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Best Witches Portrait Witch Halloween Card

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Best Witches Portrait Witch Halloween Card

Here’s a fun Halloween card to make, the Best Witches Portrait Witch Halloween Card. This little witch must have had her portrait painted and framed! I also wanted to use the new Glitter Washi Tape and figured out a way to use it on this card! I’ll explain how I made the very artistic background around the witch!

The card base is Basic Black with a layer of Highland Heather stamped with the stars in the Best Witches Stamp Set. You have to stamp very lightly with these small stamps so as not to catch an inky edge of the rubber. Luckily some of mine got covered up with the witch!

The witch is stamped on Basic White cardstock. I diecut the frame in the Fabulous Frames Dies out of Basic White and then used the center piece for the witch. Then I diecut the frame again out of Gold Foil to get the actual frame I was going to use.

I stamped the witch (one of two in the stamp set) in Memento Ink and colored in with various colors of Stampin’ Blends. Just play with whatever colors you like or even combinations of colors. For the background around the witch, I simply chose many light colors of Blends and just put little marks or scribbles all around. Then I took the Color Lifter and colored over all the marks in hopes of blending them a little bit. I was afraid I might be messing up my witch piece but I think it turned out to be an interesting background! You never know! Just play!

I applied strips of the Glitter Washi Tape across the middle of the card. After putting down the full length of the first color, I realized the tape would mostly be covered up and I didn’t want to waste it so I just put small pieces on each edge of the card, not all the way across. You can trim the ends off on the sides if you haven’t glued down the Highland Heather layer. After gluing down the gold foil frame, I adhered the witch portrait inside the frame.

The greeting is stamped in Highland Heather ink on a scrap strip of Basic White and adhered at the bottom of the card. I thought about cutting the words apart, but the greeting seemed to look okay as is.

If you like Halloween, check out the Best Witches Stamp Set and the others in the Holiday Mini Catalog! Maybe you will even earn FREE Sale-A-Bration products with a $50 or more purchase at Stampin’ Up!

Splendid Day Sending Hugs Card

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Splendid Day Sending Hugs Card

These stamps, paper, and ribbon to make this Splendid Day Sending Hugs Card are the only new things I have at the moment from the new July-December 2022 Mini Catalog that just went live a week ago! But a box of many new things is coming in another day! I can’t wait!

The reason I have this new Splendid Day Suite is that Stampin’ Up! held a virtual stamping event for Demonstrators recently! It was only stamping, no business! We could order this Suite ahead of time so we’d have all the materials to stamp along. I didn’t get to watch it live but “any minute now” I’ll sit down and watch the recording and make my projects along with the Stampin’ Up! stampers. It sounds like so much fun! Even though I haven’t made those projects yet, I just got out the products and came up with this card.

This Suite is something unexpected, I think, in this Holiday Mini Catalog. It’s not holiday, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or even fall. It’s just soft and pretty. While it may not have jumped onto my Favorites list the first time I saw it, I think it has lots of potential. And the Splendid Day Specialty Designer Series Paper is very gorgeous with its foil sheets and white printed accents on one side and a more generic pattern on the other side.

I realized I was getting my “greens” mixed up while making this card! The card base is actually Mint Macaron, but I first was thinking it was Soft Sea Foam. I originally was going to have a strip of the foil paper on the left side of the card which is actually on the other side of this dotted pattern paper. But I just didn’t feel like it was working and I really liked this dotted pattern so I scrapped the foil paper! I added a layer of Basic White under the designer paper just to help set it off a bit from the card base with just a narrow margin.

The plant image is in the Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set. I stamped the outline image of the plant in Soft Sea Foam ink. Then I stamped over it with what looks to be the solid image of the leaves to fill in the color. However, this image does not line up perfectly with the outline leaves as we usually have and that’s how it’s made to be. So it’s a little more modern stamping look. You might like it fine or you might hate that look! If you don’t care for it, then just stamp the outline leaves and color them in with whatever coloring technique you like, maybe Stampin’ Blends markers or Watercolor Pencils. Whatever. I inked up the solid leaf stamp and VERY lightly stamped it off on my Grid Paper, then stamped over the outline. So it is barely there!

I used the beautiful Fabulous Frames dies to die cut that lovely frame. I did one in Basic White to get the inner portion on which I stamped the leaves and Mint Macaron to get the actual frame. The greeting is in the Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set along with some other very nice sentiments. I stamped it in Memento ink and die cut with one of the banner dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. It just barely fit but it worked. I didn’t want anything too wide or it would cover up too much of the plant. I popped up the greeting on Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

Before adhering the designer paper to the Basic White layer, I adhered the new Soft Sea Foam 3/8″ Seam Binding Ribbon around the designer paper, then tied a separate bow and adhered with Mini Glue Dots. This ribbon is very soft and beautiful. I think since it is so light in weight and color it wasn’t too much with the large Fabulous Frame on the card.

To jazz up the card a little bit, I added some Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels for a little sparkle on the card. I think these are some of the best jewels Stampin’ Up! has had because they can pick up the colors on the card very lightly. A little bling and sparkle on a card is almost always good!

In this Suite are also some Open Leaf Trinkets in gold that you can adhere or tie on to your projects. These are very pretty and will be a great embellishment on projects.

Along with all the holiday stamp sets and products we are drawn to in the new July-December Mini Catalog, be sure to take a look at this Splendid Day Suite Collection on pages 64-65. The Splendid Stems Dies will be fun to use also. I think the colors on this Splendid Day Sending Hugs Card and the greeting are very calming and will be a great card to make and send to someone who needs a card that day.

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