Hi friends! Happy Friday! Can you believe it’s almost September STAMPtember®? Time is flying! Please join me in welcome back special guest Suzy Plantamura with a colorful and inspiring assortment of 5 cards! Read on and enjoy!

My “one stamp, five ways” post for today uses another Halloween stamp set also from the Cheering For You release. That makes two months in a row of Halloween cards from me! I tried to shake it up a bit today by making some projects that are NOT cards to show other ways this stamp set can be used. It is called Spooky Sweets and it will for sure spook those kids, but if sweets are attached, I think they will accept the spooks!

When I saw these cupcake stamps, I immediately thought of cupcake toppers. I will admit that I should have made my cupcakes as these are not the best-looking ones in the world, but my grocery store didn’t have a lot of options for this last minute girl. I started by stamping all the images in the Spooky Sweets stamp set with Intense Black Ink on white cardstock. I then colored the images in with Copic Markers and a mix of colored pencils for shading.

I added lots of Nuvo Drops to the details on my stamped images as I love to add sheen and texture to them. I also used Tonic Crystal Glaze on the eyeballs. I attached the Happy Halloween greeting to one of the cupcake papers. I then attached bamboo skewers to the backsides with tape. I added some sprinkles to my cupcakes and bought some cute matching wrappers. I stuck the toppers in each matching cupcake. I can’t wait to take these to my grandkids today as it was their first day of school!

I stamped the images from the stamp set with Intense Black Ink. I then colored them in with Copic Markers. I used Nuvo Drops over the decorations and Crystal Glaze over the eyeballs again. I die-cut them all out with the matching dies.

I used the new Starry Sky Foil Transfer Cards for the background. I ran it through my Fuse Machine using dark purple foil. I die-cut this piece out with a SSS Basic Rectangle Die and attached it to a white card base. I then attached a piece of gray paper that I die-cut with a Layered Hill die and attached that over the bottom. Of the background. I added all the stamped images using foam tape behind the tops of the cupcakes and the items in the foreground. I attached the sentiment from the stamp set right in the center. I love that the dies included sentiment dies!

I had a small kraft gift bag in my stash from one of my past SSS card kits (I think a Halloween one!). I decided it would make a cute gift bag for Halloween treats. I die-cut a piece of black cardstock with a SSS Basic Rectangle Die and attached it to the front of the bag. I then stamped images from the stamp set with black ink. I also stamped the Boo! Stamps from the Halloween Friends stamp set. I colored them all in with Copics.

I added some Nuvo drops to my stamped images. I attached them all to the front of the black rectangle. I added the Boo sentiment to the top and a sentiment from the Spooky Sweets stamp set to the bottom. I used some Chalk Stick Nuvo Drops around the background. Last, I tied an orange gingham bow to the handle and added some tissue paper. Now the sweets need to be put in there!

I used my “random-stamping” technique on this card since the stamp set has so many small images in it. I stamped them all topsy turvy using black ink on a piece of white cardstock. I die-cut it out with a Basic Rectangle Die. I colored the images in with Copic Markers and added gray shadows behind all the images to make them pop.

I attached this to a black card base. I die-cut the hey, boo die from the CZ Big Bat dies from black and white cardstock and attached the white letters over the black set. I attached it to the bottom of the card and added the -yah! from the Boo-Yah! stamp. I used Nuvo Drops around the background of the card to fill in all the open spaces. I added some orange/white twine to the top.

I used the CZ Nested Tag dies in the largest size and the second largest size for this tag. I die-cut a tag hold using purple cardstock. I stamped the images I used from the stamp set with black ink. I colored them in with Copics and colored pencils.

I attached the white tag over the black tag and added the purple circle to the center. I then stamped some ribbon to the top. I attached the stamped images to the white tag. I used a silver Uniball over the stars and some glitter Nuvo drops over the frosting. I also added some Nuvo drops to the background. I hope these projects help you think out of the card-making box to use our stamps for other projects as well. When it comes to holidays, gift bags, wrapping paper, gift tags, and even cupcake toppers can be great uses for stamps! Thanks for visiting today and I hope when Halloween gets here, you all have a wonderful holiday full of chocolate goodness! –Suzy

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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Suzy for being our guest!