Tidbit Tuesday--More than one way to use a Stamp!

Hello Everybody!

Halloween is fast approaching!  Do you have all of your cards done? Well, hurry if you don't!

I got out my Halloween stamps and one bunny stamp (I guess for variation?)   

I also got out my white paper and scissors and ink.

I stamped an owl.  This is a Martha Stewart stamp which I bought last year.  I was in Michael's last week, and they have these same stamps.  If they are not exactly the same, they are very close.  So if you want them...better hurry because I don't know if they are still there are not!

I cut out my owl.  Now he is a die-cut.  He can go where ever I need him to go--on a card or scrapbook page.

This is a nice technique in case your first stamp doesn't come out the way you want it to.  You have another chance to do it over.  If you stamp on your project, and it doesn't come out right, then you have to damage control.  If you are stamping on your desk, and it doesn't seem right, get out a foam board or mouse pad.  That can help make the stamp more even and your image clearer.

The next thing I have is a one inch circle punch.  Here I cut my circles out first.

My circles...

My little stamps--I inked them up and stamp them on the circles.

The easier way to do that is to stamp your spider (in this case)...

...and then use the whole punch to frame your image and then punch it out.

Now go and look at your stamps in a whole new way!  For instance my owl I can use pop dots underneath and make him 3-D!  Until next time my friends....keep stampin'!

Tattered Angels Halloween Cards

Hello Everybody! and Happy Friday!

I'd like to extend a Welcome to our new Followers that joined this week!  Thank you!

I have to say I am pretty proud of myself---each blog entry has been about Halloween for the month of October!  I wasn't sure if I could do it--but as fast as the end of October is approaching--I was able to!  Yay!

For these cards I used Tattered Angels small scale Stencils that I bought at the Scrapbook Expo back in May.  It looks like you can still buy them...just Google!  They are called Glimmer Screens.

Also, I used the Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist.  (Love it!)

So for my first card I used repositionable glue and centered my pumpkin stencil on my card (the blank cards I get at Michael's.)

I have a box set up where I spray my projects.  I line it with paper towels so I can capture some of the off spray for another project.  You could easily put paper also.

So I first spray with a yellow Tattered Angels (it's best to go from lightest color to darkest).

Then I "rub" off the excess using a paper towel.  You can also blot, so it depends what look you are going for.

By accident I picked up the yellow again.  So I will rub off the excess again.  I learned that is sort of intensified the color.  Yay!

Here I added the orange mist and rubbed off the extra.

Now the card is wet-even after removing the excess.  I allow it to dry for a few minutes (depends on how saturated the paper is).  Then I remove my pumpkin.  Do you see how it is curling at the bottom?  I put it under a heavy book so it will flatten out.  And my card is all done!  Just put a sentiment on the inside!



 Here is another card I did using the spider web stencil.

What else did I learn from my first card?  A little mist got on the inside.  It's not a terrible thing, but to prevent that from happening again, I put a piece of paper in between the front and back of my card.  The paper will turn out pretty from the sprayings!

This time I used yellow, orange, red, and a blue color.  The blue I did lightly.  It's cool to see the different colors layer.  You can see where I rubbed the extra.

The web is a bit challenging to rub.

So I blot.

Here is the finished card without the spider web.  And this is a nice picture showing the different colors.

Until next time my friends, keep misting!

Hello!

Hello Everybody,

I was just on here looking around.  I noticed that my blog has been visited over 500 times!  Thank you to everybody who stops by!  Being creative is something that I really enjoy, and it is very cool to be able to share that with others.

Have a great day!  And until next time my friends...keep craftin'!
Katy

Tidbit Tuesday--Shopping!

Hello Everybody!

So I got a Michaels gift card for my birthday!  Yay!  And I spent all of it (boo!).  Here are some of my new goodies that I got.  If you haven't been to Michaels--their coupon policy has changed.  I had a 40%, 20%, and a 20% off Martha Stewart and each one had coupon transaction had to be done separately.  The Martha Stewart which is supposed to be a bonus coupon--Store manager said no "stacking."  I don't have 20 Gatorades people!  But the cashier was very cool and rang each deal separately.

