Getting Cricky Simply Sunday: Orange & Black Attack!! :)

Happy Sunday, everyone!! :)  It's another GORGEOUS Fall day here in sunny Pennsylvania -- I sure hope you're enjoying a fabulous day too... It's always nice to look out the window and see sunshine, don't ya think?  It's a reminder that it's a NEW day with NEW promises and NEW hope!!  :)  When things seem to keep going wrong, it's easy to only see the downside of everything...  But it only takes looking for that one small positive thing to turn your day (or week or month) around!!

I had a fantastic weekend with my kiddos home from college...  Even though The-Girl-Child and The-Boy-Child still find silly little things to bicker about ("You didn't ask to put your apple cider on my tv tray!"), they also find plenty to make me laugh (and smile) about too...

The-Boy-Child: "Mom!!  Look who's going back to college with me!!  I'll be the coolest kid there!!"

Mom: "Do you have ANY clothing left at school?"  The-Boy-Child: "I've discovered a way to make all my clothing last between trips home..."

The-Girl-Child (via Twitter): "egg quesadillas for lunch?  #mymommylovesme."

So, yeah...  Life is GOOD!! :)

Now, on to one of my favorite challenge days!!  It's Simply Sunday Challenge Day over at Getting Cricky!!  This week, we were asked to create a card, layout, or project using ONLY black, orange, and one other color (if needed)...  It doesn't have to be a Halloween project, but it does need to use those colors!!  We can't wait to see you use your CREATIVITY and show us your interpretation of the challenge!! :)

I decided to make.... 

A creepy spider card!!  :)  This is a standard A2 sized card...  I used some Coordinations Color Core Cardstock for the background (black with an orange core) and embossed the web with a Sizzix embossing folder (it's part of their Halloween set this year)...  I sanded the embossed image so that the orange would show through.  To add a little more dimension to it, I also inked the sanded area with with SU!'s Only Orange.

I found the FUN spider on the Smiley Cards Cricut Cartridge (available as a download on the Gypsy last year), used "hide contour" to remove the mouth and eye cuts on the face, and cut both layers at 2".  This black cardstock was in my scrap-stash, and I liked the texture for the spider image.  I punched a crescent for the mouth using my circle punch and added two big ole orange googly eyes (SO FUN!!)...

The "eeek!" sentiment can be found on the "Fall-O-Ween" Stamp Art Set by K Andrew Designs...  I stamped it onto a 1" tag found on the Plantin SchoolBook Cricut Cartridge and inked the edges with Only Orange ink.  I attached it to the card by threading it on to some orange 3 Girl JAM crinkle ribbon (LOVE this ribbon!!  Be sure to check it out!!)

When I was all finished, I realized that I didn't even need that third "extra" color!! :)  I think it's a pretty fun card (and not too terribly scary)....  Now that I've shown you my take on the challenge, I hope you'll hop on over to see what all of my Design Team Sisters made for inspiration...  Then, I hope you'll enter this week's "Orange and Black Color Challenge" for this week's Simply Sunday Challenge at Getting Cricky...  We can't WAIT to see what you create!!

Dont' forget to stop by and see Kristal's NEWEST Stamps available HERE!! 

Until next time,