Spider in a Jar

Here is one of the cards from Watercolor class. This card was to teach the use of white space in watercolor.

Happy Haunting Card

I used the new CTMH Artistry cartridge to cut the words at the top of this card. I added a few sequins and stickers for a great Halloween Card.

Halloween layout

A fun layout using the Nevermore Paper pack and embellishment assortment.

Broom Rides She Art

 Take a look at my She Art Halloween Girl! I sketched he out on a piece of watercolor paper and then I painted her skin and hair. After the watercolor dried I added a paper dress, hat and socks!

September Class: Halloween Cards, Halloween Houses and Watercolor Techniques

 Make 2 cute little Halloween houses to sit in your window, mantel or kitchen table. Learn water color techniques, and 3D construction that can be used year round.

Date: September 26th
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: my house
Cost: $25
RSVP and Pay to hold your spot by September 14
Kit includes pre-sanded and covered blocks, pre-cut pattern paper and cardstock a package of
Nevermore Compliments, Step by Step Instructions.

Make 9 Halloween Cards
Date: September 26th
Time: 9:30 am
Location: my house
Cost: $25
RSVP and Pay to hold your spot by September 14
Kit includes Nevermore Paper Pack, Pear Fundamental Assortment, Green Shimmer Trim, black twine, cricut cut pieces and staples.
Add the Stamp set for an ADDITIONAL $12

Learn different Techniques using watercolors with stamping and scrapbooking. I will teach you glazing, white space ratio, smooshing, color wheel and much more.

Date: September 27th
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: my house
Cost: $30
RSVP and Pay to hold your spot by September 14


Kit includes Watercolor Paint Set, Paint Brush Set and a package of Watercolor Paper. All of your cards and pieces will be pre-cut for your 6 cards.

If the Broom Fits Cupcake

Happy Halloween my Friends!

Halloween Gift Card Treat

 I go to the gym MWF mornings at 5am and I work with a trainer. One thing you can't do is bring your trainer a bag of candy on Halloween (or at least I'm not!) So I decided to make her a special set of gift cards on tags. I downloaded the great image from CTMH- you can get yours here. And then I printed out 3 small size.
I created the band and tags based on this idea. You still have time to create your own tags!

Starz Outlander Lantern Replica

 If you have been reading this blog for long or you know me then you know 2 things- 1. I really love to read and 2. my favorite all time book series is Outlander. When your favorite book becomes a TV series it's a BIG deal! If you haven't read the series I encourage you to pick up a copy, you will love it and be sure to catch the TV series on STARZ!

As I watch the show a few things have caught my eye; for starters it was the opening credits when the druids dance around and then again when they appear in the show. Not only is the music breath taking, I really love their lanterns.

 

I instantly thought it would be so neat to have some of those myself. A little later a few photos of the actual lanterns pop up and I was sure I could make those. 

Photo Credit STARZ

Photo credit STARZ

 

I snapped some photos and wrote some directions on how I made mine.

I don't know how STARZ made theirs, I don't even know anyone at STARZ, this is just my idea of how they might have done it.

 Replica Outlander Lanterns

 Supplies

Cheese Cloth- (my package said 2 sq. yds and I used it all on one lantern)
Decoupodge
Pam cooking spray
Water
Washi tape or Masking tape
1” PVC scrap about 6” long
2 liter soda bottle
Paper plate
Optional rubber gloves (If you don’t like to get your fingers sticky)
Optional floral sprigs
LED candle

.My Cheese Cloth came folded in a long strip and I left it like that. (it was about 6”x 72”).
1. Mix Decoupadge with water.  About ½ cup of Decoupadge to ¼ cup of water.
2. Soak the Cheese Cloth in the mixture and make sure it is saturated. You may need to add water a little at a time.
3. Use a low tack tape to tape the PVC over the top of the bottle. (be sure to use some thing that will release easily) and then spray with cooking spray.
4. Begin wrapping the soaked cheese cloth around the PVC and down the bottle. When you get to the intersection of the pvc and bottle add an extra wrap for stability. As you go down make some interesting folds and peaks till you reach your desired height (It’s possible you may need to cut off some of the cloth)
5. Stand the bottle/PVC up on a paper plate and let dry. Mine took over 24 hrs to dry.
6. When completely dry remove the lantern carefully. 2 of mine slid right off. One I had to cut the bottle with scissors to get it out. (I left the PVC in mine for stability)
7. Embellish with greenery and floral sprigs. (I used wired greenery and made a small wreath to go around the bottom.)
8. Add an LED light. (Do not use a flame)
 

 In case you were wondering, not only can I go outside and dance around with my fun lantern but I will also be using them in my Halloween Decor!

Halloween Card Class Cards

 These are my cards from my Halloween Card Class this month. The class was great, turned out to be very popular. If you would like a FREE copy of the directions and cutting info with a minimum purchase of $5.95 from my webstie www.kaaronbrown.ctmh.com please email me at kabrown63@hotmail.com

Halloween Card Making Kit in a Paper Sack Pocket

 This cute little pocket is made using a paper sack (below you will find a video on how to make one) I filled it up with all kinds of supplies to make some Halloween cards.

Beautiful Stamps, Amazing Discounts

Each month you can purchase a new D-size stamp set, available for one month only, for just $5 — that’s over 70% off retail! When you place an order of $50 or more in Close To My Heart products, you qualify for this special Stamp of the Month pricing.

Spend $50 and get this Stamp of the Month set for just $5.

