Hello everyone.  There’s a fabulous new Winter Days release, but I wanted to squeeze in another Halloween card.  October is not only Halloween month, but also Breast Cancer Awareness (BCA) month, so I combined the two for this fun pink Halloween card.

The Carving Pumpkin and Intricate Mini Pumpkins were die cut from white then ink blended with pink or grey dye inks using blending brushes.  Used a black marker to color on the background Carving Pumpkin piece behind the face openings.  The leaves and stem were colored with warm grey Copic Sketch markers W00/1/3/5.  The Eerie Spiders and Boiling Cauldron were die cut from black cardstock.  I would be remiss if there were no Halloween candies, so one black/white swirl candy from the Gingerbread House Frame die set was included. 😂

The Fringed Scallop Frame was die cut from and the sentiment was white heat embossed on the same colour pink cardstock.  The white panel is Bristol paper trimmed to slightly smaller than the scallop frame then splattered with diluted black gouache paint.  Assembled the card onto a white card base.  Added highlights to the eyes with a white Posca pen and drew the spiderweb strings with a black marker and ruler  to finish.  

A quick warning that this may be the first of multiple pink cards I post this month. 😂💕   Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful day.

 

Supplies

 

94848 Carving Pumpkin

94845 Intricate Mini Pumpkins

94846 Eerie Spiders

CL5284 Magical Halloween

94691 Boiling Cauldron

94842 Fringed Scalloped Frame Set

94603 Gingerbread House Frame

Here's another Halloween card.  This one features lots of EERIE SPIDERS 94846 and the INTRICATE MINI PUMPKINS 94845.

to make this card

I started with a blank white top fold note card and added a 5 1/2" X 4" piece of green plaid paper from YULETIDE PLAID PP1031.  I cut a piece of brown card stock 4" wide and tore the top edge and added it to the plaid background to act as a field for pumpkins.

Next I die cut the INTRICATE MINI PUMPKINS 94845 from ORANGE PEEL CARD STOCK SH44017.  I stuck them onto a strip of glue dots and set them aside.

Then I die cut the EERIE SPIDERS 94846 three times from BLACK GLOSSY PAPER SH44004.  I stuck those onto a strip of glue dots and set them aside.

I arranged the Intricate Mini Pumpkins on the brown field, placing the smallest ones toward the top edge and the larger ones in the foreground.  Next I placed the tiniest spiders on and around those pumpkins.  I put four of the larger spiders against the green "sky" and used a ruler and a pen to draw their silken threads from the top edge.  

At this point I stamped the sentiment "Halloween Greetings" from MAGICAL HALLOWEEN CLEAR STAMPS SET CL5284 on a scrap of the Orange Peel card stock using VersaFine Clair Nocturne (black) Ink.  I fussy-cut it with detail scissors.

To finish the card, I glued the sentiment to a scrap of the Black Glossy paper and cut around it.  I also added two more large spiders on dimensional foam  to the note card.  I placed the sentiment in the lower right of the field using dimensional foam dots.

I'm pretty sure that spiders don't know how to carve pumpkins.  But I did see the funniest video on Facebook this week of chickens carving pumpkins.  Who knew!  Hope your Halloween includes pumpkins but maybe not giant (or even tiny) spiders!  

Happy (Halloween) Crafting!

Intricate Mini Pumpkins 94845                   Eerie Spiders 94846                                 Magical Halloween CL5284

Yuletide Plaid PP1031                              Orange Peel Card Stock SH44017        Black Glossy Paper SH44004

 

Hi everyone.  I have another birthday card featuring the Yuletide release. Remember dies released for holiday can easily be used for other occasions and I have several examples with this year's release.  

Background:

Select the red with gold star paper from the Yuletide Cheer paper pad.  Trim to 4 1/4"x51/2".  Ink blend from the outside in using Distress ink in Lumberjack Plaid and Black Soot. 

