Weekly Deals Oct 6

It's Tuesday, and here are your Weekly Deals!

I love those gusseted bags for giving out treats at Christmas time, and the White Perfect Accents can be colored with Sharpies (including gold and silver) to match any project! 

It's a pumpkin time of year!

Autumn is my favorite season--I love the colors and textures and the leaves and the pumpkin-based food.

These stamps came from the September Paper Pumpkin--Wickedly Sweet! The little glittered leaves are cut with a die from the Square Pillowbox set. The card uses the FMS206 sketch:

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Spooky Shaker Card

Just in time for October, it's a Spooky Shaker! We made it at last month's Stamp Club.

We used the darling seasonal Frame Thinlits and matching Sparkly Seasons set. You can get them in a bundle and save 15%!

Shaker cards don't have to be intimidating. You can do it! The trick is to not add TOO much fun stuff to your shaker window.

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Pillowbox Boo!

Not "boooooo" for the pillowbox, because I LOVE the pillowbox! "Boo" as in, I die cut the word "spooky from the Seasonal Frame Thinlits and turned it backwards (and upside down!) to make the word "boo"! The googly eyes helped. {smile}

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Sparkly Season Watercolor Pencils

At first glance, the "little" images in the Sparkly Seasons didn't seem that important, but I'm liking them more and more! I used my (cheap) watercolor pencils to color this Nutcracker image, and then went in search of a card to put him on. The Season of Cheer Designer Series Paper was a perfect match, even though I didn't plan it that way!


A Christmas card needs a little sparkle, right? So the Gold Metallic Thread and the Gold Cording helped me out there. I used the sketch from FMS205.

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Watercolor Stripes

The second bonus project for my Watercolor Wishes Kit class, this card was made with Stampin Up Watercolor Paper. I smashed the Night of Navy ink spot (included in the Watercolor Wishes kit) onto a clear acrylic block, then used a paint brush to mix in a little water. Then it's just a matter of painting on the stripes, and blending them as much or as little as you like! The watercolor paper gives you more options for blending, where the Thick Whisper White can't be worked too much or it pills.

The greeting and the wooden heart are from the kit, and the remaining bits and pieces are from basic stamping supplies.

When I bought the Watercolor Wishes Kit in July, I fell in love with it and really wanted to make some of my own watercolor backgrounds. Then I signed up for Watercolor for Cardmakers at onlinecardclasses.com, and now I feel like I really know what to do! I'm sure you'll be seeing more watercoloring in my samples now.

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Dove of Peace Marker Wash

This is another watercolor sample for my online watercolor class. For this card, I used Strathmore Watercolor paper and the Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler marker. I laid down some lines of marker, then began blending with water and a paint brush. I added ink along the way, but mostly I just blended. Dove of Peace seemed like a perfect addition to this background, but I never did get a photo that really captured the gold embossing the way I wanted it to.

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