Hero Arts – Hocus Pocus Collection

Welcome back everyone! Today I’m highlighting the Hero Arts Hocus Pocus Collection with a pair of cards featuring the Boo to You dies, along with sentiments from Season’s Creepings and the Scattered Stars layering stencils.

When I received my package, I hit blending brush to paper with those awesome scattered stars immediately! I couldn’t wait to try different color backgrounds with different color combos on the stars! Then I was sure to die cut all of those fun ghosts and their accessories to see what fun I could create!

My first card features a whimsical take on the starry background and three of the ghosts from the die set. I cut an oval from a piece of black cardstock and popped it up on the stenciled panel to frame my stars.

Then added ghosts and my sentiment with foam squares on top of that. This gives everything a couple of layers for more depth and interest.

My second card has a gray background with a light orange frame cut from two infinity rectangles. I love the look this gives. Then I popped my dressed up witch ghost up with foam squares and finished the design off with another great heat embossed sentiment!

I’ll be back with more inspiration using this collection soon, so stay tuned!

Products:
Boo To You dies
Season’s Creepings stamps and dies
Scattered Stars layering stencils
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks
Foam tape and squares
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder
Magic anti-static brush
Liquid glue

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Spellbinders – Small Die of the Month

Welcome back friends! I have been fortunate enough to be able to design with a few of the Spellbinders Club Kits for the remainder of the year! I love these clubs and they are such a great value! Over the next few months you’ll see me share inspiration for the Small Die of the Month, Embossing Folder of the Month and Stencil of the Month. All of these are right up my crafting alley and I hope you’ll enjoy it as well!

Today I have a card featuring the Small Die of the Month it it’s spooky form. This set is perfectly designed for everything through all of the fall months! I paired dies from the set with my sentiment banner which comes from Hoppy Halloween. It’s a great little set and this senitment banner has become a go-to for a lot of my spooky projects lately.

I inked up one side of my plaid embossing folder before running it through my die cut machine for the textures embossing look. Then splattered the panel with watered down black paint.

I ink blended the edges of my card front with seedless preserves distress oxide ink and spritzed it with water before popping up the layers of my card with foam tape and squares. Then I added little stardust Stickles on the pumpkin’s cheeks for fun.

Products used:
Small Die of the Month
Hoppy Halloween dies
Plaid embossing folder
Distress oxide ink – seedless preserves
Lawn Fawn ink – cilantro
Foam tape and squares
Stickles – stardust
Liquid glue

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Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create – Go Get ‘Em, Tiger!

Welcome everyone! I’m back with another card featuring the recent release from Simon Hurley Create and Ranger Ink. This time I tried bold lunar paste on black cardstock with partial stenciling.

I love the pattern of the new Lush Leaves stencil so I paired it with Charming Lunar Paste on black cardstock. I turned my panel landscape and spread paste from top down making sure I didn’t cover the whole panel. Once the panel was dry, I trimmed about 3/8″ off the edge with no paste and added foam tape to the back.

I stamped my sentiment on the right edge of a card base. Then stamped my layered tiger from Wild About You and used the coordinating die to cut it out. I used black widow and guppy Stellar Inks for that guy.

When the stenciled panel was dry, I popped it up on the card base with foam tape. Then popped the tiger up with foam squares and finished the design off with some black ribbon tied around the left edge.

Have you checked out the new release yet? Are you one that likes to be in touch with your inner messy artist? You should try it!!! It’s fun!

Products used:
Wild About You stamps and dies
Lunar Paste – Charming
Lush Leaves stencil
Foam tape
Stellar Ink – black widow and guppy

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Doodlebugs – Rustic Christmas Inspiration

Welcome everyone! So glad you stopped by for this week’s Mix-it-up Monday for Doodlebugs! I’m squeezing in a little Christmas in between all my fall and Halloween crafting for the fun of it.

Today I created 2 of the Waffle Flower Poinsettia Frames with the die and stencil combo. I added some glitter brush pen to the yellow centers and die cut white glitter centers for the poinsettias themselves.

Next I used the Concord & 9th Woodgrain embossing folder on dark brown cardstock. I ink blended it with ground espresso distress oxide ink and splattered it with white paint. After gluing that to a card base, I popped the poinsettia frame pieces up with foam squares.

Last, I die cut the Merry Christmas sentiment from Spellbinders. I didn’t love the stark white background so I went over the edges lightly with my brown blending brush; I just didn’t add any more ink to it and used a light hand. Last, I added the sentiment to the center of the card with foam squares and liquid glue.

Products used:
Waffle Flower Poinsettia Frame dies and stencil
Concord & 9th Woodgrain embossing folder
Spellbinders Merry Christmas dies
Foam squares
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Liquid glue

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

Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 13

Hi friends! Today is our final day of the Spellbinders 13 Days of Craftoween! I thoroughly enjoyed creating with all of these products and also had fun sharing them with all of you. I hope you enjoyed it and found some inspiration along the way, even if it’s not Halloween themed.

