Love You Forever Zombie Shaker Card with Whimsy Stamps

Happy Halloween! It's hard to believe that October is ending, but I'm going out with a shaker card with Whimsy Stamps and This Calls for Confetti. We're hopping along over on Instagram today to finish the Halloween Team time with Whimsy Stamps. I'm also excited that we're all using products from This Calls for Confetti and I just had to make a shaker card.

In my video today, I'm showing how I created my ink blended background, creating my shaker panel and quick coloring of my zombie hands. All the colors are inspired by the This Calls for Confetti Spooky Sparkles Confetti Mix that I think is just beautiful and I love that the moons got in the dark. I tried to show that in my last photo - can you see how the moons look a little bit green?

It was a fun few months working with Whimsy Stamps again for Halloween this year and I'm grateful for working with such a generous and wonderful company. I'm hoping you enjoyed the different styles of Halloween cards I made since August! Stay safe out there my friends and Happy Halloween!

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Recuérdame Dia de Muertos Card with Whimsy Stamps

Back to back Whimsy Stamps projects, but I have been meaning to get this card up and shared all month! I just love these sweet images and while it is a retiring set from Whimsy Stamps, hopefully you have it in your stash already or something similar. I started with stamping and coloring my images and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I used the alphabet stamp set to stamp out my own sentiment in purple ink and cut it out with a sentiment strip die.

While I was die cutting, I also die cut the new Enchanted Forest Die to use it as the front of my shaker panel. I added a piece of acetate behind the panel and outlined the four sides with a thick foam tape. My backing is a piece of purple cardstock that is A2 in size. I added my confetti mix to my purple panel and then closed up my shaker with the tree panel. I added my images with liquid adhesive as well as my sentiment.

I think the theme of this card is so beautiful and I hope you like it, too! (And in case you need a translation, Recuérdame means "Remember Me."

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Poe Boy Halloween Card with Whimsy Stamps

"...from a Poe Family" is how there rest of the sentiment ends on my Whimsy Stamps Halloween card today! I have a monotone with a silly sentiment to share and I hope you find it as fun as I do. I started with cutting a piece of matte silver cardstock to A2 to fit on my card base. Then I trimmed some textured grey cardstock to 3.25x4.5" and distressed the edges as well as adding some Mica Spray as splatter. When it was dry, I adhered it to the center of the card.

Using a shinier piece of silver cardstock, I cut one of my FaDoodle Frames and then ran it through my die cut machine with the Bats Galore embossing folder. It would have been more on brand if it was ravens, but we make do with what we have. I added this piece of cardstock to the center of my card base with foam adhesive.

I stamped my Poe face image with black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder on vellum. While it was cooling down, I die cut one of the Forever Cameo Frames out of black cardstock three times. I cut the stamped image out so it would glue behind the frame and adhered it with liquid glue as well as the three black frames together. My sentiment is embossed with white embossing powder and I used my paper trimmer to cut around the sentiment.

My frame and image was adhered to the silver bat cardstock and I used some foam adhesive to attach my sentiment. I also added some Pops of Color in Black Gloss to the card and that finishes off this Halloween card! I hope it brought you some inspiration today and that you don't have Queen stuck in your head for too long...

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Spooky Slimline Halloween Scene Shaker Card with Whimsy Stamps

Can you believe it's October?! It's crazy how fast this year is going by and it's my last month of sharing Whimsy Stamps Halloween projects. I have a mix of newer and older products for this slimline card that ended up being super purple, super shiny and super fun! I started with die cutting all of my pieces from different Whimsy Stamps dies with Your Paper Insider cardstock from Box 4.

Using Distress Inks and Mica Sprays, I colored my moon and cliff die cut pieces as well as the background of my slimline shaker card. I layered my images with the Whimsy Stamps Slimline Waves Die and attached acetate to the back side.

