Hi friends! Happy Sunday! We hope you’ve been enjoying our new Cheering For You collection and want to continue the gorgeous ideas with this fabulous new release today on our blog with special guest Suzy Plantamura! Read on and enjoy!

Halloween in July?!!! Based on many of the products in the Cheering for You release, I think it’s time to get our Halloween on! I decided to use the Halloween Friends stamp set as well as many of the Halloween dies in the release for my “one stamp, five ways” post today. Since I’m such a procrastinator, making Halloween cards can be the one thing I check off my list early this year! I hope my 5 cards get you in the mood for the dressing up, candy eating holiday of the year!

My first card was the most fun to make as I love making “custom” backgrounds with Copic markers. I started by stamping the haunted house from the Home Sweet Haunted Home stamp set (a couple years old, but one of my all-time favorites!) with black ink on an A2 sized piece of white cardstock. I then stamped a moon with yellow ink in the right-hand corner for placement. I took my Copics out in the summer sunshine and colored this spooky nighttime scene. By using a light blue and a light yellow Copic marker, I was able to blend them into a flame around the moon. I die-cut this piece with the A2 Thin Frame Die and attached it to a white card base.

I stamped all the images in the Halloween Friends stamp set with black ink and colored them all in with Copic Markers. I stamped the moon with Lemonade Ink and then added a border with Zest ink. I die-cut all the images out with the matching Halloween Friends dies. I attached them over my background using foam tape behind the top of the children and behind the Boo. I attached the moon and bats directly to the background. I then embossed the second sentiment from the stamp set with white embossing powder on the sky. I added some drops of white acrylic paint using the end of my paintbrush. Dip it once, then tap it on your background several times until the paint is gone and you get drops in all different sizes placed right where you want them!

I made the background of this card using the new Big Bat Die die-cut from white cardstock. I folded a piece of white cardstock using a scoring tool along the folded edge. I then placed the folded edge just inside the edge of the die so it wouldn’t cut through it and I was able to get a full sized bat! I then made a black card base using Tim Holtz black heavyweight cardstock, folding it in half and then placing the bat die just outside the fold so I had the same bat cut out of the inside of the card. I attached my card with a white bat inside a black background over a white cardstock card base. It’s fun how the bat is on the backside too!

I stamped some of the images in the Halloween Friends stamp set with Intense Black Ink and colored them with Copic Markers. I left the “boo!” sentiment white inside. I also die-cut the Bat Trio Die from the new release out of white cardstock. I colored one with a black Copic and attached those to the background and top of the bat. I attached the kids and the cat to the center of the bat. I embossed a sentient from the stamp set with white embossing powder on the bottom of the card and added the Boo sentiment above it. Last, I used white acrylic paint drops around the background in the same way I described on the last card directions.

I first die-cut a piece of white cardstock with the SSS Slimline Nested Rectangle Die. I then used several colors of PSInks in oranges and yellow to blend an orange background. I attached it to a white cardstock slimline card base. I die-cut two of the new Candy Corn Border dies from white cardstock. I colored the inside pieces of one with Copics and then attached the white frame from the other to frame the colors. I attached it to the bottom of the card front.

I stamped the moon with yellow PSInks and the other elements from the Halloween Friends stamp set with black ink on white cardstock. I colored them in with candy corn colors so they matched the background and border. I attached the moon first and then the sentiment over it with foam tape behind it. I added the pumpkin with foam tape behind him over the moon. I then attached the two kids with foam tape behind just their heads and glued their feet to the candy corn border. I added three small candy corn stamps and some more white acrylic paint drops to the background.

Let me start by saying it’s impossible (at least for me!) to get a good photo of foiled background cards straight on, so this card looks much better in person. It is just the color of purple on the top of my photo. I used the new Acetate Bats Foil Transfer for the background of the card. I ran it through my hot foil/laminating machine with purple foil and it covered perfectly! I attached this to a white cardstock card base.

I stamped three of the ghosts, a bat, and the boo with Intense Black Ink and colored them in with Copics. I stamped the moon with yellow ink and added some shading with Copics. I die-cut them all out with the matching dies. I attached the moon with the bat over it on the top left corner and the three ghosts around the bats. I used the Boo sentiment from the stamp set on the bottom of the card front. I used some yellow epoxy drops around the card background.

I used my “random stamping” technique for this card. I stamped the ghost stamp on a piece of A2 size Ranger Watercolor Paper using Intense Black Ink. I painted around the ghosts with Nuvo Shimmer Powder in Meteorite Shower. It’s the perfect color for a dark sky! I added pink cheeks and some gray shading to the ghosts with Copic Markers. I die-cut this piece with an A2 Thin Frame Die and attached it to a white card base.

I die-cut the new Hey, Boo die twice from white cardstock. I attached foam tape to the backside of one of these. I colored the letters of the other one with navy Copic markers. I glued the letters inside the solid one and attached it to the center of the card. I added LOTS of white acrylic paint drops around the background. I used the end of my paintbrush again dipping it in the paint and touching it to the paper multiple times to get different size drops.

Anyone in the mood for Halloween yet? I’m sure I got you in the mood for some candy at least! I hope you enjoyed this foray into fall using the Halloween Friends stamp set for my 5 cards. I love that this is a 4×6 “stamp set and I was still easily able to get 5 cards out of it! I also loved mixing in all the new Halloween dies with it for lots of unique designs. I hope you are enjoying the new Cheering For You release. Happy end of summer friends! –Suzy

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