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Spooky Sweet Pumpkins and Ghosts Card

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Spooky Sweet Pumpkins and Ghosts Card

Make another fun Halloween card using the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper by using one of the scenes on the papers plus the spooky characters on the paper and cut-outs. There is so much you can do with this paper! For this card, the Spooky Sweet Pumpkins and Ghosts Card, I even added a few little ghosts floating over the field of pumpkins!

The card base is Basic Black cardstock. It goes with the nightime scene out in the pumpkin field. All I did was add some Halloween characters out on the sidewalk from the designer paper. The rhinoceros is a diecut and is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. His little friend, the bird carrying a pumpkin bucket, is standing on the brick wall in the background. The little bat dressed up like a ghost is fussy-cut from the designer series paper. He is also popped up on a few Dimensionals and the bird on the wall is adhered flat to the card.

Just to make the card spookier, I cut out three little ghosts by hand. You can sketch a little ghost by just drawing an arch and then a wiggly bottom of some kind. Add a face for your ghost and cut out. I popped up all the ghosts with one Dimensional each!

The greeting is stamped with the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set on Basic White with Memento ink. To fit them on the card better, I cut all the words apart and made them as narrow as possible. To make them spooky, I sponged them each with a little bit Gorgeous Grape ink. While I thought the card was busy enough, there was no way I could skip adding some Shimmer Star Foam Stickers for a little sparkle.

You still have time to make some Halloween cards for friends and family and get them in the mail! Have fun with whatever supplies you have to make some fun or spooky cards!

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Spooky Sweet Candy Corn Tree Halloween Card

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Spooky Sweet Candy Corn Tree Halloween Card

This Spooky Sweet Candy Corn Tree Halloween Card was a quick and fun card to make at the last minute with no plan! With no card idea in mind except that I wanted to make a Halloween card, I pulled out the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper pack and took it from there!

This Spooky Sweet designer paper is called “Specialty” because it comes with a couple sheets of diecut images. All you have to do is punch them out and adhere them somewhere on your card, project, or scrapbook page. It also comes with “cut-apart” images that could be tags for a candy treat bag or background Halloween scenes of haunted houses or city streets. What got this card started was the strip of paper above the houses that is a Petunia Pop background and an iron fence. That is what I placed on the bottom of my card! My card has a Basic Black card base with a layer of Petunia Pop cardstock, one of the In Colors from last year and now in its second year.

After I had the fence, I just built a scene! I hadn’t used the diecut trees yet so I adhered one with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop it up. With the little candy corns being individual diecuts, I thought, why not make a candy corn tree?! Haven’t we all wondered where candy corn comes from? Well, it certainly must come from spooky Halloween trees! You can see them growing right on this tree! I also added the pumpkins with a crow on top and the little Halloween fairy. She is popped up on Dimensionals.

The greeting is stamped in Petunia Pop ink from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set. I love the greetings in this stamp set. There is also a die set that is very cute that you can add to the stamp set and purchase in the Spooky Halloween Bundle. There still is time to order these Halloween sets and designer paper and be able to make and send Halloween card and treats and certainly to make scrapbook pages to record fun Halloween memories. To help the greeting fit and to look a little more interesting, I cut the words apart and even cut around the shapes of some of the letters in order to fit in the space beside the candy corn tree. For a little sparkle on the card, I also added some Shimmer Star Foam Stickers in all three colors – black, white, and purple. I love these foam stickers! I love that they come in three colors and in different sizes so you can really mix and match depending on your project.

It’s time to make some Halloween cards to give and send so copy some of my ideas and have fun making your special Halloween creations! Remember, the Halloween products are in the Online Exclusives, not in the Holiday Mini Catalog.

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Spooky Sweet Haunted Street Halloween Card

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Spooky Sweet Haunted Street Halloween Card

You know Halloween is really going to sneak up on us! And if you want to mail cards to people, you have to think ahead (note to self!). This Spooky Sweet Haunted Street Halloween Card is an easy card to make if you have the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper. This paper even comes with some diecut images that you just pop out and adhere to your card or project.

The designer paper in this package is so fun and interesting. Two of the sheets feature different Halloween scenes, such as a street of haunted houses that can be cut apart and used however you like. For this card, I cut just this single house and cut it to fit on this card front. I cut the bottom edge and also along the roof lines on the top. The card base is Petunia Pop cardstock with a layer of Basic Gray cardstock. When you trim down this image on the designer paper it will fit on the card.

