Witching You A Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Today I have another opportunity for you to win from DRS Designs! DRS is sponsoring this weeks Card Patterns Sketch Challenge #88. One lucky participant will receive a $10 store voucher just for playing along! Won't you join us?

 My take on this sketch uses a couple of DRS Designs Halloween stamps--probably for the last time this year! My focal image is the recently released Broomstick Stella (415H). I colored her with Copic Markers and sponged charcoal chalk ink around her for a smoky effect.

 I stamped the "Witching you a Happy Halloween" sentiment (1040F) on silver metallic cardstock to match. Some orange and black zig zag stitches were the perfect touch, but the ribbon really makes this card complete!

We look forward to seeing what you do with this sketch!

Good Luck and have a very Happy and Safe Halloween!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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The Most Lovely time of the Year...

I love autumn...beautiful colors ,great smells and the weather is FINALLY out of the 90's! I made this card with some gorgeous autumn stamps from DRS DESIGNS and I used a sketch from  Card Pattern Challenge... that DRS happens to be sponsoring this week If you play along... you will have a chance to win a $10 gift certificate AND you can get these gorgeous Autumn stamps for your very own! Thanks for popping in!!!

Stamps Used...small leaf silhouette,medium leaf silhouette,turning swirling autumn

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Friday with Spencer

Good Morning Everyone!

It's Karin posting today and I thought I would sneak in another Halloween card before the big day!

For my card today, I used the Spirit of Halloween sentiment for the focal point.  I love the font and the fact that you can color in the bottom of the word Spirit to match the project itself.

The Spooky Eyes made for a great background and Spencer the Not So Spooky Ghost was stamped on Vellum and is peeking in from behind! For all of these stamps and many more, just visit the DRS Designs store!

Are you all stocked up on candy for the tricker treaters? 

Happy Halloween!

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It's All in the Accessories

Well it is almost Halloween. Tomorrow at school we are having our Halloween Party. I love seeing the kids in their costumes. They are always true to form!

For my card today I used Witchily Accessories (154D), Accessories Saying (155D0 and Broomstick Stella (415H), my favorite DRS Design!
I did the backgrounds with Cuttlebug folders and cut out the ovals with my nesties! Images are colored with the copics pictured below!

Hope you have a "spooky" day!

Joni

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Have a Spooktacular Halloween

Welcome! Happy Wednesday! I can't believe it's only 4 more days till Halloween!!

I have two fun cards to show you today -

The Spencer, the Not so Spooky Ghost background is the original background trial for my card last week. I ended up using different colors last time, but I still loved the green of this one! I added a second layer using our new Eeeeeek background stamp and then I finished it off using our Halloween Goblin.



I'm not sure if I went too far with my second card -


The first thing I did was stamp our Goofy Bat across the top - upside down of course! After cutting the top of the card above the bats off I went looking for a background stamp. I'm wasn't sure if using our Raindrop Background for the blood drops was such a good idea, but they keep growing on me! A quick wrap with some black ribbon and then I added our new "Fang"tastic Halloween greeting - and another goofy bat!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Halloween Spirits!

Are you as shocked as I am that it's Halloween week already?!?!? I just can't get over how quickly time flies! At any rate, I have a cute Halloween card to share with you today. I think I'm in love with Spencer the Not So Spooky Ghost (D408) and his friend, the Small Ghost (C191). I also used the Spirit of Halloween Greeting (F389). I've used all 3 of these stamps quite a bit this year.

This card was rather quick and easy to make. The hardest, most involved part was all of the masking I did to create the "flying spirits!" After masking them I colored in the empty spaces with a black Copic marker to create my focal image. I split up the sentiment into 2 pieces and stamped each piece above and below the image as shown.

I love the look of the spider web border punch against the lime green cardstock. I dressed it up a bit by adding some rhinestones to the center of each web. I adhered the card front to a black cardstock base and then added a simple bow made from black grosgrain ribbon. This is definitely not one of my scariest Halloween cards, but it could be one of my cutest!

Hope you all have a very safe and Happy Halloween!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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You're Invited...

by Alicia Ekermans - Call Me {Crafty} Al

Getting excited for Halloween this weekend? Going to or attending any parties? Today I am going to share an invite using one of DRS Designs' NEW stamps that would be perfect for a Halloween get-together.

