Gypsy Challenge & A RAK!!!

Hey yall! Happy Thursday to you! I hope you all are having a fabulous week!!! I finally am back home in PA and am working on getting back in the scrappy groove. We drove home on Monday and it took 16 grueling hours! I think I will never get into another car as long as I live! LOL. But I did play with my new Cricut Gypsy (her name is Esmerelda....tee hee....goofy I know, but so am I) on the way home!!! I was able to design a few Halloween cards and a idea for a Thanksgiving altered project. Well, when I came home and hopped on the Cricut Message Boards under the 'Gypsy Chat' section, I noticed that SassyLady had posted another challenge for us!!! How awesome is that! These challenges are helping me immensely!!! It is really encouraging me to pull out my Gypsy and learn all that I can. Fun times!

Anyways, the challenge, if you want to play along, can be found HERE. If you want to play along, the due date is 9/15!!! I hope you fellow Gypsy owners will join us...it's fun!!!

The challenge requirements are:

1. Project must be done on Gypsy-check

2. Project must be a Halloween theme-check; I made a card.

3. Project must use 2 separate welds-check; I welded 9 spiderwebs together to make a spiderweb mesh and I also welded the shadows of 2 of my spiders together.

4. Project must use 1 stretch-check; I stretched my 'Happy Halloween' title.

5. Project must use 1 flip-check; I flipped 5 of the webs in the mesh and I also flipped one of the spiders.

6. May use any cart-check; I used Happy Hauntings, Pumpkin Carving, Doodlecharms, Home Decor', and Lyrical Letters.

Now, I wanted to try to explain the 'spiderweb mesh' in the background. I used the 'Pumpkin Carving' cartridge for this one. I took 9 of the 'spiderweb circles' and welded them together to form a mesh. Now, instead of cutting the mesh, I decided I wanted to 'draw' it. I had not designed anything to draw using my Gypsy yet, so I thought this was a perfect opportunity. I used the Cri-Kits pens in 'Black Glitter.' I was so pleased with how the mesh came out!!! I love those Cri-Kits pens!!!!

Oooh, and what is a project without my favorite Helmar Adhesives!!! I used the Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive Runner, Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive, and Helmar Zap Dots on this card.

Here is my card:

For this card, I decided to dig in my scrap bin. I found the patterned paper in my 'fall' scrap bin and tried to pull the colors for the card out of it. I stretched the 'Happy Halloween' seen below. I also added Stickles Glitter Glue to it for some bling. And of course...some pearl bling.
I hope you can see the mesh that I drew in this picture below a bit better. I used my Heidi Swapp Edge Distresser Tool to distress the edges. I hope you can tell that I flipped some of the spiderwebs. I used Stickles on the 'Creepy Crawly' title as well for some bling. The spiders 'eyes' are leftover bling from a kit.

AND since I haven't done one in a bit, I am hosting a RAK (random act of kindness) for all of you fabulous crafters out there! I am going to be giving away some rub on's, a stamp, and ribbon from the Imaginisce 'To Love & Cherish' Collection. Here is a pic of the goodies....

All you have to do to be entered in the RAK is leave me a comment AND tell me what your favorite Halloween candy is!!! :) Please leave me some way to get back in touch with you in case you are the winner!!! I will use the random generator at random.org to choose a winner on Sunday!!! Good luck!!!

As always, thanks for stopping by my blog! Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Scrappin'!!!