After getting the basic card made, I looked at the diecut images on two of the sheets that come in the package and chose the two pumpkins with the crow on top and a couple of bats. The pumpkins are popped up. The greeting is stamped with the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set. I stamped the words with Memento Ink on Pumpkin Pie cardstock, then trimmed it down as narrow as I could and separated the words. I popped up the greeting on Dimensionals. I really like this technique of cutting the words apart or making them very narrow to make them fit better on the card. I also added several Shimmer Star Foam Stickers in purple and black. Love these things!

Just get out your designer papers, look through them, and see what ideas you come up with. You might even find a good paper to use for Halloween in a package of birthday paper or who knows what! Have fun with creating!

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Beautiful Gallery Happy Halloween Card

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Beautiful Gallery Happy Halloween Card

This Beautiful Gallery Happy Halloween Card I thought was somewhat of an original idea when I made it, but then I saw that Sara Douglass had made something very similar on Instagram on the @stampinupofficial account! I got the idea to use one of the scenes in the Beautiful Gallery 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper as the background for a Halloween card from seeing people buying framed paintings of scenery like in a thrift store and then painting extra things on the picture. I think I also saw something on an Instagram story from one of my favorite gift shops that reminded me of that. It all made me think of the Beautiful Gallery paper as a background for the two stamped characters in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set .

I’ll tell you how I did mine, then tell you about Sara’s, and show you what the paper looks like on its own. My card base is made with Crumb Cake cardstock. I chose a scene in the Beautiful Gallery DSP that I thought could work with the two Halloween characters. It has a grayish/brownish sky, some green hilly land, and some white stalky flowers in the forefront. I cut this paper down to 4″ x 5 1/4″ to fit the front of the card. Before adhering it, I colored in the sky a little bit to make it look a little spookier. I used a Small Blending Brush to lightly add some Petunia Pop ink in the clouds and some Pumpkin Pie ink in the lighter horizon area just above the trees and hills.

The two characters were stamped from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set on Basic White with Memento ink. Normally I would color them with Stampin’ Blends markers, but I felt they might be too vibrant for the Halloween scene so I used Watercolor Pencils instead. I chose a variety of colors of the pencils from my old set. You can choose from Assortment 1 HERE or Assortment 2 HERE. I used to love to color with these pencils! After coloring, if you like, you can use a Blender Pen to smooth out the lines or blend some colors. If you are using Basic White, you want to color lightly and not overdue it or the paper will pill a tiny bit, Or you can stamp on watercolor paper. You could also use Water Painters, which are now back in stock. I forgot I bought the Spooky Halloween Dies so I fussy-cut these two costumed characters. You can buy the stamp set and dies together in the Spooky Halloween Bundle and save 10%.

The two Halloween guys are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals, some little bitty pieces, although you could adhere them flat on the card as well. The greeting is in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set and is stamped in Petunia Pop ink on Basic White, then cut apart with Paper Snips scissors. I also used my Small Blending Brush to add a little bit Pumpkin Pie ink to make it look a little spooky. The greeting is also popped up on Dimensionals. The little stars in the sky are from a gift a special friend brought back for me from Japan as she visited all kinds of stationery stores on her trip!

This was such a fun card to make and I’m happy with the way it turned out. This is what the paper looked like before I started.

Beautiful Gallery Paper Halloween Card

On the @StampinupOfficial Instagram account, Sara Douglass used one of the other papers, the one with the cottage. She used reinkers in Gorgeous Grape and Smoky Slate with a Water Painter to add color to the sky. She used White Craft ink to draw in two little ghosts in the foreground and one tiny one farther and added eyes to the ghosts with a Black Stampin’ Blend Marker. I love what she did with the scenic paper and the little ghosts! Go check it out.

Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card

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Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card

I thought it would be fun to make a Halloween card again so I pages through the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper. I hadn’t used this paper with the building fronts on it, and I wondered how I would use that on a card. After seeing it in my mind as looking like a spooky high-rise apartment building, I decided on this Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card. A slimline card would look like a tall building with multiple spooky windows!

The Basic Black card base is cut at 6″ x 6″ so I could score and fold it in half at 3″. That makes the card 3″ x 6″ which fits in some regular office-style envelopes I usually have on hand. You can make a slimline card taller and wider if you want.

