The Wilderness Awaits A Silent Night

This card is for the Technique Lovers Challenge 558 White Silhouettes over at Split Coast Stampers.
I started with a SU Night of Navy card stock base and White Embossing powder using the Deer from Stampin' Up The Wilderness Awaits, and sentiment from Wonderland.   The Twinkle Star is by Crafty Secrets.  I took liberty with a white Gelly Roll pen to extend the mountain to the edges of the mat.  

October Fun

Card base is basic black card stock.  Hello Honey is stamped with the Stamping' Up Woodgrain stamp in Baked Brown Sugar ink.  Window scene is from SU Happy Scenes and colored with sponge daubers ink and markers, highlighted with Gelly Roll white.  Hello Honey 1/4" holes were formed with a stylus adhered with glue then covered with Glossy Accents.  Window die cut is from SU Hearth and Home.  The wonderfully colorful owl is a button from Dress It Up with the shank cut off and then glued to the card.  I love the colors of this card.  

I have entered this card in the Dragonfly Journeys Challenge No. 29, "October Colors, Anything Goes"  

Thanks for stopping by to take a look.

Halloween Gift Card Holders

A variety of gift card holders for Halloween

These gift card holder cards fit into an A2 envelope

Inside of the card, gift card can be attached on upper flap with a glue dot.

To make these cards hop on over to Split Coast Stampers and check out the tutorial by Julie Davison for the Flap Fold or Tent Fold card.

Stampin' Up stamp sets used for these cards:  Halloween Frights, Bitty Boos, Howl-o-ween Treat, Toxic Treats and Mingle All the Way

Happy Thanksgiving Pumpkin

I made this card for Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #26 "It's The Great Pumpkin!"

Card base is SU Mossy Meadow, frame is Pumpkin Pie.

First I drew a pumpkin onto Canson watercolor paper and painted it with SU Re-inkers in Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, Pumpkin Pie and Tangelo Twist.  Then I stamped the image with Gorgeous Grunge in Mossy Meadow, then Versamark and heat set with gold embossing powder.  I did the same for the leaves.  Added some sequins and a bow as finishing touches.  Sentiment is CTMH:  Perfect Fit-Thanksgiving.

Thanks for taking a look today, now hop on over to Jeannie's blog and join in the fun:  dragonflysjourney.blogspot.com

Be Thankful

Watercolored Die Cuts

This is for Split Coast Stampers TLC554 Watercolor Those Die Cuts

First, I watercolored a sheet of Canson 140# XL watercolor paper with Stampin' Up, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Wild Wasabi and Elegant Eggplant inks and water.

Then I stamped three of the leaves from Vintage Leaves stamp set all over the watercolored paper in Tip Top Taupe.

Leaves were die cut with coordinated Leaves Dies, then stamped with Gorgeous Grunge in Elegant Eggplant, dried then stamped again with Versamark and embossed with Recollections Gold Tinsel Embossing Powder.

The edges of the leaves were then dipped into the Versamark and again embossed.

Base of card is 110" white card stock, with a pieces of Elegant Eggplant, Gold Foil and another piece of white card stock dry embossed with the Woodgrain embossing folder.

Eggplant leaves were die cut to match the painted leaves and glued the the back of the watercolored leaves at the stems.  The leaves were then applied to the woodgrain card stock with dimentionals.  A piece of gold twine was tied to the leaf stems.

Sentiment was stamped onto white card stock, gold embossed design and then stamped the sentiment in elegant eggplant and punched it out with the Artisan Label punch.  Sentiment was backed with two Elegant Eggplant labels punched out and cut in half to frame the sentiment.

Wobble Owl Birthday Card - Shake your hooty!

Isn't she the cutest little owl ever!  I made this for my girlfriend and fellow artist, Maria, for her birthday.  Maria's sorority mascot was an owl, so I'm always trying to find a clever card to invoke some great memories.

The card colors are SU Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz and Soft Suede.  Owl is a digital, enlarged and colored with Copics on Neenah Solar White.  And the best part is he WOBBLES!  Thus, the sentiment "Shake your hooty!!!"

