Frightful 31st 🕷

by Julie Warner -The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! We're still in an almost daily afternoon thunderstorm pattern so it's been extra steamy around here. It also makes it hard to get the grass mowed or weeds sprayed, so they're starting to take over. Come on fall..you're not trying! 

I had an idea for another mirror technique & tried it out on my card today. It's easy but can be a bit tricky when using more than one image. Basically, you ink up your stamp, then roll a rubber brayer over it to pick up the ink. Then roll the brayer on your card stock & stamp the regular image above it. All went well except I wish the crow was a little closer to the top of the Oct 31st image. Like I said it's a little tricky to place the brayer just so. After doing this, I sponged the background w/ the purple below & orange above. 

The little ghosts were stamped on vellum & fussy cut. I flipped one over (vellum looks pretty much the same on either side!) to have him leaning the other way. 

Here's the inside:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs: 4in1 Halloween Silhouettes,  Frightful & Delightful, Oct 31st Square, Flying Ghost  (inside:Batty Halloween Greeting  )

paper: Staples 110# white 

ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress inks squeezed lemonade, carved pumpkin,  mustard seed, shaded lilac, wilted violet, black soot

accessories: Rubbernecker Rectangle Stitch dies, rubber brayer, Misti

4in1 Halloween Silhouettes 1152D	Frightful & Delightful 1148F	Oct 31st Square 306F	Flying Ghost 008C
Batty Halloween Greeting 548G	Staples 110# White Card Stock	MISTI	Speedball Pop-In Brayer Kit .
Distress Inks	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Memento Inks

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Welcome!

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

 Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! Did you have a nice warm up or are you still all bundled up? We're both around here..just depends on the day, lol. It's a little ridiculous that we're still having freeze warnings & I'm getting real tired of dragging plants in at night then back out again the next day. Oh well! 

Here's the second background I promised last week. Similar colors & using the oxide inks again. But on this bg, I stamped the Lines O’ Plenty Bg  all over it w/ the same inks. I love the faint linen look it gives. The Welcome Oval was stamped onto a separate piece using the majestic blue ink. Then I took a white gel pen added the highlights to give it a little depth. The Welcome word was stamped again on white & die cut to add on top.

After layering the oval, the bottom still looked a little empty so I added a couple of frames & some die cut houses & trees for a "welcome to the neighborhood" kind of look.

Here's a look at the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs - Welcome Oval , Lines O’ Plenty Bg   (inside: Our House to Yours , Single Birdhouse  )

paper: Staples 110# white, navy

ink:  Distress inks &/or Distress Oxide inks in carved pumpkin, abandoned coral, picked raspberry, ripe persimmon, Versafine majestic blue

accessories: Misti, Spellbinders ovals, pierced ovals dies.  ODBD pierced rectangles & double stitched rectangles dies, white gel pen, Ranger brayer, Poppystamps houses & trees dies

Welcome Oval 564H	Our House to Yours 1150D	Lines O’ Plenty Bg 366H	Single Birdhouse 406D
VersaFine Small Inkpads	Distress Inks	Distress Oxide Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	White Gelly Roll Pen
MISTI	Spellbinders Pierced Ovals Dies SCD-007	Spellbinders Classic Ovals Lg.S4-110	Pierced Rectangles dies	Double Stitched Rectangles Dies
Poppystamps Alpine Houses 1254 dies	Poppystamps Boddington Trees borders 1263 dies

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Easter Egg Greetings

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Good Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! Easter is this Sunday..wow, does that seem really early! We actually had a little warm up Thurs. after a pretty cold start to the week. And then more rain set in. We have really had a lot of rain (& snow) so far this year.

For my Easter card, I made a couple of similar backgrounds using distress oxide & regular distress inks (the other one will be another post). After brayering the inks onto white, on this one I also stamped the Brick Wall  w/ water. It's not real noticeable, but it does add a nice textural look, especially on the darker part at the bottom. Then the Pussywillow was stamped w/ gray ink & I added a little white Prismacolor pencil to the buds. 

The greeting was stamped & colored in & I added a few die cut Easter eggs & fancy oval die cut behind the circle.

Here's a look at the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a Happy Easter & a great weekend!

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs - Deco Easter Greetings , Brush Pussy Willow, Brick Wall  (inside: Decorated w/ Love , God Bless You Cross )

paper: Staples 110# white

ink: Memento tuxedo black,London Fog,  Distress inks &/or Distress Oxide inks in carved pumpkin, abandoned coral, picked raspberry, ripe persimmon

accessories: Misti, ODBD double stitched circles & Easter egg dies, Spellbinders opulent oval & A2 matting basics B dies, white Prismacolor pencil, Ranger brayer

Deco Easter Greetings 571F	Decorated w/ Love 569G	God Bless You Cross 593D	Brush Pussy Willow 198L	Brick Wall 260P
Memento Inks	Distress Inks	Distress Oxide Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Prismacolor Pencils
MISTI	Double Stitched Circles Dies	Spellbinders Opulent Ovals S5-160	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Ranger Brayer
Easter Egg Dies

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