Carrie Stamps

A Happy Scene for Halloween

It's Wednesday and that means I get to design a card for  Stampin' Royalty!  I love being on this design team, as my downline and bestie Georgie run the site!  And this week she picked some gorgeous photos to inspire us to create! 

I knew right away that I was going to use the Happy Scene stamp set from the soon to be released Holiday Catalog (9/1/15).  It has stamps in it to create scenes for Fall, Halloween, Winter and Christmas!  AND, it has a matching set of framelits that cut out a window pane!  So, here is the card that these pictures inspired. 

It's seriously cute right!  The little pumpkins out the window, the spider web, the window pane!  When I saw this set in the new Holiday Catalog it did not grab my attention right away.  Then at convention I was able to attend the Center Stage, an event for leaders and this is the set they gave us and something changes when you get a stamp set as a gift and hold it in your hand.  I started seeing all the fun I could have with it.  And so I want to tell you it might not grab your attention when you first see this set in the catalog, but it is seriously cute!  

I only used Whisper White card stock on this card, weird, right? I thought so, but it just worked.  I stamped the scene on a 2-1/2" x 3" piece in Versamark ink and then embossed it with Black embossing powder. Then I was able to watercolor it , going over the tree with ease and the image has a shine to it and dimension. To watercolor this image I used my Aquapainter and ink from three stamp pads, Pool Party, Tangelo Twist, and Crumb Cake. 

For the saying I stamped the greeting with Tangelo Twist ink.  Then I flagged the ends of my strip of paper using my Paper Snips.  then I watercolored around the saying, again with my Aqua Painter and Pool Party ink.  For the black detailing I used my #1 pen from the Project Life journaling pens. I just free handed it, I wanted it to be a very imperfect line.  

My favorite thing are the tiny little spiders, I always say LOVE IS IN THE DETAILS, add some love to your cards by including some fun little extras, they make all the difference. 

Here are all the fun things I used to create this card (remember the Happy Scene stamp set and the Hearth and Home Thinlit Dies are not available until 9/1/15)

We would love to have you play along with our challenge visit Stampin' Royalty to join us and see what my fellow designers have created when inspired by this picture. 

Did you get the new Holiday Catalog in the mail yet??? 

If not I'd love to send you one, leave me a comment and I'll get it out to your mail box right away! 

We also have our annual catalog if you have not seen it either you can view it online: 

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Montley Monsters Cover Swankie Hankies

Here's a quick treat I made for some special people in my life, my team members! Today we are getting together for some stampin' fun!  I wanted to make them all something cute.  

I found some Swankie Hankies a while back and thought they were SO CUTE and how fun would it be to dress them up!  

The are little packages of tissues!  So cute! 

The are really easy to cover, here's how to cut and score your paper to cover a pack of tissues: 

1. Cut a piece of Designer Paper to 6-1/2" x 4-1/4".

2. On the 6-1/2" side score at 2-1/4", 3", 5-1/4" and 6".

3. Glue the small flap to the end of the box and you are ready to fill it with some Swankie Hankies.  

NOTE: I have seen the "Swankie Hankies" at Walmart, Fred Meyer and Cost Plus World Market.  They have all different kinds, not just Halloween. 

To dress mine up I used my September Paper Pumpkin Kit. 

Time for me to go get ready for our Hoedown (the theme of our party today).  

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Frightful Wreath Class

Join me in my new Stamp Studio for the Frightful Wreath Class. 

We will be making this cute Halloween Wreath and well as two treat bags. Invite a friend and join me for this fun class. Leave a comment here or email me to RSVP. 

FREE Exclusive Stamp Set!

Stampin' Up! is giving away an exclusive stamp set that you can not get anywhere else!  How do you get it?  By partying, Stampin' Up! style!  

PICK YOUR DATE NOW! Here are the dates I have left to party this month: 

Friday, 9/12, Monday 9/22, Saturday 9/27

Leave me a comment with your date for our party.  

Don't see at date you love, you can always have a catalog party, just leave me a comment that you want to have a catalog party and I will get you all set up!  

Want to see the projects that we are making at my parties this month? 

I hope to be stamping with you soon!  

Tombstone Treat Box

Hi Stampin' Friends! 

It's Stampin' Royalty Challenge Day!  This week's challenge is a picture inspiration challenge: 

Here is my inspired Tombstone Treat Box or as I find myself calling it the RIP Treat Box. 

As I started making this box my it veared away from the picture a bit. But I loved how it turned out. 

Here is a mini tutorial on how to make my Tombstone Treat Box: 

1. Cut a Basic Gray piece of card stock to 8" x 11"

2. Score at 2" and 6" on the long side

3. Score at 3" and 8" on the short side, stopping at the 1st intersecting score line.  Flip the paper over and repeat this on the opposite side. 

4. Again on the short, 8" side, score at 4-1/2" anc 6-1/2", across the entire piece. 

5. Cut off the excess.

6. Create the flaps that will hold the box together, by snipping off the corners. 

7. Find something round to trace, to round the ends of the box into a tombstone shape.  I used a little terra cotta pot that sits on my desk. A large can (28 oz.) would work too. Cut along the traced line. 

