Zoe and Adrianna say "Happy Halloween"

Here's two wonderful images from Sweet Pea artist Nikki Burnette. This stamp is "Zoe" (Plate #120) and she's stunning. I added a wonderful Happy Halloween sentiment from the Halloween Sheet #1. I colored the image in beautiful copic markers and added some lace from Istanbul, Turkey and some adorable felted crows. Doesn't this put you in the Halloween mood?
As if you are not ready for Halloween yet, here's the amazing image that I spoke of last week, Adrianna from Plate #189. Isn't she beautiful? I fell in love with this image as soon as I saw it. It was the first stamp in the package that I had to make a card with. I think she will also be useful for Thanksgiving and given the right coloring, even christmas...when do we all want pumpkin pies? I know I want them all fall and winter season long! YUM.

I added a great saying to the card "When witched go riding and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Halloween." I had to add the perfect little black cat to the card and some tiny black buttons to give it a little highlight. What a fun holiday card.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Holley

Happy Halloween times two!!

Here's a wonderful stamp from the Gum Drop Gang! It's one of my favorite Halloween stamps. I just love this little girl (Hayden). I colored her in pretty watercolor pencils and then added a light touch of water before coloring over it with darker colors.I used the Happy Halloween stamp from the same Halloween sheet of rubber stamps. In the background I took a sheet of polka dot bazzil swiss paper and rubbed it lightly with colorbox chalk ink to give some bumpy background along with several colors of purple and pink textured plain and metallic colored papers. Of course being my card, you know there has to be some buttons added on!!

Hayden from the Gum Drop Gang and I have been loving sharing all these Halloween creations with you this year, I must confess that I may not be able to wait too long before I have to share more of these creations as I just LOVE the Halloween season and there are so many awesome stamps in the store that I are just calling out to me, Halloween is not just a seasonal thing to me!!Just to prove this point, I had to get in another card today, this card is using an adorable image from Elaine Cox
This stamp is called "Little Witch Cat". For matting the image, I used a combination of AC Black paper and beautiful metallic/mica papers. The card base is bazzill bling. The text on this card comes from Plate #59. I added some dew drops to the cards to give it a little more texture and the image is raised with tall pop dots to make it stand up as high as the dew drops do. I think this witchy stamp is purrrfect for any season, but most especially for Halloween.
Hugs all, Holley

Such a cute little bat boy

Sweet Pea Stamps has some absolutely FABULOUS Halloween images available. My favorite sheet, however, is STILL the one with this sweet little bat boy and bats on it. The sentiment here is also from the same sheet. Isn't that just the best font?

Connie-Sweet Pea Halloween Preview

I did this card in honor of Sweet Pea's Halloween SALE!

Click on the link below to see all the many images that come with this sheet.

Sweet Pea Stamps

It is LOADED you know!!

I began with white glossy paper which I brayered with a K Pad "Desert Heat"

and then over-stamped with some of the many images from this sheet.

I stamped the focal image and embossed before coloring with Copic markers.

I punched a tiny hole in the stem and ran several pieces of gold crinkly wire

through for additional "vines"

Happy Haunting!!

Connie-Sweet Pea Halloween

I've been picking pumpkins from my garden so of course I have pumpkins on my mind....
Supplies:
Sweet Pea Stamps plate #13 "Vertical Sayings"
Sweet Pea Stamps "Halloween Plate #1"
Cuttlebug embossing folder "Pumpkin Harvest"
sheer black ribbon-unknown
Memento "Tuxedo Black" dye ink by Tsukineko
Copic markers

Directions:
1) Stamp verse in black dye ink onto orange cardstock & emboss with pumpkin embossing folder
2) Affix sheer black ribbon along right edge of orange panel & layer onto black and then orange base
3) Stamp pumpkin images on white cardstock, color and cut out
4) Layer pumpkin images on ribbon with pop dots

Enough pumpkins yet??

Ready for Halloween?

I just had to play with this adorable little witch before Halloween was over. I am pretty sure that in a couple of weeks I will have a 10 year old boy in my house cradling a candy filled pumpkin and smiling from ear to ear as well!

Connie-Boo To You!

This card sort of evolved into a monochromatic Halloween one. I began with some images from the Sweet Pea Stamps Halloween Plate #1 coupled with this adorable puffy ghost ribbon I bought long long ago.....

Supplies:
Halloween Plate #1 (Sweet Pea Stamps)
Puffy "Ghost" ribbon (unknown)
Glitter paper (unknown)
circle punch by EK Success
Black/Grey 2 tone cardstock from my stash
cotton ball from my medicine chest
Black Memories dye ink

I began by stamping the vertical saying along the right side and punching out all the O's.
I layered a strip of glitter paper on the inside so it shows behind the punched holes.
I added a piece of the puffy ghost ribbon along the top. I stamped and cut out a ghost image from the Halloween plate and put it on top of a torn up cotton ball to resemble clouds or maybe fog.
I think I like it but maybe it needs something yet?
What do YOU think?

