Butterfly Reflections, Ink

  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...

Hello! I hope you all are having a great start to your week! I'm back on the Butterfly Reflections Ink blog today with a fun Halloween kitchen scene. To make these haunted treats I used, two of my favorite, Lawn Fawn stamp sets Baked With Love and Booyah . All of the images were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with alcohol markers. For the background, I used Lawn Cut Peek-A-Boo Backdrop to help create each mini-scene. I die cut it once on black cardstock and again on patterned paper to create the backdrops for each panel. Using a black panel from the cut-out Peek-A-Boo Backdrop , I heat embossed the sentiment using White Embossing Powder . After cutting everything out, I assembled the pieces to the card face with a Tape Runner and a Lawn Fawn Glue Tube . After the glue was dried, I went back and added accents with my White Gel Pen. The panel with the sentiment seemed a tad bare to me, so I ended up adding some hand-drawn spiders and dots with my gel pen as w...