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Halloween Twist #3 and #4

These last two Halloween Twist cards use pretty much the same supplies as Halloween Twists 1 and 2. Just little variations.

#3: Use up your Creepy Crawly scraps for some non-Halloween cards. The trio of background paper scraps comes from a SCS Sketch challenge idea earlier this year. The Brocade Background papers also work really well for this. I've found that I'm happier with the way the background trio looks if I arrange them light to dark as they go from top to bottom. The little circles at the top are punched from black with a 1/4" punch, attached to the black image piece for dimension. I drew the white circles on them with the white gel pen.

#4:I thought being able to make a cactus from the Carved and Candlelit set made it even more versatile. The colors here are Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery and Summer Sun. And of course I cna't get enough of the Scallop circle punch and the Three for You flower punch.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Twist #2

Yep! It's still not really a Halloween card. I used one of the Carved and Candlelit pumpkins as my vase on this card then filled it with flowers from Spring Flower Bouquet and the Three for You punch kit.

The pumpkin is stamped in Bordering Blue, I was trying to get kind of a reflecting glass look though I'm not sure that's how it really turned out. I do like the way this color combination turned out: Bordering Blue, Brocade Blue Pumpkin Pie with a touch of white and Summer Sun.

The card itself is Brocade Blue. I dont' know if you can see it but the pumpkin layer is stamped with Paisley and the blue layer on top of that is stamped with Canvas.

Stamps: Three 4 You punch box, Carved and Candlelit, Canvas, Paisley
Inks: Summer Sun, Bordering Blue, Brocade Blue, Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Summer Sun, Bordering Blue, Brocade Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Accessories: Spring Bouquet Punch. 1/4" punch - the white center on one of the blue flowers.

Flower Clouds with Soft Sky

This card was inspired by the Layered Brayer technique that I saw on Andrea's blog, which is featured in a post I made earlier today. I thought it would be a good way to try out a couple of new inkpads.

I had intended to to actually follow the steps in Andrea's tutorial using All About Occasions with the new In Colors, Soft Sky and Blue Bayou plus rectangle shaped post it notes.   After I brayered the first layer of color with Soft Sky,  I thought the flowers looked like puffy clouds in the sky and didn't want to add rectangle shapes...

...So, I punched circles out of those post it notes to mask the flower centers. (Note: it's easier to punch if you layer three post it notes together with the tacky layers towards the inside.) That way I protected the flower centers from the darker ink,  Blue Bayou, that I brayered on for my second layer.  Basically, it is the same as Andrea's technique.  I just altered the shape of my post it notes.

To finish it off, I inked the jumbo thank you wheel from the set with Bayou Blue and wheeled across the bottom of a Soft Sky card.  I added a scallop made of  Blue Bayou cardstock with the corner rounder and a white gel pen.  Add one white, narrow organdy ribbon and voila, Flower clouds!