We’re back for day 2 of our Craftoween crafting and today is a little spookier than the start but I love it equally! Don’t you?!?
It’s speaking Edgar Allen Poe to me in my dreams! He’s wonderfully eerie and would be fabulous to perch on so much more than this awesome skull!
I paired him with the Plaid Company embossing folder and Scallop Labels nested dies. I inked the plaid background with white ink to help it pop and splattered the front panel with dark teal ink for some interest as well.
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Welcome ghosts and ghouls! It’s the first day of Spellbinders 13 Days of Craftoween! Where we reveal a spooky fun creation each day to inspire your creepiest crafting! I hope you love it as much as I did creating them all!
Today we have this absolutely spectacular little Dracula to build. He was so much fun and crazy simple to assemble. These dies are brilliantly designed!
You’ll notice the sentiment stamps and embellishments that I use through all 13 days of this project are from the kit. Today I added the Underwater Tunnel dies to add interest and whimsy to the design.
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Hi friends. I’m honored to be sharing my card with you today. Spellbinders released this sweet die set called Sharon’s Scissors in honor of Sharon Kilma, a longtime craft shop owner who suddenly passed from heart disease earlier this year. A portion of the proceeds for this die set are being donated to the American Heart Association.
It’s a wonderful small die set, including a sentiment and everything. Today I cut the scissors from pink and light green cardstocks, with the blades from silver foil cardstock. I used liquid glue to adhere the pieces together. Then I cut my sentiment strips from black and a backer in white to help the sentiment show better.
Next, I die cut a Notched Rectangle from teal cardstock and embossed it with the Loops embossing folder. I ink blended it with darker teal ink and splattered it with white. I chose gray as a soft neutral for my card front and then popped the loops panel up with foam tape.
Next, I glued the hearts directly to the panel and popped the scissors and sentiment strips up with foam squares and strips.
Hello everyone! I think this is the busiest my blog has been in years! There is so much going on and it’s not going to rest until next month at least. It’s so much fun. I hope you’re enjoying it as well!
Today I’m popping in with two cards featuring just the Halloween add on die set that is part of the Cuckoo Cottage Collection that released a few days ago with Spellbinders.
First up, I cut a bunch of the amazing shapes from the set and just started building them all to play with. Once I had those kitties put together I had this sort of mandala idea in my head. As it all came together, this is what I ended up with and I love it!
Once the arrangement was complete, I added foam squares to the back of everything and found this awesome sentiment from last year’s Hoppy Halloween mini die set that was a Deluxe Caboodle freebie but is now for sale.
I did some distress oxide spray playing on the background panel to create the purple textured look. Then added my images to Mirrored Arch labels – green and vellum before popping that up on the purple panel.
So while creating all the cute critters and things for my first card, I ended up with extras! What does this mean?!? Well, of course you have to make another fun spooky card! Since I had the cute Hoppy Halloween frog out for the sentiment banner I couldn’t resist creating one to go with the smaller Cuckoo Cottage images. Don’t they play so well together?!?
At it again with the distress oxide sprays for my background plus some Solar Sprays from Simon Hurley for subtle sparkle and color too. I used the Tiny Dots embossing folder on dark teal cardstock for the bottom portion and everything is adhered with liquid glue or foam squares and tape.
Hello everyone! It’s release day for Spellbinders and there are a bunch of new, amazing collections to snag! Today I have a couple of cards to share using the new Joy Shadow dies from Yana’s City Holiday Collection. It’s a very classy Christmas themed collection of dies.
First up I have a very wintery feeling card featuring that bold Joy shadow sentiment, paired with a banner from last month’s North Pole Sentiments set and the Sparkling Snow 3D embossing folder from the year before.
I added some gold watercolor splatter for a little sparkle in the light and, of course, lots of dimension with foam squares and tape.
Next, I have a more traditional looking Christmas card to share with you featuring the same Joy Shadow dies.
This time I used the Peppermint Stripes embossing folder on pink cardstock. I inked up one side of the embossing folder before adding the pink cardstock and running it through my die cut machine. This transfers the ink to the recessed parts of the embossing and gives you two-tone panels. It’s not difficult, easy to clean up and really expands the use of your embossing folders.
For the texture on the card front, I took my light teal ink pad direct-to-paper for a textured inking, which is also a very quick way to add color to your paper. Then I assembled everything with a combination of foam squares or liquid glue.
Hi friends! I’ve been horrible about taking the time to write blog posts but I know that some people do enjoy/use the information in them. So today I’m catching up a bit with some social media posts I’ve made for Spellbinders over the last week or so.
This first card is purely products that I couldn’t live without and purchased on my own, not gifted from Spellbinders. I had an absolute blast taking my time to cut and build all of the bits in this sweet Santa mug! I pulled the banner sentiment from a recent Spellbinders Simon Hurley release called North Pole Sentiments.
The embossing folder is called Peppermint Stripes and all I did to get the dual color was ink up the inside of the embossing folder before embossing and it transfers the color while embossing. Super easy clean up with a spray bottle and paper towel too! I dare you to try it!
The next thing I shared that is HUGE and so exciting is that I am participating in the 13 days of Craftoween with Spellbinders! The sneak peek is just of the amazing box it comes in but starting August 19 I will have daily posts revealing the die of the day and a project created with it!
The design of this advent style box is pure genius! You get 13 days of spooky die sets to create with along with a stamp set of sentiments that are perfect throughout the days and a package of mixed sequins to embellish your creations too! Mark your calendars and know that I’m just bursting with excitement to share it all with you!
My last update is my social media post for today which uses the full die set I mentioned earlier called North Pole Sentiments. This set includes the signs and banners plus sentiments to go in them, the striped north pole and a snowman to decorate a couple of different ways. So much cuteness all in one place!
For this card, I added the Sparkling Snow 3D embossing folder from a previous Simon Hurley release last year as my background. Then I cut a snowdrift and added some chunky glitter for fun texture and sparkle.
Tons of products used on these projects, plus the upcoming 13 Days of Craftoween box! Click HERE to head to Spellbinders and snag yours to create with me!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Hi everyone! I’m back today with some more Christmas in July from Spellbinders. This card features one of the adorable die sets from the Simon Hurley North Pole Friends collection that came out this month. These elves are adorable and so fun to build!
I started by playing around with all the parts of the elves, creating red and green versions plus all the extras that they could hold on to. I used liquid glue, reverse tweezers and a pick up tool to make life easier when assembling these cuties!
Next, I used the Sparkling Snow 3D embossing folder from last year on a piece of light blue cardstock. Then I went over the snowflakes with a blending brush and white pigment ink to help them stand out a bit. Then I die cut my sentiment banner from the Handmade Sentiments die set, also from last year. It’s definitely a go-to!
I glued the embossed panel to a white card base and then added my sentiment banner and elves to the front with foam strips and squares. I worked my way from the banner up so I could control my spacing top and bottom. I knew I had wiggle room by overlapping elf hands and feet if necessary.
Be sure to pop over to Spellbinders and check out this whole collection. Simon really outdid himself this time. The sets are adorable on their own but are also going to be really fun to interact with each other too! I have two more currently on their way to me because I just couldn’t resist!
Happy weekend everyone! I’m stopping in with an elegant but simple Christmas card today featuring and focusing on the Christmas Cameos 3D embossing folder from the Spellbinders Merry Moments release that happened on Thursday.
For today’s card, I embossed a piece of red cardstock and then lightly drug my white pigment ink pad across the embossing to make it pop. It’s simple and quick to do, just use a light hand and go over multiple times if you need to. Then I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a white card base.
Then I pulled out two die sets from Christmas releases last year to add a sentiment and floral decor to my pretty embossed panel. Handmade Sentiments is a great sentiment banner die set for the holidays and Delivering Joy is spectacular for it’s large sleigh image but all the supporting decorations are great to use with it and on their own like I did here with the foliage.
I used liquid glue to adhere the pieces together and then popped them up on the card front with foam squares after everything was dry enough to move.
Be sure to check out all the new Christmas in July joy that’s happening at Spellbinders!
Welcome back everyone! I’m back today with a card featuring goodies from a couple of Spellbinders Christmas in July releases happening today. This first card features sweet scene dies from the Country Christmas Collection by Annie Willis and an embossing folder from the Merry Moments Collection.
I spent some relaxing time die cutting all the elements for my Country Snowman, using ink blending and a little copic marker coloring for shading and texture in places. Reverse tweezers and liquid glue are always my friend when creating with dies like these.
Once I had my scene elements created, glued and drying, I ink blended a panel with distress oxide inks and ran it through the die cutter with the Christmas Cameos 3D embossing folder. I glued that to a card base and started assembling the rest of my card.
After adding the Country Snowman elements with foam squares I pulled out my favorite sentiment banners from last year to finish things off. The white layer on the sentiment banner helps the sentiment pop and hides the foam behind it but this time I offset it for a little added interest.
Hey friends! I interrupt your regularly scheduled summer fun for some spooky wishes featuring the Mama Elephant Halloween awesomeness that recently released! If you’ve been here for just a minute, you know Halloween is my favorite and any excuse to create for it has me ALL IN!
I had a general idea that I wanted to create a big sentiment with the adorable mummies and witches around and in the letters somehow. So I started with my background to set the tone and choose my color palette…perfect summerween colors! I used the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Stars stencil set on pink cardstock to start off with. I used Lawn Fawn carrot and jet black inks.
Next, I adhered white cardstock to craft foam and covered the back with adhesive sheet. Then I die cut my sentiment using the Lawn Fawn Henry’s ABCs die set. This gave instant dimension with less work than cutting each letter 4 times and gluing them together. After arranging my letters together I chose a Spellbinders Emerald Cut Label die to cut from vellum as a backdrop.
Now that I had a general placement and size of open space, I chose a couple of mummies and a witch from the new Mama Elephant sets – Mummified and Bewitched. I stamped, colored and die cut them, then adhered each mummy with foam squares and the witch with liquid glue.
Hiding adhesive behind the letters and images, I adhered the vellum panel with tape runner to the stenciled background. Next, I used liquid glue to adhere the whole thing to a card base.
For finishing touches I added orange glitter brush pen to the sentiment and white gel pen highlights to the images.
On a scale from 1 to spooky, how much do you love crafting for Halloween?
Products used: Mama Elephant Mummified stamps and dies Mama Elephant Bewitched stamps and dies Pretty Pink Posh Layered Stars stencils Spellbinders Emerald Cut Labels dies Blending brushes Lawn Fawn inks – carrot and jet black Liquid glue Adhesive sheets Craft foam Foam squares Tape runner
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