Sneak Peek Card Details

Hello Everyone!  Did you enjoy yesterday's "Candy Corn Kisses" Sneak Peeks at My Craft Spot?  If you missed it click HERE to see my Sneak Peeks or go to My Craft Spot to see the other amazing projects from Kimberly, Marlene, Aymee and Amy!  Well, today is a new Sneak Peek of another great stamp set!  Kimberly, Kate, Jenny, Joy and Ally will be showcasing them.  I decided to save my card details until today for the sake of keeping my post under novel size yesterday!  Sometimes I get a little long winded and I know not everyone enjoys reading it! 

"Fright Night" Step Card Details

I absolutely LOVE how this turned out!  What is so great about this style card is how many details you can fit onto it!  I would love to fit all these cuts onto a regular A2 card, but let's face it, you just can't unless everything is itty bitty (and that is not fun to piece together)! 

Here are the dimensions to make a step card.  I'm sure you can find a more thorough tutorial somewhere, but this is my quicky version I drew for you!  Solid lines are CUT lines and dashed lines at SCORE lines.

The first time I saw this, I was confused, but it is so easy once you make a few!  Make sure you use heavy cardstock because if you do not, your card will not hold up with any details adhered to it.  I use Stampin' Up! cardstock for my cards which holds great! 

The haunted house, mummy, fence and gravestones are cut from the Happy Haunting Cricut cartridge.  The tree, ghost and grass are from Paper Dolls Dress Up.  I used my Gypsy to stretch the house and the grass.   The moon is a SU punch and the pumpkin is stamped from a SU stamp and hand cut.  I outlined most of the cuts or sponged them.  Then you layer it on.  I adhered them with either Glue Dots or with Zap Dots to give it a little more dimension.   I love how you can pile so much into this style card and I'm sure I could have fit so much more.  I have already had several requests for this card from my family/friends! 

 "A real Witch in nothing without her Ghoulfriends" Birthday Card Details

My second Sneak Peek project.  I know many of you are saying "I don't send cards for Halloween"! Well, I am one of those people that do.  It started out one year when I was on/off of bed rest and I couldn't take my girls trick-or-treating.  So I made a bunch of cards and added a picture of them dress-up and mailed them off.  Everyone loved seeing them in their costumes and it was a lot easier than trying to get all the kids dressed up then dragging them out and about!  This card is actually a Birthday card though!

I LOVE Halloween as does my best friend.  I thought I would make her this special card for her upcoming birthday.  This was my first time working with a Tiddly Inks image (and I am now hooked...hehe)!  I still need a lot of practice with Digi stamps but I am trying!  I printed Alison the Witch out on white CS and cut her out with the SU Top Note Die.  Then I colored her with my SU Watercolor Wonder Crayons.  I covered her up then stamped the Top Note with the Basic Grey Eerie stamps to match the background paper which is also part of the BG Eerie collection.  After stamping, I cut the border off then I inked the entire piece with Gray ink and removed the cover up.  I layered this piece onto a second white Top Note cutout.

For the sentiment, I stamped it on a piece of white CS and punched it out with a large scallop punch.  I covered up the center with another circle and inked my edges to my desired purple color (to match the ribbon).  Then I removed the circle and lightly sponged the white center.  I added black liquid pearls around the scallops. 

The background is called "mummy" and is from the Basic Grey Eerie collection.  I layered it onto a basic black mat and sewed it with my machine.  I added three Queen & Co black pearls and I tied a Crinkle Ribbon on the base.  Then I used my SU Dimensionals to adhere it to the card base.  The witch piece is also adhered with SU Dimensionals and the sentiment is adhered with Helmar ZapDots. 

I told you that would be a lot of info!  Kimberly is releasing 4 new sets and each one is equally adorable!  If you haven't seen them, be sure to check out the rest of the sneak peeks at My Craft Spot and remember to stop back each day for new ones!  I'll be back tomorrow with a Sneak Peek of another new set!!

My Craft Spot elements with links where to buy:

Candy Corn Kisses Stamp Set

Orange Licorice Halloween Twine

Deep Purple Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon

i love u Layout

Another fun new challenge!  Amanda and Melissa are starting a scrapbook challenge called Scrappy Saturday with the Bug Challenge at http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/.   The first challenge is anything goes.  I am recycling on this layout. 

The scallop is the other side of the pattern paper from my die cuttin diva layout and the Hello Kitty and Skunk are from the girl's valentine treat bags (which I will post some time this week). 

This picture is of my 4 year old and her "boyfriend".  They have been in love since birth.  He says when he sees her, his eyes pop out of his head because she is soooo beautiful!  They have their entire life planned out.  They say they are getting married and moving into his house with his Mom and then they are going to have babies and move to NYC where he is going to be a policeman and she is going to be a ballerina!  They are so cute together and the little leftovers were so fitting for them because she is a HK fanatic and he is a little stinker!  I Love them Both!!

Basic Grey Pattern Paper
Stampin' Up! CS
Hello Kitty Greetings, Create A Critter, and Twinkle Toes cartridges
Martha Stewart Lacey Border punch
SU heart punch. 
SU alphabet stamp set
Nose and Bow on HK are stickles
google eyes on the little skunk

Diva Layout

I'm a newbie blogger so I get excited to come across new challenge sites!  Die Cuttin Divas http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/ has their first official challenge this week.  It is a sketch and I know it is probably supposed to be a card, but I really need to work on some layouts so I am entering a Diva layout.

 

I used the Twinkle Toes Cartridge and my gypsy for the scalloped oval and cut it in the center of the page (I recycled that piece for another challenge).  The crown is also from TT.  Pattern paper is from Basic Grey's Olivia line.  Solid CS is Stampin' Up and the Black Glitter and the Silver Shimmer Paper are both from a LSS.   "diva" is stamped using a SU alphabet set and StazOn.  I used the Martha Stewart Lacey Scallop Border and the only bling in my stash were sequins and stickles which I applied to the crown.  The boa is after an Christmas treasure I found at Target in the gift wrapping section for a little over a $1.

Scrapbooking Getaway

This past weekend was great!  I just spent the weekend at a B&B with a small group of wonderfully talented ladies SCRAPBOOKING!  Yes, that is right.  We spent the enitre weekend scrapbooking.  No crying kids, no house to clean,  no hungry husbands.  Well they may have been hungry, but we were not home to feed them!  It was awesome!  I got two books done.  Friday I finished my 1 year olds 1st year book with her Birthday pics.  Saturday I made an entire book of my 3 year olds 3rd Birthday Party.  Sunday I worked on a few pages from the Knoebels Scrapbook.  Finishing 2 books made me feel like I really accomplished a lot!  I can't wait to go back next year!  I used the Olivia line from Basic Grey for the Baby's 1st Birthday and I used a line called Undersea Adventure (I forgot to look to see who makes this line).  Here are some of my pages.