For the designer paper layer, the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper, I cut it just “a smidge” smaller than the 3″ x 6″ card base. That’s technically 2 7/8″ x 5 7/8″. Or you could cover the entire front, or make the margin the normal size. For the inside of the card, I used “the other side” of this pattern with all the spooky windows which just has some light orange lines across it. Since it was fairly light, I was able to stamp “Happy Halloween” inside, from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set. I also stamped some bats for fun!

Back to the front of the card! I stamped the word “Spooky” from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set in Pumpkin Pie on Basic White cardstock, then just cut around each stamped word. I think the words fit better on the card this way. It’s a great technique to use when you need to save space. I popped up all the words with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a little bit of embellishment, I added a few of the purple stars in the new Shimmer Star Foam Stickers. These little things are so fun to use! They really are foam so they feel very funny when you slide them off the sheet! The are sparkly and fun and come in three sizes and three colors – white, purple, and black.

This Spooky Sweet Paper is called “Specialty” because also included in the package are cut-apart images and diecut images you can use for extra fun on cards, Halloween projects, and scrapbook pages! Check out all the Halloween products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!

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Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card inside

Spooky Sweet Trick or Treaters Halloween Card

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Spooky Sweet Trick or Treaters Halloween Card

I was so tickled with the Halloween card I made in my previous post that I had to make another one right away! Halloween decorations and things just make me happy! I won’t be decorating my house for at least another month, but I’m happy to start making Halloween cards and other projects to provide some inspiration for you.

I really wanted to use this Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper with the little drawings of candies on the gray background. So cute! The card base is Granny Apple Green which goes with the paper, but I felt like the paper stood out more with a layer of black behind it. I made the margins very narrow so the Basic Black is 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″ and the candies designer paper is the usual 5 1/4″ x 4″. I diecut a Pumpkin Pie circle from the Spotlight On Nature Dies. I could have used Stylish Shapes Dies or a large circle punch. It’s just meant to be a background to help show off the three trick or treaters, however, it also looks like a moon out on Halloween night. I could have tucked it behind the bottom strip of paper and made it look more like a moon. Either way, I think it works.

The three trick or treaters are fussy-cut from the sheet of costumed characters in the package of DSP. It wasn’t as difficult or “fussy” as you might think! It helps to leave a tiny bit of white margin around the image and that makes it easier to cut out. The first and third costumed characters are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and the middle guy is glued flat on the card front. I did add that strip at the bottom of the candy designer paper. It is the opposite side of the candy pattern! I made it 5 1/4″ x 1 1/4″. You could make it whatever width you like. The characters just needed something to “stand” on.

The greeting is in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set along with some cute character stamps and greetings. I stamped it with Memento ink on the opposite side of the character paper. To make it smaller to fit better and to look more interesting, I cut the greeting into narrow pieces and then popped each one up on Dimensionals. When I stamped the greeting, I noticed the little bats stamp in the set so I stamped some bats on the orange circle (before adhering the words!). There were also small blackbirds on the designer sheet so I cut two of those out and placed them on the card. Finally, because once you have them you can’t resist, I added some purple and white Shimmer Star Foam Stickers. These are so fun to use, you really should order some and I’m sure you can use them on other cards for other occasions, not just Halloween!

You’ll find this Spooky Sweet Suite Collection and individual products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives. If you love Halloween, too, you might like the Sweet & Spooky Kit in the Kits Collection to make some Halloween treat boxes. This is a very cute kit!

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Spooky Sweet Happy Halloween Card

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Spooky Sweet Happy Halloween Card

This is my first Halloween card for this year, and I am so excited!! I love how it turned out and I enjoy anything cute for Halloween! This Spooky Sweet Happy Halloween Card was made with the designer paper and stamp from the Spooky Sweet Suite Collection in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!

The Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper is going to be so much fun to use on Halloween cards, scrapbook pages, or other projects! Not only do you get papers with costumed animals, spooky haunted houses, and other printed papers to coordinate, but you also get diecut pieces of all types plus patterns to cut apart for tags or maybe labels for cards and scrapbook pages plus embellishments on your project. This paper is almost like a kit with all kinds of things you can use!

For this card, I started with a base of Basic Black cardstock. Next, I started cutting apart some of the Spooky Sweet Designer Paper and looking at the animal characters and the diecuts to see what I wanted to make. There are two full sheets that have street-like scenes of spooky houses, fences, and sidewalks. I cut apart this one house, although I didn’t cut it the size I intended to and almost started over with the other sheet of paper with the row of Halloween houses. But I stuck with it and just adhered it over to the right edge of the card with a strip of the back of another paper in the pack for the orange strip along the left side of the card.

Once I had that basic card design made, I played around with the other elements in the designer paper. I chose the goofy little bird carrying a pumpkin to be popped up on Dimensionals as if he is walking along the sidewalk, plus a couple candy corns because I couldn’t resist! For the greeting, I cut apart some of the tags/banners and stamped “Happy Halloween” with a stamp in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set in Memento ink. I trimmed down the banner a tiny bit and cut the left side on an angle so I could angle the greeting. I also flagged the right side. It’s a Halloween card so you can do anything crazy on it that you want!

Luckily I remembered that I also bought the Shimmer Star Foam Stickers in the Suite. These are really different little things! They are actually foam, so if you stick the Take Your Pick Tool underneath them to get off the sticker page and onto your project you will feel the foam! It’s kind of odd when we are used to solid gems! But they are very sparkly and come in three sizes and three colors: White, Black, and Purple. I had fun putting them on this card!

If you want to save 10%, purchase the Spooky Halloween Bundle and get the dies that go with the stamp set. I couldn’t resist the characters and sentiments in this Bundle for Halloween!

Unfortunately, Stampin’ Up! didn’t put Halloween sets in the Holiday Mini Catalog, just the Online Exclusives. The Mini, however, does have a couple of nice fall/autumn stamps, dies, and papers. There are more in the upcoming Online Exclusives coming September 3rd, plus more Christmas! So get ready for lots more new things September 3rd with the new September-December 2025 Mini (Holiday Mini), Onlines Exclusives, and two new Kits in the Kits Collection. It will be a fun day!

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Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card

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Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card

Here’s a fun Valentine to make! I used the book fold design which is easy to do and just gives a little different look to your card. You can make this Hearts of Elegance Love Book Card with this design and decorate it for any occasion.

To make the book fold card, cut a piece of cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″. Score at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″. Basically, you are cutting a sheet of cardstock in half vertically, scoring in half at 5 1/2″ and adding an extra score line at 4 1/4″. That’s the line that makes this a book fold card. Before adhering that book fold together you can choose to wrap some ribbon around the inside to tie on the front or punch two holes in that side book fold for some ribbon and a bow.

The card base for this card is Real Red. I adhered a 1″ x 4″ strip of the Cherry Cobbler color in the Festive Glimmer Paper. Even though it is not Real Red, I think it looks fine on the card. Before glueing the book fold, I wrapped around a very long piece of Gold Twisted Thread twice and then tied a bow. After having the book fold how I wanted it I glued it together with Multipurpose Liquid Glue or you could use Stampin’ Seal.

The front of the card is decorated with a piece of the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper. It is cut at 4″ x 4″. You could make it smaller and add a layer underneath if you wanted. This designer paper has gold foil marbled designs on it which is what makes it extra-special and fancy to use on Valentines and other special cards.

To decorate the card, I diecut three hearts with pierced designs with the die in the Hearts of Elegance Dies. These hearts are Gold Foil, Real Red, and Petal Pink. Before I decided on these three hearts, I used some of the other heart dies to cut out extra hearts and the ones I didn’t use I just saved in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set case. As long as you are diecutting, go ahead and make some extras of general things, like hearts, that you can use any time!

Here’s a tip for diecutting gold foil without leaving marks on the foil from your very used cutting pad! Place the dies on the cardstock you are cutting, then place a scrap piece of computer printer paper over the whole piece of gold foil. Run it through the Cut & Emboss Machine and the paper will protect the gold foil from looking scratched up!

For the greeting I stamped the “Love You” sentiment on Basic White cardstock in Real Red ink, but I chose to cut out around the word “Love” and also trim the word “you” just into a rectangle. It’s plenty easy to trim around a word or phrase like this for a different look to your sentiment just by taking your time, cutting outside the inked lines for the word and don’t go into every nook and cranny of the stamped word! Just use Paper Snips or some other sharp small scissors that allow you to twist and turn the paper to reach the areas you want to cut.

Everything is glued down flat, but you could pop up the sentiment or one or more hearts if you wanted to. For some extra embellishment, I added three Petal Pink dots in the Low Profile Dots. These are great because they do not stick up on the card barely at all so they won’t poke holes in the envelope when you mail the card! On the inside, put a layer of Basic White, maybe trimmed with a piece of the designer paper or a stamped or diecut heart so you can stamp a message or write a personal note inside the card. Then mail your Valentine or special card to someone who will be happy to hear from you!

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Spooky Ghosts on a Halloween Card

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This Spooky Ghosts Halloween Card winds up the Halloween season here on my blog! Are you taking kids out for trick-or-treating tonight or are you staying home and handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters? I love being home and giving out candy, especially to the itty bitty trick-or-treaters. We used to have a LOT of kids come to our house after the little neighborhood carnival down the street years ago, but now we have half or less that we used to have as our neighborhood has gotten older.

This card has a Pumpkin Pie cardstock card base with a layer of the orange dotted patterned paper in the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper. I cut a strip of the striped pattern in the package to make sort of a wall on the left side of the card. And at the bottom, I cut out some of the Potions & Spells books, also printed in the Halloween Spells DSP.

Then came my favorite part….making ghosts! I learned this from a Demonstrator group meeting I attended with my friend who would become my upline when I signed up. I thought it was so creative! Use a heart punch, heart die, or simply cut out a heart by hand. Then cut it in half! You have two ghosts! Of course, with the flat edge, you have to put them so they are peeking out from somewhere. I put some faces on mine with a Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker. For the third ghost, I just cut off part of the bottom of the heart so it looks like just his head is poking out from behind the stack of books! The little sentiments are stickers from the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. They fit in there perfectly.

I’m sorry that Halloween will be over after today. I think the decorations I have for the house, cards, and Halloween things I can make are so much fun. The Halloween colors are great, too, to work with! But now it’s on to the next holiday!

Have a safe and fun Halloween today and tonight!

Halloween Memories So Spooky Sticker Card

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Halloween Memories So Spooky Sticker Card

Halloween is really getting close now! Here’s a quick and easy card to make, the Halloween Memories So Spooky Sticker Card. Even if you don’t have these exact materials, you can make something similar with whatever you have!

This card is made with the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. It is great for scrapbooking and even comes with layouts and detailed instructions if you want to follow their design. But you can also use the paper and stickers for making cards, treats, and other projects. If you don’t have this kit with the sticker sheet, you can substitute other paper or stamping. The kit includes the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper that you can order online but is not in a catalog.

This card starts with a Basic Black card base but you could use any other Halloween color. The background is a pattern in the Halloween Spells DSP that has little bubbles from the potion. The three stripes at the bottom of the card are stickers in the Workshop Kit but you could use the striped paper pattern in the Halloween Spells to put across there or just some other coordinating designer paper or stamped strip.

The So Spooky on the card is a large sticker in the kit. That sure makes it easy! Even the two black stars are stickers. If you don’t have the kit, just stamp some Halloween greeting on cardstock and adhere it, maybe add some spooky, glittery gems….which could be anything! Maybe some Googly Eyes if you have some.

This is one of those cards that I liked a lot when I finished it even though it took barely any planning or time at all! It was super simple!

Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card

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Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card

I hate that Halloween is sneaking up so fast because there are so many fun Halloween cards and projects to make! There’s just not enough time! But this Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card was fun to make with the special Halloween designer series paper and the glimmer paper, stamp set, and dies.

The card base is Basic Black cardstock but you could choose other colors as well to match the paper. For the background, I chose the spooky striped paper from the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper.

The cauldron and its handles are cut out of Silver Foil. I even colored with one of the gray Stampin’ Blends markers for a little shading along the edges of the pot but I don’t think it was worth the effort really. There is also a cauldron you can stamp in the Potions & Spells Stamp Set and color in or stamp on colored cardstock and then diecut with the Potion & Spells Dies as I did on THIS CARD.

The little stack of books on potions and spells is stamped from the Potions & Spells Set, colored with Stampin’ Blends and die cut. You can also get books on another sheet of the Halloween Spells paper but they are larger. The black cat is stamped on gray (I can’t remember ever which gray is which!) cardstock, shaded in a tiny bit with a light gray Stampin’ Blend and diecut. If you want to get the stamps and dies together they do come in a Bundle and you’ll save 10%. (The dies are due back in stock next week so then the Bundle will be available again!)

The fun part of the card is making all the bubbles coming out of the potion in the cauldron! These are all diecut little bubbles of various sizes and I used the Festive Glimmer Paper and the Three-Color Glimmer Paper. I also used some Pumpkin Pie cardstock bubbles and a few Lemon Lime Twist cardstock bubbles. Just play and do it however you like! And then there is the diecut of the potion running over the edge of the cauldron!

