It’s Thursday and time to play at Pals Paper Arts! This week we are featuring a terrific trio of colors: Elegant Eggplant, Lucky Limeade, and Pumpkin Pie. To me, these colors screamed Halloween! I hope you enjoy this little Greeting Card Kids cutie patootie witch, perched upon her paper-pieced and rhinestone studded pumpkin!
This finished card measures 4-1/4″ wide by 5-1/2″ long.
- Paper piecing! This little witch is stylin’ with her Lucky Limeade paper pieced dress and socks. Her pumpkin perch was also paper pieced and then blinged using Basic Rhinestones. What do you think of the Spider Web embossed scallop circle behind her?
- Banners! Three banners, one in each of the challenge colors, form the perfect backdrop for the focal image! Textured Very Vanilla card stock allows the colors to “pop”!
- Bow! A double bow, fashioned from gorgeous striped satin ribbon adds subtle sheen and texture!
This little cutie doesn’t have a home yet. Maybe I will just tuck it into Brady’s Halloween goody box, along with some cookies, candy, nuts and popcorn. Nothing beats a goody box from home!
The house seems so quiet without little Lexi. She will be spending the next month with her handler in Nebraska getting ready to hit the show circuit in October. Actually, she is staying a little longer than originally planned, since I will be in Hilton Head for the Stampin’ Up! Getaway at the end of this month. At this age, she is very impressionable, and I needed her to be with someone she knew and trusted. Now the Twins are another story…they can stay with anyone and be perfectly fine. Anybody want a pair of guests for a few days???
As always, your comments are important to me, and I do read each and every one of them. In fact, I can’t wait to catch up from my dog show weekend. And of course, I am always more than willing to answer any questions about the cards I make and the techniques I use. Remember, I am only an email away! Until next time…
Stamp Sets: Greeting Card Kids, Delightful Dozen; Inks: Elegant Eggplant; Stampin’ Write Markers: Blush Blossom, Soft Suede, Pretty in Pink, Daffodil Delight, More Mustard, Lucky Limeade, Pumpkin Pie; Designer Series Paper: Orchard Harvest, Polka Dot Parade, Brights Paper Stack, Regals Paper Stack, 2011 – 2012 In Color Paper Stack; Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Elegant Eggplant, Watercolor Paper; Tools: Big Shot, Spider Web Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch, 2-1/2″ Circle Punch, Blender Pens, Sponge Dauber; Glitz and Glam: Basic Rhinestones, 1/2″ Striped Satin Ribbon;
I love the intensity of the color on your card, as well as the bow treatment.
I love this!!! Love the vibrant colors, the paper piecing, all the rhinestones, everything!! I think the embossed spider web looks like velvet too! So many fabulous details!
The Twins are welcome here anytime, I would love to have them visit my pack! What fun they would all have!
Have a fabulous time in Hilton Head!
So cute! Those colours definitely say Halloween. Love the bling and double bow!
Fun and beautiful. The purple scallop embossed with the spiderweb almost looks like velvet.
TFS
What a wonderful card! I love how the ribbon mirrors the texture in those banner strips, and of course the image you chose is just perfect for this color challenge!
I know that these colors are the challenge colors, but boy did you make them work well together. Such a bright and vibrant card. I love it.
I know that you will miss Lexie, but think of all of that uninterrupted sleep you will get! LOL! I hope you have a great time on your trip, HH is such a pretty place.
Definitely a cutie patootie Ann. Halloween would have been my choice with these colors too. Lots of bling and elements – a real Ann card!
If the twins would like to vacation in NY they can visit me.
I have a card from last year that needs a tweak – it is very similar in design. We were doing an assembly line and someone else colored my cute little witch and it is not how I would like it to be… but I think I want to layer it like this now! It’s already a scallop over a circle… not much work involved! :)I Thanks for the inspiration!
Cutie patootie indeed! I love the polka dot dress! Wonderful job all the way around! I really love that ribbon and gotta have some. Love, love all the details and I don’t even really get excited about Halloween!
I am trying to figure out how I could take care of the twins for you but not sure what Henry would think! Would Dr. Rita know of someone she would trust her own to?
Chris R. from Iowa
Ah, the water coloring wonder strikes again! Great focal point for the color challenge.
I love the little paper pieced outfit! She’s all dressed up, sitting on her bedazzled pumpkin, and waiting for the fun to begin! Cute card, Ann!
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away!
LOL! This is what popped into my mind when I was looking at your adorable card! Love the DSP you selected, the bedazzled pumpkin and the way you cut the ends of the banners along with the textured background. Lucky Brady!!
Congratulations on the girls successful week-end also. Loved the pictures you shared in your previous post. You probably keep expecting Lexi to come running as she usually does; she is must be missing you and her siblings too! Looking forward to the shares you will have from the Hilton Head Getaway in a few weeks. Hugs!
OMGosh so adorable, love the paper peiced dress and socks, the blinged out pumpkin and the spider web embossed background! The fishtails!!! The bow!!! Love it. Poor Lexi is going to miss you.
What a sweet little studded pumpkin, Ann! Hope things go okay with Lexi, away from home. She’s too, too cute. 🙂
such a sweet and fun halloween card! Love that blinged out pumpkin!
I’d take the twins, but I am not home all day and I am too far away from you.
Purple/green/orange definitely scream Halloween!
This is such a cute card. Love the little cutie on the blinged-out pumpkin with the web backdrop! Brady will appreciate this card just as much as the cookies.
Oh my! She’s GORGEOUS! I just love that you paper pieced her! And that bedazzled pumpkin? TO. DIE. FOR.
Ann this is such a CUTE card. Love the simple layout and the colors are perfect for Halloween too. At first glance I had no idea you paper pieced her outfit until I read your tips. I thought you just colored it!
The blingy pumpkin is also dressed up for the celebration, and the bow is gorgeous of course. Brady will LOVE a package from home.
Hugs
Have fun in Hilton Head!
What a cute card Ann. Halloween isn’t scary at all. Love the bling on the pumpkin.
Can a card be cute and elegant at the same time? I think so! Love this!
I’ll take ALL your fur-babies–they’re adorable!
Come on – how cute is this little gal on a rhinestone studded pumpkin! That bow is fabulous and then some! And if I were your neighbor I would take the twins!
What a fund twist on the banners!
Love, love, love your xard and paper-piercing…hope you don ‘t mind if I CASE this when my stamp set arrives! Beautiful job, Ann
So cute, Ann! I love the different patterns in the banner. I hope our humidity clears up a bit before you hit the SC coast! 🙂
gorgeous texture (love the spider web behind the cutie gal on a pumpkin). in true “ann schach” tradition, you transformed that pumpkin to adorable with the rhinestones!
Veautiful card and that is the cutest little halloween witch I have seen in a long time.
Oh, how I wished I lived closer, I would definitely take care of the twins for you and I would probably spoil them rotten :}
ColleenB.
Love the embossed spider web, it looks like crushed velvet in the close up. And being a child of the 70’s, I LOVE me some velvet. Beautiful card love all the details.
Fun background layout!
Me me me I want the Twins! Wow Lexi will be gone a long time. I am sure this will make her a great show dog. She sure is a pretty girl.
Your card is awesome. I just love all the bow. The layers really make this interesting to me. I was really studing it. Great ideas are floating in my head from your creation.
something about the banner ends and the tails of that bow just make my orderly little heart sing!