Ghost Go Out

This card is a quick one. I cut the hole in the middle of the card with Spellbinder and used the next size circle to cut out the circle in the printed paper. Stamped the saying cut around it and mounted it with colored card stock.

I stamped the ghost and cut them out and added the saying and it is done!

 

 

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Trick or Treat Angel

I love Halloween, I think it is my favorite Holiday. Dress up and eat candy, how could it get any better. The spider web in the upper left corner, and the rest of the stamps are from Crackerbox Palace stamps. I colored the angel with Copic markers and also used them to line the saying.

The bag is a small brown bag I bought and just sponged black ink around the edges. In a pack of paper, I found some candy punch outs that I used to keep the card flat. I would of liked to have had real candy!  The bottle top is one that came in a package I punched out with my 1" punch and put a clear dot over top.

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Black Hat Society

With this heat I am ready for some cool weather, so I pulled out my Halloween stamps.

The background paper is the scraps I found and thought I should use them.

I cut out the orange mat and white paper for the image with Spellbinders. Before I took apart the image off of the die cut, I outlined it with Spica Marker.

I used a bottle cap for one of my embellishements. I add a clear bubble over the image in the bottle cap,

 

The spider here and the white skull in the lower right corner are buttons.

I put a gem on her hat and black Spica Marker for her hair. Stickles was added on her dress.

 

 

Here is the card again, the spider is in the corner.

 

 

 

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Spooks in the Cuboard

This Halloween hang up was made by Currie.

She glued black card stock on a piece of cardboard and punched corner holes in it to hang it and added wire.

She cut a piece of cardstock so it would just go up to the holes.

Currie stamped the cuboard and spider on white card stock and colored it with Copic markers.  She then stamped the bat, spider webs and saying.

The cat, ghost, pumpkin and skull on card stock, colored them and then cut them out and attached them to the card.

This idea would be great to hang on the door, frig. or cuboard or anywhere else to decorate for Halloween.

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Happy Halloween Pumpkin Head

Currie made this Halloween card with a little surprise.

She mounted different shades of browns on black card stock. On one of the layers she stamped and embossed spider webs in the corners.

She stamped Pumpkin Head on the lightest color and colored him in with the Copic markers and then stamped the saying.

Currie punched holes and added 3 colored eyelets. It adds color and interest to the card. 

In the holes are eyes that are in the inside of the card.

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The Ghost are Getting Out

Currie made this Halloween card with Crackerbox Palace stamps.

She stamped the branch on light gold card stock and colored it in with Copic markers. She sponged the back ground with Distress inks and stamped the bats and the saying.

She used Tim Holtz bird cage to hang from the tree and added brads to the bottom of the cage.

She stamped the ghosts on white card stock and cut them out then added them coming out of the cage.

This is the inside of the card.

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Haunted House on Cloth

Currie made another great Halloween card.

Well lets start with the skull embellishment.  Currie stamped the skull with StazOn on top of Tim Holtz's Fragments.

The paper behind the Fragment looks like she scanned the fabric she stamped the haunted house on and printed it on white paper.

Currie stamped the haunted house and boo on the fabric with StazOn. She pulled some threads out to put a fring on the edges. Brads are used to attach the fabric to the card.  The bat is a button that we sell in our physical store.

She mounted the card in a number of layers. When she got to the last layer, she punched holes in the corners and used orange thread to tie the knots and embellish the corners.

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3 Ghost with a Hat

Currie made this Halloween card.
All of these stamps are from Crackerbox Palace Stamps.

Currie stamped the 3 ghost with black ink. She outlined the eyes and the border with a light gray Copic Marker.

She stamped the witches hat on dark purple card stock and cut it out and attached it to the ghost.

The other images were stamped on the same white card stock as the ghost.

Happy Halloween was stamped on acetate and attached on the left with a cooper brad so it kind of hovers over the card.

She punched holes on the right side of the card and used black string to sew the zigzag design that leads down to the spider.

On the outer edge of the card she used Tim Holtz's distress edger. It makes a great edge for this card.

The inside of the card is even fun.

After she stamped BOO, she punched holes in the OO. She put green card stock behind it and made dots in the center of the holes to look like eyes.

