Scrap 'N Stamp Canada | Halloween tags

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For Anything but a Card I made a couple of Halloween tags using some new to me products purchased this year.

For this first tag I ink blended a background to cut my tag from using Distress Oxide inks--Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Peacock Feathers and Villainous Potion. I flicked black watered down acrylic paint on the panel.

The die cuts are all from the Tim Holtz Wicked and Gothic Protraits die sets.

The boo sentiment was cut from Spellbinders dark grey glitter cardstock.

A little piece of white paper was glued behind the cat's eyes.

For my second tag, which I almost did not post, I used the Lawn Fawn Cauldron lawn cut. The panel was first ink blended with Distress Oxide inks--Shaded Lilac and Wilted Violet. Everything was going well until the end...been there before? An embossed sentiment over a bumpy surface is never a good idea, but it actually turned out not bad. Not as bold as I hoped but not bad either.

This is where it all went wrong. My white gel pen has been sitting for too long and it wasn't flowing--grrrr! That is something that can't be undone, so lets just call it wear marks on the sides of the cauldron.

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Happy Haunting

Hello, I am happy to share with you that I am guesting over on The Frantic Stamper blog for the next few months. I have been having fun playing with some of their precision dies and clear stamps to make this cute and spooky Halloween card.  Pop over to the blog to see the whole card reveal and how I put it together.

Happy Haunting!

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Going Batty!

It's time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

I almost feel guilty and how easy this card was to put together!

I picked up the Recollections Black & Gold 6 x 6 paper pad last week at Michael's and this paper was perfect. I tried to think of more interesting or creative ways to be inspired but nope, nothing came. At least now I know that I used some of the paper rather than just hoarding in like I usually do--ha ha ha!

I die cut in the panel with my stitched rectangles and adhered it to my black base. Then I added a cute  Reverse Confetti Spooky Sentiment sentiment to the front popped up on foam. The hardest part of this card--was getting a decent photo.

Hope that you play along with us this challenge.

Spooky Sentiments	Reverse Confetti Tag Me Dies	Simon Says Stamp STITCHED RECTANGLES Wafer Dies sssd111455 In Stitches	Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82
Tombow MONO ADHESIVE DOTS DISPENSER Permanent	3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent	Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE FOLDER Tool	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Powder Blue & Teal 657900

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Welcome to My Nightmare - September '15

Can you believe that it is the last day of September and time for another installment of the 12 Kit of Occasions!

Jessica is our hostess this month for always fun Halloween kit. Contrary to the title this month Jessica's kit was everything cute!  I could have easily made 5 more cards.

How can it be that I am so sad that my light tent is still MIA. So sorry that my pictures are overexposed and grainy.  It doesn't matter how good your camera is, without good lighting that is what you get. Now onto what you came for.

I will start with my favourite card, as soon as I saw the mummy wrap I couldn't wait to use it and combined with the eye patch--so fun!

Followed by my favourite paper!

Awesome spooky silhouette, and yes there is a coating of the illusive Wink of Stella all over the ghost...

Yummy Crushed Curry cardstock--grr...camera!

We won't be getting any trick-o-treaters in our new home, we are that far out of the town. After 250 little goblins last Halloween we don't need to buy (as much) candy this year. I will be sending some treat bags up to school for my goblins though so here are a couple packaging ideas.

I hope you get over to the 12 Kit blog to see what the rest of the team has om store for you today!

RetroSketches #138

Time for this week's new RetroSketches sketch!

One last, well probably last, Halloween card for this year. So many fabulous Halloween themed stamps and papers that I could just keep on going.

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Spooky

Sharing a card today that I had not posted before.
This one was not picked up for publication but it is too spooky not to share!  ;)





I'm curious, do you send Halloween cards to friends or family?
I usually give them to my kids but that's about it.  They are just so fun to make,

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Top Dog Dies: Signature Emerson Die

Time for another project for Top Dog Dies! There is a new release this week featuring 5 new Signature dies. Today I used the new Signature Emerson Die along with the previously released Halloween Trio dies to create a fun Halloween card. I used the sketch from retrosketches and modified the die cut slightly to work with the design.  I took about 1/4" inch on the top of the die cut and then the one of the ribs our of the die cut to form the space. That is the creative part of using a shape die, you can modify the shape to suit your needs after you have made your cut. The scary cat was die cut using some black glitter paper and once again I added green Stickles to the eyes.

The Top Dog Dies Design Team is going to be sharing cards with the three new dies for the next several weeks...here's a peek of the five new dies available exclusively at Top Dog Dies  on Sept. 26th!

Signature Finley

Signature Chelsea

Signature Emerson

Signature Delilah

Signature Beatrix