Fizzy DesignsUK

Hi Craft addicts!       Today's latest handmade card for my 365 day challenge is this slightly different Hallowe'en 4" card using dies and stencils... I first of all took a 4" white card (from Paper Boutique or Hunkydory) and rounded the corners with a Hunkydory Prism Punch. I then took a piece of Willow White cardstock (from Sheena Douglass) and placed a Woodware abstract design stencil over it and coloured through it with a variety of inks - reds, yellows, blues to create this vibrant background. I cut it down to fit the front of the card leaving a very narrow border around it and then edged it with a black alcohol marker. I stuck it to the card with some PVA glue. Using the Witch, Broom and Bat dies from Tim Holtz's Toil and Trouble set from Sizzix, I cut them out in Lynda Chapman's Black card along with the spider's web from a Tattered Lace die. I used a Crafter's Companion Dotty tape pen to stick them to the background, positioning them first befo...

  Hi Craft addicts!       Today's handmade card for my 365 day challenge is this Hallowe'en card using dies and Distress Oxide inks. I was playing with the waste from a die cut I had cut out and coloured through it using Gina K Obsidian Black ink to create a moon and trimmed it so it would fit the front of a 7" x 5" white card. I then used a variety of Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch to name but two) to create a background colouring over part of the circle to make it look like there were were clouds over it. I rounded the corners of it using a Hunkydory Prism punch and attached it to some Lynda Chapman's Black card, trimmed it with my We R Memory Keepers Guillotine so that there was a narrow border and rounded the corners as well. Once I was happy with the background, I cut out the Happy Hallowe'en sentiment and the Underwater Ruins dies (both from Tattered Lace) using the same card as the panel and used a tape pen to attach them. ...