Halloween

Spotlight on Vellum

October 3, 2026 · Leave a Comment

Welcome stampers!

We are a group of stampers who get together weekly in blog form to create with a theme each week. This is our weekly Create with Stamping Friends Saturday blog hop!

Weekly, we share various themes to inspire your creativity. This week, we are creating cards with vellum!

Vellum doesn’t have to scary, or does it?

I went with a spooky Halloween card since it is October and halloween is just around the corner!

I started with cutting a scalloped rectangle from the Scalloped Christmas Dies in Vellum, then I decided what pattern paper to use with it.

I liked how this web pattern from the Frightfully Fun Designer Series Paper fit the inside nicely.

Of course, it needed a spider for the web. That came from the Web of Fun Dies. I curled his legs, adding a double stack of Black Dimensionals for big added height.

The sentiment is a well used one for me from the Oh My Fright Dies.

The addition of the silver sequins really made the card pop! It was just what the card needed!

Be sure to go around and check us all out to see how we used the theme this week! We also love to read comments too. Take a few minutes to say HI, or why you liked our project for the week.

Next up is Melissa Davies, back is Cindy Elam. Keep going to see all of us.

See you next week with more great inspirations!

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Happy MeowOween

September 17, 2026 · Leave a Comment

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

This week, our challenge for you is to create a card with these colors –

Yup, I went with a cat. And, Halloween.

I have been itching to use these dies for something other than Christmas! Today it was Halloween and a cat!

I cut shapes from the dies and pieced together the cat quilt style!

I placed the kitty on one of the Scalloped Christmas Cheer Dies to mimic a quilt.

For the sentiment, I got creative and cut letter to change the Halloween to MeowOween.

Just as cute and clever as can be!

Check out the other Design Team’s use of these colors this week on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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BOO to You

August 27, 2026 · Leave a Comment

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

This week, our challenge for you is to create a card with this layout –

I got a little frightfully creative this week –

The pun and paper is from the Frightfully Fun Designer Series Paper. I took two of the same patterns and cut through them and put them back together for this card.

The dies come with one ghost. I wanted one facing the other way. After die cutting it, I flipped it over, placed a piece of paper on top and ran it back through me die cut machine to remove the edge. Worked like a charm!

The eyes are black dimensionals! Also, another great tip!

Check out the other Design Team’s use of these colors this week on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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CASE Yourself

August 8, 2026 · 1 Comment

Welcome stampers!

We are a group of stampers who get together weekly in blog form to create with a theme each week. This is our weekly Create with Stamping Friends Saturday blog hop!

Weekly, we share various themes to inspire your creativity. This week, we are CASEing ourselves and creating cards!

I wanted to share a Halloween card so I went waaaay back to 2021 to this –

I loved the layout of this card. I used our current Frightly Fun Designer Series Paper, plus the coordinating bundle to create this similar card –

I mixed die cut images with a hand cut kitty. It was just too cute not to add it!

To create the eyes on such small die cut pieces, I used the two different colored dimensionals to help me out!

I am really pleased how this turned out! What do you think?

Be sure to go around and check us all out to see how we used the theme this week! We also love to read comments too. Take a few minutes to say HI, or why you liked our project for the week.

Next up is Melissa Davies, back is Cindy Elam. Keep going to see all of us.

See you next week with more great inspirations!

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Happy Halloween

July 23, 2026 · Leave a Comment

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

For the next few weeks, we are CASing the catalog, we can use the stamp set, the colors, the layout or a combination of some or all. Here is this week’s new layout challenge to spark your creativity.

This week, I just went with the layout –

I cannot resist an adorable cat as you know! And this one peeking out from under the hat is just like our recent cat who is mischievous as all get out!

The two patterns and the cut cat under the hat came from the Frightfully Fun Designer Series Paper that was just recently released. It is just as cute as can be! And there are dies for the cat as well! Even better!

For some added fun, I die a few bats to add to the card. Since these eyes are extremely small, I used a Black Stampin’ Dimensional behind them! It is a brilliant hack as I wanted these elevated anyway!

This is a really fun card, wouldn’t you agree?

Check out the other Design Team’s use of these colors this week on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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Happy Halloween

October 25, 2025 · Leave a Comment

Welcome stampers!

We are a group of stampers who get together weekly in blog form to create with a theme each week. This is our weekly Create with Stamping Friends Saturday blog hop!

Our theme this week is Halloween cards!

I absolutely love the Sweet & Spooky kit not for treat holders, those are adorable too, but for card making.

I’ve made three cards using the kits contents and just an added card base. Here is one of those cards –

Just adorable. All I added here was a Bubble Bath card base. Everything else came from the kit. I simple cut the boxes up, hence the score lines if you look close enough.

Think outside the box with our kits. You can really show off your creativity.