Focal Image:

Die cut Wavy Sheet Music from heavy black card stock. Die cut Happy Birthday Breezy Script from heavy black card stock then from gold card stock from Vintage Pastel Mirror pad. Adhere together.

Assembly:

Adhere the background panel to an A2 size card.  Adhere the Wavy Sheet Music die cut to the background.  Adhere the sentiment to the center and then the music notes.

 

Supplies

 

94809 Wavy Sheet Music

94782 Happy Birthday Breezy Script

pp1032 Yuletide Cheer 6x6 pack

fp1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

2024's Carving Pumpkin shares a card and some details with a buddy from a previous release.  They're carved and ready for October 31st.  Hi, Jean here with a Halloween design for weekend crafting.

Stamp the leafy design of the new Leaves and Berries Cling Stamp Set on recycled Kraft Cardstock with Pinecone VersaFine Clair.     Quickly heat-emboss it with detail clear powder.  Cut it with the 4" wide Nested Globes die.  Ink the edges with Pinecone.

Stamp the greeting - from the new Magical Halloween Clear Stamp and Die Set - on a yellow/orange 6x6 from the Sunrise Collection with Pinecone.  Quickly heat-emboss it with detail clear powder.  Cut it with the 1-½"wide Nested Globes die, trim the bottom edge.  Ink the edges with Pinecone.

Diecut the new Carving Pumpkin from a dark bright orange Sunset Collection 6x6.  Cut the leaves, tendril and stem from a yellow/green Greenery Collection 6x6.  Diecut Autumn Pumpkin fron a bright orange Sunset Collection 6x6.  Cut the stem and leaves from the yellow/green Greenery 6x6.  Ink the stems with Summertime VersaFine Clair to create lighter brown stems.

Cut the Carving Pumpkin background die from the black Glitzy Glitter Pad 6x6.  Cut the facial features for the Autumn Pumpkin with the Carving Pumpkin die - from the reverse (white) side of the black Glitzy sheet for a  slightly different smile for the Autumn Pumpkin.

Cut Autumn Pumpkin again from the black Glitzy 6x6. Cut the glittered pumpkin horizontally about ½" below the top.  Attach the top and bottom pieces slightly above and below the orange pumpkin for dimension and to match Carving Pumpkin.

Assemble the pumpkins and attach everything to a recycled Kraft A6 card (4-½" x 6-¼") - use foam tape for the Carving Pumpkin.  Add green Christmas Fairy Crystals.  Cut an A6-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

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

 

Supplies

 

cs2084 Leaves and Berries Cling Stamp set

94690 Autumn Pumpkin

94848 Carving Pumpkin

cl5284D Magical Halloween Clear Stamp Set and Dies

94532 Nested Globes

gp1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

sp1013 Sunrise 6x6 pack

cry102 Christmas Fairy Crystals

sp1011

Good morning everyone!  Today I have another Halloween card for you featuring some new Fall products.

I began by ink blending a white cardstock panel using Distress inks, and embossing it with the new Spiral Delight 3D embossing folder.  I lightly rubbed across the embossed panel with a black ink pad.  Next I spattered the background with plain water and orange paint.  When this was dry I adhered the background to a white card base.

I die cut a piece of white cardstock with the Vintage Tray Frame die and used 3 of the cutouts from the frame.

I masked around the outside edge of the blocks with Gina K's Masking Magic 1/8" strips.  

I used the same color Distress Inks that I used for the background to fill in the blocks.  Before I removed the masking strips I spattered the backgrounds with white ink.

Colors used: Carved Pumpkin, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Wilted Violet, Gathered Twigs and Black Soot (these colors were also used for the die cut images).

All the images were die cut from white cardstock and colored with Distress Inks.

I glued the orange block to the card and adhered the ghosts to the block.  I did the same with the spider block.  I used foam tape to adhere the pumpkin block to the card.

The words "Boo to You" were die cut from orange cardstock and glued to a black cardstock shadow die cut.  I used foam tape to adhere it to the card.

