Nichol's Needlework

Here's another new release, this time designed by Nichol Spohr, that she calls Nichol's Needlework.  Here are some cards I made. 

supplies: cream, metallic gold, kraft, red, and green cardstock, Faux Embroidered Spruce dies, Gathering Stitches hoop dies, Nichol's Needlework Sentiment, Adorning the Tree 3D embossing folder

The little bow is not part of this release, but from this month's Skating into the Holidays Small dies of the month; I shortened the tails to make it fit here.  I did cross-stitch for many years before I discovered card making, and often stitched ornaments for our tree each year.

This next card will work for many occasions - it was fun to piece together a rainbow with all the colors!

supplies: various cardstock colors, metallic silver cardstock, Gathering Stitches dies, (retired) April Caboodle Pins & Needles Sentiments die

This set also has extra flowers and tall stems so that you can make a little flower garden, also!

And finally, I have 2 cards featuring the Faux Embroidered Pumpkin die set from this release. I didn't use the embroidery hoop dies on these.

supplies: colored cardstocks,  Faux Embroidered Pumpkin dies, Nichol's Needlework Sentiment, Arch Labels dies

The pumpkin set also includes a large witch's hat,, so my final card features that, the pumpkin, and some dies from last year's Halloween Cupcake!  Could this be The Great Pumpkin?????

supplies: colored cardstock, Faux Embroidered Pumpkin pumpkin and hat dies, Boo-licious Fall Cupcake sign and bat, googly eyes

I found that leafy background in my stash and thought it would make a good pumpkin patch!

Thanks for coming by today - enjoy your weekend!  We're having a little break from all that heat and humidity, so I know I will!

Happy Halloween!

 Here are 3 cards for Halloween that are made of almost all long-retired goodies.  I started with this black cat silhouette from die a 2018 Spellbinders club kit.

supplies: black, Green Apple, Orange Peel, Doll Pink, and Royal Purple cardstock, Pink Fresh Studio Color Block Diagonal Stripes cover plate die, Spellbinders Trick or Treats die set (Large Die of the Month from September 2018), a scalloped square die, Hero Arts Happy Halloween sentiment, Cuttlebug embossing folder

I haven't done this strip-piecing technique for a long time, and rarely using solid papers.  Having the stripe cover plate saved me lots of time this time around - I used to just slice my papers in random sizes and widths.  I had seen a Halloween card using oranges and bright pinks, so I started with those colors and then added the traditional orange and lime green to the mix. I thought adding the swirly embossing made it a little creepier, but not scary.

This was fun, and I ALWAYS like it when I can use old supplies!  I'm not a big Halloween fan, but once I make one Halloween card, I always have to make 2 more so that none of our Grands feel slighted.  They are getting a bit old for my kind of Halloween cards, so this may be the last ones they'll receive going forward.

So, here are 2 more for this set, using the same strips, just changing up the main motif, and doing a little paper-piecing within each one.  There are sentiments built in for these, so I didn't need to add any more.

supplies: black,  Green Apple, Orange Peel, Sunshine, and Royal Purple cardstock, Pink Fresh Studio Color Block Diagonal Stripes cover plate die, Spellbinders Trick or Treats die set (Large Die of the Month from September 2018), a scalloped square die

I kept these strips all going the same way for my final one.

supplies: white, Green Apple, Doll Pink, and Royal Purple cardstock, Pink Fresh Studio Color Block Diagonal Stripes cover plate die, Spellbinders Trick or Treats die set (Large Die of the Month from September 2018), a scalloped square die

Thank you for stopping by!

Woodblock Wednesday for October

This month I used 2 Hero Arts woodblock stamps from 2009: Traditional Pumpkin and Tall Pumpkin.

supplies: black dot and halloween stripe dps, white cardstock, Doodlebug orange tiny prints, Hero Arts Tall Pumpkin and Traditional Pumpkin, faces from Clearly Besotted Boo to You and Pink and Main Hey Pumpkin, bat and Boo from Spellbinders Hey Boo die set, MFT Wonky Stitched Rectangle die 

Hope you'll join us this month!

