Spooky Nights

08/23/2014

Spooky Nights

I recently received a black cat candy jar as a gift from a dear friend.  This provided me the inspiration to create a spooky sky under which black cats prowl.  

For the sky, I used a brayer and a light pink inkpad to cover white cardstock that would become the front of the card.  Next I used the brayer and covered most of the cardstock with a light purple ink. After which I switched to a sponge and sponged on a medium blue, followed by a dark blue and then by dabbing dark purple. 

Then I used the Poppystamps Puffy Clouds Border [1099] cut diagonally across card stock to give a different look to the clouds.  To add a bit of fog to the sky, I used a bright white ink and sponged around the mask and alternated with sponging the dark purple.

After the sky was done, I drew two hills and cut them out with scissors and adhered them to the card with foam squares to give dimension.  Carefully, I tucked sections of the Poppystamps Brevilla Houses [1009] behind the green hills and adhered with foam adhesives.

Then I proceeded to cut out the Poppystamps Antique Lamp Post [858], the cats (Poppystamps Sitting Cat [860], Walking Cat [859] and Curious Cat [872]).

For the moon, I drew a circle and cut it out and adhered it with my glue pen.

Next, I cut out the Poppystamps Fireplace Logs [1072] logs with brown cardstock and the Poppystamps Warm and Cozy Fire [1070] in white cardstock.  To create the flames, I colored the white cardstock with Copic markers.

 I decided to add a bit of Halloween to the scene by using BOO from the Poppystamps Scary Background Die [1078]. I used a glue pen and put the letters on a diagonal and slightly off-center to give it more of a spooky look.

Supplies:

Poppystamps Scary Background Die [1078]

Poppystamps Puffy Cloud Border Die [1099]

Poppystamps Brevilla Houses [1009]

Poppystamps Fireplace Logs [1072]

Poppystamps Warm and Cozy Fire [1070]

Poppystamps  Sitting Cat [860]

Poppystamps Walking Cat [859]

Poppystamps Antique Lamp Post [858]

Poppystamps Curious Cat [872]

Cardstock for base and for scene.

Adhesives

Ink (and lots of it) pink, light purple, medium blue, dark blue, dark purple, white

Thanks for stopping by!

  

Puffy Cloud Border	[1078] DIES- Scary Background	[1009] DIES- Brevilla Houses	[1072] DIES- Fireplace Logs
[1070] DIES- Warm and Cozy Fire	[860] DIES- Sitting Cat	[859] DIES- Walking Cat	Antique Lamp Post
[872] DIES- Curious Cat

Spooky Greetings

07/29/2014

Halloween Greetings

I love the new Poppystamps - Scary Background [1078] die.  Background die cuts are great for a quick card.  Just add a few stickers/embellishments or other die cuts and you have a quick haunting greeting.  What is even better is that you have all the letters from the die to use as a greeting on other cards.  

For my post today, I used some spooky embellishments [stickers] to make it appear as if something was lurking behind the letters.  Bats and googlie eyeballs are watching you. Open the card if you dare...

Supplies

Poppystamps Scary Background [1078]

Embellishments

Adhesive

Cardstock

Thanks for stopping by. 

[1078] DIES- Scary Background

Spooky Fireplace

07/05/2014

Spooky Fireplace

Welcome to Poppystamps Blog Blitz!

I hope everyone [in the USA] had a great 4th of July celebration.  While most of the country was thinking of traditional American summer food, I was thinking toward cool temps and Halloween.

This card leverages some wonderful new dies from Poppystamps latest release.  The first of which is the Classic Brick Fireplace.  This versatile die can be used for a Christmas Fireplace awaiting Santa or, in this case, a spooky fireplace awaiting a cauldron of wicked potions.

I love the new Spider Web Border die.  I placed it on the top of the card and trimmed the rightmost edge off.  This was perfect to put in the corner of the fireplace.  

Next,  I ran the Fireplace logs die through in a dark brown color for the logs.  Then I built the fire by running the Warm and Cozy fire through red, orange and yellow cardstock.  I stacked several layers of the flames to provide a big fire.  

Then I cut two cats and placed them on top of the mantel.  To spice it up a little bit, I added rhinestones in the center of the webs and as a collar on one of the cats.  I only had clear rhinestones so I used an orange marker and colored them to make it more along the color theme of Halloween.

I finished the card by using Boo from the Scary Background die.  I hope you enjoy this card and find a couple of Poppystamps dies from the new release that will make your Halloween extra spooky!

Supplies:

Classic Brick Fireplace [1041]

Spider Web Border [1085]

Scary Background [1078]

Warm and Cozy Fire [1070]

Fireplace Logs [1072]

Sitting Cat [860]

Walking Cat [859]

Adhesives [glue pen, foam adhesives]

Embellishments [rhinestones]

Markers

Scissors

Cardstock