Digi Choosday | Cute Witch Card with a Stenciled Halloween Background featuring Winnie Wednesday Witch

When it comes to Halloween crafting, I always feel like I’m missing out a little because Halloween isn’t celebrated here in Saudi Arabia. Unlike Christmas or everyday cards that I can sell at local bazaars, by the time bazaar season comes around, Halloween has long passed.

Buuuut… Halloween crafting is just so much fun and everything is ridiculously cute that I simply can’t skip it! Plus, our Design Team prompt is Halloween. Haha!

For this week’s Digi Choosday, I created this super cute witch card, which also gave me the perfect excuse to pull out my Distress Oxides and play with a fun stenciled background.

If you’d like to recreate this card, even with a different theme, this stencil technique is a great way to stretch your supplies, especially if you’re trying to save those precious themed pattern papers. I definitely did that when I first started paper crafting!

Then again, I had to remind myself… Halloween papers only get used once a year anyway, so they’re probably not going to disappear after one project. Those Halloween washi tapes and papers I’ve been “saving” for years? Yep… I still have them. 

Anyway, let’s get started!

Materials Used

• Tim Holtz Guillotine
• CutterPillar Crease Score Board
• Polkadoodles Winnie Wednesday Witch and Cat Digi Stamp
• Polkadoodles - Halloween Trick or Treat Printable Sentiments (“Witch way to the candy?”)
• Kaisercraft Distressed Diamonds Stencil
• Distress Oxide Ink - Carved Pumpkin
• Distress Oxide Ink - Black Soot
• Blending Brushes
• Wendy Vecchi MAKE ART Stay-tion
• White Cardstock
• Black Cardstock
• Foam Tape
• Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue
• Ohuhu Alcohol Markers
• Ohuhu Glitter Markers

Instructions

1. Prepare your card base by trimming white cardstock to 5½” x 8¼”. Score at 4¼” on the long side and fold.

2. Trim a piece of black cardstock to 5¼” x 4”.

3. Trim another piece of black cardstock to 4½” x 3”.

4. Trim white cardstock to 2¾” x 4¼”.

5. Trim another piece of white cardstock to 3¾” x 5”. Using this white cardstock, stencil the entire panel with Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide Ink.

6. Reposition the stencil, covering some of the orange areas, then blend Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink over the remaining spaces to create a layered background.

7. Adhere the stenciled panel to the 5¼” x 4” black cardstock using glue.

8. Adhere the 2¾” x 4¼” white cardstock to the 4½” x 3” black cardstock.

9. Attach this layered panel to the stenciled background using foam tape.

10. Color the Winnie Wednesday Witch and Cat digi stamp with Ohuhu Alcohol Markers, adding touches of sparkle with Ohuhu Glitter Markers.

11. Adhere the colored image to the center white panel using foam tape.

12. Adhere the completed panel to your card base.

13. Finish with your sentiment.

I hope this project inspires you to pull out your favorite Halloween supplies, or simply try this stenciling technique with whatever theme you love most!

Don’t forget to join this week’s Digi Choosday Challenge for your chance to play along and be inspired by the amazing Design Team creations. We’d love to see what you make!

If you recreate this card or give the technique a try, be sure to tag me. You can also follow me on my social media channels for more cardmaking, scrapbooking, and paper crafting inspiration. Happy crafting!

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Hope you have a wonderfully spooky (or just wonderfully crafty!) week, and I’ll see you again in my next project! 

KCC#23 | Kendra’s Card Challenge #23 - August Cards with Mintay Papers’ Lovely Day Collection

If you haven’t heard of Kendra’s Card Challenges yet, you’re in for a treat! It’s a quarterly card challenge where Kendra provides templates and sketches that help you maximize just six 6x6 patterned papers to create 15 beautiful cards. Yes… 15 cards!

It has become one of my favorite cardmaking traditions because it’s relaxing and therapeutic for me. I actually make 15 cards every month during each challenge quarter simply because I enjoy it so much.

If you’d like to learn more about the challenge, be sure to check it out here:
https://www.patreon.com/cw/kendrascardchallenges

Joining the challenge is completely free! There are also different subscription tiers if you’d like access to additional perks and exclusive content, but they’re entirely optional.

Here’s a closer look at all 15 cards I created this month using Mintay Papers’ Lovely Day collection. I hope you enjoy this little flip through as much as I enjoyed making them!

August’s Cards

For this month’s set, I chose the pretty Lovely Day collection by Mintay Papers.

Since August is my birthday month, I wanted to surround myself, and all my fellow August babies, with a little extra good juju by creating with a collection called Lovely Day. Here’s to another year filled with lovely days, beautiful memories, and lots of creativity!

