There's Magic in the Air!

Good evening crafty friends!

Hope everyone is well. Phew, we've made it - half term beckons, so it's a week off from the alarm clock! :oD If you've already had half term in your area, sorry :o( !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's New Release Inspiration time at All Dressed Up and Wendy has drawn 4 super-cute digis that are perfect for October crafting - you may have already seen the first New Release Inspiration post (click here if you haven't as you don't want to miss the wonderful creations by half the Blog DT!) and now it's time for the other half of the Blog DT to have fun with these images:

Top left is Double the Trouble, top right is Have a Magical Evening, bottom left is Little Birdie and bottom right is Monsterific and if you click on each image name you will taken straight to that image in the shop!

I've been working with Have a Magical Evening and here's my card:

My card recipe is as follows:

• Card base - is black cardstock which has been cut, scored and folded to make a DL cardbase
• Design Paper - is by Summer at the now closed Summertime Designs. This paper comes from Summer's digital kit Happy Halloween and is called Web Paper
  
• Image - is the super cute witch Have a Magical Evening drawn by Wendy at All Dressed Up Digital Stamps. I've brought this swinging witch to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens in the listed colours before adding a dash of white glitter to the moon and stars:
• Skin - FS2, FS3, FS4, TN4, FS8 (Blush)
• Hair - IG1, IG2, IG3, CR1, OR3, TN4
• Hat - FS5, CR1, OR3, TN4, TN8, IG3, IG5, IG7, IG9
• Dress and Boots - IG3, IG5, IG7, IG9
• Underskirt and Stockings - FS5, CR1, OR3, TN4, TN8
• Moon - IG1, IG2, IG3
• Outline - IG1, IG2
• Black Ribbon - from my stash

I hope I've inspired you to head over to the Esty Store and pop this cutie in your basket, but if you're in need of further inspiration please head over to the Blog and check out the other beautiful creations by my clever teamies.

Don't forget that we have our Anything Goes with an All Dressed Up Image Challenge on the blog until 14th November 2016 and the Facebook Dressie Girls are hosting their Halloween/Autumn challenge until 31st October 2016.

I've been inspired by and would like to enter the following challenge:

• Sketch #374 at Tuesday Morning Sketches - I have flipped the sketch so my image and bow are on the opposite sides to yours!
• Halloween Colours at Spectrum Noir Facebook Page

I would also like to enter the following challenges:

• October Challenge - Halloween at Crafty Calendar Challenge
• Halloween at Di's Digi Designs Challenge
• Challenge #120 - Black + One other Colour at Inkspiration Challenges
• Aloha Friday Challenge #83 - Halloween at Kitty Bee Designs
• Challenge #151 - Orange you glad it's Autumn (with ribbon) at Really Reasonable Ribbon
• Halloween at The Stamping Boutique Challenge
• Challenge #448 - Halloween at Cute Card Thursday
• Challenge #269 - Halloween at The Paper Shelter

Hope you have a great weekend!

Hugs, Helen x

Halloween

This is my second post of the day - please scroll down to see my first post

Good morning my crafty friends and I hope you are well. Firstly I must apologise for the delay (again!) in this post going out. We are in the middle of redecorating, and I am down to sharing the computer with the rest of the family in the dining room ... which doesn't help when my other half doesn't know about my Design Team positions!!!!

What an intricate web I've woven, which is perfect for the new challenge that Susan has set over at Lexi's Creations - for this fortnight, our challenge is Halloween.

Our wonderful sponsors for this challenge are the fabby team at Joanna Sheen who are offering a £10 gift voucher to their wonderful craft store for our lucky winner. Now that's a prize worth playing for!

 



Front of Gift Pouch

Now I must confess to not knowing what to create for this challenge as we don't celebrate Halloween! However, on the day when I was sitting down to the week's DT projects I saw a great post on my crafty friend Annette's blog ... and she was faced with exactly the same dilemma. So (deep breath here!) I have cased her gift pouch project and using lovely seasonal image from Lexi's on-line store this is what I've made to inspire you:




Back of Gift Pouch

My Gift Pouch recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - is Neenah Classic Crest Card onto which I printed my Gift Pouch Template and Images. I the made masks for the images using repositionable sticky notes which I cut out and put over my images, before running the card through the printer again to print out my background.
• Gift Pouch - is Treat Tent template from WendyBird Designs. This download comes with five different window shapes including a circle. I used a freebie from the Barry Spooky Bats set at Stamp Fairy which is 2 bats, some clouds and a moon. I superimposed this image onto the circular window shape so that the moon became my cut out section. As one bat was flying across the moon, I cut it out and repositioned it on one of the clouds.
• The bats were coloured using my Spectrum Noir Pen in True Black
• The clouds were lightly coloured using my chalks in Grey and Black 
• Design Paper - Summer at Summertime Designs and is called Web Paper from the Happy Halloween set ... this is just perfect for this treat bag as I wanted my girl vampire to really stand out.
• Image - This gorgeous girl is called "Little Minx" and she is one of the newly releases created by Lexi at Fairy Dust Crafts. I brought this cutie to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours:
• Skin - FS2, FS3, PL4
• Hair - EB1, PL4, True Black, Colourless Blender
• Dress & Suspenders - PL4, PL5, Silver Gel Pen
• Boots - True Black, Silver Gel Pen
• Necklace - True Black, Silver Gel Pen
• Stockings - True Black
• Wings - IG4, Silver Gel Pen
• Outline - IG1
• Ribbon - Black Organza ribbon from my stash

Head on over to Lexi's Creations and see how incredibly talented team-mates and our fabulous Guest Designers Carol and her 12 year old Granddaughter Alexis are celebrating Halloween - don't forget to come back and share your projects with us! You've got until Saturday 27th October 2012 to link your cards up.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Challenge 19 - Spooky at Stampin' for the Weekend
• Challenge #39 - Halloween at Creatalicious Challenges
• Challenge #29 - Halloween at The Cutie Pie Challenge
• Fortnightly Challenge 47 - Halloween and/or Autumn at Forever Friends
• Challenge 43 - Halloween at Dream Valley Challenges
• Too Cute To Spook at Di's Digi Designs
• Fall/Halloween Challenge at Scrappy Frogs Challenge - Second Entry
• Challenge #185 - BOO-tacular at Stamptacular Sunday
• Challenge #44 - Black, White and One Colour - Card Crafter's Circle
• Challenge 87 - Things with Wings at Top Tip Tuesday Second Entry My TOP TIP for you here is make your design all on one layer (your base card) by printing out the template and images on your base card. Print this out again onto some spare card with a sticky note (or 2 in the case of my Little Minx image!) over the images making sure that some of the sticky will be there once you cut round your image. Fussy cut round the image prints on the sticky notes and position them over the image prints on your base card. Then run the card through the printer to print out your background. Peel off the sticky notes and, hey presto, your image looks like it's superimposed onto the background!

Hugs, Helen x