Halloween Cards 2023

In looking back at my 2020 Halloween cards, I decided to make this cat and moon card AGAIN. It was inspired by Tami Bastiaans card from her Plays Well With Paper blog.

Had fun with the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Snarky Cat Halloween set. 

For the moon, I just outlined a punched circle with a Faber Castell PITT pen and then added dots inside for the moon's craters.

Trees are from Stampscapes. 

Fussy cut my own bats and ghosts drawn from home made templates.

Bird background from a stencil in my stash.

Oval alphabet from Michael Strong. Candy corn from Hero Arts. Pumpkins are an unmounted stamp.

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Peace and all good!

Halloween Cards 2021

Happy Halloween!

Used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Snarky Cat Halloween set, along with old book paper, stencils, distress inks and a favorite Hero Arts stamp & cut set, Ribbon Messages, for my friend's Halloween Birthday card!

I played with various stencils using distress carved pumpkin and crushed olive inks. The cats were stamped in Versafine onyx black ink, fussy cut and sponged with distress wilted violet. Cats eyes colored with yellow colored pencil.

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Used various colored pencils to add a touch of color inside the card.

Hope you are having a VERY FUN HALLOWEEN!!  Stay safe and ENJOY!

More Halloween Cards

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a Halloween Birthday card for a special friend

Stamps and Embossing folder used:

Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Snarky Cat Halloween

Tim Holtz Bird Talk #2 Stamp and Die set

Michael Strong Pumpkin Harvest

Stampscapes

Park Lane Brush Dot embossing folder

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Halloween Cards 2020

Here are some cards I made using the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Snarky Cat Halloween set and a few other stamps. I was inspired by creative artists Keisha Charles and Tami Bastiaans who share their ideas online! Thank you very much!

Just had to try a card like Keisha Charles snarky cat cards on her The PaperMint blog. I used blending brushes to add distress inks seedless preserves and twisted citron to the panel. Then used hickory smoke with stencils from my stash. The images were stamped with black soot.

The backgrounds for these cards were made with wrinkle free distress using distress stormy sky, peeled paint inks and a bit of Dylusions Sunshine (yellow)-unscrewed the sprayer and tapped it on the craft sheet between the blue and green colors. I avoid spraying those things...I am very messy! 

Stamped the stampscapes tree trunks with distress ground espresso, the birds (Lost and Found, a Tim Holtz acrylic set) with distress black soot. The cat was stamped in black soot as well as the sentiment. Used yellow and green colored pencils for the eyes.

I was inspired by Tami Bastiaans Plays Well With Paper card for this card. My card is so simple compard with Tami's. I like how Tami positioned the cat and  used the sentiment. I fussy cut the cat and pumpkin and attached them with foam tape.

Candy corn stamp from Hero Arts.

Inks: distress carved pumpkin, black soot, gathered twigs, peeled paint.

Another card inspired by Tami Bastiaans. My card is very plain compared to Tami's. I love the way Tami created that swirly sky! I used watercolor paper for this. 

I did not have the moon stamp, so I traced a circle and added some dots and circles with fine point black PITT pen by Faber-Castell. Trees from Stampscapes and Stampin' Up!. All stamping with Versafine onyx black, letting it dry thoroughly. I used distress ink with an aqua brush/water brush to "paint" the background like Tami did. 

Distress inks: scattered straw, tumbled glass, broken china, faded jeans, peeled paint.

Used colored pencils to add color to the tree trunks, cat body and eyes.

A HUGE thank you to Keisha Charles and Tami Bastiaans for sharing their creative talent! I had a lot of fun playing with these cards. 

...and THANK YOU for visiting me here! Hope you all stay safe from Covid!

Halloween Cards 2019

I started making some Halloween cards on Saturday.

Punched a circle to use as a mask for the "moon". Then sponged distress inks onto the paper: chipped sapphire, fossilized amber, peeled paint. Used hickory smoke to add cloud streaks in the moon and sky and also along edges of the paper.

Pumpkins stamped in distress carved pumpkin and colored with coloring pencils.

Used Versafine onxy black for the sentiment.

Stamps from:

Michael Strong-cloisonne alphabet (Boo), and pumpkin harvest (large pumpkins)

Posh Impressions-tree

Hero Arts-Halloween sentiment

Bat and tiny pumpkins are unmounted stamps from my stash given to me by Lynette.

Trees are from Lynette's Sizzix Branch Tree which I had in my stash.

