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Hi crafty friends, it’s June and today I have the honor of kicking off our Halloween Theme Week, so exciting! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I’m so happy that this week is gonna be filled with even more inspiration for spooky projects!

For my card, I wanted to highlight some of this year’s Halloween stamp sets, but I brought in some older, non-Halloween elements to switch it up.

The moment I saw the little branch in the new Batty About You stamp set, I instantly got the idea to bring in the big branch from the Spring Birdhouses stamp set to fill up the space. And that’s what sparked the idea to use one of the adorable birdhouses from that set in my scene, or in this case, BAThouses! I went with the vine birdhouse so I could match it with the green leaves from the branches, and spruced it up with a skull icon from the Halloween Icons stamp set. Which has become an instant favorite stamp set by the way! You can never have enough small images to add details to a scene.

I wanted to decorate not just the birdhouse, but also the branches. I stamped the cluster of pumpkins from the Halloween Corners stamp set and also the single jack-o-lantern from the Halloween Icons that matched it perfectly. 

I picked out 3 bats from the Batty About You stamp set and colored in all my images. For the first time this year, I actually went with a traditional orange-purple-green color palette so the spooky theme would be instantly visible at first glance.

I kept my background very simple. I cut out the largest size of the Stitched Torn Rectangles and ink blended a gradient that darkens on the outside of my card. I used Carved Pumpkin and Dried Marigold Distress Oxide for this. To add more interest, I also splattered some Crackling Campfire Distres Oxide and thinned out white acrylic paint on my panel.

I’m always so happy when there’s a matching die for a sentiment, so the sentiments in the Halloween Corners stamp set are right up my alley! I stamped the ‘Spooky Wishes’ with black ink and cut it out. Very simple, but I still like the way it looks against the busy card.

And that’s it for today! I hope you enjoyed reading about my card and I hope you’ll come back tomorrow for more inspiration by the Design Team members.

Hi friends! It’s Dana here today and I am sharing a card that uses the Solid Fall Foliage stamp set and coordinating die set.

I started my card by die cutting a variety of images with the Solid Fall Foliage die set. I then used the Solid Fall Foliage stamp set along with the negative from the die cut and my Misti to line everything up. Lining the stamp and die cuts up in my Misti allowed me to stamp multiples quickly and easily. 

Once I was finished stamping I attached the images to my card panel with foam adhesive. I then trimmed my panel down and splattered my panel with a little gold watercolor paint. Lastly, I used the Solid Fall Foliage set for my sentiment.

Thanks for joining me today and I hope you enjoyed my card.

Enjoy your day, Dana

Hi, crafty friends! Christina here to share a spooktacular shaker card with you featuring some of my favorite things from the latest Halloween release. I used the new, awesomely big Ghost Holder Dies, paired him with some trick-or-treating ghost friends, and gave them all a spooky sky background that I created using the Scattered Bats Stencil, and the wickedly good Upright Greetings: Halloween Stamp Set. Let’s get started!

First, I created the spooky sky background by stenciling the Scattered Bats with Black Soot Distress Ink and stamping the Upright Greetings with Wilted Violet Distress Ink all across a lavender cardstock panel trimmed to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. I deepened the color around the edges of the panel with Villainous Potion and Black Soot Distress Inks, and then splattered the panel with Hocus Pocus Mica Stain before die cutting it with the largest Wonky Stitched Rectangles die, giving me the background and the frame pieces.

To create the shaker, I attached the wonky rectangle background to a lavender cardstock panel trimmed to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Then, using double-sided tape, I attached a piece of acetate to the reverse side of the wonky frame and sandwiched it with another wonky frame to create the shaker window. I placed thin foam strips around the rectangle background for the shaker walls, and then added the Spooktacular Clay Confetti (swoon!) to the center of the panel before placing the shaker window panel on top.

Next, I die cut the rest of the elements for my card design using white cardstock and silver glitter cardstock. From the Ghost Holder Die Set, I die cut the ghost, his candy bag, and the Boo greeting. From the Spooky Mug Additions, I die cut the small ghost friends, their bags, the candy pieces, and the stars. I inked the bags and candy pieces with a variety of pastel inks to match the confetti and added a pumpkin face from the Halloween Mug Addition Die Set to the large candy bag. So adorable!

