Stampin’ Up! Warm Hearted Halloween for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Happy Thursday, y’all – and welcome to another Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop!! This is another installment of the Joint Blog Hop between the Happy Inkin’ Thursday and Happy Stampers Blog Hop ladies!  I hope you really enjoy all the inspiration you can get from our talented folks!

As usual – we have both a sketch and a color challenge and we can use either or both.  I went with both and used one of the new Host-exclusive stamp sets in the 2018 Holiday Catalog called Warm Hearted.  Take a look-see!

Here’s our sketch and color challenge badges!

I started with a piece of Granny Apple Green paper from the new Toil & Trouble DSP, matted on Mango Melody for the card front.  I took my Basic Black card base and embossed the front in the new Swirls & Curls TIEF and then adhered my matted panel to the card front with some Liquid Glue.

The sentiment, from the Warm Hearted stamp set, is stamped twice (cuz that’s how it was meant to be stamped!).  I first stamped the Smoky Slate “shadow” image and then stamped again with the base image in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.

I added some Mango Melody stars-and-dots (also from Warm Hearted) in the corners, then matted it on Mango Melody.

I used some Granny Apple Green 1/2″ Textured Weave Ribbon to wrap around the sentiment, securing it in the back with a few Glue Dots.  I tied a short little length of Silver Metallic Thread around the ribbon on the left side – pulling it snug.  That made the ribbon “scrunch” right there.

I tied a bow with the ribbon and used a Glue Dot to adhere it – right over the thread-scrunch.  See how that makes it look like I tied that bow right on the card?!? 😉

On a separate piece of Whisper White, I stamped a couple uber-spooky skulls in Granny Apple Green and fussy cut them right quick.  I adhered one with Liquid Glue by the sentiment and popped the second one under the bow with a Stampin’ Dimensional.

A few Granny Apple Green Glitter Enamel Dots finished off the sentiment and I popped the whole thing onto the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

On the inside, I added some more Mango Melody stars-and-dots from Warm Hearted – as well as a couple three more Granny Apple Green skulls to a Whisper White panel.

I used Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to a Mango Melody mat and then into the Basic Black card base and the card was done!

On the front of my Whisper White Medium Envelope, I added some more stars and dots and skulls…

…and then I covered the envelope flap with a little more Toil & Trouble DSP!

Et Voila!  Not even sorta scary, is it?  I suppose that’s why the stamp set is called…Warm Hearted…and not…So-Super-Scary Hearted.  Or some such! 😉  I LOVE that shadowed sentiment, don’t you?  And it’s so easy to make.  Hope you like!

Now that you’ve seen my card, take a minute to hop thru all our projects today  If you click on the Next Blog button, you’ll go right to Kristi Gray’s page. And you can just click on the names below to go direct to all the blogs!

Have fun on the Hop!!

TTFN

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