Stampin’ Up! Jar of Halloween Haunts and a Blog Candy Winner!

Mornin,’ y’all!  I hope this post finds you all well and safe.  If you’re on the southeast coast of our country and in the path of Hurricane Matthew, please take the very best of care and keep you and yours safe!

I know you’re all anxious to see who won the Blog Candy, so read on down and check it out! 🙂

My card today is another one for Halloween.  I played around with some of the images in Jar of Haunts – including my little spider who was released from his time out for the first time since “the incident” – and a few from Halloween Scares and Spooky Fun!  And – I combined it with….Petals & Paisleys?!?  Yep!  Take a look-see:

My design for this one stems from the sketch challenge #257 at Freshly Made Sketches:

The color palette hails from the Pals Paper Arts challenge #321:

And it also worked nicely into the theme challenge at The Paper Players, challenge #315:

I started with a Cajun Craze design from Petals & Paisleys, matting it on Crushed Curry.

The art panel is a plain piece of Very Vanilla, also matted on Crushed Curry.  I made my jar by first stamping, on a scrap piece of Very Vanilla, the jar image from Jar of Haunts in Early Espresso.  Inside the jar, I stamped the candy corn image in Crushed Curry, then I colored the candies in with my Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze Stampin’ Write Markers.  Finally, I stamped some Elegant Eggplant “ooze” at the top of the jar.  Then I cut it out with the matching die from the Everyday Jars Framelits.

I love that Everyday Jars goes with three stamp sets, don’t you?  Jar of Love, Jar of Haunts and Jar of Cheer.  Handy! 🙂

I went over to my Jar of Love set, and stamped the lid image in Versamark on Very Vanilla.  Then I sprinkled it with Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder, heated it up and cut it with its matching die.

I released my tiny spider from his time-out and inked him in more Early Espresso and added him around the candy corn inside the jar.  Then I kept him at the ready (keeping my eye on him the whole time – he’s a sneaky little booger!).

I stamped a couple of spider webs from the Spooky Fun set in Elegant Eggplant in the corners of my Very Vanilla panel.  Across the bottom, in Crushed Curry, I added the dots image from Halloween Scares.  Over that – the sentiment from Spooky Fun in Elegant Eggplant.

I popped the jar onto the panel with Stampin’ Dimensionals and then used Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue to adhere the lid at a spider-enticing open angle.  I added a few Elegant Eggplant “eek”‘s and then got busy again with my spider.

I used my Elegant Eggplant Stampin’ Write Marker to make a “web” down to the jar for one bold guy to get down…

Once I SNAILd the panel to the card front, I added even more Early Espresso spiders.  Where there’s one there’s a million, right?!? 🙂  And that was it for the card front.

On the inside, I repeated the Halloween Scares dots image in Crushed Curry across the bottom of a Very Vanilla panel, then added Elegant Eggplant spider webs and Early Espresso spiders.

I SNAILd the panel to a Crushed Curry mat and into my Cajun Craze card base, popped the card front on with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the card was done.

My Very Vanilla Medium Envelope got more Spooky Fun spider webs in Elegant Eggplant and some Jar of Haunts spiders in Early Espresso across the front…

…and I added some more Petals & Paisleys DSP on the envelope flap.

Et Voila!  I don’t know about you, but I’m not all that interested in opening up a jar of candy corn and finding a gob of little tiny spiders in it, are you?  Unless, of course, it’s this cute card!  I love how all the elements came together and coordinate so well.  Hope you like! 🙂

Scroll on down for the card cuts and all the goodies you need to make this one for yourself!

HOST CODE FOR 1 OCT – 15 OCT: U9TFNQS2

Use this host code when you order and receive a free gift from me! But, if your order is over $150, please don’t use this code (you’ll miss out on your own Stampin’ Rewards if you use it) but you’ll still get the free gift – your choice of any item valued up to $8.00 in the 2015-16 Annual Catalog or the 2016 Holiday Catalog.

Designer Series Paper Buy Three, Get One Free Sale 

1 – 31 Oct 16, you can buy three packages of Designer Series Paper and get one free!

Item #    Product Name
141663    Floral Boutique Designer Series Paper
141645    Moroccan Designer Series Paper
141660    Fruit Stand Designer Series Paper
141654    Blooms & Bliss Designer Series Paper
141630    Festive Birthday Designer Series Paper
141640    By the Shore Designer Series Paper
141986    Presents & Pinecones Designer Series Paper
141981    Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper

I think it’s pretty cool that two of the new designer papers from the 2016 Holiday Catalog are included in this sale, don’t you?

BLOG CANDY WINNER!

Thanks to all of you who left comments on my blog post the other day – including all the well wishes for earning that cruise! 🙂  Looks to me like the Cookie Cutter Christmas and Christmas Pines are pretty heavily favored!

I used the Random Number Generator and…the winner is…. Karen!  Congrats!!

Karen wrote:

Hi,

My vote is for the cookie cutter bundle since it is such a fun set. Good luck earning the Alaskan cruise. My husband and I went to Alaska this summer. What an amazing trip! You will love it.

Karen – I’ll be sending an e-mail shortly and we’ll get your Blog Candy on its way!  Congratulations and thanks again to all who entered!

Have a great Friday, y’all, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

TTFN

STAMPIN’ UP! PRODUCTS USED IN THIS PROJECT:     

CARD CUTS FOR THIS PROJECT:

Cajun Craze Card Stock: 4 1/4″ x 11″ (card base, scored and fold at 5 1/2″)

Crushed Curry Card Stock:  4″ x 5 1/4″ (mats for card front and for inner liner); 3 1/2″ x 4″ (mat for front art)

Very Vanilla Card Stock: 3 3/8″ x 3 7/8″ (front art panel); 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ (inner liner); Jar of Haunts/Everyday Jars die cut

Petals & Paisleys DSP: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ (card front); envelope flap

If you need any stamping supplies, I’d be very happy to be your Demonstrator. Just click on the Order Stampin’ Up! Online Now button on the right side of the screen to go directly to my online store or drop me an email if you have any questions. Happy Stamping!