Cuttlebug Mania - Use black and orange

The current challenge over at Cuttlebug Mania is 'Use black and orange'. Halloween immediately springs to mind, but really you don't have to make a Halloween card, just use some black and orange. However, you do have to use a manual die cutting/embossing machine (it doesn't need to be a Cuttlebug but it must be manual, not electronic). Then make your entry, link into the challenge, link to the challenge in your own blog post and and make sure that you also say what products you used for any die cutting/embossing.

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I did opt for a Halloween card, even though we don't really send Halloween cards here in the UK. I'd totally fallen in love with the Witches Laundry die that Laurie used for a snippets card (you can see it here) the other week - and it was one of my picks needless to say. Her card is much better than mine (it's clean and stylish) but I couldn't do a straight CASE and ended up giving myself a shed load of fiddly work instead! This is what I made:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank, tent style

- a piece of purple Core'dinations card stock embossed using a Sizzix Tim Holtz 'Cobwebs' embossing folder and then gently sanded using my SU sanding block - then glued to the card front as the background

- found brown, black and orange snippets of card and covered the reverse with Stick-It adhesive sheet ready to die cut everything else

- the washing line 'posts' at either end were die cut from a dark brown card snippet using the Memory Box 'Woodland Branch' die. I snipped some bits off and added them with one upside down (deliberately!!)

- die cut the washing line and clothes in black using the Cheery Lynn 'Witches Laundry' die and added that to the card front

- this next bit is where all sanity ran out of the door - I die cut a second washing line in orange and then snipped lots of little pieces to add to the black washing line - right down to the tiny little pegs 

added little green sparkly domed gems for the cat's eyes (I did pinch that idea from Laurie!) plus a bigger domed gem at either end of the washing line

- something was missing underneath the washing line, it just didn't look balanced to me. So, out came the Tattered Lace 'Anniversary - Classic' letter dies and some teensie scraps of leftover orange card. Die cut the word 'BOO', added it to the card to balance that gap - and then fished out a couple of googly eyes just for fun and added those to the letters 'O'

Phew, a bit of a marathon but I did at least learn that another time I'll keep it simpler :)

You have two weeks to join in with Cuttlebug Mania - hope you find time to come and play! And of course you can combine it with your snippets entry :)

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