Every year, I take part in a Halloween Swap on a Craft forum that I belong to, and it's one of my favourite swaps of the year. However, as Halloween is just once a year, I try to not spend too much cash on craft stash just for that occasion and today's card is a case in point. The only exclusively Halloween element on this card is the main stamped image, everything else has been adapted "spookify" it!
Card Recipe:
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo, Joanna Sheen's House Mouse
Tools: Tonic Studios Doomed Window Die, Tonic Studios Window Basket Die Tonic Studios Label Die, Cameo Silhouette, Grand Calibur
Colouring Mediums: Versmark Ink Pad, Versafine Black Ink Pad, Promarker Pens, Cosmic Shimmer Mist, Moon Glow Embossing Powder, Distress Ink Weathered Wood
Paper and Card: WRMK, Textured, Joanna Sheen's Elegance Satin, Velvet Paper, Opal Vellum
Embellishments: Tooth pick, foliage, silver-tone charm, string, bakers twine, crystals
To create the stamped scene, I cut a piece of stamping card slightly smaller than my window die, and punched out a 1" circle mask from a post-it note. I checked the position of my mask against the window die cut, then lightly coloured the stamping card with weathered wood distress ink. After removing the mask, I stamped my witch using Versafine black , so that she appeared in silhouette against the moon. Finally, I spritzed the entire image lightly with cosmic shimmer mist.
As this is a window scene looking from the inside to outdoors, my vellum blind needed to be proud of the window. I cut the decorative edge with my favourite gothic border punch, and created the velvet "pelmet" by die- cutting some velvet paper and cardstock with the window box die that coordinates with the window die (but turned upside down).
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and as I do like making my own embellishments, and I had fun creating this witchy-broom as a bespoke Halloween decoration. I used some sprigs of floristry foliage, which I pressed into my Versamark ink pad then coated in gorgeous two-toned moon glow embossing powder (midnight pewter obsidian). When I heated the embossing powder, my craft room was filled with the scent of pine.
I glued the now midnight-black sprigs to a wooden tooth-pick and wrapped some rough string around the join - et voila - a very witchy broom.
If you like to see how I created my All Hallows House Mouse, have a look at my original Scary House Mouse blog post.
You can also see how I used my Tied Together embossing folder and Black Soot ink pad to create my Halloween textured "wallpaper" from a piece of purple patterned paper.
The pumpkins were cut on my Cameo Silhouette, I like the curly fronds. The silver-tone spider was an Ebay find, I just added the crystal to the centre and suspended it from a thread of Halloween Bakers Twine.
Here's one final look at this spooktacular card...
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Trick or Treat! This is a fun project to transform brown sandwich bags into Spooktacular treat bags. Lots of techniques used, including: Dry Embossing ● Heat Embossing ● Stamping ● Decoupage ● Die Cutting ● Punches ● Accenting ● Charms
Project Recipe:Stamps: Inkadinkadoo All Hallows Eve
Colouring Mediums: Versamark Ink, Versafine Ink, Martha Stewart Embossing Powder, WOW embossing powder, pigment ink pad, Black Soot Distress Ink
Paper and Card: DCWV, WRMK, vellum
Tools: Tonic Studios Gothic Die, Tonic Studios Gothic Border Punch, Tonic Label Dies, Grand Calibur, Embossalicious Embossing Folder, Silhouette Cameo
Embellishments: silver-tone charms, Bakers Twine, glossy accents
My "Oldies" (ie using up bits and bobs from my stash that's over 6 month's old) are everything apart from the Bakers Twine and Charms.
Step 1 - Creating the Topper
The topper has lots of great detail to it. First of all, I die cut a label shape the stamped my Happy Halloween in Versamark Ink which I then heat embossed with WOW extra fine black embossing powder. Once melted, the embossing powder acts as a resist, meaning that I was then able to over stamp with the cobweb corner stamp, but it has the illusion of sitting behind the Halloween greeting. I also stamped on the filigree spider and accented the spider body with glossy accents to create dimension. For the pumpkins and Versamrk ink, I first stamped "off-the-edge" of the main label and heat embossed with Martha Stewart Peridot Glitter Embossing Powder. I then stamped the image twice more onto a slightly lighter piece of orange card and heat embossed with WOW black. I layered up the pumpkins to create some lovely dimension.
Don't think you always need to buy finishing accents for your projects, they are quite easy to make yourself. I printed off the word SPELLS onto another offcut of the lighter orange card, cut it out with a tiny banner die and edged it with black ink. I then tore a small strip of calligraphy-printed vellum and rolled it into a scroll, and glued the SPELLS card around it. A lovely little accent and made from a few scraps.
Step 2 - Creating the Tag
That said, I did use some sweet silver-tone charms to accent my Tag, attached with sppoky halloween Bakers Twine and a tiny brad.
The tag was cut using the very aptly named Gothic Die Set from Tonic Studios, and I used Black Soot distress ink around the edge. The mat was cut on my Cameo Silhouette using the trace method. I have imported all of my Tonic Dies into my Cameo to do this, very useful.
The Trick & Treat sentiment was stamped and heat embossed.
Step 3 - Finishing the Bag
My brown paper sandwich bags fitted perfectly into an 8" Embossalicous embossing folder, so I used the Polka Dot folder and then swiped over the raised embossing with an orange pigment Ink Pad.
I had a sheet of 12" WRMK cardstock that was Halloween borders, so I cut this into strips and mounted it onto black card that had been edged with the Gothic Border Punch. This created a decorative edge to the top of my Altered Halloween Trick or Treat Brown Paper Bags.
Here's one final look:
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Hello and today’s card features a number of different techniques, so can you spot all the techniques? Look for:
Stamping onto Acetate ● Gilding Flakes on Acetate ● Paper Punching ● Flower Sculpting ● Digital Die Cutting ● Manual Die Cutting ● Accenting
Card Recipe:
Stamp: Inkadinkado morphic birds
Colouring Mediums: Stazon Black Inkpad
Paper & Card: DCWV Far East Stack, Stardream Metallic Cappuccino, Conqueror Iridescent Morphing Mauve
Tools: Spellbinder Die, Silhouette Cameo, BigShot, Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page, cake decorating
Embellishments: Gilding Flakes
To make the focal point for this card, I first stamped the gorgeous Morphing Birds stamp by Inkadinkado onto clear acetate using Stazon ink. I then carefully painted gilding size glue onto the reverse and set aside to dry (15-30mins). Next came fun with gilding flakes, which I applied over the size and then buffed gently to achieve the burnished finish. Finally, I trimmed the image, leaving a small border of clear acetate.
I’ve had this DCWV Far East cardstock pack for ages, and I just used 1 sheet featuring the dragon and birdcage images to make both mats and then used the offcuts to die cut the flowers and the bird cage. To make the latter, I used my Silhouette Cameo. For the flowers, I cut multiple flowers using Spellbinders Rose Creations, then shaped the petals using my PME cake decorating tool to make them “cup”.
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
The Stamp Man - Butterflies, Birds and Bees
Please do let me know what you think, I love to read your comments.
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You can also see how I used my Tied Together embossing folder and Black Soot ink pad to create my Halloween textured "wallpaper" from a piece of purple patterned paper.
