A Spooky {Happy Halloween} Card...

Hello!  I thought it would be fun to make a Halloween card using PTI's Holiday Lights set and use it for a different holiday.  I stamped the lights using orange and purple ink and then stamped some black spiders randomly on the lights. Spooky, huh?

The Halloween sentiments are from a Clear & Simple Stamps set that hasn't seen ink since last October.  I hope to make a few more Halloween cards with that set.

This card is pretty much a one layer except for the little Happy Halloween rectangle.  


Thanks for stopping by to see today's card!

{Happy Halloween}

Stamps: Beware (Clear & Simple Stamps), Holiday Lights (Papertrey Ink)

Card Stock: On the Catwalk Cream, Creamsicle Cardigan (CSS)

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress, VIP Purple (CSS)

Accessories: Corner Rounder Punch, Foam Dimensionals

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OCC Challenge - Spooky Color Challenge

Hey all!  Sorry I was MIA yesterday, but if you've been following my tweets, you'd know that I was at the zoo on my son's field trip.  Fun times!

On to more serious matters, I'm here with a card sample for this week's Our Creative Corner challenge.  This week we have a color challenge and Diane picked a color scheme that would be great for a Halloween card, but feel free to make any kind of card you like.  My first thought was not to make a Halloween card, but then I remembered the new set, Beware, from Clear & Simple Stamps.  I knew it would be a match made in heaven.

It's hard to see unless you enlarge the photos that the purple and green are actually patterned paper from Hippy Girl by Kaiser Craft.  Love that collection!!!

Be sure to check out the rest of the card samples from the Our Creative Corner design team.  I love seeing the diversity of cards all using the same color palette.

Have a great day!

{Happy Halloween}

Stamps: Beware (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Chocolate Chip (SU), SS White (Papertrey Ink)

Patterned Paper: Hippy Girl (Kaiser Craft)

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Certainly Celery (SU)

Accessories: Parakeet Brads (Bazzill), Labels 9 Nesties (Spellbinders), Edge Diestresser, Stampin' Sponge

 

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Happy Halloween Treat Bag with Tag

Hey guys!  I have another fun project to share with you today using Clear & Simple Stamps.  I created a little bag of candy with a handmade tag using the October SOTM, Beware.  

First, I folded up the acetate box, securing it together with sticky tape and filled it with candy corn.  Now for the fun part.

I punched an Orange You Fabulous circle and a slightly larger Perfect Little Black Dress circle.  I stamped the larger spider web on the orange circle with Perfect Little Black Dress ink and glued it to the black circle.  Then I distressed the edges of the black circle.  I stamped the sentiment in black on Creamsicle Cardigan card stock along with a little black spider and then sponged the edges.  I adhered that to the circles using foam dimensionals.  I punched a small hole and threaded some polka dot ribbon through and around the bag handle, and into a lovely bow.

An easy and quick gift as long as you can resist eating all the candy!

Have a great day!

{Happy Halloween Treat Bag}

Stamps: Beware (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Perfect Little Black Dress, Orange You Fabulous, Creamsicle Cardigan

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress

Accessories: Circle Punches, Edge Distresser, Small Hole Punch, Stampin' Sponge, Polka Dot Ribbon (Offray), Acetate Bag (Creative Cuts & More), Foam Dimensionals

 

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A "Happy Halloween" Card...

Hello! I have another card to share with you using the new SOTM, Beware from Clear & Simple Stamps.  This was actually the very first card I made with this set, that's when I fell in love.  I think I'm a very picky stamper.  I don't like cutesy or whimsical stamps, and that's the thing I love about CSS.  They have a lot of clean and simple images that are timeless.

This card was so quick and easy to make.  I started with a Perfect Little Black Dress card stock base.  Then I took a slightly smaller piece of You're a Natural Darling card stock, applied a Tim Holtz spider web mask, sponged Perfect Little Black Dress ink over the entire piece.  I peeled off the mask (squealed a little bit at how cool it looked, it was my first Tim Holtz mask experience), then stamped the bat.  I applied that layer to the black card base using foam dimensionals.  I stamped "Happy Halloween" on a thin strip of Orange You Fabulous card stock and Love, love, love that font!!! I applied that to the spider web panel using foam dimensionals as well.  Then I stamped another bat onto You're a Natural Darling card stock, cut it out using scissors, leaving a thin border, then I applied it to the sentiment panel using, you guessed it, foam dimensionals.

I hope you enjoyed today's card as much as I did.  Have a great weekend!!!

{Happy Halloween}

Stamps: Beware (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: You're a Natural Darling, Perfect Little Black Dress, Orange You Fabulous

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress

Accessories: Spider Web Mask (Tim Holtz), Foam Dimensionals, Stampin' Sponge

 

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Clear & Simple Stamps - October 2010 Release

Hello!  It's the first day of October and that means a new SOTM from Clear & Simple Stamps!!!  This month's SOTM is called Beware and is a Halloween themes set.  I had so much fun creating with this set and am so thankful that I can finally share my projects with you.  This is such a great set for creating your own patterned paper since most of the images come in a large and small size.  Don't you just love the fonts?  Especially like the larger "Happy Halloween" font.  So cool!

Beware

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Here's a super clean and simple card I made using the jack-o-lantern faces and "trick -or- treat" sentiment.  

I used some white buttons that had a raised border, sponged them orange and then heat set them.  Voilà , orange buttons!  I stamped the jack-o-lantern faces onto Orange You Fabulous card stock using Perfect Little Black Dress ink and then punched them out using a small circle punch.  I adhered the little faces to the buttons using glue dots.  I used a masking technique for the sky background.  I cut a rectangle out of scrap paper and used the hollow rectangle as a stencil to sponge a blue sky.

I cut a one inch strip of Glamazon Green card stock and used scissors to create a grass effect.  After I trimmed the grass, I used my finger to make the grass stick out a bit and I also trimmed some of the grass at an angle to make a look a bit more like grass.  The buttons were adhered to the card using glue dots.  I also added tiny slivers of green and brown for stems and leaves.

The new color, Creamsicle Cardigan, is also available today in card stock, ribbon, ink, re-inkers and buttons as well as the Copic Trio Bundle (pictured below).

Thanks so much for listening to me gush over how much I love this set.  It's perfect for Halloween cards, treats, tags, tricks, etc.  I'm looking forward to sharing the rest of my projects with you.

Have a great day!

{Trick-or-Treat}

Stamps: Beware (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: A Blanc Check, Glamazon Green, Orange You Fabulous, Espresso Your Style

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress, Bashful Blue (SU), Pumpkin Pie (SU)

Accessories: White Buttons, Glue Dots, Scissors, Stampin' Sponge

 

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