The cool thing is all of these measurements are on 1 ruler!  Pretty convenient and easy!:

1. Matted my colored image on to some lime green cardstock and using the 1/8" mark as my guide to cut all four sides.   
2. Matted that to some fun orange spider paper and used the lime green cardstock as my guide to cut using the 5/8" mark.  
3. The next layer is a dark gray with black glitter designs which is cut at the 3/8" mark.   
4. The last mat is the lime green polka dot paper which is cut using the 1/4" mark and I used the dark gray patterned paper as my guide.  

To finish off my card I used a few products from my plethora of craft supplies, and some go to companies (C.C. Designs and Stampin' Up).

BOO

Now it's time to hop on over to the amazingly talented Kim O'Connell's blog, but before you get hoppin' don't forget to leave a comment.  Mahalo for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop!

Hugs,

Leanne

Supplies:

Fumi Panda - Yumi & Fumi Handmade

Perfect Layers Ruler #1 - Perfect Paper Crafting

BOO stamp - CC Designs (AmyR Ghostly Greetings rubber stamp set)

Black Tuxedo ink - Memento Tsukineko

Black Soot & Embossing Distress Inks - Ranger (Tim Holtz)

Black Embossing Power - Recollections

Black & white cardstock - Neenah

Green cardstock - Core'dinations

Halloween cardstock - DCWV (The Spooky Time stack) & K&Co (Kelly Panacci Halloween)

Spider chain die - CC Designs

Scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle - Punches Stampin' Up

Lacy ribbon - N/A (My stash)

Flowers - Recollections & Prima Marketing

Diamond Stickles - Ranger

Copics:

Panda suit - 110, N9, N7, N5, N4, N1

Skin - G82, YG00, YG01, YG21, BV20

Hair - V17, V15, V12,110

Eyes - R46, YR68, YR02, white gel pen (Gelly roll - Sakura)

Happy Howl-oween!

Hey everyone!!

Hope you all had a great weekend!!  Can you believe it's almost November?  Just a couple more days and we are there!  Wow, I better get going on my Christmas cards else I'll be doing what I did last year... Scrambling to get them done without any sleep!!  EEK!

Well don't want to think about anything now except more Halloween fun.  Over the weekend I went to Joann's and they were having a sale on Tim Holtz Sizzix dies, so I grabbed a few and had to use one of them right away for this Howling Halloween card...

Meet Jo Jo the Werewolf from Sweet November.  I colored him up with Copics.  The rest of the card was all Distress inks and dies. The tree was the Tim Holtz die I bought from Joann's.  After I cut it out I kept the negative of it and used it to make a shadow on the card.  Here is a picture of what it looked like with the moon and clouds. 

Pretty spooky yah?  muahhhhahaha....  This next picture is of the actual die cut tree that I sponged with Distress Inks walnut stain and black soot.  I moved it over a bit so it looks like there is a shadow being cast on to the tree from the full moon. 

By adding a fun sentiment, a creepy fence (WOJ picket fence), some bats and that big crow (Spellbinders) this turned out to be a pretty spooky yet fun Howl-o-ween card. hehehe...

Couple more days till Halloween, anyone going to dress up? Me?  Hm... I'm not sure yet.  If I do I'll let you knooooooowwwwwww.  (hehehe) 

Mahalo for stopping by today.  You all know how much I appreciate your kind words and support.  I hope to be able to do more blog hopping soon.  Take care and have a great day!!

Challenges: ATS Challenge - Anything Goes

Hugs,
Leanne

Y&FH Bring the Bling Challenge

Hey Everyone!!

Today is Saturday and that means a new challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade!  This bi-weekly challenge is sure to bring all of you in.  Rosie wants us to "Bring the Bling!"  Now I'm not too much of a blingy girl so I had to ask my team what exactly does that require?  They all had the same answer: "STICKLES & GEMS!" (lol!)  I took their advice and hopefully made them proud...

Here's another Halloween card and this time I used Yumicorn because I thought she would love to be all sparkly and dress-up is her favorite thing to do.  I also heard she was looking foward to going to the local pumpkin patch.  She's dressed in her Halloween blacks and her horn and wings were specially selected for this fun holiday.  She's got black gems on her outfit and her horn is sparkly to match her pretty wings.  She's so lucky because she's found some pumpkins and boy are they stylish with all that bling!!  I know it's sooo hard to tell what is sparkling right?  So here's another shot at a different angle...

I chose the best paper for this challenge I think.  LOL!  The only thing that is not sparkly on this page is the stickers (but they are shiney from the silver letters) and her black outfit.  I'm so happy with this card!!  Now make sure to stop by the Y&FH blog to see the other blingy creations created by our fabulous design team.  I am in awe at how wonderful all their blingy creations are.

Mahalo for stopping by and I hope you come and play in our challenge.
Hugs,
Leanne