Boo Family Halloween

 Today I am sharing a fun card that is Halloween themed but in some non-traditional Halloween colours. I'm not sure what this card style is called but it is a fun fold and the stamped image slides up or down the card and is removed to reveal the inside. The "Boo Family In Frame" and the "Boo-tiful Day" sentiment fit perfectly on to the "slider". 

I stamped the Boo family on alcohol marker friendly paper, coloured it with Copic markers and hand fussy cut it. I set it aside and created my card base. The link to the video I followed is broken but I will re link it if it becomes available. After creating the card base I used patterned paper from an old We R Memory Keepers pad and cut the papers to fit. 

To create the inside, I added a piece of white card stock to the patterned paper and added a fun row of houses, a spooky tree, a spider web and the Happy Halloween sentiment. I glued the stamped image and Boo-tiful Day sentiment to the "slider" for the front of the card. All paper is edged with black soot Distress ink and enamel dots finish off my card.

Stamp Recipe

Stamps - Boo Family In Frame (P125)- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - Boo-tiful Day (E233), Happy Halloween Script (F232)

Patterned Paper - Fall - Echo Park, stash 

Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Hammermill Digital Cover Card Stock, tree die - Gina Marie Designs, spider web and houses dies - Your Next Stamp, Black Soot Distress ink, enamel dots

Copic Markers

Frame - E34 E35 E29

Sky/Nose - N4 N5 N8 N10

Ties  - BG72 BG75 BG79 B99

Tongue - R20

Shading - N0 N1 N2 Blender

Stars - Y11 Y15 Y18

    

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Haunted Boo-tiful Day

  I usually don't make a lot of Halloween cards but when I saw the Haunted House and Frankie & Bride stamps in the Happy Halloween/Fall release at High Hopes I had a few card designs pop in to my head right away. 

Frankie and his bride love to travel and today we find them on a haunted house tour! He is the first to admit he isn't great at taking selfies which his new bride finds hilarious but he tries hard. Shifting a little to the right would have helped this photo but they are a boo-tiful day and that is all that matters.

                                                                                       

            After stamping Frankie & Bride, and the Haunted House I coloured them with Copic markers. Frankie & Bride is hand fussy cut leaving a thin white edge and the haunted house was cut in a square. I added some stones to the path on the haunted house stamp just for fun - thank you to my crafty peep for the idea <wink>

Next I cut some patterned paper from an old We R Memory Keepers pad to fit my 5.5 x 5.5 card base. I added a black card stock back the the house and glued it down. I had a blue dot by the ghost that was driving me crazy. It wasn't ink from my Copics, it was something in the paper, so after I coloured the sky I added some stars (to match the patterned paper) to cover it up. 

To make the frame around Frankie, I cut a polaroid die and trimmed the edges and bottom to fit my space. To keep the polaroid die full size covered up too much of the house so I chose to trim it. 

I stamped and cut the sentiment to size, added a die cut spider web and some matte dots to finish off the card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Haunted House, Frankie & Bride  - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - Boo-tiful Day - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper - Spookville - We R Memory Keepers

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, spider web and polaroid die - YNS, black matte dots, stars - Twinkle Scribble die - Whimsy Stamps

 Copic Markers:

Tombstone, Fence  - C1 C2 C4 C5

Bats, Roofs - N4 N5 N8 N10

House - BG72 BG75 C2

Moon - E50 E51 E40

Tree, Door, Sign - E25 E27 E29

Windows - E50 E51

Ghost - BG70

Grass - YG61 YG03

Sky - BV000 BV00 BV11 

Frankie - YG01 YG05 YG09 YG17

Hair, Coat - N4 N5 N8 N10 

Bride's Hair - N1 N2 N3 N4 N5 N8 N10

Skin - E00 E21 E11 E04

Top, Eyes, Earrings - BV00 BV11 BV17 N1

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Spider Silliness

  I am an animal lover through and through but I have some animals and critters that aren't necessarily at the top of my favourite list.

Spiders are one of the critters that fit in this category but if they were all as cute as this Silly Spider from High Hopes Rubber Stamps I would be convinced to change my mind. He just makes me giggle!

This is a small stamp (1.5" x 1.5") and I wanted to use it for a different design then I normally do. With the help of my trusty Misti, I did a repetitive stamped pattern, coloured all of them with alcohol markers and added some clear sparkle pen to the moon and stars and some freckles to their cheeks with a white gel pen.

I hand fussy cut one leaving a thin white edge (that I added the purple chalk pencil too as well) and popped him up with foam pop dots.

After my spiders were coloured the white background was just to stark for my liking so I wracked my brain to try and find a way to tone it down. I pulled out my chalk pencils and started playing on a scrap piece of paper. 

I found that the subtle colour I wanted was easy to add by colouring heavily on the scrap paper and smudging it with a piece of paper towel. The paper towel picked up the colour and I was able to use it to add some colour to my background. 

I stamped my sentiment with Versa Mark ink on black card stock, added some white embossing powder and heated it with my heat gun to finish off my CAS card.

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Silly Spider - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Boo-tiful Day - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, clear Spectrum Sparkle pen, white gel pen, purple chalk pencil - General's, 3D foam pop dots, white embossing powder

 Copic and Spectrum Noir Markers:

Hat - W3 W5 BG7 BG10

Stars, Moon - YR21 YR35 YR38

Hat Band, Wand - V12 V15 V17

Body - W2 W4 W7 R20

                                                               

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Boo-tiful Day

Poor Witchy Poo seems a little surprised by the guest who has dropped in to see her! Spiders aren't necessarily my favourite but my heart would definitely skip a beat if one just dropped down beside me like this! 
At least this cute spider is here to wish Witchy Poo and you a boo-tiful day! 

 This week I stuck with the traditional Halloween colours of orange and black except for Witchy Poo's fun hair and coloured her up with alcohol markers. 
I mixed patterned paper from Recollections and Authentique to create my card base. 
Next I cut a thin "frame" using a square die and edged it and all of the paper edges with black ink. The spider web and spider are from a fun happy haunting set and I added a twine bow to the web just for fun. The sentiment is  cut out using a fishtail banner die and the card is finished off with my favourite - gumdrops. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Standing Witchy Poo  - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Boo-tiful Day  - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Authentique, Recollections

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill digital cover stock, twine, fishtail banner - YNS, classic square die - Spellbinders, spider and web - YNS, gumdrops - YNS

Spectrum Noir Markers: FS9 BG5 BG7 BG10 PP1 CT1 CT4 GB5 OR1 OR2 OE3 PL2 PL4 LV2

Copics: E00 E11

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