8. I used Tombo Multipurpose Liquid Glue to hold my box together, but you could also use sticky strip.  Once the box is assembled, sponge the edges with Basic Gray ink.  Sponge the center by lightly pouncing an inked sponge on the surface.  This will give it more of a stone look. 

9. Decorate your tombstone box as you like, fill with goodies and then give it to someone who needs a special treat. 

For the "RIP" I use the "BOO" stamp from the Bite Me stamp set.  I colored the "B" with a marker for each letter, making it into a "R" and "I" and a "P". 

Bite Me Photopolymer Stamp Set #134622

 

All the stamped images I used are from the Bit Me Photopolymer Stamp set. It's a FUN Halloween stamp set. 

Have fun with this simple box and let me know if you make one!  I would love to see your creations and share them here!  

Now, take a minute to click over to Stampin' Royalty and see what my fellow design team members, the Goddesses, have made for this challenge.  And while your there, at the bottom of today's post it tells you how you can play along with our challenge. Your project might be featured on the Stampin' Royalty Blog!  

Purchase all of the products used here at my On-line Store: 

Leave me a comment if you have any questions on the Tombstone Treat Box. 


 

Mini Muslin Treat Bag

Hey Stampin' Friends! 

What a fun challenge we have at Stampin' Royalty this week!  

Stampin' Royalty Challenge #198: Halloween Goodie Packaging

I decided to decorate one of Stampin' Up!'s new Mini Muslin Bags.  

Mini Muslin Bags #132180

 What a fun new thing to play with!  Here is what I created with my Mini Muslin Bag for Halloween: 

Do you LOVE the "Bite Me" stamp???  Perfect for a Halloween Goody Bag!  All the stamps used to make the tag are from the Bite Me Photopolymer Stamp Set. 

Bite Me #134622

 

The Polka Dots on my Bag are done using a polka dot stencil from the Build a Banner Simply Created Kit. I used the end of the stencil that does not have the circle, as well as a sponge dauber and Basic Black ink pad.  Make sure your ink pad is freshly inked for this project. P ut a piece of scrap chipboard about 3-3/4" x 6" inside your bag, so the polka dots do not bleed through to the other side. 

 

Build a Banner Simply Created Kit #133507

 

 

RECIPE: 

stamps: bite me photopolymer set

ink: basic black, whisper white, metallic gold encore pad, pumpkin pie marker

paper: basic black card stock, brushed gold cs, calypso coral cs

assessories: calypso coral 3/4" chevron ribbon, linen thread, brights glimmer brads, very bintage designer buttons (embossed with gold ink and gold powder), large rhinesotne basic jewels, gold stampin' emboss powder, mini muslin bags

tools: sponge dauber, build a banner simply created kit, big shot, chalk talk framelits (for the tag), 1-3/8" circle punch, 1-3/4" scallop circle punch, paper snips, heat tool, embossing buddy, mini glue dots, dimensionals

Be sure to click over and see what my fellow Stampin' Royalty Goddesses have made for their Halloween Goody Packaging!  And please play along with our challenge. 

If you like the Photopolymer Stamp Set you might also like these two new sets for Christmas:

Christmas Tagables Photopolymer Set #134623

Endless Wishes Photopolymer Set #133455

 

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Flippin' over Frankie and Mummy!

Hey Stampin' Friends!  

If you have not yet purchase the new Circle Card Thinlits,  YOU NEED TO!  They are WAY TOO MUCH FUN!  

Last week at my Treasured Stamper's Shoe Box swap two people (Patty Sowell and Rebecca Heinrich) both made a Frankie card with these Thinlits.  Since I had two of the same card I gave one a make over when I got home and now Frankie has a MRS.!!!  

Aren't they so sweet!  Quite the couple!  I added a bow made with the retired Butterfly punch and 3/4" circle as well as a 1/4" circle for a wart.

Pull the card open, the eye ball flips and here is the inside:

I love the idea of the face done on the Circle Thinlit card so I decided to make a Mummy card for my card at the Shoebox swap.  Here is my Mummy card...

I think he is SO cute!  I added a rhinestone spider as he seemed a little plain and needed a special touch. 

Flip...

Here's some quick steps to making your Mummy Card...

*Tear your strips of vanilla card stock

*sponge them with Crumb Cake ink

*Adhere the strips to a 5-1/2" x 6" piece of vanilla card stock with Mulitpurpose Liquid Glue (see pic below)

*Die cut your Circle card with the Circle Thinlit.

*Save some torn strips for the eyes, so your mummy looks like he is peaking out of his wrappings!  

*Color a Jumbo Rhinestone with a black Sharpie marker for the body of the spider. 

*Add a knot of 7/16" Natural Trim and adhere it to the card front with a Mini Glue Dot.  

Get your own Circle Card Thinlits HERE!