Incredibly Cool Crafts

In love with the artwork we created with this stamp set? Get ready to make it yourself! Purchase the materials listed here along with your deeply discounted Stamp of the Month set to get started!

Purple Halloween House Card

I found myself using the sticker collection from the Scaredy Cat line a lot this year. The colors were perfect and all of the images were so cute! It might be a little hard to tell in the photo but this haunted house is popped up on foam tape. It's one of my favorite things do with CTMH stickers and the reason is because the stickers are such a good quality and heavy weight! My time for removing the sticky part of the sticker is to keep some baby power around and just sprinkle the back with the power and it will remove all the stick-um! Plus your cards smells fresh!

Pin Ispired Treat Sack

 I haven't done a Pin Inspired project in awhile. CTMH gave us some wonderful paper sacks this time around. And my mind just started turning with all the fun things they could be used for! For starters I made this bag tag and stapled it right to the sack. Now it's ready to add some fun treats or a card. I was also thinking how fun it would be to use as a party invitation! Just tuck the party details right in the bag.
Below you can see that I used a piece of velum that I punched out with a scallop punch. To get the decorative border I just used a small embossing stylus and drew the pattern by hand!

Happy Friday to you all-
See you next week with more projects!

The Deer Horns

So I have been pretty infatuated lately with deer horns. I think I spent a whole hour on Pinterest last week looking all kinds of stuff. Pillows, tags, 3d cardboard things. So when I spotted this stamp from CTMH

  I added it to my order. I decided to make it a Halloween card. I stamped on a piece of vintage book paper and then hand drew a spider. Pretty scary, huh?

Halloween Treat Toppers

 One of my favorite things about Halloween is the treat giving. As papercrafters it gives us endless opportunities to make little treat gifts. These 2 pleated toppers are super fun and are great with these fun chocolates for Halloween I found at World Market.

Sweet Treats Halloween Card

Being a CTMH consultant comes with lots of perks! For starters I make a money selling what I love most, scrapbook supplies. Another perk is that I can buy one or all of the Hostess sets that would normally only be availiable when you held a home gathering. When I saw this apothecary jars stamp set I knew I would be making lots of cards using it. This Halloween card is the 1st of many.
Have you ever thought about making a money doing something you love. I would LOVE to have you on my team! You can read all about it here.

In case you were wondering this is what comes in the Cardmakers Starter Kit.

Pin Inspired Halloween Card

It's been awhile since I have posted a pin-inspired card. Here is my inspiration card. I really like the stickers that go with the Scaredy Cat line from CTMH, especially this little owl.

 I really love the kraft color added to the orange, purple and black. Look for some more projects using this combo soon.
Have a wonderful weekend and come back next week!

Halloween Heads Card

I was inspired by one of my own cards for this project. Take a look at this card.  I really liked the lined up pumpkins so when I saw this stamp-

Tick or Treat Sweets- in the catalog I thought it would be fun to recreate the card. All it really takes is masking.
Stamp your image on scrap paper or the Post-It. Cut out the image.
Stamp the image again onto your regular paper. Place the paper mask on top, covering the image completely to protect it as you stamp the second time.
Stamp again, positioning the image partially onto the mask. This second image will appear to be behind the first. Repeat, if you want additional images.

Do you see those tiny staples on the sides of the cards? Yep my new favorite tool from CTMH is the Mini Stapler!

If the broom fits card

So I have been having fun this month creating all these Halloween projects! Now I bet you are wondering about how I got a two colored image for that sweet little witch? It's really very easy.
1. Stamp your image in Black Ink and cut it out.
2. Stamp your image in Purple Ink and cut out the dress only.
3. Glue the dress over the top of the black dress. *note use strong adhesive like liquid glass* sometimes using dry adhesive over the top of a stamp image wont hold very well.
You wouldn't want her dress to fall off!!!

August Classes

 Frightfully Fun Card Class

Make 10 Card

Date: August 23, 2014

Time:1:30 pm

Cost: $20

(kit: Scaredy Cat Paper, 10 card base/envelope, thistle ribbon and colonial white cardstock)

Stamp Add on: Frightfully Fun B1453 Cost $ 32

Please RSVP and Pay by August 11th to hold your Spot

*consultants if you would like to receive the directions for the card class FREE with a $5.95 purchase from my website please email me- kabrown63@hotmail.com*

Scaredy Cat Layout Class

Make One Double page 12x12 Layout

 Date: August 23, 2014

Time: 9:30 pm

Cost: $18

(kit: Scaredy Cat B&T paper, Black Twill ribbon, Embellishment assortment and cardstock)

Please RSVP and Pay by August 11th to hold your Spot

  Halloween Treat Sacks

Make 10 Treat Sacks

 Date: Sunday, August 24, 2014

Time: 1:30pm

Cost: $18 (candy not included)

(kit: 10 sacks, 5 sheets of stickers, cello bags, foam tape and cardstock circles)

Please RSVP and Pay by August 11th to hold your Spot

What a HOOT card

Beautiful Stamps, Amazing Discounts

Each month you can purchase a new D-size stamp set, available for one month only, for just $5 — that’s over 70% off retail! When you place an order of $50 or more in Close To My Heart products, you qualify for this special Stamp of the Month pricing.

Spend $50 and get this Stamp of the Month set for just $5.

Incredibly Cool Crafts

In love with the artwork we created with this stamp set? Get ready to make it yourself! Purchase the materials listed here along with your deeply discounted Stamp of the Month set to get started!