Six challenges - One card !!!

Wow this was fun. Had a hunt around and found six challenges to fit this card.

Sketch Saturday is a double chalenge this week - the sketch plus a celebration of Pets Day (Oct 4th)

The following challenges are all Halloween

A Spoonful of Sugar

Simon Says

2 Red Bananas

Run with Shapes & More

and finally My Time to Craft is 'Purrfect Pets' although I'm not sure this little Mousie could be called a perfect pet.

I'm not sure this little chap would qualify as a 'perfect pet' but my son kept mice as a child and they were adorable little things. This is Maxwell aka Count Mouse and he is coloured with Copics, the papers are Bo Bunny, the spider ribbon (which I have very cleverly cover up) and the charms are from Bunny Zoe's crafts, the orange ribbon is from a local shop .  The sentiment is had written, cut with nesties and I've just noticed it has 'slipped' - can't get any decent glue here.

Image  - House Mouse - Count Mouse

Medium  -  Copics

Tools  -  Round Nestabilities

Embellishments  -  Spider's Web ribbon and charms - Bunny Zoe's crafts  :  rest from stash

Whiff of Joy - Rach's sketch

I've only been making this card for Whiff of Joy for about a week. I'll just about scrape in in time with it. I've gone down with some dreaded bug - sore throat, barking cough, streaming nose, head swimming, aching all over - you name it I've got it - wouldn't mind but I'm never ill. Could be the heating system here has broken down and I haven't been warm for 5days. I shall be glad to move into my own place. Right - enought of the self pity on to the card.

I'd forgotten just how large this Willow is which threw me off balance trying to fit it into this sketch which I absolutely love and intend to do it again very soon.

Willow is coloured with Copics and the edges stamped with the Stempelglede grunge stamps. The leaves are cut with the Sizzix branch and leaves punch, and the snowflake with the cuttlebug die. Flower, ribbon and pearls sprays are from stash.

Henry does ABC and meets Simon

ABC's challenge this week is embossing, whilst Simon Says is Green and Red.

This is about the best green and red  I could come up with -  I don't do green and red and think I've done well to colour the adorable Henry in these colours, just hope it's OK, if not they'll have to expel me.

Henry is coloured in Copics, inks used to distress the edges and cut out with the Nestie  Labels 1. The inner square is embossed with the Snow dots folder, the outer with the Snowflake border and the edges distressed with inks. The sentiment is Papermania and heat embossed with silver powder.

Image  -  WOJ Henry with lantern

Medium  -  Copic markers and Ranger distress re-inkers

Tools  -  Nestie Labels 1

Embellishments  -  Ribbon, pin and beads/pearls from stash

WOWEE - A first for me - 4 in one

Creative Card Crew challenge this week is 'All that sparkles' - Gretel's wings and the gems holding the leaves at the top of the page.

Copic Creations challenge is colouring pumpkins.

Friday Sketchers Friday Sketchers is the fabulous sketch - obviously!!

Last but certainly not least is Georgia's new challenge - Crafty Calender Challenge and she has chosen Autumn with the optional extra of 'plants and vegetation'.

Oh boy did I have problems with this one - I'm laughing now but I was spitting feathers earlier.  A few weeks ago I sent for a couple of Pixie Pippis. but only received one, oh well never mind - wasn't meant to have the other obviously.  When I got this one out and stamped it up............no pumpkin on her head...........wrong stamp, Gretel, not Pippi!!  I looked at it and thought - her hair does look like a pumkin - I'll cut out a stalk, lost the first one and had to do it again.  Really need some more pumpkins for Copic Creations, haven't got any so I though I'll draw some.  Coloured them in - rubbish, start again.

I used Basic Grey's Indian Summer papers, used peg stamps to stamp leaves on the white circle, added some leaves I bought at the local supermarket, used some punched leaves and gems to adorn the top corners and there we have it. At the end of the day I quite like this one which is fortunate after all the effort that went into it.

Image  -  Swiss Pixies Gretel

Medium  -  Copic Markers

Papers  -  Basic Grey - Indian Summer

Tools  -  Circle cutter  :  Woodware leaf punch  :  Peg stamps

Embellishments  -  Pumkins - hand drawn  :  Leaves Edeka  :  Stickles  :  gems and  ribbon from stash 

Basic Grey DT - #5 - A Sketch

We would like to welcome Ruth our new Guest Designer for the Month of October at Basic Grey Challenges, many of you may already know Ruth from A Passion for Cards as not only is she a super talented crafter but she is a super talented illustrator and a really lovely lady too. Ruth has just started to sell her own stamp designs and they really are adorable, pop on over to her blog A Passion for Cards to see her creations using her stamps and to see the full range of stamps pop on over to her A Passion for Stamps blog.

For this weeks challenge we would like you to use this sketch which has been designed by the Boss - the fabulous Martine, feel free to resize, rotate and flip the sketch to your hearts content, as long as the original sketch can be easily recognised you are good to go. But don't forget to use at least one item from BasicGrey if you want to be eligible to win the Monthly Prize And Feel free to combine this challenge with any other challenge blog that allows you to do so.

Don't forget to check out the fabulous creations by the other DT's and check on their blogs to find instruction of 'how to'.

I've mirror imaged the sketch as it suited the image better and chose to use my new Skiing Henry Mouse from WOJ. I coloured him in Copics,  the edges are inked with distress inks and I've used Kars extra fine glitter on the snow.  The snowflakes are a mixture from Cuttlebug and EK Success snowflake punch. I've been experimenting again and discovered you can stamp and heat emboss on ribbon. Ive just added one to each of the two pieces of ribbon top right and bottom left but can't wait totry something more elaborate. The snowflake stamp is Papermania as is the sentiment.

Image - Whiff of Joy - Sking Henry Mouse

Medium - Copics : Ranger distress re-inkers

Paper - Basic Grey Granola

Stamps  -  Papermania - snowflake and  sentiment

Tools - Cuttlebug Snowflake die  :  Ek Success snowflake punch  :  Heatgun  :

Embellishments  -  Pearls and ribbons from stash