Texas Cactus Card

Hi everyone!  Welcome to November!  I hope that you all had a great Halloween last night.  Mine was kind of quiet.  I didn't really make many Halloween cards this year. I am amazed at that because this is my favorite holiday season (it's everyone's I think!)

I'd like to share this card with you. 

 

 

I have a few things going on in this card.

1. I used the Frantic Stamper die Cactus Chorus Line to create my die cut of dark brown card.  The die actually cuts a border.  I have the positive space above layered onto my card (It's a border).
2. I matted a lighter brown patterned paper on it and then a strip of blue/brown patterned paper on that - reminds me of the west.
3. The cactus border was then glued onto a light brown and white polka dot paper.  This all went onto my card base.
4. I used one of Tim Holtz Sizzix dies (Trellis Frameworks ) t create a dark purple die cut which I then glued to the card. 
5. I finished with some blue/pink (they change color) bling.

What was I thinking?
Good question!  I really like my card.  The purple and blue remind me of the evening sky in the desert when the blue sky starts fading away and the sky starts turning purple and orange.  I guess I have a good imagination!

Thanks for stopping by to see my card. Leave comments! They are always appreciated!

Lis

A Rose for Halloween Card

I've been working on a few Halloween cards.  Halloween snuck up on me this year!  I haven't done too many.

Materials:

• Graphic 45 Steam Punk Line
• Sizzix Die (cut in silver glitter paper)
• Paper rose bud (Wild Orchid Crafts - if you like paper flowers, check these guys out)
• Black grosgrain ribbon
• Black leaf ribbons (Frantic Stamper)

The card is really simple to make. I layered my two papers and used the black ribbon to hide the seam. 

I die cut the silver thing (I don't know what to call it - it looks like a frame and mirror to me)
and then made my rose. I folded the wire from the rose in half and then put a small bead of glue on one side. I rolled the leaf ribbons around it.  Now that I am thinking about it though - it would have been easier to wind some double sided tape around it and then wind the ribbon around that.

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
Lis

Pumpkin Greetings - a Halloween Card

Don't you love this card?

Materials:

• black card for card base
• gold ripple holographic card from hot off the press
• black and white (I believe they call it licorice) bakers twine
• green card stock (this is from Graphic 45)
• Pumpkin Greeting (old fashioned) from Tim Holtz Salvage Stickers - Holidays
• one embossing folder of clocks (Sizzix)
• purple foil adhesive backed

My card starts off with this luscious purple foil.  I cut it to 4 x 5 1/4 inches and attached it to a scrap piece of card stock.  I ran it through my cuttlebug to emboss it.  (The reason I backed the foil with cad is to make it stronger and so that the embossing would stay crisp.)

I attached my purple piece to my card, and added the rest of my items. Easy!

Come back tomorrow for my best Halloween card yet!

Lis
 

The Halloween Spider - a card

This week is busy busy for everyone as we all make the final adjustments to our costumes for Friday night! OOooOOOOooo!

 

This Halloween should be fun because it IS Friday night and no school next day!  What fun!

 

Today's card is a cute Halloween Spider and web.

 

Materials:

• black card for card base
• black shimmer paper for the cobweb
• a cobweb die
• white and oh yes a couple of red crystals for the spider's eyes

 



 

 

As you can see its a simple card but effective.  Add a greeting on the front or inside!

Stop back tomorrow for another spooky card
Lis

Halloween Sugar Skulls Card

 

 

I live in Southern California.  there is a strong Mexican culture here including Day of the Dead where the memory of beloved family members are honored.  Part of this is the making of decorated sugar skulls. That is the inspiration for my card today.

Frantic Stamper has a great set of skull dies. You get three in the set, in different sizes which is great!  I used the medium size for my card.

I started by preparing my card I used a black card stock for my base. the orange patterned paper comes from KaiserCraft's Outdoor Trail Collection (which shows that you can use many papers for different themes than were intended!).  I added orange ribbon and another piece of card stock from DCWV.  I made the banner from Tim Holtz Banner die (Sizzix) and added some paper poppies to top it off.

 

 

I cut two skulls from red foil card stock and two from white shimmer paper.  I added them to my card with glue.  Now the fun begins!  I chose some Liquid Pearls and some glitter glue and started decorating!  I think I will make another card and use gems the next time.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my card today. Lis

 

 

A Midnight Dreary, a Halloween Card

 

This is a very easy card to make and SO beautiful because of the die I used. 

I love birches ad the Frantic stamper birch die is wonderful!  It is a card panel so it will cover an A2 card.

 

To make my card, I first cut the birch panel out of plain white card stock.  then I used Versa Mark and silver embossing powder to change my birches to silver.  I had some blue glitter and some blue chunky glitter and reheated (melted) parts of the embossing and added the glitter to it.  This causes the glitter to stick to the melted embossing powder.

(I had in my mind a full moonlit night and the birches would be silver in the moonlight and also give off this blueish light...spooky, yes?)

 

After I added glue to the back of my trees, I placed a white shimmer moon (cut from shimmer paper) behind the trees.  I glued my trees to a black mat and again to a silver glossy mat to finish my card.

I have several ideas to share on this card for variations:

• instead of a moon, use a skull out of red glitter
• cut out a bat to lay on top of the trees with a Happy Halloween greeting in red or white
• take an alcohol pen and color one tree t stand out from the group
• add an owl to one of the branches
• You can use this die for Christmas and add snow at the base or on some of the branches.

There are so many ways to use this birches die.  I hope you will give some of them a try.

Lis

 

Two more simple greeting cards you can make

Happy Sunday everyone!  Time to share two more simple cards that I've made.

The first one is rather bright. I used DCWV Spring card stock in bright pink and yellow.  I cut them into some strips and added them to a white card base.  I added a die cut (Frantic Stamper Accolades).  I topped it off with a single star embellishment from Tim Holtz Idea-ology.

 

 

 

I like the clean crisp lines of this card against the ornate swirl of the greeting.  I think I just got lucky and it all went together well.

 

 

I really like how the next card came out.  It's a Happy Anniversary card (or any celebration you want) done on a white card base and a light blue-green mat with matching ribbon (Anna Griffin die).

 

 

I added the strip of white cut out (Frantic Stamper Shell Half Panel ).  The pattern is really nice and you can use the half panel twice to get a cut out on the entire front of an A2 card.  I backed it with blue patterned paper.

I hope you enjoyed my cards this weekend! Thanks for stopping by. Comments are always appreciated!  Lis