Inspiration Avenue Swap

It's really been to be an active stamper again and although I haven't held any Funshops, to be active in the demo community as well. I recently did another swap, this one for the new images in Inspiration Avenue. I LOVE the new Halloween images, and even have them all now too--shame on me! So my cards for this swap were naturally going to be Halloween themed. I wanted to do something different and fun for my first card so created a little scene:

I used my Bazzilll mono cardstocks and punches for the base and circles. I cut out the coffin and stamped the cat on it with Memento black, then inked the edges with a duster. To fill in the image, I colored with a warm gray Copic and colored the eyes and nose with Souffle gel pens. I thought it still needed more and added the clouds and moon to the Versamark frost stamped star background. The moon was colored with my stardust gelly to give it some sparkle--Love that pen!

Stamp Sets: Spookalicious and Glitter Gobblins, hostess backgrounds

My second card was a little simpler.

Keeping with the Halloween colors and stamped the backgrounds with versamark. Since the verse stamp has a lot of solid space, I actually stamped this on the backside of the Bazzill to get a cleaner stamped image, then punched it with my scallop punch and mounted it with pop dots. I purchased some scrappers floss for the first time and used it too. It makes for a fun accent.

Stamp Sets: Spookalicious and Glitter Goblins

I can't wait for m swapped cards to get returned to me and see what all the other ladies have done. Should be fun! It also won't be long before the new Serendipity is out either, only a couple more months!