Halloween 2022 | Project #8, Trick or Treat

Hi friends! Today’s card was inspired by a recent faux dip-dye watercolor technique I learned from Kristina Werner (IG: @starofmay, YT: K Werner Design). Kristina is an extremely talented card maker and has so many amazing techniques to share on her YouTube channel, if you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend you checking out her channel… AMAZING ARTIST!

I started by taping a piece of Strathmore Watercolor Paper to one of my hardboards using blue painter’s tape and gathered my watercolor paints, paint brush, and a cup of clean water to create the background for my card front. I used Kuretake Watercolor Paints (#31, #46, #47, and #20) and about halfway down the page began painting layers of the colors I listed previously beginning with a very watered-down version of #31 and dried that layer with my heat gun before proceeding to apply the next layer of paint. Each subsequent layer of paint is going to be darker and darker until I eventually ended up with black. Each layer must be dried before adding the next layer of paint. It’s such a fun painting technique – this is a link to Kristina’s YouTube video where she uses this technique to create a card: 🔴 EDITED REPLAY - Faux Dip-Dye with Watercolor (4 color combos) - YouTube.

Once my painted background was completely dry, I misted the entire panel with a couple sprays of Technique Junkies’ Iridescent Shimmering Bliss. Next, I used Trinity Stamps’ Modern Embossed Rectangle Stacks to die cut the panel and adhered it to a black, top folding, A2 size card base using Simon Says Stamps’ Big Momma Foam Tape.

To finish the card, I stamped the Trick Or Treat sentiment from Simon Says Stamps’ Handlettered Halloween stamp set using Altenew’s Embossing Ink onto a piece of black cardstock and dusted it with Ranger’s Silver Super Fine Embossing Powder and set it with my heat gun. I fussy cut the sentiment, applied foam adhesive to the back and adhered it to the card front. Card complete!

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Halloween 2022 | Project #7, Dungeon & Dragon

Hi friends! Today’s card is a fun one that was inspired by the Whimsy Stamps Dungeon Door red rubber stamp and an adorable Katzelkraft stamp called Dynosaurus. I have been wanting to use these stamps all month, unfortunately life got busy, and I am only now getting around to creating a card with them. I hope you find inspiration in this creation and Happy Halloween!

For this A2 sized card, I began by stamping the Whimsy Stamps Dungeon Door onto a piece of Canson XL Bristol Smooth cardstock and colored the image using Copic markers. For the grays I used a mixture of Copics in neutral and cool grays. Next, I stamped the Katzelkraft Dynosaurus stamp (CUTE!!) onto another scrap of the same cardstock and colored it with Copic markers using these colors: Y02, Y17, YR16, G14, G17, and G28. I used my Brother Scan N Cut to cut out the dynosaurus image and applied foam adhesive to the back.

Using Pink & Main’s Concave Rectangle Dies – the largest die in the set, I positioned the die onto the dungeon door, colored image and ran it through my die cutting machine. I then glued the die cut image to an A2 size piece of the Ranger Distress Black Two-Tone Woodgrain cardstock and removed the foam tape backing from the dynosaurus’ foam tape and adhered it to the card front’s background.

The sentiment was created using the Whimsy Stamps’ Dracula I Compel You stamp set. I stamped the Happy Halloween on a Copic colored (G14) piece of cardstock with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink, trimmed it to size, and attached it to the top of the card front using a strip of black adhesive foam tape. I finished the card by adding some embellishments from Pink & Main’s Floral Pumpkin Sparkle Dots.

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Halloween 2022 | Project #6, Owl & Pumpkins

Hi friends, I’m back with my sixth Halloween project for 2022! The inspiration for this card came from a couple stamp sets I had purchased quite some time ago but never had time to use them. You know how it is… I hope you enjoy this installment in my Halloween 2022 series.

Using Canson XL Bristol Smooth cardstock, I first stamped one of the owls from Katzelkraft’s “Les Super Chouettes” stamp set using Lawn Fawn’s Jet Black Ink Pad (since I knew I was going to being coloring the images with Copic markers). I then stamped the image a second time using masking paper so I could fussy cut it out and mask the original owl stamped on the Bristol Smooth cardstock. Next, after applying the mask to the owl, I stamped the Picket Fence Studios “All the Gourds” stamp on top of the masked owl and let the ink fully dry before coloring it with the Copic markers.

After coloring the images, I painted the owl’s eyes with a Sakura Black Glaze pen then put tiny white dots on them with my Artistro White Extra Fine Point Paint Marker Pen and used the same white marker pen to put some white highlights on the pumpkins. For that special shine on the owl’s eyes, I applied a thin coat of Ranger’s Glossy Accents.

To assemble the card, I trimmed the colored image to the extent of the pumpkins, cut a piece of Cardstock Warehouse’s Sirio Ultra Black cardstock to accommodate a thin mat around it, and then cut a piece of glittery purple specialty paper from the Tim Holtz Idea-ology Halloween Deco Sheets so that it would provide another thin mat around the black cardstock. Using my Scotch Advanced Tape Glider, I taped all three of these layers together and then adhered it to a piece of orange harlequin pattern paper from Echo Park Paper Co.’s Halloween Magic 6×6 Paper Pad that had been cut to A2 size using Trinity Stamps Modern Embossed Rectangle Stack dies.

I completed the card with a Happy Halloween sentiment from Simon Says Stamp’s Spooky Salutation Sentiment Strips and used Waffle Flower Foam Strips to adhere it to the card front. Lastly, I adhered small back gems – three on each side of the lower edge of the card – using Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium and glued the card front to the card base.

Thank you so much for stopping by to see me – I appreciate you doing so!

Until next time…