Hey Boo!

Ya YOU! Hey BOO! Ok, I will stop it! But what I won’t stop is sharing some fun Halloween inspiration with you this month! This is my third project share and today I am sharing a really spooktacular Halloween card with you that uses a really cool technique!

The base of this card is Fresh Freesia which is a color you might not think of when you think of Halloween. I think all the purples work for this holiday so I incorporated three of them onto this card project.

There is a base layer of Basic White behind the vellum layer to help the colors of the Stampin’ Blends pop. I used the dark Stampin’ Blend marker for all three—Highland Heather, Rich Razzleberry and Fresh Freesia. The technique is the popular Alcohol Blends technique. There are a million videos on how to make this so just do a quick search! Basically you need 3-5 things for this technique:

1. Stampin’ Blends

2. Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol in 99%

3. Vellum

4. A straw

5. A Waterpainter

The straw option is used to blow the rubbing alcohol around and I have created some projects with that look, so to speak, so watch for some future posts! For this card I used my Waterpainter to drop and spritz the rubbing alcohol on top of my blends.

I colored my Stampin’ Blends across my vellum, dividing it into 3 sections. I then dipped my Waterpainter into the rubbing alcohol and flicked it across the card. This is what created the speckled look.

Because you could see the lines between the colors, and I didn’t really like that, I took the Waterpainter to the edges to where the colors met and touched the vellum. This allowed the color to bleed into each other a little bit.

TOP TIP: A little rubbing alcohol goes a long way. Sometimes less is better

After I had created this fun background it was easy to add some fun aspects to the card. We have such a great selection of Halloween stuff in our catalogues right now!

“Hey Boo” is from the Cutest Halloween stamp set and the sentiment is die cut with a label shape from the Frightful Tags Dies.

I added a fun spiderweb cut from the Black Glitter Paper and the Frightful Tags dies. Over top I added our sentiment and a cute owl, cut from Bumblebee card stock, and cut with the same dies. Now when you cut the owl, his eyes and nose will be hollow, so I added a small scrap of Basic Black cardstock behind to fill them in.

The skull is stamped from the same stamp set, Cutest Halloween, and is hand trimmed. While there is a punch to coordinate with this stamp set, it only cuts out the cat, ghost and pumpkin.

I used my Stampin’ Blends again, this time in Daffodil Delight, to color the Black & White Gingham Ribbon. This ribbon is the BOMB! Its the perfect width and everyone loves gingham. And you can customize it by coloring it with Stampin’ Blends OR even with a Blending Brush and an ink pad!

I hope this card inspires you to make some spooktacular yourself!

Corner Flip Card

My team participated in a Fun Fold swap this month and I decided to try the Corner Flip card! It is actually so so easy! I am really into the Tropical Oasis Suite at the moment so I used elements from the suite to embellish my card. A fun twist is to stamp the flower images on vellum with Whisper White and emboss! I hope you can make sense of my directions, if you are unsure please feel free to send me a message!

I tried to capture in photos how to make this Corner Flip card. There are a lot of Youtube videos you can search if you can’t quite figure it out. Even though I have oodles of time, I just don’t think videos will be my jam! Anyway, start with a regular card base. Measure along the top (outside in) 3.5 inches and make a little tick (picture #1). Measure down from the top (picture #2) 3.5 inches and make a tick. Then using your trimmer SCORE a line between these two ticks and fold over. Picture #3 shows you how it folds. Easy! You will then need a 4 x 6 piece of DSP. Make sure you look at both sides as you will be seeing both on the card. Take that piece of DSP and cut off 3/4 of an inch (picture #5). Set aside (it is used on the inside of the card, see below). Take the bigger DSP piece and lay it on top of the card and using the fold, crease it over the DSP (picture #7) . You will then trim along the fold line (I found my mini guillotine trimmer was awesome for this!). Fold the card base flap down and adhere. The remaining DSP triangle is then glue to this (last photo).