Why Yes!

Hi Stampers!  Happy Saturday!  The card I have for you today is probably going to be my last Halloween card for the season...well maybe I will do one more for Tuesday.  My card today features the Haunt It set from The Project Bin.  I had a vision for this card as it is my first Design Team project for The Project Bin (squeeeeee!)

So the first thing I did was create my night sky.  I took the following Distress Inks Peacock Feathers, Blueprint Sketch, Wilted Violet, and Black Soot.  I started with Peacock Feathers and did a layer of it, which you can't really tell it is even in this scheme which I like.  My next color was Blueprint Sketch, I moved onto Wilted Violet, and finished it with Black Soot.  When applying the Black Soot, I took my blending tool and applied the color a little heavier on the edges.  I stamped the Happy Halloween from the Haunt It set.  I used a die cut to make the circle in my sky piece.  The only oops in this card is that I didn't make the sky piece long enough to cover the front of the card.  I only told about  this mistake so that you can see that my fix worked and I didn't need to scrap the whole card and start over.  I used a left over piece of Blackberry Bliss card stock to provide the extra coverage needed.  To soften the color a little bit, I took my Black Soot blending tool  to add some Black Soot to the edges.   I used my clear and Moonshine Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens to give my sky some twinkle.

Now for the inside of the card.  I stamped the witch image with the sentiment that says "Why yes, I can drive a stick!"  How awesome is that!  My card base is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  I placed my sky piece down and drew little pencil circle so I could create my "moon".  Once I had the 2nd circle cut, I stamped the witch image with Versamark ink, after I treated the inside of my card with my anti static bag.  The embossing power is orange and is from a Halloween set I bought at Michael's several years ago.  I love it because it comes with orange, black, purple, silver, and silver/black.  The collection was from Recollections which is the Michael's brand.  I love how the orange looks.  Then I took some Mustard Seed Distress ink to give the silhouette some background color.  As far as visions go, I am extremely excited with how this card turned out.  So that is my card for the day. Come back next Saturday when I will have another card for you featuring the amazing products from The Project Bin!  Thank you so much for stopping by.

Come and create something with me

Andi

New Design Team!

So the other day I mentioned I would be making an exciting announcement soon and today is the day!  I am one of the newest members of The Project Bin Design team.  The photos are of the stamp sets I was able to choose as my welcome gift. My absolute favorite is the Halloween set.  I am going to do my first official blog post for the Project Bin and I will be using the Haunt It set, as of course I have to get a few more Halloween cards in before Tuesday!  I hope you come back tomorrow and check out my project.  I will have a new Project Bin post every Saturday so I hope you keep coming back.  I will also be getting another video up!  I probably will show some cards that I made using the Scrapping for Less Flavor of the Month set but won't be doing a 10 cards one kit with this one.  I will do another unboxing when I get my October kit which debuts tomorrow so I am excited about that as well.  Thank you for stopping by.

Come and create something with me

Andi

Birthday card Heffy Doodle style

Hi Stampers!  Just a little break from Halloween.  My husband's uncle will be 82 this month so I wanted to make him card.  All the images from Heffy Doodle.  I participated in their kick starter so I made sure to get the stamps I wanted.  This set is called Elephant of Surprise. and has a matching die set.  What I love about the dies for theses stamps is you get a die for every image, including the tiny little peanut!  I love these elephants as well.  I colored them with Spectrum Noir Colour Blend pencils and unfortunately I didn't keep track of my colors so I apologize for that!  The patterned paper is from an old Stampin' UP! pad called Cherry on Top.  The sentiment on the front says "when you have this much fun" and you can see the inside sentiment.  I fell in love with set the moment I saw it and the Heffy Doodle stamps are good quality stamps so I definitely recommend them.  So this is my card for today.  Thanks for stopping by.

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Andi

Spook House!

