BOO!!!

With Halloween just around the corner, how could I not make a Halloween card?  :)  This card was inspired by candy corn.  You know, that white, yellow, and orange (or occasionally chocolate) candy that makes it appearance around this time every year?  Well, rather than stuff myself with sugar, I decided to get my candy corn fix through a much more diet friendly conduit ;)

(It also helped that challenge #219 over at 365 Cards was to make a card whose motivation was candy corn!)

Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, my paper sugar rush:

I had a lot of fun with this card.  I'm sure I'm not the only to use the orange, yellow, and white paper stripes idea, but I like to think my card still turned out to be original.  I felt very proud of the netting across the yellow paper-I knicked it from my dad's construction supplies (he's currently finishing our basement, so there's lots of it around, although I can't remember exactly what it's called...).  My little spider was from the Doodlecharms cart and my BooHouse came from Jubilee-welded together using design studio.

My eye candy :)

A sketch or so...

I decided I needed to make a couple of cards with the little bit of time I have left.  So I went to my favorite card challenge site (365cards) and decided to do the sketch for day #217.

I was over at Capadia Designs and I was looking at some of her ideas for creating your own "patterned paper" in a way, and I decided to give it a shot.  I think it turned out nicely!  It was rather small, which meant a good 10 minutes or so getting all of the little pieces out, but looking at the card as a whole, I think it looks great!