CCEE 1843: One Layer Only!

Hi friends!

Do you know what happens when you get out of bed and trip on your pajamas and face plant on the floor, hitting the furniture on the way down?

.... asking for a friend! 
\0~0/

 

That's exactly what I did on Monday ~ yikes!

Nothing broken, PTL, just a lot of bruising and discomfort 

from that very klutzy moment ~ tripping and landing on the floor - and the dog!

I now have a sprained wrist, busted up knee and a hip with a huge hematoma

but it could have been worse! 

Definitely counting my blessings ♥

And Halloween is next week

We have plans to walk around, visiting the neighbors,
enjoying all the costumes and shout outs of Trick 'O Treat :)

  
 Speaking of Halloween,

The theme for the CCEE Stampers this week, brought to us by Joanne.
In her words:   

Many of the CCEE Stampers do fabulously wonderful fancy fold cards. Our October hostess,  says this is not her thing. Today Joanne Grzelak is challenging  the CCEE Stampers to make a true one layered card....no paper layers, no popups, no embellishments. All the work must be done directly on the base layer. Embossing is fine, of course.

 

I did a simple blending and masking with my Ranger Distress Oxide Inks:

picked raspberry, worn lipstick and squeezed lemonade

and the super duper, very fun My Favorite Things 

Happy Haunting stamp set (now retired) 

To create it, I started with masking off the costume cuties.
I blended on top of the masked areas - I used post it notes for simplicity.

Next, I stamped a matching sentiment from the set in Momento Tuxedo Ink,

then colored them with my prismacolor markers.
In hindsight {note to self!}, next time I will heat emboss the sentiment!
 

Funny thing!

Halloween is my least favorite holiday and 

I next to NEVER send Halloween cards out.

I just don't ....

and yet this year, I've needed to send quite a few.

I hope the person this is heading to enjoys the card ..

I absolutely had a blast making it :) 

Be sure to stop by and see what the rest of the DT has created ~

you'll be amazed!

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly