Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive…

The last of my three cards I’m sharing tonight features images from the Haunted House set by Tim Holtz as well as backgrounds from his Skulls & Cobwebs set.

The layout of my card follows the current sketch at Sketch Saturday.  To create the four quadrants I stamped the background stamps in matching ink to my cardstock and embossed with clear embossing powder.  This gives a lovely tone on tone effect that also has texture and shine in real life.  I then added in the circle with a Spellbinders die and matted the scene I created in the circle on a second one from plain black.

I finished off my card with chippie details of the Hallowe’en setiment and witch’s familiar.

Over at Paradise of Stamps they’re running a Hallowe’en challenge and I’ve created a fun Hallowe’en scene in watercolours.  Although now I see that when I finished this card off late last night I was clearly tired as I needed to rotate my scene just slightly so the tree wasn’t crooked!  I’m also linking my card up in the Hallowe’en challenge at Come and Get It.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies ~ S4-114 Standard Circles Large & S4-116 Standard Circles Small

Embellishments

Make it Crafty Adapt-a-Word Chipboard Set ~ Boo

Make it Crafty Layered Chipboard Words ~ 3" Halloween

Make it Crafty Chipboard Set ~ Bubble & Trouble

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolours ~ No 20 Black, No 38 Deep Violet, No 40 Lemon Yellow, No 47 Dark Brown, No 51 May Green, No 67 Deep Blue & No 95 Silver

Nuvo Crystal Drops ~ Oyster Grey

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pads ~ Basic Black & Berry Burst

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot & Wilted Violet

Papers

Arches Watercolor Paper ~ 185gsm Smooth

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Lily White

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Raven

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Berry Burst

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS308 Haunted House & CMS306 Skulls & Cobwebs

Challenges

Come and Get It ~ Halloween

Paradise of Stamps #59 ~ Autumn / Halloween

Sketch Saturday ~ Sketch #487

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The crow wished everything was black…

My second card tonight features the Ornate Owl die from Tim Holtz.

I used the photo inspiration at Hand Stamped Sentiments to design this card.  I picked my owl die cut from one of the images and added the witch’s hat from another.  There was lots of orange and green in the images so I went with that for the colour scheme.  To make sure I could play along in the challenge I stamped my sentiment from the Scared Silly set by Tim Holtz, where I also got the witch’s hat.

To make my main owl feature I cut the die from white cardstock and then covered it with embossing enamel.  In hindsight I should have done the embossing first and then die cut the owl as I ended up with stray bits of embossing that the die cut was too intricate to clean away.  I hand cut a second owl to act as a background and inked that with Distress Oxides then spritzed with water.  I think it turned out great for a feathery owl.

So I could play along at Moving Along with the Times I added a spider charm to hang off the owl’s hat.  For some balance I added another next to the sentiment and filled the hanger of both with Nuvo Crystal Drops.  Unfortunately it was hot as Hades here yesterday so the drops drooped before they could dry so they are not the usual lovely dome shape you get with them.

Over at The Rubber Buggy they are running a Hallowe’en challenge so I am also linking my card up there.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

Stampendous! Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Silver

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Thinlits ~ 662380 Ornate Owl

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Adornments ~ Halloween

Inks & Paints etc

Nuvo Crystal Drops ~ Ripened Pumpkin

Spica Pen ~ Black & Silver

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Tim Holtz Distress Oxides ~ Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain & Wild Honey

Wink of Stella Glitter Pen ~ Violet

Papers

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Lily White

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Raven

Graphic 45 An Eerie Tale ~ Patterns & Solids

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Pumpkin Pie

Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Watercolor

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS311 Scared Silly

Challenges

Hand Stamped Sentiments #275 ~ Photo inspiration

Moving Along with the Times #57 ~ Add a Charm or Tag

The Rubber Buggy #4 ~ Fall/Autumn and/or Halloween

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…but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl

Well it’s almost Hallowe’en and not all my cards are done but I’ve a trio to share tonight, this one featuring the Moonlit Owl die from Tim Holtz.

Over at Challenge Up Your Life they want to see die cuts on your project so I’ve made my die cut the feature of my card.  I turned the Moonlit Owl die cut into a shaker by cutting around it with a Spellbinder circle.  I cut this from a white bit of card and then coloured with Black Soot and embossed with clear embossing powder to make it shiny.

For my background I inked a piece of Yupo paper with alcohol ink, having masked off a circle to create a large moon.  For my shaker I’ve used some lovely pistachio coloured sequins and beads from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards that I think looked like moonlight.

I’ve added in my sentiment using a chippie from Make it Crafty.  Well, two chippies actually, one a layered word and the other from an Adapt-a-Word set.  I chose to use a chippie so I could play along at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers, although I’ve not gone snarky on my card.

As the current theme at Do-Al(l) Creative is Hallowe’en I’m also linking my card up over there.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities Die ~ LF114 Grand Circles

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Thinlits ~ 662381 Moonlit Owl

Embellishments

Little Things from Lucy’s Cards ~ Pale Pistachio

Make it Crafty Adapt-a-Word Chipboard Set ~ Halloween
Make it Crafty Layered Word Chipboard ~ 2¼" Halloween

Inks & Paints etc

Nuvo Crystal Drops ~ Violet Galaxy

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Pitch Black, Purple Twilight, Sailboat, Silver Mixative & Stream

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot

Papers

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Lily White

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Raven

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Majestic

Yupo Paper ~ 200gsm White

Challenges

Challenge Up Your Life #78 ~ Die Cuts

Do-Al(l) Creative #10 ~ Halloween

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #96 ~ C is for Chipboard

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A flower blossoms for its own joy

I’m sharing a card I made for a friend’s birthday featuring the flower from the Beautiful Day set by Altenew.

To make up my card I used the inspiration photo from the current Altenew challenge.  I picked up the two flowers and three leaves as well as the layout and the sequin embellies and used them on my card.

I went with pink for my flowers and cardstock mats as it is think pink for breast cancer awareness over at Casual Fridays.  And, as my card features a layered stamp I am also linking it up at Less is More.  To add interest I stamped the outline of the flowers and leaves with embossing ink and added gold embossing powder.  I used the same embossing powder for the sentiment, which also comes in the same set, and finished off the card with gold sequins.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

WOW! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Pale

Embellishments

Gold Sequins from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Altenew Crisp Inks ~ Coral Berry, Forest Glades, Frayed Leaf, Frosty Pink & Ruby Red

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ White

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Flirty Flamingo & Powder Pink

Stamps

Altenew ~ Beautiful Day

Challenges

Altenew ~ October Inspiration

Casual Fridays #185 ~ Think Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Less is More #352 ~ Stamp Layering

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