Cards

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I’m happy to be back on the blog with this autumn cupcake I’ve created as a companion to the Spooky Halloween Cupcake I shared with you a couple of weeks ago. When possible, I like to take ideas from other cards, and just by changing the color palette and/or theme, create a completely different card. And once again, my card features a good mix & match of different sets because I like to stretch my supplies and use them regardless of their original purpose.

See the Halloween Cupcake card post HERE

For today’s card, I started off by cutting a large Eyelet Rectangle out of kraft cardstock, and I knew that I would put a sunflower on my cupcake, so I went for a sunflower pattern on my background. And when I stencil on kraft cardstock, I like to create a white base first in order to make the colors stand out, so I used the Layered Sunflower stencil A and B along with white pigment ink to make the white base of my sunflowers.

Next I used the stencil A along with mustard seed oxide ink to make the first part of the petals, and then the stencil B along with fossilized amber oxide ink to make the second part. To make the leaves, I used the stencil C and mowed lawn oxide ink, and to make the center of my sunflowers, I used the stencil D and vintage photo oxide ink. I mixed some vintage oxide ink with water, and used a small brush to make splatters all over my panel, and did the same with copic opaque white ink.

I cut all the bits and pieces out of pattern paper and colored cardstock, and added more depth to each element using oxide inks. Here is a detailed list of the die sets I used: • Big Halloween Cupcake – wrap, cream, cake, pumpkins • Spooky Mug Additions – pumpkins • Fall Mug Additions – sunflower, acorn, leaves • Fall Cornucopia – mushrooms, sunflower, corn • Big Easter Cupcake – sign.

I white heat embossed “Autumn greetings” from Fall Jar on the sign. I also white heat embossed “Grateful for your kindness” from Sentiments Strips: Fall on brown cardstock, and trimmed it into a slim banner using a Sentiment Strips die. Next I assembled and attached everything on my Layered Sunflower background using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, liquid glue and 3mm glue dots.

As always, I finished my card by adding highlights and details to the elements using a white gel pen. And that’s it! I hope that my card has inspired you to shop your stash, regardless of the theme, to create unique cards. Thanks for stopping by!

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Hello, Gemma here today to share a Big Halloween Cupcake card. I love all the fun elements in this die set, there are even more than I used on this card.

I began by die cutting several pieces from the new Big Halloween Cupcake die set from colourful card, then assembled the pieces to make my cupcake.

I also added a little spider, who can be found in the new Spider Web Border die set.

Next, I worked on my background. As the cupcake is so bright and colourful, I decided to create a black and white background to show it off even more.

Using the new Layered Halloween Wreath stencils, I blended distress oxide inks over a piece of grey patterned paper. These are the inks I used:

• Layer B – Lost Shadow distress oxide ink
• Layer A – Hickory Smoke distress oxide ink
• Layer C – Black Soot distress oxide ink

I adhered the background onto a 6″ square card base, then added the Big Halloween Cupcake on top with foam tape. I finished by adding several ‘eyes’ at the base of the cake.

I hope you enjoyed this Halloween card. Thanks for stopping by!

Hi friends, it’s Jeanne on the blog today. I love Halloween! What could be better than dressing up, staying out late, being mischievous and don’t forget the candy! The new Candy Bucket is just the thing to hold all your favorite treats! 

This Candy Bucket is so clever because you can easily alter it to look like a ghost, a monster, a traditional jack o lantern or Frankenstein like mine! 

This release is loaded with lots of great die cuts so you’ll have lots of choices for ways to add treats to your Candy Bucket. I used lollipops from Spooky Mug Additions, wrapped candies from the Ghost Holder die set, and gummy worms, chocolate webs and a sweet little ghost from the Big Halloween Cupcake die set.

The finishing touches were a sentiment from the Sentiment Strips: Halloween stamp set, some Creamsicle pearls and a sweet little bow from the Beautiful Bows die set. 

That fabulous background is created with my favorite border dies – the Stacked Edges. I have several of these dies so I can cut lots of borders at one time and always save the extras in an envelope so I’m always ready to make.  The cut border dies fit together like puzzle pieces leaving a nice flat background much like a cover plate. 

I hope you’ll stop by tomorrow for another Halloween project!

Hello crafty friends, Marine here! I’m thrilled to be back on the blog with this spooky cute card featuring several brand new die sets from the Pretty Pink Posh August 2024 Release: Big Halloween Cupcake, Spooky Mug Additions and Ghost Holder. I absolutely loved mixing and matching items from different sets to make this card, and I hope it will inspire you to do the same.

