Haunted House Inspiration

I created this card using the new Tim Holtz ‘Sketch Manor’ stamp set.



I started by dipping a piece of water color paper into inks, drying in between dippings. I then created my scene, I stamped the house, tree, moon and bats on to the base paper. I also stamped an additional house onto another piece of water color paper. 

I colored the moon and tree with the water color method using distress inks and a water pen. 

Next I colored the “extra” stamped house using the same method. I cut the house into three sections; the left wing, the middle part of the house and the right wing. I then glued the “wings” down onto the base of the card. I took the middle of the house and glued it onto another piece of paper so it would stand off of the card a little more. 

I used a blank page form an old book and stamped ‘an uninvited guest’ from the ‘Tiny Text - Halloween’ stamp set. 

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Xo- Megan

Eye spy Halloween Inspiration

I created this Halloween card using the newly released ‘Dearly Departed’ stamp set. 

I stamped the eye onto a piece of water color paper that I colored using distress inks. I stitched around the image and taped it into a piece of Black Out Kraft stock that I wrinkled up and smoothed out. I completed it with a sticker from the ideology Halloween curiosity sticker book. 

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Xo- Megan

A Quick Set of Six Halloween Cards

Michaels released some adorable Halloween stamps this year in their Recollections line. I couldn’t decide on one so I grabbed all three! 

For set I made the hard decision and picked my top six stamps and made a little set of Halloween cards. 

Check out the video below for a better step by step of just how easy it is to make these adorable cards! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a list of some of the products I used to make this set:

- tear tape 

- spider web stamps

- black sequins

- black paper

- word stamps

- distress ink

- distress oxide ink

- black ink

- versa mark

- embossing powder

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Xo- Megan

Halloween Inspiration No. 3

I fell in love with the Tim Holtz stamps, Monster Reunion the first time I saw them. So needless to say I was extremely excited to see the Simon Says Stamp - Stamptember release. As soon as they arrived I couldn’t wait to get in my craft room and play!!

To create these cards I started by cutting some circles out of vellum and adding some stitching. 

Next I started on the stamped parts. Using my stamping platform I stamped multiple times to ensure I got dark crisp stamped images. 

Using several different Distress inks with my water pen, I colored in all the images. 

Fussy cutting came next, and it probably took the longest amount of time. 

After I cut everyone out I went back in with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a piece of foam from a blender tool and kind of “grunged” up the edges. That way they got some extra depth and the bright white of the paper was muted a little. 

After getting a closer look at the bird I thought he needed a little of of blue to make him a little less muddy. 

Then I started on my background. Using Wild Honey Distress Oxide Ink  I dabbed the paper into the ink on my mat about three times (or until I was happy with my coloring) and dried the paper using my heat tool in between dabbings. 


Using my blending brush I inked around the outer edges with Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink  sprayed it with water and dried it with my heat tool. I then dabbed the edges of my background in the leftover ink on my mat and finished it by drying with my heat tool. 


In my stash, I already had this die cut.. it’s the Tim Holtz Bird Branch Sizzix die  so I chopped the bird off and painted the branch portions with Ground Expresso Distress Paint. 

I then took all my backgrounds and glued them onto a black boarder and onto a card base.  Using Distress Collage Medium I glued the stitched vellum circles to the card. 

Using my stash of old threads I created a “thread nest” under each animal using a complementary color. 

Using the sentiments from the Tim Holtz Monstrous stamp set, I stamped the sentiment using versa mark and used an opaque white embossing powder. 

I then cut out my sentiments and glued  everything on my bases. 

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I loved creating this piece, leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Xo- Megan

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Halloween Inspiration No. 2

October is a few days away which means Halloween is in the air! 

I wanted to create another piece to show off some of my favorite products.

I created this piece using a canvas panel as my base. I stared by pulling a page from an old book, cut it into two pieces that would fit on the length of my panel and used my sewing machine to create a sewn boarder. I used a gel medium to glue them onto the panel and set it with my heat gun. 

I also applied a generous layer of opaque crackle paste over the entire board. I am not patient enough to let it air dry so I again used my heat gun to expedite the crackle effect. I used a paint brush to add a few dots of liquid acrylic paint and sprayed it with some water to get the color to move around and really get into the crackle. 

I used my sewing machine again to create some spider web looking patterns and cut them out to add to the overall composition. I added some texture with some old (unused) first aid kite gauze. 

I stamped a bug from the Entomology stamp set, used the corresponding die and cut it out using my sidekick. I then dig through my stash of ideology wings to find a good set for my bug to display. I put the bug under a mica tile and used mini fasteners to hold it in place. 

A halloween quote chip was the perfect addition to an index clip. 

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I loved creating this piece, leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Xo- Megan

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Halloween Inspiration No. 1

It’s almost Halloween right…? 

I ordered the new Ghost Town & Bat Crazy Tim Holtz dies as soon as I could, so when they arrived I was ready to play!

Using some of the idea-ology kraft stock paper, I cut out the church, the tree and some bats. I used a small sanding block to take away some of the color of the church to get it nice and grungy. I added some vellum to the empty windows and colored it with some yellow alcohol make it look like something inside was glowing. I added some Prima art stones below the church using some gel medium, when it was dry I painted it with some liquid acrylics. 

I cut a circle out of velum and sewed around the outside to give it some extra texture. The Halloween quote chip was the perfect addition. 

I put a nice layer of opaque crackle texture paste over the canvas board and used my heat gun to speed up the drying time. 

I added some extra texture to the piece by using some old (unused) gauze and some rusty wire. I also gave it a good splattering or black stain. 

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I loved creating this piece, leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Xo- Megan