I wanted to add lots of color to my design. To keep the stencil as clean as possible to avoid mixing colors I used small cosmetic brushes and sticky notes to mask off different areas of the design.
After I had the stenciled design complete I couldn’t bear to cut it down too much so I trimmed it to a 5” square for my card. The circular design of the wreath made it ideal for the stacked Eyelet Circles to create a focal point for the design.
I think this stenciled design is prettier than patterned paper and the best part is that I made it myself! It’s like magic watching the design appear and I can’t wait to mail this one to someone special!
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed today’s card!
Hi crafty friends, Debbie here on the blog! Today, I am sharing two Halloween cards from leftovers images, panels, and die cuts that were not used on previous projects. So, don’t throw them away! I just needed to color up just a few more images to complete my shaker mug card.
To start this card, I need to make a panel using the Layered Ghost Stencilink blending on lavender and yellow inks. Then, I sprayed on some Distress Spritz in Twisted Citron and Wilted Violet and let dry. Next I die cut this panel using the largest Stitched Torn Rectangle Die.
I then stamped and colored the images I wanted to use from Halloween Cupcakes, Ghost Friends, and Batty About You stamp sets. After the Copic coloring was done I used the coordinating diesfor each of the stamp sets to cut the images out.
I then die cut the mug from Purple and Black to make the shaker from Winter Mug Dies. For the window opening I used the caldron from the Spooky Mugs Addition Dies, also die cut some brown card stock for the coffee. From a Green Glittery foam I also die cut out the splash or goo, not sure what to call it but fun! After adding acetate over the window opening with double sided adhesive, I then add thick foam around to make the well for the Halloween Magic Clay Confetti Mix. Place to Black mug to the back after filling it up to seal the shaker mix inside and attach directly to the Ghost panel. Add foam to the back of the images, adhere the panel to the matching mat of the mug color. Last thing to do is stamp and white heat emboss the sentiment on black cardstock from the Ghost Friends stamp and cut out with the coordinating dies. Also I add white highlights with a gel pen.
With this card I started with purple cardstock, ink blend on the edges with Distress Oxide Villianous Potion. Then with the Scattered Bats Stencil, I applied Distress Texture Paste Black Opaque. Then I splattered on Distress Mica Spray, Frozen Fog and set to the side to dry. I did trim it down by 1/8 inch on all sides and mat to Matte Silver card stock.
Die cut out the second to largest Eyelet Oval Die from Black card stock. Stamp and Copic color the bats from Batty About You stamp setand Halloween Signs set. After the coloring was done I die cut out the images with their coordinating dies. Add 3D foam to the back of the images and attach it all together. Last I did add highlights with a white gel pen.
Thanks for stopping by and stay crafty my friends!
Hello crafty friends. It’s Lisa Mears on the blog today. If you enjoy handing out treats for Halloween, here’s a creative twist to make it even more special.
In my video, I’ll walk you through the steps to create these candy buckets for your spooky celebrations!
I made some adorable candy buckets using the Candy Bucket dies. These easy-to-make buckets are perfect for holding goodies and adding a festive flair to your Halloween.
I love how there are four face options for the candy buckets — Frankenstein, a pumpkin, a ghost, and a monster — and I made one of each!
You can use the front of the candy buckets on cards, but I made them into little candy buckets that you can put candy inside.
I made a box to put in the middle of two of the candy buckets and attached the box with double sided adhesive tape to the front and back pieces.
These would be super cute to give to kids, friends, family, and co-workers on Halloween. You can fill them with candy, or other small snacks, or toys.
Thank you so much for stopping by today. Have a spooktacular day! Lisa Mears
Hello Everyone! It is Zsofi here today with a fun mix and match Halloween card. I love that older and new sets go so well together, it helps me stretch my supplies and use them in many different ways. Let me show you how I made this cute Halloween scene.
First I stamped all the images from the Halloween Corners, Halloween Icons and Halloween Pals stamp sets and coloured them all with Copic markers. Then I die cut them all with their coordinating dies.
While I was die cutting, I also cut the sentiment with the Happy Halloween Script diefrom black glitter cardstock.
Then I worked on the background. On a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock I blended Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Black Sooth Distress Oxide inks, leaving the middle of the cardstock the lightest. As I love texture, I spritzed it with water, dabbed it off with a paper towel after 20 seconds and added some black acrilyc paint splatters. When it was dry, I spritzed the whole panel with a Gold Sparkle Shimmer Spritz for an additional subtle skarkle.
To build the scene I simply started placing the Halloween Corners first and played around them with the rest of the images. To make it dimensional, I used 3D foam squares to adhere some of the images. After gluing the sentiment in place, I adhered a little spider under it and drew a line with a black thin marker, so it looks like it is hanging from the letters. So cute!
As a finishing touch I used a black glaze pen on the eyes and added glossy accents to the candies and lollipop, also on the noses of the critters.
Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you soon, Zsofi
For me Halloween is all about the treats! Instead of one night of trick or treating for kids, I think we should spend the whole month giving our friends & family cute little goodies! And this DIY treat bucket project is the perfect way to get started!
To turn the PPP Candy Buckets into actual buckets you just need a 3-1/2 x 10 piece of heavyweight cardstock and a scoring tool! Then after creating a little open top container, you decorate both sides with the adorable Candy Buckets dies and fill with candy!!! It’s really easy and super fun! You can see the whole process in the video.
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 theSpring 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 setand 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.
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 setalong 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.
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 newMany 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.
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!
