Special Guest - Marie Marco

Hi, Whimsy friends!  If you haven't guessed it, we at Whimsy Stamps LOVE Halloween!  We've invited lots of fellow Halloweeners to share some amazing inspiration over the next month and a half.

First up is the awesome Marie Marco!  She is going to WOW you with her creations!

Hello Crafty Friends! 

I’m Marie and it’s my first time ever being a guest for a special Halloween blog post at Whimsy Stamps ! I’m so honored and excited to be here to share my Halloween 🎃 Card because Spooky season is my favorite season of all!! 

My Halloween card today features images from the Eye Scream Stamp Set. This set just spoke to my soul! It’s such a beautifully, creepy and unique stamp set! I haven’t seen anything like it before! 

The first step I took to making this card was to die cut an A2 size panel from Bristol Smooth Cardstock in order to do some ink blending. 

 

After inkblending, I added a few water splatters for texture, and I let it dry for a few minutes while I created a border frame from black cardstock. Using A2 sized nesting dies, I cut my border. After cutting my border, I used a white colored pencils to color in some white stripes reminiscent of Beetlejuice stripes! 

The fun part of any card I create is the coloring part! I first stamped my images in Antique Linen distress ink on Arches Watercolor Paper. I then colored them using watercolor pencils in the noline coloring style I love and adore so much.  After coloring my images, I fussy cut them using a small pair of detail scissors.

 When all my images had been cut, I started on my inked background panel by stamping out my background in a beautiful spiderweb design using Whimsy Stamp’s  Web Background Rubber Cling Stamp. I heat embossed my spiderweb background using black embossing powder. 

I cut out some black bats using the dies from the Build-a-graveyard Die Set as accents to my card! 

I played around with positioning my images and then glued them all down using liquid glue and ScorTape. For some of the eyeball bats, I used some fun foam at the back of each to add some dimension to my card, and that finishes off this super fun and Spooky Halloween Card! Thank you so much for stopping by and allowing me to share in my Cardmaking Passion! 

Have a wonderful day! Happy Halloween 🎃👻🕷🕸🦇

Thank you, Marie, for that awesome inspiration!!  

To see more of Marie's work, please visit her blog.

31 Nights of Halloween Night 28

Welcome to Night 28 of Whimsy Stamps' 31 Nights of Halloween Blog Celebration! Have you been enjoying all of this spooky event and all of the fun inspiration?  In case you missed it, be sure to check out grand prize post here.  

I am starting out with a combination of two new October images: Howling Night and Web Background. This is a monochromatic design. I stamped everything with VersaFine Onyx Black (I love this black ink more than any!) on gray cardstock - really easy, but a great look for these images  (and it's flat and mailable)!

I stamped the background first, and then arranged all of the other images (four) on top. I love those little bats! For Harry Potter fans, this reminds me of Remus Lupin. How about you?

You can see the complete stamp sets and the supplies I used below.

Thanks for stopping by tonight! Only three more days until Halloween!

 

31 Nights of Halloween - Night 27

Hello and welcome to Day 27 of the 31 Nights of Halloween! 

My card tonight is made using the Web Background stamp with Hero Arts Shadow Ink in Grape Juice, and the fabulous Halloween Creatures stencil.

I stamped the sentiment from the Howling Night stamp set with Versamark, and heat embossed it with White Embossing Powder. After trimming out the lower section of black cardstock to fit my card front, I drew stitching around the edges with a Uniball Signo Gel Pen.

To add the spiders, I used Versafine CLAIR in Nocturne over the stencil since I was going to heat emboss them with Clear Embossing Powder. 

To get the spider web string details and spider leg points, I used a small sponge dauber and touched up with a black Micron pen. After they were embossed, I added a little “shine” to the spiders with the same gel pen I used for the faux stitching.

And to finish everything off, I added a pretty ribbon along the black cardstock, then adhered everything together with some glue tape. 

Thank you for reading today! Come back tomorrow evening for more spooky inspiration!

31 Nights of Halloween - Night 23

Happy October

Dorinda with you tonight.

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year.

My neighbors used to give me grief for decorating so much for the season.

But seriously, how many times can you use your artistic talents to color yourself and your family and get away with it.

I am superrrrr excited to share my project today during the 31 Nights of Halloween.

I've used one of the most amazing, fun, creepy sets called Creepy Clowns

Yes, I said Creepy Clowns!!!

