Spooky!

As I've said before, I am having SO much fun using Papertrey Ink's newest sets! I finally busted out Spooky Sweets and here's what I came up with. The first is a shaker card filled with black microbeads and "polyshrunk" spiders, stamped in black on white and white on black. The cardstock is all SU! and the striped paper is from Hobby Lobby (not sure of brand). I embossed the facial features and used an exacto knife to cut out the centers. I used foam board with a hole cut in the center for filling space and covered with with acetate and the pumpkin. I added some googley eyes, sponging on the face, faux stitching, the sentiment and lotsa ribbon and some raffia. It was quite time consuming, but lotsa fun!


Here's another card, using the same set. This one was much quicker. I finally got to use my fall-colored prima leaves and that trick or treat ribbon and paper I got from Hobby Lobby! The carstock, ink and eyelets are all SU!, except for the bats which were stamped in Brilliance Graphite Black. I added pupils and lashes to the "o's" in the sentiment, see???

I submitted these cards to Papertrey, hoping perhaps one day I'll be selected as their Guest Star Stamper. I can dream, can't I??? I'd be pleased as punch just to be honorably mentioned! Wish me luck! There are so many great stampers out there, using these awesome sets!

Here's an old example of a technique that I've been dying to try with some of MFTs and Papertrey Ink's stamps. I embossed in black on black paper and then painted the inside of the image with bleach. Then, I used prismacolor pencils to color the image. Neato effect, no? It works best with cheap bleach though, so I'll have to remember to put it on my grocery list!