Creep It Real

I can't get enough of this stamp set. Creep It Real is sooo fun and the sayings are just a hoot! love it!

Here's are close-ups of some of the boxes. So fun!

Who wouldn't want to get this treat? I mean, really???!!! ;)

I should have used versafine for the stamping to get a nice crisp image. :)

Mini popcorn box works great too! 

Make skinny spooky landscape die elements to decorate the sides of the berry box.

Creep It Real is in the August Collection so be sure to pick it up before it goes away. 

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Have an awesome day and Creep It Real! 

Witch Better Have My Candy! August Collection

These super fun witches legs are in the August Collection (pdf) in the Creep It Real stamp set. The sentiments are great and the matching dies are awesome too! The shaker card pocket has the legs with the stockings colored with the violet wink of stella pen and is filled with the Edgar's fright sequin mix! So fun!!!  I made the pocket with a pocket scrapbook page pocket and the fuse tool! Best thing ever for shaker pockets!! All the supplies are available in my webstore: www.amusestudio.com/seleise

It's a great time to start thinking about your Halloween treats! Happy Haunting!

A Muse Studio Halloween Inspiration

Here's some great inspiration from the A Muse Studio designers. They were so great I just had to share their talent and creativity! You can get these great products in my webstore: www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Have a wonderfully creative day!!

Halloween Gatefold Window Card - Sugar Skulls

Sugar Skulls and slate cardstock are the pairing for this Halloween card. Technically, sugar skulls or calaveras are part of the Mexican Dia De Los Muertos celebration or the Roman Catholic All Souls Day but in the stamping world, you can bend the rules a little so this sugar skull is doing double duty as a Halloween design.

It's a simple gatefold card but this one has a window. :) To make this, score the 8-1/2" X 5 1/2" cardstock at 2-1/8" and 6-3/8". This gives you the "gate". Then, open the gate and place any shape die that you like and put it inside the card with the blade face up and close the "gate". Run it through your die-cutting machine and when you open it, you'll have a wonderful window in your card.

The circle die will leave an impression on your card base so cover it up with a little Mysterious Manor paper and then close the gate to figure out your placement of your ocean circle. Color the skull with tombow markers and cut out. Add the popped up sugar skull to the inside circle. Stamp a Halloween sentiment and you're good to go. Oh - and aren't the Wicked Web spiders on the outside a nice creepy touch?

If you don't want your "gate" to flop open, you can tie some orange/onyx baker's cording around the top and bottom of the card.

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Boo!

This is a quick and simple Halloween card that isn't too scary! :)

I put together a paper pack for September with Hibiscus, Habanero, Lime, Mermaid and Slate and used it for this card. Slate ink is used for the a|s background stamp, Halloween Newspaper Background.

A tip is to push the three layer pieces together and stamp. Then, put them on the card, spacing them each out a little. One stamping instead of three and the image flows together. :)

The tall alphabet die cuts of BOO and the bat trio die cuts are then added to the card using the quickie glue pen. A little slate baker's cording finishes off the look. Isn't that a great color combo?

Here's the inside  -

Stamp part of the background stamp on the inside to finish off the card.

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Something Wicked This Way Comes... Toil and Trouble

When witches go riding...  Are you getting your Halloween craft on? Hope so! It's a fun time to make cards and treats for kids and co-workers. :)

 Toil and Trouble is one of the spotlight stamp sets for October which means it's 10% off for the whole month! I love this set because it has this wonderful witch in silhouette as well as these groovy bats. I used poppy and slate from the spotlight pack and added some lime because I liked the mixture of those colors. The poppy and lime pieces were cut at different angles to create visual interest and all of the pieces had slate ink dragged along the edge to vintage up the look. The witch, cauldron and bats were also stamped in slate and the brew is in lime. A few silver sequins finish off the look.

Inside you find more bats and the halloween sentiments in onyx and lime.

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Have a wonderfully creative day!

