Create Ghummies - happy little ghostly mummies -  with the new Haunting Ghosts die and a sheet from the Yuletide Cheer 6x6's.  Hi, Jean back again with another Halloween design featuring our 2024 Fall Cornucopia Collection.

We're using a wavy gold-foiled sheet from the Yuletide Cheer 6x6 set.  Here's an easy way to select a great section of the print for the ghosts.  Cut Haunting Ghosts from a contrasting cardstock scrap to create a template for the die.  Chose a section for your ghosts, then place the die in the template and cut the patterned paper exactly where you want it.

Cut scraps of black cardstock and attach them behind the eyes.  Cut another set of ghosts from black cardstock to add a contrasting black offset edge to the ghosts.  

Cut detailed top layer of Carving Pumpkin from the new Orange Peel 8.5x11" cardstock.  Cut the solid background from the black 6x6 in the Majestic Hues Glitter Pad.  Cut the stem/leaf/tendril pieces from the new Leaf Sprout sheet.  Color the stem with an orange marker - layering orange over Leaf Sprout creates a realistic woody-brown.  (A brown marker would be too dark.)

Cut 2 Eerie spiders from spiders from black cardstock. 

Stamp the greeting - from the new Magical Halloween Clear Stamp and Die Set - on a Key Lime 8.5x11 sheet with Nocturne VersaFine Clair.  Quickly heat-emboss it with detail clear powder.  Cut it with the 2" wide Nested Globes die.  Shade the edges with Nocturne too.

Cut black cardstock with the 2-½" wide Nested Globes die.

Attach the diecuts to a top-folded light  kraft A2 card - use foam tape for the pumpkin and the heads of the ghosts.

Have a crafty weekend -hope your favorite Retailer has already ordered the 2024 Fall Cornucopie Collection!

 

Supplies

 

94692 Haunting Ghosts

94848 Carving Pumpkin

94846 Eerie Spiders

CL5284D Magical Halloween Clear Stamp Set and Dies

94532 Nested Globes

sh44005 Key Lime Paper Pack

sh44006 Leaf Sprout Paper Pack

sh44017 Orange Peel Paper Pack

gp1008 Majestic Hues Glitter Pad

pp1032 Yuletide Cheer 6x6 pack

Meet 3 of the new Halloween icon dies from the 2024 Fall Cornucopia Collection - Eerie Spiders, Haunting Ghosts and Intricate Mini Pumpkins.  They're part of a great new release of fall and holiday designs and 15 vibrant shades of 8.5x11" cardstock for your cards, journals, mixed media, layouts and decor.  Hi, Jean here with the first of many fall designs we'll be sharing as we welcome fall and prepare for winter.

You'll love these Halloween designs that began shipping this week.  The release also  includes the 15 cardstock colors, a clear stamp + die set, and 12 new foiled holiday greetings - tabs, banners and circles.  We're spotlighting Halloween here...

Here's a mix of Halloween icons featuring the new dies and clear stamps.  Cut Haunting Ghosts from heavy white cardstock and attach scraps of black cardstock behind the eye cutouts. Cut Eerie Spiders from black cardstock.  

Cut Intricate Mini Pumpkins from the new Orange Peel and Golden Wheat 8.5x11" sheets.  The smooth, rich colors are solid-core 100# cardstock - perfect for card bases, diecuts, stamping and 3D embossing.  They also make great treat wrappers and mini boxes for Halloween candies!  Lightly ink the pumpkins with Summertime and Cheerful VersaFine Clair to add dimension and highlight the details.

Save the extra ghost, spiders and pumpkins for other projects.

Cut the wavy dark gray/blue/gold print from the Yuletide Cheer 6x6 set with the 2" wide Nested Globes die.  Cut the new Orange Peel cardstock with the 2-½" wide Nested Globes die.

