31 Nights of Halloween - Night 26 - Special Guest Jennifer Snyder

 

 

Good evening, Whimsy friends!  

You are in for a real treat tonight as welcome back the inspiring Jennifer Snyder to the blog!

Today I am thrilled to be a special guest blogger for Whimsy Stamps for their 31 Nights of Halloween Celebration on their blog.  You can find all the spooktacular fun on their blog, right here.  

What can be more spooky this time of year than a grave yard?!  I gathered some goodies from Whimsy Stamps and set to work on a 3D home decor graveyard.

  Scroll, down for DIY instructions. 

 

Whimsy Stamps is more than stamps.  They have an amazing selection of unique dies which were used to help make this decor piece today.  

The gravestones, cats, fencing and accessories were created using The Build-a-Graveyard die set designed by Deb Davis from Amped2Stamp.  

 

Instructions for the DIY Graveyard

Here are the finished 3D gravestones 

The sentiments and creepy cobwebs on the gravestones were from the two stamp sets below: 

 Spider Web Frame Rubber Cling Stamp by Deb Davis Amped2Stamp

Spooky Kitties Clear Stamp by Dustin Pike

Instructions for DIY Crypt (Houses)

Here are more images of the finished crypts and stones.  Enjoy!  I know I sure did.  

Thanks so much for stopping here to enjoy the Whimsy Stamps 31 Nights of Halloween Celebration.  You can find all the spooktacular fun on their blog, right here.  

You can also find more inspirational pieces using #whimsystamps and #whimsystampshalloween.

Wow!  Thank you, Jennifer, for this awesome inspiration!  

To see more of Jennifer's work, be sure to visit her on her blog and Instagram.  

31 Nights of Halloween - Night 13 - Special Video Guest Peter's Treasury

 

Welcome back, Whimsy friends, to the 13th night of the annual Halloween Celebration! We hope you are enjoying the nightly haunts here on the blog. Tonight we are haunted by Peter from Peter's Treasury. 

He has a thrilling tutorial for you. 

Check out the details added to the stars. 

I love the use of non-traditional Halloween colors on this spooktacular card.

Thanks, Peter, for the spooktacular haunt! 

You can find Peter here:

Peter's Treasury YouTube Channel

Peter's Treasury Blog

Peter's Treasury IG 

Peter's Treasury Pinterest

31 Nights of Halloween - Night 4

 

Hello!  Tricia here with you tonight to share a spooky cute card using the Candy Corn Dress Up!  I started off by taking a black card panel and embossed with the Bats Galore Slimline Embossing Folder.  I love the spooky details that it adds to the card.   

I stamped the images from Candy Corn Dress Up onto Neenah cardstock and colored with my Copic markers.  I added some details with a white gel pen to the images.  I used the following Copics for my coloring: 

W00, W1, W3, W5, W7, C1, C3, C5, 0, YR04, YR07, YR09, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y19, BG11, BG53, BG13, R20, YG03, YG23, YG17, E41, E42, E44

I die cut the panel with the Build-a-Graveyard die set.   I used Distress Inks of Prized Ribbon, Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron and placed behind the die cut panel.  I then stamped the Grave Epitaphs with several of the images from the stamp set.   I then die cut some of the extra images: grave, fence, bats and skull using the Build-a-Graveyard die set to spook up my card. 

I love Halloween and just love that Whimsy Stamps celebrates with a month long of inspiration through the 31 Nights of Halloween!  So much fun to be had each day - be sure to watch for the posts every night!  Play along with us and link up your Halloween creations - see the post here for the link up and details. 

In celebration of our annual 31 Nights of Halloween event, Whimsy Stamps will be giving away $300 in Whimsy Stamps gift cards throughout the month of October!  Please be sure to check out this post here for more details! 

Happy Halloween to you all! 

Special Guest - Jennifer Snyder

 

Hello, Whimsy fans!  You are in for a treat today as we welcome the talented Jennifer Snyder to the blog!

