TH October tag

Happy Halloween everyone!

I finally managed to make my

tag for October.

In the Netherlands we do not celebrate Halloween

and as October is also Breat Cancer awareness month

I made a pink ribbon tag.

You can see Tim's October tag here:

http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2012-october/

For my pink tag I used some light and

darker pink acrylic paints and the new

gold distress stain to color my tag.

The letters are cardboard you can buy

as an alphabeth, real sturdy. I colored them with

acrylic paint and added som rock candy on top.

The body form is first painted with gold

distress stain and embossed with victoran velvet

distress embossing powder.

(sorry, made a mistake! It is  tattered rose

embossing powder.)

Click on the photo for a larger view.

Have a creative day!

Technique Junkie's Birthday Month Blog Hop

Did you arrive here  by hopping from

Jane's Blog with her amazing project to my Craftchaos?

Yes, then you are in the right spot to

celebrate with us the 10 year anniversary

of the Technique Junkies.

Te AWESOME Pat Huntoon started a newsletter with

technique tutorials online 10 years ago

and is celebrating this with a whole month

of give-aways on her blog.

But today Pat and her design team have

a special blog hop and wonderful prize:

if you leave a comment on every blog,

you can become a guest designer

for the next Technique Junkie Newsletter!!!

Now on to some of the wonderful techniques

you can find in the newsletters.

 One of my all time favourite techniques

is IRISFOLDING

and I found this spooky free template

on Circle of Crafters.

The irisfolding technique was in the

first newsletter in October 2002.

And the background is stamped

in a scenic technique from

newsletter August 2009.

 The stamps and dies I have used for this

card are Michael Strong's Halloween stamps

and dies. The sentiment is by Stampin'Up!

I am a Junkie for a long time and I love trying

out all the new techniques and sometimes

even think of one myself. Hope you enjoy

the hope. Don't forget to leave a comment

to win a guest designer's spot.

And now........

hop on to

Shelly's Creative Rumblings

with her fantastic art work!

 Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrappage: Halloween

Today I have a scrap page for you with the new

Halloween stamps and dies by Michael Strong.

 

The paper is by Club Scrap (different kits) and

the sentiment is by Create with TLC.

 

And the pictures are of course my grandson Owen,

who is already 3,5 months old and doing great.

Here you see more of the stamped work

and if you click on the photo, you

will see an even larger version.

 

The spider web border is a Martha Steward punch

that i used on some black paper to make the border and glued

to the background. The siders are punched out

with the new Halloween dies by Michael Strong

amd colored with a silver gelpen to give it

some glitz. The "boo!"is an old stamp by SU!.

 

Have a creative day!

More Halloween inspiration

Hi!

Are you getting ready for Halloween?

Need some more card inspiration?

Well, with  

Michael Strongs 

new Halloween goodies

it is so wonderful to make some easy cards.

For card 1 and 2 I punched out a circle,

that I used to sponge the background first

with distress inks. First sponge the moon,

than cover the moon with the punched out circle to

color the rest of the background.

The owl and the sentiment are by Stampin'Up!

And for card #3 I found inspiration and a great

video tutorial here:

http://mypaperbliss.blogspot.nl/2009/08/lets-make-accordion-fold-halloween-card.html

It is an easy to fold accordeon card.

You need an 8,5 x 11 inch black piece of cardstock

for the card (you can make 2 out of it) and some pieces

of fun halloween scrappaper for decoration.

I used the brim of the 3 hats as a closure for the front,
Just for fun, you do not need to do this.

Do you like Michael Strong's stamps too?
Come and join our Facebook Group:
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/EnjoyMichaelStrongstamps/

Have a creative day!

 

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 As today is world card making day

I just have to share some cards with you.

Just received the new Halloween stamps

and dies by Michael Strong.

So as Halloween is creeping up on us,

I made you to cards and hope your are

inspired.

For this one I punched out the cats

and stuck them to a stamped background with

foam tape. I gave the cats gemstone eyes.

And here is one like it, but done with the  dies

bird and also a stamped background.

For both cards I uses the tree stamp of

 the Halloween set.

 

Have a creative day!