Sneak Peek: Trick or Treat Friends

Hi friends – it’s Suzy here to show you one of the brand new stamp sets called Trick or Treat Friends (releasing on September 10th). I’m not a fan of scary Halloween images, so this one is so perfect with these darling little kids all dressed up in costumes! I love that you can add little stamped images to complete their costumes. The pumpkins are perfect for completing a Halloween scene.

Today I am using one of my favorite techniques for this card called random stamping. It works so well with the cute PPP kid images because I can fit all of them perfectly on one card front.

I started with a piece of watercolor paper die-cut in the size of a card front. I use a Misti tool to align a few of the stamps, starting in the center of the paper (you can also do this with just a stamp block, but it will take a little longer). I continue to add a few more each time aligning them together like a puzzle. I prefer my stamped images to not have black outlines, so I use a light tan ink to stamp them. I fill the entire space by stamping some images to overlap the edges of the paper.

Once all of the images are stamped, I paint them in with watercolor. I also paint the background around the images using a wet on wet technique. I wet the background and then drop in a little color here and there letting the colors blend together. Once it is all dry, I use gel pens to outline the images and add details and shading.

To complete the card, I added a sentiment on a stitched rectangle from the Mini Storybook 1 die. I die-cut one rectangle in black and another one in yellow to layer them. I embossed the sentiment from the Trick or Treat Friends stamp set with white embossing powder. I attached the rectangles to the top of the card and completed finished it off with some Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix.

These stamps are so cute it makes me wish I had little kids to dress up in real life again! Thanks for letting me guest blog today Paulina!

I hope you enjoyed this Halloween card today! Join us tomorrow as we reveal another new stamp set from our upcoming release!

Suzy