The little greeting at the bottom of the cauldron is one of the words on the scrapbooking sheet of stickers in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit that you can find online. In this pack you get Two-Tone cardstock, the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper and some other sheets for scrapbook layouts plus the sticker sheet with all kinds of fun things on it! Check it out because it might inspire you to make those Halloween scrapbook pages of your kids when they were little (or big!) or you can use the materials to make cards and other fun projects or treats!

It’s time to make those Halloween greetings, treats, party favors, scrapbook pages ready for photos, whatever you like!

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Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card

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Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card

It’s October so Halloween is getting close! All the holidays are getting close! This Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card uses a combination of products but it was fun to make. You don’t always need the perfect idea in your head when you make a card! Just pick “something” to start with…a stamp set, a set of designer papers, a set of dies…and start playing with different ideas. You might use different colors of cardstock than you thought. You might use the other side of the designer paper you planned to use. Maybe some other image in the stamp set works better. You never know!

The main thing I started with for this card was the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper with the potions and spells books. You can buy this paper by itself in the Online Exclusives, but I got mine in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. I also got a sticker sheet, two-tone cardstock sheets, and more. You can make three 2-page scrapbook page spreads with this kit or use the supplies to make cards or other projects, which is what I am doing.

Once I had the idea of using a certain designer paper, I chose another one of the papers for the background and Pumpkin Pie cardstock for the card base. I also wanted to use the little Dracula guy in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set on my card, even though he was a little small. I planned to stack the potions and spells books and maybe have the ghost standing on top. After cutting out a strip of the books, I decided to trim around the edges of the books to make them smaller. Then I decided to use a strip of the black and white strip in between the books along the edge of my card. After that, I tried placing the books on end along the bottom of the card and that was the key! I liked that look! Sometimes you just know! Then I placed the Dracula ghost, colored with Black and Highland Heather Stampin’ Blend Markers and cut out by hand, on top and added a greeting and all was well with the world!

The greeting is in the Potions & Spells Stamp Set. I thought it was perfect for this card. I already had this diecut banner in my package of Basic White cardstock, so I stamped on it for the greeting. This die is in the Nested Essentials Dies. I also stamped some little starry stamps in the same stamp set in Highland Heather ink on the banner and tied a little bow with double strands of Linen Thread. It is adhered in the top corner of the banner with a Mini Glue Dot. For some sparkle, to enhance the potions & spells theme, I added some Shiny Sequins in two different colors.

Here’s another card I made with the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set.

Time to make those Halloween cards to send!

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Potions & Spells Halloween Card

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Potions & Spells Halloween Card

This Potions & Spells Halloween Card was a fun card to make, even though Halloween is a little ways off yet! It was my first time to use this stamp set and dies and the background paper is from an unlikely package of designer paper! Do you know which one?

I thought maybe I had a purple designer paper pattern in my packages that I could use for a background on a Halloween card, but I quickly came across this pattern in the Flowering Zinnias Designer Series Paper. The Pumpkin Pie color and the nondescript pattern make it look like spooky Halloween paper to me! On the other side are giant zinnias, which anyone would be amazed to see if they turned this orange paper over! But that’s why our Stampin’ Up! designer series paper is so useful. One side is usually a specific theme but the other side of the papers is usually a generic pattern that you can use any time. If you were making a floral card, these little yellow designs on the orange paper would remind you of flowers. But they can also look like little twinkles or sparkles for Halloween, especially with a cauldron boiling and bubbling!

The card base is Gorgeous Grape. I almost used Blackberry Bliss cardstock but decided that was darker than I liked. It would have been fine, though. For the images on the card, I used the Potions & Spells Bundle which you will find in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives and colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers. Then you can cut out the cauldron, the cat, and the bird with the matching dies. I cut out the bubbles by hand.

The cauldron is stamped with Memento ink on Gray Granite cardstock. I also added some color and shading to the edges of the pot with Stampin’ Blends. The parrot and cat are stamped on Basic White, colored with various Stampin’ Blends markers and die cut. The bubbles were kind of fun! I ended up using quite a few different colors to make them look like boiling bubbles. The finishing touch was using Soft Sea Foam on them! I felt satisfied with how they looked after using Pool Party, Petal Pink, and other colors which was starting to look a little weird until I softened everything with Soft Sea Foam.

