For the last few days I’ve been playing with a single 12″ x 12″ sheet of paper from the Them Bones DSP pack. These are what I like to call card starters. I especially like the ones with the scenes on them!
I’ve create a card with each one of the blocks and will be splitting it up into 3 post. I’ve used the coordinating Bag of Bones stamp set and Dies and the fun Glow-in-the-Dark paper and embellishments. I’ve pulled in some other fun tools on some of the cards as well. Some cards turned out better than others and some became a spring board for more ideas.
Let’s start at the top left and work our way through the piece the DSP.
For the cross bones layer, I pulled in a coordinating Cajun Craze side fold card base. This layer was 6″ x 4 3/8″ so I cut it down to 4″ x 5 1/4″ and have some scraps left over to use somewhere else.
I cheated a bit on this card by using some skeletons that I had cut out previously from the edges of the sheet of DSP that has the full sized skeletons. Cowboy dude was missing feet and Sir Top Hat is missing half an arm. I die 2 fence pieces to span the card front, some bats, and the hats, footwear, bow tie and walking stick.
The grave stones are fussy cut from another pattern of the DSP. I got a bit careless with the liquid glue and used an embossing buddy to dust the stickiness away, but I may have gotten a bit carried away with that as well, lol, as the skeletons look a bit dusty. Let’s just say they recently crawled out of those graves, hehehe.
The stamping is all done with Gorgeous Grape ink on this card.
The greeting on the front is popped up with dimensionals after the top half was fussy cut. Do you see the two little white bats? Those babies glow an eerie green in the dark!
For the low moon piece, (same size as the cross bones) I cut it to fit the full front of the card, 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and layered it onto a Starry Sky card base. The 3 skeletons are all cut from the DSP and the greeting is die cut with one of the Deckled Circles Dies (also in the Holiday Catalog!). I’ve added 3 of the Glow-in-the-Dark bats on this card.
The stamping on this card is all done with Starry Sky ink.
The final card for today was my least favorite. It just didn’t turn out quite like I envisioned. The silver embossed skeletons were also very hard to photograph.The skeletons are stamped with Versamark ink on Basic White paper and then heat embossed with Silver Embossing Powder. I think that Basic Black paper might have stood out more.
This blue and gray block is 2 3/4″ x 4″ and I’ve layered it on a 3″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Basic Black. I’ve again fussy cut 2 gravestones for our skeletons. The card base and ink is Starry Sky. The arms on the background are stamped with the Starry Sky ink as well.
The hat is stamped with Crushed Curry and has a Rhinestone embellishment. Have you seen the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie? There is a scene in there that this hat wearing skeleton reminds me of.
The insides on these are all similar. I’ve used some smaller pieces of Basic White that I had cut for a class and didn’t use.
Ā
Product List
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stamping@Robyn's Roost 