halloween!!! My thoughts----

I am posting two cards today for Halloween! I colored the images the other day and today felt like putting them into cards. It was short and sweet! The Edwin which I think is Dracula came to live at my house pretty quickly - he reminded me so of my oldest grandson. That kid was Dracula every year! He just loved being Dracula! I think it was the cape! Anyhow, I couldn't find paper that I thought went with the card so I ran the black cardstock thru this little machine I have that only embosses with one of the new Tim Holtz embossing folders. I have a set of two that I absolutely love - of course! So that took care of the background. Then I couldn't see it because there was so much white around Edwin. So I decided to cut him out - now that was a challenge as I started with giving him a white border - too hard to cut him out that way and then, I didn't like it anyhow, so I started cutting all over only on the lines!! What to do with the greeting? When in doubt, glitz!! And I decided it too was too white - Tim Holtz black soot with an applicator. Perfect - but now what? Some stickles - black - spread thin but glittery over the greeting. Now I like it! Used
Spica pen for the red, not enough glitz - added diamond stickles to the spear and bow tie. Hope you like it!

This photographed not true to color but not too bad either. I bought one of those cardboard enclosure things so you can spray items without getting it all over the place. Haven't tried that yet, but thought it might make for an easy way to photograph the cards. So the background of brown that you see here is that box! This is a very small card. Isn't the background just right? Now on to the next one. It is coincidentally a reminder of the granddaughter from the same family - she is younger than Dracula by about 8 yrs. I have the cutest photos of her at about 3 or 4 yrs old dressed up as the devil and yelling Arghh!!! Argh!! You guessed it, the pirate card I made this summer was for her!! She got such a kick out of the Argh!! Argh!!. Wait until she sees this one!! Because I have so many grandkids, I am just going to refer the two of them to my blog. Wouldn't be fair not to make them all cards, but lets face it, Halloween doesn't call for 15 cards!! (14 grands plus 1 great). So I colored Tilda, she is probably called Devil Tilda but don't know for sure, and then thought - now what? Again, I just couldn't find the right stuff for the card. So I thought maybe the black would be just right for Tilda, but this time, the image was much larger as I had made a scene, kind of. So I made it what I call a normal size - an even increment of 1/4" in both directions - much easier to add papers or do envelopes. I found some neat black ribbon - its a girl card! You have to have ribbon AND flowers! I punched out some leaves in black, added some i-rock gems, put some diamond stickles on her wings and silver on her trident. Lets not forget those little horns, either. And then decided it was wayyyy tooo white!! Again, I used the black soot. Only I was remembering a youtube video I saw recently about making lines kind of with ink. I didn't use any paper to mask the lines in - just the sponging tool. I really like the way it looks. Probably because it is "different"!! Can't believe how good the flowers matched in color - they are, by the way, more of my Wild Orchid stash!! You can hardly tell I have been using them!! So here she is!!

I am not even going to try lining them up - at least they are in here so you can see them!! Here are the copics just in case you are looking for colors. Edwin: YR07; E00, 11, 31, 35, 37; R20; B00, 02; C3, 5, 7; spica 21. Tilda: YR07, R05, 20; E00, 11, 31, 33, 35, 37; C3, 5; SPICA 00, 04.Please leave me a comment and tell me how you like them!! Hugs to you all - what a way to end a week! Barb F