Halloween is my favorite cardmaking holiday, so I'm all about spooky colors, bat stencils and cute kitties hiding in pumpkins!

The base of this A2 sized card is made from Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock.  Using the Frames & Flags dies, I cut the scalloped frame from black cardstock.  I cut a 5" x 3 3/" piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock to ink blend the distress oxide inks on to create that background.  I first ink blended Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink onto the paper and then I laid the Flying Bats stencil on top.  I then ink blended Seedless Preserve Distress Oxide ink and Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink bats over the background color. I die cut the grass using the Land Borders die and Granny Apple Green cardstock.  I stamped the cat and pumpkin image from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night stamp set in Memento Tuxedo black ink on white cardstock and colored it using Copic markers.  I die cut the image using the coordinating Newton's Boo-tiful Night dies.  I adhered the image to the card using 3M foam adhesive for added dimension.  I cut a thin strip of black cardstock and notched the right end before adhering it to the left side of the card (to fit the sketch image) and I stamped "Happy Halloween" in Memento Black ink on a thin strip of white cardstock to adhere directly below the black strip.  Lastly, I added a coat of clear Wink of Stella to the image for added sparkle. 

Hello readers and happy Thursday!  I'm happy to be sharing in the latest June release of products from Whimsy Stamps and I have a really fun and colorful card to share with you using the new "Peeking Giraffe" stamp set and coordinating giraffe stencil.  I was so excited with how this whimsical this background came out!  As I begin to branch out and try to do more experimenting with Distress Oxide inks, I'm finding that I really am enjoying using them!

The base of this A2 sized card is made from Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock.  Using the Whimsy Giraffe stencil, I stenciled Distress Oxide Inks in Lemonade, Honey, Evergreen and Broken China on a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock.  I mounted this stenciled background onto a piece of kraft cardstock before adhering both pieces to the white cardstock base. I stamped the giraffe in Memento Tuxedo black ink on a die cut circle of white cardstock.  I colored the giraffe using Copic markers.  I mounted the white cardstock circle onto a scalloped piece of kraft cardstock.   I cut a piece of grass from Green Apple cardstock using the Grass and Edger die set.  Lastly, I stamped the sentiment in Versamark ink on a piece of black cardstock and heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder.  

I hope you have enjoyed this fun new "Peeking Giraffe" stamp set and rainbow giraffe stencil background from Whimsy Stamps.
Thanks for visiting and have a wonderfully creative day!

Admittedly, we've ALL had our fair share of "ruff" days lately!  It's more like, rough months, and I highly suspect that come the end of 2020, we will all proclaim it a very "ruff" year!  Today's card features the "Cone of Shame" stamp set by Whimsy Stamps and this poor dog might just be feeling a tad worse for wear than the rest of us at the moment.

The base of this A2 sized card is made from Neenah Solar White Smooth cardstock.  I created a rectangle frame for the card measuring 5" x 3 3/4".  I lined the frame with a yellow alcohol ink blended background (which is barely visible behind the brick wall).  On a separate sheet of white cardstock I used the Whimsy Brick Pattern stencil and stenciled in the wall using Mahogany Distress Oxide ink.  I die cut the brick wall into a circle.  From a sheet of green cardstock I cut a strip of grass using the Grass and Cloud Edge die.  I adhered the grass along the bottom of the card.  I stamped the dog, doghouse and bowl in Memento Tuxedo black ink on white cardstock and colored in all the images with Copic markers.  I fussy cut each image out and adhered them to the card using 3M foam adhesive.  Using the Puppy Paws die set, I cut the "woof" dies from white cardstock and adhered to the grass using a fine-tip glue pen.  Lastly, I stamped the sentiment in Espresso ink on a strip of white cardstock, notched the left end and adhered it to the card using a Tombow Dot runner.  

Cheers to the plus side and for NOT having to wear a cone of shame even on our "ruffest" days!
​Thanks for visiting and happy creating!

Hello readers and welcome back from the weekend!  I hope you found a little time to do something crafty.  Today I am sharing another card that I made for the Newton's Nook Inky Paws Challenge #121.  This week we have a theme challenge to inspire you.  Our challenges run for two weeks, thereby giving you more time to create, so I have designed a second card to share with you this week that was still inspired by the same image seen below:

Here is the card I created inspired by the birthday theme challenge:

*A full list of supplies is located at the end of this post.

The base of this A2 sized card is made from Neenah Solar White Crest cardstock.  I diecut a semi-circle in a sheet of 5 1/4" x 4" piece of white cardstock to adhere on top of the card base.  I stamped the sentiment "Have a pawsome birthday" in Blueberry Bushel blue ink in the lower left corner of the card.  Behind the semi circle, I created a stenciled background.  First I layered Peacock Feathers Distress oxide on a sheet of Bristol Smooth white cardstock.  Then I used a glitter shimmer paste over the Balloon stencil and let that dry before adhering it behind the semi circle.  I stamped the cat and multiple balloons in Memento Tuxedo black and colored them with Copic markers.  I cut the images out with the coordinating dies and adhered them to the card using 3M foam adhesive.  Lastly, I added a few highlights to the images using a Uniball white gel pen.