A card for her, a card for him...

Before I talk about a couple of cards, I want to say, "Happy Halloween!" I hope you have lots of trick-or-treaters tonight, but not so many that you run out of candy. My DH has been sneaking some of our candy, but we have plenty (I bought a humongous bag at Costco).

This card was inspired by the embossed panel and the die-cut vase. Both were laying on my desk, begging to be used on a card.

I did some ink blending on the vase and popped it up on some foam squares.

The flowers were die-cut from white cardstock and then given some life with colored pencils and mineral spirits.

The little banner at the bottom of the vase was one from a package of blank banners that I had in my stash. I found a "Happy Birthday" stamp that was just the right size. I added a bit of ribbon and then popped it up on foam tape.

The little pale blue dots in each corner were created with Nuvo Drops.

The inside has a stamped sentiment. This one is from an old Fiskars stamp set that was one of the first stamp sets I ever bought.

This card features some dimensional gear and screwhead stickers that I got at Dollar Tree. Whenever I can find some good-looking, male-oriented stickers at Dollar Tree, I buy them!

I used the bookbinder fold for this card, adding a little twine around the "bound" part.

The sentiment was printed with my computer, cut out with a hexagon die, inked around the edges and popped up on foam tape.

I've been wanting to use this stamp on a birthday card since I got it several months ago. It fit so perfectly in this card!

We got our first snow of the year last night. It didn't amount to much, so I won't have to do any shoveling...yet. I'm hoping my DH's broken elbow heals to the point where he can help with the shoveling before we get a really big snow.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl