Happy Halloween Everyone!!!
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, so I LOVE making Halloween cards!! I always have so much fun! This year, all products used were from my stash, except for one stamp set I purchased at Michaels. (I have WAY too much Halloween stuff! Eek!) So here's a video of the cards I made. And like usual, pictures will be below the video.
Thanks for watching!! :)
I have eight cards, so here is the first one:
This card turned out so cute. (I think so, anyway!) I used a Pollycraft digi stamp, and colored him. He is TOO CUTE!! Then, put him in one of my (actual size) Polaroid frames that I made with my Gypsy. Added some Prima flowers with rhinestone centers, and a few Halloween brads by The Paper Studio.
For the inside, I used some paper from We R Memory Keepers (the spider paper) and the Spider Web Doily is from the Martha Stewart Circle Border Punch. (I LOVE that thing! I want to get ALL of the cartridges for it!!!) It is so user-friendly, actually I should rephrase that. It is so BLIND PERSON User-Friendly!! Awesome!
Here is card #2: .
I love this card too. I think I love all cards that are Halloween! LOL! This card uses a CC Designs stamp that I colored. The background paper is from a Halloween stack by The Paper Studio. And I used three little Candy Corn sticker embellishments (made by Sandy Lion, that I purchased at Joanns) and placed them over some Halloween Bakers Twine, to make a "banner!"
Here is the inside:
I used more of the same paper, and added some little candy corn stickers by Sticko (EK Success.) It's funny, typically I'm not a sticker person when it comes to card making or scrapbooking. (I LOVE stickers in general though!!) But for these cards, I actually used a lot of stickers! Odd!
Here is card #3:
This card uses paper from the same We R Memory Keepers Halloween Stack that I mentioned earlier. The orange paper was ran through my Cuttlebug with a Candy Corn embossing folder (that I LOVE!) The little Devil trick-or-treater is a chipboard sticker, (See! Another sticker!!) The sentiment is also a sticker. And the candy corn banner is the same as I did in the previous card. (More stickers!) This card is for my youngest nephew. His parents have a rivalry going because they graduated from different/rival Universities here in AZ. So I just had to use this sticker for my nephew when I saw it!! He looks a little like the ASU mascot, (Sun Devil) .
Here is card #4:
This uses the same CC Design Stamp from earlier. I just changed up some colors and the papers. These papers are from The Paper Studio halloween stack. I also added some feathers from Hobby Lobby, and some Prima flowers.
Here is the inside:
Once again, I used that Martha Stewart Circle Border Punch to cut the spider web doily! And this Halloween sentiment is from a dollar stamp I got at JoAnns a few years ago.
Here is card #5:
This card uses a Digi Stamp by Bugaboo Stamps. This card is for my mom to give to one of my brothers. (It's a little inside joke that he has. He likes to call my mom and his wife witches because they both have green eyes. He is a big joker/teaser. So once my mom saw this stamp, she HAD to get it!) My mom colored this image, and I put the card together. The green paper (has a shine to it that the camera doesn't pick up) is from the Bewitched DCWV stack. The hats on the side are stickers by Sticko (EK Success.)
Here is the inside:
Part of (the same as previously used) a spider web doily, and a spider sticker (also made by Sticko/EK Success. A very simple design for the inside!
Card #6:
This one is SUPER simple! This paper is from a dollar package that JoAnns had a few years ago. I know this year the ones that they carried were made by DCWV, but I'm not sure if that is who makes this paper.) And I just colored the three little trick-or-treaters. Then I punched a spider web border strip to adhere to the top and bottom of this focal image.
Here is the inside:
That simple card, (I think) took me the most time to make! Probably because it just wasn't turning out the way I wanted it to But oh well. It was ok!
Here is card #7:
This card uses another Bugaboo Stamps image. I love this image!! My niece thinks "trick or treat, smell my feet" is just the funniest saying ever! So when I saw this stamp, I knew right away who the card I made would be for! I used paper from the DCWV Bewitched stack, (and the camera reflected the shine on this paper down in the bottom right corner!!) Then I added some feathers, and prima flowers with rhinestone centers, as well as some flat back pearls.
Here is the inside:
Super simple. The image is a stamp from Michaels, I think I got it there three years ago!
And here is my last, and favorite card:
Have you ever made a card (or other project) specifically for someone, but when it was finished, you wanted to keep it?! Well I haven't... until now! I don't know why, but I love this card!! (lol)
My idea, or what I was going for... was like an Evil Genius's Lab. I got this stamp set by Inkadinkado at Michaels this year, and it is called "Test Tube." I started playing around, and stamping them all out, and building my scene. After I was done, I realized that I did it on plain white cardstock! UGH! I wanted it to look like they were sitting on a table or something. So I had to change up my plan, and I made it into a cupboard in the evil genius's lab! (LOL)
The background paper is from a Halloween stack by GCD and the reverse side of all the papers is this really cool distressed looking paper in various colors. So I chose this one, to make it look like the wall behind the cupboard, maybe it was in a condemned building or something! haha. I added some caution tape (washi tape) and some brads for the knobs on the cupboard doors.
Here is one 'cupboard' door opened:
And here it is with both doors opened:
Now you can see why I had to turn it into a cabinet! (lol) I still could have done it better, but at this point, I had already invested so much time (about 14 hours) so I just went with it. (I should probably explain that 14 hours a little bit. As many of you know, I have a chronic illness, and extremely poor eyesight. Any "simple" basic card, still takes me about four hours to make. Well, in my life, with my illness, I never just have four straight hours that I can sit and craft. I'm lucky if I have 20 minutes straight! So one card can take me up to a few weeks to make! Depending on how sick I am. The majority of the time though, is spent trying to actually SEE what I am making!! lol)
Ok, so I stamped the images on the white card stock, and also on clear acetate. I then cut out the acetate ones, and after I was done coloring and placing the eyeballs, and the froggie in their test tubes, I glued the acetate images over top of the others, to add the "realistic" look. I was going to do glossy accents, but it was too large of an area to work with, and my eyes aren't good enough to see when I miss a spot, so I didn't want to chance it, and just went with the acetate! I like the way it turned out!!
Here's a closer look at the images, so maybe you can see the effect that the acetate gives.
This is the inside of the card:
I tried to make it coordinate with the 'theme.'
In the stamp set, it comes with a stamp that says "From the lab of" and when I saw that, I just knew I wanted to use it on the back of my card instead of my typical "handmade by" stamps!!
It made me giggle to use the stamp like that!
Well.... those are my Halloween cards for 2013!! Next thing to tackle... Christmas! Yikes! This year really went by too quickly!
I hope you all have a safe, fun, and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
"Don't glue anything I wouldn't glue!!"
