Our new designer, Sonya Sheaffer came up with this adorable 3″x3″ card. It would also make a great placecard for Thanksgiving dinner. Just print each person’s name instead of a Halloween greeting on a sticky label. The technique uses dye-based reinkers. After stamping the pumpkin and embossing on coated paper, spray with a fine mist of water. Use a water brush to add drops of re-inker to the wet image and let the colors blend together. Dry well before cutting out and adding to card. When you cut, be careful to leave an edge around the embossing. Don’t cut through it, or it flakes off. The background looks like worn fabric, but in fact is a piece of color core cardstock that has been torn and sanded. A tiny piece of knotted ribbon completes the look. What a great gift card for a fruit basket or house gift over the holidays. Make one at our “Try Me Table” as a FREE project Sept28 through Oct 3. Your family and friends are going to love this one!
Happy Halloween
Pumpkin Stamp: Hero Arts
Words: computer generated
Reinkers: Marvy
Color Core Paper: Core’dinations
Water Brush: Aqua-flo from Hero Arts
Embossing Powder: Ranger
Other Cardstock: Paper Cut
Ribbon: May Arts
I wanted words, and dimensional flowers, but felt like I needed a large leaf or pumpkin, or some fall related item to go with them. Below is the card I came up with. First I stamped the pumpkin from an Impression Obsession clear stamp set. Then I stamped it on scrap paper and cut out. Cut on the lines or a little bit inside. If you leave paper around the image, you’ll get a halo when you mask. Attach this scrap pumpkin over the stamped image with removeable tape. Then stamp the words with the flowers from a different Impression Obsession set. Remove the scrap paper mask and it looks like the flowers are behind the pumpkin! Color and blend. I stamped mine on a diecut of Nesties curved rectangles. Then I cut out the next size smaller curved rectangle and used it for a mask over the entire image. I attempted to airbrush the exposed edges with the Copic markers. I need more practice at that, but it is presentable. The tiny flowers are from Hero Arts. I stamped, colored, and mounted them on pop dots. Put the card together with layers and eyelets, and you have a great fall greeting.
Harvest Card
Pumpkin stamp & word stamp - Impression Obsession
Small Flowers - Hero Arts
Curved Rectangle Nestabilities - Spellbinder
Memento Rich Cocoa inkpad - Tsukineko
Alcohol Ink Markers - Copic
Eyelets - Creative Impression
Designer paper - Karen Foster
Cardstock - Core’dinations & Paper Cut
Tools - Scor-Pal, Crop-a-dile, Copic air brush system
