Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 9

Who doesn’t love a sweet little monster from time to time?!? I sure do! And this cutie is no different. Day 9 was so fun to build and would be amazing in all the color combos too!

I used my copics to give her a little dot detail and colored the cheek embossing in with a purple marker for fun. And did you notice that adorable one-eyed pumpkin bucket?!? So cute!

The layers on this shaped card come from the Scallop Labels and Tag dies. I cut the bottom from cream and ink blended a little brown for depth. The next layer was embossed with the Tiny Dots embossing folder and the last one was from light blue ink blended with teal.

One more tip on this kind of shaped card. Instead of a top fold that’s only holding on by the middle scallop, I scored the left side of this back layer at 1/4″ and glued them together on the side.

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Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 8

If you’ve followed me for a bit you know I was on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers design team because I love coffee, tea and all things comfort! So to pair that with Halloween had me with heart eyes when I opened today’s surprise!

This little mug of death was so fun to build and decorate! I paired it with a little ombre ink blended on gray cardstock and a fun frame to give it center stage! Remember, if you have nesting dies, just add two of them together and create your own fun shaped frames all day long!

After popping everything up with foam squares, I placed the card in my MISTI to stamp the sentiment so it lined up where I wanted it. Then I finished this card off with more of those great sequins!

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Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 7

If you know me, you know I squealed when I opened today’s beautiful envelope of surprise! BOOKS!!!! And spooky books at that! They’re so perfect!

After assembling the books, candles and popping on the sentiment banner, I pulled out a regal embossing folder called Columns and embossed a dark purple cardstock. Then I spritzed it with distress oxide spray for distressing texture and tore off the bottom for that worn and weathered look.

Using the torn panel as a guide, I ink blended the bottom of a piece of dark brown cardstock and heat embossed my sentiment. I glued the panels together and to a card base before popping the books up with foam squares. I finished things off with glossy accents on the flames and another scattering of sequins from the pack in the kit.

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Doodlebugs – Beach Days

Hi friends! I’m here with my installment of Mix it up Monday for Doodlebugs. I’m still intermittently playing with my summer goodies and having fun before it’s all things holiday! I have two cards to share today and they happened by accident in a really cool way.

I wanted to play with my recently ordered Concord & 9th Beach Days dies so I pulled out some colored cardstock and started cutting umbrella pieces. Once I had a good variety I just started assembling, honestly thinking it would be enough for one card. Nope, easily enough for two.

Once I figured that out, I pulled out watercolor paper and kraft cardstock to start making some sky and sand. I used distress oxide sprays for my sky and a splattering of watered down ink and paint for my sand. Those panels ended up being the perfect size to cut in half and use on both cards too. The umbrellas perfectly span the seam.

Once all of that was assembled, I stamped and heat embossed sentiments from the Waffle Flower Coastal Greetings set and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. But things were still a little empty so I die cut and added a sea gull to each card. Aren’t they funny up there?!? They make me giggle.

Products used:
Concord & 9th Beach Days dies
Waffle Flower Coastal Greetings stamps and dies
Distress Oxide spray – salty ocean
Lawn Fawn ink – walnut
White paint
Anti-static bag
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – white
Foam squares and tape

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Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 6

Keeping things spooky but adorable and fun, we’ve got the most perfect addition in today’s envelope! How cute is this skeleton witch and their cauldron and broom! I love it all!

After building my character, I couldn’t resist a little distress oxide spray for a fun and bright background. Then, instead of centering the arch panel, I scooted it up a little so I could heat emboss my sentiment right underneath it.

To make this a shaped card, I took the largest background die and cut it a second time from white cardstock. Then I scored a line about 1/2 inch from the top and glued the back to the front just on that little flap. After the glue dried I folded it open and used a bone folder to solidify the crease.

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Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 5

Okay friends. When I opened day 5 in my Craftoween calendar I got a little spooked because spiders, duh! But in reality he’s pretty darn cute and really fun to build! Another genius design!