Since I'm using flat confetti, I used some thinner foam adhesive to create my shaker sections and adhered it to the background piece. My slimline background was adhered to my card base that measures 3.5x8.5" when folded. Finally, I wanted to add a sentiment so I stamped "Let's Get Spooky" with purple ink on vellum from the same YPI Box 4 and embossed it in clear powder. I fussy cut around the sentiment and glued it to the ghost in the lower left corner.

I really love how purple and shiny this card turned out! Let me know what you think of this glittery card and if you like making shaker slimline cards.

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Bearly Halloween with NoFuss Masks from Whimsy Stamps

It's a new release from Whimsy Stamps today and I cannot get over how cute these bears are from the Bearly Halloween stamp set. There are nine adorable bears have the cutest costumes and I just picked a few for my card today. I was going for an orange and black theme so I had to go with the pumpkin, skeleton and mummy!  

The stamp set also has a coordinating die set, but I used the new NoFuss Masks for this set! I rarely make a single layer, no foam adhesive card, but these new masks made it so easy. They really are no fuss! In my video, I share how I stamped and colored my images, added the NoFuss Masks and ink blended my background. I peeled off the masks, added my sentiment and assembled my card. Check out my video down below to see all the details of the card!

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Gumpin Pumpkin Slimline Card with Whimsy Stamps

I know I tend to be more of a spooky cute Halloween crafter, but I wanted to share something more on the dark and creepy side today! This project uses some recently released Whimsy Stamps products and a few of my favorite Ranger Ink products for Halloween. I started with trimming my slimline background paper down to 3.25x8.25" as I'll be making a slimline card. I die cut the Nightmare Die out of black cardstock and trimmed it down to 8.25" and making sure you could still see a lot of the background design.

Before gluing it down, I sprayed on some Distress Mica Spray and using my finger, I added Grit Paste around the edges of the Nightmare cut out. While it dried, I also added some Black Texture Paste to the edges of my slimline card base and set that aside to dry, too.

Next I stamped my three pumpkin images from the Grumpin Pumpkin stamp set in black ink and used my Distress Watercolor Pencils to color them in. I used my MISTI to stamp them so I stamped more black ink on top of them when I was done watercoloring to make sure my images had a vibrant outline. I used the coordinating Outline Dies to cut them out as well as my flying witch from Roaming Monsters Die Set out of black cardstock.

Once everything was dry, I layered the background paper to the card base with foam adhesive and glued down the Nightmare cut out with liquid adhesive. I glued my flying with witch with liquid adhesive, too. My pumpkins were adhered with more foam adhesive and then stamped my "Boo!" sentiment with black ink. I loved combining Whimsy with Ranger together for Halloween! They're the perfect duo.

Today is also the Halloweeners Second Instagram Hop! We’re excited to bring the Halloween fun today and equally excited to be sharing the news that the fabulous folks at Ranger Ink are sponsoring this hop! Each designer will be sharing their own special take on Halloween, whether they like the dark and delicious or too cute to spook styles and for this hop we’ll be featuring Ranger Ink products combined with our Whimsy Stamps Range. So prepare for some magic! One randomly chosen commenter will win a $50 Gift Certificate to Ranger Ink and a $50 Gift Certificate to Whimsy Stamps! That’s $100 in prizes for our first lucky winner. A second randomly chosen commenter will win a $50 Gift Certificate to Whimsy Stamps. Good luck everyone and Happy Halloween Hopping!

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Happy Halloweeds with Whimsy Stamps

One of my favorite sets from Whimsy Stamps is this adorable Halloweeds Stamp Set. It's just a silly little jar of cute Halloween things and I like to use it every year. For this year, it's the star of the show on this 5x7 card! I'm playing along with last Friday's episode of Craft Roulette and it also worked perfectly for this month's Show Us Your SheetLoad sketch!

I started with finding toner sheets I liked best from Whimsy Stamps and used my laminator to add orange foil to spiders and green foil to the vines. Using Distress Inks, I blended purple onto the spiders and green onto the vines along with some water and shiny splatter. I cut them down following the sketch and layered the three panels onto a piece of black cardstock.