Be sure to go around and check us all out! We also love to read comments too. Take a few minutes to say HI, or why you liked our project for the week.

Next up is Melissa Davies, back is Cindy Elam. Keep going to see all of us.

See you next week with more great inspirations!

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I appreciate your support of my home based business. Orders like yours help keep me craftin’ with my senior volunteer work and keep my Card Buffets going. Thank you in advance!

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Halloween Glam

October 18, 2025 · 1 Comment

Welcome stampers!

We are a group of stampers who get together weekly in blog form to create with a theme each week. This is our weekly Create with Stamping Friends Saturday blog hop!

Our theme this week fancy Halloween cards with a little glam.

I think this is more glimmer than glam – and oh, so cute!

This cute little mummy was made using the Gingerbread Man Dies and Two Tone Basic Beige card stock.

I placed him on a fun fold card based with an embossed panel. I used the Damask Designs in Basic Black Two Tone card stock that I lightly sanded. It created such a spooky background.

The ‘glam’ on the card came from the BOO sentiment and the Shimmer Foam Star Stickers.

It’s just soo cute!

Be sure to go around and check us all out! We also love to read comments too. Take a few minutes to say HI, or why you liked our project for the week.

Next up is Melissa Davies, back is Cindy Elam. Keep going to see all of us.

See you next week with more great inspirations!

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I appreciate your support of my home based business. Orders like yours help keep me craftin’ with my senior volunteer work and keep my Card Buffets going. Thank you in advance!

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Happy Halloween

September 25, 2025 · 4 Comments

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

Here is this week’s new color challenge to spark your creativity –

These colors truly challenged me! But, I am soo pleased with what I came up with! Take a look –

The Granny Apple Green and Highland Heather are classic Halloween colors for me. The Misty Moonlight threw me off. I got creative and used the Just A Note Bundle yet. Blue lines in paper was it!

The pumpkins fell into place from the Party Celebrations stamp set.

The designer Series papers were a great tie in of the colors.

The finishing touch was these little Hues of Blues Flowers, they look like stars to me, to add a little more of the Misty moonlight color to the card.

I love it! What do you think of it?

Check out the other Design Team’s use of these colors this week on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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Trick or Treat

September 18, 2025 · 2 Comments

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

Here is this week’s new layout challenge to spark your creativity –

I got creative with this sketch!

I’ve had these Spooky Halloween Dies for a while and hadn’t used them yet. They just fit this sketch.

The background is the Damask Designs 3D Embossing Folder. In purple, it gives a creepy look.

The sentiment is from Sign Design. I stamped the top half to get just these words. It was easy to do.

Check out the other Design Team’s use of these colors this week on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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Trick or Treat May Your Day Be Sweet

September 11, 2025 · Leave a Comment

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

Here is this week’s new color challenge to spark your creativity –

Great colors for a sweet Halloween card –

I started by die cutting the candy pieces using the new Gingerbread Man Dies. They’re not just for Christmas.

This sentiment from the Sign Design Stamp set could not be more spot on for this card of candy!

To elevate this card, I used the Branching Out Dies instead just making simple cuts. These are my favorite dies.

Check out the other Design Team’s use of these colors this week on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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Eeek!

August 21, 2025 · Leave a Comment

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

Here is this week’s new layout challenge to spark your creativity –

I am loving this new Halloween from Stampin’ Up, Sweet & Spooky Kit. It is actually a treat holder kit. I took the tret holders and changed them up into cards!

Here is one of them –

I simply cut the box apart using the sections to create this ‘Eeek’ of a spooky card.

I usually make mini slim cards, but this is a taller, regular slimline card at 3 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ in Pumpkin Pie.

The sparkly stars are also from the kit. Yes, this card was just that easy!

Stay tuned to see my other two cards from the kit I made.

Check out the other Design Team’s use of these colors this week on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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Hocus Pocus

October 24, 2024 · Leave a Comment

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

Here is this week’s new layout challenge to spark your creativity –

Again, I went with a cutesy Halloween card –

…..with cats of course! I just love these cats and altering them in more realistic cat positions! Typically, loafing! Or swinging the tail because they are annoyed. Or, the ‘I’m about to pounce’ look, lol,

I am also in love with this Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper! I just had to use it again, at least another pattern – these books!

I really like fun Halloween cards. Black cats and a great pattern paper are it for me!

Check out the other Design Team cards on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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Halloween Time

October 19, 2024 · 1 Comment

Welcome stampers!

Thank you for joining us for our weekly Create with Stamping Friends Saturday blog hop!

Our theme this week is Halloween time.

I went with a cutesy Halloween card –

Really, what makes it cutesy is the Pretty in Pink card base! And, maybe the ‘loafing’ cats! Not very scary, are they? Lol!

