Vintage Scrapping

Lil Stinker!

Happy Halloween!!!   In honor of it being Halloween I though I would upload one last Halloween page.  This was actually a really easy quick one  I did in a whole book I made for my in-laws earlier this year.

 

 

I used a black piece of cardstock as the base.  Using my Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge and my Gypsy I took a pumpkin, duplicated it twice and flipped one and welded them together.  I also cut a vine using my cricut.  I used the opposites attract cartridge to cut the title lil stinker and added copper stickles to the title to make it sparkle. 

 

 

 

Used some brown chalk on the stem and around the edges of the pumpkin to give it some definition and tada!  There it is!

 

 

Hope you like it!  Let me know what you think and thank you for looking! 

Melissa

 

Becoming a Pirate

This is my favorite of the three!

 

These were pictures Eli's Aunt Mandie took of my brother, Kolby and I trying to get Eli dressed for Halloween. 

 

 

 

When I started this page, I wasn't quite sure where I was going with it, I just knew I wanted that boat on there.  So instead of it being on there, I made it come through the page. 

 

 

I cut a big hole right where I wanted it to be and then sat the boat underneath.  I started tearing the edges back until the boat was completely exposed.  Using the vintage photo distressed ink, I darkenedit to look like it was burned.  Then I added a fleur de lis chipboard piece, inked it in walnut stain distressed ink and embossed it with walnut stain embossing powder (NOTE:  if you have not used these powders before, know they are not like other embossing powders - ask me why :-)  they don't change color as noticeably therefor I kept using my heatgun on it until I burned a hold through my powder plate - only took a day to get the smell of burned plastic out of that room - did have a hard time explaining that one to my husband).

n For the pictures, I used a piece of corrugated board and my trusty distrez it all tool to the edges, glued it down on top of a piece of netting.  The "brads" are pieces of paper that I ran through the cuttlebug using my new embossing plus folder for tags.  Then I handstitched the corners of the photos to the tags and pinned them down with brads.

The word pirate was cut out using the black letter cartridge on my cricut and the word becoming was cut out using the gypsy font.  The piece of chipboard that the word becoming it sitting on was inked with faded jeans distress ink, then I painted over that with white acrylic paint.  Once it was dry I sanded it down until it was just right!

 

Supplies:  Patterned paper, corrugated board, mesh fabric, distressed inks, gypsy font and black letter cartridges, chipboard

 

Thanks for looking and please feel free to leave a comment!  I love them!

Melissa

 

Learning to Trick or Treat

This one means so much to me!  Last year, Eli was a pirate for Halloween, but being that he wasn't quite two, it was the first time he was able to walk up to the door and ring the door bell or knock.  It was so fun watching people's surprises when they opened the door and there was a miniature pirate!  So I called this one learning how to trick or treat!

 

 

A few close ups here.  First is the spider.  I used the October 31st cartridge to cut it.  Then to give it a little more pop, I bent the legs so it would actually stand up on the page.  Added a few distressed stickles to make it crunchy and that was it!  If you look closely at the orange web underneath it, it is actually printed on the paper, however I used the crackle paint in rock candy to texturize it a little. 

 

 

Here you can see the tags I put at the bottom of each step saying 1, 2 and 3.  I used a metal frame.  Stamped the number on a piece of cardstock and fit it into the frame.  Then i used Ranger's Crackle Accents and filled the frame.  Once it dries it automatically has this cracked look to it.  Pretty cool, huh!  The little spiders webs in the corners I drew with some white acrylic paint.

 

Supplies:  My mind's eye paper, crackle accents, metal frames, black and orange cardstock, mesh ribbon, stamps, october 31st cricut cartridge

 

Thank you for looking and please feel free to leave a comment!  I love them!

Melissa

 

 

 

Captain Half Beard

HAPPY NATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!!!

Yes, I'm serious!  It really is (believe it or not!) So in honor of talk like a pirate day, I did three pages of my son last halloween who was, yes you guessed it, a PIRATE!  This first page's main attraction is the pirate boat I created.  This was done mainly with my cricut with the life's a beach cartridge.  I used the hide/contour button on my gypsy to hide a few parts of the boat.

In this picture you see the boat a little closer.  This was to show how the sails I made using canvas material and "shredded" the edges to make it look worn.  I also took some Distressed Ink  in black soot to weather them a bit.  The title Captain half beard was cut with my cricut cartridge Black Letter and the skulls were cut with my cricut life is a beach cartridge.  The Halloween title was stamped with an Inkadoo stamp I bought at Michaels and the stickers were by Jolee's.

Hope you enjoy it and have a happy talk like a pirate day!

 

 

 

Thank you for looking!  Please feel free to leave comments!  I love them!

Melissa

 

Falling for FALL

I love this page! 

Most of the leaves and letters were done with a Soft Spoken package of stickers, but the thing I like about this is weaving the ribbon and the vellum tags.  The tags were so easy, I used a rub on sentiment on top of vellum.  Then I put the vellum on top of some striped patterned paper and cut the two together so it matched up just right!

Supplies:  Patterned paper, ribbon, leaves stickers, vellum, rub on sentiments, eyelets 

  

 

Thank you for looking and please leave comments!! Have a wonderful Day!

Melissa

Halloween Treat Box

Ok so I had too much fun making this and now I am in full blown Halloween mode ready to make spooky treat bags and such for my son's teachers and kids in his class!

The template I used to make the "box" was a free download on Waltzingmousehouse.com she has some free downloads that are wonderful (not to mention I'm in love with her stamps!! Just have to get them in moderation or my husband might have a stroke :-0 )  I printed the template and cut it out.  Then I used the October 31st cartridge on my cricut and cut the tree and the pumpkin patch sign out of brown cardstock.  For the black box I used the PapertreyInk.com perfect black again (Another website I have to be careful with because I want to buy EVERYTHING!) 

  

The tree got a little messed up because I did multi cut and it was a little small but it seemed to work out just fine.  I used some Black Soot Distressed Ink by Tim Holtz to age the tree and the sign.  Then used a piece of orange cardstock to "light up" the words on the sign.

 

 

 

 

Now for the pumpkin, that did take a little more work.  I went straight to my ginakdesigns.com  GinaK pure luxury cardstock to stamp the pumpkin on using versamark and then sprinkled on black embossing powder and used my heat gun to emboss the pumkin.  After that I used my copic markers to color the pumkin.  BTW the stamp was a $1 stamp I picked up in a bin at Michaels.  Then I cut out the pumkin and glued to front of box.  The cutting out is what took so long, and I think next time I might just use a nestabilities circle to cut it out to save time.   Trick or Treat!!

 

Thank you for looking and please leave comments!! Have a wonderful Day!

Melissa