Love these Halloween challenges! It’s a great way to help finish my cards. For today’s card, I stamped, stenciled, ink blended, dry embossed and heat embossed a variety of my stash. It was a variety of stamp sets for the greetings like Simon Says Stamp’s Happy Haunting, a set from Recollections Halloween, bat stencil. This was fun to make and I should have noted all of the stamps and items used before losing them on my desk!!
This card will be entered into the Word Week – Halloween challenge at Just Us Girls.
Hard to believe that it is October but not so hard to believe that I have tons of card to make.
Have a great October day and stay safe. Thanks for stopping in for a peek.
I decided to give the Make The Cards Challenge a try since the theme has Buffalo Plaid and I like plaid. I found a few other challenge with the help from Buddy Bonnie, so will add those as well.
I used older stamps and retired product on this card. It is so enjoyable to pull out older product and use it rather than it sitting. The background is stamped using Stampin’ Up Buffalo Check, the flower is from Painted Harvest, both retired from SU. The greeting is from a set called So Grateful from Power Poppy. I added a piece of ribbon, matted the focal, popped it up on foam squares and called it complete.
Autumn is my favorite season as I love the cooler weather and the colors as the leaves change. I love mums in my yard and a pumpkin on my front porch. My explanation is for the As You Like It challenge to explain which is my favorite season between Autumn and Winter. I truly do not enjoy winter. I like seeing snow the first time it happens then get very tired of the cold and dreary weather.
Autumn is often a time to be thankful to someone who has helped me. I receive a lot of help from my Buddies and an honored to call them each a friend.
The challenge with the Make the Cards Challenge blog #35 is Country Life + Buffalo Plaid. So for today’s card, I decided that my sunflower will represent my country life and created not quite buffalo plaid stenciled background in blue to enter my card into this challenge.
Using Taylored Expressions Wheatfield Dreams stamp set and coordinating die, I colored the sun flower with markers and colored pencils mounting it on a vellum oval die cut from classic Spellbinders oval nestabilities. The plaid stencil is also from Taylored Expressions and was inked in GKD’s powder blue and navy inks. The sentiment which was gold heat embossed is GKD’s Skeleton Leaves.
Fun challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Hope everyone had a great day. Stay Safe.
I just saw that the theme for the ModSquad Challenge is one of butterflies. How could I resist! My bright and cheery card uses the stencil from the April My monthly Hero kit Geometric Rotating Stencil and soft landscape window fancy die which was an add on to this kit. My butterfly was die cut from a complimentary green base with a light yellow detailed die using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Detailed Butterflies die set.
I will leave the message for the inside as I didn’t feel anything more was needed on the front.
It’s photo inspiration week at Just Us Girls. The inspiration is a lovely wooden tub with purple flowers. I used the wooden tub from Beyond Baskets by Gina K Designs. The flowers are from Botanical Medallions and Banners by JustRite colored with Prismas – Violet and Kelly Green. I colored the flowers lightly, then went over the inner section of each petal again to shade a bit, then blended with the blending pencil. Then I fussy cut them. I couldn’t decide what color to make the centers so ended up using some bling from my stash. I used a die from the Crochet Lace set by Tim Holtz and lightly sponged with Antique Linen Distress Oxide. I die cut a tiny rectangle then stamped the sentiment from Mini Tag Sentiments by Divinity Designs. For the “stick” to hold the sentiment in the flowers I used the stem from the wheat stalk from the Autumn Bouquet Fancy Die set by Hero Arts – which is one of my new favorite dies. I found the yellow gingham piece that I had die cut for a previous project and never used – it made a perfect background.
One more card for the September Anything Halloween challenge with Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge. My card was made using Picket Fence Spider Web Cover Plate die, Distress Oxide Halloween spray colors, and Hampton Arts Zombie Eyes stencil. This is a very cool cover stencil and I had fun making an inky mess with the DO sprays then decided it needed more and added the zombie eyes with some Gina K glitter glitz paste and some shimmer spray to top it off.
With spider webs being create everywhere outside and sometimes inside too, I was focusing on the spider in the inspiration board. There really is nothing worse than walking into one of those webs. Always walk around the pole and tree so you are not taken by surprise!
Have a wonderful day. Thanks for stopping in for a peek and stay safe.
Sometimes I sit down and create a card with one idea in mind and a specific place for posting, then all sorts of challenges fit the same idea. That happened with this card.
Originally I started creating a card for the Use Your Stash challenge at Splitcoast Stampers that I participate in each month. This month’s theme is to create something that begins with S for September. I decided to use sunflowers. Then I added sunshine with the greeting and the stencil. It is one layer and is CAS, so it worked well with the AAA challenge. The stencil is perfect for the Sisterhood of Crafters challenge as well as the Hero Arts Stay Crafty challenge.
The stamp set used is Newtons Nook’s Sunflower Days. The stencil is from Fun Stampers Journey called Sunrays. I used Lawn Fawn Sunflower ink to blend over the stencil. I colored the sunflowers alcohol ink markers and masked before stenciling. I masked the greeting also.
It has been a long time since I have made a one-layer card and especially one that is Clean and Simple. It was fun to create.
Gina K had a recent YouTube video “Fun with Stencils – Easy Technique” and it was easy to follow along and my card includes 5 different stencils. Using masking paper cut into 1/4″ strips, I masked off the border then thin washi tape to create my angled sections and ready to stencil. (post it notes definitely required….at least for me)
The stencils I used were GKD’s Square Mandala, Leafy Stencil, Harvest Flourish, Taylored Expressions Play the Angle and Hero Arts Sun Background. The word die is SSS Script Hello and Martha Stewart triple butterfly punch completed my card.
This card will be entered into The Sisterhood of Crafters – Stencil challenge.
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Have a wonderful weekend and stay safe.
This month the MISTI challenge at Split coast Stampers is to add a wreath to your card. I pulled out my Wreath Builder Template and stamps from Gina K Designs and began stamping. I created a total of 3 cards.
Thanksgiving Blessings
The above card was using the Autumn Wreath set. I began with Kraft ink going all the way around the circle, then moved the leaf a little bit and stamped with Warm Cocoa, then moved the leaf and stamped in Charcoal Brown. I trimmed the square with a stitched square die, mounted on Dark Chocolate and on a card base of SU Crumb Cake. This was entered in the Double D Challenge for leaves.
Butterfly Wreath
The above card with butterflies was created with the Sending Love stamp set. I used many colors and do not have them written down. The center of each butterfly is a Nuvo Glitter drop. I used a set called Incentive Set for the greeting and found a circle to stamp in one of the wreath builder sets. This card was entered in the Mod Squad Challenge for butterflies.
Thinking of You
This wreath using stamps and ink other than Gina K Designs with the wreath builder template. I used a Maymay Made It set called Garden Party for the flowers and leaf. I used SU colors of Pale Papaya, Polished Pink, and Sage Shadow for my stamping. The center greeting is from SU Happy Thoughts. I used gems for the center of the large flower. I added stitching to the center by embossing with the die and a rubber mat. I enjoyed creating this card as I didn’t look at Pinterest for inspiration. I have no special challenge for this one other than the MISTI one at SCS.
The first two were created with inspiration from Pinterest and cards by Sherri Gilson. Both were uploaded to the challenges from SCS. Now I will move onto something other than wreaths for a time. Thanks for looking.
Stamp Buddies 