Fun Fall Card

I used the jack o lanterns from the Halloween sheet to create a fun fall card. I took some very thin strips of cardstock and wrapped it around my embossing stylus to create additional vines for the jack o lanterns.

I am looking forward to making a summer card in the same style with the flip flops from Plate #5. I think that would be super cute too!

Boo to you

Halloween is approaching and for once I have my cards made on time. I even have some Christmas cards ready. Speaking of Christmas, have you seen the new Christmas stamps?

This time (as promised) I used a different sheet of stamps. I used the pumpkins and text from Halloween sheet #1.


I stamped the pumpkins with VersaMark ink straight on the black panel - then embossed with black sparkly powder. They are coloured with gel pens and twinkling h2o-similar paints.


I used my nestabilities die to cut out and emboss the aperture in the card.
The inside text is embossed the same way as the pumpkins. When you write on the inside of the card (preferably in gold or copper) the text will show through the aperture letting your message be a part of the overall card (unless you're ashamed of your writing, lol).


See you next week.
/Katarina

I'm Batty for you

Here's a little Halloween card to enjoy. Now's a great time to get all your Halloween cards made so they can be mailed out early this year.


This card uses Halloween Sheet #1, which is on sale this week for only $7. That's a great price for a whole set of rubber stamps.
My stamp uses black cardstock with mica flecks in it for a shimmery background. I paired that with some black and white striped paper from DCWV. I used two stamps from Halloween Sheet #1, stamped with VersaFine ink and colored with Derwent Inktense pencils. I use a blender pen to get the watercolor effect.
For embellishments, I used three colors of felt buttons from Buttons Galore & More with some sheer ribbon. I love these felt buttons and would suggest that you could cut your own felt buttons with your die cutter.
To finish it off, I chalked the edges of the stamped images with a ColorBox Chalk ink pad. Inside the card I stamped the Happy Halloween image with white ink and used a white gel pen to accent it. It came out wonderfully!
Happy Friday everyone!
Holley

Two on Tuesday

I have TWO items to share with you today. It seemed fitting as the stamps are currently on sale BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!! Can you believe it? It is a shopper's DREAM!

First is a card created with the new Halloween plate. This little "vampire" just cracks me up, he is so cute! I had to ink him up right away. The blue word paper, he is matted on, was done using the sentiment in the same set. I just stamped it randomly on the paper before gluing on the cut out images.



The second item is an ATC I created using the Bodacious Mermaid. After coloring her in gray tones, I trimmed around the image and glued it to the prepared ATC. I then put some stickles on the background and smeared (yes, that is the technical term) it around with my finger.


I hope you enjoy these creations and are excited to create something of your own! Remember, if you use the Sweet Pea stamps to do so, send a photo to Jennifer so we can share it with others on Mondays!

Halloween Gift Bag

This gift bag is perfect for Halloween parties. It uses Sweet Pea Stamps newest addition to the stamp family, Halloween Plate 1. It measures 4" across x 4.75" tall x 2.5" deep.

Supplies:

Sweet Pea Stamps Halloween Plate 11
Brilliance Graphite Black Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
White, Black Card Stock (Unknown)
Black and Gray Halloween Printed Papers (Unknown)
Black Ribbon - .5 yard (Offray)
Chalks (CTMH)
Adhesive (Adtech)
Scissors (EK Success)
Hole Punch (WeRMemory Keepers)
Paper Trimmer (Purple Cow)

Instructions:

1. Stamp the children on white card stock and color with chalks. Trim out neatly.

2. Cut the black card stock pieces to these dimensions:

• 1 at 2.5" x 4"
• 2 at 2.5" x 4.75"

3. Cut the gray printed paper to these dimensions:

• 4 at .5" x 2.5"
• 2 at 4" x 4.75"

4. Cut a piece of printed black paper 1.5" x 4.5".

5. To assemble the bag, fold and crease the edges of both pieces of the gray printed paper along the sides and bottom .25".


6. Run adhesive along the folded edges of one piece of gray paper and position a piece of the black card stock that is 2.5" x 4.75" along the sides of the gray paper attaching with the adhesive.

7. Run adhesive along the creased edges of the second piece of gray printed paper and continue attaching to the sack on one of the 2.5" x 4.75" pieces of black card stock and then shape the sack and attach the two open ends.


