Sep 9, 2017 | 2017 Holiday Catalog, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Halloween, Stamper's Club |
Have you heard of a Double Z Fold card? It’s a fun fold card idea and when it’s open the card easily stands on its own. You could create all kind of fun scenes with this style of card. I decided to try this fun card with the Spooky Cat bundle. We made this in my September Stamper’s Club.
This is the card closed up. And remember when I told you about the Cat punch and using it to punch out the paper cats – well that is what I did for this black cat – she is just punched from the paper. Plus there is Designer paper on the front panels of both Z pieces. Here is a look at the card opened up.
You basically take a normal sized card – this one is 4-1/4″ wide by 11″ long – Score in the middle like normal – that is 5-1/2 on this card. And then take the front piece and score it in half again – 2-3/4″ on this card. That makes your first Z.
Then to make the second Z – so that its a Double Z fold card – I used a strip that was 1-1/2″ side and 11″ long. Do the same thing – score in half at 5-1/2 and then score the back panel at 2-3/4. Fold it in the opposite direction.
I added Very Vanilla panels to the other end of the Z folds – 5-1/4″ x 4″ piece on the main back – stamped with the little rat in the corner. I also added the black starburst punch. Then on the strip the pieces are 2-1/2″ x 1-1/4″. On one I stamped the Happy Halloween and the little striped image. On the other I stamped the potion bottles. Plus a scrap of Very Vanilla for the Owl. Now one of the fun things about this stamp set is the two-step stamping! You have the outlines for the potion bottles – those are in black. Then each bottle has an image to stamp the inside potion and bubbles. I used 3 colors – Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze and Smoky Slate for mine. And went over them with the Aqua Painter and a little bit more ink to give them a real smoky look.
There are more 2-step images in the set – the Owl – there is a stamp for the talons and beak. And then another for the eyes and rings around the eyes – that one also included words that fit on the belly. But I decided to cut my stamp apart so I had the option to use separately. For this particular card I just used a marker for the eye balls because I didn’t want the rings to be black.
The witches hat in the set is also 2-step with a second image for the buckle on the hat.
Happy OWL oween!
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Sep 6, 2017 | 2017 Holiday Catalog, Designer Series Paper, Halloween |
Did you see that Stampin’ Up! has a new cat punch? It coordinates with the stamp set called Spooky Cat and the Spooky Night Designer Series paper. We all love the coordination between products that Stampin’ Up! gives us. And let me tell you there are quite a few things about these products that you might not realize so let me point out a few things for you. Oh – but first here is my card.
For this card I just punched Cajun Craze card stock with the Cat punch and then used the stamp set to stamp the face on the cat. The punch also coordinates with one of the images in the stamp set – it’s a cat shape filled with Halloween words.
Here is a look at the Spooky Night Designer Series Paper.
Now here are some things that you may not notice:
- Can you see the print with the cats? It fits perfectly in the punch – so you can punch out the whole sheet of cats. And with the cat stamp if you want to stamp the words on the orange cat.
- Now see the print with the tree/moon. Those sheets are perfect 3×3 squares for that image – so 16 of them on one sheet. And they are sized so that you can stamp the owl so he is sitting right on the branch.
- See the pumpkin sheet. Those pumpkins actually coordinate with the Patterned Pumpkins Thinlits dies – you can cut them all but the tiniest one out with those dies!
I have cards coming showing all three of these. So be sure to keep coming back. The stamp set itself is really fun too. Here is a bit more inspiration straight out of the pages of the catalog.
Come back soon for more spooky fun!
Oct 19, 2016 | 2016 Holiday Catalog, Halloween, Tags |
I made these quick treats for my little niece and nephew for Halloween. I found a box of bones candy at the store and covered them with card stock and added a tag.
I found the candy at the grocery store and just measured the box and cut and scored my card stock to go around it. I used a Sahara Sand Stampin’ Write Marker to draw some faint lines across the white card stock to resemble strips of gauze – and then used an aqua painter with a little more Sahara Sand ink to add some faint shadows. I tied an actual piece of gauze around the box and added the little Cookie Cutter Mummy with some white baker’s twine for a tag. The mummy is also watercolored a little bit to give it shadows – I used Watercolor paper for them.
If just took a few minutes to put these together! Happy Halloween!
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Oct 18, 2016 | 2016 Holiday Catalog, Christmas, Halloween |
Last month I received this cute little mummy treat from my friend Linda. I loved it so much that I decided I wanted to use the idea for treats at the crop I did earlier this month. I decided to make little scarecrows for fall and each one has a butterscotch candy in it. I made probably 60-70 of them. But it was hard to stop and I had some left over lifesaver candies sitting around too. So I took the rest of the Cookie Cutter images and made one from each character. These are quick and easy little treats/thank yous that you could make for a group of people.
My scarecrow is on Very Vanilla card stock and stamped with the Archival Black ink pad and then I watercolored with my aqua painter – Dapper Denim for his clothes, and Sahara Sand on his face. I used my Stampin’ Write Markers for his patches and hat – Delightful Dijon and Pumpkin Pie. I punched out a plain Delightful Dijon cookie cutter and stapled the butterscotch candy between the two. These will actually stand up.
One tip I’ll share if you want to make a bunch of these is to create a template for your stamping. Since this is a builder punch you can’t just stamp a row and punch them out – you have to leave space in between for the builder pieces in the punch. Here are a couple of pictures to show you what I mean. I hope that is helpful.
And if you want to see the rest of the gang that I made (except the mummy that Linda gave me) her you go….
This is a really fun bundle of products and becomes a bit addictive if you aren’t careful!
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Oct 14, 2016 | 2016 Holiday Catalog, Cards, Christmas, Halloween |
Have you seen the Cookie Cutter Halloween and Christmas sets in the Holiday Catalog? They are so much fun! I’ve been using them a bunch for all different cards. I created one layout and used it for a bunch of different cards just switching out the designer paper and the cookie cutter image. I matched up various greetings and used a variety of coordinating twines to finish each card.
Each card has a strip of card stock on the right side of the front white panel. Then I punched different sized circles from the designer paper. For the Halloween/Fall cards I used the Halloween Night Specialty Designer Series Paper and Halloween Night Baker’s Twine. For the Christmas cards I used the Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper (it’s part of this months Designer Paper sale!) and the Candy Cane Lane Baker’s Twine.
Here is a closer look at the skeleton card.
It’s a fun easy layout and can be adapted to use all the different cookie cutter images (or other punched images). Try it out and let me know what you create.
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Oct 13, 2016 | 2016 Holiday Catalog, Big Shot, Cards, Halloween |
Halloween is quickly approaching. Do you decorate and create fun treats for Halloween? I think it varies from year to year what I do. When the kids were little we made costumes and decorations and lots of treats. Now the kids are older and I don’t do as much for Halloween. But I do love a lot of our stamps and accessories for Halloween – so making cards and treats are still on my list. I’ll be mailing things out to my boys and their friends.
Today I’m sharing a fun card I created for my stamp club. It’s one that kind of grew as I worked on it. I started and then kept adding little elements to it.
I started with the Halloween Scenes Edgelits and Spooky Fun stamp sets – they even come together as a bundle in the Holiday catalog! One question that I get asked is about these dies – note that they are called Edgelits (not thinlits or framelits). The difference is these are designed to cut an edge – so you start with a piece of card stock the width of the die and then the height can vary based on what you want – it will only cut the edge of however tall your piece is. This is the tree and the fence in this set – both just cut the edge – so the bottom is not cut. The rest of the dies are little framelits meant to go around the stamped images in the stamp set. They “frame” the image. And while we are on the subject – Thinlits are detailed dies that coordinate with stamps and other dies but don’t necessarily “frame” or outline anything – they are meant to compliment other dies and stamps not cut them out.
I used the Ghoulish Grunge stamp set for the brick wall image in the back ground. The bottom is the Halloween Night Specialty Designer Paper and the Halloween Night Baker’s Twine – I love that twine.
In the corner I stamped the moon image and then sponged it with a little bit of Pumpkin Pie ink. Then the little die cut witch is on a dimensional in front of it.
It turned out to be a fun Halloween card – now who should I mail it too?
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