The NEW Halloween Party Invite (M399) made this invite so quick and easy to put together. All I had to do was stamp it once, color in the little bit of cauldron at the bottom, then layer all of my cardstocks together.

On the green strip I used the Double Deal Halloween Bats and Stars (P653) then hand cut the wavy edge out. I used this same stamp on last week's Witching Halloween post. As I mentioned then the stamp is like getting 2 in 1!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget we are sponsoring this week's Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. You still have a few hours to play along and win a $20 Gift Voucher from DRS Designs!! Get all of the details HERE.

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Spooky Halloween Card

by Alicia Ekermans - Call Me {Crafty} Al

With Halloween coming up in a week, I thought I would share a card today that uses some of the awesome Halloween images available HERE in the DRS Designs online store.

To start off my card I used parts of the NEW Eeeek Background (H402) on a strip of orange carnival tickets. I inked just a couple of the words, then stamped it onto the open space on each of the tickets. I then inked the edges of a paper doily and stamped the Spooky Halloween Greeting (F664) onto the center. I covered up the Os in 'Spooooky' with 2 googly eyes. Next Spencer the Not So Spooky Ghost (D408) was stamped onto white cardstock and cut out.

To finish the card I layered all of the pieced mentioned above onto a black card base that had Spencer embossed in the background.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget we are sponsoring this week's Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. You could play along and win a $20 Gift Voucher from DRS Designs!! Get all of the details HERE.

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Midnight Madness Witch

For my card I have used Sihouette Haunted House (058P) and the eeeek background (402H). I turned the sketch around. The top part is Double Deal halloween Bats/stars (653P). I stamped the images on textured cardstcok to get an eerie effect!

Today I have a card for you for the Midnight Madness Blog Challenge. Make sure to check out the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge 76 post to get all of the details on how you can enter to WIN a $20 Gift Voucher from DRS Designs! Also make sure to keep check back later this week to see what the rest of the team has created with the wonderful sketches and DRS Designs stamps.

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Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge... Take 2!

Oh I LOVE this stamp!This in one of the new Halloween releases from DRS. I made the frog into a girl... because glittery kissy lips on a frog are the BEST! I used the sketch from the midnight madness blog and here is my creation! I embossed the green paper with a spider web and I stamped the eye background with craft ink on black card stock. Then I colored my froggy and cut her out and stuck her onto the orange card stock that is also embossed. I tried to make this card Clean and simple...that is a toughie for me... I hope you like my creation...

Make sure to check out the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge 76 post to get all of the details on how you can enter to WIN a $20 Gift Voucher from DRS Designs! Also make sure to keep check back later this week to see what the rest of the team has created with the wonderful sketches and DRS Designs stamps.


Stamps Used:Witchy Frog Brew, Spooky Eye Background

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Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge 76...and the OTHER holiday!!!

This is the card I made for the MMSC#76...and I LOVE it! We could choose clean and simple (which I will show y'all tomorrow)... or FANCY! Well... today I chose FANCY! I used the bell background and embossed it with gold glitter EP. Then I used the Jingle all the way sentiment and embossed that with red glitter EP. And that tiny bow??? I tied that myself!!!Then I followed the sketch and here is my card!

Make sure to check out the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge 76 post to get all of the details on how you can enter to WIN a $20 Gift Voucher from DRS Designs! Also make sure to keep check back later this week to see what the rest of the team has created with the wonderful sketches and DRS Designs stamps.

Stamps Used: jingle bell background, Jingle all the way sentiment

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It's a Glittering Ghost!

Welcome!

Have you ever sat down to stamp and had your mind be completely empty?? That happened to me last night - in a good way!! I really had no thoughts on what I wanted to do, which stamps I wanted to use or even what colors I wanted to use. It was kind of fun!

When I sat down, the first thing I noticed was all the dirty, inky stamps from the last time I stamped ;) as I started to clean up a little I picked up Spencer the Not so Spooky Spirit 408D and well, it started me down the path!



This is a fun and quick background to stamp because you don't have to mask, but the coloring takes a little while. Unfortunately when I was done coloring I was faced with a few streaks. That led me to the cover up. I dabbed my clear versamark stamp pad over the entire background, then poured on a mixture of 1/2 clear embossing powder and 1/2 ultrafine white glitter. A little heat setting and I had one sparkily background! Too sparkily to cover up! Instead of adding a greeting like I normally would have , I tied on a simple ribbon with a couple of shrinky dink ghosts I had made for a different card that they just didn't work on (I did some cleaning after all!) and attached it all to a folded black card.

