Happy Halloween!

Here are two final Halloween cards, both featuring super cute pugs.  This weekend is Pug Rescue of Florida's annual fundraiser, Pugsgiving.  This is the largest gathering of pugs in Florida, and each year raises a lot of money for this amazing non-profit organization.  I work all year to make cards to sell at this fundraiser, and donate 100% of the monies raised to them.  I also sell all year long on Etsy to help raise money for them - you can click on the "I sell on Etsy button" at the top right to see some of my other cards.

Hope your Halloween is lots of treats and few tricks.

One Cat, Two Ways

I have two versions of the same Halloween card to share today. 

I stamped, colored with Zigs and fussy cut this cute cat and pumpkin image from SimonSaysStamp (Hey Pumpkin stamp set) and paired them with either a diecut fence or a spooky tree.

I can't decide which I like better.  What do you think?

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More Halloween Cards

I have three more Halloween cards to share today all using Laurel Burch stamps from Stampendous.  I I really do love her style, so unique.

These images are really so much fun to color.  You could really change up the style of your card depending on how you colored and what you paired them with.  In each of these cards I used  patterned paper that I think really added to the Halloween theme.

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I Love Halloween

I love making Halloween and I love Halloween cards.  They are just so much fun to make.  Since I make quite a few I'll share some of them over the next week.  Maybe not write posts about how I made them, but just share a few pics.  Here's the first two.

I'll be back soon with more.

Imperfect Puffins

Today I have a card to share that I really do like, even though it is not perfect.  I made a "little" mistake at the very end of my card making.

I stamped the puffins onto watercolor paper and onto a piece of masking paper.  I also cut a curved mask to create the rock the puffins are sitting on.  I sponged on Distress Oxide Inks in Iced Spruce (for the rock) and Broken China and Faded Jeans (for the sky) using an ink blending tool.  After removing the masks I used Zigs to color the puffin beaks and feet.  Then I decided to spray my piece with Tsukineko Shimmer Mist to get some sparkle.  Jennifer McGuire does this ALL the time - and we all know how amazing her cards are.  It does sparkle a lot - you can see it a little below.

And this is when my mistake happened.  I REALLY don't like glittery messes.  I thought I'd just take my card outside and spray it so I wouldn't have a shimmery mess all over my craft room.  A word of advice - don't do this when it's windy out!  You will chase your cards around your neighborhood - and your nice little droplets that you wanted to look like stars will now be smeared little things.  I had already spent so much time making these cards (I made two, for both my kids who had recently seen puffins on trips to Iceland) so I just decided to call them shooting stars.  Other than my "mistake" I really did like the way this turned out.  And really, who will ever know that I didn't intend it to look this way.

Supplies used include Avery Elle Love Puffins Stamp Set.

Four Cards from One, Jennifer McGuire Style

A few weeks ago Jennifer McGuire did a video (here is a link) where she showed making 4 cards from one.  She makes EVERYTHING look SO EASY in her videos that you just want to try her techniques.  I don't have many layering floral stamps but I thought I'd try it with what I have.  So, here's my four cards.

 

I think they came out ok.  I do think I should have planned a little better where I was stamping which flowers - I have more concentrated at the bottom of the hearts than at the top.  And I think it would be better to have a more symmetrical stamp at the bottom of the hearts too.  This would be fun to try with different shapes (like maybe an oval) instead of a heart.  I did use my Misti to stamp the sentiment in exactly the same spot on each card - and to make sure I didn't mess them up after all that stamping.  I think I like the top one the best.  And those sequins on the second one - they cover up a couple of small green ink smears, but no one will ever know that.

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A Folk Floral Heart Wedding Card

Today I have a wedding card made using a borrowed stamp, I believe it was from Do-Crafts.  I know I've made a wedding card before using this same stamp, but it's just such so beautiful.  And it's perfect for clean and simple cards.  You can get different looks by embossing in white or gold or silver and onto vellum or onto white cardstock.

Today the heart was stamped and white embossed onto vellum and colored on the back with Zigs. I layered this on a piece of white cardstock.  To adhere the vellum without the adhesive showing I wrapped another piece of vellum around adding adhesive to the backside.  I matted this in navy and added a navy congrats diecut sentiment. I tried incorporate the wedding party colors of dark green and navy and the colors of fall flowers.  This is one of those little details that I'm sure the bride and groom didn't notice but were important to me.

Thanks so much for visiting today.