Cards

Hello Crafty Friends! It is Hanh here with you today with a fun Halloween card featuring these adorable Halloween Cake Pops in a Candy Bucket with Halloween Bucket Additions Dies.

I started by making my background using the Crackle Background Stencil and lightly ink blending with Dried Marigold and Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide inks onto a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock. Once the panel was dry, I trimmed it down to 4″ x 5.25″ and adhered it to a white A2 cardbase (4.25″ x 5.5″).

Next, I diecut all of the elements from the Halloween Cake Pops Dies, Candy Bucket Dies and Halloween Bucket Additions Dies with white and colored cardstock. This Halloween Cake Pops Die set is just the cutest. There is a variety of fun cake pop shapes and decorations to choose from. There is even a square shaped one that I have used to create Frankenstein’s head. The square one can also be easily used to make marshmallow pops. The possibilities are endless!

Do you like candy corn? To be honest, I have never been a huge fan of the taste of candy corn but I LOVE to decorate with them. They make the perfect decoration for Halloween. They are inexpensive and the pop of vibrant colors is just so fun and festive. I love that the Halloween Bucket Additions Dies comes with two different options for these candy corn. There is one die that diecuts each candy into three separate pieces allowing for a perfect diecut with colored cardstock. And there’s a solid candy corn die that diecuts the entire candy and embosses dash lines to distinguish the three layers of colors. I opted to use the solid one with the embossed lines today. I diecut them out of a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock and colored them with Copic markers (C1, Y38 YR04, Y13/15).

I assembled the candy bucket and all of the cake pops and adhered them to the inked background. I added some blush to the ghost (Copic R20) and highlighted all of the elements with a white gel pen.

For the sentiment, I stamped the “No Tricks, Just Treats” sentiment from the Spider Friends Stamp set with Versamark Watermark ink onto a piece of black cardstock and heat embossed with Detail White Embossing Powder. I used one of the dies from the Sentiment Strips Dies set to die cut it out. I adhered it to the panel with some foam tape for a bit of dimension and interest. 

I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and visit today. I hope you liked my card. Have a wonderful and crafty day!

Hi friends! Sophie here today, and I am super thrilled to share a fun Halloween card featuring new August products!

For this card I opted for a more non-traditional Halloween color palette with pinks, purples, and blacks/grays. To start I first used just one layer out of the Layered Potions Stencils. I think it is super fun to stretch supplies, especially stencils, to beyond what they were originally intended for. Using just one of the layers or selectively inking can give you a totally different look! For this card I just wanted the layers with the spiders, bats, and stars. 

For the potion bottles I created one as a flat bottle without the shaker element and one with the shaker element. The shaker bottle is filled with the new Halloween Friends Confetti. This clay confetti set is the absolute cutest! There are little miniature frankensteins, ghosts, and Draculas intermixed with white stars. The more muted colors in this clay mix are perfect for a variety of color palettes! 

I decided to cut a little arch element from vellum to ground my images. This little scalloped arch actually comes from the Scallop Box Card die set! It is fun to use this arch shape on regular cards as well – it is sized perfectly for elements on an A2 card. 

The sentiment comes from the new Halloween Greetings stamp set. I LOVE how Paulina has been including a whole set of sentiments each release this year that coordinates with the whole theme of the release. Pretty Pink Posh is known for their fun collection of dies and it is always nice to have some stamped sentiments available to use with them all! I love that there are always coordinating dies as well. 

To finish the card off I cut out some bats and a spider from the Potion Bottle die set and sprinkled them around. This also helps tie in the black from the sentiment and the background to the card I think! 

I hope you found this inspiring! Do you like to use pinks for Halloween projects? I’d love to know below. Until next time!

Hi crafty friends, Debbie here! Today, I’m sharing a more elegant fall Fringe Pumpkin from the new release! I had this idea of doing a fun funky Fringe Pumpkin but I changed directions when I found this gingham pattern paper in my stash. 

With the gingham pattern paper in hand my color palette was made. Trimming the pattern paper to 5 X 5 inches and matting it with 5 1/8 X 5 1/8 inch coral card stock. Both panels were then attached to a 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 side fold card base. 

 With the Fringe Pumpkin Dies, I die cut the four layers out three times from mint card stock. But with two of the top layers I did with a small Polka dot pattern paper that matched the mint card stock. Adhering all the layers together with liquid glue and attached to the center of the pattern panel. 

Next, I used the Winter Foliage Dies die cut out the Flowers and Foliage in coral and mint card stock. I did do a little inking in the centers of the coral flowers to give some depth. Two small flowers were die cut out a Glitter card stock, always need glitter! For the larger flower I add two layers of foam squares to the back to bring it up to the level of the Fringe Pumpkin. Then adding a double satin bow to the top of the pumpkin.

