Tuesday, October 21, 2014

you are so ♥BOO-tiful♥ to me

this week at shopping our stash we're making halloween cards, which is pretty handy, since that happy holiday is next week; but if you're ahead of the game, you could also make any other type of card using halloween colors. because we're all about options at SOS! :) here's my (halloween!) card:

witch icon inspired by bo bunny's boo crew paper (see below); patterned paper: basic grey, bo bunny, dcwv, crate paper, doodlebug, recollections, pink paislee, paper co; floral: prima; ink: colorbox; pen: faber castell pitt, superfine; adhesives: elmer's brand gluetape runner, 3m foam tape, gluedots, sewing machine

i started thinking about this assignment last week, right after the new wednesday challenge went up on the simon says stamp blog* and it's color coordinates this time, which are perfect for halloween, so that's what i wanted to use.


i knew i had scraps of bo bunny's "boo crew" paper left-- an old fave of mine and EXACTLY the right colors-- but the pieces were pretty small.


the more i looked at the sweet little witch, though, the more i thought how she would be great on a card, if only she were bigger. then i started thinking about the shapes that make up the witch: her face is a circle, set in a cupcake base... i could totally make those. eyes? tiny hole puncher circles inside small punched circles... consider them done. the hat and the hair needed a couple of tries to sketch on the back of the correct colors of patterned paper, but they were pretty basic; when she was all assembled, i set her on top of an orange circle, like on the paper, and set the whole thing on top of some basic grey purple spider webs et voila: one uber-cuuuuuuuuuuuute card-sized witch!


speaking of cute, i happen to know my fellow SOS dt members have some awesome halloween creations to inspire you, so why not stop by and check those out?! ♥

*where they were nice enough to randomly choose my peacock feather card from last week as the prize winner for a $50 gift certificate! can you say SHOPPING SPREE?! :) thank you very much, simon says stamp blog!!! 

10 comments:

  1. SO stinkin' adorably witchy! Love your paper-piecing - genius way to use up fun scraps!!!
    I so hope I get time to play along - away a good chunk of this week for work - but maybe on the weekend!
    Cheers,
    Shanna :)

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  2. Love love love how you recreated the witchy from the design paper!!! She's fan-freakin-tastic!!!

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  3. But of COURSE you made your own! How could we expect anything different? She is soooooooooo cute.

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  4. Oh my word Lauren! Your witch is by far the cutest I've ever seen! Love her eyes and eyelashes, she's simply too sweet to be a witch (unless she's a white one, lol!) Fabulous Halloween card! Thanks for allowing me to play with you all at SOS, I've had so much fun! Hugs, Ira xox
    Ira’s Crea Corner

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  5. She's adorable and much tooooooo cute to spook anyone! I LOVE HER! You're so creative to make this little gal! Precious and cute, cute card!
    Lynn

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  6. This is so CUTE, what a precious card!

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  7. HOLY CRAP you made the perfect witch! ACK! SO freaking CUTE! And congrats on that SSS win :)

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  8. Cutest paper pieced witch. EVER!!! What an adorable card, Lauren! Love it!

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