not girly!

Lately my son has been complaining that my cards are too "girly". I pulled out the retiring extreme skateboarder stamp and made a couple of cards that I thought he would be not be embarassed to give to his friends. It was fun to do something so different from my usual flowery elements of style!

This card uses basic black cardstock and ink and is sprayed with silver foil smooch spritz. It also uses the wicked cool DSP (ah ha! Not just for halloween!). The sentiment is that very cool FYI stamp set which will be gone at the end of this month!

This card was super fun to make and involved cutting punched out squares and glueing them on crumb cake cardstock to make a wall. The edges of the bricks were sponged with crumb cake and the skateboarder was stamped 3 times with early espresso without re-inking. I think this is called repetition stamping and it's cool how it gives the effect of movement.

Haunted House!

Here is my finished haunted house. I love it and it was so easy to make. First I painted all the pieces then assembled it using sticky strip. I covered the windows with vellum that I stamped with the various images from the wicked cool set (cobwebs, bats, candles etc). I embellished with the bats. The little details that I love but you can't see in the picture:

gold smooch spritz on the roof, black spritzes on the white cardstock using the colour spritzer tool and black waffle paper coming out of the chimney.

I put a electric candle under the house to give it that eeerrrieee glow. I can't wait until halloween night to turn off all the lights and have it in the foyer.

This was so easy and fun I am thinking of buying more to do with the kids and cousins as a Christmas house craft.

spooky

Here's another fun halloween card using the wicked cool set. Doesn't the bat punch out popped up with the stampin' dimensional totally make the card!? Add a little colour with the cajun craze marker and we're done!

So easy!

Halloween Crafting

I started crafting in earnest yesterday for Halloween projects. That evening somebody e-mailed and asked me if I'd started my halloween projects yet. What a coincidence. So, just so you all know, I am madly crafting in preparation for halloween due to the tv segment on the 29th. My husband always asks me: "Is it still fun when you are under all this pressure to finish projects?" My answer is always the same: YES!!!!

Here's a card I made using the Wicked Cool set and co-ordinating DSP. I am loving the new bat punch. A bat punch out makes everything look great! I also played with the new waffle paper in the holiday mini. V--eee---rrr--yy interesting stuff. It's called paper but it doesn't really feel like paper. It's thin but moldable. It allows you to get different looks depending how you shape it.

I hope you are all enjoying crafting...whatever you're working on now.