For the sentiment I stamped out the “Thankful” from Fall Harvest stamp set. Then with the coordinating dies cut it out and attached directly to the bottom of the Fringe Pumpkin. Lastly, I added Metallic Gold Pearls to the centers of the flowers with liquid glue. 

I hope you like this Fall Fringe Pumpkin! Thanks for stopping by and stay crafty my friends!

Hello, my friendly spooks! Justin here, and I am so excited to be sharing an adorably scary creation using the brand new August Release! For today’s post, I am featuring (2) brand new stamp sets: Spider Friends and Halloween Words Scenes! Both of these stamp sets are just way too fun to color-up and get onto your project.

Let’s get into the details!

Spider Friends Stamp Set
Spider Friends Coordinating Die Set
Halloween Words Scenes Stamp Set
Halloween Words Scenes Coordinating Die Set
Crackle Background Stencil
Halloween Friends Clay Confetti

For this card, I started by coloring up my Spider Friends images, and the “SPOOKY” sentiment from the Halloween Word Scenes Die Set with my Olo Markers. I just LOVE how these little spiders are wearing their own Halloween costumes! I am pretty sure the mummy spider is my favorite! I also used the coordinating dies to cut each of the images out.

For my background, I took a 4” x 5.25” piece of gray cardstock, placed the Crackle Background Stencil over top, and blended it with Black Widow Stellar Ink by Simon Hurley Create. Then, with the stencil still over my background, I sprayed Royal Flush Solar Spray over my panel. By leaving the stencil on, the Solar Spray only was applied to the open stencil areas, and not the full background! Once the stencil was removed, I splattered White Opaque Paper Splatter onto the background as well.

Once my background was dry, I adhered it to a 4.125” x 5.375” panel of lime green cardstock, and then that entire unit to a 4.25” x 5.5” panel of orange cardstock.

Using foam tape, I adhered my 3 spiders and sentiment to my card. The foam tape allows them to have a little bit of pop! I also took some embellishments from the Halloween Friends Clay Confetti and adhered it to my card front as well.

I adhered my entire panel to an A2-size card base, and my project was completed!

I hope this project provided you with some fun ideas on how to mix and match some of the brand new August Halloween Release stamp sets together to create something frightfully amazing!

Thank you so much for stopping by, and happy crafting!
Justin

Halloween greetings! Christina here to share with you this spooky cute crew that I whipped up using the new Halloween Cake Pops die set. The set comes with all the little accessories you need to get them dressed up for your next Halloween bash! I gave this trio a fun, dynamic backdrop that I made by layering two different stenciled panels and a Scallop Frame, each offset for something a little different and unexpected. Keep scrolling for the supply list and all the details about how this card came together!

Halloween Cake Pops Dies
Halloween Greetings Stamp Set
Halloween Greetings Coordinating Dies
Crackle Background Stencil
Halloween Words Stencil
Halloween Holder Addition Dies
Halloween Friends Clay Confetti
Stitched Torn Rectangle Dies
Scallop Frames Dies

I started this card by creating the two stenciled panels. For the base panel, I used the Halloween Words stencil and Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink on a white A2 cardstock panel. For the smaller stenciled panel, I used the second largest Stitched Torn Rectangle to die-cut white cardstock and then stenciled it with the Crackle Background using Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide Inks. I layered these panels together, along with a black scallop frame, slightly offset, and used foam tape to pop up the crackle background panel. 

Next, I die-cut the components for the Cake Pops from colored cardstock and then dressed up a trio of pops using the accessories included in the set. How CUTE is that Frankenstein pop? Then I attached them to the crackle background panel and tucked in a couple of metallic spiderwebs that I die-cut using a die from the Halloween Holder Additions set.

To finish things up, I added a white heat-embossed greeting from the Halloween Greetings set and a scattering of purple clay hearts from the Halloween Friends Clay Confetti.

Thank you for reading about my card featuring a spooky cute crew of Halloween Cake Pops using products from the latest Halloween release! See you again soon!

Hi friends! Sophie here today to share a fun Halloween card featuring new items from the August release (plus a few from prior releases!).

For this card I wanted to feature the new Halloween Word Scenes stamp and coordinating die set. I think this set is super unique and versatile. I shamelessly hope that more sets like this come out for other holidays too! I stamped out the “Trick or Treat” image and colored it with Copic markers. I kept the actual letters plain and just colored them with one shade of gray marker. I wanted the little icons of the mood, pumpkin, and candy corn to pop on the image so I made those more bold with colors and shading.

To fill in some space below my greeting I used images from the new Spider Friends stamp and coordinating die set. I think it is fun to really showcase little filler images from sets as it helps get more milage out of your supplies.

