Mausoleum Gift Card Holder With Altered Pages

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the second half of our monthly partnership with Altered Pages.  For the next two weeks, both design teams will be creating Halloween themed projects using products from both Sin City Stamps and Altered Pages.  So if you love Halloween, like I do, you won't want to miss all the inspiration from both design teams.

I had a hard time deciding what to make, but then I saw this house-shaped gift card holder die from Eileen Hull.  Instantly, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.  So, in keeping with the genre, I turned that house into a mausoleum.   Oooooh, spooky, right?

Supplies used:

Sin City Stamps:  Halloween Takes Flight stamp set; Halloween Bingo stamp set; Art Journaling with Terri Sproul 2 stamp set;

Altered Pages:  AP-562 The Other Side of Halloween collage sheet; Jet Black StazOn ink pad; Niji Oil Pastels; Scor Tape; Glitz Giant Rhinestones (Raven); Faber-Castell Big Brush Pen (Black); Stickles glitter glue

Other:  Eileen Hull/Sizzix Gift Card Holder-House; chipboard; Cuttlebug rose die, Odorless Mineral Spirits; cotton swab; StazOn Orange Zest; Distress markers

Directions:

Die cut house gift card holder from black chipboard or matboard.  Die cut back panel only from orange card stock.  Adhere to inside back panel.

Print "Greetings at Halloween" collage image onto white paper, trim, and adhere to back piece, centering through door opening.

Lay strips of Scor tape around edges of front inside panel, as shown.

Figure 1

Die cut another gift card holder from kraft card stock.  Separate door from front panel and set rest of die cut aside.  Stamp "Oct. 31" from Halloween Bingo stamp set onto card stock with Orange Zest StazOn ink, edging with black Staz On, as shown.  Remember to stamp it so that when the door is opened, the viewer can read it.

Adhere to door panel on the inside, as shown in Figure 1.

Remove adhesive paper from Scor Tape, close chipboard and adhere front panel to back panel.

Cut door section only from orange card stock. Leave some extra length at the bottom of the door to wrap over fold.  Stamp tombstone moon onto center with black ink, color moon with white pencil and the tombstone with gray pencil.

Adhere to front door panel, wrapping extra length over fold at bottom.

Adhere two small strips of the same kraft card stock to cover the fold on either side of the door, as shown.

Stamp brick background with black ink randomly over kraft card stock die cuts, as shown.  Apply yellow and brown oil pastels over brick work, blend with cotton swab dampened with odorless mineral spirits.

Adhere front and back panels, respectively. This will cover those small strips you added earlier.

Front Panel

Back Panel

Die cut one more strip of the orange cardstock to make the roof line on the back panel.

Stamp "Dead Men Tell No Tales" onto orange card stock with black ink, punch with decorative punch, distress edges with black, adhere to front with foam dots.

Die cut 7 roses from black chipboard, adhere to front panel.  Apply Stickles glitter glue in Black Diamond over roses.

Adhere one Glitz rhinestone (bats) onto front.

Stamp skull pot with black ink onto purple scrap cardstock. Fussy cut and adhere to bottom of back panel, as shown.

Stamp flying skeleton onto white card stock, coloring directly onto stamp with Distress ink markers.  Huff before stamping to re-moisten the ink.  Fussy cut and adhere to back panel, as shown.

Stamp small owl with moon onto scrap green card stock with black ink, fussy cut owl only, adhere to back panel, as shown.

Distress ink all edges with Black Soot, and use Big Brush Artist Pen in black around matboard edges.

And here is the complete gift card holder with the front door open.  You can see the beautiful lady inside, waiting to cast a spell on you!

I hope you have enjoyed my project today, and inspired you to get started on your Halloween projects. Both Sin City Stamps and Altered Pages have a wonderful supply of products for all of your creative needs.  I hope you will take a look at their online shops, and please be sure to visit both teams for more fun Halloween projects this month.  

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful, creative weekend!

