Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Trick or Treat


I'm having one of those weeks. My designs don't seem to be cooperating and I keep looking out the window at the gorgeous weather and just feel like being outside. I do, however, have a TON of Halloween stuff going totally unused so I really did want to see if I could come up with something quick and easy. Why I chose to stamp is beyond me. LOL I'm the first to admit I STINK at stamping but I've got drawers full and still keep buying more. I saw think Inkadinkadoo stamp last year in rubber but didn't buy it (and was always sorry) so when I saw it in a set in acrylic I jumped on it. I don't want to even tell you how many times I had to stamp to get a decent image (and to even get the ink to stay on it for that matter). My dear friend Lillie solved that one for me by asking if I'd washed it first. HUH? Wash a new stamp? To me that's sorta like having to wash new clothes before wearing (okay, I do wash new underwear, but regular stuff, come on!) Well thank you Lillie, it did work MUCH better after washing.
I decided to frame my stamp with one of the Halloween Card Borders from The Cutting Cafe. WooHoo, no problem with stamping there, AND I could resize it to fit my stamped image. There are 6 different borders and each style comes with or without border lines so 12 different frames in all. Had a hard time choosing, but I'm sure I'll be using some of the others SOON! Finally I colored with my Copics and ran the stamped image through my Cuttlebug to give it a bit of background texture. The green frame was cut with my Nesties Mega curved rectangles and I used that exasperating MS Spiderweb punch because I didn't want it to get the best of me. Notice no corners though. LOL So here's my quick and easy card that managed to still take several hours to do. TIME FOR LUNCH!

13 comments:

  1. Well look at me being the 1st to post... I don't think I've ever seen a stamped card that you made... very very nice coloring.. That Lillie knows just about everything... she is as amazing as you are.

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  2. Love the card! Love all the layers and embossing too. ~Diane

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  3. Donna, it turned out so stinkin cute my friend. No, Sandy, I tried just about everthing when I first bought the clear stamps, lol. Great job on the coloring with your Copics. Now you are going to have to do more stamping on your cards! lol

    Hugz, xx

    ~L~

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  4. I love when the weather starts to turn a little cooler this time of the year. I have to say, Summer is by far my favorite time of the year but watching Fall turn everything so colorful in VA is fabulous. Your Halloween card is so cute. The swiss dot embossing is lovely!

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  5. Oh Donna, love it, all of it, the boarder is darling, the ribbon, yum. Hugs

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  6. What a cute, cute stamp and card....I love how you framed it all in....

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  7. cute card Donna, as always your design is superb.
    hugs
    En xx

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  8. Donna this is as stunning as always, why do we go through these dilemma's every now and then.

    hugs
    Kaye x

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  9. O.K., first of all... I NEED that stamp! That is the cutest little crowd of trick-or-treaters! Love that you embossed it all and LOVE how you framed it. I'm going to make you a video tutorial on that MS border/corner punch combo. It's driving me nuts that YOU can't figure it out! LOL!

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  10. Very cute Halloween card Donna! Love the web at the bottom! Oh so cute!

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  11. Cute D! Your so funny...you wash the underwear? ok, shoot, thats one thing I DO do! LOL! I even like how you swiss dotted over the image, just added that little bit! and I LOVE the green frame!!!

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  12. Super cute! Love how you put it together. I've got one more Halloween card to do, maybe I'll try the frame...thanks for the idea!

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  13. now isn't this the cutest ever....donna you rock...hugs

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