The Cat's Pajamas Blog Hop

It's a blog hop and I get to play!!! The Cat's Pajamas is releasing a new, clear stamp set called FRIGHT NIGHT and all of the participates in the blog hop will be using this set. (I get to play because I was a past Swanky Stamper winner)

Today's Haunted Hop includes a PRIZE giveaway!! Here's how you can win: You must leave a comment on each blog in the hop, for your chance to win this month's KITTY KAT PACK!! The Kitty Kat Pack will include:The Fright Night set, Hocus Pocus Buttons, Hocus Pocus Glitter Pack (like THIS one but spookier).

Alma will be choosing a random commenter and posting it to HER BLOG sometime on Friday, October 2nd. All of the details of this blog hop and the TCP challenge are at Susan's blog.

You possibly came to my blog from Tracy's blog. After you have looked over my creations, hop on over to Amy's blog.

I used the Card Patterns Sketch#33 from last week for my design. I love to use sketches, but maybe you know that already. I purchased these Halloween themed papers last year and I instantly knew I wanted to pull them out.

If you take a look at the Fright Night set of stamps, you will see that this great tree has a face in it. I wanted to use the adorable little owl on my tree and thought the face would be distracting so after I stamped the tree with the black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder, I took a black, permanent pen and colored in the face parts. I quickly poured clear embossing powder on the ink and it was just wet enough to hold the powder.

Notice too that the black card is from the Black Magic collection by Core'dinations. I embossed part of it with a Cuttlebug embossing plate and then sanded the embossed area and the edges of the card to expose the core of the paper.

What would Halloween be without CANDY! And what would be even better then a little gift of candy to have for party favors or as a gift to co-workers. etc. I used an origami technique to create a little box from my patterned paper and two little candy bars just fit inside.

The candy bars are wrapped with black paper and tied with a black bow.

Another stamp in this Fright Night set is the little collection of Halloween candies. I took a piece of cardstock and stamped this little set a number of times to create my own patterned paper. I quickly colored the pieces in with Copic markers. I then sprayed my piece with a couple colors of Memories Mist spray. Next I used my tag punch and just punched out the tags to tie to my candy bars.

Remember, it's off to Amy's blog now.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN card
Materials:Cardstock – Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com and Black Magic/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Haunted:Ominous/Cosmo Cricket
Stamps – Fright Night/The Cat’s Pajamas
Versafine black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Copic markers
Cuttlebug embossing plate – Provo Craft
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars
Scallop circle punch – PaperShapers
Memories Mist spray – Stewart Superior
Foam tape – 3M

CANDY TREAT card
Materials:Cardstock – Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Haunted:Ominous/Cosmo Cricket and BasicGrey
Stamps – Fright Night/The Cat’s Pajamas
Versafine black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Copic markers
Tag punch – McGill
Ribbon