Halloween Squares

Happy Monday! Hope you had a wonderful weekend. It's been rather hot and humid here. Not my favorite weather, so it's been nice to stay indoors and stamp away! I've been having lots of fun playing with the new Halloween images just released by DRS Designs. You can see all the new images here.

I started these two cards by cutting out a bunch of squares in green, orange, purple and yellow CS. For the first card I used only the green and orange squares and stamped the scary cat from the 4 in 1 Halloween Silhouette image  onto each square with Versafine Black ink. After gluing all the squares onto a black panel I added the stamped cat on the moon image along with the purrfect Halloween greeting. I added some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer pen to the moon. My oldest granddaughter loves cats and she will be over the moon for this card!

For my second card I used all the colored squares and all of the images from the 4 in 1 Halloween Silhouette images to stamp the squares, again with Versfine Black ink. After attaching all the squares to a black layer I added the Deco Halloween Greetings that was stamped with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with white EP onto black CS. I added some rhinestones to some of the squares.

You can check out all these new images as well as all of the Halloween images at DRS Designs on line store.

Thanks for stopping by today.

shelia

In the spirit of Halloween...

Happy Monday Everyone! Hope you had a wonderful weekend and found some time to get inky. DRS Designs is  releasing some fabulous new Halloween images that I think you are going to really like. If you check the blog regularly you have already seen several cards using the new images. Aren't they great!

My cards today feature the new ghost image(1104F) and Spirit of Halloween greeting(010D). When I saw the ghost image I had this idea of lining them up in a row holding hands, kind of like a line of dancers. So I stamped a bunch of them onto vellum CS with Versamark ink and heat embossed them with white EP. Ghost images on vellum look so cool to me. After cutting them all out, I inked up the background with some DO inks to create the night sky. Once that dried I stamped the new greeting with VersaMark ink and embossed it with white EP too. Then as I started to put the card together I remembered that adding vellum to cardstock is a bit tricky. I had forgotten about that detail. So I had to figure something out and decided to add just a drop of glue behind the eyes, mouth and along the feet part. I did pretty good with the glue, but there are some places where you can see it through the vellum. I still like the ghosts stamped onto vellum, but I think I might need to figure out another way to attach them to the card. I actually made two cards using the ghosts, one A2 size and one slimline.  Here they are:

The inside is the same on both cards.

I like less scary Halloween cards and thought this would make a fun inside for my line up of ghosts. I used the Trick or Treat greeting and the candy corn image. As a kid Halloween was all about the candy! Still is.

Thanks for stopping by today. You can see all the new images here.

Shelia

Boo!

Hello Everyone,

I have a card I created using this week's sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. It's a great sketch with lots of possibilities. Here's my card:

And here's the sketch:




I stated by stamping the ghost family with Memento black ink onto white CS, colored the ghosts with some Copics and after it dried added some Rubber Cement glue to the image as a mask so I could sponge on some dark blue and black inks for the sky and ground, The image was die cut and layered on some orange and then black CS. The dp is some that I've had in my stash for years and I thought it would make a good background for my little ghosts. I added a die cut Boo and a punched border of spider webs. I found one spider sticker in my stash and since it had the purple gem for its body I added it to go with the purple socks some of the ghosts are wearing.

I really like the way this turned out and will definitely be using this sketch again!!

Thanks for stopping by!

shelia

TMS Challenge 562

Hello Everyone. I have a card to share with you today that uses this week's sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. This is their 11th Anniversary! Wow, they've been sharing sketches for quite a long time. I enjoy sketch challenges a lot.

Here's this week's sketch:

                                     




And here's my card:

I went with portrait rather than landscape and since I'm behind on my monthly quota for Christmas cards I decided to make my first out of four for the month of July. I stamped the snowman image with Memento black ink, colored him with Copics and die cut the panel with a Fawn Lawn stitched rectangle die. The greeting was stamped with SU Cranberrry Crisp ink and heat embossed with clear EP, then die cut with a stitched oval die from ODBD. The cranberry panel was stamped with the splatter background and die cut with a larger rectangle die from the same Fawn Lawn set. The small strips of white and the long cranberry strip were stamped with a snowflake background stamp. The snowman panel and greeting oval are popped up with foam tape. I added some punched snowflakes with blue half pearls to complete the look. It's so hot right now that I actually felt cooler just stamping and coloring this snowman. I'm going to have to make some more snowmen cards tomorrow!  LOL!

Thanks for stopping by.

blessings,
shelia