We're getting Frightfully Delightful at Shopping Our Stash ... create a card with your favorite spooky image.
I have never inked these fun stamps from Impression Obsession, so I used them for a clean & simple Halloween design.
I paired a sentiment from Impression Obsession Witch Sayings with the fun dancing Skeleton 1.
Tonight I had a little Washi Tape fun for the Simon Says Stamp Fun with Washi! Challenge.
I created a Washi Tape background and then used the Freshly Made Sketch for my layout.
I used one of my favorite vintage stamps from The Project Bin Haunt It for the Make The Cards Halloween Challenge.
I love the October Mood Board Photo at the Joy Clair Challenge.
The grey and black spooky feel reminded me of the Suminagasi Japanese hand-marbled paper I made, so I used that for my card base.
I stamped the Witch from Joy Clair Keeping It Real in black ink on light grey cardstock before cutting it with a stitched circle die cut. Inspired by the Mood Board, I added some glittery bats to join her in the swirly smoky sky.
And it's all about Spooky at The Global Design Project. It's also Halloween or Harvest at the Country View Challenge.
I was cleaning out a drawer for my new Shimmer Paints, and found a collection of Snoopy stickers that included fun Halloween ones ... so I had to make some cards.
The first one uses a Sketch from the CAS Colors & Sketches (only realizing after the fact that I didn't make a CAS card).
I used sentiments from Taylored Expressions Mini Strips Halloween on all of my cards.
I paired these stickers with another Gel Press printed background using marker colors from the stickers.
Snoopy is paired with this week's Freshly Made Sketch (given the way he was facing I flipped it).
And last-up is a fun little card with Sally.
September is #abcprintingchallenge month. I love doing a little Gel Press printing every day.
Next up is D is for Diamond. I attached my little diamond Gelli Arts plate to a clear block and used it to stamp a diamond shape in various shades of green Catherine Pooler inks and Nathalie Kalbach ArtFoamies Stamps.
E for Exotic had me stumped until Lauren reminded me to go to the Dictionary. Turns out Exotic is also a noun for Exotic plants, so I printed some Botanicals from The Crafters Workshop using some exotic colors.
F is for Fabric, so I pulled out some thin muslin and did a little printing on fabric with a string-like stencil.
G is for Geometric. I used my circle Gelli Arts plate with orange Catherine Pooler inks.
And then with some vibrant paints.
H is for Hexagon. I used a Hexagon ArtFoamies stamp from Nathalie again.
And I is for image transfer. This is the one technique that seems to elude me no matter how hard I try. After 20 failed attempts to transfer a face, I noticed that I really loved how some of the text next to one of my images transferred very clearly, so I did a transfer of a page of text.
I thought those colors and grungy text were perfect for a Halloween Card, so I made one using this week's Freshly Made Sketch.
I paired a journaling card with some vibrant green cardstock and a sentiment from Taylored Expressions Halloween Mini Strips.
And today, day 10, is J is for Jeans. Lauren blessed me with an emergency denim supply, so I pulled out a square and some big bubble wrap and had fun printing on the denim & using the denim to create fabric texture on my other prints.
Happy Saturday.
The theme at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is W is for Wicked.
Halloween is the one holiday whose stamps I keep filed by theme vs. manufacturer, so I pulled out my drawer to see what might work. I settled on the main sentiment from The Project Bin Haunt It!, which is from 2016, so I'm also linking-up at the Anything Goes theme at the Retro Rubber Challenge.
I took a little liberty with the Sunday Stamps Sketch Challenge by reversing the stacking of the elements (since cutting my sentiment in two wouldn't really work).
For the horizontal elements, I added a sentiment from My Favorite Things Sassy Pants Spooktacular.
The background panel is from a Gel Printing marathon I had on Christmas Day 2021, which used Natalie Kalbach's StencilGirl Flower Maze Stencil, so I'm linking-up at the Stencil Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.
I finished with some tiny gems.
We were given a paper mache pumpkin at work to decorate for a contest ... no theme. I learned from the Damsel of Distressed to always start by painting a surface with Gesso, so that's what I did. I also found a tiny pumpkin that I thought I would decorate as a partner.
Next I brought out my new ArtFoamies Stamps by Nathalie Kahlbach. This idea actually came to me in a dream where I realized the foam stamp flexibility allowed me to stamp on the curve of the pumpkins.
the inky sprays to do a some drips. I used some Distress Sprays and some vintage Memories Mists to add the Halloween Hues of orange, purple and gold to my pumpkins.
Next in the process was to paint paper flowers and buttons with white paint. Once they dried, I attached them to my pumpkins.
Then I added some black vintage buttons from my stash, as well as some Tim Holtz Adornments Butterflies and Idea-ology Fanciful Buttons. I also added Tim Holtz Halloween Clipping Sticker Sentiments. I finished with a few cute skeletons, some 3-D spiders and a big black BOO.
Next up, some Gilding Polish and eye makeup to add some colors to the edges and texture of my pieces.
Next it was time to splatter some color to tie it all together.
I used Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays, Distress Mica Stain and some Heidi Swapp color Shine Spray in Black. I used parchment paper for my painting and messes.
Here's a peek at the back of the big pumpkin.
Unfortunately when I sprayed with matte varnish to set all of the colors, it removed a bit of the white paint from my blue and red flowers ... but I decided to just leave it.
I think I achieved my Boo-ho Chic Goals for my design. How adorably creepy is that little guy.
And of course the star of the show.
With my Halloween creations I'm linking-up at Simon Says Spooky/Halloween.
Have you tried the Ranger Mica Sprays ... man, they are lovely. This card started with a piece of cardstock sprayed with the Hocus Pocus Purple.
Next I stamped & embossed the sentiment from Dena Zinski Art from PaperArtsy in the center with Ranger Archival Black Ink, which I clear embossed to make it pop against the purple background.
At that point in my design process, I remembered the Let's Squash It! Challenge was Double Embossing, so I went hunting for an embossing folder. I didn't have any bats, but I did have their Halloween cousin the spider web (or Cobwebs as the folder is named), so I used that. To give it more contrast, I inked the raised edges with Plum Punch Ink.
I finished with some glittery bat stickers.
I'm also linking-up at Shopping Our Stash where the theme is Pumpkin Spice celebrating all things autumn. And the Simon Says Challenge is all about Spooky/Halloween.
I had so much fun with the AAA Cards Challenge yesterday, I decided to pull out some stamps and make a few more. Limiting your design space to one corner makes you be more succinct with your designs.
I also decided to join the Less is More One Layer Autumnal Challenge.
I used CZ Design HollaWeen stamps from Simon Says Stamp that released in 2017, so I'm also linking-up at Retro Rubber Stamp Challenge.
Here's my first one ... I couldn't resist adding a witch's hat to my ghostie.
I'm also joining the Cupcake Inspiration Challenge (who is paired with the Double Trouble Challenges Halloween Cuteness) for some Halloween Fun.
For the second one I swapped out for more sentiments from the same set.
Now time to get these Halloween cards in the mail.
This week's theme at AAA Cards Clean & Simple Challenges is one corner with an optional theme of Boo!
I had these spooky cute mummy stickers on my table with some Tim Holtz Stickers, so I put this one together quickly on some pitch black cardstock.
And then when I saw these sticker sentiments on the sheet, I couldn't resist pulling out some Halloween eye ball stickers for the remainder of my cardstock.
How perfect are those pink eyelids ... Boo!
I'm also joining CAS on Friday where the theme is Halloween and Addicted to CAS where the code word is Spooky.