8. With the sack sitting on a flat surface, creased bottom edges turned inward, slide the remaining piece of black card stock into the sack and push down until it has attached to the bottom creases sealing the sack.

9. Fold the small strips of gray printed papers in half so that they are .25" x 2.5" long and attach to the upper and lower corner edges of the sack.


10. Attach the black printed strip to the front of the sack on the left hand side about .25" from the edge.


11. Using the hole punch, place holes for the handles at the top of the sack about 1.5" apart on both sides.

12. Cut 2 pieces of black ribbon to 6", run one through the holes on the front of the sack and knot off inside, repeat on the opposite side of the sack to create handles.

13. Stamp the word "boo" on the front of the sack and color in.

14. Attached the stamped images to the front of the sack.

15. Enjoy sharing!

Halloween Banner

Supplies:

Sweet Pea Stamps Halloween Plate 11
Brilliance Graphite Black Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
White, Black and Green Card Stock (Unknown)
Black and Green Halloween Printed Papers (Unknown)
Black Ribbon - 2 yards (Offray)
Chalks (CTMH)
Adhesive (Adtech)
Foam Mounting Tape (Scotch)
Scissors (EK Success)
Hole Punch (WeRMemory Keepers)
Paper Trimmer (Purple Cow)

Instructions:

1. Stamp the children, ghost, bat and pumpkins at least five times each and color with chalks. Trim out neatly.


2. Cut 10 of both large and small triangles from the black and green card stock and printed papers, these are 6" wide by 6" long and 3" wide by 3" long.

3. Attach the small triangles to the large triangles with adhesive, centering.


4. Embellish the triangles, with the stamped images, arranging to taste using both types of adhesive to add dimension and interest.


5. Using the hole punch, place holes in the upper corners of the triangles, thread a 6" piece of black ribbon through both holes and tie in a knot to connect. Repeat until all the triangles have been attached.


6. Tie off black ribbon in the remaining holes for hangers.

7. Enjoy sharing!

Connie-Batty Boo!

When I got this NEW plate of Halloween images (Halloween Sheet #1) I could just see some of them jumping to scare you from a spider web.
First I ran a piece of silver metallic cardstock through the Cuttlebug using embossing folder "Spider Web". I then rubbed a little black ink over the raised portions. I trimmed this and layered over a black panel, then an orange panel and then onto the grey base. My scanner wants to glare at me from the silver though.
I brushed some Aleene's Tacky Glue on one corner and added Polar White Flower Soft, hoping to imitate a cloud and bring out the little grey bat (also from this Halloween sheet). A popped up rubber spider from my dime store & the cutest little bat I ever saw "floating" on the Flower Soft aka clouds and my scene is done. I added a small piece of black, then orange and then white on which I stamped Boo!
If you look really closely at the Sweet Pea word Boo! you can see 2 teeny spiders hanging from the O's. Just too cute!! Don't they match my "dime store" spider in the web just perfectly?
This plate of Halloween images is HOT! so be sure to check them out by clicking HERE

Which witch?

I've made this card using the girl from the latest stamp sheet from Sweet Pea Stamps, the Halloween sheet:


This card almost made itself. I just had these two Halloween papers. It suited the stamp perfectly since one of the texts were: cute little witches. Perfect! We don't really send cards to each other on Halloween here in Sweden so I don't buy many of those papers. I had a hunch earlier this year though that I might want to make a Halloween card or two. I'm glad I was right! I coloured the image yesterday before going to bed and put it together today in maybe 1 hour (that's fast in my book ;).



I used my promarkers again to colour the girl: ivory, lilac, pumpkin, warm grey2 and lime green. I embossed the orange panel with one of my Cuttlebug folders. It's supposed to be branches of some sort, but I think it might pass as spiderweb. Now I regret not buying that pumpkin embossing folder earlier...Grrr...The green panel is bling cardstock that I tore instead of cutting to give it an extra spooky feeling :).


/Katarina

Halloween Treat Bags

These treat bags are super easy to create for the last minute item.

Supplies:

Sweet Pea Stamps Halloween Plate 1
Brilliance Graphite Black Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
Tape Runner (Ad Tech)
Chalks (CTMH)
Printer or Light Weight Paper (Unknown)

Instructions:

1. Stamp the images randomly all over the sheet of paper, positioning the paper so that it is 8.5" x 11" when stamping, and color with chalks.


2. Fold the paper, bottom to top, in half so that it is 5.5" x 8.5" - the fold is the bottom of the sack.

3. Fold the sides of the bag inward .25" and then outward .5" to create a pleat and adhere the .25" folds together with the tape runner. See the picture below for an example of the fold.


4. For an added touch, decorative scissors can be used to trim the top edge of the sack.

5. Enjoy sharing!