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Spooky Halloween Brew

Posted on October 9, 2015 10:22 AM by Julie 1 Comment

The Free for All Challenge (F4A294) today is to use at least 2 shades of purple. Purple is one of my favorite colors to use for Halloween.

For my spooky card, I started with an embossing folder I just bought & couldn’t wait to give it a test drive. Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but these ef’s made by Sizzix just seem to emboss way deeper than a lot of other brands. So I had a piece of lavender card stock & I inked up the embossing folder w/ some dark purple pigment ink, put my c/s in & embossed it. Then I took it out, sprinkled it with some sparkly dark purple embossing powder & heat embossed it (aka embossed embossing ). Wish you could see it..it is really sparkly!

The potions were stamped, colored with Copics & I fussy cut around the tops before adding a bright orange strip behind them. The ghost & moon were fussy cut & the greeting was split in two…the first line was fussy cut & added below the the potions & the second line was die cut & added higher up.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used. The embossed spider down the left is one of the border folders that came w/ the one I used on the front.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to check out the DRS Thursday Challenge…this week, make a Spooky or Cutesy Halloween card.

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- Magic Potions , Small Ghost, Bat & Moon , Halloween Brewed by , (Witches Brew , Empty Spider Web -inside)

Paper: white, lavender, bright orange

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Encore ultimate metallic purple pigment ink

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, fishtail flag dies, Judikins galaxy embossing powder, Sizzix embossing folder set (Halloween Print)

North Pole

Posted on October 4, 2015 11:26 AM by Julie 1 Comment

A big Congrats to Mayapple, the newest Featured Stamper (FS452) on Splitcoast! She has a really cute gallery & I chose THIS to case. I kept the basic layout & green/white combo, but I also added some holly, did a little into the window w/ the reindeer & made mine a Christmas card.

I used the matting basics dies to first cut the large white panel, stamped & colored the reindeer & North Pole, then did the into the window to cut out the inside w/ a smaller die. I cut the inside down even smaller, stamped the greeting, then added light blue snowflakes to both white panels. A larger green layer was added behind & the fussy cut holly added in the corner. A stitched rectangle die was cut into the card front to add the stitched frame.
These are the Copics I used.

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Feeding Reindeer, North Pole Sign, Small Happy Holidays, Snow Bg, Holly

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versfine onyx (to over stamp after coloring), Ancient Page neptune

Paper: Neenah white, Christmas green

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A&B dies, Lil Inkers stitched rectangle dies, stickles, Misti

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Serendipity October Blog Hop!

Posted on October 2, 2015 12:00 AM by Julie 20 Comments

Welcome to the Serendipity October Blog Hop! We are showing off some fabulous new images & dies! If you arrived here from Jenny’s Blog , you are in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first.

The Prize – One $20 gift code will go to one random commenter from the blogs. So be sure to visit all the blogs because you don’t know which one the winner will be drawn from. You have through Sunday October 4 to leave comments on the blogs for a chance to win a $20 Gift Certificate to SS. Mary will announced a winner on Monday Oct 5. Special: 40% off the highest priced item in your cart when you use Code “40fromhigh1015”. Offer good Friday Oct 2 – Sunday Oct 4th. We have something new…a “Stamp of the Month”. Each month a different image will be 50% off. This month- it’s the Wheel in Snow. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Clearance Stamps!

For my first card, I put this super cute little witch from the Halloween Pops set into my Misti, stamped her with Memento & colored her with Copics. To add a little interest, I used the blender to add polka dots to her dress. Then I over stamped the image with Versafine (this really brings out the details!) & die cut with a stitched rectangle. I had to do a little out of the box treatment to keep from cutting off her hat & broom & I also trimmed the edges a little closer. The moon & top of the cauldron were stamped with white ink onto the black c/s & the dp strips are all from the same sheet…I just used a few areas of it. I added some orange stickles to her belt & hat band & crystal stickles to the moon.

Here’s a look at the inside, using leftover strips & below it are the Copics I used.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Halloween Pops set, Happy Halloween

Paper: X-Press It white, black, dp (Recollections – Midnight Magic)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (to overstamp image after coloring)

Accessories: Serendipity Creepy Wreath die (inside), Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, MISTI, Copic markers, stickles, stitched rectangle dies, fishtail flag dies

For this card, I used the fun new Hocus Pocus image. Usually, I color first then see if I have paper to match, but I picked the paper first on this one so I could use Copics to go with it. I love open areas on words…it gives me a lot of opportunity to change the colors to suit.

After stamping, coloring & over stamping, I die cut it..but I had to do a little resizing (pls click link for explanation) to make it fit, so the panel is now much longer than the actual die. It’s backed w/ a vanilla rectangle layer & I added some of the die cut Creepy Wreath on top & bottom. A few bats & a cat from the wreath set were also added.

You can probably see it better in the pic above..I added some Wink of Stella to the colored areas. I wanted a little sparkle but I didn’t want to cover all the coloring. Here’s a look at the inside & also the Copics I used.

Supplies: