ONE CARD FOR TWO CHALLENGES

Glad I'm finding time to enter a few challenges:

First up is the color challenge at Lily Pad Cards.  I love these colors Kathy has chosen.

Next is this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge:

And, here is my card:

An old Magenta stamp (one of my first stamp purchases many years ago!).  Versafine sepia ink and some pink flower trim from JoAnn's.

Enjoy your day!

SIMON SAYS HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE

This week's challenge for Simon Says is to make a Halloween or Goth card. 

I don't send Halloween cards often, but I recently ordered the So Scary cling set from Hero Arts when it was the stamp of the week.  For this card, I cut a piece of white cardstock and made a mask for the moon with a punched circle.  Then I colored the whole piece with distress inks (wild honey, spiced marmalade, rusty hinge and walnut stain).  I used the Tim Holtz distressing tool to rough up the edges and went back over them with walnut stain.  Flicked some water (maybe too much!) over the whole piece.  All images were stamped with Versafine black ink and then I added glitter to the tree and the bats.  I used a Magenta stamp to "ground" the tree.  Black pearls are from Hero Arts, also.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day!

MAKE IT AND MAIL IT #3

Lisa Spangler currently has her third Make It and Mail It challenge on her blog.  There is another milestone birthday in my family this week, so here is the card I am mailing out today:

Fairly simple; but that's the way I usually roll with masculine cards.  The patterned paper is from the DCWV linen closet mat stack.  Sentiment is Hero Arts.  I stamped the Magenta star very lightly with tumbled glass distress ink.  I have had the numbers for years and do not know the source for them.  Spellbinders Nestabilities labels nine dies.  Tea dye distress ink around the edge.

TFL!