Halloween House

Good Morning

Today's card features a fun new stencil for September from A Colorful Life Designs called

Spooky Web

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I inked up the Spooky Web stencil onto a piece of white cardstock using some Black Soot Distress Oxide ink.
• I splattered the panel with my black Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I used a piece of black cardstock to die cut the Halloween house and then added some pieces of yellow cardstock behind the windows and pathway to help them look like they are glowing in the dark.
• Next, I die cut the 'boo' sentiment and then inked it with some Villainous Potion Distress Oxide ink and some Black Soot DOX ink.  I splattered that with my black Posca pen.
• I glued the stenciled spider web onto a piece of purple cardstock to match the sentiment and then glued that onto an A2 sized card base.  
• I glued the Halloween house over the spider web and then added the ghost and the bat.

Here is the stencil I used:

Spooky Web

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

Krafty Chicks- CAS

Sweet Stampin- FOR A CHILD

Send a Smile 4 Kids- CUTE FALL/HALLOWEEN CARDS 4 KIDS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); black Posca pen;

TE Blending Brushes; sentiment-Vault Gothic Portraits (TH);

Haunted House (Trinity); ghost die (Amazon)

Halloween Fun Times

Good Morning and Welcome

I had fun creating today's card using 2 new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Spooky Web and Fast Food

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I used some Black Soot and some Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink and blended over the Spooky Web stencil on some white cardstock. To help with the spooky vibe, I added some Villainous Potion DOX ink along the edges.
• I splattered over the spider web with my black Posca pen, then set aside to dry.
• Next, I inked up the Fast Food stencil on a piece of black cardstock with some Versamark ink and  used some white embossing powder and heat set it. I added some white splatters with my other Posca pen.
• I glued the spider web stenciled panel onto a piece of gray cardstock, then onto some purple cardstock and finally onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the black embossed sentiment panel over to the one side.
  

Here are the stencils I used:

Fast Food

Spooky Web

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- FALL FRENZIE/ANYTHING GOES

Two Old Bats- ANYTHING GOES HALLOWEEN

Simon Says Wed.- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Versamark; DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); white and black Posca pens;

small inking brushes (Amazon); foam tape; white embossing powder

BOO to You!

BOO and Welcome!

Today's card features the new for September stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Spooky Web

I added a new to me technique as well, so here's what I did to create my card.

• I began my card with a technique I've not done before with my hot glue gun.  After my hot glue was hot, I drew the shape of the spider web onto my card front, swirling the glue over the white cardstock. 
• Before the glue cooled off, I added some black embossing powder onto the web and heat set it.
• Next, I placed the Spooky Web stencil right over the hot glue web and inked it up with some Black Soot Distress Oxide ink. I splattered the web with my black Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the sentiment from a left over piece of inked cardstock that I found in my stash, then also die cut the spiders and the skeleton.  
• I glued my card front onto a piece of purple cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I glued the 'BOO' into the top corner and added the details. 

Here is the stencil I used:

Spooky Web

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges: 

Simon Says Wed.- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are Our Game- FALL FRENZY or ANYTHING GOES

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Vault Gothic Portraits dies (TH); Big Frights (TH)

Fright Night

Welcome

I'm creating some cards for Halloween and today's card features the newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs that is called:

Moon Man

This stencil is really a fun one since it has 3 sizes of moons to use.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and secured the Moon Man stencil over my paper...I used the middle sized image.  I inked that up with some Hickory Smoke and some Black Soot Distress Oxide ink.
• I wanted the background to have lots of interest so I masked off the moon and then placed the Cloud Edger stencil (an older release) over the moon and inked with some Villainous Potion Distress Oxide ink. I kept shifting the cloud stencil down until the entire panel was all inked up.
• I splattered with water and then set aside to dry.
• Next, I die cut the sentiment with some black cardstock and sprayed with some Peeled Paint Distressed stain.  I cut the sentiment 3 more times and glued them all together so the sentiment would be raised.
• I glued my card front onto a piece of black cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.
• I added the sentiment along the bottom and then added the black bats.