Today’s final reveal was an awesome textured coffin with an escaping mummy! I went with lots of distressing on all the layers creating my image. Then partnered it with the Tunnel Clouds dies for a spooky effect.

I chose a couple of smaller sentiments for this card blending them in a bit with the color of cardstock they are stamped on. I also splattered that back panel with some white paint and inked the edges of all the tunnel layers for depth. Being so thick, I only popped up my coffin and left the rest with just liquid glue.

Grab your 13 Days of Craftoween HERE and join in the fun!

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Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 12

Thanks for stopping by again everyone! For today’s 13 Days of Craftoween reveal we’re going fun and spooky. Are you ready?

After building my awesome cauldron with legs, I pulled out the Notched Rectangles again to bring that focal point together. I cut the inside layer from dark pink cardstock and inked the top with white pigment ink to soften it, then stamped my sentiment on the bottom.

I splattered a green panel with watered down black paint and adhered everything together with liquid glue and foam tape.

Grab your 13 Days of Craftoween HERE and join in the fun!

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

Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create – So Glad I Spotted You

Hi friends! I’m back with more inspiration featuring the Simon Hurley Create release with Ranger Ink. Today I’m using more Lunar Paste but doubling up on colors using the same stencil.

When I do things like this, I spread the first color out and scrape as much excess off as I can, then I come in with the second color mixing them a little where they meet. It’s so cool if they are complimentary or opposing. They don’t mix into a new color but meld and swirl without combining.

After stenciling, I set the panel aside to dry and stamped a fun giraffe from the Wild About You set. I used brown for my base and layered yellow, orange and brown for my accent colors. It was a complete experiment as I’d never done that before. I just inked the yellow, stamped, then inked the orange and dabbed it away so it was a light layer, stamped and repeated that thought with light brown. I love the color it made!

After die cutting the giraffe, I cut a circle from vellum and heat embossed my sentiment. Then I trimmed the stenciled panel to 4×5.25 and popped it up on a white card base. I added foam to the giraffe but thought he needed grounding so I added a 1/4″ strip of black which balances things nicely.

Last, I trimmed the top off the vellum circle and then hid glue behind the words and glued it in place.

Products used:
Wild About You stamps and dies
Lunar Paste – limelight and jaded
Stellar Ink
Intertwined stencil
Embossing and watermark ink
Anti static bag
Embossing powder
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 11

Day 11 is simple but so wonderful and really got me excited when I opened it. I don’t know what it is about this wonderful haunted house and it’s little bats but I love it and I had so much fun getting ink to create today’s card.

I cut the back layer of the house from yellow cardstock and used copics to add some depth to the windows and door. I also have a serious love for bats so one wasn’t going to do at all!

For the background, I took my felt ink pad direct to the card front for that great texture and quick color coverage. Then I did distress oxide blending on an Essential Modern Oval, then splattered gold watercolor and stamped my sentiment.

The banner is punched using a 2 1/2 inch wide piece of cardstock and my Spellbinders Banner Punch. I wrapped it with gold wrapped wire and adhered everything together with foam squares and tape.

Grab your 13 Days of Craftoween HERE and join in the fun!

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Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 10

Hi friends! Back today as we’re coming in the home stretch with the Spellbinders 13 Days of Craftoween, already up to day 10! This one gave me Day of the Dead vibes and I’m seriously smitten with it!

After creating my awesome floral, I pulled out the Four Petal dies and cut two layers – green and vellum. I heat embossed the sentiment on the vellum and attached the flower with foam squares. Then I hid the adhesive behind the heat embossing and flower to adhere the vellum to the green panel.

I embossed a melon colored cardstock panel with the Norwegian Rosemaling 3D embossing flower and ink blended the embossing with a darker melon ink to give it depth. I popped the green panel up on that with foam tape and glued the whole thing to a card base.

For finishing touches I pulled more of the sequins from the pack that came in the kit. I love those shiny pops of black!

Grab your 13 Days of Craftoween HERE and join in the fun!

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Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create – Finger Paint with Lunar Paste

Happy Wednesday everyone! We’re halfway through the week and I wanted to pop in with an extra card today featuring more of the new release from Ranger Ink and Simon Hurley Create!

For this background, I literally just finger painted with three of the new Lunar Paste colors for a fun abstract background. Once the panel was dry, I chose my sentiment and heat embossed it along the bottom of the panel.

Next I stamped the awesome leopard in the Wild About You set with Stellar Inks – black widow and high tide. I used the coordinating die to cut him out and popped him up with foam squares.

I glued the panel to a card base and finished things off with a scattering of teal enamel dots from my stash. I love these new Lunar Pastes on black! They pop so well!

Products used:
Wild About You stamps and dies
Lunar Paste – limelight, mugshot & kiss and tell
Stellar Ink – high tide and black widow
Embossing and watermark ink
Anti static bag
Embossing powder
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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