Stamper's Anonymous Halloween 2020 - It's Pumpkin Season

Happy Autumn, well almost! The Fall is my favorite time of the year, from the colors, the special foods, and the cooler weather. I love every part of it. Today, I have a card to celebrate this time of year, and of course it is made with the new stamps, stencils, and Shifter Stencils from Tim Holtz and Stamper's Anonymous. This candy corn colored make might have been my favorite using all the new goods, and I used many things to put it together so this is a lengthy post. Hope you like it, and Happy Pumpkin Season everyone! Enjoy.

Cut Specialty Stamping Paper to 3 x 5. Stamp pumpkin on a sticky note and cut out, with sticky part along bottom of pumpkin. Stamp a pumpkin on the top of the SSP using Jet Black Archival and Stamping Platform. Allow to dry or lightly use heat tool to dry. NOTE: When using SSP always make sure ink is dry before touching, as the ink stays wet longer. Place sticky note pumpkin on stamped pumpkin, and stamp another pumpkin below making sure stem part will not be stamped, for a stacked look. Repeat process for a third and bottom pumpkin. Dry.  

Use sticky note pumpkin to mask again while coloring over each pumpkin using Distress Ink and Ink Blending Tool, using candy corn colors and pattern...bottom in Squeezed Lemonade, middle in Carved Pumpkin, but the top left white.

The next part requires patience and time. Lay the pumpkin sticky note on the middle pumpkin, and using the smallest Multi Dot Shifter Stencil, ink over the yellow pumpkin using Mustard Seed Distress Ink, just the first set of cirlces. Let dry, and then place stencil on again in the same spot, and using a palette knife spread Transparent Gloss Texture Paste through the stenciled area. Let this dry about 30 minutes.

Doing the same, move to the first pumpkin and ink in Antique Linen Distress Ink, let dry, and place stencil on again and apply paste. After both pumpkins are dry, repeat the process on the middle pumpkin with Spiced Marmalade and paste. (I made two cards, so that is why you are seeing two stacks of pumpkins.) Set the pumpkins aside and move on to the background.

Cut Heavystock to 3 1/4 x 6 1/4. Cut black cardstock to 3 1/2 x 6 1/2, orange cardstock to 3 5/8 x 6 3/4, black polka dot velvet paper to 4 x 7, and a kraft card base 4 x 7, and set black, orange, dots, and kraft aside. Take the large Deco Arch Layering Stencil, and lay on a sticky note. Trace the arches line 2 and 1/2 arches up, remove stencil, complete the lines, and cut this out for a mask, using the cut off side for a mask as well, or you can make another one of that side.

Place the mask on the underside of the stencil so that only the first 2 and a half arches are seen, and then lay over heavy stock piece. Ink over the arches using Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, and Mowed Lawn, making a grass look.

Place the other mask over the top of the grass area. Lay the large Multi Dot Stencil over the heavystock. Apply a dot of Picket Fence Distress Paint to glass mat, and using a clean foam on an Ink Blending Tool, pounce over the paint to absorb it evenly and lightly into the foam. Pounce over the stencil. It will be hard to see, put if you hold it up to the light you will be able to see the paint. Let this dry a few minutes, and do the same after moving and shifting the stencil over to cover up the painted circles, and then pounce on the paint into the other circles. Let this dry a few minutes. Clean stencil.

Leaving the same mask in place, ink over the sky area with Speckled Egg Distress Ink. Remove the mask, and flick water over the whole piece of heavystock letting the ink watermark. Use a clean paper towel to clean off the ink from the white circles. Dry and then ink the edges of the paper with Antique Linen. Stitch around the grass area if desired.

Using Picket Fence Distress Ink, stamp sentiment onto black cardstock, and heat emboss with clear powder. Trim and cut apart into two pieces. Type sentiment on computer, print, cut out, and mount on orange cardstock. Add sentiments to card top. Add butterfly sticker. I powdered the wings so they wouldn't stick, and only the middle sticks down so the wings prop up.

Making sure all three pumpkins are dry, ink over the second part of the Multi Dot Stencil shifting it over to cover the gloss circles, using the same inks over the pumpkins, but not using paste. These circles are just inked.

When dry, cut out the stacked pumpkins, and use Distress Markers to add shadows to the pumpkins, as well as color the edges of the them, and the stem of course. I used Mustard Seed on the yellow, Spiced Marmalade on the orange, and Antique Linen on the white, and three greens on the stems. Cut slits in the grass area with a craft knife so the pumpkins can slide behind. Adhere heavystock to black cardstock, and distress edges. Mount on orange, then circle paper, and finally onto card front. Foam tape pumpkins to front of card, making sure pumpkins are under the grasses you cut apart.

 

 

 

Supplies: 

(Glass Mat, Stamping Platform, Sticky Notes, Heat Tool, Scissors, Distress Tool, Ink Blending Tool,

Palette Knife, Water Mister, Stamping Block, Paper Trimmer, Two Sided Tape, Craft Knife, Foam Tape )

-Ranger Surfaces: Specialty Stamping Paper, Black Cardstock, Kraft Cardstock

-Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Snarky Cat Halloween, Tiny Text Halloween

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, Spiced Marmalade,

 Antique Linen, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Speckled Egg, Picket Fence

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil: Shifter Multi Dots (Small, Large), Deco Arch

-Ranger Texture Paste: Transparent Gloss

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Markers: Antique Linen, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Twisted Citron

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Heavystock

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Picket Fence

-Ranger Embossing Powder: Clear

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Matte

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Halloween Paper Stash, Classic Kraft Stock, Curiosities Sticker Book

Now it's time for more Autumn makes, so I'm off to get my hands dirty. I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon too!

Stamper's Anonymous Halloween 2020 - Boo S'MORE

Hi All! Here is another yummy treat to pass out to those special trick-or-treaters in your life, and they are so simple to make using the new Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Halloween stamps...well after you buy all the goodies to make them.  I saw snack packs for the ghostly smores last year at a fund raiser, and thought they would be so cute with an added tag or card, and so I came up with these. Enjoy!

I found the marshmallow ghosts at Walgreens, as well as the chocolates and grahams. The black food safe bags were in my stash and I don't remember where I purchased them, sorry.

(Fill the resealable food safe bag with two squares of grahams, one chocolate bar, and one ghost marshmallow, and seal, using gloves of course.)

Cut white tag to six inches, making sure you don't cut off the tag hole. Stamp skull left of tag hole, the hand right of tag hole, and BOO! above tag hole next to the top of the skull, all in Jet Black Archival. Fold tag in half at three inches.

Use a bold marker to write in S'MORE next to Boo!, and a fine pen to draw lines around the perimeter of the tag face. Punch a hole through the existing tag hole to the back of the tag. Fold a 12 inch piece of ribbon in half and loop through the back hole of the tag, pulling the tails through the loop. Thread the ribbon tails through the hole of the food bag, and then pull only one tail through the hole on the front of the tag. Bring both pieces of ribbon together and pull snuggly, and then tie into a bow.

 

 

 

Supplies: 

(Paper Trimmer, Stamping Platform, Scissors, Hole Punch)

-Ranger Dina Wakley Media #10 Tag: White

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Anatomy Chart, Mr. Bones

-Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black

-Black Pen: Bold, Fine

-Black and White Ribbon (12 in. per bag)

-Food Safe Resealable Bags: Black 4 x 5.5 in.

-Graham Crackers, Peeps Marshmallow Ghosts, Snack Size Hershey Bars

I've got one more make using the new stamps, and it's perfect for Autumn, which is just around the corner. I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!