Happy Halloween Tonic :D

A lovely creepy card to celebrate Halloween :D I LOVE the Halloween range from Tonic, and this drippy skull has to be one of my favourites :D :D I just had to step up the horror of the card for Halloween by adding in some blood stained ripped edges, active blood spatters and red drips on the bottom of the skull, it all adds extra drama :D :D Hehehe :D I also doodled on some barbed wire down the two sides too to tie in with the black of the stunning drippy Happy Halloween sentiment :D Oh and of course, I had to make the skull a shaker too, it was just screaming out to have some spiders shaking around in there :D :D :D Hope you liked this Halloween Blog Tonic special :D :D :D

Main Tonic products used :D
Rococo Spooky Skull Trio
Happy Halloween Miniature Moments Sentiment Die
Nuvo Glitter Drops - Ruby Slippers
Nuvo Creative Pens
Nuvo Aqua Flow Pens
Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss Pen
White Card, Black Card, Acetate and Vellum
Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
Glass Cutting Mat

To see the process behind this spooky Halloween card, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D

Lots more spooky photos below :D

 

 

You Are Spooktacular Spellbinders :D

 

A simple spooky witch shaker card :D Experimenting with brayering Oxides onto coloured card, then using a mixture of ghosting and white ink to add the medallion pattern :D I really love the shape of this witch die too, I added some of the landlocked areas back in too, to give her more shape, you just simply stick them to the acetate :D I wanted her silhouette to be really prominent, so I went for adding a black back to the shaker and using black sequins so her shape is really clear, but you still have the fun element of a shaker :D I then finished the cards with some white faux stitching around the edges, and because I added the Seedless Preserves ink to the card, the white pen picks up the colours so you get a variation in the stitches :D Hope you liked the card, there'll be another really creepy Halloween card tomorrow too :D

Main Spellbinders products used :D
Shapeabilities Witch On Broom Holiday 2017
A2 Matting Basics B Die Set
Donna Salazar Medallion Embossing Folder
Platinum 6 Die-Cutting Machine
Main Attraction Tool
Tool N One
Brayer Attachment

Other products used :D
Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide
Lawn Fawn Spooktacular Stamp Set
Lawn Fawn Yeti Ink Pad
VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad
Purple Rain Nuvo Glitter Drops
Coconut White, Heather and Black Foundations Card

To see the process behind this spooky witch shaker card, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D

A few more photos below :D

The Christina Collection - Paper Piecing and Creative Expressions :D

As soon as I saw the Trellis Dies from Christina's collection, I knew I had to do paper piecing with them!! It did take me hours to create them (while watching the telly) but it's actually quite addictive once you get going :D Some of the shapes aren't exactly symmetrical, but once you've done a few it gets much easier to know which way round to put the pieces, and there are literally hundreds of patterns you can create, and you can use any number of different pieces of coloured card to create your patterns too :D I thought as the backgrounds took so long to make, that I would keep the decoration simple, so I decided to team them up with some Creative Expressions dies, using a couple of round frames from Sue Wilson and the Stylish Script word dies from Lisa Horton :D I really like how they turned out, and as you've seen in the video I have lots of pieces left to make more cards from :D :D : D

Main products used :D
The Christina Collection:
- Quatrefoil Trellis Die Set
- Petal Trellis Die Set
- Cube Trellis Die Set
Creative Expressions Dies By Sue Wilson - Bold Snowflake Frame
Creative Expressions Dies By Sue Wilson - Melbourne
Creative Expressions Lisa Horton Dies - Stylish Script Wishes
Dymo Labeller
Creative Expressions Foundation Card - Raspberry, Heather, Amethyst, Coconut White and Silver Pearlescent
Spellbinders Tool N One
Cosmic Shimmer Glue
Woodware Fine Tip Bottles
Craft UK A6 White Card Blanks
Creative Expressions 5x7 Embossing Folder - Linear Leaves
Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die-Cutting Machine

To see the process behind this trio of cards, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D

Lots more photos below :D

 

The Christina Collection - Custom Stamped Background :D

 

In last Tuesday's video I created a stamp from funky foam using the Quatrefoil Trellis Die set from The Christina Collection, and as soon as I saw all the fall away pieces out of foam, I thought oooooh, I could stamp the background and then use colours to stamp in the spaces too :D So that's where these cards were born from :D The Distress Oxides work great for the stamping, and I used lots of wonderful Nuvo Crystal drops to embellish :D :D Hope you liked them :D 

Main products used :D
The Christina Collection:
- Quatrefoil Trellis Die Set
- Layered Florals Die Set
- Layered Florals Stamp Set
Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die-Cutting Machine
Tonic Studios Nuvo Metro Grey Ink Pad
Distress Oxides - Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Cracked Pistachio, Twisted Citron and Broken China
Avery Elle Wonky Rectangle Dies
Cosmic Shimmer Glue
Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops - Ripened Pumpkin, Pink Carnation, Apple Green and Sunlit Meadow
Craft UK A6 White Card Blanks

To see the process behind this pair of cards, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D

Loads more photos below :D 

The Christina Collection - Heat Embossing and Watercolour :D

A pair of really simple watercoloured cards using some of the stunning stamps from the brand new Christina Collection from Card Making Magic, exclusive to CraftStash.co.uk :D I really love how  Christina has thought about layering the dies up with the plain and stitched dies in the different sets to give you instant mats and layers for your cards :D And these floral images are just stunning too :D :D :D

Main products used :D
Card Making Magic - The Christina Collection:
- Complete 5"x7" Card &Box Die Set
- Trellis Die Set
- Flowers & Tags Stamp Set
Watercolour card
Tonic Studios Glacier White Nuvo Embossing Powder
Perfect Medium Ink Pad
Papermania Pink Heat Tool
Gansai Tambi Watercolours - 36 Pan Set
Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops - Morning Dew
Woodware Clip It Tool

To see the process behind this pair of watercoloured cards, please watch my YouTube video below, or over on my channel CRaFTi PoTeNTiAl :D

Loads more photos below :D