Hello and happy Friday to you friends! Welcome to the month of October! We’re still having some unseasonably warm weather right now, but next week it’s supposed to cool down a bit along with maybe some rain which we really need right now. Hope that wherever you are that things are going well for you!
Today is a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog! Our next letter is “M”, and our hostess, Tee, has chosen “M is for MYTHICAL CREATURE(s)” (fairies, gnomes, unicorns, dragons, vampires, zombies, etc.) I think this will be a fun one for Halloween! *Please remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter.* I hope you’ll join in the fun with us. Here’s the project I’ve made for this challenge:
These little grumpy guys from Taylored Expressions always make me giggle and I fell in love with this set a few years back and had to snatch it up! I pull it out sometimes to make a funny card to send someone. There are other characters from this set called “Mythical Grumplings” (looks to be a retired set) that are super cute!
Because he’s a grumpy dragon, I mainly used green colors to color him up and for the base/background design. I used a heart stencil with green ink and overlayed some translucent sparkle paste over it. I die cut a cloud for the dragon to stand on as well as die cut a heart from shimmer vellum for the dragon to stand out a bit over all of that green color. I popped both the cloud and dragon up over the vellum heart and added to the background.
I layered it over a scallop white layer and a green A2 top folding card base. I also white heat embossed the punny sentiment and die cut it out with a stitched banner die. Sponged the edges with green ink and attached to the top right of the heart panel.
- I hope you’ve enjoyed my mythical creature card today and that you’ll consider hopping on over the to the challenge blog to see the inspiration from the rest of the team and join in the fun to play along too!
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Wishing you a happy weekend ahead!
Challenges:
- Try it On Tuesday – Animals (real or imaginary)
- The Divas That Cut…Paper! – Anything Goes
- Crafts Galore Encore – #140 Anything Goes
- CRAFT – #765 Grandparents/Anything Goes
- As You Like It – Square card or Not & why? (I most usually make A2 sized cards because it’s what fits best with my envelopes and I can get 2 card bases from one sheet of 8.5″11″ cardstock. It makes crafting cards more simple with this size.)
I love your Dragon and don’t think he looks particularly grumpy,he’s absolutely adorable,great background with the sparkling hearts and a wonderful sentiment, Meg xx
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Beautiful monochrome card, love all the green-my favourite colour. Fabulous Grumpy Dragon and love all the sparkly hearts and perfect sentiment.
carol x
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I’m in love with your green, grumpy, monster! He is so fun 😀
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Cute! Love that heart background, and that dragon is so funny.
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A gorgeous card , what a fab image and coloured beautifully.x
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Gorgeous background with the sparkling hearts. That cute image is fab coloured!
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Darling card with the cute dragon, like the sparkly hearts and the vellum heart-great touches!
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O.M.G. that guy is totally adorable! I LOVE him! And what a great background and cloud for him to sit on! That sentiment though! Soooo cute!
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Your mythical creature is very cute! I love that you chose green for him. He makes a great subject for a card. Thanks for sharing him with us at Try It on Tuesday. And we were cool for a couple of days but your heat is coming our way starting tomorrow, and we need rain too. I hope you get some cooler weather and some rain. Happy October and happy weekend. hugs-Erika
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How super cute and fun and fabulous colours, he’s holding those eyes tight shut isn’t he, so cute. and I love the sparkle hearts and that adorable lisp with myth instead of miss, love that, gorgeous card Vicki..
Luv CHRISSYxx
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Oh how adorable is that grumpy green mythical guy! I love the hearts that you embossed in the background and he looks like he’s conjuring up a spell whilst sitting on his cloud … lol 😊. Such a fab and fun Halloween card! Happy wishes ❤️. Hugs, Jo x
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This grumpy green dragon is pure delight—his expression is priceless, and the monochromatic palette makes him pop in the most whimsical way. The shimmer vellum heart and sparkly stenciled background add such a magical touch, like he’s floating in a cloud of mischief. That punny sentiment is the cherry on top—clever and perfectly placed. What a fun and imaginative take on the mythical theme!
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Very cute and fun – love all the green tones. xx
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Such a cute creature and great sentiment to go with him (him, he looks a bit grouchy). LOL
So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas for our October theme of “Anything Goes”.
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Oh such a fun card!
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Vicki, the greens are so vivid and your monster is too too cute. LOVE those greens. I would love for you to take some of our rainfall, lol. Finally on Friday we are supposed to get an entire week of highs in the 80’s and lows in the 60’s! I cannot wait. They better be right for once, lol. XXO
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I love the Grumplings and this dragon is absolutely darling. Love all that free too. Thanks so much for joining us at As You Like It and CRAFT Challenge!
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I love this fabulous Grumpling dragon! Such a cute, cute card, Vicki!! And so perfect with that fun pun sentiment!!
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I like it very much! Thanks for joining us at CRAFT Challenge Blog!
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Hi Vicki what a cute creation I don’t do these myself but I must admit I do love seeing these little alien creatures pop up the colours and card design are excellent
hugs
lorraine x
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He certainly is grumpy! Love him! Thank you so much for entering our challenge at CRAFT Challenge, looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Hugs Sheryl xx CRAFT DT
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lovely colour scheme and such a cute little dragon
Thanks for joining in at Try it on Tuesday challenge
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