Here are the stencils I used:

Moon Man

Cloud Edger

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Paper Funday- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are Our Game- FALL FRENZY/ANYTHING GOES

Shopping Our Stash- DON'T REALLY NEED ANOTHER ONE

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX; Distressed Spritz

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Vault Gothic Portraits die (TH)

BOO!

Welcome!

Meet today's card using a stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Layered Monsters.

A fun one for sure.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and placed stencil #1 (body) from the Layered Monsters and inked them up with some Villainous Potion Distress Oxide ink.
• After they were all inked, I removed that stencil and placed stencil #2 (face features) into position and inked those up with some Black Soot DOX ink.
• Next, using the eraser on the end of my pencil, I stamped the little black circles into the white spaces between the little monsters to add more interest.
• I splattered with my Black Posca pen over the whole panel.
• Using my white Posca pen, I gave all the eyes a spot of white.
• I die cut the 'BOO' letters from the stenciled panel and gave the edges some inking with more of the Black Soot to help them stand out a bit.
• I cut the letters again with some white cardstock, stacked and glued them all together so they would pop on my card front.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of black, then purple cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Finally, I positioned and glued the letters back into place on the front of the panel for an 'eclipse style' card.

Here is the stencil I used:

Layered Monsters

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Make My Monday- CREATE YOUR OWN BKG

Little Red Wagon- LAYER UPON LAYER

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

black and white Posca pen; Alphabet letters (Scrapbook.com)

Spooky Nights

Hello and Welcome

This month at A Colorful Life Designs, we are showing some Halloween fun stencils.

New for this month is the Interactive Drippy Ghosts stencil.

I paired it up with some older released stencils for my spooky card.  

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.  I placed the Pumpkin Patch stencil along the bottom of my panel and then inked with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed that stencil and placed the large Fancy Web stencil over the background and inked with Black Soot DOX ink.  I splattered with water to lift some of the colour and set aside to dry.
• While that dried, I stenciled one of the little ghosts from the Drippy Ghosts stencil wish a bit of Weathered Wood DOX ink and fussy cut it out.
• Next, I stamped the spider and the sentiment using my Misti.
• I added a bit more of the Black Soot DOX ink along the edges to give a more 'spooky' look.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of black cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• Lastly, I used some foam tape to pop up the little ghost over to the side.

Here are the stencils I used:

Interactive Drippy Ghosts

Pumpkin Patch

Fancy Web

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crazy is Our Fame, Stencils are Our Game- FALL- ANYTHING GOES

The Crafty Addicts- ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Gals- SIGNS OF FALL

Supplies

Stamps- Halloween (Craft Smart), Halloween Spider (Recollections)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); Make Art Station (Ranger);

TE Blending Brushes

Spooky Halloween

Welcome

I created another Halloween card using 2 new fun stencils from A Colorful Life Designs called

Drippy Arch and Interactive Drippy Ghosts.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I took a piece of white cardstock and placed the Drippy Arch stencil over it on my Make Art Station. Using some Villainous Potion Distress Oxide ink, I inked up the whole panel.
• This stencil has 2 parts, a stencil and a mask so I masked the bottom purple area and then went over the top area that was still white with some Weathered Wood DOX ink.
• I shifted the stencil slightly and added just a hint of the purple along the edges to give a shadow effect.
• Next, using some Black Soot DOX ink, I inked around all the edges just to add to the effect.
• I splattered is all with water to lift some of the colour and set aside to dry.
• While that dried, I stenciled one of the cute little ghost from the Drippy Ghosts set with some Weathered Wood and fussy cut it out.
• I stamped the little spider and the sentiment and then glued it onto a piece of black cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the little ghost to the side.