Hi Stampers!  Happy Tuesday.  Just one more week until Halloween.  Next to Christmas, I probably make the most Halloween cards. So for the next week you will probably see a LOT of Halloween cards and projects.  Today's card features a couple of different companies.  First the card stock.  The card base is again Blackberry Bliss by Stampin' UP! The black is shimmer paper from Crafter's Companion, and the yellow is Yo Yo Yellow which is a long retired Stampin' UP! color.  I might have a paper hording issue but that is for another post, lol.  The stamped images are from Spooky Street by Newton's Nook.  The house, ghosts, moon, fence, and the tree are from an My Favorite Things die-namic called Spooky House and I am sorry but it must be retired because I am unable to find it on their website. 

My vision for this card was the house looking like it was all lit up with the ghosts appearing to be floating out like they had scared the inhabitants of the house and were going away for awhile.  I used the tree behind so that you could barely see it.  I took the one of the eye stamps from Spooky Street so it looked like there were things in the tree.  The bats with the big moon were a must and I liked the Happy Halloween with the crow.  One I had everything laid out and adhered to my card I did my stamping.  For a finishing touch I took my clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen and tapped it against my finger to give the background a twinkle effect.  I loved how this card turned out and will probably use this die set some more before next Tuesday.  Thanks for stopping by.

Come and create something with me.

Andi

Shake Your Booty!

Hi Stampers!  I know today was suppose to be a new video but I caught a nasty bug last week and just wasn't ready to do my 10 cards one kit video.  I promise it will come but I just couldn't get it done this week.  So I have a new Halloween project today and this pretty much all stuff from stash.  The card base is Orange Peel from Simon Says Stamp.  The ribbon is from an old Halloween release from Doodlebug as is the orange pattern paper.  The image is from a retired Stampin UP! set.  That I used one of my Chameleon pens to color.  I used V04 Deep Violet to color the boot.  I stamped the image in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  What I love about these markers is it looks like I used a couple different colors but it is just one pen. Then I used my clear Spectrum Noir marker to give it a nice sparkle.  I cut the image frame with Blackberry Bliss card stock and used the wonky window die from MFT.  There was no planning for this card.  It just came together and those are the best cards because I could make a ton of these cards and just change up the color on the boot and the card stock.  I have the linked the products I could. 

On a different note, I will being sharing an exciting announcement soon and this announcement guarantees more cards from me so I hope you will keep checking back with me.  I will be back again this week with more Halloween cards and maybe some "Harvest" cards.  Thanks for stopping by,  Come and create something with me.

Andi

Halloween Treat bag

   

Hi stampers!  Thanks for joining me today.  Today's project is a treat bag.  As you can see, I am using the same image as I did for yesterday's project. I colored one differently by using Harvest Moon to color the entire "Boo".  The bags are made by using the Treat Bag die from Stampin UP!  I used an old Doodlebug paper pad, called Ghouls and Goodies.  I believe this is from three years ago but any Halloween paper you have would work.  This die set comes with other dies but all I am using is the  the treat bag.  Once I had the bags cut and assembled, I adhered my friendly ghost and then took the picture with the top pinched so you could get an idea of what it will look like.  I didn't close the bag yet as I don't have the goodies for them.  This is actually meant to be a flat bag but I didn't think I could get very much candy in the them that way (and it is all about the candy).  So here is another quick and simple idea for Halloween.  Thanks for stopping by and remember come and create something with me!

Andrea

Just a little BOO!

Hi stampers!  Happy Tuesday!  Today's card features a freebie digi-image from Bugaboo Stamps!  Jodi does a new freebie nearly every Friday.  I couldn't resist this little guy. I printed him out on Spectrum Noir card stock using a laser printer.  I know there are probably other ways to print the images but I personally have the best luck using a laser printer.  I colored the Boo using some of my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens.  I used  Clear, Harvest Moon, and Moonlight.  I thought he needed some whimsy so I colored the Boo to look like candy corn.  I used the clear sparkle pen on the top of the letters and for the ghost.  The 2nd picture was me trying to get a close up of how much these pens really glitter.  You can find the glitter pens at Hobby Lobby and Michael's and here.  The card base is from ivory 110 lb card stock that I bought at Michael's  The orange strip pattern paper is from Lawn Fawn's collection, Let's Polka in the Dark.  The purple piece is from an old Doodlebug Halloween collection, and the black is shimmer card stock from Crafter's Companion.  This card literally took me about 15 mins to put together., the longest aspect being trimming the image out  Hope you like today's card and remember come and create something with me.