To complete my 15 cards, I also used the following supplies:

• White cardstock
• Solid colored cardstock (including scraps from my stash)
• Altenew Statement Flowers Stamps
• Hero Arts Stamp & Cut Stamps with Matching Dies
• Spellbinders Parcel and Post Sentiments Stamps
• Stampin’ Up! Approaching Perfection Stamps
• Bo Bunny Just My Type Stamp
• Rosie’s Studio Indigo Mist Chipboard Embellishments
• Rosie’s Studio Nature’s Gift Puffy Sentiments
• Rosie’s Studio Better Together Puffy Sentiments
• Rosie’s Studio Fanciful Gemstones
• Tim Holtz Idea-ology Metallic Sticker Book
• Sizzix 3D Textured Impressions - Eileen Hull Embossing Folder

Below you’ll find photos of all 15 cards, all based on KCC#23's sketches. The sketches are available free from Kendra, so be sure to check them out if you’d like to give the challenge a try!

One of my favorite parts of every KCC project - adding my handmade stamp, pairing each card with an envelope, and packaging all 15 sets. It’s the perfect finishing touch!

I hope you enjoy this month’s collection as much as I enjoyed making it. I think these are the daintiest KCC cards I’ve created so far, and I absolutely loved bringing each one to life. I can’t wait to hear which card is your favorite!

Digi Choosday | Magical Fantasy Mixed Media Shaker Card featuring Winnie Mermaid Mermazing

Hi crafty friends!

It’s time for another Digi Choosday challenge, and this week’s Design Team prompt is “Magical Fantasy.”

When I think of magical fantasy, my mind instantly goes back to childhood. Out of all the Disney princesses, Ariel has always been one of my favorites. As a kid, you'd think that there is so much magic about an underwater world filled with mermaids, colorful corals, and ocean treasures. So for this week’s project, I chose the adorable Winnie Mermaid Mermazing - Best Friends digi stamp and created a fun mixed media shaker card inspired by that childhood wonder.

I may have gone a little extra with this one… and well, that's me. Haha. I love how this turned out. Between the shaker window, layered florals, fussy-cut details, and sparkly embellishments, this card is packed with dimension and whimsical underwater charm.

Materials Used

• Pattern Papers - Polkadoodles Coral Mermaid Pattern Papers
• Digi Stamp - Winnie Mermaid Mermazing - Best Friends
• Sentiment - “See You Soon!” from Polkadoodles Coral Mermaid Sentiment Set
• Ohuhu Alcohol Markers
• White Cardstock
• Plain Ocean Blue Cardstock
• Acetate
• Foam Tape
• Bearly Art Glue
• Floral Die Cuts - Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Embellies Bundle
• Floral Embellishments
• Clear Glass Cabochons
• Shaker Bits
• Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine
• Circle Nesting Dies
• Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle Die
• Tim Holtz Guillotine
• Scor-Buddy Score Board

How I Made It

1. Trim a piece of white cardstock to 5½” × 8½” for the card base.

2. Score at 4¼” on the long side and fold.

3. Trim plain blue cardstock to 5⅜” × 4⅛”.

4. Trim your shaker background pattern paper to 5” × 3¾”.

5. Trim the front shaker cover pattern paper to 5¼” × 4”.

6. Cut a piece of acetate to 5” × 3¾”.

7. Using a 2½-inch circle die, cut a window about an inch from the top of the shaker cover.
Adhere the acetate behind the opening.

8. Glue the shaker background pattern paper onto the blue cardstock.

9. Sprinkle your favorite shaker bits onto the background.

10. Add foam tape around the shaker opening and adhere the shaker cover over the top, sealing in the shaker bits.

11. Die cut a solid stitched blue circle using the Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle Die.

12. Adhere the stitched circle to the front of the shaker.

13. Arrange and adhere floral die cuts from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Embellies Bundle.

14. Since I attached the stitched circle before the florals, I die cut a second stitched circle and layered it on top to hide the adhesive and add even more dimension. You can certainly attach the florals first to skip this step, but I actually love the extra layer it created!

15. Add additional floral embellishments.

16. Color the Winnie Mermaid Mermazing - Best Friends digi with Ohuhu Alcohol Markers.

17. Attach the colored image to the center of the acetate using foam tape.

18. Fussy cut seaweed and coral elements from the Coral Mermaid Pattern Papers and tuck them around the circle and flowers for extra underwater detail.

19. Adhere the completed shaker panel to the card base.

20. Add the “See You Soon!” sentiment from the Coral Mermaid Sentiment Set.

21. For the finishing touch, scatter a few clear glass cabochons around the card for a little extra sparkle and shine.

I hope this project inspires you to create something pretty and magical this week! Don’t forget to join us over at Digi Choosday, we'd love to see what you make! 

Thanks so much for stopping by, and until next time… may your crafty adventures always be sprinkled with a little bit of magic.