Here are the stencils I used:

Drippy Arch

Interactive Drippy Ghosts 

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Two Old Bats Halloween- ANYTHING HALLOWEEN

Simon Says Wed.- MAKE IT CUTE

2 Sisters on the Blog- AUTUMN or THANKSGIVING

Supplies

Stamps- Halloween (Studio G), Halloween Spider (Recollections)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); Make Art Station (Ranger)

Peeking Pumpkin

Welcome

Today's card features the new for September stencil called

Happy Pumpkin

from A Colorful Life Designs. A cute one for sure.

I paired it up with an older stencil release called Mid Century Shadow. They worked perfectly together.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station, then placed the Mid Century Shadow stencil down and inked that up with some Carved Pumpkin and Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink. 
• Leaving that stencil in place, I inked up the Happy Pumpkin right over that with some Black Soot Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the pumpkin, but left the Mid Century stencil in place and I added a bit of shadowing with more of the Black Soot.
• I stamped the sentiment, then glued the panel onto a piece of black cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I added 2 black gems on either side of the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Happy Pumpkin

Mid Century Shadow

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says WED.- MAKE IT CUTE

2 Sisters on the Blog- AUTUMN

Colorful Options- OUTRAGEOUS ORANGE

Two Old Bats Halloween- ANYTHING HALLOWEEN

Supplies

Stamp- Happy Halloween (Studio G)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs), Make Art Station (Ranger);

TE Blending Brushes

Lots of Candy Corn

Welcome

Today's fun card was created using 2 new stencil releases for September from A Colorful Life Designs called

Layered Candy Corn and Lots of Pumpkins.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and placed stencil #1 from the Layered Candy Corn stencil and inked that up with some Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed that stencil and continued with Stencil #2 and 3 using some Ripe Persimmon and some Fossilized Amber DOX ink.
• After the whole panel was stenciled, I die cut it using a Layered Chevron die and set aside.
• Next, I stenciled one of the pumpkins from the Lots of Pumpkins stencil with some Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide ink and added a hint of Black Soot DOX ink just to add some shading. This stencil has such a great variety of images to choose from.  I fussy cut that out and set aside.
• I figured out how much space I needed for my little pumpkin on the largest piece of my background, then stamped the sentiment so it would be under the pumpkin.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of cardstock, offsetting the chevrons a bit, then glued all that onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the pumpkin at the top over the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Layered Candy Corn

Lots of Pumpkins

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on your entire order.*

(Affiliate with no extra cost to you) 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

As You Like It- AUTUMN or WINTER AND WHY?

(Autumn....the leaves changing colours, the cooler temps.)

Allsorts- ANYTHING GOES/or/ USE DIE CUTS

Send a Smile 4 Kids- CUTE FALL/HALLOWEEN CARDS 4 KIDS

Two Old Bats Halloween- ANYTHING HALLOWEEN

Supplies

Stamp- Happy Halloween (Craft Smart)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook, Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Make Art Station (Ranger); 

Layered Chevrons die (Paper Rose)

Happy Halloween

Welcome

Today, I am playing along with a Clean and Simple challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

The theme is Halloween.

So, here's what I did to create my card.  

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.
• I positioned the Mid Century Shadow stencil over my card panel, then laid the Pumpkin Patch stencil over that.
• I inked over the pumpkins with some Mustard Seed and some Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide ink, filling in the first area at top.
• I moved the pumpkin stencil down and then continued to ink the next 2 areas the same way.
• I removed the pumpkins and inked the bottom area that I wanted to use for my sentiment.
• Leaving the Shadow stencil in place, I went back with some Black Soot DOX ink and added that just along the bottom edges of the panels.
• I removed the stencil and stamped the bats to the side and the sentiment in the bottom section.
• I glued it onto a piece of orange cardstock, then onto a white A2 size card base.

Here are the stencils I used:

Pumpkin Patch

Mid Century Shadow

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.*

(affiliate with no extra cost to you)

Thanks so much for taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- bats (Craftsmart); sentiment (Studio G)

Inks- Versafine, DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencils (ACLD); TE Blending Brushes