It's a Halloween spectacular at Colorado Craft Company this week - the new Anita Jeram Halloween sets have just dropped and I promise you will have trouble deciding which ones to invite into your craft space! They are all You may have come from the blog of Kassi Hulet, but if not feel free to start at the beginning with Adrienne Kennedy 3C. The "ghosts" from The Bark Side don't quite realize they have paws and/or tail showing lol. They are nice and easy to fussy cut though, so that's what I did to pop them off a Halloween-inked background. I used three of the different sentiments here - good to have options! The postage stamp format was a good way to get several ghosts on the card at once. I colored the postage stamp border gray so the white ghosts will pop more. To fill the spaces I used one of the tiny bat stamps from another set - it's a little detail but I think it adds a lot. After creating this background with the haunted house from Happy Haunting, I thought something white would pop nicely. Hmm ... yep, the Bark Side ghosts fit the bill perfectly! I plucked a ghost off the prior card to see what it looked like before making another ghost, but these ghosts are so easy to make since there's hardly any coloring on them that I didn't really need to do that. I thought I was smart in stamping this spooky scene on gray paper and then coloring in the sections with gray copic markers, but then I turned the packaging over and saw that's basically how Anita used this image (PSA for using the back of the stamp set packaging to get coloring ideas for the Anita Jeram stamps - they always show the main images colored in!) I appreciate how you can achieve a nicely detailed background without a ton of coloring work on this one. My next card HAS a ton of coloring work ... Instead of stamping a few of the different Halloween characters inside frames on the slimline like I did with the End of Summer Fun release, I just stamped them directly on the card base. Nothing like throwing caution to the wind, amiright?! I do like how it turned out with so many different critters, who all obviously coordinate together. We've got the three critters on top representing Halloween Party, The string of lights and pumpkins from Pumpkin Patch, and the cat witches from Happy Catoween. It's like a needlepoint sampler, but on a card. This is a great way to break in a new set too - try to use as many of the images as possible on the card. These last two cards use the stamps from the two sets who have large scaled critters - big enough to be the main image. This one is from Wizard Treats. These two treaters venture out on their own with the lantern to guide them under a sky full of stars, as their parents sob quietly in the background because they are finally old enough to trick-or-treat without them (or so I hear). I do enjoy the large size of these images. You only get one main image, but the fact that it's big enough to cover the entire card base makes it a winner. Added together a few sentiments and popped the sweet pair of treaters. My final card has no black or charcoal spaces. It's a very light and cheerful Halloween card. Fish skeleton guy has two different candy baskets he can hold. This card features the trick-or-treaters from Trick or Treating Cats. I do enjoy having the fallen leaves on this image - I wouldn't have thought to stamp those like this but I sure love how it turned out! I wanted to get both sentiments on this card, but it was going to be a bit crowded. So I stamped the bottom sentiment on vellum instead. This will let you play with the positioning a bit more, and it also comes in handy if you need to overlap the design. Prizes! We're doing two different giveaways! Enter as many times as you'd like until Oct 5th. Winners announced on Oct 6th. Good luck!! Giveaway 1: All designers will be giving away a stamp set from this release (your choice) to a lucky winner that will be drawn from all the comments left on our blogs or instagram. Giveaway 2: We'll be giving away a complete bundle (value $202!!) of this release to one randomly chosen winner that has placed an order using your favorite designer's affiliate link (for example, by clicking on the links on the images in this blog post below). Now it's time to send you to the delightful blog of Kelly Taylor who has something boo-tastic to share with you! Here's the complete list of blogs and instagram pages in our hop if you need it: Adrienne Kennedy 3C Amy Young Daniel West Donna Hitz Jenn Shurkus Jennifer Kotas Kassi Hulet Kelly Griglione Kelly Taylor Nancy Sheads Joe Sysavath Laura Inguz Michelle Lupton Nicole Wertschatz Noga Shefer Traci Jenkins Thanks for stopping by! -Kelly Supplies Used (affiliate links, thanks for your support!) Happy Catoween Halloween Party Wizard Treats Pumpkin Patch Trick or Treating Cats The Bark Side