Elmhurst Hollow Full Moon Card

And, here is the 2nd project from the Elmhurst Hollow Collection from SVGcuts.com. It's called a Full Moon Card. I love the style and shape of this card along with the 3-D aspect of the card. The tree was sponged, embossed, then added to the left side of this card. Tree is from another SVG cut file (Haunted Hemlock Cards) also from SVGcuts.com.

Here's the layered flower with a glitter brad covering the pop-up mechanism. The flower is sponged using SU Old Olive and Craft White. A small patch of grass was added to the inside bottom of the card.

Bats have 2 layers: The dark grey and the light grey parts are sponged using black ink, popped with dimensionals and lastly, add red adhesive rhinestones for their eyes. I'm not sure where the printed words DSP originated from.......sponge the edges with SU More Mustard ink, spritz with Pearl Smooth for a shimmery effect................by the light of the shiny moon..right?

Shimmery effect:

Here's the inside of the card: Vanilla Card Stock with SU more Mustard sponged edges using that Inkssentials blending tool (you know the one: a wooden handle with removable foam pads). Message left blank for now.

Side view: The front gate is about 5/8" away from the main card. There is a small extension behind the gate to allow fold up/down.

This card can be folded flat to place in an envelope:

Supplies:

• Stamps: None



• CS: Black, Kraft, SU Old Olive, SU Grey, SU Light Grey



• Ink: Craft White, SU Old Olive, SU More Mustard, Black, SU Close to Cocoa



• Accys: Elmhurst Hollow SVG Collection, Haunted Hemlock Cards SVG Collection, Dimensionals, Gold Adhesive Rhinestones, Glitter Brad, Sizzix Woodgrain Texturz Plate, Vanilla Smooch Spray, Inkssentials Blending Tool, Martha Stewart Grass Punch.

Thank you for stopping by............................

Elmhurst Hollow Haunted House

This will be the only Halloween House I will make this year. Last year, I made a bunch of them in various themes. This year, I saw this house on SVGcuts.com designed by Mary - her Elmhurst Hollow Collection contains a Haunted House and other haunted projects which will be posted later this week. The house is embossed with a spider web embossing folder and all edges are sponged using Craft White ink. Printed paper: scraps I had from last year that worked really well. Finished house measures 8" x 5" x 8-1/4". This Haunted House is really special because it lights up through those vellum windows using those small LED candles.

See? Here's the house back opening to position the three candles
Here's the house with the candles during the day lit up:
With the lights shut off, the house looks great!!!! Love the spooky eyes on the roof.

In the house center, adhesive orange rhinestone eyes with vellum backs peer out from the roof:

In the right side roof, a small bat is attached to wires:

Left side has a larger bat attached with a wire:

House center window frames are in SU Green Galore CS and the boards are cut using SU Lavender Lace. The nail heads: Sukura Glaze Pen - love that pen!!!!

Of course, every house has to have a front porch with a pumpkin

Right house bottom has boards and also a pumpkin:

On the side of the house are additional vellum windows:

Left house bottom double multi windows with a pumpkin:

Supplies:

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  Stamps: None


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  CS: Black, SU Lavender lace, SU Glorious Green, Vellum Card Stock, Recollections Orange, Scrap DSP


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  Ink: SU Craft White, Black,


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  Accys: SVGcuts.com Elmhurst Hollow Collection, Gold Adhesive Rhinestones, Wet Adhesive, 3 LED lights, Sakura Glaze Black Pen, Wire, Sponge Daubers, Spider Web Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Thank you and stay tuned for more from this collection.....................

Spooky Diorama Card

Another SCAL (Sure Cuts a Lot computer program) card using a SVG cut file from Scrappedlives.nl - check out the site for additional cut files. Everything shown is in the cut file except the front stamped message. Now how easy can this be? This gate fold diorama card has cool shutters. All pieces are sponged with either black ink or SU Craft White ink. Finished card measures 4" x 5" and will fit into a A2 envelope.....Yay!

Here's the "Open if you Dare" stamped message....I think I found this in the $1 spot last year (before Michael's changed it to be the $1.50 spot!)

Open the left shutter to reveal a spider web:

Open the right shutter to reveal the "BOO" words stamped using SU Craft White ink.....

With all the shutter doors open, the center is the diorama: window is a black mat. A pair of Ghosts popped with dimensionals. I did add a 4"x 4" SU retired Halloween DSP scrap. And, yes, everything is sponged with black ink.