Today I am thrilled to be a special guest blogger for Whimsy Stamps as we celebrate the start to the Halloween season.   I created shakers cards using some of the sweet and some of the spooky designs.  

Whimsy Stamps is more than stamps.  They have an amazing selection of unique dies with a variety of themes including build-a-scene die sets that really caught my eye. 

Sweet Shaker Card

Here is my first shaker card - sweet before scary - stamped onto watercolor paper and painted with watercolor pencils. 

This card features a few products:  Spider Web Frame Rubber Cling Stamp by Deb Davis Amped2Stamp andSpooky Kitties Clear Stamp by Dustin Pike.

Easy DIY Instructions

Here are my easy DIY instructions:  

I'd also like to take a moment to mention the embellishments added to the card. The shaker mix is Monster Mash Sprinkletz (NK150) shaker mix from Buttons Galore. Totally adorable and perfect for this crazy shaker.  

I also added a 3D button Bat and spider also from Buttons Galore and More.  These are from the Happy Hauntings 3D button pack HH104. They make perfect finishing touches.

Next up - spooky.  

This card features the  Whimsy Stamps - Build -a-Graveyard Die Set - designed by Deb Davis (Amped2Stamp).  Well actually this is a combo of the sweet and the spooky because I used the sentiments from Spooky Kitties Clear Stamp by Dustin Pike as the stamped sentiments  for the grave stones.   

This is the wonderful way to mix and match products.  I like to keep thinking of ways to combine products to get the most "bang for my buck" as the saying goes. 

I want to highlight that 31 Days of Halloween hosted by the Whimsy Stamps team.  Stay tuned because there are prizes, frightful inspiration and lots of fun.  

Thanks for stopping here today.  Happy crafting. 

To see more of Jennifer's work, be sure to visit her blog.

Special Guest - Rachel Alvarado

 

Hello, Whimsy friends!  We are super excited to welcome the lovely Rachel Alvarado to the blog!

Hello crafty friends! It's Rachel here and I'm thrilled to be guest designing today for Whimsy Stamps! I absolutely love all of the amazing products that Whimsy Stamps has to offer! For my card today, I created a slimline box card featuring a semi-spooky Halloween-themed graveyard scene.

To start, I first created my box base from scratch using some black card stock, a paper trimmer, a scoring board, and adhesive. When folded, this card fits perfectly into a slimline or #10 business envelope! (See photo at bottom of this post.) I layered my card with both some white card stock and a piece of spooky patterned paper from the "Haunted" Paper Pack. I usually like to ink-blend my backgrounds but I absolutely love how easily this detailed patterned paper adds such eye-catching designs! I then added some strips of grass that I die cut from black card stock using the "Grass and Cloud Edger" Die Set. I also added a spooky fence from black card stock using the "Build-a-Graveyard" Die Set.

Next, I stamped some images from the "Sheets and Giggles" Stamp Set onto a sheet of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Card Stock with some Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I colored them with Copic alcohol markers (colors listed on photo above) and quickly cut them out using my Brother ScanNCut machine. I then used the "Build-a-Graveyard" Die Set again to die cut some headstones from white card stock. You can simply use gray colored card stock but I wanted to color mine with Copic Markers in order to add some shading and subtle texture. If you don't feel comfortable coloring, ink-blending would work well too! I used Copic colors W1, W3, W5, and W7.

I then adhered my gravestones to the inner shelves of my card base with liquid adhesive and attached a ghost behind each gravestone. I also added some twiggy tress that I had die cut from black card stock using the Trees Assortment Die Set. For my sentiment, I used the same piece of patterned paper as I did for my card background and heat embossed the words "Trick-or-Treat" from the "Candy Corn Dress Up" Stamp Set with Fine Detail Black Embossing Powder.

Thanks so much for dropping by! If you liked this card and want more inspiration, feel free to stop by my INSTAGRAM feed! ❤️

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