New ride by Cathy Norton

 Good morning. I have a card for you today. 

I started off by stamping Otto sweet ride and making the ground go across the whole paper. I colored it in with copic markers. 

I added some white gel pen for highlights. Then I colored the background with copic markers. Next, I took grunge circles and stamped them in a light blue distress ink on the top of the card panel. 

I then layered it on some black cardstock. After I added some random stamping of grunge writing background in my lightest blue distress ink color. It's very faint but it's there.

I mounted it on a blue card base and stamped the grunge circles around the card edge in a darker blue distress ink color. 

                                                                Stamps Used:

                                                           19563 grunge circles

                                                           19049 Otto sweet ride

                                                          17545 grunge writing background

                                                                   Other Stuff:

                                                                Copic markers

                                                                Distress inks

   

Halloween night by Tracy Blackwolf

Hello everyone!

Here is my card for this weeks project. Its a lovely creepy Halloween eve.

 

for this card, I started with the moon. I wanted a really creepy moon so I used the skull as the face.

For this, I stamped the moon in a gray ink, stamped on scratch paper first then on my cardstock.

Then for the skull, I inked the skull stamp, wiped off the ink around the face and stamped gently on scratch paper then onto the moon. Took a few times to get it just right. Keeping in mind, the ink will lighten a bit when dry. Next step was to get my main card ready So I got out my ever trusty sprays.

So I got out my "sunset colors and just started spraying. I love the mixed media heavy stock post cards, they can handle alllll the inks. I keep adding inks until I'm happy. Sometimes I dry a bit with heat tool before adding more.

I painted the moon and stamped and fussy cut the house and then painted it. After the card was dry I stamped the old tree. Then I added bats and the grave stones and the fence. again, keep in mind inks will lighten when completely dry. I used foam tape on the  house and double stick tape on the moon and attached to the card. Added a bit of orange to the windows to give more life and used white gel pen to color teeth of skull.

Yes, I often have images that go outside the card, I still need to layer this at this point but it still is outside the edges and that's okay, I just get a larger envelope if its one I'm giving away. 

Also, this is one in a series of moons I will be doing in a row.

Thanks for looking, I hope you're inspired.

Stamps Used:

The moon    20157

Old tree   19835

Skull    2403

Flock of bats    18909

Cemetery  18907

Spiked fence   18919

Other supplies:

Distress sprays: Spiced marmalade, cracklin campfire, squeezed lemonade, mustard seed, wilted violet, shaded lilac

Versaclair ink pads : Nocturne, morning mist

White gel pen

Tightrope walker by Arwen

 Hi Lovelies ❤

Welcome back on the Blog.

Today I come along with a new postcard .

Love this weird little man :)

and some close-ups:

All stamps, I used for this card:

- Umbrella man

- Bumblebee small

- Don't piss off

- Wildflowers Silhouette

- Silhouette clumps of plants

Other supplies:

- Watercolor paper

- Staz on

- VersaFine Clair

- Distress Reinker

- Lindy's magicals

- Micron pen

- Stencil

- SU Stamping pad

- ZIG Pen 

See ya soon *mwah*

Everything was Beautiful by Madisen Hernandez

 

Hello Stampaholics! It's Madi, back today with a moody reflective card with some low-key layering. I kept the inside blank so it can be a multipurpose card. I hope you enjoy!

I gathered the inspiration by picking out these three stamps and building the vibe and the card from there.

Ethos Woman

Ethos Circular Eye

Everything was Beautiful

I used these distress inks to create abstract coloring at the center of the page, kind of resembling an "aura" if you will. I wanted to contrast that with a fun mustard yellow, and I used the stamp for the checker board. 

I added some magenta to match the center coloring and used this fun textured stamp

Sequin Waste

Then to add a minimal layered effect I used a highlighter yellow to create a strip print image of 

Ethos Circular Eye

Finally finished with our main gal, using Tina Walker's

Ethos Woman

and that's it! Thank you for stopping by!

Witches Hat flat shaker card by Cathy N

 Good morning, Cathy here with a flat shaker card for you.

I started off making the background with some watercolor paper and 3 colors of orange distress oxide.

I then stamped Victorian flourish and jack-o-lantern in the darkest orange that I used in the background. 

Next, I started to make my flat shaker part of it. I took a piece of package plastic and taped it to 3 sides of my panel. 