So here's what I bought:

I got red line tape-a little wider than what I have already.  Baker's twine which is in the magazines here recently.  Recollections has these little plastic embellishments, so many to choose from, I got trick or treat ones.  Martha Stewart Halloween keys (she does the twine also).  Blackboard paper--I'm sure the name says everything, but could not resist!  3 little jars that were on clearance that have little shiny stars, and little beads in them.  Lastly, Perfect Pearls-my mom-in-law has a different color and once I used them I had to have some myself!  They've been around for awhile, I don't know why it took either of us this long to get them!

So I'm excited to see what I will do with my new goodies!  Until next time my friends, go shopping!  ;)

Halloween Project--Entry for Paper Bag Challenge

Hello Everybody! 

Happy Friday to you!

Today's project is going to be a little different than normal.  I am doing a Blog Challenge for the first time!  It is for Lessology which is totally a cool blog.  The challenge was to use a brown paper bag and use an upcycled item.  Go check it out!  It's really cool to see how other people interpret the Challenge.

Here is my finished project...a trifold picture display with a hidden pocket on the side.  First, I'll show you how I made the ghost, and then how I made the whole thing.

My upcycled item is the ghost.  I love the ghost!  This is how I made him...

I took a Target plastic bag (which I think works better than others because of the material it is made from)...

...and cut out a square about 3x3 or 4x4, I just kind of eyeballed it.

I draped it over my thumb (like a ghost) to make sure the size was correct.

I cut the handle part of my bag and made it into a ball.

Then I covered the ball with the ghost square and twisted the "neck" part of it.  I tied a piece of white floss around it to keep the shape, and clipped close to the knot.  I shaped the flowy part of the ghost and added googly eyes.

OK!  Now to make the display, I take my lunch bag and measure it out.  I fold my bag into 3 sections.  I put the measurements on the bag because I am going to cover them up.  The first thing I cut is a piece of black cardstock so that the back will be covered.



As I match up my cardstock, I use my bone folder to make clean folds.

Here's one of the flaps before....

Now after...

Here's what my adhesive looks like (I like old school photo splits.)

All 3 back sides are covered and adhered.

However, I didn't cut my piece big enough, so I took some black paint and went over the exposed bag. 

Using Glossy Accents, I glued the top parts of the bag to the cardstock.

Also, I glued the bag flap down.  However, there is the opening of the bag which is on the side when "standing."  Leave this alone because it will hold things later.

So one of the things I got for my birthday was a set of Martha Stewart spider web punches.  I punched out black cardstock using the straight and corner punches.

Very cool!

I adhere my border to the paper bag side (which is now the front side) using red line tape.

Here is how one side looks.

Spider webs finished!

I cut a piece of patterned paper to cover the rest of the inside of the paper bag.  I thought about doing each pattern differently, which you can totally do, but for me I chose one piece to fit in there.  For me I wanted to make sure I had cohesion.  I am entering my first contest after all!

I adhere the patterned paper and keep a black border so I cut off the excess.

Now the fun part begins ;)

I cut a 31 out of black cardstock from my new Cricut cartridge, Boys will be Boys.  But I liked the negative better than the positive, so I'm using that.

I put candy corn paper behind the empty 31.

  

From these EK Success stickers I added "st" to the side of the one.

Now believe it or not, these are paper punch out letters that I bought at Joann's for $1 a long time ago.  Yay!  I found 3 of these letters a new home! 

These letters go behind the 31 square so this is what the back looks like.  I put them on with Scotch tape.

Here is the front...

So I put the Oct 31st in the middle center.  I put 3 pictures on my display.  One of them I mounted on black cardstock.

 I added my upcycled ghost to the left hand top corner.  I put a spider on the right side.  The bat and glitter cat you see came from the foamies package I bought at Target a few days ago.  I added googly eyes to make them more fun.  Plus my husband loves googly eyes...so why not?

Now for the secret compartment!  Because this is a brown baggy, the opening is natural.  I put a tag there (cut from Cricut-George) so you could see the opening.  I made a couple of tags so I can put the journaling on them.

I added a cute Stampin' Up spider (from a set of old Halloween stamps) to one of my tags.  I added fun yarn to the tags.

 Here I have the tags sticking out a little so somebody would know they are there.

And here they are gone.  So you can display the tags either way.  If you were giving this as a gift you could put a gift card in there. 

This was such a fun project to do!  Until next time my friends...stay innovative!