Halloween in May?

Why not ... it is certainly cool enough!!

I was inspired by a friend so I made this card ... sometimes the smallest things can get my creativity back on track!

I just love the colors and the magical feel of this witch.

The black lace, I coated with glue and dipped in jet black glitter ... very sparkly, but not obtrusive. Also, the diagonal swatch of patterned paper has raised purple flocking on it ... it is not just printed, and the texture is rich and luxurious.

Please enjoy!

Anna Banana

Go Bananas #9

Well - I have had a terrible time getting myself to get the Go Bananas challenge up this week.  I was thrown off by the short week and wasn't able to create a single thing the whole weekend :(

Then I had a horrible headache brought on by the weather, but I went to my craft room and took the challenge anyway!

I don't know that I actually like my card - chalk it up to the headache or whatever, but I'm not sure the leafy vellum works with the cuttlebug embossed paper.  I colored the scarecrow with my aquacolor crayons and a water pen, and I did a little hand doodling around the oval.  Not sure I like that either. 

Anna's Card:

Thanks to my design team - Karyn Campbell and Laura Murphy Ogden - for their great samples!

Karyn's Card:

Laura's Card:

Weekend stuff

Go Bananas Challenge:

I guess I should just make the challenge on Wednesdays since it always seems to get pushed back a day!

Anyway, I will have the challenge up tomorrow along with the Design Team samples.

Hideous Chicken:

This weekend was the housewarming and we delivered the Hideous Chicken (see earlier post for more details). 

Julie actually claims that she likes it!!  We ended up telling her that it was a gag gift, but she said that she liked everything about it... except that it was a rooster.

We will see if it gets re-gifted to me at Christmas :)  HAHAHA!!

Contest Winner!

I created a card as an entry in the home page contest for a group that I am in - and I won!!  ... 

But I was the only one who entered!  Oh well - I still like the card!

The theme was "Fall Foliage".

Here it is:

Anna Banana