Stamp the greeting - from the new Magical Halloween Clear Stamp and Die Set - on a medium gray/blue 6x6 from the Stormy Blue Collection with Smoky Gray VersaFine Clair.  Quickly heat-emboss it with detail clear powder.  Trim it with the matching die.

Attach the diecuts to a dark gray A2 card - use foam dots for the greeting, ghosts' heads and the two pumpkins on the right.

Enjoy creating and crafting with these fall icons - we'll be sharing many more ideas in the coming weeks!

Thanks for visiting - see you again tomorrow...

Supplies

 

94692 Haunting Ghosts

94845 Intricate Mini Pumpkins

94846 Eerie Spiders

94532 Nested Globes

CL5284D Magical Halloween Clear Stamp Set and Dies

pp1032 Yuletide Cheer 6x6 pack

sp1006 Stormy Blue

sh44017 Orange Peel Paper Pack

sh44019 Golden Wheat Paper Pack

Hello everyone!  Today's card features new products from the 2024 Fall Cornucopia release.  The ghost dies are so cute that I had to use them for my card.

I started by ink blending a panel of white cardstock using Distress Inks.  Once the ink was dry, I spattered the background with white ink.

Next, I die cut the ghosts from white cardstock and glued a scrap of black cardstock on the back of the ghosts for the eye color.  I glued all the ghosts to the background panel and trimmed any ghosts that were hanging over the edge of the paper.

I used foam tape to adhere it to a white card base.

I white heat embossed the sentiment on black cardstock, die cut it with the coordinating die, and glued it to the card using foam tape.

I love the fall season and can't wait to make more cards from this new release!

Have a great day!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94692 Haunting Ghosts

CL5284D Magical Halloween Clear Stamp Set and Dies

Hi everyone!  There is a new Fall Cornucopia release today.  I have a scene card featuring the Cauldron Witch.  

Background:

Die cut acetate using a smaller die from the Circle Basics Set to create a moon mask.  Adhere temporary tape to the center and adhere to the upper left corner of an A2 white size card base.  Ink blend using Distress Oxide Ink, using the lighter ink around the moon and going out to the edges with the darker inks.  Colors are Dusty Concord, Villainous Potion and Black Soot.  Remove the mask and lightly ink blend with Lost Shadow around the moon and into the purple.  Use a small eraser and lightly remove some of the Lost Shadow ink to create the look of craters on the moon.  

Spiders:

Die cut spiders from dark grey card stock.  Add Glossy Accent to the top of the spider bodies and let air dry.

Focal Point:

Die cut the Cauldron Witch from heavy white card stock.  Die cut just the cauldron from the Black Glossy Paper.  Ink blend the witch with Oxide Ink with Dusty Concord and Villainous Potion for the hat and clothes.  For the face use Antique Linen.  Color in the hair with a black marker.  Ink the potion and bubbles with Distress ink  Twisted Citron and Forest Moss around the outside edges. Adhere the potion to the top of the cauldron.  

Frame:

Die cut the Birch Tree Trunks and the largest and 3 largest to create a frame from Black Glossy paper.  Adhere the 2 loose die cut trees to the backside of the frame on either side.  Adhere the other 3 tree cluster to the left center of the background. 

Hillside:

Fussy cut a hill into a heavy white card that is 4 1/4" wide to about 3" tall.  Ink blend with Distress Oxide inks from light to dark, Lost Shadow, Hickory Smoke, and then Black Soot.  

Assembly:

Adhere the background panel to an A2 top folding card. Adhere the hill side to the bottom of the panel.  Adhere the cauldron and witch to the center of the hill.  Add Glossy Accents to the potion and in the holes of the bubbles.  Adhere the frame with foam tape.  Add 2 spiders on the frame and 1 by the cauldron. Black heat emboss theWitching you a Happy a Halloween from the Magical Halloween stamp set on vellum.  Trim off the Witching You A and adhere to the trees.

