Trick or Treat!

Truly, do I have to tell you how much I am enjoying all the Halloween tags and cards this month? and the super fabulous stamp sets that have been released by Heidi Swapp?! I'm broke, but man I'm sure happy! Haha!!

Today's jumbo tag/card is another spooky mansion. I really really love how this one turned out. It's becoming more and more challenging each time to create a new and different design for these houses, but wow, is it ever fun to see the end result. 

For this one, I used the crescent moon and sparkles from the Heidi Swapp Haunting 23 stamp set to create the background. The ink pad is one of my own DIY custom blends. It worked perfectly for the look I was going for. 

Again, I used a Kerri Bradford Studio stamp set for the title, as well as the subtitle below. 

Product List:
Heidi Swapp, Haunting Distressed Jumbo Tag book
Heidi Swapp, Haunting 23 stamp set

Heidi Swapp, Hallows 22 stamp set

Heidi Swapp, Haunting Captions stamp set
Heidi Swapp, 1/2" black ribbon

Kerry Bradford Studio, Boo stamp set

Kerry Bradford Studio, Wicked stamp set

Distress Oxide inks, Frayed Burlap, DIY custom blend
Memento Tuxedo Black ink, washi tape

Something Wicked...

 Something Wicked Halloween Tag. I'm so loving these jumbo tags and using them for Halloween cards is just a blast. For this one, I used the super awesome alphabet stamp set by Kerri  Bradford Studios called Stanley. For all my scrapbooking friends who go way back to Quickutz days, you may notice this font is one of my all time favorites!!! I was so excited to be able to get this in stamp form you have no idea!! 

This time I went with just a graveyard rather than a spooky mansion. It just seems to 'fit' more in the cemetery. LOL

I stamped the skull a couple of times and cut it out so that I could stack it and lift it with foam tape. It looks so cool. 

Product List:
Heidi Swapp, Haunting Jumbo Distressed Tag Book

Heidi Swapp, Hallows 22

Heidi Swapp, Haunting 23
Heidi Swapp, Haunting Captions
Heidi Swapp, 1/4" ribbon, black
Heidi Swapp, 1/4" ribbon, cream

Kerri Bradford Studio, Stanley Alphabet

Distress Oxides inks, Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord
Memento Tuxedo black ink. foam tape

Gerda Steiner Weekly Challenge - stars, Card 2

Here's my second design for the stars challenge with Gerda Steiner Designs. Again I used the cute Halloween Ghosts stamps and dies. Their little faces are the sweetest. 

The little house, pumpkin and bats are by Ellen Hutson, and the paper is again from the My Mind's Eye, Something Wicked 6x6 paper pad. 

I used Copic markers to color them, and glossy accents for the eyes. 

Gerda Steiner Weekly Challenge - stars

This week's challenge is to incorporate stars into your design. Typically, I don't think of Halloween when I think stars, do you? Christmas, sure, but not so much Halloween. But I had colored these cute ghosts for World Card Making Day and ended up not using them, and had this Halloween paper pad that has STARS in it, so I figured this would be the perfect time to share them. Here is the first of two cards I made for the challenge. :) 

The Halloween ghosts stamps and dies by Gerda Steiner are so adorable. There are five in the set. 

I used two of them for this card and added a sign using the 'boo' sentiment. The 'hey boo' die cut is by Ellen Hutson and the stars are nesting dies by Quickutz.

Paper pad, Something Wicked, is by My Mind's Eye, and I used the Spiced Marmalade distress oxide with a blending brush to add a little color to the background.

Fall card for WCMD - last one

For my last card, I literally grabbed stuff I had already colored and had not used for other projects and put them together to create this one. 

Background paper BoBunny

Circle dies, Quickutz nesting dies
Sentiment and dotted circle, Heidi Swapp

Wheat, grass and acorns, Hello Bluebird

Log, My Favorite Things
Mushrooms, Ellen Hutson

Copic markers
Distress Oxide ink, Rusty Hinge