Stamp set (leaves) from SU World of Dreams, sentiments are computer generated and cut out with the SU Feathers Framelits Dies.  Woodgrain embossing folder by Darice.

Spooky Cute Owl

Halloween Owl Card or Decoration.  Love those glistening owl eyes.  I used the Sizzix Owl bigz die and cut the owl out with 110# Black Card Stock and scraps.  Copics on the talons and Glossy Accents on the eyes.  Spooky cute!

Night Owl

Also in my stash, I cam across this Monochromatic card from a past class.  I made these cards in pinks, yellows, greens and this blue.  Stamp is Inkadinkado colored with Copics with Stickles added for some bling.

You Whoo!

I made this card a few years ago and I really enjoyed coloring the clip art baby owl with Copics.  Fussy cut the owl and branch, and die cut a hole in the front of the woodgrain embossed card.  It sort of looks like he is on a branch on the outside of the tree looking in, thus the blue sky in the background.  I will be making a few more of these cards and will post them here later.

Thanks A Latte Paper Pumpkin Envelope Tea Bag Pouch

This is a pouch that holds tea bags made with supplies from the Stampin' Up Paper Pumpkin kit; Thanks A Latte .  The cup was colored with Derwent Inktense pencils in Antique White and Tangerine.  I added a succulent flower pod.

Halloween Treat Bags

A variety of treat bags made with the following supplies from Stampin' Up unless otherwise noted:

Papers:  Brown packaging paper (not SU)

Motley Monsters DSP

Cherry On Top Cotton 

Georgia Pacific Super Premium Bright White

Dies & Punches:  Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies

Boo To You Framelits Dies

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

Stamp Sets:  Fall Fest

Howl-o-ween Treat

Good Greetings

Tape It

Various Washi Tapes

Halloween Memory Book

Quick and easy Halloween Mini Album 

Cover is 5 3/4" x 12" scored at 5 3/4" and 6 1?4"  Spine edge binding is 3" x 5 3/4" scored at 1 1/4" and 1 3/4".  Cover can be decorated as desired.

Inside pages:  10 1/8" x 10 1/8" card stock scored at 5 1/8", quarter turn and score again at 5 1/8"; cut down one score line to center of page, then cut again 1/8" from first cut, this allows easier folding to make the inside pages.  With the cut side to your left fold top page from left to right then down.  Finally fold bottom left page from left to right forming the inside pages.  See photos below.

Pages were decorated with Stampin' Up designer paper: Motley Monsters, ghost is from the Fall Fest stamp set and dies, right side was popped up with pop dots leaving the left side of the ghost free to slide a photo underneath. 

Ghost page flipped up.

Witch page flipped open to the left.  Album completely open to reveal four pages for photographs and journaling.

Halloween Two Page Layout

This is an "altered" Scrapbook Fun Addicts kit designed by Terri Zaelit.  I changed the word Owl-O-Ween from the original kit and cut out the word Halloween from Cricut Cartridge Artiste page 77 at 2 3/4".  I love the bright colors used in this layout.

Hello Fall!

Peggy  Noe of Pretty Paper Cards designed this card in watercolor for Paper Pals, her original version can be found here:

http://prettypapercards.com/2015/08/27/fall-hello-for-the-pals/

For my CASED version of Peggy's design I used the same stamp sets SU Tin of Cards, For All Things, and the beautiful Vintage Leaves with matching die cuts.  I added a little Favorite Findings Owl Button to my seam binding ribbon.  

Tea Bag Holder / Thank You Card

Thank you card/tea bag holder.

White card stock cut at 3 1/2" x 10 1/2" scored at 3 1/2" and 7"

cut from score line down to edge of card stock on one end to make the envelope for the tea bag.

Decorate as desired before gluing bottom of inside of the card.

I used Stampin' Up Bordering Blooms stamp set and colored with Watermelon Wonder and Pistachio Pudding markers.  Other papers are scraps.  Vellum leaf die cut with Leaflets die, added glue to the edges and dipped in pink glitter.  Bead pin and seam binding dyed ribbon.  Small Olive Branch die by Memory Box.