Welcome to the October blog hop for the Jessica Sporn Designs Creative Team. Today I’m hopping along with Lizzy Wurmann, Sherry Canino, Kristin Van Valkenburgh, Denise Alloca and Jessica Sporn to share some fall creations using Jessica’s stamps and stencils.
We have a great giveaway and because it was my birthday last Sunday I add an extra personal giveaway to the event. OH-MY, are you lucky today!
I bet you are curious to see what those giveaways include so before I take you to the small tutorial I created for you, here’s what you can win.
One lucky commenter will win Jessica’s Cascading Leaves stencil and Tree of Life stamp. All comments on all the blog hop participants count – so make sure to visit everyone and leave some kind words. The list and links of the blog hop team members is at the end of this post.
And then there’s my personal birthday-giveaway: a packet of Autumn/Halloween related papers, ephemera & embellishments. I also include 10 of my art-postcards and a little notebook.
This giveaway goes to one commenter on this blog.
Jessica gave us the title “Frightful Fall” to work with for this bloghop… eeeckkk. I understand where the ‘frightful’ comes from, I have a lot of American friends and bloggers among my followers, but we don’t celebrate Halloween in The Netherlands so this theme was quite a challenge for me! I decided to throw my birthday in the mix and make a card that you can use to send to someone who celebrates a birthday at Halloween. Or, when you alter the sentiment, this could be a card to invite your friends to a Halloween party. Are you in the mood yet?
Well, let’s move on to the tutorial then:
- Cut a heavy white paper or cardstock to card size (this example is approx. 5″ x 7.5″)
- Paint the background with orange acrylic paint. You could also take a piece of orange card stock for the basics, but I like the texture of the paint strokes on the background.
- Next, stamp with Versamark and Jessica Sporn’s stamp Krishna
- Emboss the image with black embossing powder.
The Shiva image does not look frightful or scary at all, and because I want this to be some sort of ‘scary’ card I looked for images of ‘scary eyes’… After flipping through many (many!) magazines, cutting out all sorts of eyes, I still had not found what I was looking for so I went online and found some drawings that I could use the eyes from.
- Give the face a different, more scary look by gluing different eyes over the stamped image.
- Next, take Jessica Sporn’s Hand stencil and find the first hand you want to use. Cover the surrounding openings/hands with paper so that you cannot accidentally stamp onto these also.
- Stamp and emboss the image of the hand, coming from the edge, with black embossing powder. You could also use black acrylic paint or paint spray, but I like the glossy shine that the heated embossing powder shows.
- Repeat the above step, using different images of hands.
- Write a text/sentiment on your card (alternative: print and cut strips of the texts, use alphabet stickers etc.) I found the following texts that you could use:
– Have a frightful & delightful birthday.
– (You’re invited to) a trick or treat BOO-thday.
– Have a SPOOKtacular birthday.
– May your Halloween birthday be less terrifying than aging. - Ink the edges of the card (hold your paper at an upright angle and run it against the edge of your inkpad)
- Splattering some black ink or paint on the card makes for a more scary/spooky look and finishes the card off.
I hope you enjoyed my Halloween birthday tutorial.
Now, make sure you leave me a comment if you like to be in the draw for both giveaways and visit the other members and comment there to enlarge your chance to win the Cascading Leaves stencil and the Tree of Life stamp.
Marit Barentsen (you’re here)
Lizzy Wurmann
Sherry Canino
Kristin Van Valkenburgh
Denise Alloca
Jessica Sporn
The giveaway closes on Monday (October 10) at 9 PM EST (for the Dutchies that’s 3 AM on Tuesday) Jessica announces her winners in her Tuesday blog post (October 11) and I will post the name of the winner of my extra giveaway in my blog post on Wednesday, October 12.
I love all the different stencils used, turned out really cute.
What a totally brilliant and effective card and such a simple idea – love it – also really love your hand-writing on the card too. Rachel
So many fun ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Love the neat way you used the hands stencil! ~Gin K~
what a fun card and great tutorial! I love how you “saw” the Krishna stamp and those hands in a completely different way. Brilliant!
Great tutorial and I do have a friend with a Birthday on Holloween. Thanks for the inspiration
Such a wonderful card! Great use of the stencils!
So cute…..I love that hand stencil!
Awesome card!
What a nice idea. And beautiful stencils and stamps
Fun idea combining a stamp with eyes! Thank you for entering me into the drawing
Really fun and quick card idea! Thanks! dlcrisp(at)hotmail(dot)com
This is super creative Marit!!
Marit this is amazing, for not celebrating Halloween you nailed it right on. What a fabulous card, totally love how you used the stamp and stencil!! Thank you for some fabulous inspiration !!
Cool card. I,love added eyes…b
Love the idea of adding other eyes! Happy birthday to you (and good luck to me 😉
Loved your addition of the eyes! Very cool!
Great Job! Love the eyes!
This is wonderful! I need that hand stamp & I LOVE what you did with it! And this quote – May your Halloween birthday be less terrifying than aging – cracked me up! Great use of the eyes too. Thank you for the inspiration Marit! xoxo
Love the hands. Very fun for Halloween. Thanks for sharing.
Great card!! Love that hand stencil. Jessica’s stencils are great and I would love to add two to my stencil stash. Thank you.
Nice, simple but VERY effective!
Marit,
Very cool use of the stencils as well as adding those eyes! Love it!!
Happy Birthday to you as well!! Boo!
Mooi oranje en scary 🙂 beetje laat maar toch nog van harte met je verjaardag! Wil graag meedingen….
Love how this all came together….very non-traditional….of course! Love your style. (gerriejohnnic)(at)(gmail)(dot)(com)
…..ooops…….Happy Birthday! such a neat desk it’s frightens me.
Love your card and that it’s not over the top Halloween. I live in the US and have never been fond of Halloween so I struggle with these cards. Love the stamp and hands stencils and can see many different uses for both. Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday, a little late. Thanks for your giveaway. Love your fantastic project.
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great card.
Love the hands and the orange (even though I am not an orange fan – and I don’t mean football…). Your give-away looks mouth-watering!
Hallo Marit, Ik ga voor jouw birthday give a way, hartstikke leuk. En je gemaakte kaart ziet er leuk uit.
You really went to great lengths to get those eyes just right, and it definitely works! The hands totally add the extra creepiness to it. Very cool card.
Wow – very spooky! Looks like zombies coming after her! Fun card!
What a wonderful birthday card. Thanks for all the great ideas
This is stunning but simple, great! I love it.
Ooh a halloween themed prompt would be quite a challenge for me too! I love the twist you gave it! Also, happy belated birthday!!! Until now, I’m enjoying fall too! We have some beautiful days to go for a walk and enjoy natures beautiful treasures. And when it rains, it makes a great day to stay inside and make art. I didn’t look forward to December yet, but I totally forgot about your Top 2000 party! Now I am much looking forward to it!!