Hot Mess ~ Success #3: Wrap it up!

Hi friends!

A little late getting online today as the Boy Scout troop

had a FUN-raising garage sale today starting at 6 am.

way. too. early!

 

 

You may remember from this post that once a month,

my crafty group of friends invited me to join them in making Hot Messes!

We take a technique with any messy quality and turn it into a card ~

and Barb, the hostess for October, said make it a Halloween theme.

  I previously saw this technique 'string wrap block art' on Splitcoaststampers

and thought it looked intriquing.

I kept putting it to the 'try this later' shelf and finally did.

And it IS fun ...

 Just not for me, LOL!

The idea is you dip the block of wood wrapped with string into paint ~

I chose to use ink.

I just daubed up the string by inverting an ink pad in varied colors.

By pressing it directly to the white cardstock,

it leaves a variety of blocked colors 

and you can basically create any number of patterns you want!

I've used Frightfully Sweet by My Favorite Things stamps,

last year's very popular Halloween stamp set :)

I colored the images with prisma color markers in colors to match the ink stripes,

and they are popped up on 3d foam dots.

The sentiment is a quick stamp with Picket Fence Studios black ink.

And that's October's messy card!

I wish I had more photos to show you on the process

but I could't find them on my phone.

You can see what the rest of the messy crew made today by

visiting Barb, Jeanette and Terry!

I'm sure they're SPOOK-tacular!

Tried a new techinique - check!

Made a mess - check!

Success!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CYS: Witching you a BOO-tiful Halloween!

Hi friends!

Happy Halloween!

(and if you don't celebrate, 

Happy Costume Day!)

We have been NON-STOP for the past week

 but I managed to pull a card together last minute!
This is a treasured stamp set from My Favorite Things ~ 

one I picked up when I visited the brick and mortar real life MFT store in August!  It was a dream come true and I am still on Cloud 9 that I was there,

 lost in wonder and awe! 

 It took me a few minutes to get my ground 

and stop drooling and petting all the products!  

LOL!

 The Challenge Your Stash group on Splitcoaststampers

asked us to create a Halloween card. 

So this is mine :)

I did use a stamp set from my stash - from the summer -

and I've used it before .....

I hope it qualifies as I'm not using something new or that just came out ♥

 My card looks pretty simple with the costume cuties

and the halloween inspired paper!

I hope your day is spook-tacular ~

all treats, no tricks!

Big hugs, bigger blessings! ♥

~Kelly