Thinking of You

 Happy Fright Night aka Halloween Night aka just another Saturday Night at Casa Miguel y Amiga. LOL   Our porch lights are off and we are not answering the door. Basically hiding out. We are in our 9th week of Keto and candy anywhere in this house would not last long, so ya gotta do what ya gotta do sometimes. Besides, we have our hands full resetting all of our many clocks back one hour. And then there's the first full moon on Halloween in over 70 years....

I am popping in to share this card I made for a friend. The Oddball Art digital image was October's Outlawz Progressive Freebie Challenge image. We were given a regular version and a scarred-up goulish-goth version of the girl -- I went with the regular.

  

    

I used a Split Coast Stamper sketch from 2007 and was not disappointed, resizing to A2 in PSE and following to the letter. While I did not use an Autumn-themed image, I did use Autumn colors.

I wanted to show you what the printed image looked like without all the hearts covering her head. So I'm looking at what I have there and that is exactly how the punched hearts idea came to me. As if to say, Thinking of You With Love plus covering up the open skull haha because I did not want to draw on the image and I almost felt like I had no choice, except maybe cover it up with a big bow or something.

So, I got out my trusty old tiny heart punch and some peachy stash paper and punch away, adhering with glue dots. 

I began with a grey SU card base and layered on some burnt orange scrap SU that I edge-distressed with ink. Then I added a layer of some Junkitz PP, edge-distressed with my Tim Tool and ink. The vertical focal image strip is matted with more of the burnt orange and I've inserted a Spellbinders labels die cut I colored burnt orange as a half mat for the sentiment die that I colored in Caramel Promarker (shoulda used Khaki instead, but nothing is wasted here aka too lazy to get up and redo.)

I colored her up with Promarkers that I took the time to color-match to the paper. I'm saving my notes with the remainder of this collection - it really does make a difference, I think. The MSE sentiment was stamped and heat-embossed, then colored. Finally, the hearts were added.

I included the vendor strip underneath this photo of the inside of the card to show you how old this patterned paper is -- 2005! I am nearing the end of this collection, just took me 15 years, lol. At any rate, I used a plethora of sentiment stamps here from Crafty Secrets, EKS, MFT, MSE and Wordsworth.  I stamped on another ink-edged piece of the Junkitz,

And on the back still another piece of ink-edged Junkitz, along with a scrap strip of SU I stamped the EKS siggies on and a few more hearts to embellish. The distressed look on these papers is part of the design - I only distressed the edges.

And a final view.  Every month I put this challenge off to the last minute because I am uncomfortable using images I wouldn't normally buy which is exactly why I'm doing it, hahaha. And every time I'm glad I went through with it for the most part, this time included. I do like this card and am happy to send it out. I had previously always thought of this paper collection as masculine but I now feel more comfortable with "feminizing" it. 

I will leave you with a very fuzzy iphone pic capturing that full moon rising from over our neighbor's house. Hope you enjoy your evening and thanks for visiting. I will be back tomorrow with my design make for Love to Craft and maybe more in between as I still have a bit of backlog to post. Stay safe and well! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.  Split Coast Stampers Sketch #SC116

2.  Outlawz October Progressive Freebie Challenge

3.  Funkie Junkie Challenge: Home is Where the Heart Is -- I have a distressed design using hearts. Max of 10 challenges total.

4.  Creative Fingers #196: AG

5.  Die Cut Divas October: Thoughts of Autumn Fill the Air -- final entry #4/4. I've used Autumn colors and 2 nested dies and a heart punch.

6.  Paperbabe #131: Autumn Photo Inspiration -- I was inspired by the colors and feelings of warmth  

7.  #TTTC088: Featured Designer Felicita -- I chose bottom row across:  Rust / Any Shape Die / Free.

8.  Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 42 -- Image and some of the mats are coloured with Promarkers.

9.  Double D Challenge: What October Means to Me -- It used to mean our most social month of friends, festivals, concerts and anything fun because it's usually the first month the temps cool down and the weather's wonderful down here on the Texas Gulf Coast. This October thanks to COVID, it means staying home and using my hands to craft cards to send my friends to let them know I'm thinking of them and missing them (plus peachy pink hearts for Breast Cancer Month).