Happy Halloween (Part 2)

Halloween has never been a favorite holiday of mine, probably due to the fact that elementary school students (regardless of grade level) were rarely very attentive on Halloween–or the day after. I do, however, enjoy making Halloween cards for my grandchildren. When I took these down to my granddaughters last night, I was very pleased to discover that the oldest has kept many of the cards I’ve given her. I never thought they’d last much beyond a day or so, but she ran upstairs and came down with about 20+ cards for various occasions. The Halloween pile was, in fact, the largest. Here’s this year’s edition:

Just about everything on these cards came from The Stamp Market. I purchased just one die set this year, the Shaker Ghost, and also bought the sequin mix for the shakers. The “eek” was part of last year’s stamp & die set, Happy Halloween. 

The orange cardstock is The Stamp Market’s Melon, and the cardbase was made with Spellbinder’s Brushed Black which has a subtle shine. The eyes and mouth were die cut from some black glitter paper in my stash. These were fun to make and all three girls seemed quite pleased with them (as well as the small cash enclosure.)

There’s still one challenge open for Halloween cards–especially ghosts: Inspired by Boo! I’m also sending this over for the last day of the NBUS site since this is the ghosts’ first appearance. 

We rarely get many trick-or-treaters–our street has no street lights, few sidewalks, and is a dead-end street on both ends. I hope the tinies that live on the street show up again this year. They were absolutely adorable last year and arrived as one group with all the parent in tow.