Whimsy Stamps ~ Is It October Yet?

Hey crafty friends, we are kicking off the Halloween season at Whimsy Stamps today and we have a fun game to get us in the mood for some Halloween shenanigans. I'm sharing my first Halloween card for the season as part of this game. It will be hosted over in the Whimsy Stamps Facebook Group and we would love you to join us and share in the fun we have planned for the lead up to Halloween. As always, Whimsy Stamps has some fun events planned and will be offering some pretty special prizes too, so join the fun early, so you don't miss out any chances to play along with us. 

I love Autumn, it's my favourite time of the year, absolute favourite. It's Winter here in New Zealand right now, so I have a bit of a wait to enjoy the Autumn pleasures again, cool crisp air, crunchy leaves, pumpkin spice lattes, snuggly sweaters. There are many joys to Autumn and one of my favourites when we lived in London was that we had an Autumn Halloween! We do not have an Autumn Halloween here in New Zealand, we have a Spring Halloween, which has its own pleasures, but I'll be honest, I loved celebrating Halloween in the Autumn. It doesn't get dark early enough to enjoy the lit pumpkins and it's not cold enough for yummy spiced Autumn drinks. But I'll take Halloween whichever season it arrives in!

I made this card with Candy Corn colours, I thought it would make a fun base for these cute kitties to play in and really love how it turned out. This is such an adorable stamp set and I paired with the Mini Slim Pickens 2 Die which has a fun comic like starburst shape. The little kitty sitting in the pumpkin up top had such a wide eyed sideways stare, I had TO add a little spider beside him, that spider was from the Bramble Wreath Stamp Set. I have shown the thumbnail below. I coloured the backgrounds of the kitty scenes with warm greys, so it would allow the images to take centre stage. I coloured the kitty in the gourd at the bottom as a Calico Cat. It was my hubby's idea and I think it looks so cute! I've used Copic Markers for all the colouring. 

So the game we are playing is a 'Guess The Phrase' game. All the information is over in our Facebook Group with a banner that looks like the one above. You can click through on the banner to the group. If you're not yet a member of our group, it's just a quick step through some questions, to ensure we don't have spammers or bots trying to join the group. We'd love you to come and play along with us. I'll give you a hint, that 'my word' is displayed all in caps in the body of my blog post here. So scroll back slowly to see if you can spot it. My second hint, is my word is a 'little' word, so scroll slowly, so you con't miss it! Complete the phrase, by visiting all 10 of the Halloweeners Blogs or Instagram Accounts and put the words together in the correct order to complete the phrase. But don't share it in the comments here or on the Facebook page, private message me via messenger with your answer, details are over in the Facebook Group. One randomly drawn winner who gave the correct answer, will win the $25 prize from Whimsy Stamps. A fun way to start the Halloween season right?! I hope you'll join us! You can click through to the blogpost announcing the team, on my avatar below. That post has their instagram accounts tagged, so you can easily find their post for this event. Hugs and happy crafting, Wends xoxo

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