You're Such a Witch!

Hi all!

Tomorrow's All Hallow's Eve! Spooky......Even though we don't celebrate Halloween in the Netherlands, my hubs has announced that we will be watching a Halloween movie on the night...gulp. Considering I'm a real scaredy-cat, I am not looking forward to that, but once I realised I would be able to eat Halloween-themed food, I warmed up to the idea more. Now that's a tradition I can get into!

Fab 'n Funky's new challenge is also Halloween-themed, We are sponsored by Bugaboo this week, who is also offering up a lovely prize for our winner! So share your lovely projects with us and we will come round and leave some DT love for ya :)

Materials:
* Bugaboo Fancy Sunbonnet Witch, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Graphic 45 A Place in Time & K&Co Halloween DPs
* Star Border Punch

Challenges:
* Crafts 4 Eternity (Halloween)
* Digi Galore (Halloween)
* Ladybug Crafts (Halloween and/or Die Cuts)
* Creatieve Zebra (Halloween)
* Gem of a Challenge (More than One Fold)
* Dream Valley Challenges (Halloween)
* Sparkles Forum (Halloween or Halloween Colours)
* Nadia's Challenge (Stitching & Stamp)
* Parade Your Crafts (Halloween or Autumn)
* Kaboodles Doodles (Halloween Anything Goes)

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Purple & Orange @ Halloween

Hi everyone,

Another week means another challenge at PCD, this time we are challenging you to use "Purple & Orange for a Halloween project". I made a little gift card, using half of the PCD bat frame, left over from when I made a little boo boo when trying to print several images out and ended up with only half of them on the paper.

Materials:
* Create & Craft CS
* Platypus Creek Digitals Bat Frame, coloured with Promarkers
* K&Co HW Mat Pad, edges distressed
* Sakura glitter gel pen to highlight the bats
* Eline Vintage Sentiment stamp

Challenges:
* Crafty Calendar (All Things Spooky)
* Crazy 4 Challenges (Orange/Black/Purple)
* Just Some Lines (Halloween)
* Sweet Stampin' (Halloween)
* ATC's with Attitude (Halloween/Anything Goes)
* Card Crafter's Circle (Halloween)
* Card Makin' Mamas (Time to get Spooky)
* Crafty Catz (Halloween)
* Our Craft Lounge (Scary & Spooky)
* Simply Create Too (Pumpkins)

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Coral's Treats

Hi everyone!

Another week has flown by and we have another challenge for you @ Delightful Challenges! This time, we are looking for "Halloween Treats", which I interpreted as a card-tea light gift set:

Materials card:
* Create & Craft CS
* Digital Delights Coral the Witch & Fall Sentiment set
* Studio Light & Art Talent DP
* MS Doily Lace Border punch
* Ribbon from my stash

Materials tea light:
* Art Talent DP
* Vintage Page Accents
* Memories Direct black flower
* Gem from stash

Our challenge this week is sponsored by Whiff of Joy, now who doesn't want to win a prize from WoJ?

Hope to see you there!

Challenges:
* Dream Valley (Halloween)
* No Matter Which Challenges (Halloween or Halloween Colours)
* Scrappy Frogs (Fall or Halloween)
* Craft Your Passion (Witches)
* Eureka Stamps (Halloween and/or Spooky)
* Hooked on Craft (Halloween)
* Lexi's Creations (Halloween)
* Cutie Pie (Halloween)
* There She Goes (Fall/Halloween)
* Victorine Stamps (Halloween)

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Halloween Christmas

Good morning all!

I actually managed to win a candy this week, I'm so happy about it! I won a lovely set of Promarker pens which just came in the mail. Lovely colours, I will certainly try them out real soon!

As it's Thursday, another challenge @ Delightful Challenges is in order. Our theme this week is Halloween Colours. We want to see your projects using Purple, Green and Orange. You can make a Halloween project, but you don't have to. I went the alternative route and made a Christmas card using these colours, which was quite challenging actually. I found it pretty difficult to make my project still look 'Christmassy', even though the colours weren't traditionally associated with Christmas. But I think I pulled it off at least to some extent, the brads definitely helped that along :) I also got to use my musical bars stamp I had bought ages ago, but never got around to using, that's always a satisfying feeling! Here's my card:

Materials: 
* Create & Craft CS
* Digital Delights Caroling Petey & Polly Set & Christmas sentiment set, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Studio Light & K&Co HW Mat Pad DP, plus some scraps from my scrap shoe box, distressed with green and black ink
* Posh Impressions Musical Notes rubber stamp
* Christmas tree brads from stash

We are sponsored by Digital Delights

You can win a 10 dollar gift voucher to spend in the store

I'm curious to see your makes, have fun creating!

