Spooky Wishes

 Hey friends! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook and I interrupt your regularly scheduled summer fun for some spooky wishes featuring the Mama Elephant Halloween awesomeness that recently released! If you've been here for just a minute, you know Halloween is my favorite and any excuse to create for it has me ALL IN!

I had a general idea that I wanted to create a big sentiment with the adorable mummies and witches around and in the letters somehow. So I started with my background to set the tone and choose my color palette...perfect summerween colors! I used the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Stars stencil set on pink cardstock to start off with. I used Lawn Fawn carrot and jet black inks.

Next, I adhered white cardstock to craft foam and covered the back with adhesive sheet. Then I die cut my sentiment using the Lawn Fawn Henry's ABCs die set. This gave instant dimension with less work than cutting each letter 4 times and gluing them together. After arranging my letters together I chose a Spellbinders Emerald Cut Label die to cut from vellum as a backdrop.

Now that I had a general placement and size of open space, I chose a couple of mummies and a witch from the new Mama Elephant sets - Mummified and Bewitched. I stamped, colored and die cut them, then adhered each mummy with foam squares and the witch with liquid glue.

Hiding adhesive behind the letters and images, I adhered the vellum panel with tape runner to the stenciled background. Next, I used liquid glue to adhere the whole thing to a card base.

For finishing touches I added orange glitter brush pen to the sentiment and white gel pen highlights to the images.

On a scale from 1 to spooky, how much do you love crafting for Halloween?

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

 Links to products used or recommended are listed below:

Mama Elephant Mummified stamps and dies

Mama Elephant Bewitched stamps and dies

Pretty Pink Posh Layered Stars stencils

Spellbinders Emerald Cut Labels dies

Blending brushes

Lawn Fawn inks - Carrot and Jet Black

Liquid glue

Adhesive sheets

Craft foam

Foam squares

Hey sunshine!

I'm a long time fan of all things nautical so I've been really enjoying the current papercrafting trend.

 My card features:

• Waffle Flower - Floral Anchor | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Sentiment Strips - Summer | stamps
• Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Circles

I googled nautical color combos and went with this one:

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I think this might be a new go to color combo!

What has you inspired these days?

Thank you so much for stopping by!

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Seashells Everywhere

Welcome everyone! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. I'm not over the beach theme and I found a new stencil set to play with on top of it! Mix it up Monday for the Doodlebugs blog brings us beautiful stenciling for quick coloring and some relaxing seashell coloring too. It was a great crafting session!

I started by die cutting and ink blending the new Waffle Flower Seashell Frame die and stencil combo. It's so easy to use and is going to be so fun to mix and match different color combos on!

Next, I chose a handful of seashells from the new Pretty Pink Posh Seashells stamp set. I colored them with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I arranged them how I wanted and used liquid glue to adhere them together. Then I chose a sentiment from the Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Summer set and cut it out with the Sentiment Strip dies, along with a scalloped shadow too.

For my background panel, I chose saltwater taffy Distress Spritz spray for shimmer and light color. I think it goes so well with everything else going on but doesn't distract from the images at all. After it dried, I adhered it to a card base with liquid glue and attached the frame, images and sentiment strip with foam squares.

I'm having so much fun creating with all of these new ocean themed goodies that have just released! Do you enjoy beach and ocean crafting? It makes me want to put my toes in the sand for sure!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day! 

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You're so Sweet

 I started designing a floral project but then switched to a fruit theme.  Here's how I was inspired today:

My project features:

• Lawn Fawn - Cheery Cherries | lawn cuts
• Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Circles | dies
• Concord & 9th - Slanted Shortcuts | dies
• Pretty Pink Posh - Sweet Cherries | stamp
• Lawn Fawn - Stripes 'n Sprinkles | 6x6

If you've been following me, you know that I LOVE working with fruit themes.  I added a bit of Cranberry ink to the cherries and finished off my design with some white gel pen.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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