Hi there! It's the 15th of the month and that's posting day for the Divas -vs- Darlings duel. Melina was the sole hostess this month so in lieu of a kit, we just shopped our stash! Cottage Cutz has a gorgeous selection of Halloween dies out now, and since our Diva challenge this time around was to look through our stash, find an image with an animal on it and use some buttons, I thought with limited time I'd combine the two. Buttons, you say?! That part was easy peasy!! And since crows - and bats - are technically animals, well, that was pretty easy, too :) I'm not a fan of Halloween at all and tried to make it as cute as I could ~ using the dies as a focal point of the card to showcase the cuteness of them :)
So for me this month, I created a matching card and bookmark set. Using the Bats on a Branch die, I made the Halloween card with bat paper, striped yellow for the moon and H'ween paper as a bottom border and added my beloved buttons! I loved using the trio of mish-mashed buttons - you've seen those for a long time now on many of my cards :) I'm obsessed with them, so that part of the challenge was a joy! For the bookmark, I used matching paper and continued the moon pattern for the Crow on Books ~ added more buttons and twine and on the back, I added a quote from Edgar Allen Poe. I was an English Lit minor in undergrad college and always use the opportunity to sneak in a lesson or quote or scripture somewhere for the kids - you never know when they will say "I remember learning that!" :)
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| Here is the card by itself - Animal (bat!) and trio of buttons :) |
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| And the inside, theme carried over :) |
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| The bookmark! |
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| Excerpt from The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe |
and that's about it from me today! I sure had a ball putting an interesting twist on our "animal" challenge! You can see what the other Dueling Darlings made by clicking the links in my sidebar :)
Big hugs,
Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly
Entered into: RIbbon Carousel ~ H'ween, something spooled (twine)
Papertake Weekly - Fright Night
Entered into: RIbbon Carousel ~ H'ween, something spooled (twine)
Papertake Weekly - Fright Night
