Halloween FREEBIE from KCS Designs by Kim

Hi guys, I'm up on the Blogger with a cute Halloween Art Journal page and a FREEBIE from KCS Designs by Kim.

I had so much fun making this art journal page and I loved playing with all of the distressed oxides and stencils with this one.  I even used a FREE printable from KCS Designs by Kim (click here) for these fun Halloween words, or here to check out all of her other designs in her Etsy shop.  This download has all the colorful Halloween colors and words and is so easy to print out so you can have all the fun spooky words for all your Halloween cards and art pages or layouts!

For this page I used:

• Distressed Oxides in: Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Violet, Twisted Citron, Carved Pumpkin and Blueprint sketch
• Vicki Boutin's Color wheel in the Reds/oranges and the Blue/Greens
• Stencil from Whimsy Studios - Beaded Curtain Stencil (retired)
• Star Stencil from Scrapbook. com
• The Halloween words from KCS Designs By Kim
• The Fairy Witch from a Quirky Fairy Clipart on Etsy

I had the miscellaneous ephemera pieces from an Amazon order...I love how I made her look like she is walking out of the door to get into some Halloween mischief. 

I hope I was able to inspire you to get into your crafty space and make something that makes you happy, and don't forget to click the link and get the free download for your Halloween craft needs.

Stay crafty

Kimberly 

Halloween treat bag tag

Hey guys I'm up on the Blogger with a fun mixed media Halloween treat bag tag featuring KCS Designs by Kim. This is part of her new Fall/Halloween Collection, I will leave links below on all the stuff I used.

How CUTE is this little witch??? This Peculiar Halloween Society Surreal Characters collection is so GOOD!

I sized her to fit on this tiny treat bag that I made into a tag, I don't think she was much bigger than 3". I printed the image out and fussy cut it. I set her aside and I used a spiderweb stencil to do the background. I added the black cat, the material buttons and the word ABRACADABRA, because doesn't she just look like she would put a spell on you! 

I also pulled out this stamp (love the fancy bracketed frame around the sentiment) and I stamped it and heat embossed it in fine gold and adhered it to the bag along with the image and buttons. I punched a hole in the top to make a tag, added the ric rack ribbon and the hole enforcer and called it done!

• Image of Girl with halloween dress -  Peculiar Halloween Society Surreal Characters
• Ink - Black Soot distressed ink from Tim Holtz
• Happy Haunting Stamp - Prima Marketing, Juliet Nutting Witchy Poo stamp set 
• Embossing Powder in Fine Gold - WOW Embossing 
• Spiderweb stencil - Carta Bella (retired)
• ABRACADABRA sentiment - GOOSEBUMPS Collection from Pretty Little Studio
• Black rubber cat - from my stash
• Felt Buttons - Joanne's (that's how long I had them and was so happy to finally use them up)

I hope I inspired you to get into your crafty space and make some cute Halloween tags for this season or a goodie bag for a Halloween Party.

Thanks for hanging out with me,

Stay Crafty 

Kimberly 

Halloween Tag - Happy Haunting

Hey guys I'm up on the Blogger with a fun mixed media Halloween tag featuring KCS Designs by Kim.  This is part of her new Fall/Halloween Collection and I will leave links below on all the stuff I used.

I was in a messy mood and I have really been in a Halloween mood lately as well, so this was so fun to work on!

I started out with a tag I cut out using my Joy2 from Cricut (appx. 6x4").  I added some distressed sprays, let them dry and then came in with a stencil and some modeling paste.  I love how the modeling paste soaks up the colors from the sprays. 

While letting that dry I printed out both of the images from KCS Designs by Kim onto some rice paper and fussy cut them.  After the modeling paste dried I added the background with some rice paper glue, let that set and dry and then added the spiderweb and the wired gold glitter ribbon.  I added the image of the girl up on some foam tape and adhered her down...I mean how cute is that Halloween dress!

I reached into my stamps and found this HAPPY HAUNTING stamp from Prima Marketing that I thought was perfect.  I stamped and fussy gut it, popped it up on some foam tape, added the black ribbon to the top of the tag and called it done!

• Background paper - Autumn Lingers 
• Image of Girl with halloween dress - Peculiar Halloween Society Clip Art
• Distress sprays - Tim Holtz in Ground Espresso,  Frayed Burlap
• Modeling paste (from Amazon)
• Tiny spiderweb die (retired)
• Wired gold glitter ribbon (from Hobby Lobby)

I hope I inspired you to get into your crafty space and make some cool, scary and/or cute Halloween projects!

Thanks for hanging out with me,

Stay Crafty 

Kimberly 

Happy Birthday, Bring On The Magic

Hi guys, I'm up on the Blogger with a Challenge from Art Impressions Blog.  Their challenge this week is CELEBRATION: make something that you celebrate so I made this cute birthday card.

I made this card using lots of stamps, a repurposed packaging from a crafty order, some splatters and a cute fairy drinking her coffee (obviously it's her free birthday coffee from SB)!

This came together so fast, it was one of those creative moments after looking at the brown packaging from an order I just received in the mail.  It was so smooth and didn't get wrinkled at all during shipping and I thought to myself, self what can you use this for and all of the sudden I was making a card with it.  The colors were perfect for this cute little fairy image a friend had sent me a few weeks ago that was actually sitting on my desk and wow did it really work for this project!

I started off by cutting the brown packaging down to an 1/8 of an inch smaller than an A2 size and added it to a solid piece of brown card stock cut to an A2 card base.

I then went through some of my birthday stamps and grabbed a few I thought would work and went to town stamping the background.  I also included a couple of my "background" stamps I use specifically for making backgrounds and they really worked great together.

I added some white acrylic splatters (fun tip: I ordered a set of 3 empty nail polish bottles off of amazon...really small with a ball inside...I add some acrylic paint with a bit of water to the bottle and have it sitting on my desk for when I want to make splatters.  It saves a lot of waste at least for me, I'm a heavy hand when pouring acrylic paint and I usually wipe up the rest from my glass board so a huge waste for me.  I love these little bottles because you can put any color inside...here is a link to them (non affiliated) in case you want to order a set).

After the splatters I added the fairy image and some bling and called it done!  Thanks for hanging out with me today.  I hope I inspired you to get into your crafty space and make a card for someone special today!

Stay crafty,

Kimberly