A Halloween Hello!

Hello and Happy Thursday!

Today I'm sharing a Halloween card using Witch Way is the Candy? from My Favorite Things. This is a stamp set I received last year and all I did was color the images. I thought since it's that time again I would make an actual card! 

To start, I wanted to create a background using the oh-so fun ink smooshing technique. Using my Gansai Tambi watercolors, I used a paintbrush to pick up the color and made a small watercolor puddle on my craft sheet. Next, I used a stamp envelope to pick up the color and place and smoosh it onto the watercolor cardstock. I repeated this until I liked my background. This sheet of cardstock was 5x7 so I cut it down to a quarter inch smaller than an A2 size. 

To prepare a shaker window, I used two Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle dies. I used Tombo Extreme Adhesive to adhere the acetate to the window and adhere the watercolor panel to the card base. 

For the sequins, I used Jack-o'-Lantern and Trick or Treat from Little Things from Lucy's Cards. I also added a couple of black cat sequins from the Spellbound sequin pack. These sequin packs have so much included that I wanted to dump the whole bag into the shaker area! haha

I chose the sentiment, A Halloween Hello. I die cut a banner and cut it down so it was small enough to fit in the corner. Then I heat embossed the sentiment using Versamark ink and Hero Arts White embossing powder. 

Next I die cut a few spiders out of black cardstock using the Scary Spiders from Memorybox. I am absolutely terrified of spiders so why I have this die in my possession is a mystery. I kept checking to make sure I had the paper spiders and I wasn't accidentally picking up a real spider! Oh, the joys of living in Colorado. 

The only thing left was to add the images I colored last year. I wanted to make it look like the frog and cat were just as worried about the spiders as I would be if such a thing was happening. They look sufficiently worried about the spiders and I am satisfied. Now to mail this out as soon as possible!

Thank you for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Kristin

CDD Photo Inspiration Linky Party - BOO

Hello and Happy Monday!

Today I am sharing my card for the Linky Party Theme, Photo Inspiration!

Every other Monday will mark the beginning of a new semi-weekly Linky Party over at the Craftin Desert Diva's blog. I hope you will play along with us and share your projects with the Photo Inspiration theme! Every Linky Party will have a winner and a Top 3 so you have a chance to win a prize! The more times you join us, the better your chances!

Our sponsors are:

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$25 Gift Card (Regular Priced Items)

Here is the Photo Inspiration:

Here is what I made:

I used the stamp sets, Boo, and Hallo-scream, from the release the beginning of October. The colors and leaves in the Inspiration Photo seemed to scream fall, as do these stamp sets! 

To begin, I stamped the big Boo from the stamp set and masked it off so I could stamp the pumpkins behind the Boo. Then I used my Molotow pens in 2mm and 4mm sizes to protect the images from the watercolor on the background. 

For the background, I tried to match the colors in the photo with my Distress Inks and ended up using Scattered Straw, Ripe Persimmon, Barn Door, Aged Mahogany and Walnut Stain. I dried the background with my heat gun in between adding more color until I achieved the color saturation I was after. 

Next I added drops and splatters of water and picked up the water with a paper towel. Some of the drops I left on longer than others to pick up more color. I also added individual, smaller drops of water to specific areas that I felt needed more interest. 

After rubbing off the Molotow, I began coloring the images. I am not very comfortable with coloring images with watercolor, mostly because I don't enjoy watching paint dry. haha Having said that, I am learning to paint one area and while that is drying, move on to another image to color. It seems to work out much better this way. 

To color the pumpkins, I used two Distress Inks: Spiced Marmalade and Ripe Persimmon. 

I used a white gel pen to highlight the dots on the B and to add dots to the red O. 

The bat is from the Hallo-scream stamp set.

The only thing left to do was add some sequins, the bat and Clear Wink of Stella and I was finished. 

CDD products used:

Boo

Hallo-scream

Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day! 

CDD Things With Wings Linky Party - If you've got it, Haunt it!

Hello and Happy Monday!

Today I am sharing my card for the Linky Party Theme, Things With Wings!

Every other Monday will mark the beginning of a new semi-weekly Linky Party over at the Craftin Desert Diva's blog. I hope you will play along with us and share your projects with the Things With Wings theme! Every Linky party will have a winner and a Top 3 so you have a chance to win a prize! The more times you join us, the better your chances!

Our sponsors are:

One Stamp Set

$25 Gift Card (Regular Priced Items)

Here is what I made:

I used the Hallo-scream Stamp set from the new CDD release to create this card. The bats and moon is such a fun stamp and I decided it would be perfect for this Linky Party Theme! 

To begin, I cut a piece of orange distressed patterned paper from the paper pack, Grand Bazaar from Basic Grey, to a standard A2 size. I thought it would be fun to try and create a spooky background so I tried something new to me. I took my Versamark ink pad and randomly swiped it along the outside edge of the patterned paper. I didn't bother with using my anti static tool because a spooky Halloween card doesn't need to be clean. After that, I sprinkled Super Fine Detail Black Embossing Powder from Ranger over the inked areas and melted it with my heat tool. Such a fun effect! To further distress the background, I lightly blended Black Soot Distress Ink around the edges as well and moved on to the stamping.

The background has a lot of deep black shine thanks to the embossing powder. When I stamped the moon, the black ink I used looked dull and flat next to the embossed areas so I decided to re-stamp the moon with Versamark and the black embossing powder. Keeping in the realm of deep black and shiny, I decided to use Versamark ink and a Versamarker with the same black embossing powder throughout the rest of the card. 

This fun sentiment was perfect for this spooky Halloween card!

Next, because this is a Things With Wings theme, I stamped extra moons and fussy cut all of the bats. After I cut them out, I colored the bats with a black Zig Clean Color Real Brush pen and used clear foam tape to adhere them to the background. I also colored the moon with two colors over the patterned paper. 

With the Versamarker, I drew shaky lines and heat embossed the lines black. The bottom right corner seemed empty so I quickly drew a haunted house over vellum and cut it out with my craft knife. I had other ideas that weren't panning out so I simply colored the vellum front and back with the black Zig Clean Color Pen and used Tombo Mono Multi Glue to adhere it to the panel. I used an orange Zig to color in the windows and when the Tombo Mono dried, I sprinkled Martha Stewart Crafts crystal fine glitter over the house and rubbed it in with my finger. The base of the vellum clashed with the black embossing so I pulled out some black enamel accents and used the tip to smear it in an upwards motion. 

After I added Clear Wink of Stella to the bats, I adhered my panel to an orange card base, added some CDD sequins and I was finished! 

CDD Products used:

Hallo-scream

Hocus Pocus Sequins

CDD Autumn Sequins

Thank you for visiting and have a beautiful day! 

You're Eerie-sistible!

Welcome to the CDD Stamp & Die Release Blog Hop. 

All stamps & Dies are in the CDD Shop and now available for purchase.

We also have 4 new sequins:

Hocus Pocus

Jack O' Lantern

 Trick Or Treat

Witches Brew

You can purchase them all here!

TWO lucky people will receive a $25 Gift Certificate to the CDD Shop for commenting on every stop along the blog hop! Be sure to hop along! Winners will be chosen on Saturday, October 3rd!

Here's what I've created for you...

For my second sneak peek, I used the Bride of Frankenstein from the Hallo-scream stamp set. I colored her using Copic markers and Wink of Stella. I'm almost positive this is the first time I haven't used an actual skin color on an image of a person. Fun!

I have been on a watercolor kick lately for backgrounds. This time I decided to use Neenah 80 lb cardstock and blend three colors into the cardstock. I used Mowed Lawn, Dusty Concord and Black Soot. I tried not to blend them too much in the center because I didn't want to make mud! I lightly blended Black Soot around the outside of the two colors. Next, I dripped big water droplets onto the blended distress ink and quickly dabbed it up with a paper towel. After that, I pulled out my Gansai Tambi Watercolors and splattered a tiny bit of Gold (No. 91) and Silver (No. 95) across the background. Finally, I stamped the two star stamps that come in this stamp set with Versamark Ink and sprinkled the stars with Ranger Gold embossing powder, melting them with my heat gun. 

I stamped the sentiment, You're Eerie-sistible, with Versafine Onyx Black. The Eerie-sistible stamp looks like it's melting! Love the way it looks stamped! 

For the sequins, I used two new mixes, Hocus Pocus and Witches Brew. In the Hocus Pocus mix, there are these tiny, adorable stars that are just darling. Aren't they sweet? For the bats, I stamped the moon and the bats several times, fussy cut them out and colored them a deep grey with my Copics. I decided to adhere them in place instead of having them float around in the shaker. I did so with Multi Medium Matte. After I put the card together, I used my gold gel pen to draw dash lines all around the circle in the panel and I was finished!

I hope you have enjoyed this release and will join us again tomorrow for more projects.

Here are the specials for this release:



**There is FREE SHIPPING PLUS 1 BAG OF FREE SEQUINS on all orders placed on 10/1-10/4, no code necessary!! Ends 10/4 at 10pm MST. Just leave your choice of sequins in the comment section as you place your order. Stamps & Dies are made in the USA.

Here is today's SVG freebie. Each stop along the way there will be a code letter that spells a word for the freebie code. You must comment and follow each blog in order to get the free file. The file will be available in the shop at craftindesertdivas.com just for that day. Just enter the letters you collected at each stop for the special code word to receive your free file download. **The code word and free file will be available that day ONLY so please be sure to visit the link.


I hope you have enjoyed this release and will join us again tomorrow for more projects.

Your code letter from me is:  E

Your next stop is the super talented:  Saundra- http://luvscrappingtogether.blogspot.com/