Frank Says Trick or Treat

Hello Nomad friends.  Today I am over on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some sweet Halloween inspiration.  I'm sharing a treat holder I made using the awesome Frank by Carmen's Veranda for the 31 Days of Halloween event.

Just enough room for a fleet of raspberry Ferraris!!!  I used black card for my treat holder and stamped Frank twice so he's on both sides. 

I prettied up the sides with Lost Coast Designs Yourba Adire background stamped on a couple of orange scraps and added some orange and brown wool handles.  Add your chosen candy and ready to go!

 

 

Link up your stamped Halloween inspired projects.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars$$$$.    

 

Check back every day this month for awesome inspiration from the team

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Joining the fun at
Kreativtanten Challenge 82 - Autumn or Halloween
As You Like It Challenge - Fairies or Halloween Halloween over fairies anyday.  Halloween has awesome colours, spooky characters and candy!!!!
Inspiration Station October Challenge inspired by Halloween, treats, black and orange

Under a Kitty Moon

Hello Nomad friends.  Gosh Friday the 13th bwaahahahaahahahaaha.  Hope you have a wonderful day.  I'm back in a bootastic mood with a couple of dies from Poppystamps.  Oldies but goodies.

Navy base card and I cut a black panel using a Simon Says Stamp rectangle stitch die.  I cut Poppystamps House in the Woods into the black panel and backed the windows with some orange scraps.  I cut two different gold cardstock pieces with a 2.5" circle die, cut Poppystamps Kitty Cat Face into one and layered them together.  Then just a matter of layering everything up for a purrfect moonlit scene.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to scroll down for all the Cat Lovers Christmas fun.  Hugz

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Poppystamps Challenge 109 - Get Your Boo On
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Explore explore the magic under a Halloween moon
Kreativtanten Challenge 82 - Autumn or Halloween
As You Like It Challenge - Fairies or Halloween Halloween over fairies anyday.  Halloween has awesome colours, can be spooky, cute, fruity or fun and it's such fun to dress up and grow pumpkins.
Inspiration Station October Challenge inspired by Halloween, black and orange

Oh Christmas Tree

Hello Nomad friends.   Christmas continues here on my blog but the cats are out at the moment.   Scroll down for Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge fun and a giveaway from me.  Oooh look it's that lovely Marianne Designs Ribbon Weaving die again with some pretty textured ribbon with a vintage look.

I used a patterned card base, a layer of scripty card, another layer of scripty card, the ribbon weave die cut from christmas tree patterned paper and it's topped with Memory Box Frosted Christmas Tree cut from textured white card and smeared with blue ink. 

Thanks for dropping by.   Hugz

Joining the fun at
Outside the Box Challenge 100 - Teriffic Trees
Die Cut Divas Challenge - Layered Die Cuts
Allsorts Challenge Week 749 - Vintage
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas
Papercraft Challenge 98 - Ribbon

Rubber Dance Sponsors the Christmas Cat Lovers Hop

Hello Nomad friends.  As you may know The Christmas Cat Lovers Challenge, which is being hosted over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge blog, is in full swing and Rubber Dance is one of the sponsors.  For many years in October Janis Woolbright hosted the Cat Lovers Hop on her blog. Janis was a great friend, inspiration and support to many. She passed away suddenly in January 2023 and this event is a tribute and remembrance of her. Rubber Dance was one of the sponsors of the Cat Lovers hop for many years and Susanne has kindly offered a €10 voucher to the shop. There are lots of other sponsors too, so do hop over and check out all the fun and games.  Today Rubber Dance is a featured sponsor and I have made this card using a stamp from Garden Cats and stamps from Textured Xmas Trees for the tree and the cat's hat!!!

 

I did a fair bit of outside the box thinking for this card.  The cat is the cat, but I wanted a hat, so a Textured Xmas Tree coloured red with a bit of hand wiggle cut white glittery card for the fluffy brim seemed the thing.  For the mat, upon which I set the cat, I used a grid stamp from Mixed Media Marks, stamped on white card, deckle cut and roughly coloured with green Promarker.  I stamped and fussy cut another of the Textured Xmas Trees and coloured it.  I decided it needed a pot and used the large round bauble from Watercolor Xmas, with the top cut off and stamped with a snowflake from Whimsical Winter.  The sentiment is a collaboration of two stamps from Purr-fect! and Christmas Tags stamp sets.