 

Supplies

Cauldron Witch 94849

Eerie Spiders 94846

Magical Halloween CL 5284

94701 Birch Tree Trunks

30086 Rectangle Basics Set

30087 Circle Basics Set

SH44004 Black Glossy Paper

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a quick easy clean and simple holiday card featuring the new Holly Wreath stencil and the Merry Christmas Wave die.

I love stenciling, especially with pastes, but often I don't have time to let them dry as I need a card quickly.  So this is when I will use inks and ink blending tools with the stencil.  Often the look I get with just ink is just too flat for me, so I will take colored pencils and a white gel pen to add darker colors and highlights with the white pen.

Here's another look at my card:

If you look closely you can see that I added darker greens and turqoise pencil to the leaves and green areas and then I took a red watercolor marker and colored in the berries a dark red.  Lastly I took the white pen and added highlights to the areas across from the darkest spots.   

Next I cut the Merry Christmas sentiment from white card stock and colored the background piece with the same ink I used initally on the stencil.  This die is great because you get all the separate letters too that you can use on a separate card in the future!  Lastly, I added gold jewels around the card.  Here's one last look:

I hope you like my stenciling accents and will give this technique a try.  It really helps the image pop and makes stenciling even more fun. 

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting my friends!

 

Supplies

 

94799 Merry Christmas Wave

88628 Holly Wreath Stencil

JWL005 Christmas Fairy Jewels

 

Hello everyone.  I have a rustic masculine Christmas card to share today using more products from the 2024 Yuletide collection. 

 

Started with the background again and die cut the Narrow Woodgrain Planks from brown cardstock.  Darker brown cardstock was then trimmed to 4x5.25-inches.  Covered it with a sheet of double-sided adhesive and attached the planks to cover it.  For a spotlight effect, ink blended Gathered Twigs and Black Soot distress inks around the perimeter of the panel.

 

 

The candle base and top layers were die cut from white glitter and white mirror paper, respectively.  Shading was then added to them using cool grey Copic Sketch markers C00/0/1/2/3.  The flames were die cut from alcohol marker friendly paper and colored with Y11/15 yellow Copic Sketch markers.  The pine cones were die cut from dark brown and Kraft cardstock, while the pine needles were prepped as described in a previous post HERE.  The sentiment was heat embossed with white embossing powder on a strip of red Yuletide Plaid paper and a fish tail cut out for something different.  Assembled the card onto a white card base then added snow details with a white Posca pen to finish.

 

 

And that does it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful day.

Supplies

 

94812 Merry and Bright Candles

94802 Pinecone Duo

94823 Narrow Woodgrain Planks

CL5286 Holiday Wishes clear stamp set

PP1031 Yuletide Plaid 6x6 pack

SP1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

GP1008 Majestic Hues Glitter Pad

I decided today to try to make a musical birthday card using the WAVY SHEET MUSIC 94809, THE HUDDLED SPARROW 94838 and the WATCHFUL BIRD 94804 as bluebirds, (all from the Yuletide Collection), and the HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBUT SCRIPT 94773. 

I began with a white side fold note card.  I die cut the WAVY SHEET MUSIC 94809 from BLACK GLOSSY PAPER SH44004 and added it to the front of the card.

I used the internet to find piano sheet music for "Over the Rainbow" and added the beginning notes and other marks to the top staff on the notecard.

I die cut the pieces for both the WATCHFUL BIRD 94804 and the HUDDLED SPARROW 94838 from white card stock.  I then looked at images of bluebirds on the internet to get their coloring somewhat close to normal.  I used colored pencils to color the parts before assembling them and added tiny black jewels for eyes.

I chose the HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBUT SCRIPT 94773 for the sentiment, using a scrap of the black glossy paper for the background and a scrap of blue card stock from my scrap basket for the detailed lettering.  I added a light blue jewel to dot the i.

To assemble the card, I used dimensional foam dots to add the birds near the center of the card and more foam dots under the Happy Birthday which I placed on the last staff line.

