A Hybrid Halloween {PP160}

Hi everyone!  I hope you're having a great weekend.  Our daughter is already back in school so we're off to the races again in our house.  :-)  Today's card features the sketch I designed for this week's sketch challenge over at The Paper Players:

Fun, eh?!  I knew that I wanted to use some Witches' Brew Washi Tape for the diagonal elements so I went looking for some Halloween papers and stamps:

Turns out that I don't have any current Halloween DSP or stamps so I decided to make my own in My Digital Studio (MDS)!  To make the background paper I started with a 4" x 5.25" design that I filled with Smoky Slate.  I added the Happy Halloween sentiment from All Holidays Stamp Brush Set, colored it in Basic Gray (made it slightly lighter) and repeated it all over the background.  This isn't as difficult as it sounds because in MDS you can use copy and paste to quickly cover a broad area.   I added a spider web from Spooky Bingo Bits Stamp Brush Set and some Ink Splatters.

The sweet Halloween kitty is also from Spooky Bingo Bits Stamp Brush Set.  I gave him a 100% drop shadow in Whisper White to achieve the moon glow look.   I printed both the cat and background paper on Whisper White and cut and punched to size.  I just added the Washi Tape, Natural Ribbon and some punched chevrons to my digital "paper" to complete this hybrid card.

Not to let the inside go unfinished, I inked a sentiment from Seasonal Sayings with markers and added more Washi Tape and some Smoky Slate spots from Gorgeous Grunge. 

Be sure to stop by and visit the rest of the Design Team for some spectacular inspiration!  Then come back and join us at The Paper Players before the challenge closes on Friday, August 30th at Noon (PDT).  Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Banners Five-O {PP113}

Happy Sunday, friends, and welcome to another week with The Paper Players! I am delighted to be this week's hostess for our monthly Clean and Simple challenge. I think it's a fun one:

Banners!  They've been trendy for awhile now--possibly eclipsed by hexagons & chevrons--but, personally, I haven't tired of them.  I can't seem to make a card without at least one flagged end somewhere!  I went uber clean-and-simple with my project(s) for this challenge.  So simple that I actually made 5 cards!  Here's the one that I featured over at The Paper Players:

I apologize, in advance, for the picture-heavy post but I couldn't get a good shot of all 5 together so here we go:

The Bitty Banners Framelits worked overtime in my stamp room today.  6 banners on each card!

But I discovered that the Framelits will cut two sheets of our designer paper so I only had to crank the Big Shot 3 times...for each card, lol!

This one is fun because I "dyed" the Whisper White Baker's Twine with a Summer Starfruit marker.  How cool is that?  If you're impatient like me, be sure to let it dry for a few minutes before working with it.  What happens if you don't wait?  You get slimy looking trails of Summer Starfruit on your card that aren't very pretty!  But I wouldn't know anything about that.  ;-)

Whew!  If you're still with me, congratulations!  I just had to show you all of them.  Especially because I only used ONE stamp set!  All of these great sentiments came from Seasonal Sayings found in the Holiday Mini.  Love the versatility of the set and the generous size of the stamps.  I knew that this set would be the star of the show!  Assembly is pretty obvious with the Seasonal Sayings stamp set and Bitty Banners Framelits but a complete list of papers and colors is at the end of this post.

I hope I've inspired you to play it "Clean-and-Simple with Banners" this week!  I would love for you to join us at The Paper Players.  Just to make sure to load up your banner-ific creations by Friday, September 21st at Noon (PST).  Before you go, pop on over to all my gal pals on the Design Team to see what kind of beautiful banners they've created:

The Paper Players Design Team

Jen Arkfeld
Dawn Easton
Helen Heil 
Jaydee
Nance Leedy

Anne Marie Hile

LeAnne Pugliese

Ann Schach

Amy White

 

Thanks is for Giving card
Stamp: Seasonal Sayings
Paper: Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla CS; Comfort Cafe DSP
Ink: Soft Suede
Xtras: Linen Thread; Bitty Banner Framelits; Itty Bitty Punch Pack; Basic Pearls; Color Spritzer + Soft Suede stampin' write marker

Halloween card
Stamp: Seasonal Sayings
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Very Vanilla CS; Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP
Ink: Basic Black
Xtras: Linen Thread; Bitty Banner Framelits; Itty Bitty Punch Pack; Basic Pearls; Silver Dazzle marker; Color Spritzer + Basic Gray stampin' write marker

Christmas card
Stamp: Seasonal Sayings
Paper: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla CS; Candlelight Christmas DSP
Ink: Lucky Limeade
Xtras: Early Espresso Baker's Twine; Bitty Banner Framelits; Itty Bitty Punch Pack; Basic Pearls; Color Spritzer + Early Espresso stampin' write marker

Love You card
Stamp: Seasonal Sayings
Paper: Baja Breeze, Whisper White CS; Patio Party DSP
Ink: Primrose Petals
Xtras: Whisper White Baker's Twine; Summer Starfruit marker; Bitty Banner Framelits; small Heart punch; Basic Rhinestones

Celebrate card
Stamp: Seasonal Sayings
Paper: Island Indigo, Whisper White CS; Summer Smooches DSP
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Xtras: Island Indigo Baker's Twine; Bitty Banner Framelits; Itty Bitty Punch Pack; Basic Rhinestones