A Halloween Hip Hop!!

Today we have a Halloween themed Hip Hop for you!!  

So start over at the Unity Blog to find the blog hop button to get you started on the Hop. 

You will head to the blogs of all the Unity and Ippity DT members.  You are on the right track if you are heading to me from Karen Maldonado's blog!!

For my project today, I made a candy treat holder that is very easy to create!!  The idea and directions came from this blog!  It's the template for the Peek a Boo Box.

The DP is from My Mind's Eye Boo to You series.  The Ippity pumpkin stamp from the That's Creepy set was embossed in black (excuse the spill over... I couldn't find my embossing buddy!) and then I cut out the center to allow the candy corn to show through the window!  I added some trim and ribbon to complete the festive Halloween look!

You should give one of these Peek a Boo boxes a try!! It was fun and easy and could be very versatile depending on the stamp you choose to use!!

Need to order your Halloween stamp set from Ippity? 

 Click HERE to find an Ippity Chick near you!!

Now to continue on the blog hop, your next stop will be at the talented Lisa Arana's blog!  Have fun!!

Did you hear the great news today???  Unity has their new website up and running!!  Make sure you check it out!!  We have been waiting for this for a long time!!  I am so happy for Angela and the Unity Gang!!

UNITY's NEW WEBSITE (click here!)


Please come by the Unity Forum at SCS for some chatting today too!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

A Spook for You!

H appy Friday everyone!!

If you have already stopped by the Ippity Blog this morning, you may have seen the card that I am sharing with you today from my Fresh Idea Friday post.  But here on my blog I am going to give you some extra details on how I made that cute jack-o-lantern from the plain pumpkin in Ippity's That's Creepy stamp set.

As you can see from the kit image above, the face of the pumpkin is plain and just has the cute swirled embellishments coming off the sides.  But I decided to turn that pumpkin into this jack-o-lantern...

You might be surprised at how I created some of the details!

• First I stamped the image onto orange cardstock and cut around just the pumpkin, very close to the lines so that I could place it inside the pumpkin that I also stamped onto the front of the card.  

• Then to add dimension to the pumpkin and give it ridges, I used an embossing tool and drew three curved lines from the top to the bottom of the pumpkin.  I dry embossed the top of the pumpkin so that it would make the curves round out and the lines be the valley.  KWIM?

• Next, to add further depth and dimension I colored with my Copics orange marker YR04 right over the embossed lines.  (I chose that color because it closely matched the color of my cardstock.)  And then in a wider pattern than with the orange color I added Cool Gray C00 also to each embossed line and also to the perimeter of the pumpkin.  This provides the shadowing necessary to make it look more realistic.

• Next I decorated the face of the pumpkin.  Any guesses on how I stamped the triangles for the eyes and nose??  Why I used the tip of the witch's hat of course!!  Using a stamp a majig, I determined where I wanted the eyes and nose to be and then stuck a post-it note down to prevent any more than the top tip of the hat to be stamped!

• And then for the mouth... I am most proud of this discovery!  Believe it or not, but the mouth is cut out from part of the spider web border punch by Martha Stewart!!  YES!!!  It really is!!  LOL!! I love that!!  Take a  peek at the pictures below to help see how and where I cut it from ...

Here is what the spider web border punch looks like after punching.  The orange one is three consecutive punches (trimmed) and the black one is one punch.  To make the mouth you only need one punch, but I want to show you where I cut it out from by using both of these colors shown.

This shot shows you where I had to cut away to leave the part of the spider web that can become the mouth of the Jack-O-Lantern!  Isn't that fun??

• Finally for the crowning glory, I embossed the witch's hat with black embossing powder onto cream cardstock.  Then after cutting it out I added it to the top of my now Jack-O-Lantern!  And we are ready for Trick or Treating!!  :-)

Here is my finished sample...

Final Details:  Using the stamp-a-majig, I stamped the pumpkin with swirls onto both the card base and the Bingo Card (Jenni Bowlin) using black ink and then applied orange Stickles right over the black to give a little colorful shimmer!  I finished it off by adding the spider web border in black to the bottom of the card and adding the Halloween trim (source unsure of) and the orange pom poms (Joann's) on top of that.  I also stamped the word October from the journaling stamp and made a tab to add to the upper right corner!

It might also be hard to believe that the dotted yellow paper (Pebbles) is the same paper that was in yesterday's card HERE.  What a difference a different color palette can make on the same paper huh?

I know you are going to NEED this adorable That's Creepy stamp set designed by Lisa Hetrick, so be sure to find an Ippity Chick near you and get yours order right away so you will have plenty of time to make a batch of Halloween cards for yourself!!

Have a great weekend that is anything but Creepy!!  Enjoy your day!!