Pink & Main – If the Broom Fits Mini Slimline

Happy Wednesday once again friends! Today I’m on the Pink & Main blog with a mini slimline card featuring these adorable witchy spiders in Halloween Brew. I couldn’t choose just one to use to I created a fun scene with both of them. I hope you enjoy it!

I stamped and colored my images from Halloween Brew, plus a few tiny scene setting images from Cute Ghosts, with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies from both sets to cut them all out. Then I stamped and heat embossed my sentiments with the new Sherbet embossing powder. It’s bright and glittery and wonderful! I love it! These sets come with coordinating dies for the sentiments, (HUGE WIN!) so I cut those out too.

Since this is a mini slimline, I cut a piece of white cardstock to 3×6 inches and ink blended it for my scene with distress oxide colors. The grass is mowed lawn and forest moss. The sky is chipped sapphire with blueprint sketch and a touch of black soot at the top. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry, then used my LH Colors silver watercolor to add starry splatters to my scene.

I adhered the panel to a mini slimline card base and started adding all of my images with foam squares and strips. It’s all so stinking cute!

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents and stardust Stickles to various parts of the images like the frog and witchy hats, clouds and moon.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. I really love these sweet images and hope to create some fun gift tags with them soon for treat bags to give at Halloween. How would you use them?

Products used:
Halloween Brew stamps and dies
Cute Ghosts stamps and dies
Sherbet embossing powder
Magic Anti Static Brush
Embossing & Watermark Ink
Distress Oxide Ink – mowed lawn, forest moss, black soot, chipped sapphire, blueprint sketch
LH Colors watercolor – silver
Foam squares and strips
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Pretty Pink Posh – Spooky Wishes

Welcome! Welcome! I’m popping in with a spooky fun card today featuring Pretty Pink Posh Halloween goodies. I partnered this year’s adorable ghosts with a stencil I fell in love with last year.

I started by stamping some cute ghosts and accessories for all of them too! I colored everything with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. To give my ghosts a little shadow, I also cut a second one out of dark gray paper and glued them together offset just a bit.

I used the Spooky Sky stencil set to create my background using a light blue for the clouds, purple bats and classic yellow stars. Then I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a piece of black cardstock. I added foam squares to my ghosts and popped them in place next.

Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Ghost Friends and used the coordinating die to cut it out also. I popped it up with foam squares and mounted the whole panel to a white card base.

For finishing touches I added a little stardust Stickles to the bows on all my ghosts and glossy accents to the lollipops.

Too cute to spooky comes to my mind when I see this card. I just love it! I hope you do too.

Products used today:
Ghost Friends stamps and dies
Spooky Sky stencils
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust
Bearly Arts liquid glue

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Lawn Fawn – Not a Creature Was Stirring…

Hey friends! Today I bring you a minor reprieve from my obsession with all things Halloween to bring you something also completely out of season that makes my heart so happy…a Christmas card! Lol! I hope you enjoy it.

I took a moment to play with these sweet baking mice from the Lawn Fawn A Creature stamp set. I colored them with my copics and used patterned papers from an older Lawn Fawn paper pad – Snow Day Remix.

The scrap of red cardstock I had was already 4.25×4 inches so I just cut it in apart a 1.25 inches on the 4.25 inch side and popped them up on a white card base with foam tape. I also had a scrap of the green background paper that I slid in place with liquid glue and then popped up all my images with foam squares.

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiments on black cardstock and used my paper trimmer to cut them into strips before adding them with foam strips too.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the mouse noses, holly berries and candy cane. Then I added stardust Stickles to the gumdrops on the gingerbread house for some sparkle.

Products used today:
A Creature Was Stirring stamps and dies
Snow Day Remix paper pad
Foam tape, strips and squares
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Pretty Pink Posh – You Are Spooktacular

Happy Friday friends! Today I’m back with another adorable and super fun to create card using the August release from Pretty Pink Posh! Another great layering stencil set and too-cute-to-spook critters make for fun in the craft room for sure!

For this card, I stepped up the stenciling a bit by using Thermoweb transfer gel blanco on the leaf layer and adding deco foil flock for some fuzzy leaves. Followed by black glitz glitter gel for the fun faces too!

