Still plugging along! Things are taking me longer than usual (but really what else is new) - but I'm still getting cards and videos up (I mentioned before how it literally makes me feel better when I'm being productive - maybe it's a single mom thing LOL).
Anywho - this was this week's Color Throwdown Challenge:
Very Halloween-y and I love it of course. Check out their blog post HERE <------click! to see what the rest of the team created and to play along!
Here's what I came up with:
These are all 4.25" square cards.
I've been itching to ink up the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Pumpkinhead set for weeks now - finally got my chance to! And of course I combined them with all the crazy animal sets while I was at it.
I heat embossed the images onto Canson XL watercolor paper using Avery Elle black embossing powder (I explain my reasons for using black EP (usually my nemesis) in the video) then watercolored them in with Distress Inks.
All of the hats (from the Crazy Things set) were stamped and embossed and coloured separately and then die cut with the coordinating dies (did you know the Sizzix die sets that coordinate with all the Tim Holtz stamp sets cut on the line? Meaning there's no "white space" around the image. That plus with a lot of the sets there are extra dies to cut out certain parts making it easy to pop things up and create more 3-dimensional effects).
I added glossy accents to all the eyes, Copic Opaque white splatter to all the panels, and used my Stardust Gelly Roll pen for some shimmer on the hat buckles.
I finished off all the insides with the Happy Halloween sentiment from the Pumpkinhead set, and stamped the pumpkins onto some SSS Orange envelopes to finish everything off.
To see how these cards came together check out my video below:
Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-----click!
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Good luck! :)
