I used this adorable frog to make a Halloween card
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| I decided, after looking at alot of my masking stencils to go with the scalloped square from Taylored Expressions. I attached it to my grip mat from Waffle house that is alwasy on a protable glass mat that is next to my creative station and I am using a 4 X 5 1/4 Sugar Cube card stock from Taylored Expressions. |
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| I decided a long time ago to have some card mat sizes at my desk. I cut them from heavy weight black card stock and made size labels with my label maker. |
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| To design my card it helps to lay out my main images on the mat to see if my vision will work out |
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| I started with Taylored Expressions Strawberry Milkshake ink. |
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| Then I added Guava ink and went back with the Strawberry Milkshake ink. |
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| I love the reveal. |
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| I am just using some black paint from my stash and some water and a fan brush on a stamp block. |
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| I took my image to the splatter box. It took a little elbow grease to clean off the splatters from the stencil. |
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| Here I used these dollar spot trays from Target to sort my die cuts. I got them a long time ago and alot cheaper then the scrapbook.com trays. |
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| I used a white gel pen to color the inside of the eyes before I glued the black part ontop. |
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| I decided to go with the same scallop detail to tie the front of the card to the inside. I used a scallop die from Stamps of Life and card stock that matched my ink blending. Taylored Expressions - Strawberry Milk Shake and Guava. |
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| I decided to heat emboss the sentiment in white over black card stock. I used my Misti, Taylored Expression embossing powder tool, Versamark, and Stamp of Life Powder Sugar pigment ink. The die cut is from my stash and I also cut it out and imput that into my Misti and that turned into an easy way to hold my die cut and insure perfect stamping each time. |
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| I used my tweezers and tiny scissors alot with gluing these little pieces. My Sweet Petunia glue press as well because it has a fine tip for the glue. |
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| Back of the card and back of the envelope. My name stamp was a freebie that Altnew sent me a few years ago. These stamps are from Technique Tuesday (don't believe they are still in business) set called Broom Riders. |
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| Inside of the card. The inside of the card is also stamped from the same Technique Tuesday Stamp set. I matched the ink to the card stock in all my stamping. Taylored Expressions - Strawberry Milkshake - Guava - Kiwi - Peapod. |
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| Side View #1. My card base is in the color Kiwi by Taylored Expressions. The frog is made with Kiwi, Pea pod, and Strawberry Milkshake and the black is from Stamps of Life Liquorice ink. |
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| Side View #2. The little spider came from a Tim Holtz die and the spider web came from Simon Says Stamp. The Best Witches sentiment came from Paper smooches (anouther company no longer with us) Best Witches. |
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| Finished Card. |
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| I paired the card with a matching envelope. |
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| Here are most of the products I used to complete this card. |
Products From My Stash
- Label Die
- White Embossing Powder
- Black paint
- Water
- Sizzix Big Shot - Fiskars Trimmer
- Tweezers
- White Gel Pen
Spellbinders
- Hoppy Halloween
My Sweet Petunia
- Glue Press
- Misti Stamp Press
Waffle Flower
- Grip Mat
Technique Tuesday
- Broom Riders stamp set
Paper Smooches
- Best Witches
Simon Says Stamp
- Spooky Spider Webs Die
Tim Holtz
- Vault - Fright Night Die set - Spider
Stamps of Life
- Licorice card stock
- Powder Sugar ink
Stampin Up
- Dimensionals
Taylored Expressions
- Pea Pod ink and card stock
- Kiwi - ink - card stock - envelope
- Guava ink
- Strawberry Milkshake card stock
- Sugar Cube card stock
- Powder Tool
- Scallop Square Stencils
Altnew
- custom name stamp sent to me as a gift