That's it for today!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

EF1033 Spiral Delight 3D Embossing Folder

EF1040 Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die

94692 Haunting Ghosts

94846 Eerie Spiders

94848 Carving Pumpkin

SH44017 Orange Peel Paper Pack

The Haunting Ghosts are back again - posing as little witches for today's card.  Hi, Jean here with a die that won't quit!  The ghosts needed a spooky, abstract background and found three perfect shapes.

Cut three shades of orange cardstock from the Sunrise 6x6 paper pack with the 3 greeting background dies from the new Magical Halloween Clear Stamp and Die Set.  Cut them again from black cardstock.  Shade the orange diecut edges with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair.  It's great for stenciling and shading - and it dries quickly.  Assemble the background blocks, slightly offset for dimension. 

Cut Haunting Ghosts from watercolor paper.  Attach scraps of black glittered cardstock from the 6x6 Glitzy Glitter Pad behind the eye cutouts.

Cut the cauldron - from the new Cauldron Witch set - from Black Glossy Paper.  Cut the bubbles from the chartreuse Graceful Garden Glitte Pad 6x6.  Cut the boiling goo from the chartreuse Rainbow Reflections 6x6.

Cut three witch hats from the Cauldron Witch set from black cardstock.  The top right ghost's hat is reversed just so everything isn't too matchy.  Run that diecut through your machine to smooth the cut edges.  Cut three hatbands from the dark turquoise Glitzy Glitter Pad 6x6.  Assemble the hat.

Stamp the greeting - from the Magical Halloween Clear Stamp and Die Set - on another orange 6x6 from the Sunrise Collection with Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair.   Quickly emboss it with detail clear powder.

Cut the dark blue print - from the Yuletide Cheer 6x6 set - with the 2-½" wide Fringed Scalloped Frame Set die.  

Attach the diecuts and greeting to a top-folded light recycled Kraft A2 card - use foam tape near the top of the ghosts' heads and their hats.  Cut an A2-sized piece of cardstock to protect the cardfront for mailing. 

Discover new ways to use your Memory Box dies - they're great for stenciling too!

Thanks for visiting our blog - see you again on Friday!

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94692 Haunting Ghosts

94849 Cauldron Witch

94842 Fringed Scalloped Frame Set

cl5284D Magical Halloween Clear Stamp Set and Dies

pp1032 Yuletide Cheer 6x6 pack

gp1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

sp1013 Sunrise 6x6 pack

fp1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

sh44004

gp1002 Graceful Garden Glitter Pad

Welcome October! It is time for a new card challenge. Thank you to everyone who participated in the "fall foliage" challenge. We are always love to see what you create and to gain new inspiration.

The winner of the blog badge was Greta H from the GG Creations blog. We loved her wintry tree scene. Beautiful:

The random winner of the September challenge and the prize pack was Jenny Martin from the My Paper Epiphany blog.

Please contact me at [email protected] with your full name and US address to claim your prize.

Want to play along in this month's challenge?  The rules are simple - just create a project following the theme, use at least one Memory Box stamp or die on your project and link your entry to this blog post.  You can make a card, a scrapbook page, a home decor item, etc..  To encourage participants with various levels of stamping experience, one entry will be selected at random to win a prize. Enter as many times as you want, but your name will only be entered once into the random prize drawing.   In addition, the design team will select their favorite entry to  be highlighted on the Outside the Box blog and that designer will receive our winner badge to proudly display on their blog. 

You don't have to have a blog in order to participate.   You can upload your project to any online gallery and link it to this post.   In fairness to other players, we reserve the right to remove entries that do not use at least one Memory Box product.  You are also welcome to link your design to other challenges.  Feel free to grab our badge to post on your blog post or side bar.

Please note, because of issues with shipping internationally, only domestic entries will be eligible to be shipped prizes. We are so very sorry that we had to add this stipulation.