To make the background, I cut a Strathmore bristol smooth panel using the largest Stitched Torn Rectangle die, and colored it using pink shades. I first covered the entire panel with spun sugar oxide ink for a nice and even base, and then applied and blended worn lipstick oxide ink on the edges to darken my panel a little bit. I mixed some black soot oxide ink with water and used a small brush to add splatters to my panel, and did the same with copic opaque white ink mixed with water. And to add even more texture and interest to my panel, I used the Halloween Words stencil along with white paste to make a fun word background.

While my panel was drying, I cut all the pieces out of colored cardstock, vellum and pattern paper. Here is a detailed list of the products I used: • Big Halloween Cupcake – cupcake wrap, cream, cake, dripping icing, pumpkins, candy corn, spider webs, bones • Spooky Mug Additions – spiders, ghosts, fences, pumpkins • Ghost Holder – bats, “boo” • Halloween Mug Additions – spiders, tiny coffin, hat • Big Easter Cupcake – sign.

I assembled and attached everything on my panel using 1mm and 2mm foam squares mostly, as well as liquid glue and 3mm glue dots, leaving enough space at the bottom for my greeting. I embossed “Let’s spook up some fun” from Sentiment Strips: Halloween in black on yellow cardstock, and trimmed it into a slim banner using a Sentiment Strips die. I used another die from that set to cut a larger strip out of black cardstock, stuck the yellow strip on top of the black one using 1mm foam squares, and attached the whole piece below the pumpkins using foam squares again.

I glued Onyx Pearls on the ghosts and largest spiders to give them funny eyes, and finally added highlights and details to all the bits and pieces using a white gel pen. And that’s it!

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you have a spooktacular day!

Hello crafty friends, it’s June here! Today I’ll be making a card using products from the new Halloween release along with some older items. 

When I saw the new release, I had no idea what to create with first. Halloween is my favorite holiday and I felt inspired by so many of the new products! I decided to use the Spooky Mug Additions first because there were so many different dies to pick from. I played around with some of the combinations before settling on my favorite combo using the cauldron shaker die as the focus. A shaker is always a good idea right?

I cut the mug from the original Winter Mug Dies out of black cardstock and used the cauldron die to make my shaker window. I also cut out the ghosts, a lolly, a tiny candy, the stars and the moon. I cut them all out of white cardstock so I could add color using ink later, when I decided on a color palette.

I based my color palette on the new Spooktacular Mix. I tried adding all colors to the card. I used orange and pink for the background and green and purple for the inside of my shaker. The colors of Distress Oxide I used were Dried Marigold, Worn Lipstick, Twisted Citron and Wilted Violet. I also splattered some Abandoned Coral and Carved Pumpkin that I thinned out with water onto the background panel, followed by even more splatters of thinned out white acrylic paint. 

To add even more detail, I used the Pierced Stars Plate Die on my background. I cut it a bit smaller so it could fit perfectly inside the largest Eyelet Rectangle Die.

When putting together my shaker, I decided on the colors for my white pieces. I blended a slight gradient on each piece for some added interest. I added gel pen details to some pieces and also added blush to the ghost(s) using Copic Markers. I only realized while writing this blog post that I forgot to add blush to the top ghost *facepalm*  I don’t know how I missed that… But that’s okay, little mistakes just show that a card is handmade, right? And maybe only one ghost was blushing at the time?

For a sentiment, I just had to pick one from the new Halloween Corners stamp set. The set not only has cute images, but all 3 big sentiments have a matching die, which I love about Pretty Pink Posh’s scripted sentiments. I used the same shade of pink as my lolly and the pink in the shaker bits.

And that’s it for today! I absolutely love how colorful this card turned out. I love typical Halloween colors, but I love colors that aren’t as traditional even more. What do you think?

Happy crafting!

Hi friends, Debbie here with a spooktacular square card using the new Ghost Holder Die paired with the Layered Halloween Wreath Stencil. 

 I started off with a 5.5 X 5.5 inch white panel placed onto a grip mat with the Layered Halloween Wreath Stencil. Ink blended on the colors that were needed with a small round blending brushes.  Die cut out the largest Eyelet Square Die in purple.

Die cut out the Ghost, Pumpkin, and bats from the Ghost Holder die set. Using the remaining ink on a small brush, I did upward strokes to give depth at the bottom of the Ghost. With the Face I found it was easiest to add to the back of black card stock some double sided adhesive. Then place the face die on it and run it through your cutting machine. When you place the face die on the ghost just use a pokey tool to have it adhere to the ghost. Slide the pumpkin up into the ghost arms and add foam to the back of the ghost to pop it up.

The sentiment is from Halloween Corners stamp set, I stamped and  heat embossed with white embossing powder and die cut it out with the coordinating dies. 

Stay crafty my friends!