Inspired By.... Halloween

The new Inspired By challenge is up and it is a little spooky ;)

I actually decided to create two cards... very different ones, but two and they both use the same sketch (for the Sparkly Inks card drive.... more on that later)

My first card is pretty literal as I went with the colors and the theme... but I am not a skull person (though for Halloween I do adorn my fireplace and mantle with skulls, bones, poison jars etc - similar to the photo actually) - thus I went with a cute Halloween.

I used the Hello Pumpkin collection from CTMH once again. I am having fun with this collection and knew I would, and believe me... it is one of the reasons I re signed on as a CTMH consultant!

I had to add some of the items from the Complements pack and that adorable ghost from the Scrapbooking Stamp set... he is just too cute!

To create the witch hat, I used my Silhouette file. I then also cut out the witching hour sentiment from the pattern paper. 

   

Now next up... I thought the colors from the inspiration would work well for a Christmas card too so I used the same sketch and created a Christmas card using the 'Tis the Season paper pack.  

I stamped the frame from the 'Tis the Season Cardmaking stamp set, trimmed it then tucked it behind the pattern paper. 

Now if you know me at all, you know I can't make winter/holiday cards without some snowflakes so I had to have the Winter Flurries die set, which I can see being used a lot!  I stapled them on because, well.... staples ;)

I then fussy cut the bucket of greenery from the pattern paper and if that wasn't enough, the little bow is fussy cut and adhered as well. I then mounted it on foam squares for dimension and as a final touch, sprinkled some Loose Sequins - Silver - here and there.... 

--> my tip... to adhere sequins you NEED small - like mini- glue dots and good tweezers... :) 

  

Ok, so here is the inspiration... are you still with me? ;) Fun one hey?

Now that Sparkly Inks Card drive? The details are here and it is for a great cause.... there is a new sketch for each day of the month! I used this sketch for these cards: