Happy Halloween! And a SCARY card

Hi Dreamers!
Happy Halloween!!  I have the treats all ready for the little Trick or Treaters tonight.  Unfortunately, it is raining now.  Hopefully the rain will stop for tonight. Should be fun!!   To celebrate, I have one more scary card to share!

Materials:

Willow Tree Die Cut- Memory Box

Stamps: Raven-Stampin' Up; sentiment- A Muse Studios

CS: Green, Orange, White textured, Gray Marbled

Inks: Black

Distress Inks: Frayed Burlap, Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo

Circle Punch

Instructions:

• Make a card from Green CS and layer with Orange
• Punch a circle from orange CS and distress with inks
• Die cut the tree from white textured CS and distress with Frayed Burlap distress ink
• Glue both to gray marbled CS and distress with inks
• Stamp the raven and sentiment with black ink

Challenges for my Happy Halloween Card:

Simon's Monday: vintage + anything goes

Little Red Wagon: Halloween

Flutterby Wednesday: any winged creature

Perfect Sentiment: sentiment on front + Fall or Halloween

365 Cards: starts with R---I used a raven
4 Crafty Chicks: Halloween

I hope you have a SPOOKY HALLOWEEN.  See you back today for my Guest Designer project for the 

4 Krafty Girlz Challenge!!!  Love ya.

Karen

Spooky Haunted House with Scary Tree--- Halloween Card!!

Hi Dreamers,
Really starting to seem like Fall here in Michigan, USA.  Cooler temps and rain today.  The Leaves are changing colors and making a lovely show!  I finished up the Halloween cards!  I will be sharing two of them today and the others will be posted throughout the next two weeks until Halloween.  Lots of time left to make a few cards to send out.  To create my creepy cards, I used stamps, a die cut tree,  and lots of Distress inks.

Card #1

Materials:

Stamps: Haunted House-Stampin' Up; Bats -A Muse

Die: Willow Tree -Memory Box

CS: White, Kraft, Yellow, Orange, Gray, Sahara Sand - Stampin' Up

Black ink

Distress inks: Stormy Sky, Black Soot, Frayed Burlap, Rusty Hinge

Copic Markers

Instructions:

• Make a card base from yellow CS (card 1) and Orange CS (card 2)
• Layer with Orange(card 1)/Gray (card 2)
• Stamp the Haunted house with black ink
• Color the moon and windows with Copic Markers

• Color the background with the Distress inks and glue to card base
• Die cut trees from white and Kraft CS
• Distress trees with Distress inks
• Add white tree to card #1
• Stamp Bats

Card #2

• On the second card, I thought I wanted the tree cut from Kraft CS.  But, I thought it did not stand out enough.  I layered a second white tree over the Kraft tree letting the Kraft tree show slightly.
• I also added Rusty Hinge to the background on this card--wanted to make the moon look like it was glowing.  

*******A few fun challenges for my Spooky House Halloween Cards:

Simon's Monday Challenge: spooky

Lisa's Bloggers Challenge: Halloween

Dream Valley: Halloween

Fashionable Stamping: make a card

Pile it On: Halloween

2 Sisters: colors of Halloween

Crafty calendar: Halloween

Well, I guess that is it for me today.  Stayed tuned for more Halloween fun!!!  Hope you are having a great day.  Love ya.

Karen

Cards Using Memory Box Die Cut - One Spooky, One Not Spooky

Hi Dreamers,
A few weeks ago I won some really cool Blog Candy from Memory Box Design Team member, Bibiana!
Check out Bibiana's Personal blog too.  The blog candy was  a die cut called Willow Tree from Memory Box.  Bibiana asked if I would make a sample and send it to her.  Well, I made two samples and here is the first card--which is  not spooky.

Materials:

Willow tree die -Memory Box

CS: White, Bashful Blue, Pear Pizzaz (Stampin' Up)

Distress Inks: Tumbled Glass, Bundled Sage, Forest Moss, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo

Dye Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento

Stipple brushes

Ribbon

Pearls

Instructions:

• Make card base from Bashful Blue CS and layer with Pear Pizzaz
• Using a fairly large piece of white CS, die cut a tree
• The waste will be used as a stencil/mask

• Lay the waste/stencil/mask on top of a piece of White CS
• With stipple brush apply Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress inks to color in the tree
• Remove the mask
• Using the stipple brushes and the Distress inks, add more color onto the white CS--blue for sky, greens for leaves and add to the card front

• Add the White die cut tree to the card allowing the "shadow" of the tree peek out
• Stamp a sentiment with Rich Cocoa ink and tear out
• Add a ribbon tied in a knot and some tiny pearls.

And, now for the Spooky card!

Materials:

Willow tree die -Memory Box

Stamps: A wood/tree Grain stamp, Halloween Owl-Warmest of Wishes Set from Stampin' Up, Sentiment from A Muse Studios

CS: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Black, and Cream all from Stampin' Up

Ink: Chocolate Chip-SU: Toffee Crunch-Memento

Orange Marker

Owl Punch-Stampin' Up

Spellbinders die to cut sentiment

Black satin Ribbon

Instructions:

• Make a card base from black CS and layer with Soft Suede
• On the Crumb Cake CS stamp the wood grain stamp with Toffee Crunch ink
• Die cut the tree from the wood grain stamped piece and add to the card front

• Stamp the Owl with Chocolate Chip ink and punch out
• Color the treat bag with orange marker
• Add to tree branch with dimensional adhesive
• Stamp and die cut the sentiment

I really loved working with this fun Willow Tree Die Cut !!  And, I have showed how easy it was to make a Summer card and a Fall card with the same die.  I will be using it to create a few more Halloween cards and Fall cards and lots more. Thanks to Bibiana and Memory Box!


*********Challenges for my Tree cards:
Card a day: Autumn/ Halloween
Craft-Room: trees or leaves
Cuttlebug Mania: back to nature
Loves Rubber stamps: anything goes
4 Krafty Girlz:---A new challenge blog---anything goes
As you like it: favorite tree---love this tree die cut as it is so versatile and can be used on cards and altered projects
Aud Sentiments: any sentiment
Addicted to Stamps and More: anything goes
Simon's Wednesday Challenge: animals


Well, I guess I slipped this post in--Surprise!!  So, the next post will be some of the cards I am making to fill that order.  Have a great day!!  Love ya.
Karen

WOYWW 176 - Fall Themed

Hello Everyone!
Is it really Wednesday again?  My, the days just seem to fly by!  As it is Wednesday, it is time to fly around the world checking out all the work spaces.  How is this possible you ask.  Well, through the magic of Julia at The Stamping Ground and  Mr linky of course.   I have been quite busy lately.  I have finished making the cards that I will sell at a small show in December.  I ended up with about 200 cards.  They have to all be packaged yet.  So, I thought I would make a few cards for charities and for friends and family.  Hence these fall themed cards.  Half are going to two charities and half to family.  I used a stamp from Memory Box.  There is a bag of twine that I may use on some of the cards.

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Well, I am off to visit some other work desks!!  Hope you are having a great day!! Love ya.
Karen