Hello Bluebird Spooky Speller Graveyard Scene

 I was so excited to get to play with these Hello Bluebird sets. Spooky Spellers Stamps and Dies and the Spooky Scene Die set.

I've been seeing so many cool, spooky night sky scenes in October, and I wanted to try one out myself. I hadn't seen one in green, and green is my favorite color, so I decided to go for it. I love how it turned out so much! It's so glowing and spooky!!! I especially love the little graveyard background. Hello Bluebird is just too much fun!

I inked the background with Distress Oxide Inks after cutting a circle mask out of a post it note pad for the moon. I used twisted citron, mowed lawn and black soot. I finished the card off with a few black and green sequins and some clear crystal nuvo drops. I just wanted a touch of sparkle and dimension to the sky.

Here's a peek of the card as I set it up. I colored the edges of my pumpkins so they wouldn't stand out too much. 

Hello Bluebird Fall Challenge-Snapshot Card

Hi friends! The fall challenge from Hello Bluebird Stamps has me dreaming of stamps and cards at night. I love a fun challenge like this because it really helps drive my creativity! 

 I realized as I was assembling this card that I've never used my word bubbles that came with my Photo Stack Dies. They're so cute, it's crazy that I haven't played with them till now! I'm terrible at remembering to use my stand alone dies. I'm going to set a goal for myself to use them more often!

 So, for this card, I stamped these two cute kids with pumpkins from the Pumpkin Patch stamp set and colored them. I knew I wanted to use this teal patterned paper for the background, so I colored my images to coordinate. I used mostly yellows for the pumpkins, because I wanted them to be bright and happy and contrast with the blue.

 I wanted some greenery in the background that could peek out of the pictures frames, so I also stamped these green branches from the Fall Banner Buddies stamp set and colored them. I inked the background of the pictures with some teal clouds using some cracked pistachio distress oxide ink.

 Here is the full picture of all the markers I used.

Hello Bluebird Bright Fall Card

I really wanted to make another card for the Hello Bluebird October Fall Challenge, but of course, I wanted it to be completely different from my first card. I decided to go with bright, fun colors. For some reason, I knew I needed a turquoise raccoon. 

 I used Hello Bluebird's Fall Banner Buddies and Leaf Play stamp and die sets for the leaves and animals. I also used their Gallery Frame #2 Die for the frame.

 I used my squeezed lemonade Distress Oxide ink to create the yellow cloudy sky. I used Hello Bluebird's Sunshine Scene Die, but I just used the clouds as stencils for the sky. I love how it turned out!!

 After I assembled the card, I finished it off with a few Crystal Nuvo Drops in Duck Egg Blue. I don't use Nuvo drops very often, because I'm super clumsy and I almost always end up ruining my projects when I try to use them, but I knew this one had to have them, so I tried to be extra careful.

Here are the copic markers I used. I figured it's easier to take a picture of the markers used than trying to list them out one by one!

Fawny Friday Feature!

I was so thrilled and honored to see that I was featured by Lawn Fawn for their "Fawny Friday". When you spend so much time creating cards, it's always nice to know that someone out there notices and likes what you do. Thanks again Lawn Fawn!

Lawn Fawn Halloween Card Set

This is probably one of my all time favorite cards/card sets I've ever made. They were so fun to make and I absolutely love the way they turned out. 

One of the best things about these cards is that they were all made using the same stamp set. Lawn Fawn's Costume Party. I also used their Cross Stitched Circle dies, which I'm in love with! I started by using my wreath builder stencil and stamping the pumpkin in a circle. Then, I colored the pumpkins using the lawn fawn challenge colors.

Next, I colored the other images from the set and used them to create a simple wreath around the characters. I started with the pumpkin boy, and I loved how it turned out so much that I ended up making all the other characters too. You'll notice his is a bit more detailed and that I used foam to pop the items up on the wreath, whereas I was too tired to do that with all 4 cards.

BRI Mood Board Hello Bluebird Fall Card

Do you ever have a card that you really stress over and you feel like it's doomed to be a failure, but then it turns out to be one of your very favorites? That was this card for me. The BRI Mood Board for this card was so tricky for me, I didn't think that I would end up finding a way to play along, but then I started this card and thought, "Well, I'll do it, but I don't know if I'll like it." Well, it shows you what I know, because this might be my favorite card I've made this year. I seriously love it and I loooove the colors!

Here's a little peek of my trying to decide on a layout for the card. 

Here are the colors I used. I also used a few distress oxides for the mountains and the sky. I love how that sky turned out!

Here is the BRI Mood Board, aren't the colors so fun?

I've been enjoying playing with my paper packs lately, and I wanted to make one more Halloween card using the lawnfawnatics sketch challenge and the BRI Mood Board. 

 I’m not sure, but this may be my final Halloween card for the year. It sure was fun to play along with the Halloween challenges. I used Lawn Fawn's Costume Party stamp set and their Large Cross Stitched Circle Stackables, which are my new favorite dies! 