It was fun just letting one thing lead me to another!

Happy Stamping!
Sue

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Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge Sponsorship

by Alicia Ekermans - Call Me {Crafty} Al

Today marks the start of DRS Designs' sponsorship at the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge blog!

The main panel on the card uses one of DRS Designs brand NEW Halloween images - Broomstick Stella Witch (H415)!! I stamped her, along with Witching You A Happy Halloween Greeting (F1040), onto the white cardstock then colored the image in with COPIC markers.

The pattern on the orange strip was created by stamping one half of the Double Deal Halloween Bats and Stars (P653) repeatedly from top to bottom. The awesome thing about this stamp is how it is like 2 stamps in one, check out the link above to see what  I mean.

Make sure to check out the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge 76 post to get all of the details on how you can enter to WIN a $20 Gift Voucher from DRS Designs! Also make sure to keep check back later this week to see what the rest of the team has created with the wonderful sketches and DRS Designs stamps!

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Spooky Brew

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Monday!

I hope your week is off to a great start! This little guy is really getting a work out lately. But I think it's great that y'all get to see so many ideas for making a fun Halloween card.

For my card, after coloring him w/ markers and a water brush, I cut him out and popped him up on a die cut circle. I stamped the giga dot circle w/ a rainbow pad before I die cut it. I used the same image to create the dotty background. The large purple layer is a 4 color paint chip. I used an orange marker to color in the white dividing lines. I trimmed off a few strips and did a little 2 sided frame weave w/ them. For the greeting, I hand cut it out and used a tag template for the backing layer.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great week!







Supplies:
stamps: Witchy Frog Brew, Halloween Brewed by, Lots of Dots 3" Giga Circle
paper: white, orange, purple paint chip
ink: black permanent, autumn rainbow pad, purple ink
accessories: markers, water brush, lg circle die, tag template

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Happy Hallowe'en!

How are your Hallowe'en plans coming along? Are you making treat holders or decorating bags for your treats? I know in the city it is difficult because you may have 200 goblins or more - but in the country where I live....we are lucky if we get 5 spooks a year.....

Well I don't have a treat holder for you today (although my introduction was a great segway for one......) but I do have another Hallowe'en card!

This uses the cutest of all the Hallowe'en stamps that are available, called Witchy Frog Brew.....I love this cute little smile and don't get me started on those eyes!!

I stamped the backgrounder, Spooky Eyes Backgrounder first and then added the rest of the card.....The little image is stamped with Memento Black ink and coloured with copics.

I made a lot of scalloped borders across the bottom......this card was headed toward a scalloped challenge but of course I didn't get it done in time.....booo me!!

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Happy Halloween!

By Debbie Seyer - A Peek into My Stamping Room

Well, there isn't much time until the big day - Halloween! My kids love this holiday so much. I never really made many cards or projects with a Halloween theme until I was introduced to DRS Designs stamps. There are so many wonderful stamps to choose from - every style you can imagine! Here are a few cards I made using some new release Halloween images from DRS Designs.



For this card, I used the Eeeek Background on the olive cardstock. I stamped the image using the same color ink as the cardstock. This background is so fun and easy to use! I added a small scrap of patterned paper and tied a bit of ribbon around the middle of the olive layer. Then onto some white cardstock I stamped the Witchy Fog Brew image using Tuxedo Black Memento ink. I colored in the image using Copic Markers. I cut/embossed the image using Labels Eight Nestabilities and layer it onto the card using some Pop Up Glue dots. I stamped the Small Halloween greeting onto a Rectangle Nestabilities and popped that up, too. I added some gold brads in the corners to complete the card.

My second card is more spooky!


First I stamped Broomstick Stella Witch and colored her in using Copic Markers. I cut out Stella carefully! Next I stamped the Spooky Bat Tree image onto some white cardstock, colored it in using Copic Markers and cut/embossed it using Labels Eight Nestabilities. I layered that onto a piece of orange cardstock and attached it to my card. I added some cute ribbon, too! I stamped the Wicked Halloween sentiment onto white cardstock and cut/embossed using the Labels Eight Nestabilities again.

