Take Flight Halloween card with video tutorial

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It's Monday and that means a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week it's all about "Take Flight".

Halloween is almost here, it's now only a few days away! So time for the last Halloween card of the season. As the flying part of my card I used the Batground stencil. But I first started making the background. I used Distress Oxide Fired Brick with Distress Oxide and Ink Black Soot to make the background look like a dark creepy night. A night full of creepiness.

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Happy Devilish Halloween card with video tutorial

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It's Monday and that means a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week it's all about "Halloween/Spooky".

Because of all my Halloween cards of the last time I had no more spooky inspiration, but fortunately with the help of teammie Marzena (thanks!) I got back my mojo and I managed to make a Halloween card yet again. And it is my favorite so far! I started to make texture with the Mixed Media set and over it I used the Halloween Collage paper. This paper is very fragile and so I've applied a coat of Clear Gesso over it. To give it even more texture, I applied Grit-Paste around the edges. With Distress Oxide Black Soot, Infusions Black Knight and Nuvo Shimmer Storm Cloud I applied a first layer with "color". Then another layer with Infusions Black Knight and Perfect Pearls Forever Red.

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Spooky Starry Night Halloween card with video tutorial

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It's Monday and that means a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week it's all about "Starry Nights".

Oh yes,  this card is also in Halloween style... Hope you're not tired of my Halloween projects ;). This time it's the view from within a haunted mansion looking outside at the starry night. For the wallpaper I used a sheet from the Halloween Paper Stash. And the window is made with the Window and Window Box die. I stamped it with the Woodgrain stamp with Versamark and used it with Black Embossing Powder. To give it color I used Distress Oxide Ground Espresso.

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Fun and Festive SSS Release Halloween card

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Today Simon Says Stamp is celebrating a new release called Fun and Festive! Check out the new release at Simon Says Stamp store!

Because it's the month of Halloween for me, I made a Halloween card with the Big Picture Book Raccoon that I got. I love that it was really easy to transform him from cute raccoon into a vampire raccoon. Isn't he fabulousy spooky now?

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Cityscape at Night Halloween card with video tutorial

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It's Monday and that means a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week it's all about "Cityscape".

This month is Halloween all the way for me. So I went for a cityscape Halloween style at night time. I started using a page from an old Dutch book and glued it with Collage Medium on a piece of Neenah cardstock. As a top layer I used Clear Gesso. This is really amazing stuff, it's almost impossible to notice that there is a layer  of Gesso on it. The effect on a layer of Clear Gesso with Distress Ink is almost the same as Distress Oxide, it gives it a chalky look. The only difference is that Oxide has Pigment and therefore has a covering property.

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Just a Note card

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Playing along with another Frilly and Funkie that's called "Just My Type".
The rules for this challenge are: create a vintage or shabby chic project and include a typewriter, typewriter keys, typeface.

I love the look of old vintage typewriters, but never used it as inspiration for a project. So I had lots of fun to do so this time. I used the typewriter from the Purveyor stamp set and colored it with a water brush and Distress Ink. I cut out a simple rectangle frame and covered it with Grit-Paste. Painted it black and went over it with Bronze Age Metallique Wax.

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Halloween tag with video tutorial

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It's Monday and that means a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week it's all about "Tag it". We are showcasing Tim Holtz products! So if you have any, we would love to see them used!

This month is the month of Halloween, so I had to make a Halloween tag. I started making a collage background using Collage Medium. I applied Distress Crayon Black Soot on all the edges. To bring everything to the background, I used Black Knight Infusions.

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