Andrea

My first video is live

Hey stampers!  Just wanted to let you know that my very first YouTube video is live!.  I am so nervous.  I did an un-boxing of the the Pumpkin Spice Flavor of the Month Kit from Scrapping for Less.  I didn't edit anything out because I felt like it was ok. Here is the link to the video.    Hopefully everyone is nice if they watch it.  I am going to do one video a week for now so check in next week where I will have a 10 cards one kit video for you.  Thanks for stopping by.  Come and create something with me.

Andrea

WIld About You

Hi Stampers!  Happy Sunday!  Hope everyone has had a great weekend.  I have a new card for you today and an exciting announcement...well its exciting for me.  I am going to start my own YouTube channel.  I will probably only do one video a week to start because a friend is going to help me video until I get all the equipment I need to do it on my own.  Which brings me to today's card.  This card was made using products from the August Flavor of the Month kit brought to us by Scrapping for Less.  These kits sell out really fast so if you like what see, you might want to consider a signing up for the subscription.  I subscribe to the Banana Split level of the kit which is $35 a month plus shipping.  It is a great value for the money. This card was made using a piece of the kraft card stock that came in the kit along with the pattern paper is from two different levels of the kit, the green dots is from the Natural Dots by Bo Bunny and the flower pattern is from Jungle Safari by Echo Park.  The image and sentiment are from Pink and Main and because I want it I can't find the name of the stamp set that came in the kit.  I will try to edit the post to add the name.  Anywho, I used the "Wild About You" sentiment and the platypus image.  I originally started out stamping the image and sentiment with Almond Latte ink that comes in the kit but it wasn't dark enough to stamp on the canvas tag that came in the kit.  So I riffled through my stash and used Early Expresso from Stampin UP!  Once I had the image and sentiment stamped dark enough, I adhered the tag at an angle onto the card.  The kit also include the little flowers and leaf in the bottom left corner.  So I popped those on with glue dots.  I added someone sparkle stickles to the center of the flowers.  I also used some black pearl pen at the top and bottom right.  So the main reason I used this card today is because my first video will be an unboxing of the new Flavor of the Month kit from Scrapping for Less called Pumpkin & Spice.  I have seen the kit so I am super excited for my unboxing and I will do a 10 cards one kit for my second video with this kit.  So stay tuned for the video of my reveal of the kit. Thank you for stopping by.  Come and create something with me.

Andi

Looking for my Mummy

Hello stampers!  I have another Halloween card for you today.  This is a case of a card I made several years ago.  It is a little time consuming but easy to put together and SO cute.  The card is a standard A2 card with an orange card base.  The mummy's wrappings are one inch strips of card stock that I tore the edges, to give it a bandage look. The dirty look is achieves from taking a sponge applicator and ink.  I used Almond Latte from Your Next Stamp.  This was an ink cube that I received in a kit.  I applied the ink all over the strip, heavier on the torn edges.  I forgot to mention that they strips are made from Ivory cardstock that I picked up at Michaels, 110 lb weight.  If you wanted to use a lightr weight card stock for the strips that would be okay.  So once I had the the strips all ready to go, I took a small panel about 3 1/2 by 4 to make the mummy.  I used six strips for the mummy.  I arranged to look like they were "wrapped".  I used my tape runner to adhere them down and any pieces that hung over I just trimmed off with my scissors.  Previously when I made this card the eyes were made using orange, black, and white card stock circles to make the eyes.  Today's card has googly eyes.  I found these at my local Dollar Tree and there is a mixture of sizes and colors.  Once I had the eyes down.I adhered my mummy to a piece of black card stock and attached it to the card base.  The longest part of this card was the distress of strips.  Cute, easy, and fun for all ages.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Come and create something with me.

Andrea