Happy Halloween!

I'm sharing today the one and only Halloween card I made.  I love the holiday but I rarely do cards for it.  But I wanted to use the cute Lawn Fawn set I picked up called Heebie Jeebies.  One of my favorite crafting on-line stores, Two Peas in Bucket, runs a message board where people can sell the stuff they no longer want.  It's totally random what you'll find there, but I've managed to pick up a couple of things from there that I cannot get in any store anymore.  One of my favorite finds was a bundle of a couple of Lawn Fawn sets.

So I just stamped the spider web, spider and bat in Onyx Black Versafine and heat embossed them. Then I fussy cut them and colored in the spider with some Spectrum Noir pens.  I then dug through some of my stash and found some cute Halloween paper in an old Fall Stack from DCWV.  I cut both the mat and the background paper then layered them together and wrapped them with some Queen & Co. black and white baker's twine.  I then adhered them to a black card base I found in my stash.  Then I just added my stamped pieces with some pop dots to finish it off. 

I decided to dress up the inside of this card too by matting my sentiment panel and adding the spider and bat from the outside to the inside along with the a sentiment stamp from the set.  Too cute!

So here's the really fun part.  I bought the We R Memory Keepers envelope punch board, but I haven't really gotten to play with it yet.  I also picked up a new score board; it's the smaller, more portable version of my big Martha Stewart one.  When I was packing it for our recent failed camping trip, I noticed that it had markings for making envelopes on the back.  So I decided to play with those pieces when I was making this card.  I started out with another sheet from that same DCWV Fall Stack and followed the instructions on the Martha Stewart board to make the envelope.  It turned out pretty good.  I decided it needed a liner so I used some scraps of paper from making the card to cut a liner using the punch board.  It turned out pretty good for my first try.
 

New Stamp Set - Lawn Fawn's Blue Skies

I was so excited to get my order from Two Peas in a Bucket in the mail because I've had my eye on Lawn Fawn's Blue Skies stamp set for a long time.  I've been playing with watercolors today after being inspired by Jennifer Maguire's video I watched yesterday.   It's something I've never really tried before so I was kind of excited to try it.  I started by just painting and blending a palette of colors like she did in her video and then decided to try my hand at coloring something.  So, of course, my new stamp set immediately came to mind.  I painted the background in a mix of faded jeans and tumbled glass then layered on my stamps, using pop dots for the bigger balloon.  I added the sentiment and some clouds, but I still thought it needed something.  Fortunately a bit back, my dear husband waited in the car while I checked out a local scrapbook store in another town.  They had just gotten in these glitter brushes from Zig.  The pen says "Wink of Stella Brush" on it and it adds just the perfect touch of glitter to finish off the card, even though it's not really noticeable on the star, hearts and clouds in this card.  Overall, not bad for my first card using watercolor and my new stamp set.  I'm sure you'll be seeing more on the blog.  In the meantime, happy 4th of July every one.  I'm off to watch the fireworks from our bedroom window.