Halloween is just less than two weeks away and I am not ready to give up this holiday yet. I see a lot of my crafty friends already working on their Christmas projects and I am a bit bummed! Halloween is my favorite time of the year and if I can celebrate it 365 days a year, I will. Kidding aside, when I read yesterday’s Lawnscaping Blog challenge, it just made me so happy that I immediately started working on my card.
This week’s theme is to create a cute, spooky card. I love my Lawn Fawn Halloween stamps but I am also in-love with the Merry Christmouse stamp set that I purchased recently. I decided to get the mice all dressed up for Halloween! Without further ado, here is the card:
Aren’t they just adorable? What do you guys think? Is it too cute to spook?
Fall is my favorite time of the season. The color of the leaves, cooler weather, sweaters, hot chocolate, pumpkin everything, Halloween and Thanksgiving! I can go on and on. But the main focus today is the newly-released stamp set by Jessica Lynn Original called “Love You Deer”. This stamp set is just great for nature-inspired cards, scrapbook layouts and such.
The first two cards that you see below are Fall-inspired cards.
The sentiment on the second card is a bit hilarious and PETA please do not be upset with me! This is the only card that I have not shown my daughter yet; I can just hear her giving me a hard time about this one!). Kidding aside, this was a bit challenging for me. I just hope I was able to give you examples that will make you want to go to your craft room and stamp away! Deer Hunter wives, time to make your husbands (or partners) some wonderful and funny cards!
The third card below is my favorite. I decided to make it classy and simple by only using 3 colors on this card! I wanted the Deer image to stand out. I think it turned out really beautiful!
First, I colored the deer using my Copic markers. I then stamped and heat-embossed the trees, hill, snowflakes and snowman in the background with white embossing powder. I proceeded to die-cut the snowy hills using my border dies with vellum, glitter card stock and regular white card stock to create the snowy hills. I also used my liquid applique to create the snow in the background. I finished the design by adding a red bow on the deer and used my matching red embossing powder to heat-emboss the sentiment on the vellum. What do you guys think? Which one is your favorite?
Hop on through the other designers below to see their beautiful creations using this stamp set. Please don’t forget to leave a comment on Jessica’s Blog post http://jessicalynnoriginalstamps.blogspot.com to get the chance to win this stamp set.
I was decorating for Halloween yesterday and was finally able to set up my spooky tree. It has been a family tradition every Halloween but now that my kids are both grown and out of the house ~ I still continue the tradition in my house. As soon as the tree is set-up, I take pictures and send them to my kids. They still love it!
My tree needed some new ornaments and since I just bought almost all of the Lawn Fawn’s new release (shhhh! don’t tell my husband!) I decided to use the shaker die and the Booyah stamp set to create a cute little Halloween Ornament.
I also wanted to enter the sentiment challenge at Lawnscaping Challenge blog that is all about “sentiment”. I wanted my sentiment to stand out so I decided to use my white embossing powder with versa mark, and heat-embossed it. I think it really did pop! Not to mention the word “boo” inside the shaker!
Here is the cute ornament:
Materials used (Unless otherwise stated – everything else is Lawn Fawn):
Booyah Stamp Set and coordinating Dies – used the ghost, witch’s hat and the broom
Happy Haunting Stamp Set – used the tree and the small bat for the background
Spooktacular Stamp Set & coordinating die – used the tombstone
Ready, Set, Snow Die Extra – to cut the shaker piece
Tag You’re It – to cut the piece to make a tag so I can hang it on the tree
Hero Arts Embossing powder
Versamark Ink
Duralar Acetate Sheets
Adhesive
Black and White Sequins
Orange Seed Beads
Black and Orange Card Stock
What do you guys think? Here is the ornament hanging on my spooky tree.
I am just so excited for today’s blog hop as we are collaborating with CardMaker Magazine plus we can use whatever favorite stamps we like from JLO Stamps! There will be a FREE DIGITAL STAMP for all – anyone can visit www.jessicalynnoriginal.com and download that digital stamp.
PRIZES, PRIZES! To be eligible to win a $50 Gift Card good for ANYTHING at Jessica Lynn Original’s website, we ask that you please leave a comment on each blog. Jessica will pick one winner.
Are you ready to see the cards? The first one that you see here is a Halloween-themed card. This stamp is called Ghost of Christmas Past. I must admit that I overly-embellished this card. A common occurrence when I have my creativity mojo going. Sometimes I get really carried away. This card must have taken me 4 hours to make. It was a lot of work, but totally worth it. My husband keeps commenting that my cards are so detailed and embellished that they will be too expensive to sell. I don’t really sell my cards. I mostly give it to friends. I love that when they get my cards, they like it so much that they put it in a frame and display it at their home offices! That is a huge compliment for me! I feel that if I don’t take my time or put a lot of effort into making my cards, what’s the point of even making one?
With the exception of the pumpkins, everything has been handmade/die cut by yours truly!
The second card is one of my favorites. It’s so simple but adorable at the same time. I used two stamp sets for this card. The owl is one of my favorites from JLO Stamps. She is called “Ruby With a Martini” and the cute bat is from “Ghost of Christmas Past”. Halloween is my favorite holiday and I make a lot of Halloween cards and scrapbook layouts.
The third card is a Valentine-themed card. I love the simplicity of this one. I love Jessica’s sentiments on this stamp set as well. I think she has the most amazing handwriting I’ve ever seen.
Last but not the least, is a birthday card! Today is MY birthday so of course I have to make a birthday card somehow. I combined two digital stamps on this card, and used some of my confetti stamps to create the confetti background. I also used my magnolia doohickey balloon dies to cut out the cute little balloons that you see below. I wanted this card to be happy, girly and adorable.
Which one is your favorite? Mine is still the Halloween Witch card just because she looks so stylish and I love Halloween! We are all little witches in our own sort of way, aren’t we?!
If you got lost along the way, this is the order of the hop:
Are you aware of how amazing digi stamps are? This is the weekend for you to find out. Digis are quick, resizable and take up no space in your craft room. You can print as many images as you want to add to your handmade cards, scrapbooks, project life, pocket letters, etc.
For this weekend only, all digital stamps at JessicaLynnOriginal.com are on sale for $1.00. If you have wanted to try digis, this is the perfect time to do it. Please follow along the hop to see some of the amazing work our design team has put together to show you how versatile these stamps truly are.
If you’ve come from Jeanette’s Blog, you’re in the right place!
The first two cards you see are made for a new baby boy and a baby girl. I have used the baby giraffe digi stamp to create these two simple cards.
The second card is one of my favorite digi stamps from JLO. It’s Brentwood as Mad Hatter. Of course I had to create an Alice In Wonderland themed card. I spent quite a few hours die-cutting the pieces to create a cute scene for this card. I know this is a bit much for some but I love spending a lot of time making my cards. To me, they’re little pieces of artwork!
Last but not the least, is my favorite out of all the cards I made today! It’s a Halloween-themed card and yes, it’s a fun shaker card. I used Brentwood Owl and dressed him/her as a warlock/witch. I dry-embossed the “moon” and included die-cut bats, orange sequins and seed beads for my shaker element. I love making shaker cards. Do you like this one too?
The next person is Sharon Rogers. She is an amazing carmaker/designer from Australia. Please check out her amazing designs: http://sharonshowcase.blogspot.com
Good morning crafters! I wanted to start my Halloween cards early this year so when I checked my emails and received a notification for another Lawnscaping Challenge, I just couldn’t resist.
For my card today, I am using the Lawn Fawn Spooktacular stamp set, Sweater Weather stampset and their coordinating dies, Grass Border and Stitched Rectangle dies. These stamp sets and dies are so much fun and so versatile; you can mix and match them for any occasion.
Happy Haunting
I first stamped all the images that I needed for the card on white card stock and colored them using my copic markers. Then I cut my card base, and black card stock as well as the vellum using the stitched rectangle die. I didn’t really have any design in mind at this point. I knew I wanted a round moon, so I cut it using my circle die, and dry-embossed it with my dots embossing folder. I then sponged the edges of my moon using my yellow inkpad to add a little bit of color. I proceeded to die-cut the trees with black card stock using the sweater weather dies, then went ahead to die-cut the rest of the stamped images and the grass border. I also used my bridge dies to create a cute little scene for my cat. Now that I had everything laid out in front of me, I started to create my card. The last thing that I did was to stamp the sentiment “happy haunting” using my white embossing powder on some dark purple card stock, then I adhered it to the front of my card. Oh, of course I had to use my wink of stella to give the moon some glittery effect, as well as the pumpkins, the witch’s hat and the leaves.
What do you guys think? I hope you like my card today. Happy Crafting and Happy Haunting!
Maria Russell Designs 