I also couldn’t resist straying from your typical Halloween colors today and adding a little teal for fun and whimsy. I inked up my Loops embossing folder before running it through my die cutter which gave that awesome dimension with the texture!

And I finally found the perfect opportunity to add some of the awesome sequins included in the kit for a little shine and interest.

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Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create – Release Day Fun

Hi everyone! I’m popping back in to celebrate the Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create release today! It’s got a fun array of stamps, dies and stencils, along with new pastes for some messy fun!

Today I have two cards to share because my background gave me a two-for-one and I couldn’t resist!

After I received my package of all the goodness in this release, I spent and evening getting messy creating different backgrounds, playing around with the different mediums and stencils. One of the backgrounds I created was this fun new Astro Paste called black widow. It’s a fabulous black glitter and was screaming to be used on this awesome Zebra stencil.

Once the background was dry, I just chopped it in half at an angle. Then I chose a couple of fun colors to stamp my zebra accents in and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. This one is prom queen from the Stellar Ink collection.

For my pink background, I drug the pad directly on the card front and splattered it with water for instant color and fun texture. Then to assemble, I popped the zebra panel up with foam tape and added a black strip across the seam. I added the zebra with half foam squares and half liquid glue so it lays flat. Then I stamped my sentiment using my MISTI.

Same vibe for my 100% Juice version but this time, I used a blending brush to ink up the card front for a softer, ombre look. I also splattered it with water. Stellar Ink is my favorite for this reaction. It’s so severe and looks amazing!

I have so many other cards I’m super excited to share with you using this new collection so stay tuned over the next week or so!

Products used:
Astro Paste – black window
Wild About You stamps and dies
Animal Prints stencil set
Blending brush
Stellar Ink – black widow, prom queen and 100% juice
Foam tape
Liquid glue

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Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 4

Today’s reveal for the Spellbinders 13 Days of Craftoween required multiple projects because there was no way I could choose which fun thing or coordinating sentiment to use with this fun ghost! Can you really blame me though?!?

So after building all these fun ghosties and their accessories/buddies, I chose some background color cardstock and used the Spellbinders tag topper punch to create my own custom size tags. I ink blended the tops of each tag for a little depth and splattered some black paint for interest.

Then I stamped the coordinating sentiment on the bottom and popped the images up with foam squares. I used the same gingham ribbon and embroidery floss combo on each tag and seriously cannot wait to use them this year!

Which is your favorite?

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Newton’s Nook – Spooky Shaker Card

Hi friends! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today sharing another bit of Halloween inspiration. This time I took one of the awesome card front layout dies and turned it into a partial shaker card with some fun spooky elements.

This is the A2 Card Layout 2 die. Since the beginning of this die, I’ve kept all the white inserts from times when I just needed the frame so I had those already and just needed to cut it out once for the black frame. Then I ink blended each insert with blending brushes and dye inks.

Next, I stamped colored and die cut images from the Spooky Stories set and glued them to the ink blended panels. On the orange panel I stamped my sentiment and some small images directly to it before creating the shaker portion.

I added some fun star confetti and microbeads as shaker bits and sealed it up. Then popped the whole panel up on an orange card base with foam tape.

Products used:
A2 Card Layout 2 die
Spooky Stories stamps and dies
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks
Foam tape
Liquid glue

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Spellbinders – 13 Days of Craftoween Day 3

Alright my frightful friends! Are we ready for today’s fun reveal?!? I loved it so much I made three without blinking. They’re so cool and versatile in the way of changing the label to anything you can imagine!

Today I added the sentiment on a banner from North Pole Sentiments die set. It fit perfectly and allowed so much more of the fun embossed background to show.

This embossing folder is called Dazzling Dots and I inked it up with teal ink to help it pop, fading as I went up. Also, in my typical fashion, everything is popped up with foam tape.

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