Barbara

Vintage Fairy Album

Hello! I'm Gracie from Graciellie Design and this is my very first post for Sin City Stamps. Today I'll be sharing a vintage/shabby chic fairy album I made using products from Sin City Stamps and from our blog partner for the month of August, Altered Pages. I will guide you through each step of the process through a photo tutorial.

Everything on this album was made from scratch, from the handmade flowers to the inside pages... To make it, I used the following materials:

Main supplies
Sin City Stamps Chicken wire w/ Butterflies Chipboard Book
Sin City Stamps Love of Butterflies Plate of Rubber
Sin City Stamps Chicken Wire with Butterflies Mask
Altered Pages' Fragile Fairies collage
Altered Pages' Fairy Wings Collage
Altered Pages' Alphabet F Collage
Altered Pages' Library Card
Other
Poster paint
Acrylic paint
Inka-Gold
Distress Inks
Pigment ink
Leather textured and metallic cardstocks
Spellbinders dies
Pearl stickers
Pearl stamens
Vintage button
Adhesives
Ribbon

To see how I created my album, please start the guide below and follow each step.

Check out How to Make a Vintage Fairy Album by Gracie CH on Snapguide.

I hope you enjoyed my project and tutorial. To purchase the products I used to create this album, please click on the corresponding link on the list of supplies. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through a comment here or at my blog.  

Thanks so much for your visit.

Partnership Projects with Altered Pages Design Team

Hello everyone.  As you may already know, we have partnered with our good friends over at Altered Pages this month, featuring products from both Sin City Stamps and Altered Pages.  Our theme for the first half of the month is "Fairies".  Today, I want to share some of the fabulous projects created by the Altered Pages design team so far.  Yes, that is my project at the bottom of the post.  I am doing a bit of double duty this month, as I am on both design teams.  

Altered Fairy Frame by
Stephanie Siatta

Fairy Dreams Tag by
Roni Johnson

Fairy Book and More Fairy Book by
Lyneen Jesse

Fairy Meadow Canvas by
Robin Horasanian

             

Double-Sided Fairies Tag by

Barbara Rankin

I hope you enjoyed viewing these, and if you would like to see more, just click on their name for a direct link to their project.  

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful, creative week!

Barbara

PARTNERS!!

Hello!!  This is my first post as part of the SinCity Stamps design team!  I am so happy to be back!!

We are partnering up this month with the awesome Altered Pages!  Super fun!  Altered Pages sent us some products to incorporate into our projects.  Here is what I made.

Supplies:

• SinCity Stamps SC-41 "Vintage Background"
• SinCity Stamps "Rosette" Set
• Altered Pages Collage Sheet AP-1554 "Little Fairies"
• Niji Oil Pastels from Altered Pages.com
• Altered Pages Green Paper
• Dylusions Spray Inks from Altered Pages.com
• Stewart Superior Pink, Green and Art Print Brown Ink Pads
• Misc: Gauze, Pearls and Book Paper

Gather your supplies.

I am so in love with this stamp!!  It is soooooo pretty!  It is "Vintage Background" and it looks like an old beat up piece of metal or something like that.  I inked it with green, and lightly added some brown over the top.  I finished with some brown around the edges.

 I tore the edges of all the papers I would use and cut these sweet fairies out of the collage sheet.  I added brown ink to the edges and some of the paper.  Then, I took a pink pastel and rubbed it on the edges of the green paper and the book paper.

The next step was to add more inks.  I opened the Dylusions inks and removed the sprayer.  I tapped it with a pencil all around the background, to get little ink dots.  I stamped the flowers on the book paper and on plain white cardstock.  I cut the flowers out of the cardstock and used a stylus to add some dimension to the flowers.  I attached them, and the fairies with foam squares.

 I finished this piece off with a border from the Rosette set, attached with foam squares, and some pearls.

Thanks for visiting!!  Be sure to click the links and check out what SinCity Stamps and Altered Pages have to offer!

xxDaniella

Friendship Hot Air Balloon

Hello! Peggy here to show you how I made this fabulous friendship hot air balloon wall decor piece.

For the entire month of August we are partnering with Altered Pages to bring you some really awesome projects from some very talented designers.

