Your Creative Connection Halloween #YCC116

Hello and welcome

Today's project with the Your Creative Connection is all about Halloween or Autumn and I have chosen Halloween for my 3D creation. I always love this time of year and Halloween is getting bigger in Australia. My kids love to dress up and going Trick or Treating! Giving out gifts and treats is always a fun tradition. 

For my project I've used the Mini Pizza Box, lots of Dies and the very cute Have a Hoot Bundle. The owl is so cute peeking over his cape looking at the bat and the Silver Foil Spider Web. I've used different textures and many layers with different Stampin' Up! products from the August - December 2020 Mini Catalogue and the 2020/21 Annual Catalogue.

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 To start with the Mini Pizza Box, inking up the box with Memento Ink and a Stamping Sponge until the box is completely covered. To achieve the black shimmer fill a Stampin' Spritzer with Rubbing Alcohol, a couple of drops of Frost White Shimmer Paint and spritz all over the box. I like to spritz my projects in a cardboard box and outside too. 

I've created a belly band for my 3D project, using the gorgeous Magic in this Night DSP measurements are 12"x 3" and secured with Tear and Tape. I just love the Silver Metallic Mesh Ribbon against the DSP and it's perfect against the black paper.

I love to use glitter in my projects, I've used the largest die from the Forever Flourish Dies in Black Glitter Paper and you'll find this specialty paper in the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue on page 53. 

Adding a balance of Silver Foil by using the Sunflower Dies for the sprigs, the Peek A Hoot Dies for the spider web and the moon. 

The black tag is one of three from the Peek A Hoot Dies, I've used the largest one in Basic Black Cardstock, spritzed it with my mix of Frost White Shimmer Paint and Rubbing Alcohol in the Stampin' Spritzer. I've added the combination of the Metallic Mesh Ribbon and Gray Granite Shimmer Ribbon to the tag.

The cute owl is stamped in Memento Ink and coloured in with the Stampin' Blends in the following colours - Smoky Slate, Highland Heather, Blackberry Bliss, Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie. The tag is layered over the die cut pieces using Stampin' Dimenisonals. I've decided to not use a sentiment as the gift box speaks for it self.

Now it's time to visit the lovely Dawn Olchefske in Minneapolis, USA and see her beautiful project.

Here's the list of participants from around the world

Barbara Meyer - Austria

Kristine McNickle - New Zealand

Jenn Tinline - Canada

Janneke Dijkstra - de Jong - Netherlands

Vicki Boucher - Australia

Dawn Olchefske - USA

Thank you for visiting my blog today. Need a Mini 2020 Catalogue or any of these products? You can visit my online store here.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

 

Week 15 Art With Heart Colour Creations Weekly Showcase Early Espresso

Hello and welcome to Week 15 with the Art With Heart Colour Creations Weekly Showcase. Which the lovely Catherine Proctor is running our weekly blog and with a selection of other Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from the Art With Heart Team. 

This week we are featuring Early Espresso in our projects. Early Espresso is part of the Neutrals Collection and comes in a range of Stampin' Up! products such as the Classic Stampin' Pad, Cardstock, DSP and more. 

Today's card is a fun spooky card for Halloween using the Have a Hoot Bundle, Life is Beautiful Stamp Set and Plaid Tidings DSP. All three products are from the August to December Mini Stampin' Up! Catalogue.

The colours I've used are based from the Plaid Tidings DSP for my project. As I wanted to save on the use of the DSP, so I've cut two thinner strips and adhere the pieces onto the Early Espresso Cardstock card base as shown above.

I've used the Ink Blending technique with coloured ink, a panel of Whisper White Cardstock, Stamping Sponges and Sponge Daubers. The colours used are starting with Bumblebee, Pumpkin Pie, Cinnamon Cider and finishing off with Early Espresso. I like to go over the colours a couple of times and to make sure the ink has blended in well.

Life is Beautiful Stamp Set

The stamped image of the tree is from the Life is Beautiful Stamp Set and stamped in Early Espresso Ink. I decided to leave the tree bare for a spooky effect. 

Have a Hoot Bundle

I love the images from the Have a Hoot Stamp Set they are so cute! I've stamped the owl peeking over the cape in Early Espresso Ink onto Whisper White Cardstock and coloured in using the Stampin' Blends. 

The colours are Crumb Cake, Cinnamon Cider, Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie for the eyes. As there isn't any Blends in Early Espresso, I've used the combination of the Early Espresso Stampin' Write Marker, Early Espresso Ink with the Blender Pen and a Sponge Dauber for the cape. 

The Peek-A-Hoot Dies coordinates with the Have a Hoot Stamp Set, no fussy cutting required here. The shadow for the owl is actually for the tree and I think it suits it well. The sentiments are stamped directly onto the card in Early Espresso Ink. 

Well it's great to be back into creating my projects for the Colour Creations Weekly Showcase and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's projects.

Click on the link here to see Cathy's and all of the other participants names for Early Espresso creations.

Happy Stamping 

Vicki Boucher