Just in time for Halloween

I'm still not feeling well, so I decided to celebrate Halloween in the only way I can think of.  I believe everyone who was supposed to receive these cards has now received them.  I'm sure some of you saw the envelopes I sewed, using pages from an old Somerset Magazine Halloween edition.

I made all of them using the same five stamps, one punch, a bit of tape, old book pages, wallpaper, paint chips, and three colors of craft paint.

I recognize the one on the bottom left as having gone to Spyder.  To keep the weight down, I didn't use a paint chip, but a spritzed paper background.

One of the things I learned was stamping over paint doesn't always work well.  It worked better with the black cat and pumpkin than with the crow, witch, and Halloween stamps.  The cat and pumpkin were foam stamps I bought at either Michael's or JoAnn's (big box US craft stores) on clearance years ago, and I think that's why ink on top of paint worked better for them.

BTW, I now know that the focal card on the left went to Patty, because she showed it on her T post this week.

The other three are mounted red rubber stamps and they didn't like the paint at all.

The only other one I can actually identify its owner, is the one I sent the farthest.  It also didn't look quite like the rest, since I didn't use paint chips, but yellow spritzed paper for a background. Once again, I was trying to keep the weight of the package down because I sent it on a special journey.

I'm not sure which, but one went to my neighbor Sally, the rest to other art friends.

The back of each was decorated the same.  You can see Bleubeard isn't any better at stamping than I (grin).

I also made two tip-ins, one of which (on the right) you might have seen on Halle's blog recently, although it actually looked better after I added the ink to the left edge before I sent it.  It never hurts to see the flaws through the lens of your camera.  It was good I saw this flaw before I sent the tip-in.  Unfortunately, the other recipient hasn't received hers yet, so I'm hoping it didn't get lost in the mail.

The backs of the tip-ins were quite plain, even though I actually did a bit of stamping there, too. 

The irony of these cards and tip-ins?  Each person I sent one to is a seamstress in her own right.  And it's been obvious from the first stitch I ever took right up to this latest batch of sewed goodies, I couldn't sew a straight line if my life depended on it!!

I hope each of you has a great Halloween tomorrow.

And don't forget, tomorrow also starts Art Every Day Month (AEDM).  I post each evening, because I'm in a different time zone from Leah, our host, and her day starts earlier than mine!