Ghostly Greetings

 

Hello! Happy last day of August. We are officially entering the "ber:" months.

I got my Lawn Fawn order this afternoon with the new release product. Yay!!! It took me a little while to catalog and put everything away, but I still had a little bit of time to create this card.

I inked the background with Seedless Preserve and Villainous Potion Distress Oxide using the Brick Stencil. To add some shimmer, I sprayed it with some Tim Holtz Spray Mica in Hocus Pocus. I cut out the window using the Secret Window die. I used a lime green glitter paper and trimmed out all the little flowers and leaves so I just had the window frame left. For the background in the window, I used the Cloudy Stencil with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide on Peacock cardstock. I speckled the paper with some watered down black watercolor paint.

The little ghosts are from the Tiny Gift Box Ghost Add On. I cut my little friends from Pixie Dust cardstock. The little lantern in his hand is from the Build a Campsite. I thought that he really needed to have something in his hand and that was all I could come up with. I used scrap pieces of glitter paper for their little bows and cheeks. I used the dies from Build A House Halloween Add On and the Scalloped Treat Box Haunted House Add On for the bats. The stars are from the Hearts and Stars Skinny Tag.

The lettering is Henry's ABC's. I would have loved to have added an "S" to the word "greeting" but I just couldn't get it to fit. Sometimes you just have to go with it. I cut them from Fake Tan cardstock and did a little inking with Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide to add a little dimension.

I put the little ghosts on action wobblers so they would jiggle.

This was such a fun card to make. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have an amazing day!

Sandy

Let's Go Trick Or Treating

 

Hi there friends! It was a productive weekend for me after such a long time out of my craft room this month. I could make Halloween cards year round. This card was created for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #155- Make a 3-D Card or Project. This one was pretty quick because I already had the elements colored and cut out,

I cut the Platform Pop Up card from some orange paper from the Knit Picky Fall Petite Paper Pack from a few years ago. I had a goal at the beginning of the year to start using some of my patterned paper and while I used a good amount, it didn't really make a dent. I cut the Platform Pop Up Cloud Wrap out of gray Let I Shine Starry Sky Petite Paper Pack. I cut and trimmed a piece from the Stitched Tree Borders from Storm Cloud Cardstock to fit the Cloud Wrap.

I glued a piece of grass cut from the Platform Pop Up set on each of the three tabs on the platform. On the furthest row, I glued three trees cut from the Scalloped Treat Box Haunted House. On the second and middle row, I glued a piece of the Spooky Fence Border. I left the front tab with just the grass so I could add the colored elements from the stamp set Costume Party. I also added some bats from Fangtastic Friends and Fangtastic Friends Add On. I glued little acetate strips to the bats so they could take flight.

I stamped the sentiment from Simply Fall Sentiments. I wrapped the box with pieces of the Spooky Fence Border and a couple of trees from the Scalloped Treat Box Haunted House.

This was a fun little card to make. I hope you found some inspiration. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have an amazing day!

Sandy

Life Is Beautiful

 

Hello friends! It is hard to believe that June is almost over.

I got my new stamps from Lawn Fawn's Summer release and had some fun playing with them today.

For this card, I started by inking the background. I started at the bottom using Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide along with the Hillside Stencil. Using the Ocean Waves Stencil along with Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide, I created the waves where my beach ended. I inked the rest of the background with Mustard Seed Distress Oxide. I took the Moon from the Nighttime Sky Stencil and used it as a mask for my setting sun. Then, I took Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry to blend the rest of the sunset.

I really like the Fireworks Hot Foil plate, so I added a few fireworks using Blush Glimmer Hot foil to add a little pizazz to the sunset.

For the sentiment, I used the stamps from Life Is Good, Swan Soiree and Better Together. I heat embossed the words with White Embossing powder.

I wanted to make tire tracks in the sand so I used a Copic Marker and scribbled them in. As I was doing that, I felt like the sand was kind of bland, so I took the sand stamps from the Life Is Good and added a few little hills. I was so pleased with the way that it looked that I decided to write a "love letter in the sand". I used the heart shape from Scent With Love and the I "heart" You, from You're Just My Type.

I had originally planned to use the little squirrels from Happy Hugs in the sand the word "beautiful" in the sentiment, but it looked weird. I decided to put them in the car looking out the back window at the fireworks. I still needed to put something in the sand, so I colored a couple of surfboards from the Beachy Christmas stamp set.

