Challenge: Nov. 5th Falling into Winter Hop!

I really thought I would be kinda glad when the 31 Days of Halloween were over but I wasn’t!  So how happy am I that we have a new hop + challenge starting up today at LeighSBDesigns!  

I was actually to busy looking at the Etsy  boutique and asking Leigh when the new collection went live to even craft anything in real time!  Thank goodness for Procreate and Leigh’s darling little Oddleigh Snowflake Elf and the new A Charming Christmas Compendium of Festive Sayings!  I was able to color up this cutie and add the fabulous sentiment!  We will be Falling into Winter with this festive Hop + Challenge presented by LeighSBDesigns!  This can be entered two ways at one linky party so check out the details HERE!  

The enchanting new A Charming Christmas Winter 2021 Collection is now at LeighSBDesigns and there is also a SALE!  The sale also includes past Christmas images and others, too!

 

Challenge: Oct. 31st!!! It's Halloween, Witches!

Hip hip hooray!  It's Halloween, Witches!👻  I tried to fit anything I hadn't used from Leigh's Once Upon a Nightmare Halloween Collection for 2021 and still didn't succeed but there are plenty more opportunities to try!

I used the following designs by LeighSBDesigns: Once Upon a Moonlit Night,  Fae Folk Silhouette, Wicked Witch & Hissy Cat,  Jack O Lantern Lace, Poison Drips Border, and bits from the Furness Forest Faerie Ring.  I linked each one separately for your shopping ease!  The sentiment is from A Wicked Compendium of Sayings for Halloween!  I grabbed the last Halloween paper pad at Michael's today and the glitter papers and background and the card behind the sentiment are from it.  It is the Enchanted Forest!

My last entry into the challenge portion of the 31 Days of Halloween Hop + Challenge hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  Thanks to Leigh, Val and the Wicked Bloggers who have inspired me so this Halloween season!

The Countdown to Halloween, 2021!

 

Cat Lovers Hop 2021 & The 31 Days of Halloween 🎃

I read on on a blog yesterday and remembered Noel telling me when she adopted Rosie, her black cat, this year that black cats are the least adoptable kitties at shelters.  Apparently people take the bad luck thing seriously which I do find hard to believe!  So tonight’s card is for all the black kitties in the world who I know for a fact party the hardest!!😽

The party 🎈 cat is from the Black Cats Collage Sheet by Gecko Galz! I used the words “Black Cats” from the title on the collage sheet and tried to match the font in Procreate to finish the sentiment!

This card is for the Cat Lovers Hop hosted by Janis at Her Peaceful Garden!  All the details are HERE!

It is also going for a catch up project at the 31 Days of Halloween Hop + Challenge hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  The linky party and details are HERE! 

LeighSBDesigns is a sponsor again at the Cat Lovers Hop!  Leigh has so many cute kitty images at her Etsy boutique!

I have had fun being a crypt keeper at the Countdown to Halloween again this year!

Challenge: Oct. 30th the 31 Days of Halloween 🎃 2021

 It is official!  My Cricut and I are on a break!!  Things were said today that need time to be forgotten on my side and things were DONE that need to be forgotten by the Cricut!  But not to be defeated I pulled myself together and came up with this little 5 x 7 inch canvas!

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I painted a very basic background for the Skeleton Cat Lace SVG Cutz and the Wicked Moon Furness Forestscape pieces I cut out from a printed page that I colored in Procreate. Both fantastic designs by LeighSBDesigns!  I wanted my kitty to be brave hence the sentiment which I typed up in Procreate and inked up with carved pumpkin Distress Ink.  This one goes to the challenge portion of the 31 Days of Halloween Hop + Challenge hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  The linky party and details are HERE!

Check out Leigh’s new  A Charming Christmas Winter 2021 Collection!  A sneak peek video is HERE!

The Countdown to Halloween, 2021 is HERE!

  

Challenge: Oct. 29th the 31 Days of Halloween, 2021!