Challenges:
* Fashionista Challenge (Anything Goes Christmas challenge + Blog Hop!)
* Hobby Vision (Non-traditional Christmas Colours)
* I Love Promarkers (Male Theme)
* Allsorts (Inspired by a Song) Caroling, Caroling
* Polka Doodles (Inspired by a Song) Caroling, Caroling
* Crafty Pad (Inspired by a Song) Caroling, Caroling
* By the Cute and Girly (Boys/Men)
* Hooked on Craft (Cards for Men)
* Dreamvalley (Celebrations)
* Lia Stampz (3 of Something) 3 brads, 3 colours

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Candy Corn @ Halloween

Good morning everyone!

Today I can share with you the new release @ Digital Delights and it's all about Halloween! We don't really celebrate Halloween in the Netherlands, but it's still fun to create with these lovely images. I've used one of September's New Release: meet Candy Corn Kiddles! I've made a little sweet wrapper to be wrapped around a bag of candy. I love what you can do with digi's, as I set the image within a frame from the Ghoulish Frame set, they originally come seperately. I also used the banner shape in Microsoft word as a frame for my Ghoulish Sentiment. Anyway, here's a picture of the finished article. 

Unfortunately, I had no idea what candy corn was, so asked some of my lovely teamies, did a bit off Googling and finally found what the little blighters look like. However, I did manage to colour the main image the wrong way around (It should be white, orange, yellow. I did white, yellow, orange). You would think the DP was a dead giveaway for the right colour order, but not so much in my case apparently. Oh well, never mind, I thought it still looked good :) As candy corn isn't sold here as far as I know, I've used a bag of mixed caramels as a substitute, but I am sure it would look even cuter wrapped around a bag of candy corn.

Materials:
* Digital Delights Candy Corn Kiddles, Ghoulish Frame set and Ghoulish Sentiment set, all coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs

<<These digis are all newly released, see this link for the full release!

* K&Co HW Mat pad
* Pebbles black chipboard chips
* Green washi tape from local department store chain (Hema)
* Ribbon, peel offs, gems from stash

Our sponsor this week is Digital Delights, there will be a 10 dollar store gift card in it for the winner of this challenge!

http://www.digitaldelightsbyloubyloo.com/

Challenges:
* Frosted Designs (Use Office Supplies, I've used staples to adhere the wrapper to the bag of sweets)
* Lollipop Crafts (Fall Frolic)
* Cutie Pie Challenge (No Flowers)
* Stamps & Fun = Creativity (Anything but a Card)
* Anything but a Card (Anything but a Card)
* One Stitch at a Time (Use a Digi.....again!)
* Hybrid Chick (Pop it Up, I've used foam pads to lift the image and the sentiment off the background)
* Lexi's Creations (Autumn Colours)
* Alota Stamps Challenge (Halloween)
* Mema's Crafts (Choice of 5 themes, I've chosen Holiday Bliss & Fall Colours)

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Let's Get Spooky!

Happy Monday everyone!

Well, we just had a lovely couple of days out, just lovely weather and great scenery! We rented a couple of bikes and explored the whole island, even dipped our toes in the North Sea. And on top of that, my post for Thursday published as scheduled, what more could a girl want eh? ;) Just one more week until it's back full force at work, can't say I'm looking forward to that right now but I guess I will be getting in the swing of things soon enough :)

Today I am sharing with you my first creation for the Platypus Creek Digitals DT, the challenge is "LET'S GET SPOOKY" this time around. I've decided to make a Halloween tag:

Materials:
* K&Co Roam Tag Pad, distress with TH Distress tool and inked with green and gold ink
* Platypus Creek Digital Halloween Cat & Cast a Spell digis, coloured with Spectrum Noirs & Promarkers
* Scalloped circle punch
* Purple and green ribbon, star-shaped and flower gems and green glitter from stash

I hope you can join us, you don't have to use a PCD image, but we'd love to see what you can do with them! The winner of the challenge will receive a free digi file of their choice. There's not only digis by the way, PCD also stocks digi papers and cutting files. If you'd like to see more, check our the shop website!

