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Hocus Pocus

  Hi Friends!  I've got a super fun mood board inspired Halloween card.  I concentraed the colors around the cauldron to create a fun and eerie scene!   To start, I cut an A2 piece of white cardstock using the largest die from the large cross-stitched rectangle stackables die.  Next, I pulled out my distress inks in the following colors: weathered wood , twisted citron , salty ocean, blueprint sketch and wilted violet (I used the inks not oxides but I'm linking the oxides- either would work fine).  Using the hillside stencil , I ink blended a wavy background in an upside down triangular pattern to resemble smoke.  The background was then splatted with liquid stardust .  Stars were stamped in black ink using the tiny stars included in spooktacular stamp set. To create the cauldron, I used I scream, you scream set .  The base of the cauldron was cut using the ice cream cone (upside down) and cut from glossy black cardstock.   Cilantro...

Happy Harvest

Hello crafty friends! It's Amanda again, and I hope you're having a lovely start to your week! I've been LOVING all the creations for this months Butterfly Reflections Ink  Mood Board, and felt  particularly inspired by it myself!  Sometimes I get stuck on trying to color my images as realistic as possible, but it is so freeing to step out of the normal and let my imagination run wild! The card I'm sharing today uses all of those wonderful colors to create this Happy Harvest scene. Step 1: I stamped out images from Lawn Fawn sets Happy Harvest and Gnome Sweet Gnome using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink .  Except for my cornstalks which I stamped using Tim Holtz Distress Ink Scattered Straw. Then I colored my images with assorted alcohol markers. Step 2: I die cut images using the coordinating Lawn Cuts from Happy Harvest  and used scissors to cut out the mushroom from Gnome Sweet Gnome.  Step 3: Using the largest die from Lawn Fawn's Small Dotte...