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Kevin Nakagawa Haunted House

This is a card that I got to watch Kevin (owner of Stampscapes) make.

Some stampers of one of his groups got together in Chicago to stamp together in August this year and he made this card.

Kevin used Stampscapes and Crackerbox Palace stamps.

He used Marvy inks and Colorbox Stylus.  White ink was added over the windows and as haze.  A white pen was used for the dots. 

Here is the stamping group.

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Happy Halloween Witch

Currie stamped the witch on white card stock, colored and cut her out. 

Then stamped the little trick or treaters on the bottom and the bats on top on yellowish/orangeish card stock.

She matted the image on corrugated cardboard and then on green and black.

The stars she glued on are just flat silver stars.

Used Vintage Photo ink, glitter in the hair and Glossy Accents for her eyes.

Hope all of you have a happy and safe weekend.

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Trick or Treat

Here is a real quick card to make. Just stamp the staying, cut it out and use a corner rounder on the corners.  Stamp the candy corn and cut those pieces out.  Currie used Copic markers to color and used Gelly Roll pens for the sparkle.  Vintage Photo Distress ink is used for the distress look.

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Boogie Nights book

Currie wanted this card to look like a book with ghosts in it.

It would be real easy to add a couple of pages if you would wish.

The hinges she found at Big Lots and used Smooch gold to color the book plate.

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Halloween Book

I got this from Currie a while back but I held it back so it was closer to Halloween to show you in hopes you will use the ideas for your own pictures-I just love this book she made !!

Currie cut the chipboard book out using the Sizzix die "Album cover and page".

Then she covered each page in Halloween colors of card stocks.

She found pictures of her girls - Maddy and Allie - and the dogs wearing costumes and cut them out.

Distress inks were used to distress the pictures.

For the front cover she used the 3 ghost stamp and used Shrink Plastic to make it smaller and turn it into a thicker piece of plastic.

All of the stamps used were Crackerbox Palace stamps

Maddie                                          Allie

Kyra                                       Izzy



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Trick or Treat Devil

I think I have already mentioned that Halloween is my favorite holiday.

Rena Askey is the artist that drew the devil and did the saying.  We have other Halloween kids that she drew that we made stamps from.  Her drawings have a little twist.

The cutout behind the image is from Spellbinders.

I colored the image and candy with Copic markers.

The devil is colored with more red as you expect for a devil.

The jar is stamped and cut out.  I used B000 & Boo Copic on the edges.

I stamped the candy corn and colored and cut them out.  When ever I cut anything out, I always go around the edge with a black marker to cover up the white paper on the edge.  I used Marvy black marker on most of them and I think I grabbed the Tombow marker on the one that has the edge that bled into the lacquer.

The words on the bottom is from card stock I had.

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Happy Haunting House

Currie stamped the house in black on dark gray card stock.

Embossed was used on extra flying bats.

She cut out a bat using the Cricut cartridge Paper Dolls.

Covered the big bat in Flower Soft to add dimension.

There are ghosts in the window that she added with a white pen.

Stamped Happy Haunting, distress the edges and added it to the layers.

All stamps are Crackerbox Palace stamps.

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Wicked Fun Angel

All of the stamps come from Crackebox Palace.

The orange card stock was embossed with Tim Holtz embossing folder and attached to the purple card.

The 2 right side corners were punched with Martha Stewart punch.

I embossed the spider webs on the left side with a Sizzix embossing folder.

The oval cutout, words and image is cut from Spellbinders.

There are pop dots behind the black card stock to bring it off of the back ground orange.

The glow in the dark spider, is just an embellishment I had. 

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Bats in the belfry

It's getting closer to Halloween so I will be sharing some ideas for my favorite holiday of the year.

Currie has made some great cards so I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Currie stamped Frankenstein on white card stock, colored him with Copic markers and cut him out.

Next she stamped the spider web and bats on dark blue card stock. 

She glued Frank on the blue card stock.

To mount it, she first sat the blue card stock on the lime green and then stamped the saying, just in case a mistake happened, but it didn't so she then glued down the blue cs.

She put wiggle eyes on the bats.  Won't any male like this card??

This is the inside of the card.

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