Here is the top view. The shutters? They are attached in the slots so they are "hidden".

Here is the card collapsed to send out.

Here are the pieces cut from the SVG cut file to make this card:

This is how the pieces are placed on the computer:

Supplies:

• Stamps: unknown



• CS: SU Pumpkin Pie, Recollections Black-White, SU Grey, SU retired Halloween DSP



• Ink: SU Black, SU Craft White



• Accys: SVG Cut File for Spooky Diorama Card, Dimensionals, Sticky Tape, White Gel pen, Sponge Dauber, 2 Way Glue Pen

And, if you don;t have the SCAL (Sure Cuts a Lot computer program) to make this card, visit Jackie Topa's Blog posted 10/25/2010 for some instructions on how to make this card/box using some tools you may already have on hand.

This card was fun to make and really quick, too......thanks for visiting today.

Thanks a Latte Card

Here's a quick thank you card: This was a free SVG cut file from My Scrap Chick. Yup, this entire card was using SCAL to cut. The only thing I cut was the Black base. Cool, eh? I loved the cut file so much I cased the whole thing including the colors used!!!! Adding a little bit of background stamping, embossing and ribbon didn't hurt either. All cut piece edges are sponged with SU Close to Cocoa ink.

Spots & Dots Embossing Folder used for the bottom red card stock:

Here's a close-up of the cup: a stripe embossing folder (part of the Retro Kitchen Collection of Embossing Folders) used for the sleeve.


Supplies:

• Stamps: SU Like it A Latte (from 2006)


• CS: Recollections Red-White-Kraft, SU Black


• Ink: SU Close to Cocoa, SU Crumb Cake


• Accys: Cuttlebug Spots & Dots Embossing Folder, Cuttlebug Retro Kitchen Collection Embossing Folder, SU 1/4" Red Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals, 2 Way Glue Pen, Sponge Daubers

Thanks for stopping by today.................................

Chinese Lantern Thank You

I really enjoyed making this card - Creative Artist Penny Duncan was on my mind. And when I say creative artist, I really mean it. She is the Queen of SCAL. This Chinese Lantern SVG cut file originally from Paulo (posted on 3-4-2010) but I had trouble downloading one part of the file so Patty was so kind to help me out. THANK YOU, so much PENNY. I sent her this card along with other goodies. Card size is 5-1/2" x 5-1/2". And, Of course, I love those Sizzlit Architectural Accents on the card corners (wow - it matches the inside, too)

Here's a close-up: the lantern has 3 layers. A co-ordinating Washi scrap paper is used for the middle section. I created the black "shadow" behind the lantern in SCAL (Sure Cuts a Lot computer program). Finished lantern size is 2-1/4" x 4-3/8". Entire lantern is popped with dimensionals. The Gold embossed circle is using a Cuttlebug Asian Embossing Folder popped with dimensionals on a Vanilla card stock which is then layered on top of Black Core-dinations card stock. The Vanilla 4-3/8" circle and 4" Gold Circle were cut using my SCAL program.

Open the card, the right half of the card acts as a pull (lever) to reveal my favorite accents on the card corners. This type of card was also cut using SCAL - SVG cut file is from SVGcuts Holly Jolly Lever Cards Collection. Love this because it is an exact cut every time. I was able to use the 4-5/8" circle cut out from the front card base, too so nothing was wasted.


A top view: see how cool is that circle window.........

Open the card to reveal two additional panels: one is with a "thank you" message with my own old style name stamp and another random old style stamp from my Asian collection. The Square panels are a SVG cut file, too - can you believe this? It matches the corners. This cut file is called Squares in Squares from Scrappedlives.nl and I love it because it can be custom sized to fit in this panel.

here's another top view:

And the second and third panel:

Supplies:

• Stamps: Hero Arts Thanks Wish, "You're so Amazing" Hero Arts Clear Sew Stylish, Chop style stamps: Made to order (from Asia)


• CS: Core-dinations Black & Merry, Recollections Vanilla & Gold


• Ink: Staz-On Black, SU Cherry Cobbler


• Accys: Cuttlebug Asian Embossing Folder, SVG Cuts Holly Jolly Lever Cut File, Chinese Lantern SVG Cut File, Background Squares in Squares Cut File, Sizzlit Architectural Accents Die, Dimensionals, 2 Way Glue Pen, Sticky Tape.

Thank you for stopping by today.........................