These are some fun cards to make for those Halloween lovers in your life! It's not too late to purchase your Halloween image from DRS Designs.

On a personal note, this will be my last post for the DRS Designs Design Team. I want to thank Samantha, Sue and the DRS Designs family for having me on their wonderful team! DRS Designs is such a great company to work with and the Design Team members are top notch! I will miss you all and will be checking in regularly. Thanks again!

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Witching You a Happy Halloween

Hi Everyone!

Are you in the Halloween spirit?  I don't know how you couldn't be anything but in the spirit of the holiday with these new Halloween stamps that were released here at DRS Designs!

For this card today I used the new Spooky Bat Tree and Broomstick Stella stamps.  To make this card I stamped the tree and colored everything (including the night sky) with Copic markers.  I then stamped Stella on a separate piece of paper and colored her the same way, but then I cut her out and pieced her in the scene.  I found that easier than coloring all around her.

The Witching You a Happy Halloween sentiment was the perfect thing to finish off this card. 

Thanks for visiting us at the blog today!

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Broomstick Stella

I just love this witch, Broomstick Stella (415H). I have had so much fun stamping her and sending her flying! I love to compliment her with the punched witch in the moonlight. I added some MS punches to the top and bottom of the card to add to the eeriness!. I used only part of the Spirt of Halloween Stamp (389F) "It's Halloween to fit on my spooky fence. I then added some bling and there you have it, an awesome Halloween card.

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Get in the Spirit!

Good morning Bloggers!!  Bonnie here and I am keeping on with these fabulous Hallowe'en stamps that DRS Designs have in their stamp arsenal.

I stamped both the sentiment - Spirit of Hallowe'en Greeting and image-Spooky Bat Tree, in Memento Tuxedo Black and then coloured them with copics - I LOVE how the sentiment also an be coloured - makes it spooky don't you think??

This is a super CAS card and so easily to mass produce - I decided it needed more however and added the gorgeous Zva Creative Flourish to finish it off!!

Hope you like!!

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Have a "Fang"tastic Halloween!

Hi Card Makers!

This is Jennifer posting here for you today, and I have a little something different for you! I'm getting bored making standard cards.  So, I'm trying to spice things up a bit and make a unique card once a week.  By unique, I mean something other than your standard A2 or 5" x 5" square cards. 

 Here's my first unique card thus far.  I used the Free Standing Pop-Up Card tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers and decorated it with DRS Designs new stamps for this "Fang"tastic Halloween card.

The tag was created by simply matting the orange cardstock with black and inking the edges with Charcoal chalk ink to give it a smoky look.  I stamped the "Fang"tastic Halloween Greeting (391F) with black ink and adhered cut-outs of the Goofy Bat (381D) around it.  The "pully" was created by folding a scallop circle in half and added a spiral clip with ribbon attached to to it. 

I colored the Precious Pumpkin (380F) with Copic Markers and cut it out as well to decorate the front edge of the base with it.  Some fun, black and orange ribbon finished this Pop-Up Card nicely.

I hope you enjoyed it!

Have a great day!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Invited to a Spooky Party!

By Debbie Seyer

It has become a tradition at our house every year to have a Halloween Bonfire/party. Some years the weather is nice and the Bonfire/Hayride is possible. Other years the weather just doesn't cooperate. I have learned to go with the flow! So for this year, I am getting my invites ready and the table favors designed so I don't have to rush when the time comes! Here are my projects!

I made a tag invitation using various Nestabilities for the shape. I stamped the Halloween Party Invite onto my white die cut. I colored in the cauldron using Copic Markers. I stamped portions of the Double Deal Bats & Stars stamp along the top and added some Crystal Stickles to give it that extra something. I completed my tag by adding a large eyelet with twine and a bow. For this little party favor, I used a digital template to create my box. I stamped the bottom portion of the Halloween Party Invite stamp and colored it in to match my tag and stamped the cute Small Happy Halloween sentiment, then cut/embossed using the Classic Ovals Petite Nestabilities. Using some Mini Glue Dots, I attached this little oval to my box.

I think this a great ensemble for the Annual Halloween Bonfire/Party. Don't you? Check out all the great DRS Designs Halloween images. You will be so glad you did!