Todays list of supplies include:

• Sin City Stamps
• Hot Air Balloon Chipboard Book
• Fairy Words
• Anime Fairy Wings
• Pixie Dust Stamp (Sin City Stamps)
• Friends Stamp (Sin City Stamps)
• Altered Pages Little Fairys Collage Sheets
• Patterned Paper
• Distress Inks
• Stazon ink
• White gesso
• Black acylic paint
• Stickles
• Clay embellishments
• Hand dyed seam binding
• Wire
• Glue

I started with a blank chipboard book from Sin City Stamps. I painted the edges with black acrylic paint before pasting patterned paper to the front and back of the back cover.

Next I traced the slats and edges of the balloon onto another piece of patterned paper and cut with an exacto knife.  I distressed all edges with Broken China Distress ink. Then glued my papers down with Golden matte medium for a smooth finish.

I fussy cut my Fairys as well as my stamped images of Wings and Fairy Words and distressed all edges. I used Aged Mahogany distress inks to color the stamped image of the fairy wings and glued them to my fussy cut fairy above.

I used white gesso around the edges for a shabby look using my finger

Next I wanted to embellish my piece. I made clay pieces, first I cut strips of clay and cut them to resemble a banner and bent them befor baking. After baking I stamped the words "Pixie" and "Dust" with unmounted stamps to easily bend over the curves in stazon black ink. Not pictured, I used a spellbinders die to cut and make an impression in clay by pressing with my hands and baked as directed on package.  I stamped the word "Friends" in stazon black ink and distressed and colored with Distress inks.

I used Broken China Distress inks to color some seam binding to match and wrapped some wire for hanging. Lastly I used some stickles as fairy dust sparingly.

Thank you for joining me today. I hope I have inspired you to create your own decor piece to give to a special friend.

Please visit Altered Pages and Sin City Stamps for your crafting needs.

Warmly, 

Peggy 

Timeless Fairies Mini Album

Hi! It's Laura and  today is my first post 
for Sin City Stamps.

I am so excited to show off their products.

This month we are partnered with Altered Pages.

For the first half of the month our theme will be Fairies.

Supply List

 Sin City - Butterfly and Bee Die Cuts

Clock and Time Sentiment from Time (plate of rubber)

Flourish from Birdcage Die Cuts

Altered Pages - Fairy Collages

Fairy Wings

Little Fairies

Other: Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink

Rusty Hinge Distress Ink

Homemade Texture Paste

Embossing Powder Clear

Gesso

Glassine Envelopes

Momenta Cardstock

Burlap, Lace, Pearls, Bling, and Tulle

from my stash.

Toilet Paper rolls flattened



I flattened the toilet rolls with my Big Shot.

I added the paper and distressed it. 

Before hand I added homemade texture paste to 

the glassine envelopes with some stencils.

I also wanted to gesso all the edges of the fairy pictures.

When making the album I wanted to 

make the clocks stand out so I clear embossed them.

Love this Time Clock..

Here is my finished album...

Front Cover- gorgeous butterfly die cut (Sin City)

Fairy Picture (Altered Pages)

flowers, bling, lots of Stickles on the Fairies Wings

tulle and lace..

Pages 2, 3

I used the small fairy picture to make a pocket.

None of the pockets have tags in them yet 

as I was unclear how I wanted to make them.

(there are pockets in the toilet paper rolls and in

the glassine envelopes) 

Pages 4, 5

I fussy cut the butterflies and then layered them

I used the butterfly to hold another tag.

Pages 6, 7

I added some lace and burlap.

I plan to put pictures on the left page.

Pages 8, 9

I added clocks and clock hands to the right page.

They are embossed.

Pages 10, 11

I added the metal flower and it can hold a picture.

Don't you love the fairies.

Back cover

I added more lace.

This book is bound by 3 binder rings.

I added tulle, and some burlap 

and seam binding to the rings.

I also added some metal butterflies.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Be sure to stop by Sin City Stamps and Altered Pages.

My blog is www.lauraleesdream.blogspot.com

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