I think I'll have to send this to someone who could play the notes on a piano and sing at least the first few words!  

Happy Crafting!

Wavy Sheet Music 94809                   Glossy Black Paper SH44004

Watchful Bird 94804               Huddled Sparrow 94838       Happy Birthday Debut Script 94773

 

Greetings friends. I want to share a wax resist technique today using a white Crayola crayon and an embossing folder from Memory Box. I think it gives the finished background a batik look.

To make the background, I started with some 140lb watercolor paper and ran it through my die cut machine to emboss the paper. While the paper was still in the folder, I then rubbed a white crayon over all the raised edges:

I must apologize for the picture. I made a lot of backgrounds and took a picture of this step using the tree background rather than the swirls I ended up using on the card.

Next, I placed my paper in a box and sprayed it with various sprays I had on hand. I must admit, I used an assortment of water based sprays I owned. The brand really doesn't matter for this step. Choose colors you like. You could also wet the paper and use watercolor paints if you don't have sprays:

Once the paper was completely dry, I placed it under heavy books so that it would lay flat.

To finish the card, I added my sentiment and colored my gift with Copic markers that would match the colors of the background. I am always happy to have extra birthday cards on hand. here is a close up of the background:

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you will try using wax resist as a technique with your embossing folders.

Have a great weekend,

 

 

Supplies

 

EF1033 Spiral Delight 3D Embossing Folder

94842 Fringed Scalloped Frame Set

94761 Pretty Presents

cl5270 Elegant Succulent Sentiments clear stamp set

 

Woodgrain panel diecuts are great for piers, birdhouses, log cabins, rustic backgrounds - and Christmas trees.  The new Narrow Woodgrain Planks are perfectly-proportioned to create a wonky tree - without the labor of measuring and cutting wood planks to the right lengths.  Hi, Jean building a DIY holiday tree design..

Cut Narrow Woodgrain Planks from a green 6x6 in the Greenery Collection.  Save the longest piece for another project.  Cut a ¼" x 4-¼" strip of the Kraft Woodgrain Paper for the trunk.  Ink it lightly with Vintage Sepia VersaFine. 

Attach adhesive label paper or a sticker sheet to bright red wool-blend felt to stabilize it and prevent adhesives from saturating it.  Cut Layered Birds.  Cut the birds again from the bright red Festive Glitter Pad 6x6.  Assemble the birds in a combination of felt and glittered bases and overlays - save the extra birds for another project.  

Cut the new Snowflake Joy background from the prepped red felt too.  Cut the detailed top layer from heavy white cardstock.  Cut two center snowflakes from the bright red Festive Glitter Pad 6x6 - for the treetop and the greeting.

Attach the diecuts to a white A6 card (4-½" x 6-¼").  Add clear Fairy Drops.  Cut an A6-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Thanks for visiting our blog...have a great weekend!

 

 

Supplies

 

94797 Snowflake Joy

94823

94684

drp101 Fairy Drops

gp1006 Festive Glitter Pad

sp1011

sh44003 Kraft Woodgrain Paper Pack

Hello everyone!  Today's card features a new stamp from the Yuletide release.  I love to color in stamped images, and this is a perfect stamp to do just that.

I stamped the image twice on a white cardstock panel and used Prisma Color Pencils to color in the images.  Once the coloring was done, I lightly inked around the edge of the panel with Antique Linen Distress ink and spattered it with gold ink.  I mounted the panel to a black cardstock mat and used foam tape to adhere it to a white card base.

The word "joy" was die cut from red cardstock and glued to a white shadow die cut.  I used foam tape to adhere it to the card.  

I stamped the sentiment with Versa Fine Ink, white heat embossed it and glued it underneath the word joy.

That's it for today!  Have a great week!

 

 

Supplies

 

94763 Bello Joy

CS2084 Leaves and Berries Cling Stamp set

SP1012 Blush 6x6 pack

CL5273 Festive Christmas Greetings clear stamp set