I made six more cards on Monday.

This time I drew trees on brown cardstock and cut them out. 

After dry embossing a Darice tree, I sponged it with fall colors using distress inks:

wild honey, fired brick, peeled paint, fossilized amber, rusty hinge and gathered twigs for the tree trunk.

This tree was created with the embossing folder stamping technique.

 I like to refer to these two tutorials for the embossing folder stamping technique:

Heidi Wegman's Embossing Folder Stamping
and
Audrie Magno-Gordon's Embossing Folder Stamping

Onto the raised side of the embossing folder, I dabbed distress inks: rusty hinge, wild honey, fired brick, peeled paint, fossilized amber on the leaves and gathered twigs on the tree trunk and branches of the embossing folder. Spritzed with water. Placed a piece of watercolor paper in the embossing folder. Closed it and pressed it down with my hands. When I opened the embossing folder the tree image was transferred to the paper.

I decided to add color to the white space using a paintbrush, distress ink and water. I transferred distress ink to my craft sheet by dabbing it. In another spot, I spritzed some plain water. I wet my brush with water then grabbed some ink with the brush. In that way, I added color to the paper. It was fun playing with the color. After it dried, I added some lines  with a black XS Faber Castell PITT pen. With distress carved pumpkin ink, I stamped the tiny pumpkins on a separate piece of watercolor paper. Then added some distress inks with my paintbrush: spiced marmalade, carved pumpkin and peeled paint to color in the white areas.

Variations on a theme...hope you are not bored! I switched to faded jeans for the sky and used a favorite Penny Black tree stamp, fantasy 3880K. Used mowed lawn and my home made curvy hills templates. 

I made a Birthday/Halloween card for my friend's daughter who was born on Halloween!  I was heavy handed with the sponging of color on the dry embossed Darice tree. Cut apart a Hero Arts Happy Birthday sentiment and the Halloween sentiment combining them.

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Hope you have a very fun Halloween!

Halloween Cards 2017

Happy Halloween!

I made my own distress ink sponged backgrounds for cards this year.

Also fussy cut my own bats and ghosts drawn from home made templates.

Used Michael Strong's oval alphabet set to spell "BOO".

Added white eyes to my larger bats with a Jane Davenport White Paint Over Pen
Used a Gelly Roll White 08 gel pen for my small bats eyes.

Used Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers (water brush markers filled with dye based ink) and an aqua brush on scraps of "watercolor like" paper for these backgrounds.  Trees drawn by hand with brown mermaid marker. Used black PITT marker for ghost face.

Added a background script stamp here.

...and a background screen stamp here.

For a friend's Halloween Birthday

Quick cards made with printed papers with handwritten 

"Happy Halloween"

Distress Inks used: mermaid lagoon, stormy sky, black soot, pumice stone, carved pumpkin, fired brick, twisted citron, walnut ink, fossilized amber, scattered straw, seedless preserves.

Versafine Black Onyx ink

Stamps:

Michael Strong, Hero Arts, Posh Impressions and unknown 

Miscl:

Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers
Jane Davenport White Paint Over Pen

Gelly Roll White 08 gel pen

Faber Castell Black Pitt Pen

Stampfest from September 2

Lynette had a stampfest at her house way back on Sept. 2.
The two cards on the right were blogged already:
 Michael Strong Halloween 2015 blog hop.
 I'd like to show you the rest of the cards we made that day.

Lynette designed our tri-panel card which was inspired by
Kathy's leaves card on her The Daily Marker Blog
We used Lynette's Stampin' UP! markers:
glorious green, rocket red, only orange, yoyo yellow
using lighter colors first.


Here Lynette used leaves which were fussy cut.
The Sizzix Birch tree embossed layer was sponged with white ink.
Then accent lines were drawn with brown marker.
Used Stamped Michael Strong's Cloisonne Alphabet for the word, FALL.
Added green crepe paper beneath the leaves.

These flower cards are made with the Tim Holtz Flower Garden set.

We both love flowers and flower stamps!

The images were stamped first.

Then an aqua brush painter was used to pick up color scribbled onto the craft sheet

to add color to the "white" areas.

 

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Halloween Test Tubes

These simple Halloween cards were fun to make
with an Inkadinkado Clear Stamp Set called Test Tubes
and a Tim Holtz Clear stamp set, called Lost and Found (birds)

 

...and a fussy cut bird from printed paper.