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Candy Corn Bee

You can tell I don't eat much candy corn. I guess in real life candy corn is white on the top and the bottom is yellow. LOL! I used my gel pens to color in the Easy Candy Corn Background(633H). I stamped the image with orange, and then colored the tips yellow! I stamped the newly released Candy Corn Buzz Bee (378C) in black, and colored him with yellow and orange gel pens. I added glassy glaze to my focal buzz bee. I cut out the bees and placed them on orange punched out circles. Sentiment is Witching You a Happy Halloween (1040F). Thanks for stopping by today and why don't you sit a spell and have some candy corn!

JONI

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Fangtastic Halloween Card

Hi Everyone,

It's Karin posting my "Fang"Tasic card today...LOL!

I couldn't wait to pair this new Fangtastic Halloween sentiment with the Goofy Bat from the current catalog.  I not sure if I've said this on the blog here, but I love puns on cards.  They always make me smile :)   

The Goofy Bat cried out to be embossed, popped up on a dot and layered onto the Oval Spiro, which I colored in two shades of orange.  I then layered that onto a piece of felt I cut out using a Scalloped Nestie.  It's fall now, so I am all about texture and layers whether it be clothes or cards.

The black background was stamped in white using the Spooky Eyes background stamp and Spencer the not so Spooky Ghost is making an appearance here too.  He was stamped on velum, cut out and is peeking out from around the bow.  He is appearing on a lot of my Halloween cards this year...Look at that grin!

To see all of the newly released Halloween stamps, just click here!

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Time for a Little Bit Of PRECIOUS!!!

I am from the south where everything is "precious." Look at that precious dog,... I love your new car, it is precious,...those little cupcakes are precious!!! Yikes... But this PRECIOUS PUMPKIN??? Y'all... is IS precious!!! I stamped him 3 times and cut him out. then, I brayered a background and adhered him onto the cardstock. next, I used my white gel pen for highlights and added some cute little cheeks on this PRECIOUS little guy. I mounted the whole thin onto black cardstock and added the greeting and here is my card! Make sure you stop by DRS Designs to check out the rest of the new releases... they are SURE to be PRECIOUS!!!

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What's the latest buzz?

Welcome!

I can't believe it's October already! The weather has definitely changed into fall in a big way here in the northeast!

I'm having lots of fun staying warm and toasty inside playing with our new Halloween stamps. My favorite card ended up being the last one I made - and it only took 15 minutes too!


I just love a clean and simple card! I started by stamping the center of a white card using the candy corn side of our Candy Corn and Leaf Card Edger (567P) and black ink. I stamped The Latest Buzz (621D) above the candy corns and the top line of our Go Batty Halloween Greeting (090D) below, both using orange ink. After adhering the black ribbon I stamped our new Candy Corn Buzz Bee (378C) on a separate piece of paper, colored, trimmed and used 1/8" pop dots to give him some dimension. I was finished almost before the ink dried!

We have been as busy as bees here at DRS Designs lately! Not only are we hitting the road again this weekend for a stamp show (if you're in the vicinity of York, PA please come say Hi!) but we have a new stamping contest going on as well! You could be the one to nominate our next winner! For all the details on the new contest simply click here!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Happy Hallowe'en!

Good morning! It's Bonnie here, showing you more of our Hallowe'en stamps available NOW!! Aren't they just so adorably scary??!!

For this card I stamped my main image, Silhouette Haunted House, in Versamark, and then some embossing glitter over top. After it is heat set, it is so shiny and pretty - and of course, very spooky!

I did swipe my card front with the embossing buddy, but as per Murphy's Law, it didn't seem to matter on part of the card grrrr.....

Okay I am off to stamp!! Have a great day!

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Have A Fang-tastic Halloween!

by Alicia Ekermans - Call Me {Crafty} Al

Aren't the new Halloween stamps from DRS Designs awesome?! I had such a fun time creating today's card using one of the new releases - Fangtastic Halloween Greeting (F391) and an oldie but goodie - Goofy Bat (D381).

To start my card I created my own orange and white patterned paper using the bat stamp. Next the sentiment was stamped in the same color ink and then die cut. A small black strip of cardstock was edged with a drippy goo border punch, then adhered below the sentiment.

To finish my card off I stamped the bat in black, cut it out by hand then adhered it to the top corner of the sentiment block. The gems used on this card were originally clear, but I used my markers to color them black. I thought this tied into the colors of the card better.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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