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Vintage Witch & Halloween Card

Lottie decided to dress up as a witch this Halloween with a lovely green tint on her skin. 

Something about this stamp set makes it so fun to dress her up for Halloween.  A few years ago I made a Lottie doll stamped on muslin.  You can see her in this post.  This year she is made entirely of paper, with a sweet vintage styled dress.  She still needs a cauldron and a broom, but we're working on that. 

The stamp set includes Lottie's face, arms and legs.  You can download a pdf pattern of her body and dress here to make the full doll. Doesn't she look ready for a Halloween party? 

My other Halloween endeavor this year was to make this book frame card.

The book frame inside is made by using an accordion fold for the frame pieces and then fitting them together with a bit of glue to hold it in place. 

The idea for the book frame came from this blog post:  Stamp til Dawn, Book Card Video Tutorial.  She does a great job explaining how to make the frame, so I will leave the details to her. 

Then I colored and cut out some of our Vintage Pumpkins to fit inside the folds of the book frame.  Makes it super easy to add depth to the card.  This one will definitely require some extra postage, but it was fun to make! 

Hope you enjoy your spooky holiday with fun little goblins and nothing but good witches. I'll be elbow deep in pumpkin goop today as we carve up the pumpkins. 

Happy Halloween from Pink Persimmon!

 

Fall Inspired Thank You Card

Melisa is back again today (see her other Thanks Dear card from the previous post), this time using the Silhouette Oh Dear Stamp set. 

Melisa's instructions:

Today I have a card to share that is perfect for fall. I used Pink Persimmons "Oh! Dear (Silhouette)" and a Kaleidacolor ink pad that creates a gradient of fall colors.

Create a cream card 4.25" x 5.5". Trim orange patterned paper slightly smaller and ink edges brown. Adhere to card front. Cut cream panel using Spellbinders Nestibilities Labels Eight. Ink edges and adhere to card front. Stamp sentiment.

Stamp tree on cream cardstock using Tsukineko's Kaleidacolor ink pad and trim. Stamp deer on cream cardstock with Tsukineko's Pearlescent Chocolate ink pad. Trim and adhere both tree and deer to card front. Tie ribbon (Offray double-sided ribbon - Joann's).

Thanks Dear Card

Here is a beautiful card created by Melisa Waldorf using our Oh Dear stamp set.

Here is Melisa's instructions on how she put the card together:

Hello Stampers! Today I am sharing a shaped card created using Pink Persimmon's "Oh! Dear ( Outline)" and Spellbinders Nestibilitites Labels Eight. Let's begin by creating the shaped card. Start with a 4" x 6" card folded on the side. Use the biggest die from the Labels Eight set and lay it over the card. The left side of the die should be off the side of the card, so that it doesn't cut the fold.(You'll be putting another die shape on top, so don't worry about the straight edge).

Cut your background patterned paper with the same die. Stamp tree with Momento Rich Cocoa on striped paper and script paper (My Mind's Eye "Sunshine" 6 x6 paper pad).

Tear the green paper creating grass, ink torn edge and adhere to bottom of striped paper. Cut tree trunk from tree stamped on script paper, add a little brown ink to add shadowing, and adhere to card front. Color leaves with Copic Markers (YG91, YG95). Stamp sentiment. Stamp deer on cardstock, color with markers and trim. Adhere to card front. Adhere birdhouse button (Dress It Up). Ink edges all the way around.

Part of the left side of the panel will hang over the card front. I covered the back of the panel along the left side with cream cardstock to finish it off, so you don't see another pattern on the backside. Adhere to card front.

Halloween Gift Box

An adorable gift box created by Andrea Budjack is perfect to hold a special gift for the little goblins in your house or around your neighborhood. 

Andrea used the You're a Jewel stamp set to create the paper band, and then some of the paper rosettes from the Big Banner stamp set. There's a little chipboard bat inserted into the rosettes, which makes it perfect for Halloween, but a different little embellishment and this would be perfect for any holiday. 

