A Touch From the Heart

Be Careful When Opening this Jar

Okay, folks!!!!  It's my first Halloween card of the year, and I love, love, love it!!!!!

When I first spied the Perfectly Preserved stamp set, I knew I wanted to put all kinds of fun things in the jar........a spider included.  LOL!!!!!

My Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge card all begins with a Basic Black base card.  

Layer #2 utilizes the Inlaid Embossing technique.  It starts with a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Rich Razzleberry cardstock.  I then added a 2" x 4" strip of some Daffodil Delight dsp from the Polkadot Parade dsp pack.  Run all of layer #2 through the Big Shot using the Spider Web embossing folder.  

One of the exciting new products in the Holiday catalog is the 7/8" Natural Cotton Ribbon.  You can stamp anything you want on it.  For my card, I grabbed a sponge and my Rich Razzleberry ink pad to change the color of the ribbon.  I then stamped "spooky" (from Spooky Bingo Bits stamp set) using my Jet Black StazOn ink.  

My focal image begins with some Basic Gray cardstock being cut with my Window Frames framelits.  I used the new Festive Piercing Pack to perfectly poke holes inside this die cut.  

Now, comes the jar.  I stamped the jar image using Jet Black StazOn ink onto some Whisper White cardstock.  The image is cut using the coordinating Cannery Framelits.  Using my aquapainter and some Pool Party ink, I colored just inside the lines on the jar to make it look like glass.  The spider and the web (both from Spooky Bingo Bits) are stamped with Rich Razzlberry and Jet Black StazOn ink, respectively.  The jar is then sponged with some Daffodil Delight ink.

All that's left is my sentiment.  I grabbed a scrap of Daffodil Delight and stamped the greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  Using my 1" square punch, I can create a cute little banner edge.  Some dot work with a Basic Black marker adds just the right finishing touch!!!!  

Isn't it cute?  Don't get me wrong......I don't EVER want to find a spider and it's little web in a jar (ewwwwwwwww), but maybe it would'nt be that bad if he were as cute as this little devil!!!!

Perfectly Preserved

Have you checked out the Holiday Catalog yet?  If not, you should see all the wonderful new products in there.

One of my favorite product suites is the Perfectly Preserved.  I am having fun putting lots of things in this jar!!!!

Today's card is a swap card.  I love how it showcases the new Core'dinations paper.  This paper comes in three colors:  Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler and Gumball Green.  The inside of the paper is a lighter color than the outside.  This becomes important when you run this paper through the Big Shot with an embossing folder.  See how the woodgrain brings out the lighter color from the core of the paper.  So amazing!!!!

Here's some helpful hints about this card:

• stamp the pears with More Mustard ink onto More Mustard cardstock.  Color in the seeds with an Early Espresso marker after it's been stamped
• use the Cannery Framelits to cut the images from the Perfectly Preserved stamp set
• add texture to the Certainly Celery by using the Direct-to-Paper technique
• cut the banner edge using the 1 3/8" square punch
• use the Bitty Banners framelits to cut the sentiment

I'll leave you with the card recipe in case you would like to make this card for yourself.  If you need any Stampin' Up! supplies, I hope you'll stop by my ONLINE STORE.  Thanks for choosing me as your demonstrator.  

Card Recipe

stamps:  Perfectly Preserved
paper:  Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard, Certainly Celery, Island Indigo, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso Core'dinations Cardstock
ink:  Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Certainly Celery, Old Olive
accessories:  Window Frames Framelits, Cannery Framelits, Linen Thread, 1 3/8" square punch, Bitty Banners Framelits