13 Days of Halloween - Day 12 - Spooky Night Card

Hi everyone! :o)

Today I'm bringing DAY 12 of the 13 Days of Halloween series with this Spooky Night Card. :o)

To make this card I was inspired with a GORGEOUS Halloween card made by Yainea of My Paper Journey. Amazing color combination!!! Thank you for the inspiration Yainea!!! ♥

How I made my card....

To make my card I used stamps from a  Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set and a circle die cut from Sizzix Big Shot starter kit.

First I made masks. I die cut a circle from a post-it paper for the Moon mask. Then I stamped a tree on the post-it paper and fussy cut it.

Then I stamped the tree on a white cardstock paper panel. I masked the tree and glued the circle where I wanted the Moon to be.

Next up was ink blending. I ink blended the panel with Distress Inks (full supply list below). I splattered the panel with a water and dried the panel with a heating tool. I ink blended the panel again, splattered it and dried it. I ink blended it again until I was satisfied with the color. :o)

After I ink blended the panel, I removed masks and ink blended the tree and the Moon with a Distress Ink Black Soot. I pressed just a bit to get light shades.

When I was satisfied with colors, I stamped in black three bats on the panel.

I wanted to use a black cardstock card base for this card, but I didn't have any black cardstock large enough to make the card base from it, so I used a white cardstock paper. I folded a top folded card base and ink blended sides of the front with the Distress Ink Black Soot. I did this to hide white edges of the card base, as the panel didn't look well on it. After drying, I glued the panel on the card base and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 89 mm x 127 mm (3 1/2" x 5")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set 
• Sizzix circle thinlits die
• white cardstock paper
• post-it paper (for masking)
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks:
• Twisted Citron
• Cracked Pistachio
• Jet Black
• UHU liquid glue
• Sizzix Big Shot
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• scissors
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• paper towels
• water

I'm linking my card to following challenges:

Note: bold text is a direct link to the current challenge and blog badge ) is a direct link to a challenge home page.

1) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 44 - Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

2) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

13 Days of Halloween - Day 10 - Black&White Bats Candle Light Shades

Happy Friday!!! :o

Today I'm bringing DAY 10 of the 13 Days of Halloween series with these B&W Bats Candle Light Shades. :o)

Although it's not common here in Croatia to celebrate Halloween, my honey and I celebrate it each year. I made these candle light shades (and other decorations) to decorate our apartment for Halloween night. I made 13 candle light shades, symbolic, as we started to date in the Halloween night 13 years ago. :o)

I made these kind of candle light shades in the past and shared a tutorial here on my blog (here). I went with same design, just used white paper this year and went with stamping instead of tracing stencils.

How I made these candle light shades...

I cut a white printing paper into rectangles measured 210 mm x 88.9 mm.

I randomly stamped bats from Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set in black on each rectangle.

When the ink dried, I glued two shorter sides of rectangles together to form a cylinder shape and my super simple candle light shades were ready to use.

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set
• white printing paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• double sided self adhesive tape
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• scissors 

I really like how they look when tea light candles are lightened inside. :o)

Although they look amazing when candles lightened, I never leave these kind of projects unsupervised and never forget about safety when using candles of any kind (inside or outside).

If you decide to make your own and use them, please bare in mind that you are using these at your own risk. I can't and won't be responsible if anything goes wrong. NEVER ever forget about safety when using candles!!!

Safety notice:

• usage at your own risk
• for tea light candles only
• indoor usage only
• not for children of any age
• do not leave unsupervised 
• always be in the same room as your lighten tea light candles
• turn off candles when leaving the room

 

Safer option would be probably to use these light shades with LED tea light candles. I don't know if they give that dancing light as a regular tea light candles, because I never tried them.

Despite the fact that LED tea light candles are kind of safer than regular ones, I recommend all safety precautions when using them. Sadly, quality of products nowadays, especially electronics, can be very poor, so we must be careful when using them to avoid dangerous and unwanted situations.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

13 Days of Halloween - Day 6 - B&W Halloween Card

Hi everyone! :o)

My 3rd and last post for today. If you missed previous two just scroll down or follow direct links here and here. I announced my 5th Bloggoversary Giveaway Winner and TOP 4 and winner from I Love Math Challenge #14. :o)

Today I'm bringing DAY 6 of the 13 Days of Halloween series with this one layer, monochrome, B&W (Black and White) Halloween Card. :o)

To make this card I was inspired with a Halloween Ghosts Card, first project I made for this Halloween series (here).

How I made my card....

To make my card I used stamps from two Jane's Doodles stamp sets: bats from 'Haunted House' stamp set and a sentiment form 'Winnie Halloween' stamp set.

I also used a cloud stencil I made by myself (I've described  ow I made the stencil here).

I ink blended clouds in black with a Distress Ink Black Soot and a mini ink blending tool, directly on a white top folded card base. When I was finished with blending, I trimmed the base a bit (just not on the top).

Next up was stamping. I stamped the sentiment and bats with a Ranger Archival ink Jet Black and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 89 mm x 121 mm (3 1/2" x 4 3/4")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set 
• Jane's Doodles 'Winnie Halloween' stamp set
• handmade cloud stencil
• white cardstock paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool

I'm linking my card to following challenges:

Note: bold text is a direct link to the current challenge and blog badge ) is a direct link to a challenge home page.

1) Allsorts Challenge, Week 543 - Make your own Background No DP's

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 43 - Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

3) Rainbow Card Challenge, Challenge #10 - Brazenly Black

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

4) Shopping Our Stash, #407 - Halloween

All items are from my stash. Nothing new bought to make this card. :o)

5) Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, Spooky

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka