Spooky Cute Card Set

Hello!

I love spooky season and everything that goes along with it, yet this has been the first year that I have really made a bunch of Halloween cards. I wanted to use a bunch of things I've accumulated in my stash along with some newer additions.

One of those things were these Snag 'em Stamps from Imaginisce. I had recently picked up these stamps at the Pat Catan's near me before they closed.

I also used a lot of paper pads I've collected over the years from Hobby Lobby and JoAnn's along with some Recollections card stock.

I stamped the images out onto some Bristol smooth card stock with Versafine black ink and colored them using Prismacolor colored pencils. I used gamsol and a blending stump to get a smoother look. Then I cut them out using a Scan 'N Cut.

I pulled out some papers that I thought coordinated pretty well and then matched up some characters to go with it.

I mostly used my Tonic trimmer to cut down the card stock, but I did use some stitched scalloped dies, Halloween Phrases dies from The Scrapping Cottage, pumpkin dies from Hello Bluebird's Gallery Frame #3, the number and tag dies that came with the Tim Holtz Sidekick, Spellbinder's Happy Haunting, and some other dies I received in a Halloween swap.

I heat embossed some stamps from Lawn Fawn's Spooky Village and Ranger's Letter It Greetings stamps for some extra sentiments.

For some the embellishments, I used rhinestones, sequins, and washi tape from Dollar Tree and Michaels.

I think these cards turned out so cute and were all pretty quick and simple.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a spooky day! :)

-Jenni

Gnome-Ah-Ween

Hello!

I have been on a kick lately of altering my stamped images and this card fits right in. I used Lawn Fawn's Oh Gnome stamp set to create this trick or treating scene on my very first slimline card.

I started by drawing out my card idea in my sketchbook and stamped out the gnomes I wanted to use. Once I had them stamped I started drawing on their outfits. I decided on a witch, a mummy, and a franken gnome.

When I had a pretty good idea of how I wanted them to look I placed the stamps in my MISTI and started inking them up with Gina K. amalgam black ink.

Looking back on my sketch, I wiped away the areas on the inked stamp where I would be drawing in my own details. For the franken gnome I wiped away everything below his beard, leaving just the outline of his body. I did just about the same thing for the female gnome, as well as wiping away parts of her hat and her feet.

I then drew in the details with a pencil before inking over them with a micron pen. Once fully dry, I took a kneaded eraser to erase any leftover pencil lines.

I used a variety of alcohol markers to color up the gnomes as well as some additional images from Lawn Fawn's Costume Party and Tiny Halloween. After everything was colored I cut them out using my Scan 'N Cut.

I started on the rest of the scene by cutting out the main part of the mushroom house from dark gray Recollections card stock and the mushroom top from a textured maroon card stock. I used a lighter gray, black, and white card stock for the remainder of the pieces.

I also used the build-a-house Halloween add on for the chimney, step, bats, spider, and spiderweb.

Once I had the majority of the elements cut out, I laid out my scene.

Before I moved on, I decided to die cut a handful of stems from black card stock to add to the scene.

For the background, I cut a 3.75" x 8.75" rectangle from bristol card stock and picked out bundled sage, evergreen bough, and black soot distress oxides. I cut a circle mask from a full stick post-it for the moon and inked the background using Ranger foam blending tools.

When I was done blending, I removed the mask and took a small blending brush and added a tiny bit of bundled sage across the moon so it wasn’t so stark white.

I moved onto the grass portion of the scene by cutting out three sections of grass with the grass die found in the mushroom borders die set from Lawn Fawn.

I had originally chosen a dark teal textured card stock from the Dark Florals paper pad from Michaels for the grass; however, when I went to ink the edges, the slick card stock inhibited the ink from sticking or drying completely.

Instead, I took a scrap piece of olive green card stock and did my best to match the same teal color using cracked pistachio, mermaid lagoon, and black soot distress oxides. Once dry, I cut it into three pieces with the grass border.

After everything was cut and laid out, I started to glue down my scene.

I added a heat embossed sentiment using white detail embossing powder and the "Happy Halloween" stamp from Lawn Fawn's How You Bean? Candy Corn add-on.

I then matted the main panel onto two layers of coordinating card stock. For a final step, I added glossy accents to the spots on the mushroom before adding it onto a black card base.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

And I'd like to wish you a Happy Gnome-Ah-Ween! :)

-Jenni

Simply Meant To Be

I have been creating a lot Halloween cards lately and with so many cute fall releases, I think I will continue well into the Christmas season haha! Halloween is an all year kind of thing for me, which is probably why The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies. When I discovered this digi on the Craftin' Desert Divas website a couple months ago, I snatched it up. Sadly, that company has since gone out of business. However, one of my favorite stamp companies, The Sassy Club, has a bunch of NBC inspired stamps too (projects coming soon!).

When I first seen the image, I immediately thought a distress ink background would look awesome behind it...it was simply meant to be. 😂. I sized the image to fit inside the largest Outside-In square stackable from Lawn Fawn and printed four out onto one page of 110 lb. white card stock.

I separated the four images with my tonic trimmer, but decided to wait until the end to die cut them with the stitched square.

Before I started inking, I printed out the image again onto some 65 lb. card stock and cut it out. I added some drops of Tombow mono liquid glue to the back and set it aside to dry. Once it was dry, I lessened the stickiness by sticking it to my pants a couple times and then used it as a mask.

For the backgrounds I used 4 combinations of distress oxide inks and blending brushes. Oxide Combo 1: shades lilac, hickory smoke, black soot

Oxide combo 2: cracked pistachio, evergreen bough, black soot

Oxide combo 3: dusty concord, wilted violet, black soot

Oxide combo 4: pumice stone, hickory smoke, black soot

I colored the moon by smooshing some scattered straw distress oxide ink onto my glass mat and painting it on with a water brush. I added some extra texture using a tiny blending brush and ink straight from the ink pad.

I colored in the rest of the image using a combination of Copics, Blick studio brush markers, and spectrum noir alcohol markers.

Once the images were all colored I really liked it, but I thought some splatter would really make it nice. I laid the mask back over the image and used some Stampabilities white pigment ink and water for the white splatter. I also added some gold splatter with some watered down metallic gold acrylic paint.

I then took the four inked and colored panels and ran them through the diecut machine with the stitched square die.

I attached each of the panels to a slightly larger black card stock base with Tombow liquid glue.

I think this image is so cute and perfect for any Nightmare Before Christmas fan.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

-Jenni :)