Well, hello friends! Fancy meeting you here. 😉 I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today sharing a fun decoration I made for my festively fall decorated mantel! I make a big deal about the mantel because I’ve wanted one since we bought this house and my wonderful husband built a custom one last winter so this is my first fall season being able to decorate it! It’s so fun!

I love swiping the 2×4 scraps from the garage when my husband builds things. This one is about 6 inches tall. Here’s a little photo step-by-step in case you want to try it out!

Sand your piece of wood down to the smoothness/shape you’re looking for. Then paint it with acrylic paint. For this project I put the dry block in my splatter box and added flicks of pearl and gold watercolor all over it and let it dry.

To make a template for my moon, I die cut a circle from white cardstock and then I took the circle one size smaller and cut the side off, creating a crescent shape. I placed it on my block and used a pencil to make dots about 1/2 inch apart, maybe a little more. If you’re more comfortable, you could mark on your cardstock first so that you know if you like the spacing or not. I’ve done enough of these to just wing it now.

After I marked the dots, I hammered in penny nails so they stick up about a 1/2 inch out of the wood. I tied embroidery thread to one nail and started winding and wrapping. It’s not rocket science and the more imperfect, the more fun it looks…to me at least.

I tied off the thread and trimmed the tails. The knots are hidden beneath the wrapped thread naturally so it’s not a worry. Then I stamped my favorite little bat from Fang-tastic Friends, colored him with simple copics and die cut him out. I added black foam squares under him, it took 3 stacked to get him the same height as the nails.

I stamped a sentiment from the same set and heat embossed it on black cardstock. Then I used the banner die from the 4-Bar Card die set to cut it out. I used a foam strip to attach it to the wood block.

For finishing touches, I added some glossy accents to the bat and then glued a scattering of these awesome Glowing Sky clay embellishments all over. They glow in the dark which makes this extra awesome at night!

I am just tickled with how this fun decoration turned out! Have you ever made string art before? I love the way they look but have had even more fun adding stamped images to the designs over the last year. It changes the whole look!

Products used today:
Fang-tastic Friends stamps and dies
Embossed Edge Circle Stack dies
4-bar Card dies
Glowing Sky embellishments
Foam squares
Ultra Bond liquid adhesive
Glossy accents
Copic markers

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fang-tastic day!

Hey friends! I’m popping in today with a fun Trinity Stamps Halloween slimline card. These products released last year for fall but I didn’t get a chance to use them and there was no way I was going another season without! They are so much fun! I especially love the font of the Hello Bootiful dies, don’t you?!?

To create this card, I ink blended a panel with distress oxides in seedless preserves, twisted citron and carved pumpkin. These three colors have become my staple Halloween trio this year. I love them together and seriously can’t get enough! After they were blended nicely I die cut the panel with the largest scalloped slimline panel die.

Then I stamped the main image from Slimline Boos on a white panel and cut it out with the smallest Stitched Slimline Panels die. I adhered the inked panel to a white card base with liquid glue and popped the ghosts up with foam tape.

Next, I die cut the Hello Bootiful dies five times – black, white, green, purple and orange. I used liquid glue to adhere them together slightly offsetting each layer. Then I used liquid glue to adhere them to the ghost panel.

For finishing touches, I went over the top layer of the sentiment with Wink of Stella glitter brush pen so it shimmers in the light really well! It’s super fun! And, my card is finished!

Products used on today’s card:
Slimline Boos stamps
Slimline Scalloped Panels and Banners dies
Slimline Stitched Card Panels and Windows dies
Hello Bootiful dies
Distress Oxide – seedless preserves, twisted citron, carved pumpkin
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Ultra Bond liquid adhesive
3D foam tape

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

Thanks for stopping in today. I have a short tutorial for you featuring the recently released Harvest Rainbow stamp and die set from Trinity Stamps. The idea of this set is just beautiful and when you put the color to paper it just doesn’t disappoint at all! So many variations are possible too! Practically endless!

Here’s a peek at the finished card before we dive in. I specifically chose a muted ink palette because I knew I wanted it to feel like fall and also mat it on a kraft card base. I think they work well together. Let’s get started, shall we?

I used my MISTI for all of the stamping today but you really don’t have to, it just makes life a little easier. I started by stamping the outline image in black. Then, working from the smallest rainbow band outward, I lined up and inked the solid images that fill the layers in. Super simple.

Then I used the coordinating dies to cut the rainbow out. Aren’t those colors so pretty together? This just makes me happy!

Next, I took a kraft panel and placed it in my MISTI. I pulled out all of the individual leaf stamps from the set and created a cluster. I stamped it and then rotated my paper and stamped it again. I rearranged the stamps and did it again. This left the center with a few gaps which I filled in individually. Then I trimmed this panel down to 4×5.25 inches and added foam tape to the back.

After popping the background panel up on a kraft card base, I added foam to the rainbow and placed it on my card too. I stamped the sentiment in the set and used the coordinating dies to cut it out next and popped it up with foam squares.

To finish things off I glued down a scattering of gold satin baubles across the design. I love the matte finish on these and how it gives a little shine without being overbearing on a more toned down color palette.

Products used on today’s card:
Harvest Rainbow stamps and dies
Gold Satin Baubles
Foam tape
Foam squares

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

Welcome! Welcome! Come in! We mustn’t lurk in doorways dear, it’s rude! Hehe! Spooky like Ursula, I’ve got quite a scene card to share with you today! I had so much fun playing with stencils and layering inks to create this card! I hope you enjoy it too!

I really wanted to play with the new Trinity Stamps dies that coordinate with last year’s Pumpkinhead layering stencil. So I started with that. I die cut the pumpkins from orange cardstock and the stems from green. Then used the stencil to add depth and dimension to them. I die cut a spooky face from one and backed it with black to make it scary instead of lit up.

Then for my background panel I inked up the October Night Sky stencil. I started with the trees on each side and then filled in the dark spooky air. For these I used dye inks and my blending buddy brushes. Then for the fog I came in with speckled egg distress oxide ink so that it sits on top of the other images a little, really giving that eerie feeling. Last, I inked up the bats with VersaFine onyx black ink because it gives a dark crisp layer and also stamped my sentiment in the same ink. This came from the Pick of the Patch stamp set.

I die cut my scene with the Modern Embossed Rectangle Stack die and adhered it to a white card base. Then I added foam squares to my pumpkins and popped them up at the bottom of my scene, which finishes off my card.

Typically I come in with shiny and sparkly things but I refrained on this card because I just love the Halloween spooky vibe it has!

Products used on today’s card:
Pumpkinhead stencils and dies
Modern Embossed Edge Rectangle dies
October Night Sky stencils
Blending buddy brushes
foam squares

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