Do you "boo" the other houses in your neighborhood?  This would be a perfect gift box to leave on someone's doorstep as their Boo Gift.  Don't know how to "boo" your neighbors?  Kierste over at Brown Paper Packages has a post that explains the process, along with some fun links to free boo printables that she found at various blogs. 

Happy Halloween!

Just calling to say.... Boo!

Andrea made this not too scary card with a combination of stamps that you would probably never choose for a halloween card. 

She used Flower Garden, Little Cuties, Carnival Alpha (small) (for BOO!)  and Vintage Girl (for the Just Calling To Say).  The pumpkins were created from the circle and stem image in Flower Garden, topped with a star from Little Cuties and then added the buttons.  Papers used was My Mind's Eye.

Have you used non-holiday themed stamps to make a halloween card? 

So Spooky!

Kristii used the Vintage Cupcake stamp to make a soft (and tasty) landing spot for this spooky spider.  She stamped the cupcake image on two different patterned papers, cut each one out and layered the cupcake wrapper on top of the orange polka pattern. 

Paper Pumpkins

These little adorable mini pumpkins were made by Laura Achilles.  She provided instructions on how to create these super easy paper pumpkins.
 
Trim a double sided 12x12 piece of pattern paper in ¾ inch length.  You’ll need about 4 or 5 strips.
Cut those strips in half so they’re 6 inches long.
Using a circle punch – 1 ¼ to 1 ½ whichever you have will be fine punch out two circles one for the top and one for the bottom.

Glue down your strips of paper on bottom circle overlapping until they are spread all the way around in a somewhat uniform circle.
Bring the ends of the strip papers together at the top and glue together.  Make sure you are using a quick dry glue like the Helmar 450 glue shown here. 
Place circle on top.
Punch a small hole on the top with a paper piercer or small sharp pin.  Make sure you go thru all the layers. 
 
Stamp your sentiment with the Carnival Alpha Large on plain paper and cut it out.  I made a bit of a banner on one end.  Your sentiment could be anything you want.  Maybe you’re having a fun dinner party you could stamp each guests name.
 
Glue the stamped sentiment to a toothpick and allow to dry.
 
Once dry stick the toothpick into the hole you made on the top of the pumpkin.

Halloween Treat Bags and Teacher Card

These are extra special treat bags created by Kristii Lockart.  There is some serious fussy cutting to create all these adorable little girls for the treat bags.

Kristii used the girl from Little Red Wagon, but instead of pulling the wagon, she is holding her own pumpkin suitcase!

Kristii stamped the girl first, then stamped her on the black patterned paper.  Cut out the dress from the patterned paper and adhere to the girl after coloring her skin and socks. 

Don't forget to make a special card for teacher!  Kristii combined the image with several pre-made halloween embellishments for a very cute arrangement. 

Who are you sending "Best Witches" to this Halloween? 

Boo! It's almost Halloween

Lindsay Weirich designed this cute Trick or Treat layout with our Vintage Pumpkin stamps.  Love the bright colors! 

Watch for more halloween inspiration during the rest of this week!

Make your own scalloped border

Nancy Grant made this sweet Pumpkin Card using the wagon from Little Red Wagon Stamp Set and wanted to have a large scallop trim, but didn't have the right tool to die cut or punch this size.  She did a little improvising with her colluzzle circle cutter and came up with a great solution.

I love how Nancy masked the jack-o-lantern part of the stamp to make plain pumpkins in the wagon.

Here is what Nancy did to make her large scallop:

To make the smaller scalloped trim paper she simply drew a pencil line on the back of the paper and cut across the line with ProvoCraft scallop scissors.  Nancy saved the negative side of the scalloped paper and you'll see that edge in one of her other cards later this month. 

Editors Note:  I think that the Coluzzle Cutting System has been discontinued, but you can still find a few sets on Ebay.  There are so many other circle cutting systems available now, but the Coluzzle is perfectly suited to making the half circle shape show here.