R.I.P. Halloween card (with an unexpected BONUS)

I am super excited to bring to you this Spooky Halloween card I made last night when I couldn't sleep at 2:00am.  All week long I had been pondering the idea of what I was going to make for the Macabre Monday Challenge HDH #149 - Bare Bones.  The challege requires you to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that uses NO dimensional embellishments.  No rhinestones, no pearls, no ribbon, and no chipboard.  It doesn't have to be a single layer card, just NO bumpy bits!

I started to go through my stash of stickers and found some awesome Halloween rub-ons that I've had for a couple of years now.  I bought them from Michael's during one of their after Halloween clearance sales for just .19 cents. marked down from .99 cents.  The BONUS though is I didn't even know this, but they GLOW IN THE DARK!!! Check it out below.

I used these items to create this card:

• Black, lime green and white cardstock
• EZ Rub Ons - skull, arm, tombstomes, moon, and bats
• glow-in-the-dark craft paint - stars (which I painted and hand cut)
• misc. clear Halloween stamps - inside

Here's a look at the inside of the card:

 

I am entering this card in the following:

• Haunted Design House - Macabre Monday - HDH #149 - Bare Bones - open til 9/9
• Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes - open til 9/10
• CardzTV - Happy Holidays - Pick One - open 9/13
• Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Challenge - Halloween - open til 9/13
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday - 1000 Post Linky Party - open til 9/30
•  Getting Cricky - Simply Sunday Challenge - Happy Fall Y'all - open til 9/30

Thank you so much for stopping and checking out my R.I.P. Halloween card.

 

Halloween Owl Easel card

I'm sharing today a card I made for my mother-in-law.  She is a HUGE fan of owls and I wanted to make her a card for Halloween, especially this year because it is the 1st Halloween since her husband passed away.  I really just wanted to let her know that we are thinking of her, even on a silly day such as Halloween. 

I am also entering this card in a couple of challenges:

• Cardz TV Challenge #92 - "Hootie Halloween" - make a Halloween card using an owl from any Cricut cartridge and use any color you'd like
• Paper Playtime Ch #57 - use Black, Orange, and Purple on your project
• MAG Challenge by the Page #47 - use ONLY Cricut Cartridge Create-a-Critter page 25
• Love to Crop Challenge -Embossable You - Create a card, layout, or 3D project with embossing
• Craft Spot by Kimberly - Monday Challenge #29 - Color challenge (black with orange, purple or green)

I used these items to created this card:

• Design Studio
• Create-a-Critter Cricut cartridge
• Cuttlebug
• Swiss dots embossing folder - used on the outer layer of the owl
• Script texture embossing folder - used on the tree limb
• Stickles - black and purple on the owl
• Circle stencil - used to hand cut out the moon
• E-Z Rub On - for the bats on the moon
• Black, orange, 2 types of purple, white cardstock
• Pattern Paper - from Recollections Midnight Magic

The inside I used these items:

• white cardstock
• black brads
• Martha Stewart corner punch
• misc. Halloween stamps

Thank you so much for looking!