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I told you this in my last post, I love Halloween!  I also love bats and cats.  With all of that being said, you might have guessed that the Meow-lloween Set 4786 was practically made for me. It has three main images and several greetings.  I just had to make a shaker card with it!

It was quite difficult to get a picture of this card.  The acetate and sequins we giving me a hard time.


I stamped my image onto Strathmore 140 Lb. Watercolor paper with a Jet Black Archival ink pad using my Mini Misti.  I then colored it using my Marvy LePlume II markers.  Colors will be listed below.  I scribbled the markers  onto my Ai Watercolor Palette & picked then up with my WC #4 brush and a small amount of water.
The greeting is stamped onto a flag banner with Versamark Watermark ink and embossed with a Stampendous PearLustre Orange embossing powder.


I made this into a shaker card using Stampendous heat resistant acetate that I glued behind the black die cut layer with glossy accents.  I applied a layer of black foam tape around the opening.  Be sure to have a complete seal when you're making a shaker card so nothing falls out.  I added three colors of translucent 5 mm sequins and tiny yellow stars before I attached everything together like a sandwich.

I used a retired paper collection called Eerie from Basic Grey.


I used very few Marvy LePlume II Markers for this card.
Bat - Black 1

Cat - Rosewood 30, Brown 6

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Last Christmas I had purchased some light up Christmas card kits.  They are very simple to use.  They're a tiny string of eight lights attached to a battery pack.  It has an on/off switch. It's the little black piece you can see in the upper left hand part of the card above the ghost.  The lights are colored with my Spectrum Noir Alcohol markers. I used thick foam the size of the battery pack to hold the top layer to the card. 

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I used the Gazebo Try Fold (SKU #4338) stamps.The try fold sets are usually used on three separate panels but I wanted to make a flat card today.  I just stamped all four stamps onto my watercolor paper & colored them with a mix of my Tombow dual brush markers & my Marvy LePlume markers & a water brush.  Here is a very similar birthday card that I made with the unaltered stamp set .

 You can see how the stamp set is actually a birthday set.  I just masked the balloons off of the gazebo.  I replaced the candles with a second layer of cake after some more masking.  I also masked the sign in the front left hand side because it had a birthday message.  I added in the rose from the Sweet Wishes Mini Try Fold set ( SKU # 4848).  It took a little extra time, but it gave me two uses from one stamp set.  This is what both cards look like.

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I have loved the Art Impressions Watercolor images for years.  They came out with several new sets this year & I just can't wait to get my hands on them at the Scrapbook Expo In May, but until then I am working with what I have. The sets I am most excited about are the animals.  I got out the Try Folds Furries set to make my own scenes.  These mice looked really curious to me.  I explain exactly how I colored them in my video.  I used the methods I've learned from watching Bonnie Krebs here Art Impressions You Tube .  Every Wednesday Art impressions posts a new watercolor video on there.  

The card was rather simple to put together using several different die cuts.  I used the oval STAX dies for the top two layers.  The green & blue layer is Bristol paper left over from my last video.  You can see that being made here .  I used the new Lawn Fawn Rainbow Plaid papers for the background layers.  I heat embossed the Avery Elle saying onto black paper with Super Fine Detail White embossing powder before I mounted it onto my card.  

You can see a full list of supplies below my video.  Compensated affiliate links are used at no cost to you. 

   

STAMPS:  Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz - Crazy Cats,Crazy Birda & Things

DIES & PUNCHES:Tim Holtz Sizzix, Crazy Birds & Things,  Celebrations Words,Script

INKS: Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad, Tim Holtz Distress Inkpads - Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Candy Apple, Spiced Marmelade, Carved Pumpkin, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Evergreen Bough, Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, Blueprint Sketch

PAPER: 140 lb. Strathmore 300 Series Bristol Paper,Recollections Blue Card

ADHESIVE: 1/2' Double Stick Tape,  Foam Tape

OTHER: Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer, Tim Holtz Distress Splatter Brush, small piece acetate, natural twine