 

Memory Box has a new Fall Cornucopia release that has items for fall and Halloween. With that in mind, we are doing a Halloween themed challenge for October. How are you inspired to make Halloween cards? Are they funny? Scary? Do they have spooky backgrounds? If you don't make Halloween themed cards normally, you could challenge yourself to make a card with Halloween themed colors such as black/orange or purple/lime green. There are so many possibilities, and we would love to see your creations and interpretation of the theme. All we ask is that you use at least one Memory Box product in your project. The rest is up to you.

Here are some samples to help inspire you:

There are several ways for you to enter the contest:

1.)  Link your finished work below

2.)  Enter on Instagram by tagging your sketch project with the #mbchallenge112 hashtag

You have until the end of the day (EST) on Wednesday, October 30th.   Don't forget, you have to use at least one Memory Box item on your entry and only domestic entries are eligible to be shipped prizes. 

Here is what you could win:

 

Supplies

 

94692 Haunting Ghosts

94848 Carving Pumpkin

94847 Potion Bottles

 

Greetings friends. Today I want to share a couple of ornament ideas with you. I find that I often start too late to make ornaments, so this year I am starting earlier. Memory Box dies make really beautiful ornaments, but they are a bit easier to use. All you need to do is cut out your dies, adhere them to an ornament blank and add some Mod Podge to the top to seal them. Stamping can be a bit more difficult, so I wanted to walk you through my thought process. Perhaps that will save you some trial and error time.

For both samples, I am using the Limited Edition between Memory Box and Simon Says Stamp. It was released for the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember event. When it is gone, it will be gone. I would give it a look because it has lots of cute holiday characters to color.

For the first ornament with Santa, I used a metal blank I got at Michaels. Because the ornament is metal, my stamping didn't really show up well on top of it. It is also not porous, so it is hard to get a good look with it. You could emboss on top of the blank, but you need to be very careful. It will heat up very fast, and there is a chance you could burn yourself.

To avoid all of this, I stamped my Santa and trees onto Copic XPress It paper with black Memento ink and then colored them with Copic markers. Next, I cut out the images and glued them onto the blank. I let the metal of the ornament blank show through in the background to act as a sky.

What about stamping on an ornament blank? Let's look at the second sample:

For the second ornament, I stamped directly on top of a ceramic blank ornament. I had to be a bit of trial and error. My first thought was to stamp my penguin in Memento ink and use Copic markers for coloring. However, the ink really didn't show. Instead, I needed to stamp it in black Versafine ink and then emboss it in black embossing powder. I made to use a talc anti-static pad under the Versamark ink so that my embossing powder didn't the ornament. The powder stuck only to the ink. The ceramic disc got very hot when embossing so I made sure to hold it with some heat-resistant tongs. I then set it down on a heat-resistant mat to completely cool.

Next, I colored the penguin with Copic markers. I found it worked best to dab the color onto the surface rather than draw along the surface. I learned that with a big, open area such as the sky, the marker looked really streaky. I avoided that look by first laying down some B02 marker and then dabbing on top of it with a B00 marker. It gave the sky a mottled look, much like an alcohol ink background. To finish the ornament, I added some fake snow and Stickles to the ground.

Do you have some tips for stamping on different surfaces? I would love to hear them.

Hello everyone! It’s Theary here back on the blog. Today I am sharing a Christmas inspired card using the exclusive collaboration release with Simon Says Stamp called, So Very Merry.

I stamped out the adorable snowman using a black dye ink onto an alcohol friendly cardstock. I used my alcohol markers to color the image. Then, I used the trees and stamped that onto SH44011 Powder Blue cardstock with a clear embossing ink. I poured white embossing powder over the ink and heat set that with my heat tool. To add a little more interest to the scene, I used a light blue ink and blended that over the edges of the card panel. I also trimmed down the panel to 2.75 inches by 5.5 inches.

For the background panel, I used the beautiful snowflakes border stamp included in the So Very Merry set and stamped that onto white cardstock with the same ink that was used for the blending.

I then stamped the sentiment with a black pigment ink on the lower right of the card panel.

