On this eve of Halloween, I'm featuring It's BOO-tastic! (also sold atEH | SSS). I loved creating this masked one-layer card with these adorably spooky images. I started by stamping the images and creating masks for them. I stamped the pumpkins first on watercolour cardstock, placed the mask to protect it and stamped the rest of the images.
After stamping all of the images, I left their masks in place, cut a hill from masking paper and sponged the background with distress inks. Then I splattered the background with water and two distress spray stains. Then I removed the masks and used distress inks to watercolour the images.
If you are celebrating, I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween, whether you're trick-or-treating with your kids or having a party in your home or elsewhere.
The Alpha Blocks stamp set is great to use on any card. Just make your own sentiment and color whatever color you like. It is almost Halloween so I created this Happy Halloween card. Not spooky at all just cuteness with this adorable images... right?
I created a simple watercolor background and colored the images with Copic sketch markers. I also thought it would be cute to add some more stars so I used some Teeny Star dies. The stamp set does come with some stars too if you don't have a die of stars. I wanted to use glitter paper that is why I went with the die.
Hello! Kelly here with a card idea that you can completely customize for what you need!
One of my favorite little critters from Evelin's winter stamp sets is this adorable ice skating bear from Fun in the Snow. The way his arms are open wide, and his proud expression, makes it seem like he is showing off his skating abilities. When this set was released, I created a card with the heart doodle by the bear's skate to make it look like he had just finished skating a little heart in the ice. As I we as creating that card I had an idea that I could really make it look like he had just finished skating whatever design or word I wanted. So that's what I did here!
I sketched out my "noel" greeting in pencil first, and then went over it with a felt-tipped pen. I think this would be a cute idea for customizing a card with a person's name, the city they just moved to, or even their favorite sports team (use the team colors in the bear's scarf!) So many different possibilities!
The "ice" is made from smooshing ink onto a stamping block, adding a few drops of water, and then placing the cardstock in the ink. It's always a surprise what you get!
The "from OUR home to YOURS" sentiment is from All is Calm and could really be used on any holiday card you create.
Only a few days until Halloween, and then the holidays will really seem like they are just around the corner. Hope you're collecting lots of ideas these past few weeks. I know I am!
Hello Everyone! So thankful to be here with you all and especially my talented friend, Evelin! I've met Evelin in California at the CHA shows and have been on teams with her before. I always knew she would succeed with her amazing talent! My main love is memory keeping, but I do love to make cards and do mixed media. I dabble in a little of everything. But before I actually make anything, I really enjoy tinkering and playing with product and then see where the creativity goes. So for today's post, I will share some of that tinkering with a Traveler's Notebook I created inspired by the products.
The Coffee Art stamp set really had me inspired to create this Traveler's Notebook to document small happy moments. I started by measuring, trimming and then stamping some of the images using black ink onto grey cardstock. For the inside pages I used a Strathmore Sketch Paper Pad. The reason for this paper, is I wanted the pages to be thin. I can then either create on top of the pages, or my favorite is to work off the page, and then adhere my creation on top. Will share more of that in a bit. I also have a video showing how the inside pages came together, you can find at the end of this post.
For my first inside page, I wanted something there but very simple. So I used a stencil and inks to create a blended ombre look, then stamped some of the leaf images from All Hallow's Cuteness and Coffee Art in shades of green ink. I finished it with a chipboard piece in the center.
Now for my first full page spread in my album, I was inspired by the Coffee Art stamp set again to use with this photo, which happens to have a coffee cup ;)
Because my inside pages are thin, I could see the ink from the first inside page showing through. To Fix this, I either adhere two pages together, but in this case, I wanted to work off-the page first and then adhere to the TN page. I first started by stamping the leaves from the All Hallow's Cuteness stamp set, then used a ruler to draw lines. I used this to type my journaling.
I stamped and colored a good bit before creating this project. The little toadstools I stamped and watercolored from the All Hallow's Cuteness were the perfect touch to this woodsy, whimsical memory. To add a little more texture, I used a light green ink to stamp the circle heart image from the Coffee Art stamp set. I finished that page with washi tape, die cuts and puffy stickers.
For the right side, I wanted to show more of the cup images, so I created a repetitive pattern on a separate piece of the same paper. Then stamped in the 'Hallo There!' sentiment from the same stamp set. I am choosing the green and the orange inks to complement my photo, the colored images and die cuts I used on the left.
I finished this side with another die cut which covered up an imperfect stamped image I did (oops), and then finished with enamel dots. The die cut also helps to balance with the left side. Then I adhered both of these pages onto the inside pages of my album.
The sentiment 'coffee + you = happiness' inspired me to document me and my daughter at Starbucks with her new phone, taking and sharing her first selfie photo for my next spread in my TN album. I also kind of love the bear and the snowman marshmallow images from the Coffee Art stamp set. The bear went perfectly with my daughter's fuzzy headband too ;)
I worked directly on the pages of the album to ink a starburst that repeats the image in the top left from the photo. I wanted the sentiment to be the focal in between the stamped images.
I typed and then detail cut and stitched labels together to add my journaling.
For my last page to share today in this Traveler's Notebook, I created a Halloween page. I had lots of the Halloween images stamped and colored as well. I used a cut file from Citrus Twist Kits that went perfectly with my photo but also great little spots for those adorable, little images from the It's Boo-Tastic! and All Hallow's Cuteness stamp sets.
All of the images here were colored with watercolors, except the three jack-o-lanterns. I love how well the mixed together to create a fun cluster with the stamped 'Happy Halloween' right in between them.
I used foam alpha stickers and enamel dots to finish this spread.
I did not have a plan for each one of these pages. But I love how the inspiration comes as you stamp and color. Hope this inspires you to try your stamped images in your memory keeping or gives you some ideas for your next card! I will be back in November to share cards as a guest again here with Evelin T Designs!
I do have a video showing how these pages came together. You can watch it in HD on my YouTube Channel here or below. Thank you so much for letting me share and guest!
Hello! Heather Hoffman here this morning to share a card using the adorable new Good Tidings to You stamp set - one from the new release that I hadn't had a chance to play with yet...and it is SOOO CA-UTE!!!
I thought it would be fun to create some windows and have some of the cute images peeking through from the windows. I die cut 3 different size windows with a basic circle die from a panel of white cardstock, then lined up and stamped 3 of the cute images from the set behind the windows on a white cardbase.
I then had fun coloring in all those sweet critters, then added some sparkly Nuvo glitter drops on all the red parts of the image - I love the shine and sparkle that adds!
Once that dried, I stamped my sentiment on the front window panel, then adhered that with foam adhesive on the card - this gives it a bit of dimension which is fun with the windows.
Finally, for just a bit more sparkle, I added some coordinating green jewels sprinkled around on the card!
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!!!