Next I wrapped some orange twine around the panel like a belt and popped it up to a sheet of grey cardstock that was trimmed slightly smaller than 5x7, then adhered that to my 5x7 card base. I die cut the largest nested web die out of black cardstock and embossed my sentiment in white. I popped it up on the card a little lower than I normally do to follow the card sketch.

My image was stamped and colored with alcohol markers (I love all the little images under the leaves) inspired by veggies I would imagine would be at a farm house - eggplants, carrots, pumpkins, lettuce... I fussy cut around the image and used a white gel pen to cover up any part of the stamped image I didn't want showing. I also popped it up to the card, just above my sentiment, and grabbed my White Pops of Color to add clusters of Pops.

I hope you like my take on the two challenges and make sure to check out all of the amazing Halloween products from Whimsy Stamps! There is also more coming out this month I'm excited to share with you!

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Wicked Cute (and My Attempt at Mixed Media) with Whimsy Stamps

Can you believe that it is September?! I'm seriously shocked at how fast this year is flying by and that we are just that much closer to Halloween. There is a new release today from Whimsy Stamps and I'm featuring a few of the products on today's card! I will say, I really stepped out of my comfort zone for a couple of things on this card... I attempted a tiny bit of mixed media technique on this card and I was just so stinking nervous the whole time!

I am such a Type A person and getting messy and not having structure is so hard for me when making projects. I barely even scratched the surface, but that was enough for me on this project, haha! You can follow along with my video down below, but I started with making my background with pumpkin die cuts, added my sentiment and some texture paste with a stencil, then added my images and some random stamping with bats.

While I made some missteps along the way, I think it still turned out pretty darn cute and my little devil is inspired by my brother. He had a devil costume as a toddler and this just makes me think of him!

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Eek! Cats & Bats Halloween Card with Whimsy Stamps

The last day of the month really snuck up on me and I did not get a video done in time to get it edited and up, but don't worry... There will be one tomorrow. But I still wanted to share something Halloween related so I have my next Whimsy Stamps Halloween project to share using a mix of older and new Halloween products. Also, my sketch is inspired by the August 2023 Show Us Your SheetLoad from Call Me Crafty Al

I started with making my background with the Bats Galore embossing folder. As it's slimline sized, I ran it through twice embossing the top of grey cardstock and then the bottom. I didn't worry about where they met on the cardstock as I knew it would be covered. I distressed some Black Soot around the edges of this 4x5-1/4" panel and splattered on some black ink. While it was drying, I stamped, colored and die cut my cute cat images! Abigail colored along with me and I snuck her pumpkin she colored inside my card.

Next I die cut my Eek! sentiment in black and orange glitter cardstock and bats out of black cardstock. I followed the sketch dimensions and layout to cut my Bookeh paper and strips of purple glitter cardstock. I layered the card together and added it to an A2, side-folding card base. I wanted to bring in more green as it was the color on the images I had not incorporated yet.

Using Key Lime Pops of Color, I added eyes for my bats and added some around the card. I hope you enjoyed this Halloween inspiration today and come back tomorrow for my official Halloween video of the month... next month. 

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Halloween Night Slimline Card with Whimsy Stamps

The final release of August for Whimsy Stamps is here and we're starting to see some adorable Halloween products! This new stamp set is called Halloween Night and there are also coordinating dies. I wanted to color all of the images so I decided to make a slimline card so all my images would fit on one card. Since I colored my images to be the same witch in different scenes, I used my Slimline Waves Die to create kind of a comic book style layout and cut it out of some shiny, purple cardstock from my latest Your Paper Insider subscription box.

The background is puzzle pieced in and it was die cut from patterned paper from Whimsy Stamps and of course I had to use more purple (#TeamPurple) for my sentiment and Pops of Color. You can see how I assembled my card down below in a short video; I colored my images in with my Ohuhu Honolulu Art Markers off camera before starting.

Let me know in the comments which witch is your favorite (I think I like the top one with the cute bat) and your favorite products from the latest Halloween release!

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@laurentaylormade halloween night with whimsy stamps #asmr #crafttok #diy #handmadecard ♬ original sound - Lauren

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