I popped the blended panel and snowman over the background panel with foam squares to give it dimension.

Then, added gems from GEM102 Winter Fantasy Fairy onto the center of the snowflakes.

Finally, I adhered that to a side folding card base.

I hope you found some inspiration and get crafty!

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

gem102 Winter Fantasy Fairy Gemstones

SH44011 Powder Blue Paper Pack

Hello everyone.  I have a spooky cute 👻 Halloween card to share today featuring these Haunting Ghosts from the 2024 Fall Cornucopia release. 

 

Stretched the Vintage Tray die and partial die cut it twice from white cardstock, then stacked them to create the window frame.  The ghosts were also die cut from white cardstock and their eyes backed with Black Glossy paper.  Depending on how the light hits them, the eyes “twinkle”… a pretty cool effect IRL (in real life).

For the background, a moon mask was die cut from masking paper using a Circle Basics die.  A Bristol panel was trimmed to the frame size next.  Adhered the moon mask off the top edge of the panel then ink blended gradient colors of teal dye inks using blending brushes.  Splattered with water and blot with a paper towel for some texture.  Used Copic Sketch markers to add shading to the moon (C0/1/2) and ghosts (BG10/11, 0).  White heat embossed the sentiment on a black panel then assembled onto a white card base to finish. 

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

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Supplies

 

94692 Haunting Ghosts

cl5284 Magical Halloween

CL5284D Magical Halloween Clear Stamp Set and Dies

EF1040 Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die

SH44004 Black Glossy Paper

30087 Circle Basics Set

 

Intricate Mini Pumpkins join the Eerie Spiders and a trio of candycorn-colored Haunting Ghosts today.  There's a lot happening on this card...because it's Halloween!  Hi, Jean here with more ways to combine the great designs from our 2024 Fall Cornucopia release with items from previous collections. 

Cut Haunting Ghosts from white cardstock.  Save the 4th ghost for another project.  Tear the adhesive edge of a Post-it Note in a slight curve.  Cover the top of the ghosts with the torn edge - and brush, daub or sponge Summertime VeraFine Clair away from the Post-it, down towards the middle of the ghosts.  Blend Cheerful VersaFine Clair over the rest of each ghost.  Attach a scrap of black cardstock behind the eye cutouts.

Cut heavyweight black cardstock (or two medium-weight layers glued together) with the 2-½" wide Nested Globes die.  Spritz both sides of the globe with a light mist of water, then emboss it with the Spiral Delight 3D Embossing Folder.

Cut Intricate Mini Pumpkins from the new Orange Peel and Summer Squash 8.5x11" Cardstock.  Create wonky stems from the legs of the largest Eerie Spider and Leaf Sprout 8.5x11" Cardstock.  Sounds creepy, but it works!

Cut Eerie Spiders from the copper Rainbow Reflections 6x6 sheet.  

Stamp Boo - from a previous release of the Halloween Pumpkin Clear Stamp Set - on Key Lime 8.5x11" Cardstock with Nocturne VersaFine Clair.  Quickly emboss it with detail clear powder.  Cut it with the ¾" Circle Basics die.  Cut another circle from black cardstock and layer it for dimension.  Attach it over the Happy Birthday Foil Greetings White Circle Tab...Happy Boo Day!

Attach everything to a top-folded textured gray A2-card.  Cut an A2-sized piece of cardstock to protect the cardfront for mailing.

Thanks for visiting - hope you'll have time to create a few fun Halloween cards this weekend!

 

Supplies

 

94692 Haunting Ghosts

94846 Eerie Spiders

94532 Nested Globes

94845 Intricate Mini Pumpkins

sh44006 Leaf Sprout Paper Pack

sh44005 Key Lime Paper Pack

sh44017 Orange Peel Paper Pack

sh44018 Summer Squash Paper Pack

st010

cl5264 Halloween Pumpkin

ef1033 Spiral Delight 3D Embossing Folder

30087 Circle Basics Set

fp1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad