Nature

 Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today.

Today I am using some amazing products from Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps.

I Brake for Stamps Papers:  Cyan Consortium

I Brake for Stamps:  Nature

Create a card from green cardstock.

Cut a sheet of paper from the paper pack, then die cut a circle from the center.

Adhere the panel to the card front.

Stamp the phrase on the die cut circle, mat with cardstock and place over the die cut opening with foam adhesives.

Create a card from rust cardstock and add a layer of orange stripes.

Stamp the phrase on white cardstock.

Die cut the surrounding elements and adhere.

Place leaves around the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

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Boo!

Hi, friends! It's design team member Walter on the blog today with my final Halloween card of this year.  Ghosts, haunted houses, a headless monster . . . this one has them all!  I thought it would be fun to build a scene that's framed by spiderwebs.  What do you think?

Here's what I used to make it:

• Halloween 3/4 Sheet
  
• Halloween Half Sheet #1
  
• A2 Black Card Base
• 3"x4.5" White Card Panel
• Distress Oxide Inks: Lost Shadow and Hickory Smoke
• Delicata Silvery Shimmer Metallic Pigment Ink
• Sakura Black Glaze Pen
• Sakura Gelly Roll White Gel Pen
• Silver metallic gel pen
• Alcohol Markers
• Ranger Glossy Accents

Here's how I made it:

• Stamped spider webs onto the card base using silver metallic ink; ran the ink pad around the edges of the card base; set aside to dry.

• Used the deckle edge blade of my paper trimmer to cut the white card panel.
• Ink blended the white card panel with Lost Shadow Distress ink; started to blend in the Hickory Smoke around 2/3 of the way down.

• Stamped the haunted house image onto the card panel with blank ink.

• Stamped ghost, gravestone, and headless figure onto a scrap of white cardstock with black ink.
• Colored each of the stamped images with alcohol markers and fussy cut them out.

• Colored the house image with alcohol markers and white gel pen; colored the moon background of the image with a silver metallic get pen,
• Adhered the stamped panel onto the card base with double sided foam tape.
• Adhered down the cut images with double sided foam tape.
• Outlined images with black glaze pen.
• Added Glossy Accents to the pumpkin and spider bodies.

What a fun celebration of Halloween!  Fun with just a little touch of spooky.

Thanks for spending some time reminiscing with me today!  See you again soon.

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Vintage Book of Spells

Hi, friends! It's design team member Walter on the blog today.  October is the time of the year when we turn our attention to all things Halloween.  What's more Halloween than witches?  One of my favorite movies about witches is Hocus Pocus.  I never get tired of watching it!  It inspired my design for today's card.  I wanted to prominently feature a page from a very old book of spells - and I Brake for Stamps has the perfect set for it!  My card has lots of vintage grunge, a witch flying in front of the moon, and a potion for Witches Brew.

Here's what I used to make it:

• Halloween Half Sheet #1
  
• A2 Black Card Base
• 4"x5.25" Cream Card Panel
• 3.5"x5" Vintage Paper Panel
• Tim Holts Distress Inks: Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Ground Espresso
• Gold Metallic Marker
• Brutus Monroe Gold Acrylic Bubbles

Here's how I made it:

• Used the deckle edge blade of my paper trimmer to cut the 4"x5.25" cream card panel.
• Ran Ground Expresso Distress Ink around the edges of the card panel; used a blending brush to add grunge to the card panel with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks.

• Used the deckle edge blade of my paper trimmer to cut the 3.5"x5" vintage paper panel.
• Ran Ground Expresso Distress Ink around the edges of the card panel; used a blending brush to add grunge to the card panel with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks.
• Stamped the witch image onto the vintage paper panel using Walnut Stain Distress Ink.
• Stamped the Witches Brew stamp under the witch image using Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

• Stamped the Spell Book stamp onto panel with Ground Espresso Distress Ink.
• Used gold metallic marker to color in the moon.

• Adhered stamped panel to the cream card panel using double sided foam tape.
• Adhered combined panel to card base with double sided tape.
• Ran the gold metallic marker around the edges of the card.

This is such a fun card!  These images lend themselves so well to a vintage design.  It really looks like a page from an old book of spells!

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Mini Journal

For this project I resurrected the one sheet wonder mini journal.  I made these little journals years ago to give gift cards or monetary gifts. The Creepy Cute Halloween digital paper collection is perfect for those creepy monetary gifts. The use any of the Blank Page Muse digital collections available HERE to create your mini journals. When printing you can resize the images to fit your needs. 

This folio was created using the Creepy Cute Halloween Digital Papers Printables Papers & Tags. 

Other supplies:
Ribbon
Enamel dots
Flower punch
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Gathered Twigs

Adhesive

Create tags for the pockets!

Cut a section to create a pocket!

Fussy cut the cute images to embellish the pages. 

Add additional pages to create flip out pages.

Front & back cover.

To create the journal from one page:

Fold 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper in half lengthwise, then in half on the other direction. Fold the sheet into eight equal sections. 

 Fold the page in half lengthwise to cut 

With the page folded you will be able to create 4 pages. 

Create a pocket by cutting one of the sections as indicated by the blue line above. 

                                                                         

      

To create a pocket, flatten the page our and make 2 cuts as indicated by the blue lines. 

Your paper should look like the image above. 

Place adhesive as indicated by the blue line. Do not remove the protective covering until the paper is folded. 

Fold in half, then crate a bird beak like image below.  Push the beak sides together, then remove the protective paper from the adhesive. 

 

Now the mini journal is ready to embellish. 

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Stenciled Creepy Boy Fun Card

 Greetings!  Today I am excited to share this fun card I created using Blank Page Muse's Creepy Kids. The Creepy kids are not just for Halloween.

 I love to create cards with them and send as cheeky thinking of you card or just because cards. Because we all know life needs some humor and Cheekiness! 

To recreate this card you will need:  




Supplies

Blank Page Muse Boy Words & Stencil Creepy Cute Kid Bundle designed by Dead Sea Toons 

Blank Page Muse Tall Stars Stencil designed by Stephanie Eaton

Distress inks, Embossing ink, Embossing Powder (white), blank archival ink, Memento ink, Alcohol Markers, coordinating cardstock

Start by securing your circles stencil from the Blank Page Muse Boy Words & Stencil Creepy Cute Kid Bundle designed by Dead Sea Toons  over your card background. 

Apply ink to your stencil with black archival ink. 

Secure your Blank Page Muse Tall Stars Stencil designed by Stephanie Eaton over your background.  Apply embossing ink and then white embossing powder.  Heat emboss  your stars to create a resist images. 

Apply distress inks over your card background.  I applied 4 different colors.   As the ink is applied you can see how the stars pop off the page.  Matte your background onto coordinating cardstock and add to your card base. 

Stamp your Creepy Boy from your Blank Page Muse Boy Words & Stencil Creepy Cute Kid Bundle designed by Dead Sea Toons .  Color your image as desired.  I love to give the creepy kids bright faces to make the eyes really stand out! 

Add your stamped creepy boy to your card. 

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Thoughts of Autumn

Hi, friends!

It's design team member Walter on the blog today.  The temps here in New England have started to drop into the 60's, which means that Autumn is starting to creep in.  I love this weather - it's my favorite tome of the year.  I was thinking of this as I was trying to come with an idea for card and, naturally, leaves came to mind.  I was looking through my stamps and saw the IBFS Woman's Head stamp and thought . . . bingo!  What if I used her as the base of the image and then had fall colored leaves on top of her head in place of hair to symbolize thinking of Autumn?  I grabbed the stamp and started to create.

Here's what I used to create it:

• Woman's Head stamp from I Brake for Stamps
  
• Autumn Leaves dies from Kat Scrappiness
• Piece of brown shipping paper
• Piece of word patterned paper from stash
• A2 size card base
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Old Paper, Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge, Scorched Timber
• Brutus Monroe Ornament Gold Chroma Mist
• Gold Acrylic Bubbles
• Old fashioned label maker

Here's how I made it:

• Stamped the image with black ink and fussy cut it.
• Took the piece of shipping paper and crumpled it up; smoothed it out and then adhered to the A2 card base with double sided tape and craft glue.

• Ran the Scorched Timber ink pad around the edges of the card; used a blending brush to add some Tea Dye and Vintage Photo inks to the card.

• Used double sided foam tape to adhere the stamped image to the card.
• Ink blended the word patterned paper with Old Paper, Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge, and Antique Linen inks; spritzed it with Ornament Gold Chroma Mist

• Used leaf dies to cut out leaves from the patterned paper.

• Glued the leaves down to the image starting at her hairline and building up until all leaves were used.
• Used a label maker to create the sentiment, "Thoughts of Autumn."

• Glued down three gold acrylic bubbles.

I really like the symbolism of the leaves with words on them coming off of the top of her head!  It's such a fun depiction of thinking about Autumn.  Sometimes the best ideas come to life when you just let your mind wander!

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