And they are FABULOUS!!!

I've used the perfect background stamp called 

Web Background

Today's products are from the super talented artists Deb Davis aka Amped2Stamp and Jenn Dove aka DoveArt Studios.

Isn't he super?

Confession time: I am terrified of clowns. 

This really and truly was therapy and normally, I would never even think of doing a clown but I LOVE this set. I had to. The clown made me do it.

I honest to goodness pulled up penny wise from It to reference. 

He wasn't that bad lol. Not that I've completely conquered my fear but I pre-psyched myself up for it.

I masked my clown off with masking film. 

Next I stamped off the Web background and using purples and grey copics, I began to weave my web.

Finally, with an embossing pen I went over the white line and dusted them with holographic embossing powder

I hope you have a safe and super fun Halloween and be sure to come back tomorrow night for more 31 Nights of Halloween fun.

Whimsy Stamp Products Used:

31 Nights of Halloween - Night 2

Hello Whimsy Friends and Welcome to the 2nd Night of Halloween! Do you like clowns? I HATE clowns....lol. I think they are totally creepy and not funny at all! This is why I totally LOVE Whimsy's Creepy Clowns clear set. It is exactly how I see clowns...as creepy creatures that give me the jitters....waaaahhh!  LOL!

On my Creepy Clown card I used several Whimsy products all available in the store! I've listed all products below with a direct link to where there are in the store. 

I totally love the Peekaboo Window 1 die that was released in September. This die is A2 sized and perfect for peekaboo cards, shaker cards etc. I also used the Web Background from the DoveArt line and the Halloween Creatures Stencil. The sentiments are included with the Creepy Clown clear set. The bats are die cut using a set called Dracula I Compel You die set from last years collection.

Whimsy products used:

                                                   

Thanks for visiting us here tonight and have a spooktacular rest of the night!

Hugs,

If Frank Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy

Only a few days left until our October Release Days begin! You are going to LOVE what's coming! But until then, I want to share something from the September Release that I just LOVE!

I love this Web Background! It has such depth to the image, and stamps beautifully the first time!

For today's card, I decided to use a purple ink, instead of black, and I think it looks really cool. I used Wilted Violet ink for the background color. 

I stamped Frank from Franken Schmutz with VersaFine Onyx Black and then colored him using Copic markers. The Bold Banner Die was the perfect size for my sentiment. I used the perforated tabs to bend in in a forward arc so that it stands out. 

The Happy Large Word Die is cut from glitter green paper and matches the background layer in such a sparkly, fun way! The black panel was cut using the Hand Stitched Nested Rectangles.

His expression is so funny. Stay tuned for more Whimsy fun this weekend, and then be sure to stop by October 1 for some NEW things!

Spooky Night Web Card

Hi Everyone, and welcome back! Today I'm sharing this Spooky Night Web card using an alcohol ink lift and transfer technique. This was one of those,  "Oops! Well let's see where this goes," cards that actually worked in the end.

After lifting the ink on the Yupo panel, I decided to see how it would look if I re-stamped the image in black Archival Ink.

Technique: Alcohol Lift-Ink and transfer stamp

I began by creating an alcohol ink background on Yupo paper, and then tried to lift the ink with Ranger Alcohol Lift-Ink, but I didn't like the results. So I transferred the lifted ink image by stamping it onto white Neenah cardstock, and that is how the magic happened! Oh my! I think this Web Background Stamp looks so pretty. Look at those blues, greens, and purples. What do you think?

Next I stamped the tree branches and crows from Attempted Murder, stamped the little bats from Howling Night, and lightly blended Hickory Smoke and Black Soot Distress Inks around the panel. Then I added the distressed idea-ology "Beware" token (See a step-by-step tutorial HERE), wrapped black twine, and sentiments from the You're My Boo stamp set. Finally, I layered with purple and black cardstock onto a black card base.

So, what do you think? I am obsessed with alcohol inks right now. Have you tried the new Alcohol Lift-Ink? I can't wait to see what you create! Love and crafty hugs!

Erin

  Web Background Rubber Cling Stamp

  Attempted Murder Clear Stamps

  You're My Boo Clear Stamps

  Howling Night Clear Stamps

  Memento Tuxedo Ink

  VersaMark Ink

  Ranger White Embossing Powder