Card Clubhouse IG Hop - Week 22 - Thrills & Chills

Hello lovely friends; I'm here to share my card for the Card Clubhouse IG hop organised by my sweet friend Kelly. We are on Week 22 and our theme is 'Thrills & Chills' so we want to see all your Halloween/spooky creations. This is going to be a great hop this week and I can't wait to see what sparks your imagination.

I recently picked up a few things in the 'end of an era' sale over at Time for Tea Designs (sad to see another craft store close) and one of them was this fun haunted house.  I did some ink blending and spatter and I love how it turned out.  I hope you like it too.

Here is my card:

Plus a closer look at the house:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and ink blended over the whole panel using plum punch ink; I also darkened the edges with black ink for a bit more drama and added some white spatters. At this point I decided to add a black mat layer so trimmed my blended panel down to 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and adhered them together using liquid glue.  I found a strip of script patterned paper so blended some black ink all over and tore one of the edges, again adding some white spatters.  I adhered that over the blended panel using double sided tape.  I stamped the image onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured it with my Promarkers and added some white gelly roll highlights.  I don't have the dies so I fussy cut it out.  I added foam squares behind the image and added it onto the background, more towards the top.  I stamped and white heat embossed my sentiment onto black card and used a stitched banner die to cut it out.  I added this below the house, again using foam squares.  The panel was adhered to my card base using double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and black mat layer.  I ink blended a border along the bottom of the white panel and again added white spatters.  Once dry I adhered the panels together using liquid glue.  I found a black bat left over from a previous project so added that to the bottom right corner using liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre using black ink and then adhered the panel to my card base using double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - any occasion

Cardz 4 Guyz challenge - use at least 3 of purple, green, orange & black

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - ATG optional twist trick or treat

Creative Crafting Uncles challenge - Halloween

Creative Knockouts challenge - Halloween or fall

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie challenge - come on get spooky

Papercraft challenges - spooky delights

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Sweet Stampin' challenge - Halloween or the colours of Halloween

The Dream Factory - The Curse of Bridge Hollow (Halloween)

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; please use the hashtag #cardclubhouse2026 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Time for Tea Designs - haunted house clear stamp - store now closed

Promarkers

Clearly Besotted - fright night clear stamp - retired

Gina K Designs - plum punch ink pad

Gina K Designs - white pigment ink cube (I use this when embossing in white)

Tracey Hey Designs - 'words' A4 paper pad

Gina K Designs - master layouts 02 die set (for stitched banner die)

MFT - extreme black hybrid ink pad

Winsor & Newton - white gouache (for spatters)

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm white card (for card base)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Wow! - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed

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Thank you x

Mother's Day 2021 part 1

Hello friends.  I hope you've had a good start to the week.  I'm on leave this week so my start has been very good.  Today I'm sharing the card I made for my mother for Mother's Day (we had ours last weekend in the UK).  I've titled this post part 1 as I made cards for my boys to give their grandmas and I also made a card for my husband to give his mother but I'll share them in separate posts so not to bore you lol!).   I hope you like today's card.

Isn't that image just adorable.  I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo black ink and coloured it with my Promarkers.  I thought the card looked too plain so I added the small heart randomly around the image and again coloured them with the same Promarkers.  So that they matched the dark lines of the stamped image I used a multi-liner pen to draw around them.  I stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onxy Black ink and added a few sparkle gumdrops to finish.  I added my panel onto a yellow card panel and then adhered this to my card base.  As my card was 7x5 in size I made a matching envelope from plain green card.  I did decorate the inside too with a few hearts but forgot to take a photo d'oh!  Of course my mother loved it lol!

There are lots of spring inspired challenges around at the moment so I would like to enter my card here:

Inkspirational challenge - fur or feathers (my little bear has fur)

Daisy Chain challenge - flowers

Alphabet challenge - Y is for yellow

Sweet Stampers challenge - Easter or spring

Allsorts challenge - spring flowers

Simon Says Stamp IG challenge - hello spring

Cute Card Thursday challenge - spring fever

Sweet Stampin' challenge - spring mood board

I hope you have a great week, whatever you are up to.  Tomorrow is going to be a tough day for us as it's the first anniversary of my father's passing.  It's been a very difficult year, especially with everything else that has been going on, but we are all supporting each other and as long as he is in our hearts he will never truly be gone.  

Stay safe lovely friends, sending lots of love. 

Card ingredients:

Tracey Hey - wreath rascals stamp set

Hero Arts - Happy stamp & cut (for the sentiment)

Promarkers

Your Next Stamp - white sugar & sparkle gumdrops (Dies to Die For)

Versafine Onyx black ink

Memento Tuxedo black ink

Yellow & green card from stash

We R Memory Keepers - envelope punch board

Sloth happy birthday

A colleague at work recently celebrated her birthday and she is obsessed with sloths.  I remembered I had this fun stamp set from Tracey Hey which would be so perfect for her.  

This is the card I made:

I made a matching envelope:

close up of the card:

I also decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the fun image with memento tuxedo black ink and coloured the image with Promarkers.  I cut the panel and added a chocolate brown layer behind it to frame the image.  I made a kraft card blank and attached a piece of patterned paper with liquid glue.  I then attached my coloured panel onto this with foam tape.  I finished by adding some sequins for a bit of bling.  For the inside I used the same chocolate card and added the left over pieces of patterned paper to the edges and stamped a sentiment in the centre.  Simple but I think it ties everything together to use elements from the front of my card on the inside.  

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - frame it

Crafty Hazelnuts's Patterned Paper challenge - use patterned paper

Allsorts challenge - I love.... challenge (I love colouring, cute images and making my own envelopes)

Simon Says Stamp IG monthly challenge - put a stamp on it

I hope you are all keeping well.  The news is full of talk that there may be another lockdown soon; I really hope it doesn't happen this time.  Let's hope everyone complies with wearing their masks and social distancing before it gets that far.  

Enjoy the lovely weather but remember to stay safe. 

card ingredients:

Tracey Hey Alpaca Pals - rocking the wreath stamp set

Crafter's Companion - Neenah desert storm card

Chocolate card from stash

Studio Katia - dazzling celery fusion sequins

Little Things from Lucy's Cards - just peachy sequins

MME 'now & then' - Izzy 6x6 paper pad

Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

Versafine Onyx black ink pad (for sentiments)

We R Memory Keepers - envelope punch board

Promarkers:

forest green, bright green, leaf green, lime zest

orange, mango, soft peach

burnt sienna, cinnamon, caramel, sandstone