The cauldron is glued down flat with Stampin’ Seal with the bubbles adhered flat behind the top of the pot. The cat is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals as is the bird. The greeting is so fun! It is stamped in Gorgeous Grape ink and die cut with one of the Nested Essentials Dies. Then I sponged Gorgeous Grape ink around the edges. I also added some Glossy Dots in Gorgeous Grape and Daffodil Delight on the greeting and on the card.

It’s a fun card that came together pretty well using the new Potions & Spells Stamp Set and Dies (save 10% by buying both together in a Bundle). You’ll only find Halloween and fall sets in the Online Exclusives this year so you don’t have to wait for the Holiday Mini. Get them early and then you’ll have them and be ready to go!

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Playful Ghosts Halloween Card

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Playful Ghosts Halloween Card

Yes, here it is! My first Halloween card of the season! And it’s barely August! This is the Playful Ghosts Halloween Card and I purposely kept it simple. I had planned to put some bling on the card, but I forgot before I took the photo. But that’s okay because we’re keeping it simple!

I just got this Playful Ghosts Stamp Set. You will find it in the Online Exclusives. I held off on ordering it because I wanted to see what Halloween and fall stamp sets would be in the Holiday Mini Catalog. But I didn’t see any when Demonstrators got to see the mini catalog online the other day. Stampin’ Up! announced that they put the majority of Halloween products in the Online Exclusives so they would be available earlier and Stampin’ Up! would have time to reorder anything if necessary. So if you are planning on Halloween, look in the Online Exclusives now! There will be some sort of Halloween scrapbooking release later on with stickers, a designer paper pack, and a scrapbook pages kit.

The card base is Basic Black with a layer of Gorgeous Grape cardstock. I stamped the Gorgeous Grape cardstock with Gorgeous Grape in using the little bat stamp and “Boo!” stamp in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set. I love to do stamping like this, just stamping randomly all over a paper. You’re actually making your own designer paper when you do this!

The ghost is stamped in Memento Ink on Basic White. I colored the pumpkin and ghost with Stampin’ Blends – Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, and a tiny bit of gray (I forget which color I used) and softened that gray around the edges of the ghost with the Color Lifter. And his mouth is colored with Light Cherry Cobbler.

The Basic White and Pumpkin Pie pieces are cut out with Deckled Rectangles Dies. They were just the right size! Before adhering the ghost to the Pumpkin Pie piece, I sponged a little Gorgeous Grape ink around the edge of the rectangle. I did it the old-fashioned way with a piece of sponge. We used to sell these large round sponges and then I would cut it into smaller pieces. Now you could use Sponge Daubers or maybe even the Blending Brushes.

As you can see, this is a very simple, easy, quick card to make for Halloween! You can jazz it up a little more if you wish, maybe with some splattering, ribbon, gems, or other ways. But sometimes just simple is just fine!

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A Trio of Ghosts Halloween Card

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Trio of Ghosts Halloween Card

I got the idea for this Trio of Ghosts Halloween Card from something I saw online, probably on Pinterest. It was a group of little tags that looked like ghosts! That gave me the idea to make tags that looked like ghosts but put them on a card! Why not have fun making a Halloween card?!

This card base is Basic Black with a layer of the Them Bones Designer Series Paper. I chose the pattern with the tiny bats because they are flying with the ghosts! You could make similar ghosts in any number of ways depending on what you have on hand to use. For my ghosts, I used the Tailor Made Tags Dies but I made them shorter than the die. If the die is longer than you want, roll the die through as far as you want it, then take it out of the machine. Scoot the die up so it is where you want the bottom of the tag to be but align it with what is already diecut. You will be able to feel it when it fits perfectly. Just try it and you will figure it out!

I drew on faces with a Stampin’ Blends Black marker. If you have a small hole punch you could punch out the black eyes to adhere instead of drawing and add that little white highlight with a gel pen.

The “boo” is stamped with the Alphabest Stamp Set and Memento ink. You wouldn’t have to add that but I thought it was cute! The center ghost is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

At the top of each ghost, I tied a little bow with the Black & White 1/4″ Gingham Ribbon and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot. Each bow covers up the little tag hole but you could also tie ribbon through the hole instead of a bow.

If you had “googlie eyes” you could adhere those on the ghosts instead of drawing on the eyes.

There you have another idea for a Halloween card! We are almost out of time!