"Haunted Boo-levard" with the Creative Crew

Lorraine is the October hostess for the Creative Crew and she send us images from the "Haunted Boo-levard" stamp set by Taylored Expressions.  

Even though I'm late to post my card, I was really excited to receive her kit because I think this set is so dang cute!

The image and sentiment are colored with Olo markers.  The candy corn, windows, pumpkin die cuts, ghost and bats are all highlighted with a Wink of Stella pen to give them sparkle.

I used the square gems to make a path or sidewalk in front of the house.

Lorraine included such cute designer papers by Doodlebug and Imaginesce.  Each are layered on a purple panel (Concord Grape by Taylored Expressions).

This set has been advertised in my social media feeds and it's so fun.  It was great to have a chance to play with it.  Thanks Lorraine!

Here are the links to the Creative Crew blogs and Lorraine's gallery on SplitCoast:

Barb - Barb's Inkin' In Retirement

Carol - Lost in My Craft Room

Jeanette - Cre8tive Play

Lorraine - SCS Gallery

Terry - It's Totally Terry

Tracie - Crafty Creations by Tracie 

Double Duty Featuring Taylored Expressions

On the 22nd of each month some friends challenge ourselves to create 2 different cards repeating the same image, sentiment, etc on each card.  We have a predetermined list of the stamp company or specific challenge for each month and then...away we go! 

Our pre-selected company for this month's challenge is Taylored Expressions.  This is one of our favorite companies, so I'm sure that we all had a good time creating a set of cards.

Here are my cards.  I selected the stamp, die, embossing folder and stencil set called "Icing on the Cake".

The background panels on both cards have various colors of Simon Hurley's Lunar Paste applied through Taylored Expression's Confettie stencil.

Each cake was blended and stamped with inks by Taylored Expressions.

The final touch was the layer of decorative icing applied with the stencil, using Simon Hurley's Frostbite Astro Paste.  It gives a nice texture and sparkle in real life.

This was a very fun and easy way to create two cards. I think I'll go back to this set soon and make a few more, trying different techniques the next time.

Please drop by the blogs of the other Double Duty members and comment on their work:

Barb

Jeanette

Carol 

Terry