This is My Costume!

Hello everyone! DTM Shanna here today with a card featuring The Rabbit Hole Design‘s new release for November, Hoggy Holidays! With today being Halloween, I just couldn't bring myself to make a Christmas card!!  Sooooo....who else loves a piggy dressed up for halloween in a Rudolph mask??  LOL

My card design actually used a lot of pattern paper scraps from a 6x6 pad I had in my stash. I inked all the edges in black ink to help tie everything in together.  My Pig was colored using my Zig Real Brush Markers and fussy cut out.  I popped him up with foam tape on top of the tag to add some dimension. Extra touches included adding glossy accents to the lenses of the glasses to make them more  “realistic”!

My sentiment came from the Pumpkin Hair Don't Care stamp set.  It was the perfect sentiment to turn my *Christmas* stamp into something for Halloween!!  

Here is the full stamp set, isn't it cute??  

That wraps up my post for today, I will be back next week for another trip down The Rabbit Hole!  Until then you can find me over on my blog, Caffeinated Craftiness or over on Instagram! 

-Shanna

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Pumpkin Hair Don't Care Non-Traditional Halloween Card

Hello everyone,

Heather here and today I am up on Blog showcasing this fun Halloween card.

I went with colors I would not normally think of, purples and blue, for Halloween but I really like the finished results. I started by stamping the pumpkin from our Pumpkin Hair Don't Care stamp set on a piece of Solar White 80 lb Neenah card stock.  I colored the image in with my Zig Real Brush Markers then fussy cut it out.  I then used the Puzzle Box Stencil and some Vicki Boutin Texture Paste (here is an up close picture of the paste, it is so pretty!!)

on a piece of white card stock die cut for a decorative edge.  I let the paste dry overnight, and immediately cleaned my supplies.  I then cut a piece of black card stock for the next size up for the background and when the paste was dry for my top piece attached it to the black panel.  I then popped all that up with fun foam on a 5"x 7" side folding card base. I stamped the sentiment "Pumpkin Hair Don't Care" with Dusty Concord Distress Oxide on white card stock and cut it out, then I had a piece of purple glitter paper in my stash that I added to the back and then attached to the top right of the panel.  I then added a few sequins from one of our mixes to the card and it is all ready to go out in the mail for Halloween this year.  Hope you enjoyed, see you all soon.

Accident Hair

Did you ever have one of THOSE days at the hairdresser?

Hello Rabbit Hole Fans, it's Lisa back here with you today and I'm here with

another fun card from the recent September release!

Well, for me, I grew up with 2 parents that were hairdressers so although

I never had a bad experience at the salon, I did have one hairstyle 

that left me looking like our poor pumpkin friend.

It was a perm gone bad, ya know 80's hair that was out of control!

Just picture Little Orphan Annie times 10!!

Luckily having 2 parents that were hairdressers they were able to reverse 

that perm quickly so there was no permanent damage to my fragile

teenage ego. 😂😂😂

Our pumpkin friend is not so lucky so she is rocking the pumpkin

hair that looks like an accident, or at least that's what she's telling her friends!

I recently broke out my alcohol inks and started playing around with them and 

I wound up with a few backgrounds that I actually liked!

I decided to turn one of them into a card for today's post.

Card Recipe

 -I started with some Yupo paper and some alcohol blending solution.

I used some blue and orange alcohol ink and mixed them around until I liked 

how it all looked together.

-Once it was dry I swiped some gold paint randomly across the panel

to give it some extra shine.

-I cut a panel of it out with a zig zag rectangle die and WALLA

instant background! I adhered it to a white A2 card base.

-My pumpkin friend from Pumpkin Hair Don't Care was stamped 

with Copic friendly ink and then colored with similar colors from 

the background of the card. I cut her out with a zig zag circle die

to match the background panel.

-For the sentiment I used a fitting sentiment from Sassy Sentiments

and stamped it out in black ink and cut it from another 

zig zag die to keep the same theme.

-I popped the image and sentiment up on foam tape and 

all was good in pumpkin hair land!

Here are the 2 sets I used on today's card:

Pumpkin Hair Don't Care

Sassy Sentiments

Don't forget you can now purchase The Rabbit Hole stamps at

Simon Says Stamp by clicking on the following links:

Pumpkin Hair Don't Care

Sassy Sentiments

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today!

For more details on my card with products used you can visit my 

blog at Oh So Cute By Lisa!

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Have a great day, I already am!
🎃Lisa  🎃

Boo Banner

Hello my crafty friend, it's Amanda from Pear Blossom Press again. Now that summer is winding down, the kids are back in school, and Starbucks® has brought back the PSL, you know what that means...It's time to start planning for Halloween ;) Today, I've got a cute banner to help you get a jump on decorating. I chose to spell out BOO, but you could make your banner spell out any message you like. At the bottom of the post, I've got a few more suggestions.

To make the pennants, I first cut out a template for the triangles. To get the same angles, I stacked two pieces of scratch paper on top of each other and folded them in half. Then I lined them up in my trimmer with the fold facing away from my blade and cut a triangle shape. I separated the two pieces and, leaving one folded, I trimmed 1" from the same sides I had just cut. Then I trimmed 1" from the top. When I opened both pieces up, they stacked on top of each other with a nice wide border and they have matching angles. I used the templates to cut out the smaller pennant from black and white polka dot glitter paper, and the larger pennant from black cardstock.

To make the fringe, I stacked four pieces of orange tissue paper together and folded them into thirds (the same way they were folded in the package). I sliced the stack into 1" strips and used fringe scissors to cut along one edge. I glued the fringe to the back of the polka dot paper and feathered the fringe out with a semi-soft paintbrush. I only used two slices per pennant, but you can add more if you'd like a fluffier look.

Before adhering the fringed pennants to the black ones, I made simple tassels from embroidery floss and stapled them to the bottom of the black triangle points. After I glued the large and small pennants together, it was time to add the letters. I used my ScanNCut to cut out 4" letters from gold glitter cardstock and black cardstock. I glued the black and gold letters together, slightly offsetting them so they'd appear to have a drop shadow. (This makes it easier to read on a busy background like the glitter dots.) Then, I popped the letters up on the pennants with foam tape.

To decorate the letters and really jazz up the banner, I stamped, embossed, and watercolored three jack-o-lantern images. These are from the new release and I absolutely love them! They are from the Pumpkin Hair Don't Care, Pumpkin Friends, and Gourd-geous sets. Again, I used my handy ScanNCut to fussy cut the images. (Although, the Gourd-geous stamp has a coordinating die available.) Once the images were cut out, I used more foam tape to adhere them to the letters and added Aqua Shimmer to put a sparkle in their eyes. To finish the banner, I punched holes in the top corners and strung them together with orange baker's twine.

This banner is the perfect size to string across a door, but you can easily adjust it to fit any space you want. Here are a few more sentiment ideas:

• HAPPY HALLOWEEN
• WICKED
• SPOOKY
• TRICK-OR-TREAT
• HELLO GOURD-GEOUS

What will you make your banner say? Have you got this year's costume picked out yet? I can't wait for Halloween!!! (Can you tell ;) ) Let me know in the comments how you celebrate Halloween. And if you're looking for more inspiration with these new stamp sets, check out this post. You will find the sister article to this one, with links to the products I used on my blog today. Hop on over for more fun ideas! I'll be back soon with another seasonal project.