I chose that adorable mummy bear from Halloween Critters to stamp and color with my copics, then cut out with the coordinating dies. I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment from the same set and used the coordinating die to cut it out too.

A trick I found was that the ruler die from Crafty Critters cuts out the “you are” sentiment in this set perfectly! After all that was done, I added foam squares and strips to the back of everything and started to assembly my card.

I trimmed the stenciled panel to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a black A2 panel with foam tape. Then I added the sentiment and mummy bear next. For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the bear’s eyes and glossy accents to his nose. I also decided to add stardust Stickles to the face of the jack o’ lantern the bear is holding so it looks like the background stenciling too.

Products used today:
Halloween Critters stamps and dies
Crafty Critters dies
Layered Pumpkins stencils
Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel – black
Thermoweb Transfer Gel Blanco
Thermoweb Deco Foil Flock – green envy
Foam tape
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Miss Ink Stamps – No Tricks, Just Treats

Happy Thursday everyone! I’m popping in this afternoon with a fun shaker tag featuring more amazing Halloween goodness from Miss Ink Stamps. Today, no coloring though! So fun and super quick to create in case you want to make more than one.

For this tag, I took a scrap of white cardstock and ink blended randomly with distress oxide in spiced marmalade and speckled egg. Then I took the Slimline Scene Builder Clouds stencil and ground espresso distress oxide ink to add the cloud texture. Isn’t this color combo so fun!?! I love how different it is. Then I used the Heffy Doodle frame tag die to cut the panel, keeping both inside and frame pieces. Next, I die cut the frame 6 more times from black cardstock, along with 2 solid tags – one from white cardstock for a backer and another from acetate for my window.

I glued one black frame to the white solid tag and then glued the inked center inside that. Next, I kept adding all of the other black frames with liquid glue. I sprinkled in some champagne stardust glitter, adhered the acetate window over top and finally added the stenciled frame on that. I placed acrylic blocks on top and switched to my ghosts and sentiment.

I stamped and heat embossed both ghosts on iridescent vellum and fussy cut them out. These are super easy to cut and didn’t take any time at all. Next, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the Halloween Sentiments stamps that I thought was perfect for a Halloween treat bag! I used the banner die in the tag die set to cut it out.

For assembly today, I used a foam strip to add the sentiment but I hid mini glue dots behind the ghost eyes to adhere them to my tag. It lets the bottom curl up a little and give that spooky feel. It’s so fun and makes “hiding” the adhesive super easy!

I’m excited to add this to a bag of treats for a special someone at Halloween! It’s going to be great!

Products used today:
Boo Sheet stamps
Halloween Sentiments stamps
Scene Builder: Clouds stencil
Champagne Stardust glitter
Heffy Doodle Tag Along dies
Distress Oxide – ground espresso, spiced marmalade, speckled egg
Bearly Art liquid glue
Glue dots – mini
Foam strips

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Pink & Main – Leafy Dies 1 & 2 for Quick, Beautiful Cards

Happy Wednesday friends! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today with a pair of cards featuring the Leafy 1 and Leafy 2 dies. These are separate foliage sets that come with a solid and an outline die for each design. I love a good two-for-one so I did my die cutting at the same time and created these cards simultaneously.

First, I chose a piece of paper from the Inked Oasis paper pad and cut the shadow die from both leafy die sets from it. Then I used the outline die to cut the center out of a 4×5.25 inch piece of white cardstock. Since I was using the whole thing, I was careful to place it exactly where I wanted it on my card front.

I lined the back of the main panel with foam tape and inserted the patterned paper shadow in the opening. Then I used liquid glue to adhere the outline over the top. I placed an acrylic block on top while I stamped and heat embossed sentiments from Sunny Greetings on black cardstock.

Once the sentiments were finished and die cut, I added them to the foliage panels with foam strips and then added the whole thing to white card bases.

For finishing touches on these cards, I chose enamel dots that went with the colors in the patterned paper. I love the look of embellishments like this scattered at an angle across a design.

