Trick Or Treat Yo'self- Halloween Card

Hey, Guys & Ghouls...

I'm back again and this time with the creepy-cute Halloween card using Maker's Movement's new Trick Or Treat Yo'self stamps & dies! 

Did, I ever mention before that I absolutely LOVE Halloween?! Well, I do!! Immensely! 

In fact, when I saw this Trick Or Treat Yo'self set, I knew I just had to have it! These characters look almost like little voodoo dolls... but cute ones! They were just screaming to be made into a card. And that's exactly what I did. Let me show you how...

Supplies Used

Trick Or Treat Yo'self stamp (Maker's Movement)

Trick Or Treat Yo'self Die Set (Makers Movement)

Crossover II (Crafter's Edge)

Creative Station (Xyron)

Mega Runner (Xyron)

Watercolor Paper 

 110 lb White Cardstock (Recollections)

110 lb Black Cardstock ( Recollections)

MISTI (My Sweet Petunia)

Verasafine Onyx Black Ink (Tsukineko/ Imagine Crafts)

Twin-tip Markers (Derwent Academy)

Waterbrush Pen

Star Stencil

Distress Oxide Ink- Carved Pumpkin, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, 

Lucky Clover, Mowed Lawn (Ranger Ink)

Washi Tape

Button Shank Remover (Buttons Galore)

Life Changing Blender Brushes (Picket Fence Studios)

I started by collecting my supplies. In an attempt to keep my dies together and to save time, before stamping my images, I usee my to help with stamp placement. I slid each coordinating stamp under its matching die. 

I only snipped the inner dies and separated them out those images could be stamped and cut separately. To snip apart the inner dies I used a button shank remover I had on hand.

Once I had my stamps positioned accordingly, I removed the dies, closed the lid and adhered the stamps to my MISTI. Then inked my images using Verasafine Onyx Black Ink.

I used my Derwent Twin-tip Markers to color the images then blended it out with a water brush.

After coloring my images, I used the matching Trick and Treat Yo'self dies to die-cut them out using my Crossover II machine.

For my card front, I  wanted to create a starry skyline. So I used washi tape and taped

off the upper section of the cardstock. I placed my stencil over the paper and inked on Carved Pumpkin, Salty Ocean, & Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide inks with my Life Changing Blender Brushes.

                                                                                                

I removed the stencil then brushed on more ink over the stenciled background. Carved Pumpkin over the Pumpkin stars, Salty Ocean over the Salty Ocean stars, and Blueprint Sketch over the Blueprint Sketch stars. 

Then I retaped the skyline and expose the uninked bottom portion. I blended on and covered the entire bottom with Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide ink. Then blended the edges with some Lucky Clover.

I removed the washi tape and stamped along the horizon with the fence stamp with more Verasafine Onyx Black Ink.

Then stamped "Trick or Treat Yo'self" at the bottom corner.

I used my Xyron Mega Runner to attach the card front to a black 

Before attaching my images, I wanted to give them a bit of dimension... so I ran a sheet of craft foam through my Xyron Creative Station., flipped it over and ran it through a second time to create my own DIY foam adhesive.

I cut out the amount I needed and attached it to the back of my colored images, then mounted them onto my card front.

And here is my finished card...

These little guys came out so stinking cute!!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and are it inspires you to create your own spooktacular Halloween scene!

Thanks so much for stopping by 

AND 

CREEP IT REAL, Crafty Peeps!

See you all next time!!

~Mitsyana

eBrush - Core'dinations Hack Edition

Hello again Crafty Friends!! Today I would like to share with you all my very first video tutorial. Well, Kind of anyway. My Good friend Debi Tullier had me as a special guest to show you all a kind of eBrush Core'dintions hack!

Please be kind! this was my first video... EVER... and I was so nervous!

In this video Debi and I discuss how to get different color combinations not currently found in Core'dinations cardstock. I used the whitewash family of papers to do this technique. I did this so that When the color goes down over the cardstock it does blend or fight with the base color to be seen. And, also to do the color blending technique you need that white base to see the blends of the colors atop the base color. This video is a bit lengthy!

You can also make your own faux core'dination paper doing this same technique using a nice & thick, good quality, cardstock.

Here I have the samples from the video with out the glare from the web cam and under my daylight lamps. 

As you can see the colors are much more vibrant.

       

 

I didn't sand enough of the top layer off of the pear tag. But, if you look at the lower right hand pear you can really see the yellow on the green. I think the yellow was too close to the lightest green to really make a huge difference.

I hope you enjoyed my first video tutorial and I hope you give this technique a try. I would love to see your color combinations you come up with so please post them here or on the eBrush fan page!

Thanks for stopping by!

More Pink & Main August Releases

Hello Crafty Friends!! I've been crazy busy. A lot of the time was spent prepping for my oldest daughter's birthday party, which I will talk about in a separate post. The other part of that time was spent making these awesome cards from Pink & Main's August stamp releases.

For this card I used Pink & Main's Smell My Feet stamp set. One of the things about this set that I love is that it has interchangeable sentiments. 

 
You can match up the "batty for" with candy, you, or Halloween.

 For this card I used the same bat stamp and just changed the sentiment to "batty for you".

 I also used the same set on this quick and easy ghost card.

Not all the August releases are Halloween related... They have some really cute fall stamps too!
Like the set to make these cute cards.

Both the cards above were made using the Old Crow stamp set.

These are just two out of the seven sets that were released for the month of August. Soon it will be September... and, for those of you who don't know, every month Pink & Main releases new stamp sets. The amount of stamp releases from month to month. But, I can tell you that there will be some really AWESOME ones released for the month of September and I am looking forward to showing them off!!

Go and check out Pink & Main!! You will thank me!

Craft ... AND... stamp HAPPY friends!

Till next time!!

Halloween Treat Bags

I'm in slap forehead mode! I totally forgot to post this on my blog last week. And, to add insult to injury I had two project to share!

Halloween is fast approaching... and with Kyan being in the first grade it's time to up the ante. Last year I topped off giant pixie stix with bat cut outs, which I thought came out 

cute... until I saw what the other mom's made. Popping my big crafty bubble and squashing all hopes of mother of the year. Sigh.

This year didn't want to look like I didn't put no effort into it. I definitely didn't want an overkill either. So I opted to make toppers for goody bags. I used A2 sized cello resealable envelopes as my bag and filled it with assorted Halloween treats (Halloween themed pencils, erasers, plastic jewelry, and of course candy).

Here is how it turned out. 

I used Design on Cloud 9 files to make all the shapes here. The topper itself is from the Short Borders 2 set. The scalloped circles are from the Scallops set. For the centers I used Haunted House Silhouettes, Cemetery Silhouettes, Skullies, & Haunted Halloween Party (retired) sets.

I did not fold the topper over like traditional bag toppers... instead I opted to just use it as a front and stapled it to the front of the bag along the top. I saved on paper this way. Then  I covered the staple up with the scalloped circle. And, ta-dah, instant treat bags! I also adhered sticker labels to the back. This did two things... covered up the sharp side of the staple and let the recipient know who the goodies came from.

These were super easy to make. The hardest and time consuming part was deciding which shapes to use for the centers. 

Project #2 to be continued... I'm off to pick up my munchkin from school! 

See you all real soon!