A Barbed Wire Christmas Tree?

 Yep, I have a stamp for a Barbed Wire Christmas Tree.  The stamp was a gift from my sister last Christmas, so its only fitting that she will be getting this card this year! This card came together fairly quickly, and looks great on Kraft paper.  Lawn Fawn plaid paper also fit well with the overall design.

I used the following for the card:

• Texana Designs - Jam'n Barbed Wire Tree
• Versamark
• Darice - Green Tinsel Embossing Powder
• Lawn Fawn - Perfectly Plaid Fall Patterned Paper

To make the card, I stamped the tree with Versamark, added the embossing powder and heat set it.  The image was trimmed down and matted with green card stock.  The plaid paper was cut and matted with green paper as well.  The tree was added to the plaid paper and the entire image added to the card base to complete the card.

Christmas Cards using Gina K Master Layouts

I made several cards using all three of the Master Layout die sets from Gina K.  I think that these ended up being one of my more favorite card designs this year!  The sentiment stamps from Tim Holtz fit the style of the paper and cards so well, and fit within the Master Layout 1 ovals.

I used the following to make the cards:

• Gina K - Master Layout sets 1, 2 and 3
• Gina K Ink - Christmas Pine, Red Velvet, Powder Blue
• Gina K - Seasons Greetings Stamp patterned paper
• Tim Holtz - Mini Doodle Greetings Stamp Set

Birthday Silhouette

 I create the background for this card first.  It took a while for me to decide what to do with it, and decided that a silhouette would be perfect.  Here is the card I made:

I used the following to make the card:

• Distress Oxide - Squeezed Lemonade, Ripe Persimmon, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch
• Gina K - Wild Blossoms
• Gina K - You Make Me Happy
• Gina K - Obsidian Ink

To make the card, I used the Distress Oxide Inks to create the background.  I decided to try blending with my blender brushes, and they worked great with the Distress Oxide ink.  The ink blended so easily.

I stamped the flowers and sentiment with obsidian ink.  The entire panel was trimmed and matted with black.  The entire piece was added to the card base to complete the card.

Vanilla Arts Nevermore Manor Halloween Cards

 I took another fun Vanilla Arts class, Nevermore Manor.  And here is my completed image:

I thought that the image would make great Halloween cards, so I scanned the image, cropped it, and lightened it (the original was too dark when printed). These were matted and added to the card bases to complete the cards.  

Autumn Greeting!

I like Autumn.  I like Autumn so much that I have a large collection of stamps and dies for fall that are not Halloween related.  Here is a card that I made using those supplies:

To make the card, I used the following:

• Gina K - Foilmates - Autumn Leaves
• Deco Foil - Amber Watercolor
• Tim Holtz - Metallic Kraftcore Paper
• Tim Holtz - Skeleton Leaves Dies
• Versa Mark
• Stampendous - Detailed Black Embossing Powder
• Gina K - Master Layouts 1

To make the card, I foiled the Autumn Leaves paper with the Amber Watercolor foil.  This was then trimmed to size using the smaller of the Master Layouts dies.  The foiled image was matted with black card stock cut to size using the larger of the Master Layouts dies.  This was then added to card base.  The leaves were cut from the Metallic paper and added to the card.  The greeting was then stamped on a piece of the metallic paper with Versa Mark, embossing powder was added and heat set.  This was then matted with black and added to the card completing the card.

Foiled Halloween

I like the look of foil on a card!  I just wish it photographed better!  A while back I picked up a pack of Halloween Bats that were foilable, and of course I needed to use them to make Halloween cards.

I used the following for the cards:

• Creative Vision Stamps - Happy Halloween foil-able images
• Gina K - Sweet Mango Foil
• Unknown - Black Glitter Foil
• Patterned Paper by Recollections

To make the cards I first foiled the image using a Minc machine,  Sweet Mango foil was used for the sentiment, and the glitter foil used for the bat.  The foiled image was then mounted on black card stock.  The pumpkin patterned paper was mounted on black, and then added to the card base.  The image was added at an angle to complete the card.

Ghostly Halloween

Its become tradition that I make Halloween cards for the Grandkids.  For these cards, I am using my favorite Halloween sets from Mama Elephant and Lawn Fawn:

For the Purple card, I used the following:

• Gina K - Wild Lilac Ink and Card Stock
• Mama Elephant - Boo-tastic Stamp Set
• Lawn Fawn - Spooktacular Stamp Set 
• A Colorful Life - Ghosties Stencil
• Gina K - Small Circle Dies

For the Orange card, I used the following:

• Gina K - Sweet Mango Ink
• Mama Elephant - Boo-tastic Stamp Set
• Lawn Fawn - Spooktacular Stamp Set and Matching Dies
• Copic Markers - C5, C7, C9, Y15, YR12, YR14, YR18, R01
• Wink Of Stella Clear
• A Colorful Life - Ghosties Stencil
• Gina K - Small and Large Circle Dies

To make the cards I first created the background by stenciling the Ghosts. The background was then trimmed to size and matted with black card stock and added to the card base.  The sentiment was added.  The 3 ghosts were stamped and die cut.  These were added to a black circle and added to the purple card with foam squares to complete the card.  The witches hat was stamped, and then masked to add the ghost.  The hat was colored with Copic markers.  The image was cut with a small circle die, and matted with black.  This was added to the orange card with foam squares to complete the card.  

The Purple card was entered in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Spooky.