To finish things up, I attached everything to my shaker window and added a little sparkle to my ghost friends with a Wink of Stella glitter marker. The last thing was to add a few of the Upright Greetings, heat embossed in white on black cardstock, and then die cut with the Sentiment Strips Dies. 

And that’s it for this spooktacular shaker card featuring some incredible Halloween goodies. See you again soon!

Hi friends! It’s Sophie Ems here on the blog today sharing a fun idea using the new Fall Leaves Border die from the fabulous new September release. Let’s dive in!

I love the various border dies that Pretty Pink Posh has. They have border dies for most seasons/holidays including Halloween, Easter, etc. Border dies can be used as accents on cards or even as the main focal point as I did here. 

For my card I chose a few colored cardstocks from my stash in a variety of autumnal colors and turned on my favorite TV show while I did some repetitive die cutting. This came together pretty fast and it was relaxing to make!

To create these colorful leaves I die cut the connected strip of leaves from kraft colored cardstock and then used the individual leaf dies from the set to cut from the various colors. I glued each colored leaf in a random order on top of the kraft strip of leaves so I could easily align everything up on my card. 

For my sentiment I used my favorite die set from this release – the Many Thanks Shadow dies. I love this set! I am always making thank you cards and this elegant script thanks is just perfect. I love that it has a shadow layer that you can choose to use or not. For this card I cut the shadow from vellum and the words from gold metallic cardstock. 

For my cardbase I used a piece of light cream cardstock. I cut down my kraft panel so there was a little border framing the main focal point and I like how it turned out!

I hope you enjoyed this card project! I love that this card featured die cutting only without stamping. It was super easy and relaxing to create and I hope this encourages you to look at your border dies differently! 

I cannot thank Pretty Pink Posh enough for inviting me to guest design again this month. A total dream come true! I have had the best time creating a ton of projects using this September release that I’ll feature over on my Instagram throughout this month – I hope you’ll check them out! 

Hello, Gemma here today to share a fall themed thank you card.

I began by die cutting the new Fall Leaves Border. I cut the full border from white card, then the individual leaves from different colours of cardstock. I then adhered these leaves over the top of the full border.

Next, I worked on the sentiment. I die cut the thanks word and shadow from the new Many Thanks Shadow die. The shadow is cut from navy card, and the scripty work on top is die cut from gold glitter card. I then adhered the pieces tougher with liquid glue.

For an additional sentiment, I partially stamped a greeting from the Sentiment Strips: Fall stamp set, heat embossing it in white on navy card. I used a Sentiment Strips die to cut it out.

I used an older stencil set Layered Argyle to add some detail directly to an A2 card base. I picked some pink distress oxides to blend each stencil layer – spun sugar, kitsch flamingo, and picked raspberry.

On the top section of my card base, I adhered a panel of navy card, then added the fall leaves border between that and the stenciled background. I then adhered the sentiments at the to finish.

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

Hello everyone, June here and I’m sharing my process for a spooky Halloween card using the Halloween release.

I started out by selecting 2 ghosts from the Stitched Ghosts Dies I wanted to use for my focal point. I love how you can mix and match the faces on them! I also decorated my ghosts by adding a subtle ombre look using Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide ink and adding some blush on their cheeks using Copic Markers and white gel pen. I backed the faces using a scrap piece of black cardstock to make them pop.

For my background I blended a solid panel of Lost Shadow Distress Oxide and used the Scattered Bats Stencil and Hickory Smoke to add a cute bat pattern. I used a very light hand for this and even went back to Lost Shadow to make sure the bats weren’t too dark.

I feel like the background still distracted a bit too much from my ghosts, so I cut out one of the Eyelet Ovals Dies so I had something to back my ghosts onto. I used foam stickers to adhere them because I didn’t like the white-on-white look, and adding some dimension made them pop out a bit more.

I embossed one of my new favorite sentiments from the Halloween Corners Stamp Set in white onto some black cardstock and also adhered it using foam tape. I thought I was finished at this point, but it looked a bit… plain maybe? So I looked through the entire release to find something I could add more detail with, and suddenly realized how fun those sentiments from Upright Greetings: Halloween were. I chose my sentiments based on their length so it could frame my card nicely and I stamped them in a grey ink that was slightly darker than my bats for even more of the same tone-on-tone look. 

I really like how this one turned out! I like the little pop of color on the ghosts against the ghostly pastel grey background.

Anyway, I’ll see you again soon, bye crafty friends!