I received two really cute Halloween card pressies in the mail from cardmaking buddies. My first card from my friend Charlene sports a wonderful broom-riding witch scene with ghosties lurking here and there. I love the scary, foggy background created using the chalkboard-sponged technique. It is such a darling witchy scene with lots of detail. I just love this spooky card...you can almost hear a wind whistling in the dark and the ghosts swish to and fro and the little witch whisks from here to there in the dark night sky! Below is a peak for you of my happy mail card, and my big thank you to Charlene for my first lovely Halloween treat!
My second card pressie was from my fun-loving, cardmaking buddy, Sandy. I remember our crafting shopping trip to Impress Stamps in Tukwila when she bought this Memory Box Halloween die that she used to make my sparkly shaker card window. I had to buy one as well, but with wedding planning taking over my schedule of late, I did not get a chance to make or send any Halloween cards this year. But, I certainly plan to try this die out next year! Sandy also used her WRMK Photo Fuse Tool to make her shaker envelope and buried it in a double-layered card front that was embossed with a spider web behind the shaker circle. The WRMK Photo Fuse Tool is the very tool she gifted me for my birthday that I love, love, love! Aren't the little Halloween colored sparkles in the shaker window cute! Below is a peak at my card pressie from friend Sandy, with my special thank you to her for such a wonderful Halloween treat!
I was away over the Halloween holiday and into the second week in November helping my daughter with a room renovation on her beach house in Seaside, Oregon. I was pleasantly surprised to find two wonderful Halloween cards from two of my favorite cardmaking buddies had arrived in my absence. I so love making Halloween cards, and I was delighted to receive some that I had not made. These two ladies and I had lunch and went cardmaking shopping at a little shop in Tukwila, WA called Impress Stamps. We made many wonderful purchases between the three of us. Most of our purchases were going to be used for Halloween cardmaking, and the cards I received from them were using some of their new stamps and dies. I want to share their cards with you.
This card was made by my friend, Sandy. It depicts our neck-of-the-woods with the Seattle skyline stamp and the Space Needle die cut all from Impress Stamps in Tukwila, WA. The picture doesn't do the card justice in that the little witch is flying across a glitter covered moon (made with adhesive spray and glitter). Love, love the gigantic spider trying to make a home on top the Needle! Thanks, Sandy, so enjoyed getting your card to let me know you were thinking of me this Halloween season!
My next card received was from my friend, Charlene. She used two stamps from Impress Stamps as well, and applied the chalkboard technique. She used white embossing powder to achieve this look. Mr. Skeleton wears a little pirate hat embellishment and a martini glass, which I understanding she garnered from online. See the cute little Googlie eye in the other stamped martini glass. Love those eyeball olives! Thank you, Charlene, for the wonderful chalkboard skeleton card!