I like to use acetate for the windshield on my cars but you can't really see it in the picture. The car is from Car Critters along with the Car Critters Road Trip Add On.

I really had a good time making this card. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have some fun summer plans.

Sandy

  

I Love You More Than Candy Corn

 

Hello! Oh my goodness, this has been a month! I haven't had much of a chance to make cards until this past weekend. While I am patiently waiting for my order from the new Lawn Fawn Fall and Winter release, I decided to play with some of my older Halloween stamp sets and the Platform Pop Up Die for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #155- Create a 3-D Card or Project.

For this card, I wanted to use the How You Bean? Halloween Add On and I wanted to be able to use the whole sentiment. The problem was that I couldn't fit it all on the little front panel on the base, so I decided to add it into the pop up elements. In order to give the card a little excitement, I used acetate strips to individual pieces of candy corn to give them the appearance of floating. It still felt a little flat, so I tied a piece of twine around the neck of the jar to give it a little more dimension and interest. The "Happy Halloween" sentiment is from Spooktacular. The candy corn around the base of the platform, is from Simply Celebrate Fall.

This was a fairly quick card to make and it only required a few different sets to make it.

I hope you enjoyed this quick little post. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have an awesome day.

Sandy

So Very Grateful

 

Hello! I was seeing a lot of advertisements for New Tim Holtz's Halloween products and became a little curious about the the mica sprays. I absolutely love playing with the Distress Oxides, so, I spent a little bit of time on You Tube watching some of his past videos and decided to step out of my comfort zone and play around with them. Of course when I get a bee in my bonnet I need to start on it immediately. The only place in town that had the sprays was JoAnn's so I went there and bought the only two packages they had in stock.

Since most of the colors were more "fall", I thought I would do a fall themed card. I used cardstock in Canned Pumpkin, Paper Bag, No. 2 Pencil and Nobile Fir. I cut a piece off of each piece and sprayed a little bit of Jack-O-Lantern, Flickering Candle, Burning Ember, Harvest Moon on each piece. I let the ink dry in between adding another color so they wouldn't bleed together.

I used the Small Stitched Leaves dies and just cut out a whole bunch of leaves because I wasn't sure how many or which ones I was going to use. I had a piece of matte gold metallic cardstock that I used for the Fruit Basket.

For the card front, I cut a piece of Canned Pumpkin cardstock 4" x 5.25" I used the same sprays in the same way that I did on the paper for the leaves. I used the second largest Reversed Stitched Scalloped Square Windows to cut out the opening. The paper in the opening of the card is Vanilla Malt. I used the Woodgrain Hot Foil Plate with Copper Glimmer Foil. I did use a little Forest Moss Distress Oxide Ink to tone down the whiteness of the paper.

I used gold embossing powder on Paper Bag cardstock. The stamp sets that I used are: Thanks Thanks Thanks and Scripty Autumn Sentiments.

I was really pleased with the way this card turned out. I played a little more later with some the purples and greens and I will have them on some Halloween cards in the future. What I think I like the most about the sprays is that you can make any paper a shimmer paper, so that really opens up your possibilities.

If you have tried these before let me know what you think. As always, thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Sandy

  

Be Merry

 

Hello and happy August. My goodness this year is going by so fast. This past weekend, we had a real break in the hot weather and it was just wonderful. It was a taste of fall for sure.

I created this card for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #154 - Into The Woods. I wanted to do a Christmas/Winter card but I didn't want to use traditional colors.

For the background I used Distressed Ink in Dried Marigold, Kitsch Flamingo and Salvaged Patina. Although it is hard to see in the picture, I used Lost Shadow along with the Birch Tree Stencil to give it shadows of trees in the background.

Using the Snowflake Hot Foil Plate and Opal Glimmer Foil, I added snowflakes to the background. The paper was so pretty, I almost didn't even want to put anything on top of it.

I used the Birch Tree and the small Build A Snowman dies to cut my shapes out of Pixie Dust Sparkle Cardstock. The snowman's hat, arms and bow are cut from the Autumn Sparkle Cardstock. The hat band and nose are from the Tropical Shimmer Cardstock pack.

For the sentiment, I used the Scripty Be and Merry. I cut both of them from Autumn Sparkle Cardstock also.

This is a very quick and easy card to make. It would be perfect for mass producing.

Hope you are last days of summer. Thanks for stopping by.

Sandy