Maggie's Cat House: October 2017

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Happy Birthday Girl!

Hi my friends! Happy Halloween! I'm a little late getting this posted. Right now watching the Houston Astros v LA Dodgers. I won't say what the score is, I don't want to jinx them.

Today I have a card for Creatalicious - Anything Goes with the Optional Blue and Silver. As you can see, I skipped the optional. Ooops! I decided to do a double fold for this one.

Materials Used:

Image - Alicia Bel - Cumpleaños con Tarta (Birthday With Cake)
Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Going Gray
Designer Paper - Simple Stories - Vintage Bliss
Accessories - Recollections - Bling; Prima - Flower
Copic Markers - B0000, B000, B00; E50, E51, E53; E30, E31, E35; E37; R20, R21, R30; W0, W2, W4, Y18

Our sponsor for this challenge is

AliciaBel

Prize - 3 digis of winner's choice

I hope you'll pop on over to Creatalicious and check out what the rest of the Design Team has to show you. You could be the winner of this great prize or picked as one of the Top 3.

I am submitting this for the following challenges:

A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes

Creates and makes - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday - Anything Goes

Lemon shortbread - Anything goes

Shopping Our Stash - Halloween

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

This card was a Top 3 Winner at Through the Craftroom Door and will be included in their January/Februrary issue.

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Halloween Witchy - CYS

Hello my friends, Happy Sunday. Only two more days until Halloween! Do you celebrate? Do you still take the kids Trick or Treating or do something else - party, Trunk or Treat? I always loved to see the little children come by in their cute costumes. I dress up a little bit for work that I can get away with: my ghost earrings and Halloween socks

My card that I have to share with you is in celebration of Halloween. One of the groups I belong to on Splitcoaststampers.com is the Challenge Your Stash. Every month one of the members is the hostess and she picks the theme. Then each of us use only those items we already own to make our card - no using anything new. This month Jody was our hostess and her challenge was to make a Halloween card - either cute or spooky. As I said, I love Halloween, but I think my card is probably a little spooky, but hopefully also cute.

Materials Used
Image - Whimsey Stamps - Elf Queen
Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Orchid Opulence
All embellishments from my stash
Copic Markers -B0000; C00, C0; T5, T7; V01, V06, V12; Y0000, YG11, YG61, YG63

That's about it for now. Be back later with another card.

I am submitting this for the following challenges:
Come and Get It - Halloween
Glitter N Sparkle - Halloween
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Pile It on - October or Cobwebs/Spiders
The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Halloween Witch - Outlawz Twisted Thursday

Hi my friends, here I am again with a new card for The Outlawz - Twisted Thursday. This time I was invited to be a Guest Designer over on their blog. Come check it out. The twist for this Thursday is that there is NO twist - it's just Anything Goes so come and play along.

Materials Used:

Image - The Greeting Farm - Hallo Witch
Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Black Glimmer; Tangerine Tango
Designer Paper - From my stash
Accessories - Stampin Up - Spider Web Doily; Corner, black cat and stars from my stash
Copic Markers - E23, E25, E50, E51, E53; G21, G24; T4, T6; V15, V17; Y02, Y08, Y15; YR65, YR68

That's it for today. The sponsor this month at The Outlawz is The Greeting Farm and my image is one from their store.

The Greeting Farm

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Postage Due - CCC

Hi my friends. The 21st has come and gone. That's the day I was supposed to be getting this posted but I happened to be out of town this past weekend in San Antonio with my two daughters. They treated me to a girls' weekend for my birthday. It was fabulous. The weather was perfect and we three had a great time. Lots to do there and we only did a drop in the bucket. A river cruise along the Riverwalk was first, then the Alamo and the Tower of the Americas. Went to the Majestic Theater (beautiful) to see The King and I and then a trip to Market Square. In between these events was lots of walking and eating! The car stayed parked in the garage the whole time and lucky we had great weather with all the walking we did.

Back to the real world. Today I have a card for the Creative Card Chicks Monthly Challenge on Splitcoaststampers. Our hostess for this month is Sue aka stampinspooky. I must say this kit was a challenge for me, but once I thought about it and moved things around, it came together.

The stamps are from a Stampin Up set called Postage Due. I used Tangerine Tango for my card base and mat. The border was sent in the kit cut from the same color cardstock. The designer paper is from Stampin Up Venetian Romance. The butterflies came in the kit, but I added the bling to the large one and along the upper right edge. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with this one yet, so I didn't add a sentiment to the front. I'll figure that out later and put it on the inside.

Thanks for stopping by.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Mouse's Birthday - The Outlawz

Hi everyone and Happy Twisted Thursday! Yes, it's Twisted Thursday over on The Outlawz today. The Twist for today's challenge is to use torn edges and twine. Pretty easy peasy. I'll tell you how easy. I had all the pieces of this card sitting on my desk just waiting for some inspiration to put it together. So I tweaked it a little here and a little there and came up with this design - torn edges and twine!