You might remember I said "First off" in yesterday's post and probably thought I had lost the plot again!  Well, you were right!  Yesterday we went to the Mississippi Aquarium in Gulfport and it was such an awesome place!  Not huge but so well thought out and beautifully built in the "hurricane resistant" way that things must be built on the coast!  To my surprise they had started decorating for a Halloween event planned for Saturday and Sunday and to my delight it is being held again the following weekend so everyone will be off and we can go!!! Yay!  I digress again...the following photos are thanks to the Mississippi Aquarium decorators!

Noel had to tell me this was Jack and Rose from the Titanic!  I refused to watch the movie ever cause it was sad but somehow this was ok?  Maybe the Halloween has gotten to me! 👻
 

They even decorated the dolphin enclosure in the window where the dolphins go to talk to the staff!  I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't saw it but this dolphin was captivated by the set up and the after viewing!   Which beings me to zombies!!  I worked on the Gothic Gazing Globe 3D Stand by LeighSBDesigns!  I tried to get fancy like our girl, Leigh, did but the laugh was on me a bit!  The file worked beautifully alas my Cricut did not so I ended up winging it a tad but it looks awesome among my other Halloween decorations!  The Zombie Stare kept giving me spooky looks from my desk so he got a prime spot on this gazing globe!  He is also by Leigh!  I used my goodie bags in red behind the pumpkins and colored the zombie with Copics making sure to print a mirror image of him so he can be seen from every angle!

Lights on

Lights off

Lights off!  This one is for the challenge portion of the 31 Days of Halloween Hop + Challenge hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  Details and linky party HERE!

LeighSBDesigns has one more day or so on the sale HERE!

Check out the Countdown to Halloween, 2021!

Cat Lover's Hop & Oct. 7th Catch Up!

Today I wrote down a journal page dictated by Ichigo, my cat!  Was I surprised to hear what he was up to last night!!

I used a journal page for the background from the Frightfully Delightful Digital Junk Journal Kit by Gecko Galz!   The not so frightful but utterly delightful cat image is from the Black Cat Collage Set by Gecko Galz!  I have an old dictionary that has fallen apart and I used strips from moon-based definitions and inked with tea dye Distress Ink.  I inked both parts of the journal page with vintage photo and chipped sapphire Distress Inks before wrapping the bottom page with twine. I wrote the dictated part of the page with a black marker.  I am entering this at the 31 Days of Halloween Hop + Challenge hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  All the details and linky party are HERE!

I am also entering this at the Cat Lovers Hop hosted by Janis at Her Peaceful Garden!   All those details are HERE!

This one also goes to Ike's SUYP Cat Lovers' Challenge #71!

Check out the Countdown to Halloween, 2021!

 

Challenge: Oct. 28th The 31 Days of Halloween, 2021

I have to admit when I saw the sentiments I used tonight with the cats; I thought about cats and 9 lives and maybe normal 3 cats ago that way.  Then I saw Leigh's post with these and it made much more sense to me that the person/witch was probably normal 3 cats ago!!!😼  Cats are such complex creatures!!!

This is flip hanging card (I made that up) using Wicked Witch and Hissy Cat,  Furness Forest Faerie Ring,  Black Cat Set Sentiments and  Once Upon a Moonlit Night Colourize It. All by the faBOOlous LeighSBDesigns!  And there is still time to catch the sale HERE!

I never through away any left over pieces after assembling a SVG so thanks to that I had extra kitties (thanks Susan R. again for the stacked cats) and two parts of the Wicked Moon for a hanger!  This one is off the 31 Days of Halloween Blog + Challenge hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  All the details and linky party are HERE! 

This also is going to the 2021 Cat Lovers Hop hosted by Janis at Her Peaceful Garden!  Leigh and Ike are two of the fab sponsors for this hop!  Thanks for all the lovely comments and hellos from the blog hop participants!  I am playing catch up commenting but I will get there!

I am also entering this at Ike's SUYP Cat Lovers' Challenge #71

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Check out the Countdown to Halloween, 2021 👻