The contrast is in the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper! It has some great colors. I this was a cute, playful take on this sketch today!

Would you create a pink Halloween card?

Go forward to check out Melissa Davies, and back to Cindy Elam. I know they’ll have some great Halloween ideas for us!

We will see you next week with more great inspirations in card making!

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Halloween Punch

September 19, 2024 · 2 Comments

Hello my stampin’ friends!

Welcome to our Thursday Create with Stamping Friends challenge!

Here is this week’s new color challenge to spark your creativity –

I took these colors in a Halloween direction –

Even though we do not really have any pumpkin dies this year, I created pumpkins out of punches!

I used the Submarine Life and Bee Builder Punches for all these pumpkins cutting three shapes for each. I trimmed off everything creating ovals, except one per grouping to create a stem.

I used a pattern paper layer of the new Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper as a backdrop for my pumpkin grouping.

The sentiment is from the Potions & Spells stamp die cut using the Stylish Shapes Dies.

Simply modern Halloween!

Check out the other Design Team cards on our Create with Stamping Friends blog. You’ll see some fabulous ideas! Join us for the challenge too if you’d like!

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Glitzy Halloween with Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop

October 28, 2023 · 2 Comments

Welcome stampers!

Thank you for joining us for our weekly Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop!

Our theme this week features cards that sparkle or shine!

I am true to myself with a ‘simple glitzy’ take this week –

Nonetheless, soo cute though! I started with these little Pick of The Patch pumpkins, adding a foil stem. I placed them on dies shapes from the Nested Essentials Dies.

For a little added texture, I embossed the panel using the polka dot pattern from the Basic 3D Embossing Folders. They are a bit too high for me, so I ran it back through the machine between the Specialty Plate and the folder to flattened the dots – perfect!

I tied the foil back in for my ‘simple glitzy’ look for the pumpkin tendrils in Melon Mambo.

I love the way it turned out! Do you?

I am excited to check out Debbie Henderson, and (back) Cindy Elam, and everyone else’s cards this week for our Glitzy Halloween. I know we will see some great ideas today!

We will see you next week with more great inspirations in card making!

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Spooky Forest with Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop

October 21, 2023 · 8 Comments

Welcome stampers!

Thank you for joining us for our weekly Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop!

Our theme this week is Halloween tree themed cards.

I went out on a limb for this –

I created a spooky scene combining the Bag of Bones Dies with the Aspen Tree Dies (remember these?). I just kept adding creepy stuff until I felt it was done! The moon behind the trees and the bones even glows in the dark!!!

This is a great color combination : Blackberry Bliss, Wild Wheat, Pebbled Path, and the Glow in The Dark paper! Of course th other colors add to the depth.

For added detail, I embossed the inner tombstone with the Timeworn Type as it really resembles an old headstone that the letters have since worn down.

I have to chuckle. Personally, I have two cats. I see one of them left their presence on my card and I just now noticed it. Convenient placement girls, convenient placement. I decided to just leave it. Let me know if you find it. Lol!

Go forward to check out Debbie Henderson, and back to Cindy Elam. I know they’ll have some great ideas for us!

We will see you next week with more great inspirations in card making!

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Crafty Colla’boo’rations Halloween Blog Hop

October 18, 2023 · 10 Comments

Hello stampin’ friends!

I am creating some last minute Halloween cards today! This one is for Crafty Collaborations –

It is just bootiful –

I simply combined some great products. I started with cutting the frame from the Gone Fishing Dies – I love to use this for anything but a tackle box, lol! I cut some ghosts and the word boo from the Glow in The Dark Specialty Paper and got to assembling!

Now, as you know, I said I used the Glow in the Dark Specialty Paper, here it is in action –

SOOOO COOOL!!!!

I bought this paper a while back. I tossed it on to my craft desk. Everytime I turned the light off at night, this paper was glowing! Calling me to use it! Well, today was the day and it did not disappoint!

What do you think?

Leave a comment before checking out all the other treats on our hop today!

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We Create with Haunts & Harvest

October 1, 2023 · 3 Comments

Happy O C T O B E R 1st!

Let’s kick this month off with a blog hop with We Create!

And our theme this month is anything related to Halloween!

This is perfect for this great Halloween card! I featured this last week at my September Card Buffet.

I started with the Them Bones Designer Series Paper. Using several of the patterns.

I stamped the Mr. Bones and decided to give him the beret, neck scarf, and mustache – nice as they are all on one stamp!

I used the Stylish Shapes to die cur Mr . Bones and the sentiment. Easy and fun!

Check out the others on the hop to see what spookiness they have in store for us! Up next is Tricia Butt’s from Tricia’s Stamping Creations

Tricia’s Stamping Creations

Procrastistamper

Pomp and Sustenance

Tanya’s Stamping Things

LibbyStamps (you are here)

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