Then I added some bat and pumpkin sequence. That was not enough for me, so I added some black and bronze sequence to fill it out.

                                                              Stamps Used:

Lastly, I stamped Striped witch hat on white cardstock and colored with copic and cut out. Added to the front and then added some black stickles to the hat. 

I added some Halloween washi to the bottom so the hat could sit on top of and added a little bat die cut.

                                                       19204 Striped witch hat

                                                       10366 jack-o-lantern

                                                      19417 Victorian flourish

                                                                Other Stuff:

                                                         watercolor paper

                                                         distress oxide

                                                         sequence

                                                         stickles 

                                                         washi tape

                 

The Spinsters by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello all!

Well I'm in full fall mode on the creative side.... enjoy.

For this tag, I started with stamping the chandelier. Then  a light gray spray stain and added black around the edges with a small brush. While that dried, I stamped all of my images to be fussy cut and did that. I used the spider with lady and the realistic skull together for my spinsters.

One spinster got one layer of foam tape and the other got three layers. I fluff the legs by bending them a bit so they are not so flat, I just roll them over my finger. Then I paint them.

Once my tag was dry, I stamped the rest of the spiders and painted the flames on the candles of the chandelier. I love how the water made the yellow paint run a bit like the flame is blowing from an unseen source of air.

I also went over the webs with a glitter gel pen  Before attaching the spider skulls, I added some spider web material to the scene. I used a dab of hot glue on the back to attach them.

Last I got out my Halloween sticker book for the creepy words. I do use glue on the back of them as they tend to come off over time sometimes.

And that is all for this creepy art tag. I hope you liked it.

Stamps used:

Spider with lady      964

Realistic skull     19724

Striped spider    19508

Spider on web line   19263

Chandelier in cobwebs     19510

Other supplies:

Versafine clair ink pad: Nocturne and pinecone

Distress spray stains: 

Lost shadow, black soot, vintage photo, antique linen, squeezed lemonade, spiced marmalade

Spider web material

 TH Halloween sticker words

ATCs WITH CHECKS AND PATTERNS by Fran Chalmers

Hello everyone!

Today I have made 3 ATCs.  I wanted to play with patterns, so the backgrounds and the stamps used all have patterns on them.

Firstly I made all my backgrounds using stencils from my stash and coloured with distress oxides.  I wanted the backgrounds to match the stamps I was using with them - for example, waves for the fish.

I stamped the images I wanted to use on thick paper and fussy cut them out.  You will notice that they all had black and white checks on them somewhere. I decided not to colour the images to give more impact.  

I edged each ATC with a pattern that echoed the pattern from the stencil using a black fine liner.  

I hope you like them!

Stamps Used:

Monkey in hat 19066

Sheep with Legs 19067

Whimsical checker fish 19528

Other Items Used:

Various stencils

Distress Oxides in Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilised Amber, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet, Salvaged Patina and Peacock Feathers

Black fine liner

Versafine Clair Nocturn

Happiness Fairy by Cathy N

 Hello all, I have a card for you today. 

I started out with making the background with Lavinia dinkles pink power. I then stamped the I'm the happiness fairy saying on the top.

                                           

Next, I stamped 18415 large fairy lady on some white cardstock and colored with copic makers and fussy cut out. 

 Lastly, I added some blue stars to the background and glued the fairy down and then added it a black card base.                           

                                                         Stampes Used:

                                        8333 I'm the happiness fairy.

                                        18415 large fairy lady

                                                Other stuff used:

                                               Lavinia dinkles

                                                    stencil

                                             white and black cardstock

                                             distress oxide ink

You're How Old! by Madisen Hernandez

 Oh the end of an era... My wonderful co-worker is turning the big 3-0, so I decided to gift her something with this snarky little card attached, enjoy!

I started with these two stamps as inspo, I love the look on this woman's face, I feel like it could go with so many stamps and sentiments!

Finger

Shocked Lady

I stamped them out on white paper, then made a "mask" for both, adhering to the top of the stamped image so I could do some background magic. 

I used distress oxide ink and a cheap stencil to start this layered background

Then I went in with my fav background stamps 

Plus Sign Background

Writing Circles Background

I took off the "masks" I made for the two original stamped images. I then used my DYMO label maker to make this sentiment. 

The final touch was backing it on this orange card front to make the accents pop! 

Thanks for stopping by guys, love ya! -Madisen