Happy Fright Night -Taylored Expressions

 Hello!  Happy Fall!  You know I just love Halloween.  I have been getting into all the spooky things and using my Halloween and Fall inspired stamps and dies!  My house is all decked out!  Still thinking about what I may do with my outside to make it all spooky!  But I know one thing for sure, we cannot wait to do some pumpkin carving.  That will need to wait till Halloween!  Until then, I can create spooky cards! 

For the Inspired By Challenge this week, the inspiration is Pumpkins!  EEK!  I used all Taylored Expressions for my project today: 

Stamp: Spooky Season Stamp 

Die: Snack-O-Lantern Shaker Die 

Inks: Mango, Pumpkin, Peaches'n Cream, Sweet Potato Pie, Plum Punch, VersaFine Clair Nocturne

I started by inking my panel with the Peaches'n Cream, Sweet Potato Pie, Pumpkin and Plum Punch.   I then stamped the panel with the Spooky Seasons Stamp and used the VersaFine Clair Nocturne for the bats.   I then splattered the panel with Chocolate Truffle ink.  I then splattered it with Silver Metallic inks from Tim Holtz.    

I die cut the Snack-O-Lantern from black licorice and some yellow cardstock from my scraps.  I stamped and embossed a sentiment from Spooky Season and then ink blended the XXXX panel with Mango ink.  I finished the card by adding some orange stars from the Halloween Bit's & Pieces.  I just LOVE how the card turned out!!! 

Come play along with the Inspired By Challenge! 

Happy Halloween! 

Oh Nuts! - The Greetery

 Hello!  I hope you are doing well today.   It's time again for another Inspired By Challenge!   This week's inspiration is Acorns - there is an inspiration photo and a sketch, you can use one or both!   I used some of my new The Greetery August release products that I just bought.  I used the Jumbo Curiosity: Acorns Die, Fall Foodie stamp set and the Herringbone Parquet die. 

I added a previously released die called Big Branches: Ruscus die.  I used two die cuts and then trimmed one and popped it up in various places to surround the acorns.   I love the pop of orange against the dark browns!  I splattered the leaves with some dark ink.  

To finish off the card, I added some gold pearls from Pink Fresh.  I hope that you get an opportunity to play along!  Check out the blog post here! 

I used Distress Oxide inks to add details to my die cuts in rich browns, oranges and greens.   To add details to the panel, I used some Black Soot Distress Oxide ink.  I embossed the sentiments with gold embossing powder onto some dark brown cardstock.     Thanks for stopping by! 

You're Unbe-LEAF-able!

 Hello everyone!  I am sharing my card that I made for the Inspired By Challenge!   I had SO MUCH FUN creating this card!  First off, I got all inky with my surgical gloves and many different Distress Inks!  I did a lot of ink smooshing!  I have not done this in such a long time!  I trimmed down a 3.5 inch square of watercolor cardstock and then got to inking, spritzing and smooshing!  

I knew I wanted several different colors of leafs.  So I paired three different colors of Distress Inks to create burgundy, orange, yellow, green and brown leaves.  I would ink, spray, splatt and dry the squares with my heat gun.  I repeated this till I got some light and dark areas.   I then splattered with some dark brown watercolor.    

I had some large leaves and smaller leaves and went with the smaller leaves.   I popped up each leaf with foam tape.  I then added a sentiment from The Greetery with the Way to Grow stamp set.   I used a die cut flag from Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Die.  

Come join us at the Inspired By Challenge!!! 

Halloween Potion Bottles - Taylored Expressions

 Hello!  I love Halloween! It's one of my favorite time to make papercrafts.   I absolutely adored these products from Taylored Expressions!  I combined several different products to make these mini slim shaker cards.  Happy Halloween!   

Supplies from Taylored Expressions: 

Potion Bottle Die & Clear Combo

Ghostly Greetings stamp

Spooky Season stamp 

Spiderweb Cling & Clear Combo 

Stitched Mini Slim Stacklets 

Petite Scallop Mini Slim Stacklets 

TE Cardstock & Inks: Pumpkin, Lime Zest, Plum Punch, Eggplant, Sugar Cube and Black Licorice 

Create in Quads - Ever in Bloom

 Hey there!  I am sharing a card I created with the Create in Quads Ever in Bloom stencil from Taylored Expressions.  I only created one card but I saved my other panels for a rainy day!   I am playing along with the Inspired By Challenge.  This week it is all about Leggings!   I used the photo as my inspiration using the florals in the leggings and thought about the Ever In Bloom stencil to create my fall spray! 

I added details to the image with some Prisma Colored pencils and a white gel pen.   Join us for the Inspired By Challenge here! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Poppy Stamps - Poppy Challenge - Old School

 Hello!  I am participating in the Poppy Stamps - Poppy Challenge this month.  The theme this month is Old School - mixing old and new products or using an older technique.   I created this Halloween card using some old and newer products from Poppy Stamps, see my link list below.  I started off with inking up a panel with Distress Inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey, Dusty Concord and Wilted Violet.  I then splattered it with white paint and water.   I set it aside to dry.  

I created the Haunted House from the Neighborhood Home Popup Easel Set craft die and put it off centered on the card and actual cut off a portion of the house to allow for my Boo Outline die.  I glued the windows and doors shifted to make it look like the house is old and breaking down!  I added a vellum panel behind the windows.  

I die cut the ghost from the Halloween Assemblage die from white card stock and white glitter paper from the Glitzy Glitter pad.  I die cut the Whittle Scary Guys die from white and white glitter paper.  I offset the glitter paper to give them a bit of sparkle.  

To finish off the panel, I die cut the Boo Outline from black and white glitter paper and added to the main panel.   Check out the challenge here at Poppy Stamps blog! 

Have a great and crafty day!