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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