Spooky Mouse Halloween Card with The Sassy Club

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

It's the last day of the month, so it's time for some Halloween inspiration and it's my last Halloween video of the year! I wanted to mix a few different The Sassy Club stamp sets and stencils for this Halloween card. I have a potions background with Distress Oxides and Glitter Glaze and this cute witchy mouse with a bold sentiment.

In my video below, I share how I stenciled the background, some coloring of my mouse and how I embossed my sentiment. I hope you have enjoyed this series this year and I fully intend to continue into next year as it's my favorite holiday and I have WAY too many supplies that I need to use.

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Have A Super Day Spanner Card with Avery Elle

Monday, November 28, 2022

Have you ever made a spanner card? When the wheel on Craft Roulette this last weekend landed on "spanner card", I was at a total loss! I wasn't sure what I was going to do, so started digging through my stamps and when I saw the city street stamp from Avery Elle's Superheroes set, I knew I could use that as my bridge for the spanner part of the card.

The wheel also said to use vintage colors... Again, what does that mean? 😂 I decided to just google "vintage color palette" and I really liked this one so I used that as inspiration for coloring in all of my images. The final two parameters were "outside" and "textile" which I also accomplished with the stamp set with the buildings and fabric capes!

I added in a little more color for my sky, which is definitely my new go to evening color combination, using Distress Oxides in Shaded Lilac, Stormy Sky and Tumbled Glass. I had a rough layout of my card and stamped the sentiment on the middle panel of the card using Pinecone VersaFine ink. I used the same ink to stamp the swoosh flying marks of my superhero critters!

I added all of my images using foam adhesive onto the card and to add extra stability to the front of the card, there is a strip of cardstock to connect each side of the front of the card with foam adhesive behind the buildings. The over all dimensions of my spanner card is an A2 size, but the front of the card has the middle cut out leaving two 1.25" flaps on the left and right.

What do you think of my spanner card? Did I meet all of the requirements of the wheel? Let me know in the comments if you'd like to see a video of creating a similar card in the future!

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Oh Holy Night Nativity with The Sassy Club

Sunday, November 27, 2022

How sweet is this nativity scene from The Sassy Club? When I saw this set, I knew I wanted to create a scene with a night sky and then add all of these fandom characters to fit onto a card. I was thinking of doing a mini slimline card, but knew I wanted to include a pretty sky with room for a sentiment. So, I kept it A2 sized, but in landscape so that all of the images would easily fit in the scene.

I started with stamping, coloring and cutting out all of my images. They are colored with alcohol markers and I used lots of different brands together - Ohuhu and Spectrum Noir. I also added some gold as touches to most of my images using a VersaMark pen and gold embossing powder. Once they were cut out, I laid them out to get a rough idea of where I needed to stamp my sentiment and make pencil marks of where I would be adding Distress Oxide ink for my background.

So I wouldn't have to wait for the Distress Oxides to dry, I started with embossing the "Oh holy night" sentiment and three stars onto some mix media paper. I used an embossing ink with white embossing powder as I thought this would look pretty to emboss resist for the night sky. I masked off where my ground would be and added Distress Oxides to create my night sky - Stormy Sky, Uncharted Mariner, Chipped Sapphire and finally Black Soot.

After wiping the ink off of the sentiment and stars, I added some white ink splatters to create more of a star-filled sky. I moved my masking to the sky so that way I could add Vintage Photo Distress Oxide to create my ground. Once my background was dry, I die cut it with a stackable A2 so that way I would have a white border as I adhered it to my card base. The images are all adhered using foam adhesive and I also added some star sequins for more shine!

I just love how this sweet Christmas card turned out and cannot wait to get the companion stamp set from The Sassy Club released this month - that will have to be a slimline card to get all of the cutie images to fit!

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Poinsettia Christmas Card with Pretty Pink Posh

Friday, November 25, 2022

It's the 25th of the month so it's time for some Christmas card inspiration! This month I am using Pretty Pink Posh's Poinsettia Corners stamp set along with a couple sentiment stamp sets. I just love PPP's corner stamp sets - I have a pumpkin and flower set and I will be collecting more of them. I think they just make really elegant cards and make it really easy, too!

In my video below, I am sharing how I added some subtle snowflakes to my patterned paper, stamping and coloring my images, stamping and die cutting my sentiment and of course how the card all comes together. I did leave in some of my mistakes along the way - something was just off on my stamping during this card process so I wanted to remind you that we all make mistakes!

Make sure you check out my Affiliate Link Page today as there are a ton of Black Friday sales, including over at Pretty Pink Posh! I am so grateful for all of your support at no extra cost to you.

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Happy Thanksgiving with Heffy Doodle

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving to my US friends! I have a simple card today to celebrate a day of gratitude and family. I used pastel colors with brown - I have been really feeling pastels and used them again for today's simple card. I started with stamping the background and colored in the images. The hearts were then stamped using the same brown ink as I used for the different veggies. 

I die cut the background as well as some patterned paper using stitched A2 dies and glued them together. The sentiment was stamped, die cut and popped up on the card with foam adhesive. Some final touches of enamel dots just to add some shine to the card, but overall it is a very simple design!

You can see my Reels (or you can find it on TikTok) how my card together down below!

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Alcohol Inks + Heffy Doodle for a Fun, Fall Card!

Monday, November 21, 2022

Have you used foil on your alcohol inked backgrounds? I learned this technique from watching other talented crafty friends and wanted to use it on my Heffy Doodle project this month! I created a colorful tree top using green, orange and yellow alcohol inks and then dabbed on some Aura Glimmer Hot Foil before the ink was too dry. It clings to the ink when it's in that sticky phase!

I trimmed the tree top down using the Tree-mendous Peekaboo Tree Dies and then layered my scene together with other scene building dies and adorable images from the Nuts About You stamp set. It really made a fun and pastel fall card! Check out my video down below to see my process and how this card came together.

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Little Genius Split Panel Card with The Sassy Club

Sunday, November 20, 2022

I did things a little different for the Sheet Load of Cards this month... I made just one. When I went to a craft fair, I realized how many cards I had and knew that I didn't need to make a whole sheet load as I have plenty of birthday cards this month... So I decided to bring out one of my new Sassy Club stencils and use it as inspiration for my card!

Now I still followed the basic design of the card and used the option for making a single card while also making the card my own. Some of the changes I made was rotating the card to be on it's side and instead of a rectangle panel keeping the split together, I made a skinner rectangle but allowed my stamped image to extend past to make it seem like a larger panel.

You can see my video below for my take on the sketch and how I made my own stenciled background, a quick peek at my coloring of the Little Genius stamped image and how the card came together. The card turned out so darn cute, even though I was only going to make one, I will definitely keep in mind this layout and look for a future card!

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Professor Sprout and Mandrakes Card with The Sassy Club

Saturday, November 19, 2022

The Craft Roulette wheel was my bestie this week! I will say I used one parameter a little leniently... But here's what the wheel gave us this week: birthday card; 3 bright and cheery colors; pot(s), pan(s) or bowl(s); and block(s). When I was watching the live, I was feeling thrown off by the pot/pan/bowl parameter. But I went searching through my Sassy Club, found my Magical Teachers stamp set with potted mandrakes and I knew I could make my card with this set!

I started with making my block background with the Checkered Stencil and purple and pink Distress Oxides. I die cut my border out of kraft cardstock and layered different vines together to give it a Herbology Class vibe. I stamped my sentiment where I knew it would fit in the border and above Professor Sprout. Then I tucked in all my stamped images with a mix of foam and wet adhesives.

I colored in my images with a mix of Ohuhu, Spectrum Noir and Colorisita markers. Once they were colored, I added some white gel pen and fussy cut them all out. I added a few final touches of these olive green pearls scattered around the vine border so there would be something with shine - there has to be a little of something shiny on my cards, of course!

This card turned out so sweet and I'm so happy with how this card turned out. I had a lot of fun coloring and figuring out how I wanted the border! It's going to be hard to ever part with this card. How do you think I did with the parameters this week?

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Rainbow Arch Shaped Card with Scrapbook.com

Friday, November 18, 2022

I get excited when I get a new Creative Team package from Scrapbook.com and this latest box was filled SO MANY amazing products. Some of them are still very new and not yet available to purchase, but don't you worry... They'll be up soon and you can sign up to be notified when you can get the products yourself.

One of the new die sets is a Nested A2 Arches and I thought it would be fun to make a shaped card! I created the base using the largest arch and the Little Clouds Stencil and new Cloud Whip to make a vibrant, cloudy background.

The rainbow was stamped and fussy cut out and I used my "thanks" sentiment to cover the ends of the rainbow as I didn't get them quite lined up perfectly (which is fine, but it helps when it's covered). Of course, gotta add some shine so I used some Glitter Pops of Color as a finishing touch.

You can see how the card comes together down below (or a slowed down version on TikTok). Do you like to make shaped cards, too?

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Friendship Vibe with Stampin' Up!

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

After a weekend of travel and then two days of being sick in bed... I'm finally back in the craft room and of course I had to make my weekly Craft Roulette project! This week, the parameters were to have a window card; colors of red, yellow + 1; 3 circles; and November.

The parameter that threw me for a loop was November - what does that even mean? 😅 So I decided to use this stamp set from Stampin' Up! called Better Days and used colors that inspired me for the month of November here in the US. Maybe not so much in Southern California... but I've seen trees turn beautiful colors in November in Boston!

I started with stamping the outline of the image on some cream colored cardstock with brown ink. I stamped each part of the solid stamps with red, orange and yellow inks and then fussy cut around the image. On an A2 piece of the same colored cardstock, I stamped the sentiment and embossed it with copper. I used Distress Oxides to create the same color order in reverse and wiped the ink off gently over the sentiment. Next, I splattered some water and bronze metallic ink onto the background, popped up my window scene and added some glitter Pops of Color. 

So I have a window with the stamped image on the front of the card with colors of red, orange and yellow which are also the colors of November. I also have three circles the line design from the stamp around the window/image. How do you think I did? Did you also play along this week?

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