Challenges:
* Sweet Stampin' (Out of the Frame)
* Allsorts (It's a Gift)
* One Stitch at a Time (Use a Digi)
* Robyn's Fetish (Anything but a Card)
* Paper Crafting Journey (Anything Goes)
* Hiding in My Craftroom (Share a Challenge: Out of the Frame)
* QKR Stampede Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Pile It On (Something beginning with P: purple, Platypus Creek digi)
* Challenges for Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Great Impressions (Animals)

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Halloween Tag

Hello all!

Today we have a little in-between challenge for you over at Friendship's garden, we are challenging you to make a HALLOWEEN TAG! Use 1 image, 2 ricrac bits and 3 blingy embellishments, you can interpret that however you want. Just make sure that you don't use a stamp or digi for your main image and you're good to go! Here's my make:

Materials
* K&Co Christmas Cheer Tag Pad
* Image from the Internet (http://vintageholidaycrafts.com has it, among others)
* K&Co Halloween Paper Pad
* White pieces of ricrac from my stash, coloured with a little Vintage Photo Distress ink (love the duo tone it created!)
* Orange gems from my stash

Hope you like my tag, as we aren't celebrating Halloween over here, I am currently using it as a book tag :)

Challenges
* 2 Sisters (Pumpkin Patch)
* Allsorts (Halloween)
* Bearly Mine (Anything but a Card)
* Crafting for All Seasons (Halloween or Halloween colours)
* Divas by Design (Something Spooky)
* Fab 'n Funky (Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble)
* For Fun (Halloween)
* Hooked on Craft (Something Spooky)
* Little Darlings (Not square)
* Lollypop Crafts (At least 3 embellishments)

See you on Friday with my Card Makin' Mamas DT card, all I can say is that it's fit for a princess ;)

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Vintage Halloween

Good morning everyone!

It's time for our second challenge over at Friendship's Garden, we are challenging you to make a "VINTAGE HALLOWEEN" themed card. The winner can get her/his hands on a 10 dollar gift certificate for

as well as a guest designer spot with us. Hope you can play along this time around, we'd love to see your makes! Just make sure you don't use a stamped image!

This is my take on the challenge:

I am definitely enjoying making these Halloween-inspired cards, although it's a pity I won't be able to send them.

Materials
* Champagne base card, gatefold
* Image from the Internet (http://vintageholidaycrafts.com/ has it but I used one that isolated the image and not included the background, can't find that link anymore though)
* My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy True Blue DP
* Sew Easy Floss Light Brown
* Flower Punch
* Computer-generated sentiment
* Lace, Button & gems from stash

Challenges:
* CES (Forever Autumn)
* Crafty Boots (Autumn/Halloween)
* Deep Ocean (Fall Colours)
* Designed 2 Delight/Delightful Inspiration (Halloween)
* Dream Valley (Halloween)
* I Did It (Animals)
* One Stop Craft (Halloween)
* Really Reasonable Ribbon (Fun 4 Fall)
* Saturday Challenge (White + 1 other colour)
* Sentimental Sundays (Fancy Folds)

Thanks for looking, hope to see you all at the challenge!

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Halloween birthday

Good morning everyone!

It's time for another Card Makin' Mamas Challenge and you will not be surprised to learn that our theme this time around is "HALLOWEEN"! Always a difficult topic for me, as we don't really celebrate Halloween in the Netherlands. So I decided to make a birthday card, but with the Halloween colours and image! We are being sponsored by Bugaboo, they are offering 7 digis to the lucky winner! Great prize, no?

For your inspiration, they gave use some great images to work with. I've used Hween Brat Pumpkin, isn't she cute?

Materials
* Champagne base card
* Studio Light & K&C Halloween DPs (I am not even sure they're still making it, I picked it up from a craft fair about a year ago)
* Image Bugaboo Hween Brat Pumpkin (paper pieced with K&C Halloween DP), coloured with Promarkers
* Recollections Flower
* Sentiment from the internet (I can't remember where unfortunately)
* Peel-offs from stash

Challenges
* 2 Sisters Challenge (Halloween)
* Birthday Sundays (Fall Colours Birthday)
* ABC (Pumpkin)
* Crafting for All Seasons (Fall or Pumpkins)
* Crafts and Me (Orange)
* Cupcake Craft (Halloween)
* Fab 'n Funky (Fall Colours)
* For Fun (Pumpkins without Faces, I hope I qualify)
* Fussy and Fancy (Fall or Halloween)
* I Love Promarkers (Autumnal Colours)

Well, that's it from me so far. Stay tuned for our CMM blog hop, starting next week! Have a great weekend and stay warm :)

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