Scrapn Stamp It is Halloween October Blog Hop

Welcome to the Scrap'n Stamp October Blog Hop.
 This month the design team is featuring colours from the season being purple, orange and green. 
#SNSpurpleorangegreen
This month we are trying something new. We would like to invite you to play along with our blog hop this month. Check out on our new Facebook Challenge Page to play along. 

We also have three (3) $25.00 gift certificates to give away, so be sure to leave comments as you go through the hop to have your name entered for the drawing by October 25th. The draw will be held on October 26th and announced on the Scrap'n Stamp Blog.

These colours are fabulous together and screech Halloween for me, so I went with Halloween for one of my cards, where I used a new stamp set from Lawn Fawn called Pick of the Patch, which is just too cute. For my second card I used another Lawn Fawn set called Pumpkin Spice.

Starting with the It's Halloween card, I first masked off the area for the moon, then did a distress oxide background with wilted violet and twisted citron. I removed the mask and covered the sky area to do the moon, using squeezed lemonade and fossilized amber. Covering the grass area, I splattered the top of the card with water droplets. I then stamped the trees using Ranger's Jet Black ink then added Wink of Stella to some of the droplets and the tree branches and set aside to dry.
I stamped the pumpkins and squirrels on watercolour paper using Ranger Archival Inks in Monarch Orange for the pumpkins and Sepia for the Squirrels, cut them out, and watercoloured with distress inks in fossilized amber, carved pumpkin and ripe persimmon on the pumpkins. For the squirrels I used gathered twigs, hickory smoke and frayed burlap mixed with barn door.
On a piece of card stock I sponged on the fossilized amber and wilted violet, forming the moon in the sponging, then stamped and heat embossed my sentiment using white embossing powder. I die cut the sentiment and attached using foam dots. I then arranged the pumpkins and squirrels and attached, using foam squares for a few.
I finished up by stamping a face on one of the pumpkins along with adding a few sequins in various colours.
My second card is a fast and simple card to make.
I first stenciled an area of my card base using distress oxide in wilted violet. I stamped the cup on watercolour paper and painted the cup with twisted citron,  I used walnut stain to paint the cocoa and antique linen on the whip cream. I cut out the cup and attached it using foam squares. I then stamped the sentiment with Ranger's monarch orange, and finished my card with a few gumdrops in the challenge colours. 
I hope you have enjoyed these cards today as much as I enjoyed making them. 

On to the rest of the hop, next up is Nancy

If you have lost your way, following is a list of the team and their links.


18 comments

  1. Love your cards, especially the background on the LF one!!

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  2. Your cards are fantastic, I love how the sentiment blends in with the background yet stands out. Very Cool. :)

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  3. Your first card is so cute & whimsical - those squirrels are adorable! The background is fabulous. The stencil background on the 2nd card is awesome.

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  4. Your first card with the squirrels are adorable. Both cards are awesome.

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  5. Love your cards Kia. Especially loved the way you did your sentiment strip on the first card.

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  6. Ooh, what fabulous cards, Kia! Love those pumpkins (and the one with the top off -- hehe!), and the CAS card is so you...beautifully done, sweet friend! xoxo

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  7. Beautiful cards love the technique you used for the setimentbon the first on

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  8. Sweet and colorful non-scary Halloween card, Kia. Love your CAS pumpkin spice card with the stenciled background too. TFS my friend. Hugs.

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  9. Both cards are cute. The little squirrel and pumpkin scene is adorable.

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  10. Your cards are beautiful! I love all your creations, you are an inspiration truly. :) I was wondering with your first card, (unless I am missing it) what die you used to cut out your sentiment? I have never seen one like that, it is pretty, looks like a piece of wood to match the outdoors. Thanks adnilttoh@gmail.com

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  11. love your two adorable cards!!
    TFS

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  12. @Linda Hott ~ The die is from Frantic Stamper called Sentiment Labels and Strips.

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  13. Love your card, Kia! This one tugged at my heart strings, it is so sweet! Love the sponged background, especially that masked moon and the water droplets. Love little critters and pumpkins with lovely coloring!

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  14. Delightful cards! Love the fun scene with the squirrels and pumpkins! Fabulous coloring! And your second card is adorable!

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  15. you made it look beautiful even the second super simple card ..I love it! :-)

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  16. I love this card! :) Those squirrels are too cute.

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  17. These are beautiful! I love the purple background! I really need to try masking!!

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xoxo, Kia