Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge August 2024

Hello friends.  It must not be too early for Halloween cards since the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge goes year round, and I have a new die set from Spellbinders that I just HAD to have and play with!

I fell in love with Spellbinders Woof or Treat die set and made two cards for my youngest grandson and youngest granddaughter.  Take a look...

Isn't this pooch wearing the ghost costume just the cutest?!!  I started my background with A Colorful Life's Cloud Edger and my orange blending brush, and added just a touch of pink in the middle since this one is for my granddaughter.  Next I stamped my silhouetted trees from Lavinia Stamps (Forest Scene & Small Trees) in black (can you see my masked full moon behind the tall trees?) and then also added a few bats from Waffle Flowers Happy Halloween stamp set.

I die cut my little pooch from different scrap colors and ink blended around some of the edges too, before adding foam tape to the back and adding him to the card panel.  I added the panel to a black card base and also added a bit of WOS to the eyes, nose & mouth of the pumpkin.  I think Miss Maddy (she'll be 4 in a couple weeks) will be tickled with this card that looks like her pup Oy Boy. :0)

I apologize for the color on this 2nd card...no matter how many times I edited it and re-took the photos, I couldn't get the color to show up on the rays!  They are more the color of the sun all the way to the edge!  But anyway, I think this one turned out pretty cute too and this pup is a dead ringer for my youngest grandson's dog Vinny!  

The stencil for my background is Gina K's Sunshine stencil and I used orange and yellow inks that were already on my blending brushes.  The bats are once again from Waffle Flower's Happy Halloween stamp set, and the "boo" die cut is from SSS's Boo Word Die.  

So two of the four Halloween cards I need to make for the grands done and it's only August...I'm quite proud of myself!  Haha!!  Yes, I am typically a procrastinator!!  Lots of fun inspiration right HERE, and this challenge is open till Wednesday, Aug. 28th @ 8:00PM.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

Hello friends.  Playing along with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge today and sharing a card I made for a sweet friend.

Here's what I came up with...

I was inspired/enabled by a friend (thanks Richard!) to buy Tim Holtz's Moon Masks and started my background by masking off the circle and then ink blending with lighter to darker blue, purple, and black inks.  I then splattered water to give the illusion of stars in the sky.  Once it was dry I used the 2nd part of the Moon Masks to create the look of the craters (?) or whatever they're called on the surface of the moon.  I just love the way this background turned out!

Next I added the cat (SU! Spooky Cat) that I stamped in black and then fussy cut out, along with a stamped pumpkin from Gina K's Breath of Sunshine stamp and die set, and then finished off with a pair of googly eyes and a die cut boo sentiment from SSS.  Not too spooky but definitely FUN!!

Lots of awesome Halloween inspiration from the DT and you can find it all right HERE.  This challenge is open till Saturday, October 28th.  

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

Hello friends.  Got a little bit of a head start on a couple Halloween cards this morning for my youngest grandbabies and the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge was the perfect place to enter them!

I loved the photo on the lower left, but I think that's a bit scary for my 3 week old grandson and 3 year old granddaughter, so I pulled out a couple fun images from CCC and Anita Jeram.

I had just received my Watercolor Plaid Stencils from the latest release at PTI, and had to try them out with a few Halloween colors!

I used Gina K inks for the plaid (Key Lime, Lucky Clover, Tangerine Twist & Tomato Soup) background and then used The Greetery's Crimped Rectangle Die to give some interest to edges of the plaid panel.  I also used The Greetery's Crimped Circle Die to stamp my greeting on and add the cute little mouse from CCC's Pumpkin Bucket mini stamp set.  A few Diso Ball Sequins (Gina K) and some black & white baker's twine finished off my first card.

Used the same Watercolor Plaid Stencil for this 2nd card, but just used residual ink left on my blending brushes for the colors.  I also used The Greetery's Postal Frame Dies on this card and then stamped and colored with my Copics the little bat carrying the pumpkin bucket from CCC's A Little Batty mini stamp set.

I took a closeup photo hoping you'd be able to see the WOS on the bats wings, but no such luck!  I added a few PFS orange sparkly gems to finish this one.

I would also like to enter these 2 cards into Darnell's NBUS #54 Challenge since I bought both of these mini Halloween stamp sets last year when they were on sale and just used them for the 1st time now.  Better late than never, right?  RIGHT??!!

The Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge is open till September 28, so check out all the fun inspiration and then play along! 

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge - Oct. 2022

Hello friends.  Tis the month for ghosts and goblins, so I'm playing along with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge where this month it's Anything Goes Halloween!

My sweet friend Michele let me borrow her Pumpkin House die set from PTI and here's what I came up with...

I started by blending my nighttime sky with a few different blue inks and then splattered some diluted white acrylic paint to look like stars.  Next came the really fun part of die cutting all 762 pieces (just kidding...not that many pieces, but there are a LOT!!) from white cardstock and then coloring them all up with my sponge daubers and DOX inks for most of the pieces, and my blending brushes and Copics for a few of the others!

 Once everything was arranged, I glued everything down and also added some glitter to the moon and two stars.  That cute little door on the pumpkin is put on with the 2 hinges so the door can actually swing open, but I opted to add a foam dot to the back to make it look partially open and not flap open!

My final touch was adding two vellum ghosts (PTI's Tiny Town: Spooksville Manor) because Michele and Bonnie had both used vellum ghosts on a couple cards they made and I just loved the idea...thanks ladies!!

This card will be heading its way to someone special later this month!  Thanks again Michele for letting me borrow this fun set...I loved playing with it!  There's also a lot more Halloween inspiration from the DT right HERE, so get out those Halloween bats and cats and everything else Halloweenish and play along!!  This challenge is open till Oct. 28.

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Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge - Oct. 2020

Hello friends.  There's a new challenge in town started by the lovely ladies from the Double D Challenge and it's exclusively about HALLOWEEN, and called the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge.  It's going to be around every month and will be anything goes as long as it's Halloween related!

I'm going to share the two cards I made for two of my grandbabies (the 3rd grandbaby is literally a baby (7 weeks old) and I will share her card next month) using a Double Z Fold technique...

Here they both are folded flat.  Just about everything I used on these cards are from SU! including the DSP (Spooky Night), the spider web embossing folder, the little spider tag, and the cat word stamp on the inside.

This one is going to my granddaughter, and she just loves cats, so I think this will make her smile!  This technique is a great way to use of scraps of DSP and is so simple to do!  It's basically a 11 x 4 1/4 piece of cardstock that you score in half (5 1/2) and then score again at 2 3/4.  The strip piece is also 11 inches long and scored at 5 1/2 and again at 2 3/4 and attached the opposite direction from card base piece.  The strip can be any width you like...mine measured at 1 1/2.

This one will be going to my grandson who loves anything with wheels!!  Figured a truck filled with pumpkins would fit the bill nicely and not be too scary for a 3 year old!  

Here is the mood board Darlene and Diane have for inspiration for this challenge...

Obviously I was inspired by the cat and the pumpkins, but again, anything Halloween goes.  This challenge is open till the 28th and you can play along right HERE.

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