Because the leaves were die cut from different parts of the same piece of paper, it was fun to pull different colors from each to give a different look to each card.

Products used today:
Leafy 1 dies
Leafy 2 dies
Sunny Greetings stamps and dies
Enamel dots
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Foam tape

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Newton’s Nook – Halloween Paper Pads

Hello everyone! I’m so glad you’re here! Today I have a couple of fun and super quick to create cards featuring the new Halloween Meows and Halloween Woofs paper pads from the Newton’s Nook release last week.

I fell in love with some of these patterns but couldn’t figure out a way to use the larger patterns without covering up more than I liked. These simple designs were the perfect way to showcase those papers!

Aren’t these papers just so perfect! I love the colors and the critters are perfect compliments for the patterns in the pads too!

This first card features the Halloween Meows paper pad. I cut a piece of the kitty paper measuring 4.25×4 inches and adhered it to a white card base. Then I added the orange strip measuring 4.25×1.5 inches. I cut a 1/4 inch strip of black cardstock and popped it up with foam strips on the seam.

Finally, I used circles from the Circle Frames and Frames Squared die sets to create my sentiment medallion. The sentiment from Halloween Pile is stamps and heat embossed and the circles are added to the card front with foam squares on either side of the black strip so it lays nicely.

Switching gears to the adorable Halloween Woofs paper pad. I cut two pieces of paper from the pad – the puppies are 5.5×2 inches and the stripes are 5.5×2.25 inches. I added a 1/4 inch strip of black cardstock to hide the seam again, this time with liquid glue.

This time, I went digging for sentiments to make my card a little more individual. The green sentiment is cut with a banner trio die and comes from Heartfelt Woofs. I used a copic marker to color the open letters a darker green to help them stand out a bit. Then I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Batty Newton and die cut it with a banner from the A7 Frames & Banners die set. Both banners are added with foam squares.

Aren’t these cards so much fun!?! No coloring required but look at all that visual interest from the patterned paper and fun design elements.

Products used today:
Halloween Woofs and Halloween Meows paper pads
Banner Trio dies
A7 Frames & Banners dies
Frames Squared dies
Circle Frames dies
Heartfelt Woofs stamps
Batty Newton stamps
Halloween Pile stamps
Foam squares and strips
UltraBond liquid glue

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Pretty Pink Posh – Boo

Hello everyone. Thanks for stopping by today. I’m sharing another card featuring some of the August release from Pretty Pink Posh plus some goodies from last year’s Halloween release too!

I was having so much fun with the new layering stencils that I just kept making backgrounds and came back later to turn them into cards. This time I used a white A2 piece of cardstock and light teal and yellow inks for my ghosts plus simple black faces so they weren’t totally lost.

Next, I die cut the new Boo Script die from black and silver glitter cardstocks. I glued 3 layers of black to the silver for dimension. Then I cut the middle Stitched Star from pearlescent vellum and adhered them together, to the stenciled panel.

I thought it looked a little sparse so that’s when I went digging and found these fun smaller images in the Halloween Wreath stamp set. I stamped and colored them with copics and used the coordinating dies to cut everything out.

I also stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in Halloween Wreath on black cardstock and trimmed it into strips. I added foam strips and squares to everything and started adhering them. Before adding the spider, I used a ruler to draw a line coming from under the sentiment strip so it looks like it’s hanging down from its web.

Then for finishing touches, I added stardust Stickles to each of the images for a little sparkle and interest. Last, I glued the whole panel to a white card base and my card is all finished!

Products used today:
Layered Ghosts stencils
Boo Script die
Halloween Wreath stamps and dies
Stitched Stars dies
Foam squares and strips
Stickles – stardust

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Newton’s Nook – Release Day Jack-‘o-Lantern Cards

Hello everyone! Today is release day for Newton’s Nook. It’s amazing and I hope you’ll take a chance to look at it all if you haven’t yet. It’s got fall and Halloween goodies that are sure to include something wonderful for everyone!

Through release week reveals, I didn’t want my posts to be longer than they already were so I missed out sharing these fun cards featuring the new Jack-o’-Lantern layering stencil set. But we can’t have that so release day seems like the perfect festive day to share them.

