I'm Dying Too See You - Featuring Kat Scrappiness

 Today I have a fun shaker card for using the Mummy Wrappings Background Die. For the background I started with some cream cardstock that I ink blended with some Distress Oxide Inks. I started with a light coat of Tea Dye. I then went in and added some Gathered Twigs, Vintage Photo, and Walnut Stain. I then sprayed some water over it, let it sit then used my microfiber cloth to pick up the water. Next, I lightly spritzed it with the Walnut Stain Distress Spritz.

I allowed it to dry then die cut it with the Mummy Wrappings Background Die. I used the outline as a template, so I knew where to glue the individual pieces to some black cardstock. I then die cut four more of the frames out of some heavy weight black cardstock. I then adhered three of the frames to the back of the cream cardstock frame and a piece of acetate on top of the cream-colored cardstock and then adhered the final black frame on top of that. this gave me plenty of height without having to use foam tape.

Next, I added some of the Halloween Solid Confetti Sequin Mix to the center of all the ink blended pieces. I then adhered my stack of frames over those pieces lining them up with the pieces adhered to the black cardstock base. I cut my eyes using some bright lime green cardstock and black cardstock. I layered the eyes together and added them to the black frame.

I stamped and die cut my sentiment using the Simple Sentiment Stamps-Halloween Edition.

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Let's Craft and Create Challenge #175 AG Option Lots of Layers

 

It is hard to believe we are into the month of September, but we are. It also means it is time for a new challenge at Let's Craft and Create. The challenge this month is Anything Goes with the option of Lots of Layers.  Today I have a fall card for you.

For this card I started with some Simon Says Stamp Burnt Orange cardstock that I cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. Next I pulled out some pattern paper from the Echo Park Fall 6" X 6" paper pad.

Using the MFT A2 Double Stitched Rectangle STAX Dies I cut the orange gingham with the largest die. I then cut some of the burnt orange paper with the next smaller die. Finally I cut the leaf pattern paper with the third smaller die. I adhered the orange gingham pattern paper to my card base using liquid adhesive. I then adhered the leaf pattern paper to the burnt orange cardstock using liquid adhesive. I adhered this layer to my card base using some foam tape to pop it up.

Now comes the fun part. I took a piece of Canson XL Watercolor paper and cut it in forth so I had a manageable size to work with. I grabbed a box and put my paper in it. I then sprayed it with some Distress Oxide sprays. I used Wild Honey, Festive Berries, Crackling Campfire, and Ripe Persimmon. This was the first time I used these and I was amazed how much they dried back and lightened, especially when I sprayed them with water. I did do several layers then dried it. Next I pulled out the new Tim Holtz Ranger Mica Stains. I sprayed my paper with the Jack O Lantern and Flickering Candle. I then dried the paper again with my heat tool. The sparkle is amazing in real life. It was hard to catch on camera.

Next I took most of the leaf dies from the Tim Holtz Fall Foilage Thinlit Dies and cut the leaves from the background I made. To make the leaves stand out a bit more I took some Fossilized Amber, Barn Door, and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide inks and a small blending brush and went around some of the edges of the leaves and also added a bit of color to the middle of some of them.

I then added some small pieces of foam tape to the back of my leaves. I arranged them in the center of my leaf pattern paper adhering them as I went.

For my sentiment I used the Honeybee Stamps Fall Honeycuts die to cut out my word Fall. I cut the top layer from some red pattern paper from the Echo Park Fall 6"X6" paper pad. I cut the shadow from vellum. I adhered the sentiment together with liquid adhesive. 

I adhered the word Fall to the center of my leaves with some liquid adhesive.  I then stamped the word slendor on a scrap of the burnt orange cardstock using some Versamark watermark  ink. I added some Antique Gold Simon Says Stamp Ultra Fine embossing powder. I melted that with my heat gun.  I then attached the sentiment strip with some foam tape and added it to my card under the word Fall.

To finish the card I added some Honeybee Stamps Celebration Confetti. I used some of the orange and gold Confetti. 

Now it's your turn. Pop on over to Let's Craft and Create and play along with us. It's a lot of fun. Hope to see you there.