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

Spooky Village feature ♥

Oh friends, my Saturday just got spookier! 

 You may remember my Spooky Village card from this post.

I loved making this card with my Lawn Fawn Spooky Village stamp set

 and had so much fun with it!

I was so excited when Scrapbook Pal reached out to feature my card!

They spotted it on Instagram where I often post and I said yes!

  It was one of my favorite cards to make and it's a joy to share it :)

You can see it here on their blog at Scrapbook Pal

along with find all of the items that I used to create it.

And at the very bottom,

many of the products I used at listed in their link form.

Thanks for peeking!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CCEE: Tall Ghostly Greetings!

 Hi friends!

I hope you are having a SPOOK-tacular Friday!

We've been super busy with Hurricane Dorian gone by,

school back in session and everything back to normal again!

I finally got a chance to make a few cards,

so I'll be posting them this weekend in 'catch up' order!

This card for the CCEE Stampers weekly challenge: Skyscraper Day!

 

Frances is the hostess for the month of September

and in honor of Skyscraper Day, asked us to create a TALL card.

My card is exactly that - a tall 8" x 4" tall, spooky neighborhood!

I rarely make or send Halloween cards,

 but the moment I saw the Lawn Fawn fall collection release, I was smitten!

And I LOVE stamp sets that allow me to do my favorite type of stamping ...

Making a scene!

 

 

 For today's tall neighborhood, I started with a base panel of white cardstock

and distressed just the top 1/3 panel with Ranger Ink distress oxides

in Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans and Black Soot.

Next, I created hills and slopes using the CC Designs hill die (ret'd)

and then got to the super duper fun part!

I stamped out the Lawn Fawn spooky houses, trees, trick or treaters 

and tombstones from the stamp set

and cut/colored those in Halloween-y colors.

I arranged them in a neighborhood-y kind of way

and then added some speckled dots from a white gel pen.

The last part - white embossed sentiment

and the whole card is popped up on 3d foam from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.

 This card was a whole lotta fun to make!

I love those little trick-o-treaters so much ♥

I'll enter my card into:  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - stamp it! 

Lawn Fawnatics - Make a scene

Addicted to Stamps #357:  Make Your Mark!

Thanks for stopping by ...

Have a BOO-tiful day! 

Big hugs, bigger blessings! ♥

~Kelly

TPB: Ghostly Greetings!

Boo!

Did I scare you?!

Aw, shucks - I tried! :)

Hi friends!

I'm up on the blog at The Project Bin today

and am using an oldie but goodie stamp set:  Cool Ghoul!

 I'm seeing lots and lots of Halloween cards lately ~

it's hard to believe October is just 2 months away!

This is one of the fun cards I created with another alcohol background,

a forest die, cut with black card stock, and some cute ghosts.

I glued the forest frame die cuts onto the alcohol panel to create the scene.

I heat embossed the sentiment in white for some contrast.

  

Here's what it looks like:

There are 2 new stamps sets in the The Project Bin shop:

Pumpkin Spice and Keepsake.

Mine are still en route, 

so I wasn't able to play with the new stamps yet,

but they are already available for purchase and just in time for fall! ♥

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

DDD: Eat, Drink and Be Scary!

 

Booooooo! 

Did I scare you?

 I'm sure I didn't since this sweet little witch is just too cute too spook!

 Even with her green hair! :)

 

Today is the the day the DDD group post our cards! Yay!

I'm using a card kit sent from the Divas' hostess, Laurajean
and the Dazzlers have a kit from Terry.

Their super fun theme this month is:
  Eat, Drink and Be Scary!

LJ's kit was quintessentially Halloween and oh so fun ♥
I colored up the cute witch from MFT {Birdie Brown, Witch Way is the Candy?}
with prismacolor markers and added buttons -
I love buttons!!
My eyes zeroed right in on those when I saw LJ's kit :)
I added them haphazardly around the image so it would remain the focal point
and followed the fabulous sketch from TMS {see below} to complete the look!

So here's my card, inside and out!
I'm really tickled with how it turned out ♥

 

Part 2 of this challenge was to talk about our favorite H'ween candy
when we went Trick or Treating, if we did.
I remember mentioned that when we lived in Europe, the custom didn't exist.
We found that out the hard way, lol!
But here in the US, we went T or Ting on military bases where
'back in the day' everyone knew everyone and life was simple and good.
None of this craziness you see now :(
My very, very, very favorite candy to receive while out was
to see a honest to goodness, freshly made Candy Apple hit my sack!
Oh me oh my, those were the good 'ol days!

Thank you LJ and Terry for the Hallo-scream fun
for this month!
Only 15 more days 'til Halloween!!

Card entered into:  TMS #221 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Please be sure to visit my other DDD gal pals -

you can find them in my sidebar :)

 

Big Hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly