Hoedown #84

It's sketch week at the Hoedown! Here's the sketch...

Here's my card...

I used Hambo's Halloween Checklist. Here's a close up of the list...

 

 

This is exactly what happens at my house, so now hubby hides the candy until Halloween night!

Halloween Skelly Blog Hop

It's time for Bombshell Stamps' monthly blog hop. You should have arrived here from Meredith's blog If you didn't, head on over to the Bombshell Stamps Blog to start the hop at the very beginning. You don't want to miss any of the terrific projects!!
This month's theme is...Halloween of course, but with a twist! You had to include skeletons or a skull in/on it somewhere. You could use any of the numerous Bombshell Stamps skeletons, or you could create your own. You could also create a Day of the Dead project for this hop. We were encouraged to make a decoration as opposed to a card, but it wasn't mandatory. I've been making lots of Halloween cards so I decided to make a candle and a matching mini card.

I used the skull stamps from Pirate's Life and Speed Shop. I added some silver cord and some gems to give it some BLING! I embossed one of the skull stamps to make a tag. I used some DSP with silver skulls on it as a background for my mini card, added an embossed skull and Voila! I have a Halloween gift  ready for one of my ghoul friends!
Your next stop is Milo's blog. If you get lost, hop on back to Bombshell Stamps Blog for the blog hop list. Happy Halloween!

Charmin Tag!

One of my fellow Whimsie Doodle design team members put a roll of toilet tissue in a clear bag and added ribbon and a tag with a mummy on it as a Halloween gag gift. When I saw the Hoedown challenge this week, I knew I wanted to do something similar. The challenge was to use Hambo Stamps' cute Mummy digi and one of the sentiments along with the colors purple, orange, black and green on your card/project. Here's my tissue & tag.

I wrapped black web ribbon around the roll of toilet paper and put orange ribbon through the center of the roll and tied it. I used Hambo's Mummy digi and one of the sentiments to make the tag. Then I tied the tag to the orange ribbon. I just love it! Now I just need to decide who's going to get my gag gift.

I'm also entering my tag in Party Time Tuesday's challenge to make a tag.  PTT has some great challenges. Be sure to check them out.

Witches & Chocolate

The Whimsie Doodle digi called Act Like a Witch  is so cute and it was free on the WD Facebook page. I love the sentiment and knew I wanted to make something that included chocolate.

I made this candy bar slider! Just pull the ribbon and out comes a Hershey Bar! It'll be a perfect Halloween treat for my daughter-in-law who loves chocolate...but she's not a witch!!

WD October Release

Whimsie Doodles released some new digi images today and they are so cute! Here's my card using Skinny Witch - that's me, isn't it? Oh wait a minute...I'm not a witch! Oh yeah, I'm not skinny either! Anyway here's my card...

I also used Whimsie Doodles Halloween Button Sentiments.  Be sure to check out the WD Blog to see more samples from the design team.

Officially a Diva!

I'm officially a Doodlelious Diva! My term on the design team for Whimsie Doodles begins today with a blog hop to meet all the Divas. If you arrived here from Min's blog, great! Otherwise you may want to start at the beginning here.

For those of you who are visiting me for the first time, welcome and I hope you'll come back. To get
to know me a little, here are 5 Doodlelicious Things About Me....

1. My first papercraft project was probably in Kindergarten and I've been crafting ever since! Seriously I think my first papercraft project was a treat bag topper that I made at a Stampin'Up party. I think we colored it with pastel chalks.

2. When I'm not papercrafting, I enjoy reading and knitting. My Kindle and yarn are always close by. I also enjoy spending time with my granddaughters. Of course we are usually doing some sort of crafts. They love to stamp!

3. My favorite Whimsie Doodles image from the new release images is Frankie's Girl. I also like the Turtletopia images. They are so cute and I love that little devil called Hottie!

4. My favorite papercrafting technique is making special fold cards. I also love coloring with Copics and embossing with the Cuttlebug.

5. My favorite embellishment is ribbon. I'm always looking for the perfect color of ribbon for a project. I love glitter too!

Here's my first official Whimsie Doodle card using my favorite of the new releases.

I made a center step card using the very cute Frankie's Girl image. It's available at the Whimsie Doodle store along with Frankie and some other fun Halloween images. I bought the sentiment last year at Michael's and didn't have a chance to use it. IMHO, it's perfect for Frankie's Girl.

Time to meet the other Divas. Hop on over to Tracy's blog and give her a warm welcome to the Whimsie Doodles family.  Then continue hopping and check out everyone's fantastic projects using this month's adorable new images and leave a little comment love along the way.  Don't forget to go back to the Whimsie Doodle blog and comment for your chance to win one of the September images! Enjoy hopping and getting to know us.

Emily Martina  

Helen Lilliebora  

Julie Elak   

Kim O'Connell   

Kindra Snelling

Laura Nehring

Marlene Gomez

Min Kwiatkowski

Paula Riley - ME!

Tracy Schultz

Whimsie Doodles 

Pumpkin Time

It's Thursday and it's time for Designed to Delight's Friday's Free Stamp Challenge. It's a progressive challenge so I received this image because I played in last week's challenge. Here's my card for this week.

This cute Halloween cat is called Falloween Cat. I used it with the Pumpkins Cuttlebug embossing folder and a sentiment by Whimsie Doodles called Halloween Button Sentiments. Halloween Button Sentiments comes with some other cute Halloween sentiments too. Hop over to D2D and join in the fun and check out the cute stamps at Whimsie Doodles too.