Spellbinders Tick Tock Halloween Cuckoo Clock

 

Hi Friends!  Today I'm up on the Scrapbook Pal Blog with a beautiful Halloween Card.  I love this time of year because Halloween is my favorite holiday to make cards for. 

This card is created with the recent Spellbinders Cuckoo Cottage Collection. This is such a fun collection because it has the standard Cuckoo Clock and Add On for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Winter.  I chose the Spellbinders Cuckoo Cottage Collection Cuckoo Cottage and the Halloween Tick Tock add on.

I wanted a fun background but felt like the clock was going to be busy enough, so I used the All About Chirstmas Collection – Bow & Bell Scallop Frame to create my background.

I cut the scalloped part of the frame from purple cardstock and dusted up the edges with a little Villainous Potion Distress Oxide Ink. I used the die that is the next size down from scalloped frame to cut a piece of gray cardstock.  I dusted the gray cardstock with a little Hickory Smoked Distress Oxide Ink.  I glued the purple/gray scalloped piece on a piece of turquoise cardstock. Once I had those layers adhered together, I place them on a piece of 5.0” x 4.25” black cardstock.  I like to use my Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press with Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue.

Next, I started to build my cuckoo clock.  I used two shades of turquoise cardstock along with orange, light gray, white, purple, yellow and black cardstock for all the little pieces.  Once I placed the trim on the house, it felt a little flat, so I took a C2 Copic marker and added shading to give it the appearance of woodgrain.  For the purple pieces, I dusted the edges with Villainous Potion Distress Oxide Ink.  On the orange cardstock, I dusted the edges with Crackling Campfire Distress Oxide Ink.  I used Hickory Smoked Distress Oxide Ink on the light gray cardstock and Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Ink on the white cardstock. 

 I found it easiest to build the cuckoo house first so I knew where to place it on my background and where to place the chains and the pendulums as the bottom. 

There are so many fun little pieces in the Halloween Tick Tock add on that it was hard to decide which ones to use.  I chose the two black cats that mirror each other along with a couple of pumpkins, a bat, a skull, a bone, a piece of candy corn, ghosts and cute little ghosts. 

I am just crazy about how this card turned out and I may have to hang on to it for a little bit.  I am also looking forward to making a Thanksgiving and Christmas card with the other add on dies.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have been inspired to make a Halloween card of your own.  

Sandy

Trick Or Cheese!

Hello!!!  I have loved the Lawn Fawn Mice for forever and have been hoping that one of these Fall Releases they would have Halloween mice.  I don't have to wait any longer because this was the year!!! How cute are these???  The stamp and coordinating die set are called Halloween Mice.  

It has been awhile since I have made a Reveal Wheel or used my Build A House Halloween Add On, so that is what I did for this card.

To start, I ink blended the background using Twisted Citron and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Ink.  I used the Reveal Wheel Die along with the Reveal Wheel Build A House Add On.  Make sure you keep the notch piece that is cut out - you will need it later.  I also used the Hillside Stencils to add a hillside in using Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide Ink.  I stenciled the hillside instead of cutting one from cardstock because I didn't want my card to get too bulky.  I also spattered the background with some silver metallic watercolor.

I wanted to use the Spooky Forest Backdrop, but it was bigger than the Reveal Wheel piece.  I adhered the cut backdrop all the way to the left side of the card and centered in vertically in the opening.  I trimmed off the excess backdrop.  That worked really well because I didn't want a bunch of branches at the mechanism notch on the right side.  

Once I cut the large spinner piece from the Reveal Wheel Die Set, I temporarily taped the coordinating stencil to help me place the images that appear in the window.  I used the Spooky Village stamp set for the images in the window.  I did have to cut out the lines that seperated the window opening because you couldn't read the the little sentiments.  

I used a Copic marker to color the whole wheel yellow so my ghosts stayed white.  

Once I built my house using the both the Build A House and Build A House Halloween Add On, I glued it to the background lining it up with the window.  

I built my mechanism and placed foam dots around the wheel making sure that it was still able to move freely.  I placed my placed my background piece on top lining up the edges and notch.

I took the ink blended piece that I cut the Reveal Wheel background from and cut the notch off so that I could fill in the opening at the notch.  

Once I had the mechanism built, I glued on a piece of cardstock cut to 4.25" x 5.5".  Then I glued in the little notch piece so that the background continued to the edge.

Next I stamped out the Mice from the Halloween Mice stamp set and colored them with the following colors:

• YR21, YR23, YR24
• T2, T5, T7
• Y35, YR16, YR09
• R20, R22
• RV10, RV02
• Y02. Y13, Y17
• E42, E43, E44
• BG000

I used the coordinating dies to cut out my little friends and other items.  I popped all of them up with thin foam dots to give my card just a little dimension. I also used the All The Speech Bubbles stamps and die to make the little speech bubble above their heads using the sentiments included with the Halloween Mice set.

This card is just so stinkin cute with them Trick Or Cheesing.  Adorbs!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Sandy

Creepin It Real!

 Hi there!  Just a quick on for today.  Riley and Company has some really fun new Halloween Cut Ups that were just released a week or so ago.  I just couldn't resist because they make such great backgrounds for stamped images.  I had a few little friends from the Spooky Hollow Boo and Cute Little Devil stamp sets left over from an afternoon of coloring, so I used them.

For the background on this card, I ink blended Mustard Seed, Uncharted Mariner, Speckled Egg, Crushed Olive and Forest Moss Distress Oxide Ink.  This is a color combination I hadn't used before but it definitely has a spooky vibe don't you think.

The haunted house and spooky tree were cut from black cardstock using the new Haunted House Cut Up.  For the super cool moon, I used the Moon and Bats Cut Up to cut it from Yellow cardstock.  The coolest think about that die is that it has a built in stencil for the craters on the moon.  Amaze-balls.

I used silver embossing powder to heat emboss the sentiment.  In retrospect, I think that black embossing powder would have look better.  Next time!  The sentiment is from the Spooky Hollow Boo stamp set.

My little friends were colored with Copic markers in the following colors:  

• R17, R29, R39
• C1, C3, C5, C7
• YR30,  E30, E51

I hope these little guys are living their best Halloween lives!

Thanks for stopping by.

Sandy

My Creepy Little Friend!

 

Hello friends!  Today I am playing with Riley & Company's Halloween goodies. They just had a new release of Halloween Cut Ups which of course, I had to get.  This card has last year's Spooky Hollow Ghoul stamp set and the new Spooky Forest Cut Up. 

I inked blended the background with Twisted Citron, Broken China and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink.  I spritzed it with a little water and spattered it with some watered down silver metallic water color paint..

I then adhered the Spooky Forest Trees which had been cut from black cardstock.  I added a few bats that were also cut from that die set.  My bats were cut from black glittered cardstock.

I used the sentiment from the Spooky Hollow Boo set and heat embossed it with white embossing powder between the trees and above my spooky little friends.

I colored my friends with Copic markers in the following colors:

• C1, C3, C5, C7
• YR30,  E30, E51
• R17, R29, R39
• YG00, YG01, YG05

Oh so spooky!!!  These little guys are so fun to color - I hope you decide to give them a try!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sandy