For the base of my card I used the previously released Watercolor Rectangle stencil and did an ombre inking of yellow to orange to peach. I really love this stencil, it is one of my most used as it can create a fun abstract background for just about anything! To finish the card off I used some Sparkling Clear Confetti and also stamped the little bats using black ink from the Halloween Greetings stamp set directly on to the panel.

I hope you feel inspired!

Hello, my batty friends! Justin here and I am super excited to be sharing with you a really fun way to use the brand new Potion Bottle Shaker Die Set from the Pretty Pink Posh August Release!

When I saw these potions bottle shapes, I thought it would be SO much fun to use them as some sort of a love-potion theme, so I took that idea and put a little bit of a bloodsucking spin on it!

Potion Bottle Shaker Die Set
Halloween Candy Hearts Stamp Set
Halloween Candy Hearts Coordinating Die Set
Crackle Background Stencil
Halloween Friends Clay Confetti

For my potion bottles, I took the base of each bottle and die cut it twice from white blending cardstock, so that I had (2) of each potion bottle shape. I took each of the bottle tops and die cut them once from kraft cardstock, and each of the potion bottle labels and die cut them once from a light pink cardstock.

Using the white potion bottle die cuts, I ink blended the top edges of one of each shape with Salvage Patina Distress Oxide Ink to give it a bit of a glass look. Then, using the 2nd set of white potion bottle die cuts, I ink blended them using a combination of Red, Pink, and Red Violet colors to come up with various blends blends for the potion itself. I used the following Distress Oxide Ink colors: Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, Festive Berries, Lumberjack Plaid and Seedless Preserves. Once blended, I splattered the panels with water to get some bleach spots.

With a set of scissors, I cut a straight line across the top of the blended potion die cuts so that it looked like the potion itself didn’t fill up the full bottle. I adhered each potion die cut on top of the coordinating full potion bottle die cut with the Salvaged Patina blending.

For the potion bottle tops, I used Vintage Photo Distress Ink to blend the bottom edge of each top, and adhered them into place. Then, taking Worn Lipstick Distress Ink, I blended the left and right edges of the Potion Bottle Label Die Cuts, and adhered them onto their coordinating bottle.

To embellish the bottles further, I grabbed the Halloween Candy Hearts stamp set and stamped out the heart that read “Batty for you” in Rouge Ink by Catherine Pooler Designs. Then, to fill in the heart, I stamped the solid heart stamp using Rose Petals Ink by Catherine Pooler Designs. I grabbed the coordinating dies and cut the heart out, adhering it with foam tape to the center of the smallest bottle.

I then die cut the small bat die cuts included with the Potion Bottle Shaker Die Set from gray cardstock, blended the edges with Black soot Distress Ink, and adhered a few of them onto the 2 larger bottles. I had a couple of the little bat die cuts left over, so I saved them for later.

The background for my card came together nicely. I took a 4.125” x 5.375” panel of light pink cardstock, placed the Crackle Background Stencil over it, and blended up an ombré using Tattered Rose, Saltwater Taffy and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Inks. I splattered the panel with Opaque Black Paper Splatter.

Using foam tape and liquid adhesive, I arranged my potion bottles into a trio cluster, and adhered them to my card panel. I added the leftover die cut bats as embellishment towards the top right of my panel, and also used a few clay slices from the Halloween Friends Clay Confetti as well!

Finishing this card off, I adhered it to a white A2-size card base and was fully completed!

I hope this card sparks some spooky inspiration for how you can use the Potion Bottle Shaker Die Set to craft up elixirs for many occasions!

Thanks for stopping by, and happy crafting!
– Justin

Hello everyone! Leanne here to share a Halloween shaker card. I absolutely love the new Spider Shaker die. He’s just too cute to spook and makes such an impactful element on an A2 size card. To fill the shaker I used some Spellbound Shaker Beads. The whimsical color combo of this bead mix seemed just right for my spider themed card. The background on this card is a blend of Dusty Concord and Villainous Potion Distress Oxide inks with lots of splattering. 

Besides the Spider Shaker, I used some other Pretty Pink Posh die sets to complete this card. For the hat, I used dies from an older set – Halloween Mug Additions. It’s the perfect size for the spider! 

The little web and spider dies are included in the Halloween Holder Additions. They made some fun embellishments to fill the spaces around the large spider. 

The Halloween Greetings stamp set includes a variety of spook-tacular sentiments. I picked out a couple to add to my card. I white heat embossed them on black card stock so they would really stand out. 

I’ll leave you with a few my creative tips to make any Halloween card even more fa-boo-lous! Add google eyes to Halloween critters. I keep a stash of different shapes and sizes on hand for this purpose. Cut a thin strip of card stock to use as a web string for the spider to hang from. Lastly use an action wobbler to attach the spider onto the card. The wobbler action is perfect for a shaker element and makes the card tons more fun for the recipient!