Hop over to the Christmas Kickstart Challenge and check out all the awesome fun and games.  There be prizes.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Joining the fun at
The Christmas Kickstart Challenge 79 - Cat Lovers Christmas
Krafty Chicks Challenge 685 - Christmas
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas

Lost Coast Designs Sponsors the Christmas Cat Lovers Challenge

Hello Nomad friends.  As you may know The Christmas Cat Lovers Challenge, which is being hosted over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge blog, is in full swing and Lost Coast Designs is one of the sponsors.  For many years in October Janis Woolbright hosted the Cat Lovers Hop on her blog. Janis was a great friend, inspiration and support to many. She passed away suddenly in January 2023 and this event is a tribute and remembrance of her. Lost Coast Designs was one of the sponsors of the Cat Lovers hop for many years and Linda has kindly offered $10 of stamps of your choice from the shop. There are lots of other sponsors too, so do hop over and check out all the fun and games.  Today Lost Coast Designs is a featured sponsor and I have made this card using a stamp from More Cats with Small Snowflakes in the background.

The Happy Christmas is also a Lost Coast Designs stamp and I hand wrote the other words.

 

Hop over to the Christmas Kickstart Challenge and check out all the awesome fun and games.  There be prizes.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
The Christmas Kickstart Challenge 79 - Cat Lovers Christmas
Christmas Craft Creations Challenge - Monochromatic
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas

Janis' Tribute Challenge

Hello Nomad friends.  This month we are remembering our friend Janis Woolbright who passed away in January this year.  Many of you may have known Janis from her Cat's Lovers Hop, or crossed her path on various challenges, or you may have been the recipient of love and comments from her.  Jo is hosting a memorial Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge over at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge and today we are launching an additional game for you to play along with.  I have gone though some of Janis' blog posts and pulled out a number of cards featuring techniques and themes that Janis liked to use and I have put them together in a Tic-Tac-Toe board.  This game is independent of the main Christmas Kickstart Cat Lovers Challenge and has it's own linky.  You can make a card for the Tic-Tac-Toe and also enter it in the main challenge if you also include a cat, and you can link it up to other challenges on other sites.  This of course means you actually have more chances at all the amazing sponsor prizes that are available this month at Christmas Kickstart Challenge cos there will be a prize for this game too.   Here's the board I put together with Janis' awesome cards.

To enter this challenge make a CHRISTMAS CARD using three options from the board on a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line.  The options are in white writing at the bottom of each picture.
Max 3 entries per person.

The Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge is open until

Monday, 30th October - 11.55 pm BST

I made an inspiration card using the vertical line Patterned Paper, Scraps and Stamp

 

I used a brown card base and die cut a pennant shape from christmas tree paper.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Happy Cat on a scrap of watercolour paper couloured with orange distress ink and spritzed liberally with water.  I added a santa hat borrowed from Carmen's Veranda's Elf stamped on a scrap of white and cut Poppystamp snowflakes from more white scraps.  

Happy Cat obviously likes snow.

 

Lost Coast Designs and Poppystamps are two of the awesome sponsors of the 
Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge

Remember you don't have to have a cat on your Christmas card to enter the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge but if you do use one it makes it eligible for the main linky too. 

If you do enter the Tic Tac Toe challenge pop back here and leave me a comment telling me you entered and I will put your name in a random draw to win Poppystamps Whittle Cutie Cat die. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Happy Cat is joining the fun at
The Christmas Kickstart Challenge 79 - Cat Lovers Christmas
Die Cut Divas Challenge - Layered Die Cuts
Allsorts Challenge Week 749 - Vintage went for a sort of vintage look
Show Us Your Pussies Challenge 93 - Furrything Goes Meow-Loween

Shake Your Shrine

Hello Nomad friends.  It's Day 8 of the 31 Days of Halloween over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  I decided to make a shaker card!  It seemed a good idea at the time!!  I have a bit of a love hate relationship with shakers.  This one I love.  And no leaks!!!  

I've used Lost Coast Designs Goth Shrine ATC size which fit ted perfectly with this Marianne Design ribbon weave die.  I stamped the Shrine with black ink, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.  I used a circle die to cut out the middle bit.  Don't lose that!  I die cut the ribbon weave panel from black card, wove with orange polka dot organza (thanks CCC Carol), highlighted the pierced border with a white gel pen and added some orange enamel dots.   I cut a piece of black foam slightly smaller than the panel and die cut a hole in them both to line up with the hole in the shrine.  I glued the foam and the panel on my black base card and then glued the piece I cut out of the shrine in the middle of the hole.  I added my sparkly bits, glued on a piece of acetate and added the shrine on top.  Spooktacularly sparkly.  Say that three times fast bwahhahahaha.

 

 

Link up your Halloween inspired projects for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars$$$$.  Anything related to the season, spooky, fruity, fun, scary or cute.  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  Check back every day this month for awesome inspiration from the team.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
As You Like It Challenge - Fairies or Halloween Halloween over fairies anyday.  Halloween has awesome colours, can be spooky, cute, fruity or fun and it's such fun to dress up and grow pumpkins.
Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge October - Anything Halloween
Inspiration Station October Challenge inspired by Halloween, skulls, black and orange
Papercraft Challenge 98 - Ribbon
Die Cut Divas Challenge - Layered Die Cuts