Hi ya all! Just making a few more Thanksgiving and Halloween cards today with my Hero Arts stamps. I'm really getting in the mood with the cooler days and all the leaves turning beautiful colors here at home in Wisconsin.
Up first here is the Thanksgiving pumpkin card. I followed Jennifer McGuires way of doing this to stamp the pumpkins onto water color paper, emboss the image, then color the pumpkins using distress inks. I didn't really like how the distress inks turned out so trashed the first ones and I just used my (gasp) Bic markers instead. Then I took my homemade bottle of gold Pearl Ex powder and Lumiere paint and completely soaked the pumpkins......had to let them dry for about 10 minutes before cutting them out. It's hard to see but they have the most incredible shine on them now! The sentiment is from Hero Arts set "Season of Giving" and the leaves are Hero Arts as well.
Used some brown Coredinations paper and SU Espresso cardstock for the base here. The embossing folder is called " Finial Press " and it's from Stampin Up as well. Used my Brilliance pearlescent beige for the shimmery leaves and vintage photo for the sentiment. The little twine bows are glued down using Glossy Accents.
For the spider card I finally made myself use the Hero Arts digi kit called "Spooky cute". I just printed the spider in a word document and then colored it using my Copics cool gray C-3 marker on the spider webs. Got out my Spica orange and black marker and did the spiders eyes orange, and went over the web as well for a bit of sparkle and shine with the black. Last thing was to put some Glossy accents on the spiders eyes. The fun orange polka dotted paper/grid paper is from Doodlebug and purchased at Archivers. The words on the black paper are a bunch of sentiments from the Hero Arts set " Happy Halloween" stamped in white and embossed.
Hope you like these cards- I really had fun making them! Thanks for stopping by and hope you are getting in the mood for fall or Halloween!
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Inky Hugs, Anne
Hi Anne! Love the way your pumpkins turned out! And that spider and web are so cute! Love both cards! :)
ReplyDeleteLove both cards Anne but the first one is just gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThese are both wonderful cards !I love the colours on the pumpkins and the shading on your spider card! :-)
ReplyDeleteWow, Anne! These two cards screams FALL! They are gorgeous with the layering and embossing! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I really appreciate your sweet comments! xoxo
ReplyDeleteTwo wonderful cards, Anne! Gorgeous layers and pumpkins on the Thanksgiving card! Love your spooky Halloween card too!
ReplyDeleteLove that pumpkin card...WOW :)Kathy
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