Tattered Angels Halloween Kit

Recently I was tasked to put together the Halloween Tattered Angels Kit. This kit is amazing. It includes the album, a completer set of Halloween glimmer screens, 3 bottles of glimmer mist, ribbon, papers, tags, Glimmer chips, and embellishments.

This is my first Tattered angels album I have put together, but have loved Glimmer Mist for a long time now. There are so many ways to use Glimmer Mist and I have used so many of them here in this book.

I used several additional Tattered Angels stamps and Glimmer Screens throughout the book as well as an additional color of Glimmer Mist (Raven) to the 3 that come with the kit (Jack-o-Lantern, Sunflower, and Haunted Shadow). You'll also see some additional paper, stamps, metal, Spellbinders, Cuttlebug, Martha Stewart Punches, 3-D Lacquer, Memory Glass, Embossing Powder, Stickles, Distress Ink, Distress Crackle Paint, Grungeboard, Tim Holtz Idea-ology and other embellishments throughout. I really tried to pack it in!! The book has a lot to it so there are a zillion pictures. This album is on display at Scrappin' Bunnies, LLC in McKinney, TX for anyone local who may be interested in seeing it.

Playing with the Cricut and WildCard!

Making the tags for my nephew in the previous post got me itching to play around on the Cricut a little bit more. I brought out the WildCard cartridge and decided I needed to at least cut out the pumpkin card. I had loved it from the day I bought the cartridge but have yet to play with it. Well... here it is.... simple but really cute. Both the card and envelope were cut at 3 3/4".

• Paper: Bazzill
• Accessories: Cricut: Wildcard Cartridge

Cute Halloween Tags

Last week my brother, Steve, and sister-in-law, Tracy, stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to make super cute and delicious chocolate pumpkin pops for my nephew, Ben, to take with him to share with the kids at pre-school. While they were slaving away in the kitchen, my mother, Cindy, and I were slaving away in the studio to make some tags for them to tie onto each of the beautifully wrapped treats.

So to make these tags for my 3 year-old nephew, I had to stray from my grungy, distressed look that I tend to lean towards and make something, dare I say.....cutesie. UGH! Actually it was a lot of fun and surprisingly didn't kill me.

I started with plain manilla tags and inked completely with Spiced Mamalade Distress Ink and chalked the edges with Colorbox blackbird chalk. I brought out the Cricut and the Paper Dolls Dressup cartridge to make cute little ghosts and monsters for the tags. I also used Design Studio to weld the letters of each of the kids' and teachers' names using Plantin Schoolbook font, cut in purple and glitzed up with purple stickles (but never got a photo). I added a few stamps and a row of pumpkins cut with the Martha Stewart pumpkins border punch and voila.... something I will admit is super cutesie.

• Stamps: Inkadinkadoo, Hampton Arts
• Paper: Bazzill
• Ink: Ranger Distress Ink: Spiced Marmalade; Versafine: Onyx Black; Colorbox Chalk: Blackbird; Ranger Stickles: Purple
• Accessories: Tags: Miscellaneous; Martha Stewart Pumpkin Punch; Cricut Paper Dolls Dressup, Cricut Plantin Schoolbook; Floss: DMC

Happy Belated Halloween!

Well, I was hoping to get this posted pre-Halloween, but better late than never. This is a card that I had seen posted on a blog that I check often, the blog of Cheryl Cheever. I absolutely fell in love with the card, for so many reasons... Tim's new stamps, I'm a Poe fan, and ... HOW DID SHE DO THAT WITH THE SPELLBINDER??? It drove me crazy!!!! I decided I needed to figure this out. It took a bit of thinking and I figured it out! This is such a great technique and cannot wait to use on many other cards. Stay tuned at Scrappin' Bunnies, LLC... I'll be sharing it with everyone soon.

So here is my take on Cheryl's card.



Hope you enjoy this card. Cheryl's design was fantastic. Happy Belated Halloween!

• Stamps: Stampers Anonymous (Tim Holtz)
• Paper: Bazzill, Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
• Ink: Ranger Distress Ink: Walnut Stain, Black Soot, Spiced Marmalade, Frayed Burlap
• Accessories: Ranger Distress Embossing Powder: Black Soot; Spellbinders Nestabilities: Large Circles; Ribbon: Maya Road; Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Mini Paper Clips, Tiny Attacher, Mini Fasteners, Long Fasteners, Washers; Tag: Miscellaneous
  
  

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Here's a simple card that I put together from some old Halloween paper I had lying around, Bazzill paper, nestabilities, ribbon and some super cute Halloween stamps I picked up at Stamp Asylum at their Halloween card crop.... such a fun night.


I was short of black paper so I used the piece I had cut the Spellbinder from and used it on the inside to from the image.

A simple card, but it was a fun way to use my Nestabilities.

• Paper: Bazzill, other
• Stamps: Studio G (Hampton Arts)
• Ink: VersaFine Black Onyx Ink
• Accessories: Spellbinders Large Deckled Rectangles Nestabilities, Ranger Superfine Clear Embossing Powder, Ribbon

Tim Holtz Halloween Tags!!

Well, Tim posted some Halloween tags on his blog and I thought... what a perfect chance to practice some techniques. So I copied several of his tags from his post and then made one of my own design.

Here is my original design. I used the distress ink handle to ink the tag with spiced marmelade distress ink and then added the mask and applied black soot. I stamped the spider web in Black Archival ink and made a charm using a fragment thagt was scuffed upwith sandpaper and then clear embossed the spider web onto it. I added a bit of Cinder Glimmer Mist and a Grungeboard spider. I'm very happy with how this came out.

Here is a tag that I recreated from a sample I saw that was made earlier this month from a class with Tim. The skull is made of UTEE. I found some plastic skulls at Michael's and made a mold and then melted clear UTEE and a small amount of black UTEE. Once the molded skull was cool I covered it in silver alcohol ink. Still waiting on a charm to hang from the bottom of the skull that has been ordered.

Welcome Fall!

This is the time of year that I miss New England desperately! The crisp air, the colored leaves, crunchy Macoun apples.... Oh I miss home this time of year. Now I am in TX, but these past few weeks we have had cooler than normal weather and many rainy days. The leaves aren't changing but at least it is a small bit of fall feeling.

I saw this idea on the Spellbinder's Blog to make a 3-d pumpkin using the Spellbinders Pumpkins Nestabilities. Loved the idea and thought how fun on a fall themed card. I also used an older Spellbinder's Shapeabilities set with the maple and oak leaves and acorn. LOVE that set! I cut and embossed the leaves, colored the stems using the spellbinder as a stencil with Colorbox Chestnut Roan Chalk. I then spritzed the leaves with Tattered Angels Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist to give them a sheen and the large droplets that make them look more realistic.

• Paper:Pink Paislee - Amber Road Postcards; Cosmo Cricket
• Ink: Colorbox Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink
• Accessories: Spellbinders Pumpkins Nestabilities and Leaves Shapeabilities; Cuttlebug Spots and Dots Embossing Folder; Glimmer Mist Iridescent Gold