Halloween Smash!

I love Halloween. The colors, the characters. I have been busy these past few days really stamping up a storm with my two favorite new sets: Spookalicious and Glitter Goblins. Both these sets can be found in the new Fall Magalogue. I have also been playing with TAC's digital papers. These came out over the summer in black and white. And, while I like black and white, I've been having fun in Photoshop changing the colors. That was actually the first thing I did when downloaded these, was play with the colors. It's not that difficult and you can get so many different combinations and looks. I use the hue and saturation adjustment most of the time, but have also experimented with various gradients.

This was a simple card using the digital background colored in orange and adding a stamp from Glitter Goblins. I cut out the circle free-hand and mounted it to a punched scalloped circle.

Fun card using Spookalicious! As soon as I saw the spider, I knew I wanted to flock it. Fun Flock is a fuzz that has been around for many years now--I still have some jars that are probably close to 20 years old! It's still available though, and I added black to my collection through TAC. To get the flock just right, my favorite adhesivie is Sticky Embossing Powder. This is like regular embossing powder, but when melted, comes a glue. It's perfect for the detail that I just can't get with a regular glue. I made the web with my Stardust Gelly and colored the images with Prisma colored pencils.


I've been trying to get away from "normal" cards lately, experimenting with different sizes and shapes. This card and envelope set comes from a template I've had for years--with all this stamping lately, I've been digging up some real oldies of mine! The envelope was made with the black and white digital paper and stamped. Pumpkins have been colored with Copics. This card was inspired by a window card by Barb Foster.

A fairly simple card. I used the black and white digital paper for this too, but added a color gradiant to it in fun Halloween colors. The colors are very rich and I think this may need some more playing.

I had a lot of fun doing this card, which was inspired by a digital creation at Peppermint Creative. Now, I'm almost positive I've seen a card similiar to this in design too, but can't find it at the moment. I probably would have used the digital paper for this, but my printer was out of ink and I realized I could easily recreate the design using my scraps and 1" circle punch. To give it some "glitter" I outlined the circle and "ghosts" with my Stardust pen.