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Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #400

Hello! Eek – it’s almost September and that means Halloween cards! I’m a big fan of Halloween. I loved trick-or-treating as a child, and I loved Halloween when my sons were young. I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge this week.

I die-cut the hat and cauldron with the SugarPea Designs Hocus Pocus set. This set isn’t new, but it is new to me. I added bats, cut with dies in the Spellbinders Haunted Manor set. I used three pieces of patterned paper (I broke down and bought a pad!) from the DCVW Happy Halloween stack. The purple cardstock is SU Gorgeous Grape and the screaming green is SU Lemon-Lime Twist (now retired). The sentiment is from the SU Ghoulish Greetings (now retired). I use this set at least once every Halloween!

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Penny Black Fall Scene

Hello! With fall in the air (although today it’s warm here in the PNW), I am turning to richer colors in my papercrafting projects. Navy and orange is one of my favorite color combinations for fall, and that was my starting point for this card created with Penny Black supplies.

I pulled out a number of different Penny Black die sets that I’ve collected over the years. For example, the fence behind the grass is from a Halloween set.

The Trio of Trees set cuts one-piece trees. I cut the trees from the foliage color and then fussy cut the foliage from the trunks and added the foliage pieces to trees cut in the trunk color.

I’ve listed all of the supplies below, including SU cardstock colors. The one exception is the gold house that I cut from SU More Mustard, which appears to be a retired cardstock color (truth be told this may be the first time I’ve ever used it!).

Supplies: Penny Black Trio of Trees die sets; TE Sweet Potato Pie cardstock; Memento Gray Flannel ink

Spellbinders Sharyn Sowell Holiday 2019

Hello! I am on the Spellbinders blog today sharing two CAS Christmas cards created with die sets from the Sharyn Sowell Holiday Collection. I share tips and tricks in the blog post. I’d love for you to head over and take a look!

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Penny Black – Window Flower Box Die-cut Scene

Hello! Today I am sharing a CAS die-cut card featuring Penny Black supplies – old and new. I added a flower window box, cut with the A Garden die set, to the Ironwork Window.

To create the card base, I dry-embossed SU Smoky Slate cardstock with a Taylored Expressions embossing folder.
I stamped the Penny Black Stitched Flowers sentiment in Gray Flannel ink on white cardstock. Then I die cut the window and trimmed the panel down. The window die cuts the top, bottom, and center, and it scores the sides so that the window could be opened.
I backed the window panel with SU So Saffron cardstock and attached it to the card base.
I die-cut the box, foliage, and blooms, with dies in the A Garden set, from SU Bermuda Bay, SU Granny Apple Green, and SU Poppy Parade.
Once the window box and flowers were attached to the window, the upper part of the card seemed too empty. I found heart dies in older PB sets – What’s in Your Cup? and Little Ornaments – and cut a few to add above the window box.

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Spellbinders Small Die of the Month Kit – Pack It Up – Travel Version

Looking for the Spellbinders Holiday Inspiration Blog Hop post? Head here.

Hello! Today, I am sharing two more projects created with the August Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders – “Pack It Up.” You can see my previous post with projects using the die set here. As I mentioned in that post, this die set lends itself to a couple of themes including school and travel. In this post I share two travel-themed cards.

My first card is for someone headed to Disneyland! I used a vintage Disneyland map for the background and added ears to the backpack!

I cut the backpack body, straps, and the ears from a shiny black cardstock. I cut the zipper and buckles from silver foil cardstock.

My second card is for someone NYC-bound. Same design with a few tweaks to the colors of the backpack and sunglasses, and of course a different map. For this card’s background, I used a NYC subway map.

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