Halloween Bookmark /Glassine Treat Bag Twist Tutorial

Here's a twist on using a glassine bag for a treat bag and here's how to make it! :)
1. Punch two holes in the side to thread a lollipop through using the large hole on your crop-a-dile. Spray bag with Neon Orange Splash. Dab, don't rub so you keep that splash effect), with a paper towel and then set aside to dry.
2. Cut a 5 1/2" X 2 1/8" piece of lime green cardstock and use the 1/4" side of the corner chomper to round two corners.
3. Stamp Mister Bones in onyx ink in the center of the lime green piece. And, stamp Happy Halloween on opposite ends (non-rounded corners) in orange ink.
4. Use 1/4" red-line tape and put across a small clothespin. Trim. Pour lime green glitter into lid and press sticky side of clothespin into the glitter. Press into work paper to really seal in glitter.
5. Cut small piece of lime green cardstock and stamp "boo" in orange ink.
6. Slide bookmark into one side of glassine bag.
7. Weave lollipop stick into the holes on the glassine bag. Add sentiment and attach with glittered clothespin.
8. Give to a favorite little friend, a co-worker, a friend who loves to read or save and give as your halloween treats to the goblins and ghouls. :)

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Thanks for popping by and have a most wonderful day!

Bootastic Treat Bag (Flat Bag to Gusset Bag)

Check it out! This started as a flat treat bag and with a few simple steps, became a gusseted treat bag. It opens up a whole new world of treat bags with our line of flat bags. :) I saw the tutorial on Melissa Roell's blog (she's amazing!) and knew that I had to try it. I added a sugar panel with the sentiment stamped in grape and the ghosts in onyx from the Happy Haunting stamp set. A little grape ghost, some silver edged organdy ribbon and black baker's twine finished off the look! Use the large hole on the crop-a-dile for your holes. :) I hope you give Melissa's tutorial a try. So easy and so fun! 

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Thanks for popping by and have a wonderfully creative day!!

Batty Halloween Treat Box

I had a fun week-end at a family wedding and now need to dive into craft fair items! So much to do this week but am looking forward to the Beloit Holiday Fair this Saturday (October 27th!) in Beloit, Kansas!! Hope you stop in and check out our craft fair booth! 

Here's a fun popcorn box filled with treats (some of these may make an appearance in the booth)!! The a muse studio popcorn box is so easy to use with the Grand Caliber. I cut this one out of watermelon cardstock and stamped the screenprint background in pebble ink all over it before assembling it. I used the rosette die to make the polka dot rosette and added it to the box and finished it off with a large onyx felt bat from the bat trio die set. Here it is from another angle.

I can't wait to make some of these up decorated for Christmas. :) It would be great for a little nail polish/ make-up gift holder too. Hmm - wonder what else would fit in this box... :)

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Have a wonderfully creative day!!

Too Cute to Spook

Here's a little Halloween fun for today! A fun bicycle, a groovy die-cut fence and Halloween stamps are all you need to make this scene. :)

The cardstocks are onyx, orange, seattle, bermuda and graph.The inks are onyx, orange and slate. A little masking helps the kitty "sit" in the bike basket. The stamp sets are enjoy the ride, too cute to spook and spooky boo day. The little jack-o-lantern is stamped, cut out and popped up on the other side of the fence. The graph cardstock looks pretty good as a sidewalk, doesn't it?

Here are more bats to finish off the inside!

Hope you have a way spooky boo day! :)
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Halloween M&M Treats - 1X8 bags

Here's a fun way to give Halloween treats! The 1" X 8" bags carried by A*Muse Studio are super for little treats! This one is filled with m&ms and has a simple spellbinder circle in Sugar and scalloped circle topper in Onyx with Too Cute to Spook images stamped on top in Blackberry and Slate inks. Love the inks! The sentiment is also on the Onyx paper with the Slate ink.

My niece and nephew wanted to make m&m treats too. They love making projects!! They picked out their die shape - they each picked a different shape from the Classic Tag Dies. They also picked out their images and helped stamp and cut. They did great, didn't they?!

Have a wonderfully creative day!!!

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