Lawn Fawn Halloween

Lizzy's Halloween card on the Lawn Fawn blog inspired me to try some partial die cutting and Pamela Ho has a great video for partial die cutting of masked/joined images. I stamped the bats and then my hat, cat and pumpkin using some masking and then partially die cut the images in succession before using a craft knife to create a circular aperture. More partial die cutting to extend the large stitched rectangle die, lots of distress inking and a spritz of glimmer mist for the night sky and hey presto a cute CAS Halloween card!

I've been planning this card for ages but went away for the mid-term break without any craft supplies, hence my nearly missing the Lawnscaping deadline and the poor quickly taken photos. Thankfully my local craft club allowed me to make the time to get inky and sparkly! This card came together quite quickly and I love the CAS look.

In Ireland, Halloween is the biggest celebration in autumn and I've co-opted some American staples, such as pumpkins not turnips will be carved in this house. My Mum carved turnips for Jack-o-Lanterns before pumpkins were readily available and I don't recommend it, as turnips are very tough and lots of upper body strength is required! Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh!

Challenges:

Lawnscaping Challenge #92: Halloween Theme or Use The Colour Combo
Passion for ProMarkers Week #271: Add Some Sparkle
The Card Concept Challenge #22: Thank "Fall" for Halloween [Clean & Simple ]

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Spooktacular, Home Sweet Home
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Inks Stormy Sky, Seedless Preserve, Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot

Dies & Punches etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles Lawn Cuts, Home Sweet Home Lawn Cuts, Simon Says Stamp Happy die

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: silver gel pen, Wink of Stella, star gems, glimmer mist, Tim Holtz brushed pewter spray stain 

Colouring: ProMarker/FlexMarkers

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!

Purrfect Birthday CAS(E)#95 MtDSTechnique VVC#8

Masking and more and more masking, this card contains 3 types! Embossing and embossing, yes you guessed it, this card contains 2 types! I started out by masking off a rectangular section of my stencil with painter's tape and applied the embossing paste. While this was drying I created a party hat mask with post-it note tape, stamped up my images and coloured in my tabby cat. I've kept the mask with my stamp set so I can use it again. The sentiment is a combination of two sets, I masked out the word halloween with washi tape before inking in versamark, removed the tape, stamped and embossed on vellum. The birthday was then stamped and embossed. The sentiment was stamped and embossed in two stages as I didn't want to smudge the almost invisible versamark.

This card is a refinement of my last card. I wanted to use a more subdued palette and have a go at some masking. I've used CAS(E) this sketch #95 for the layout,  kept it clean and simple for Virginia' View Challenge #8 and tried a few techniques for Make the Day Special's October Challenge.

Challenges:
CAS(E) this Sketch #95
Make the Day Special October Challenge: Try a technique [masking & embossing]

Virginia's View Challenge #8: Clean & Simple

 

 

 

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Spooktacular, Hat's Off To You
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Dies & Punches etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles Lawn Cuts, Tim Holtz Dot Fade Stencil

Paper: White card  & vellum from stash

Highlights: gold embossing paste, white embossing paste, glossy accents, gold gel pen, Wink of Stella, Lawn Fawn sequins

Colouring: ProMarkers Cool Grey 1, Cool Grey 3, Cool Grey 4, Pink Carnation, Blender.

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!

CAS Patterned Paper Home

Time to pull out the papers and get piecing! I needed a quick CAS card before I visited a friend's new home, so took Lawnscaping Challenge's advice and used patterned paper. No colouring except for a little shading, just some die cutting and a little embossing. Hey presto, a sweet little card for my friend's family of four. I positioned my dies and stamps so the images' colouring made sense and would have a bit of interest. This took a little bit of time, but I had to wait for the embossing paste to dry anyway! I've one little boy bird and one little girl bird flying about as their parents keep watch.
I've kept this card Clean & Simple with lots of white space to enter Virginia's View Challenge #8 and have used Retrosketches #114 rotated 90º to enter their World Cardmaking Day Challenge. There are lots of great sketches in their Archive.

Challenges:
Lawnscaping Challenge #91: Use Patterned Paper  
Retrosketches #135: Your Choice - Retrosketches #114 
Virginia's View Challenge #8: Clean & Simple 

 

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Home Sweet Home
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black 

Dies & Punches etc: Lawn Fawn Home Sweet Home Lawn Cuts, Wendy Vecchi Honeycomb Stencil

Paper: White card from stash, Lawn Fawn Daphne's Closet, Pink Lemonade

Highlights: white embossing paste, glossy accents

Colouring: Tim Holtz Distress Markers Old Paper, Iced Spruce, Squeezed Lemonade, Salty Ocean

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!