Butterfly Reflections, Ink

  Hi Friends!  I've got a super fun mood board inspired Halloween card.  I concentraed the colors around the cauldron to create a fun and eerie scene!   To start, I cut an A2 piece of white cardstock using the largest die from the large cross-stitched rectangle stackables die.  Next, I pulled out my distress inks in the following colors: weathered wood , twisted citron , salty ocean, blueprint sketch and wilted violet (I used the inks not oxides but I'm linking the oxides- either would work fine).  Using the hillside stencil , I ink blended a wavy background in an upside down triangular pattern to resemble smoke.  The background was then splatted with liquid stardust .  Stars were stamped in black ink using the tiny stars included in spooktacular stamp set. To create the cauldron, I used I scream, you scream set .  The base of the cauldron was cut using the ice cream cone (upside down) and cut from glossy black cardstock.   Cilantro cardstock cut using the same die (the d

Hi everyone! It's the first day of October!  Why not start off with a Halloween card?  Halloween will be here before we know it and I'm so excited to share this card with you!  I've been seeing large full moons on several cards on Instagram so, I thought, why not give it try? To start, I used a piece of Bristol smooth cardstock cut to A2 size.  Then I masked off a circle using masking paper (I used a circle die but you can use a coffee cup or anything round to trace and cut the mask).  Starting in and moving outward, the panel was ink blended using the following distress oxide inks: milled lavender, shaded lilac ,   dusty concord .  I used black soot distress ink (not oxide) for the edges.  I find the black ink is better than the black distress oxide ink for a deep, true black color.   Then the panel was splatted using white and black gouache mixed with water.  I also added Lawn Fawn liquid star dust for extra sparkle! After drying, the panel was cut from