Sweet Spooks

It's October 31st and you know what that means! Halloween!

How about a not-so-spooky card to kick off the day. We need to work up to all those ghosts and monsters that will be knocking on our doors tonight.

Market Street Stamps has the CUTEST Halloween stamp set called Sweet Spooks. It's super flexible and I love how there are some stamps in it to use all around the year.




For this card, I've had fun stamping onto a Twinchie. A Twinchie is just like an Inchie only it is 2" square and makes a great dimensional area for stamping on. Inchies and Twinchies take ink and stamp impressions really well and there are no special techniques needed. Just stamp away!


I've combined a sentiment, a spider and a web together to make one image. This works if you use a little simple masking. First stamp the spider and then mask the main body. Then stamp the web and sentiment. Once the stamping is done, remove the mask and color in the spider. I've used a couple dye ink markers on the spider and a white gel pen to highlight her sweet little eyes. In real life I am sooo not fond of spiders, but this little one has me smiling.

Happy Halloween!

Market Street Says BOO!

Hey y'all!  It's Meg here with some Halloween fun. As soon as I saw the Halloween release from Market Street, I knew exactly what I wanted to do for my design team post.  I even sent out an email calling dibs on the idea.  So I hope you're ready for the spookiness that is about to occur...

Yes, you totally just jumped out your seats, didn't you?  It's a Halloween tree filled with Market Street's Sweet Spooks and Night Owls, two sets that are so cute they make it hard to spook (so I admit I added some extra spookiness in Picnik).  The tree is just a discarded branch that I spray painted black.  I stuck some oasis foam in an old black container, stuck the branch into the foam, and then hot glued some moss on top.  Then I just started stamping, embossing, cutting and hanging!  Here are some close-ups:

I used some Echo Park paper for the owls (look how nice that solid one stamped!) as well as for the orange tags that I stamped the skulls onto (as well as some spiders as you'll see later).  I embossed the webs onto vellum and added a black rhinestone to each one for the "spider."  The bats were embossed onto dark gray paper, then I accented their fangs with a white gel pen.

Here you can see that cute spider hanging out on some polka dotted paper, as well as glimpse of the fancy pearl I added to the skull.  Mr Ghosty was a bit too ephemeral to catch on film, but you should be able to spot him in some of the other pictures.

I also made this sign to go with the tree.  I just love some fun fonts, don't you?  The bat paper was in a $1.00 pack at Walmart, which I used to cover an 8x10 canvas.  I cut the words out of vinyl using my Silhouette, then added some Market Street bats using glue dots.

Here's one more look at the whole she-bang:

Happy Haunting, everyone!