Halloween Fun

Hi friends! I hope you're having a fabulous week so far. It's a short week for me, since the boys were off school Monday, and then again tomorrow and Friday. So this is what we refer to in our house as "fake Friday". Fake Fridays are the best, because we usually celebrate with an after-school coffee/hot cocoa run.

We're not trick or treating this year, so I've been trying to come up with some fun things for the boys. I think we'll do an egg hunt with plastic eggs filled with Halloween candy. I've also purchased some full-sized candy bars (Trevor says they taste better than the minis!) and little gifts, and thought I'd make some cards to add to their goodie bags.

My boys love cats, so this sweet little kitty from the Halloween Fun  set was my first pick. I was inspired by the Sassy & Crafty Color Me Monday challenge for both the colors and the bones of the layout. Of course, being me, I had to bring my own flair to it.

I colored the cat and the bat with Copic markers, then fussy cut and added some glitter accents. Then I masked off just the center strip of a card panel and did some ink blending with squeezed lemonade, carved pumpkin, shaded lilac, and dusty concord.  When the blending was how I liked, I then used one of the circle patterns in the new Comic Book Circles Stencil, and stenciled it in black a few times across the strip.  To set off the strip, I added thin strips of patterned paper to the top and bottom.  I couldn't decide on my third element for the sketch, but when I was looking for my bat stickers (which I never found), I ran across a packet of paper spider web doilies.  I decided to emboss the black one in black sparkle embossing powder to thicken it up and then added it as my third element.

The sentiment is embossed in white on black card stock and I added a little bling for accent.  The final touch was a soft touch of blending around the edges with shaded lilac ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fantastic day!

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