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

Birthday Card

It's been a long time since I've made this card and don't remember the paper I used, but love how this came out. It was a great chance to practice using my Copic markers. FYI... I'm heading to be certified in Copics in December in San Antonio!!

• Stamps: Impression Obsession - Shuttered Window Box
• Paper: Bazzill, other
• Ink: Copic Markers, VersaFine - Onyx Black
• Accessories: Flower Soft; Ultimate Glue; Spellbinders - Double Ended Tags; Cricut - Storybook; Cuttlebug - Swirl Embossing Folder; Stickles - Black Diamond; Fiskars Border Punch; Michael's - Ribbon

Father's Day Card

I had so much fun making this card for my dad. It was a good chance to play with inks, metal and Tim Holtz Idea-ology. My dad loved the card which meant so much to me. I even had the opportunity to show this card to Tim Holtz himself when I took his class here in Dallas.

The background has a piece of copper sheeting that I ran through the Cuttlebug and then distressed using several earth tone alcohol inks. The calendar was stamped, embossed and then distressed using distress ink. The inside of the card was made using the gear masks and distress ink.

• Stamps: Hamption Art - Calendar
• Paper: Creative Imaginations; Bazzill, The Paper Loft
• Ink: Ranger Spiced Marmelade and Frayed Burlap Distress Ink, VersaFine Vintage Sepia Ink, Ranger Alcohol Inks
• Accessories: Ranger: Memory Glass, Copper Tape; Tim Holtz Idea-ology Sprocket Gears, Game Spinners, Mini Fasteners, Tiny Attacher and Timeworks Masks; Twine; Copper Sheet

I'm back!!

Well, it's been way too long, but I am finally making time to upload a lot of projects. I have a bunch of things to post ranging from my father's day card to Halloween and Christmas.

Get ready.......

Well, it's been a crazy couple of months since my last post, but that doesn't mean I haven't been creating. I'll be posting several pictures very soon.

Bluebonnet Card

Here is a card I just finished up tonight. I am going to give it to a lady from a group I meet with that is moving away. I figured bluebonnets were a good theme since she's moving from TX to CA. PLUS, it gave me the chance to use the new Flower Soft that I got a couple of weeks ago from Stamp Asylum. I also got this stamp from there.... oh okay, I also stole the whole idea from them from a sample they had on the counter at the checkout. BUT, it's such a cool idea. I had to make one. It also gave me the chance to use my brand new copic markers. I stamped onto the paper using Versamark Archival ink and then added clear embossing powder and embossed. It made it a lot easier to stay within the lines using the copics. I am really starting to get the hang of the blending technique. I see myself using copics frequently in the future. I love them!!!

It's hard to see the flower soft on the bluebonnets so I added a closeup of the flowers. I can't wait to find more uses for it.

Thank You Card

Here is a thank you card I put together for a local "Page in a Bag" contest. I was required to use all 4 of these buttons, the acrylic flower, the rub-ons, the blue swirl ribbon, and the pink and blue papers. I decided to make a card since that is my latest craze. Not my favorite creation, but it was fun to make. I tried to use as many techniques as I could. I used the cuttlebug to embose the pink Core'dinations paper and then sanded. I stamped and embossed the Thank You sentiment and added a metal flower behind the acrylic flower. I used alcohol ink on both and put the copper flower through the cuttlebug using swiss dots. To distress the buttons I applied alcohol ink to them as well.

Let me know what you think.

Bug Layout

This is a layout that I created for the May Page in a Bag contest at my local scrapbook store. This was such a fun page to put together. This is where I first used clear embossing powder. It gives such a different look and feel! I used it over each of the bugs that I stamped along with the BUGS title. The embroideries were designs that I picked and my mom (Cindy) embroidered using her Diamond embroidery machine. Thanks mom!!!

For those that don't know, this is a picture of my little nephew Ben doing something he loves to do... catch bugs to put in his bug box. I remember doing this as a kid myself so I love when he wants to go Bugging with his Ampy Jen!

Birthday Card

I had so much fun creating this card. This is the first I played with memory glass. I distressed the paper using the Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Browns and Worn Lipstick). I used silver tape around the glass and used copper and pearl alcohol inks to give it a distressed copper look. The flower design was on paper that I found at my local scrapbook store. Same with the ribbon - I LOVE this ribbon.

Sympathy Card

I had started this card as a way to use some new stamps and copic markers. I needed a sympathy card so I turned it into one.

Owl Card

When I first got the new Wild Card cartridge I couldn't wait to make the owl card. I used distress inks to give it a distressed look and used 3 different cuttlebug embossing folders on the envelope. The eyes are green glass beads I found in a jewelry clearance bin at Michaels.

It was a lot of fun to make and probably my favorite card so far.