Pinkalicious Lawn Fawn Magic Picture Changer Card

My girls looove the book Pinkalicious. My 5 year old would choose it every night for story time if she had her way. One night while I was reading it to them, it occurred to me that the magic picture changer die could totally bring the best part of the book to life. I love how this turned out. And my girls have been playing with it for the last two days straight. 

Ellen Hutson Unicorns 'n Rainbows Magic Picture Changer

As I was trying to decide what to use for my very first picture changer card, I knew I wanted a fun little scene, and I planned to make it a Lawn Fawn card, since I use their stuff more than anything else. But, I realized that if I needed to mask anyway, maybe I should use one of my stamp sets that I don't have coordinating dies for. I love this set by Ellen Hutson so much, and I've always intended to get the coordinating dies for it, but it just hasn't happened yet. 

So, I stamped my little sky scene, then carefully I stamped the same scene around my unicorn, after masking it off. I very lightly inked the backgorund a light blue with my tumbled glass distress oxide ink. I used patterned papers from Lawn Fawn for the frame and pull tab, then I used my peacock feathers distress oxide ink to create the cloudy background behind.

Hello Bluebird October Fall Challenge Card #1

I was so excited when I saw the challenge idea from Hello Bluebird Stamps for October. I love their fall stamp sets so much and I love any excuse I can find to play with them! 

I decided I didn't want to go with traditional fall colors, since I knew that's what most of the cards in the challenge would be. I thought it would be fun to do something like a dark blue sky. Then I thought how pretty blue and gold would be. So I started with inking a dark blue background using my Distress Oxide inks in Chipped Sapphire and Salty Ocean. Next, I stamped leaves from Pumpkin Time, Leaf Play and Fall Banner Buddies on the background in different shades of blue and black.

Then, I spattered the background with gold paint, then used dots of Ranger Multi Matte Medium to adhere small dark blue chunky glitter. I stamped images from Fall Banner Buddies and Pumpkin Patch. I started by coloring them with a blue copic marker around the edges so they wouldn't stand out like most die cut images do, with the white border. I didn't want them exactly the same blue, but I wanted them to blend slightly. Then I colored my images with only a few copic markers, since I wanted to keep the color palette simple.

Finally, I die cut the word "grateful" from Hello Bluebirds "Thankful for You Word Dies". I used my Versamark ink pad to make the word sticky, then covered it in gold embossing powder and heat set it. Then I assembled the card!

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Thanks, and have a great day!

Wizard of Oz Card - using Lawn Fawn stamps

My 5 year old daughter and I watched "The Wizard of Oz" together the other day. I was amazed at how into it she was. She loved watching the witch, the scarecrow and Dorothy so much. It cracked me up how literally she took everything that happened in it. I've always loved old movies, especially musicals, so it was so fun to share something like that with her. Naturally, as we watched, I found my mind straying to my stamp sets and thinking, "Hey, I could make that with these stamps", so here we are. 

I used quite a few stamp sets to create this card. Bicycle Built for You, Village Shops, Happy Village, Rain or Shine, Costume Party and Critters Ever After. I didn't have to modify any of them. I did draw the witches legs sticking out from under the house and I drew (scribbled) the tornado by hand. I love the black and white side of the card so much and I love the shoes underneath the house. I wish I had made the yellow brick road bigger, you can barely see it! Other than that, I really enjoyed this card. 

Here's a little peak of it while I was arranging all the pieces and deciding where everything would go. I usually have to move things around a few times before I commit to using my adhesive.

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Thanks, and have a great day!

Rainbow Bicycles Card

Howdy! This card was so fun and just therapeutic to make. I love making cards for challenges, because it motivates me to keep crafting, but sometimes, it's just nice to let your imagination be in charge and take you where it wants to go. This card was totally that. I sat down to stamp some images and just realized I wanted rainbow bikes. I had no other ideas about how I wanted this card to look apart from that. 

As you can see below, I ended up stamping them straight down a strip of paper and I liked it so much, I decided on a slimline card with the same style. I thought it would be fun to change up the baskets a bit and put different items in each of them.

As I was assembling this card, I realized I never use my dry embossing folders, so I decided to throw my background cardstock in one and try it out. It's so fun and whimsical with those polka dots.

Finally, I couldn't decide on a sentiment, so I found these simple words that I have from a random stamp set I got at Joanns and stamped them in different colors.

Here's a sneak peek of this card in progress. I was watching General Conference at the time, and coloring was the perfect way to keep my hands busy so I could listen.

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Unconventional Halloween Colors

Hi Friends! For this card I used the lawn fawn set "Costume Party" and I used colors from the patterned papers I had picked. I wanted something totally unconventional, and I feel like I got it. I especially loved the Dinosaur costume and Unicorn. 

Here you can see the copic markers I used. the RV66 and RV69 are new colors for me and I loved the way they turned out on this card. I used the Photo Stack Dies from Hello Bluebird Stamps for the frames around the trick or treaters.

The paper packs I used are from Pebbles and American Crafts. Believe it or not, I found these paper packs at my local grocery store (Macey's) in their new craft aisle. I was so excited to see them stocking some fun crafty supplies!

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me on my IG account @saedilikescrafts

Thanks, and have a great day!