I'll be adding this card to this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Anything Goes.

Spellbinders Club Kits, part 1: Small and Large Dies of the Month (and an Add-On)

 The September Club Kits from Spellbinders are now available!

The Large Die of the Month is called Boo-licious Fall Cupcake.  

supplies: cardstock in Halloween colors, Large Die of the Month Boo-licious Fall Cupcake, sequins to match, a retired swirly embossing folder

What a fun set this is!  It contains what you see above, plus autumn leaves, an acorn, a ghost, skull and bones, a broomstick, a taller pumpkin, and (YIKES!!) an eyeball!

Also there's an add-on die set called Seasonal Cupcake Toppers, that covers other occasions,  which has an Easter chick, a snowman, pine sprig, a Santa hat, hearts and an arrow for Valentine's Day, and flowers, to name a few.  I made a chocolate cupcake with flowers for Valentine's Day.

supplies: white, chocolate, 2 pinks, and 2 green cardstock, Boo-Licious cupcake and icing, Seasonal Cupcake Toppers dies, (retired) Tammy Tutterow sentiment die, unknown heart embossing folder

The Small die of the Month is called Hiking Through the Meadows.  It has lots of dies to cover autumn - I chose to leave the hiking boots out of the equation for my card.

supplies: various fall colors of cardstock, cream and kraft, Hiking Through the Meadow dies, sentiment from this month's clear stamp of the month: Fall Thoughtfulness, adhesive foam to pop everything up

You can look HERE for information on Spellbinders Clubs.  Each is available only from the 6th until the 27th of each month.  If you click on my links under each card, you can see the specifics of each product.  You can subscribe to the kits separately, but there are also lots of ways to combine several of them (scroll down and look under Value Clubs).  And you can "unjoin" a subscription at any time without any penalty.

Poshta Design New Halloween Product Introduction!

Welcome back for Day 2 of Poshta Design's introductions for the new release on Saturday, August 19! Today I'll be showing you the Halloween products.

Here are the new products in the Halloween release:

Gingerbread Friends Skeleton Details Die (retails for $18) (to be used with previously released Gingerbread die)

Poison Apple Details Die (retails for $20) (to be used with yesterday's Autumn Apple die)

Eerie Apothecary Die (retails for $32)

Trick or Treat Color Story (Inkwell, Dahlia Blossom, Clementine, Gecko, and Cascade) (retails for $53)

Here are the Gingerbread Friends Skeleton Details dies.  They start with the older Gingerbread Friends basic die and then you can add these new bones!  How fun!  I made some ornaments for a Halloween tree, or just to hang on a gift.  They'd also make a great banner in different colors, wouldn't they?

supplies: Gingerbread Friends and Skeleton Details dies, Trick or Treat Color Story felts and flosses (Inkwell, Dahlia Blossom, and Clementine), my own white felt and floss

Next up is the Poison Apple die.  You use yesterday's Autumn Apple Die as your base, adding on this new die.  I had fun with the colors and couldn't resist adding some sequin eyes (which are included in the Trick or Treat color story pack).

supplies: Autumn Apple die, Poison Apple Die, Dahlia Blossom pink felt and sequins from Trick or Treat color story, Pea Pod felt and floss and Gingersnap felt and floss from Autumn Apple color story

And finally, here are the Eerie Apothecary dies.  This is a large set of dies that includes 3 sizes of bottles, with either a stopper or a cork closure, and 3 shapes of labels with fun details for them.

supplies: Eerie Apothecary dies, Cascade, Clementine, and Inkwell felts and flosses (from the Trick or Treat color story), Gingersnap and Shortbread felts and flosses (from By the Bushel color story) and my own white felt and floss

And here they all are together, once again, to give you an idea of the various sizes.  The largest bottle measures a bit over 4 1/2" tall by about 2 1/2" at its widest point.  The skeletons are 4 14" tall by 3 14" wide.

Lizzie is doing a $50 gift certificate giveaway over on her blog HERE, the winner chosen from comments there.  Winner will be announced on Saturday, Aug 19 at 9 am.

Thanks for your visit; I'll be back again with the last installment of the new release tomorrow, and then everything will be available at Poshta Design on Saturday, August 19 at noon Eastern time.

Simon Says........Spooky!

Welcome to our weekly challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!

 Our theme is Spooky! this week, and the team is featuring our own exclusive Simon Says Stamp products.  You don't have to use this brand to enter, but we'd love to see you using it if you do!

supplies: white, black, and Green Apple cardstock, Simon Halloween Sentiment Strips card, Jack O Lanterns stencil, spiced marmalade, peeled paint, and black soot distress inks, Spooky Boo spider web die, (retired) Hero Arts Upper Case Alphabet dies, googly eyes, micro dot adhesive, adhesive foam squares

I used a card of Simon's Halloween sentiment strips as my background, and stencilled and cut out 4 different pumpkins, which were lifted above the card front.  I added a few googly eyes to make them a little scarier (and yes, I meant to have only 1 eye on 1 of them).

Now it's your turn!  We have a $25.00 gift certificate 

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!  I can't wait to see what you all make this week!

Batty for You!

 I have another new set of dies to share with you for Halloween, and it's appropriate that I post this card today, my youngest sister's birthday, as she loves that holiday!

supplies: white, desert storm, pale grey, and black cardstock, Spellbinders Dancin' Mummy dies, Spooky Boo dies, a Simon Halloween sentiment strip, a bat stencil and pale grey ink

This is another of the Dancin dies from Spellbinders, and I think he is darling!  I'm not a fan of scary cards for kids, but I think this hits just the right notes!  The dies are made so that the upper body can be lifted above the card, while the legs are separate so that they swing when you move the card back and forth. It's pretty ingenious the way these dies were designed!  I'm really pleased with how this turned out, and I can't wait to send it to one of our Grands come Halloween!

Many thanks, as always, to Spellbinders, for sharing these with me!

Haunted House!

 Here's a fun set of dies, appropriately named Haunted House, that were released earlier this month from Spellbinders.  I had a blast making my little Halloween scene with them!

supplies: white, black, purple, dark green, Green Apple, and Orange Peel cardstock, Spellbinders Haunted House dies, inks to color moon and clouds, a long retired Cuttlebug embossing folder, retired Hero Arts Upper Case Alphabet dies

I'll have another cute Halloween card from the same Boo Dance Party Collection coming very soon!  Thanks for stopping by!

Simon Says........Spooky/Halloween

Happy Wednesday - welcome to our challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday blog!

Our theme this week is Spooky/Halloween, and the team will be highlighting our very own Simon Says Stamp exclusive goodies!

supplies: Green Apple, Orange Peel, Smoke Grey, purple, and black card, Simon Halloween Sentiment Strips, Spellbinders Hey Boo dies, Pink Fresh Adore Alpha dies, googly eyes, (retired) Spellbinders/Tammy Tutterow Blistered embossing folder

Now it's your turn!  We have a $25.00 gift certificate 

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!  I can't wait to see what you all make this week!

 

Simon Says.......Interactive

Happy Wednesday - welcome to our challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday blog!

This week we want to see your Interactive creations!   The team is playing with Lawn Fawn products.  I made an edge-to-edge shaker:

supplies: Green Apple, Slate, Sunshine, black, and white cardstock, acetate, bat stencil, Black Soot distress ink, Lawn Fawn Happy Haunting stamps, (house and sentiment), Spellbinders Spooky Cottage tree die, circle die, ripe persimmon and crackling campfire oxide inks, Orca sequins

I stencilled an A2 Apple Green panel with the bats  Then I trimmed a piece of acetate to be 1" larger than an A2 size, and scored all 4 sides of the rectangle at 1/2".  This was then wrapped and taped on 3 sides around the bat panel.  I added sequins, and sealed the top.  Separately I had stamped and colored the house, cut out a moon and shaded it, and cut out a tree.  Along with a sentiment "ground" panel, they were then all affixed to the shaker, and that was attached to a card base.

Shari Carroll did a great tutorial earlier this year for lots of ways to make your cards interactive, if you need some ideas.

Now it's your turn!  We have a $25.00 gift certificate 

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!  I can't wait to see what you all make this week!

Boo!!

Here's another new release from the Spellbinder's Halloween Collection this year.  The die set is called Let's Be Frank!  How fun is this big hat and legs?!

 supplies: black, orange, purple and metallic gold cardstock, black flock sheet,  a long-retired Doodlebug printed spider paper, Spellbinder's Let's Be Frank dies, Spooky Boo dies, adhesive foam squares

I cut the hat out of black flock - it has a soft feel and is a good strong black.  The legs and sentiment were cut from regular black card. Details for both were added in orange and purple with gold metallics for the buckles.  This is just about the last of this spider 12" cardstock, bought waaaaaay back when Archivers was alive, if you remember them!  I also fussy-cut a tiny spider from it and popped it above the card - the placement makes it look like it's hanging from the tip of the hat!

This die set is called "Let's Be Frank" because there are also dies to make a Frankenstein!  What a fun set!  Many thanks to Spellbinders for allowing me to play with it!

Happy Halloween!

 I needed one more Halloween card for our Grands - this will be for the youngest one.

supplies: black and Slate cardstock, Echo Park Creepy Bats stencil, black soot distress ink, Hero Arts (retired) Felt Decor pumpkins, googly eyes, Pink and Main Trick or Treat sentiment and Postage die,  copper embossing powder, Spellbinders Spooky Boo bat die

I started by embossing and inking the stencil, then added my other elements.  The felt pumpkins are dated 2010!!  It was fun to add the googly eyes a bit off-kilter.

Becca Feeken's new Halloween collection!

I have some Halloween cards today using the new Becca Feeken Halloween Collection!  I received her Spooky Boo and Spooky Cottage dies.

For my first one, I decided to cut black silhouettes and make a fun scene using my go-to colors for Halloween cards: purple, green, gold, orange, and black, of course!

supplies: black, gold, purple, and Green Apple cardstock, cat and small bat from Spooky Boo dies, tree, fence, large bat and sentiment from Spooky Cottage dies, circle die, googly eyes

This was fun to put together!  I stamped a swirly magical background onto the purple sky, added some green ground, then cut a gold circle for my moon, shading it with ripe persimmon ink, and then added my black silhouettes. I pulled the bats' wings forward and stacked my sentiment for some added dimension; the googly eyes I have fit perfectly into the Boo!  There are lots of fun details built into these dies!  

There's a little 2-piece mummy die in the Spooky Cottage set that I wanted to use on my 2nd card.

supplies: white, kraft, pale grey, and black cardstock, scraps of Doodlebug Halloween printed papers, Spooky Cottage mummy dies, (retired) Hero Arts Halloween sentiment

A much simpler design this time - I dug out some ancient leftover scraps of printed Halloween papers to  showcase my fun Mummies!

Hope I've given you some smiles today - thanks for dropping by!

Simon Says........Halloween!

Happy Wednesday - welcome to our challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

This week our theme is Halloween!  The team is showcasing My Favorite Things goodies - if you have any, we'd love to see you using them, too, but that's not a requirement.  

I've been wanting this adorable stamp set for a few years now; so glad they haven't retired it yet!  I had lots of fun making my card!

supplies: yellow, Smoke Grey, and Green Apple cardstock, MFT Witch Way is the Candy clear stamp set, Nuvo Creative Pens markers, (retired) Hero Arts Magical Background cling

Now it's your turn!  We have a $50.00 gift certificate 

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!  I'm really looking forward to see what you all make this week!