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Trick or Treat

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  It’s time for my Visible Image Design Team post and this week’s theme is Halloween and my brief is CAS - clean and simple.   I’m using the lovely pumpkins from the  Happy Halloween stamp set as I don’t really use them at any other time.   Maybe I should try to remedy that?! I wanted to speed up the colouring of the pumpkins so decided to experiment and use black card for them. First, I used Versamark to stamp and clear heat-emboss the small pumkin. Covering the small pumpkin with a mask, I stamped and clear heat-embossed the large pumpkin. For the colouring, I used Finetec watercolour metallic paints in orange for the pumpkin and green for the stalk.   The embossing resists the paint so you don’t have to be super careful about not going over the lines.   Once the paint had dried, I quickly fussy cut the pumpkins. For me, a CAS card has to have a reasonable area of blank space, in this case white, but I didn’t care for leaving it all blank.   I blended some Villainous Potion
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Snowy Night

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I thought it was about time I started on my Christmas cards since I haven’t done the same as last year which was making a few each month.   A recent purchase were some dies from the Tim Holtz vault release and this week I’m using the snowman from the Winter Wishes set. First, I die-cut enough bits to make four snowmen.   The scarves and hats are formed from two pieces so I added a darker shade of ink to the skinnier pieces for some dimension. Next, the pieces were assembled and the little snowmen came to life. The snowmen were going to sit on a snowbank and I wanted the sentiment to be heat embossed in silver on this.   This fun font sentiment is from Joy To The Woods by Lawn Fawn. The background sky was an inky sheet made using various shades of blue Distress Sprays and Spritzes which I’d chopped into 4” squares.   I heat-embossed Lawn Fawn’s Snowy Backdrops in white on each square. The panels were to be mounted on 5” card blanks, which I decorated by stencilling Distress
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Location: Fareham, UK
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Snarky Halloween Cats

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The Stampers Anonymous Snarky Halloween Cats is my most recent purchase.   Whilst I don’t send Halloween cards as such, I liked the other sentiments in the set so decided to purchase it anyway.   The thing I really like about these sets is that it’s easy to make quick cards with them as they don’t need much colouring. To make the backgrounds, I used Distress Stains in Mustard Seed, Lumberjack Plaid and Distress Spritz in Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade for two.   The other two were sprayed with Villainous Potion and Twisted Citron Distress Stains and Wilted Violet and Twisted Citron Spritz.   For the latter panels, I had to wait for the different colours to dry so the colours didn’t get too muddy. I wanted to use the witches’ hat on one of the panels so I wiped the ink off the sticking up ear before stamping. The hat then sat nicely on the cat’s head. To add a little colour, I used a white pastel pencil and coloured pencils.   To make the eyes really stand out, I used
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Location: Fareham, UK
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