Karen Day Cards: Be Scary Set

Friday, October 23, 2015

Cricut Capers

I haven't played along with the Heart2Heart Challenge blog in a while... so I'm happy to be playing along this week :o) This week's challenge is to use one of the CTMH Cricut cartridges, and I have a cute Halloween card made with the Close To My Heart Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge, and Art Impressions' Be Scary Set:

I love this spider web card base - and it was so quick to put together, the Cricut cut the entire black card base, so all I had to do was adhere some patterned paper behind the spider web, and then glued my cute little trick-or-treater on top (I popped her up with some pop dots).

Patterned papers are Frightful by My Mind's Eye; Stamp set is Be Scary Set (Sku #4521) by Art Impressions; Ink is Memento Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers; Sequins are Glimmer Glam by Craft Medley.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Be Scary Card & Earrings

Hard to believe that it's October, isn't it?? It's the month that is about all things scary... so today I'm sharing a couple of projects using Art Impressions Be Scary Set (Sku #4521):

This is a 5 1/2" square card, and I kept it fairly simple, just slipping a few bits and pieces behind my image, and I popped up the sentiment. Now for the fun stuff... when I was planning to use this cute little spider image a few weeks ago, I thought that she would make a hilarious pair of Halloween earrings. So I bought some Shrink Plastic and got down to business:

For the earrings, I used the More hands, more candy wood mounted stamp that is available at Hobby Lobby stores - same image, but it is just a little smaller in scale. I stamped her with Stazon ink, coloured the backside with my Copics and used my heat tool to shrink them. Here's a picture taken after I'd shrunk the first one, so that you can see how small she got. The colours don't look like much on the larger one, but they intensify when they shrink: