31 Nights of Halloween - Night 1

 

Hello, Whimsy fans!  Are you ready for the funnest blog event of the year?!  

It's the one we at Whimsy wait all year for, and we hope you're just as excited as we are!  So, sit back and get ready to be inspired (and maybe a little frightened, too).

 

It's Andrea with you tonight, and I have a cheeky, interactive card to share.  It features the just-released Monster ATC Closeups stamp set.  When I saw the fun mummy in the set, I couldn't resist having a play on words (I love puns).  I'm hoping my British friends get a chuckle at least.

For this card I first stamped the mummy image and colored him with Copics.  I set him aside to work on the interactive portion of my card.

I first stamped the Farmhouse Shiplap Background onto kraft cardstock.  Using the partial diecutting technique, I cut a door into the panel with the Slimline ATC Windows Dies.  I scored between the cut areas to create a hinge for the door to open and close.

I distressed the edges of the panel with the same brown ink I used to stamp the background.  Next, I embellished the panel with images from the Fuzzy Spiders set.  I first stamped the webs in white pigment ink and then stamped the spiders and sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  I used a white gel pen to fill in the spiders' eyes.

My sentiment largely comes from the Cute But Psycho stamp set.  I masked the bottom of the sentiment and stamped the top half with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  I then stamped "mummy" with the Alphabet Mini stamp set.  Next, I stamped the rest of the sentiment from Cute But Psycho, masking the top portion first.

Finally, I adhered the kraft panel to my colored image and attached it to a cardbase.  

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you enjoyed my interactive, cheeky card.

Be sure to check out the entire release from earlier today and also read about the giveaways happening this month here.

 

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Special Guest -Svetlana Pavlova

Hello, Whimsy fans!  Today we welcome the talented Svetlana Pavlova to the blog.

Hello friends! I'm really excited to join Whimsy Stamps blog as a guest designer. 

I'm in love with interactive cards and for today's post I made an interesting and festive card with cute Penguin Holiday Squares stamps.

 I wanted to use the Slimline Film Strip Die for this card, as it was perfect for the penguin stamps and for my idea. And of course I also wanted to do it with the effect of surprise. Inside the card, there is a slider design for the cards to slide out and back in. It turns out that new photographs appear on the film.

 I colored all these cute characters with Copic Sketch alcohol markers: penguin - N8,6,4,2 and C2,0 red hat, scarf - R39,27,24 yellow hat and scarf - YR27,24,21 green hat - YG67,17,03 bear - W5,3,1 Finally, I sprayed everything with white, acrylic paint for a winter atmosphere. 

Thank you all for your attention. I wish you inspiration!

And thank you, Svetlana, for this adorable and amazing project!  

To see more of Svetlana's work, visit her YouTube channel or Instagram account.

31 Nights of Halloween - Night 30

Hello, crafty friends! It's Lisa here with you tonight, and I have a quick and simple Interactive Slimline Halloween Card to share with you plus a video tutorial. 

This card is super simple. 

 

Die-cut the Slimline Film Strip and Slimline Hill House Die from Navy cardstock or any color you prefer. Save the bottom inlay frame when die-cutting the Film Strip Die. Die-cut pattern paper. The great thing about this card is you can pick and choose the scene you want from the Haunted Paper Pack to tell your own story. 

Trim a piece of cardstock to cover the back of the film strip die; I find it much easier to build the card and then cover the back to add to my card base. Cut the house out of the Slimline Hill House cut out.

Using Scotch tape secure the pattern paper in the film strip from the backside. 

Decide on the placement of the house on the lower part of the card, trace around the inner window lightly with pencil, and punch a small hole using hole punch or crop-a-dile.

Map out the placement of lights and secure in place with Scotch tape.

Add a small piece of vellum behind the window to be lit up, add mounting foam strips to the back of the house, and secure on the film strip.

Adding mounting foam to the back of the film strip around wiring and cover back with white cardstock. Using glue to the back and center on a white 100# slimline card base.

Stamp sentiments from the Grave Epitaphs and Halloween Postage Stamp Sets using navy ink, add foam adhesive strips to the back and adhere to the card. 

You can head back over to the first  31 Nights of Halloween Blog Post for prize information! 

As always, thanks for joining us! 

31 Nights of Halloween - Night 1

 

Good evening, my intrepid friends!  Are you ready for a frightfully fun month of Halloween inspiration and $300 in prizes?!  It's Andrea with you tonight, and I'm delighted to be kicking off Whimsy's annual 31 Nights of Halloween with a fun, interactive card featuring the Halloween Scream stamp set.

Now, personally, I don't like zombies.  I can't stand their appearance or the horrible sounds they make, not to mention the idea of being eaten by one is downright terrifying.  However, there's something about these images from Halloween Scream that tickle my funny bone.  Maybe it's how gleeful the zombie looks or how terrified the mummy is.  I don't know.

Usually, I start with my images, but for this card, I created the background first to allow the inks time to dry.  For the sky, I blended with the following colors of Distress Oxides: Mermaid Lagoon, Chipped Sapphire, and Black Soot.  I blended a separate panel of white cardstock with Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, and Black Soot for the grass.  I splattered white paint over the sky and set both panels aside to dry while I colored my images.

After stamping the mummy, zombie, and tombstone from Halloween Scream, I colored them with Copics.  I used my ScanNCut to cut out the images and then my scissors to cut out some interior places the machine didn't.  Then it was time for the fun part - creating the interactive element.

I die-cut the sky with the Slimline Card Builder Dies and created the slot for the slider with the Kinetic Straight Basics Dies.  I used the partial die-cutting technique and the Grass & Cloud Edger Dies to get the grass the right length before trimming it with the Slimline Card Builder Dies.  From that same green panel, I die-cut the pull-tab and two circles with the No-See Straight Basics Dies.  Finally, I die-cut the scored tab from the No-See Straight Basics Dies from white cardstock.

With all of my pieces cut out, it was time to assemble the card.  Using liquid adhesive, I adhered a plastic slider disc to one of the circles, attached the pull-tab around the disc, and placed the pull-tab behind my background.  I placed a bit of glue on the pull-tab and attached the coordinating end of the white tab, slipping the disc through the hole in the tab.  Next, I adhered the other circle to the top of the disc.  I placed a layer of foam tape on the back of my panel, making sure not to impede the movement of the slider, and attached it to a white card.  

I placed a layer of foam tape on the back of the grass panel, again making sure not to impede the movement of the slider, and adhered it to my background.  I scored the white tab along two of the score marks, trimmed off the excess, and adhered my mummy to the tab.  I attached the tombstone, placing a bit of foam tape behind the part sticking above the grass, and adhered the mummy with more foam tape.  I die-cut white cardstock with the Quick Strips Dies, stamped a sentiment from Halloween Scream, and popped it up onto my card with dimensional adhesive.  I stamped "pull" from the Halloween Postage set onto the pull-tab and white heat-embossed a second sentiment from Halloween Scream on the background.

Whew!  We made it to the end, and I hope it wasn't too confusing.  

In case you missed it, be sure to check out last night's blog post for all of the prize info and how to enter to win.

Have a great night!