31 Days of Halloween Has Begun!

Welcome Frightful Fiends and Scary Ghoulies to

31 Days of Halloween!
This is a month long tribute to Halloween and Day of the Dead sponsored by Smeared and Smudged and Cajun Stamping Queen. Every day in October we will both be featuring a seriously scary, creepy, or haunting project for you to view.

To get the spooky schedule of events, please read my sidebar where you'll find all the information about challenges, projects, and the HUGE BLOG CANDY worth well over $150 that we will be giving away to one lucky follower at the end of the month!

Since today is Thursday, we have coordinated our projects and offer you a themed challenge. Our cards today are based around skulls, and your challenge is to share your own skull based project by linking it to a comment at the end of this post! Easy peasy...

Here's my skull themed card:

*click for close up view*


I challenged myself to make a Halloween card without using black! This was a little difficult for me since black is my favorite neutral to use, but I think it turned out pretty good. The card features a skull and crossbones image from Prickley Pear that I embossed onto my vellum and colored with prismacolor pencils.

The vellum was hand colored, and the embellishments include handmade sculpture paper, brads, eyelets, and dark brown raffia ribbon.

If you'd like to participate in the challenge, link to your finished skull project in a comment below this post. And don't forget, any comment will get you Blog Candy points! See you tomorrow!

PCP Bombshell Challenge- Song Lyrics

I know, so many posts in such a short time! I've been a busy, busy girl! So on the PCP Bombshell group, Kathi put out a challenge for us to use song lyrics on a project, which I think is totally cool. There were so many songs that I wanted to use and I listen to a wide variety of music; but when I thought of this song an idea immediately popped into my head. The song is "In This Twilight" by Nine Inch Nails, and I think you can see the lyrics clearly in the pictures. If not click on the pic and it will take you to a larger view.

I decided to make a triptych card with a jeweled latch and black and white sculpture paper for the outside. The inside features black and white distressed tiles that fade up into a sky and a bombshell butterfly that uses stamps from the Butterfly Queen Set. The wings are from Kimberly Crick.

I thoroughly enjoyed this challenge and it made me want to use lyrics as inspiration again in the future. Thanks Kathi!