I’m totally smitten with layering stencils these days so it’s not surprise that I couldn’t stop at one card with this new set. They are perfectly designed and so fun to create with!

For this first card, I inked up the stencils using dye inks for the orange and green layers, then used distress oxide for the faces so the brown would really cover the pumpkins and show up well. Then I die cut the panel with the largest Frames & Flags die set and tied green organza ribbon around it. Next, I popped it up with foam tape on a brown card base.

Then, I die cut the label shape from the Slimline Frames & Windows die set and heat embossed a sentiment from the new Halloween Pile stamp set before adhering it with foam squares.

This was a quick and easy card to create but it’s so festive and fun. I love it! Next, I stepped up the stenciling just a bit.

For this card, I used a teal A2 panel for my jack-o-lantern inking with dye inks except for the faces. For that, I spread Thermoweb Transfer Gel Blanco through the stencil and then set it aside to try.

After it was dry, I ran the panel through my laminator with bronze Deco Foil transfer sheet and look at those spooky faces shine! This is so cool in person to play with! I love it!

After foiling, I die cut the panel with the largest Frames & Flags die and added foam tape to the back and adhered it to plaid paper from the new Autumn paper pad.

For my sentiments, I used the Essential Alphabet die set to cut BOO from kraft, brown and black cardstock. I used liquid glue to adhere the letters shifting them just a smidge to the right each time. Then I glued them to the pumpkin panel.

Next, I stamped and heat embossed Happy Haunting from the new Spiderweb Oval stamp set and cut the words apart into fun strips. I popped those up with foam strips and adhered the whole panel to a white card base.

I hope you enjoyed these extra projects today and are able to snag some fun fall goodies for yourself from the new release.

Products used today:
Jack-o’-Lanterns stencil set
Frames & Flags dies
Essential Alphabet dies
Spiderweb Oval stamps
Halloween Pile stamps
Slimline Frames & Windows dies
Autumn paper pad
Thermoweb Transfer Gel Blanco
Thermoweb Deco Foil – bronze
Thermoweb 3D foam tape
Thermoweb UltraBond liquid glue pen

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Miss Ink Stamps – SPOOKY

Hi there! I’m back today with some spooky fun inspiration using some more amazing Halloween goodies from Miss Ink Stamps. I didn’t get a chance to use this awesome Halloween Mandala stencil last year and forgot about it until this week, so I immediately pulled it out to play.

I started with an orange panel of cardstock and used pixie spray on my stencil to adhere the two together temporarily. Then I spread wild lilac glitz glitter gel through the stencil. After removing the stencil, I set the panel aside to dry and cleaned up immediately.

While digging through my Halloween stamp sets, I thought it would be so fun to pair the critters in Welcome Home with sentiments in Halloween Sentiments over this awesome stenciling. So I started stamping and coloring everything with my copics. I used the scan-n-cut to cut everything out and added foam squares to the back.

I didn’t want the sentiment to be a big obtrusive block on the bottom of the card so I stamped SPOOKY and heat embossed it on vellum, then trimmed it into a strip. These letters are so chunky, I was able to hide foam strips behind them to pop the sentiment up a bit. Next, I chose a second sentiment to trim into as trip and place on top of that.

When the glitz gel was dry, I added foam tape to the back and popped it up on an A2 black cardstock panel. Then removed the foam back papers and added the critters and sentiments to that. Finally, I used liquid glue to adhere the whole thing to a white card base.

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the hedgehog’s hat band and pumpkin. Then stardust Stickles to the stars on the hat and the mouse’s candy costume. Last of all, I added black glaze pen to all of their eyes, let it dry and came in with a white gel pen highlight.

Isn’t this so much fun!?! I am still loving all things Halloween and fall right now. It feels like I’ll be in this mood well through Christmas at this point. Lol!

Products used:
Halloween Sentiments stamps
Welcome Home stamps
Halloween Mandala stencil
Glitz Glitter Gel – wild lilac
Stencil Pal
Foam squares and tape
Heat embossing powder, ink and anti-static brush
Glossy accents
Stickles- stardust

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!