Category: Halloween

Pinspired Challenges #20

This challenge is sponsored by SnakeTape who will be awarding  the winner with a bundle of their adhesive products.

For my card, I was inspired by both the Halloween theme and the colors (specifically those bright yellow-green flowers) in the Pinterest image.

Pinspired Challenges #20

Now, it’s your turn. Head on over to the Pinspired Challenges blog to see the creations from the rest of the “Pin Heads” and find out the details for playing along. Three runner ups will be chosen and win a “Pin Pal” badge for their blog. The winner will win a “Pin Perfect” badge for their blog along with the prize from SnakeTape. We can’t wait to see your creations!

Bewitched

This card was one of those that came together as I was creating other Halloween cards. I made use of the patterns from the We R’ Memory Keepers “Bewitched” paper pad (one of my favorites this year) with the addition of a few stamped and die cut items.

HalloweenTrickorTreat

Have you bought your Halloween candy? Last Halloween, we had trick-or-treaters for the first time in years (lots of new families with small children have moved into our neighborhood over the past year). I’ve got the candy stocked!

As for the title of this post – “Bewitched” – besides being the name of the patterned paper pad I used, it’s also one of my favorite childhood television series. The one thing I could never understand about that show – why didn’t Darrin let Sam use her powers to clean the house!

Penny Black Halloween Crow

Today, I’m sharing another Halloween-themed card on which I used the Halloween Visit stamp from the Penny Black Halloween release.

Penny Black Halloween Crow
While I generally would consider coloring an image such as this, I decided to go with a simpler approach. I colored the tag, cut with the large die in the Tagged set, with distress inks and then stamped the image with Archival Black ink. I clear embossed the background after stamping it with the Penny Black Decadence stamp. This background stamp lends a elegant look, and at the same time it’s so versatile! Lots of plans for its use during the upcoming holiday season. The sentiment is from Hoot of a Time.

OCC Tim Holtz Chemistry 102: A Few More Tags

Today’s Online Card Classes Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 102 class was all about alcohol inks. I don’t have any of the supplies he used, so I decided to work on more tags from things we covered during Days 1-3.

On the first day, he applied Black Soot Distress paint to foil that had been dry-embossed. I loved the look but only got the paint into my hands yesterday.

OCC Tim Holtz Chemistry 102: A Few More Tags

For my first tag, I embossed the foil sheet with a Sizzix embossing folder I bought through Stampin’ Up. I added Memory Box ghosts, cut from Craft-a-Board, as suggested by Ellen Hutson. The grunge board is too thick for the thin dies, but the Craft-a-Board cut just fine! I added Rock Candy Dry Glitter with Glossy Accents as the adhesive to the ghosts without coloring them in any way (the glitter isn’t easily visible in the photo). The Memory Box sentiment was heat embossed on a die cut label. I then stamped it with the new Hero Arts chalkboard background stamp to make it more grungey.

For my second tag with this technique, I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder. As you can see, this technique gives a masculine, industrial look. I’m still pondering what to add to the tag.

OCC Tim Holtz Chemistry 102: A Few More Tags

Headed back to the craft table to play some more with the stencils!

OCC Tim Holtz Chemistry 102: Day Two

Another fabulous day in the Online Card Classes Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 102 class. Today was all about stencils, a lesson I’d be eagerly anticipating.

I tried a number of the techniques shown including painting through the stencil, using the stencils to print, and embossing with the stencil. There are still techniques shown today I’ve yet to try.

OCC Tim Holtz Chemistry 102: Day Two

OCC Tim Holtz Chemistry 102: Day Two

OCC Tim Holtz Chemistry 102: Day Two

I was definitely focused on Halloween for my first three tags!

For my final tag, I used a “reject” from yesterday’s lesson – one in which I was painting with metallic paint and lifting it. I ran it through my Big Shot with a stencil and then lightly sanded the stars off. I topped it with an Impression Obsession die cut.

OCC Tim Holtz Chemistry 102: Day Two