Hi crafty friends! Thanks for stopping by today! I always look forward to see what the very clever Debby Hughes comes up with for her monthly Creative Uses posts on our blog and she sure didn’t disappoint this month with a spooky Halloween goody bag! Read on and be sure to watch the video! Enjoy!

Hello, it’s Debby here today with a look at how to create cute monsters from our dies. I used my little monster on a spooky Halloween goody bag but he would’ve gone equally well on a fun children’s birthday card too.

I used the ear from the Plush Sweet Elephant dies along with an antler from the Plush Deer dies as the base for my monster. I cut them from Neenah Solar White card and then added some simple Copic coloring accented with dots of Colorless Blender, glitter gel pen, white gel pen and finally I added Doodlebug Eerie Eyes.

I scored and folded a goody bag from Doodlebug patterned paper and accented with twine and ribbon. I then mounted the monster on a white Stitched Rectangle and added a sentiment from the Ghostly Greetings stamp set white heat embossed on patterned paper and then die cut with a Basic Banner die.

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I tucked in some purple tissue paper and a couple of pencils in great Halloween colors. I do like to add things other than sweeties for Halloween – so much better for everyone’s teeth! Finally I added some Spider’s Web sequins and Nuvo Crystal Drops.

The advantage of creating for Halloween is that so many of our dies can be easily re-purposed in to cute monsters. I hope you take a second look at your supplies to see how you can stretch their use for the coming season.

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Hello friends! It’s Nina-Marie here with you today, welcoming you back to our newest Studio Monday video! We took a break from our normal blog schedule to bring you all the amazing, fun excitement of STAMPtember and I hope you enjoyed every minute of it as much as I did!

This week’s Studio Monday is going to be featuring our latest Monthly Card Kit, Nuts About You! I love this one, because not only are the products awesome, but the colors are DIVINE! I cannot tell you how inspiring these Fall colored papers, inks and embellishments were… this definitely put me into the Autumn Crafting kick!

We have sold out of the actual kit itself but some of the items included in the latest kit are available individually!!!! Those items include: our exclusive Nutty About You stamp set, Lawn Fawn’s Perfectly Plaid for Fall 6×6 papers, Little B’s Mini Acorn stickers, Ranger Archival Inks (in both Bright Tangelo and Paradise Teal) and Simon cardstocks in Audrey Blue, Burnt Orange, Dark Chocolate and pre-scored card 120# white card bases!

You can make SO much with this kit… so far I’ve made a total of seven cards using the kit’s contents, and I STILL have some things left over that I could use on other cards!

We are going to be looking at how I made five of those seven cards in today’s video; we’ve got a lot to talk about, so let’s get to it!

In the video, I’ll be sharing some techniques and designs that can be created with the items in the kit; I purposely did not use very many items that are not included in the kit, because I wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to make beautiful cards using items from the kit. Some of the techniques we’ll be touching on are tone on tone stamping, creating die cut embellishments, emboss resist, and more.

Because we are focusing on so many different ways to use the kit (and I didn’t want to have the video be too long!), I will be showing mostly just the techniques used and then a quick overview of how each card finished up. These cards were very simple to create and all five can be done in one afternoon!  To see how, check out the video below!

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Hello everyone!!! I’m back again with another version of the Village Mansion… only this one is a bit more spoooooky!!

I’m amazed by these little houses and get completely immersed while I’m creating. When I’m done… it’s hard to believe they are made of paper!

I tried something different on this one by using some cheesecloth and Distress Grit paste to gain some texture. I was going for a “The stucco has fallen off the walls look” and I think this combination did the trick. I used a variety of Distress paints to color the walls, then went over everything with Black Soot paint to give it a darker tone.

I used Distress Stains and Woodgrain cardstock for the roof tiles. Once the paper was colored and dry, I used the Village Rooftops die to cut out about 28 strips. Once I put them on the roof, I ran my blending tool with a slight amount of Black Soot paint over top to darken them.

I’ve left the embellishments simple… one could really go crazy at this point, but I just used a Cross bones Adornment above the door.

I have put together a video of the process, you can view it below or on our YouTube channel.

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Be sure to check out my other Villages in the series, I have created a Surf Shack and Victorian Mansion. I hope you have a great week and thanks for stopping by!!!