Shoebox Tuesday

For today's shoebox project I decided to have a go at Anna's idea of polished technique with a fall theme.

Since I bought the distress reinkers I am able to play with some of the techniques as long as they're not too mess. Anna used daffodil delight and pumpkin pie colors which make great fall colors so going for sort of the same tones I used wild honey and rusty hinge. Wasn't totally sure how this will turn since one of the reinkers was regular distress ink and the other was oxide reinker. The stamps are both from sheltering tree set by SU stamped with ground espresso ink; I used hello honey ribbon also by SU

On this first card I used photo paper, the ink did what it was supposed to do I guess, it spread a bit and dry quick (you wet your cotton ball with alcohol not too much but not too little and applied a few drops of reinker, I didn't have cotton balls just cotton pads which was hard to work with) I applied the wild honey first then rusty hinge. Colors are very vibrant

On this one, I used glossy paper and applied rusty hinge first and wild honey last. All was the same ways just the inks were applied in difference sequence but somehow on the glossy paper it became opaque and the ink didn't seem to stay on don't know if it was to oxide or because I used it last or what but I had to rubbed the whole card with a rag after a few hours as it was like it was not dry yet, some like powder was getting on my fingers

Anna stamped her tree sort of flying in the card I decided to sort of anchor it towards the bottom so it wasn't flying and leave my fall background to be around the tree and everywhere around😊

Bold botanicals

This was the August 2016 paper pumpkin. Like the words of the stamp set in the kit although I only used two since my donation box only had thank you cards, mainly.

For this card I used block party thanks die by Taylored Expressions, the message was from the kit stamped with black licorice hybrid ink

for this card I used Cuttlebug's embossing folder thanks and the kit's stamp set with early espresso ink and pearls from another paper pumpkin

for these two cards I used boho chic textured impressions embossing folder from SU, the thanks die was a freebie from Taylored Expressions, the "a million" is from the set thanks to you set by Pink & Main stamped with black licorice hybrid ink, the twine was from another paper pumpkin

 

for this card, I stamped the image from the kit with dusty Durango ink, cut one of the pieces that came in the kit with a stitched oval die by The Stamps of Life and the "thanks" was what came out of the previous cards I sponged it with early espresso ink

for this last sample I used another of the thanks that came from the cards above and the rest of the pieces were from the kit

Pocketful of Cheer

These are the cards I made with Paper Pumpkin April 2016. Somehow this was a fun kit to work with, liked the colors and was an easy to do cards with.

For this card I used layered butterfly set by Hampton Art with Bermuda Bay ink, bitty butterfly punch and pearls from another paper pumpkin kit

for this card the background is a Darice embossing essential thank define folder, the message is from heartfelt expressions set by Heartfelt Creations with black licorice hybrid ink

for this one I use thanks corner steel craft die by Poppy Stamps

for this one I used scripty saying set by Lawn Farm with black licorice hybrid ink

for this one I used the set from bold botanicals paper pumpkin kit August 2016 with black licorice hybrid ink and pearls from a another paper pumpkin

for this one again the same bold botanicals set with black licorice hybrid ink

for this one I use thanks set by Pink & Main

for this one again the same bold botanicals set with black licorice hybrid ink

and last but not least, I used prayers and thanks sets by Hero Arts and hope and thanks set by Poppy Stamps all stamped with tuxedo black ink

Sprinkled with love

After I got my October kit I got re-inspired with paper pumpkin and since I have to finish a box of donation cards started working on the other boxes I have.

These are the cards I made with May 2017 paper pumpkin. I think I have a little bit of stuff left IF I want to do a couple more cards. I used supplies from the kit, the color of ink that came in the kit that was soft suede and a set by The Stamps of Life donuts2stamp which coordinates perfectly with this set

This first card uses the set by Stamps of Life with soft suede ink

the extra pieces that I cut off from this bag I used on this card. Everything on this card was from the kit

for this card, again I used Stamps of life set with soft suede ink plus Concord & 9th sprinkles turnabout set with crushed curry, cucumber crush, soft suede and mauve mist inks

the extra pieces from this card went to this card and again used the Stamps of Life set with soft suede ink

  for this card I use only the kit supplies and set

and for this last one I decided to make a shadow box, the petals pretty much matched the petite petals set, I used the sequins from the October kit since they match the colors and the happy birthday is from the Stamps of life set with My Favorite Things hybrid black licorice ink. The message inside is from the kit's set and I used bliss blue ink

Something good to eat

For the September 2016 paper pumpkin I made a few treat for this year. I saw the test tubes that Raquel Tessman did not sure if they were for this paper pumpkin or for the items on the holiday catalog but they were so cute so decided to make them. I like candy corn so that's why I wanted to put but unfortunately they were too big so not a lot of them fit in the tube guess I should have found little candy corn somewhere but I just got the normal bags 😊 used twine from my stash, the tags and the message were from the kit used tangelo twist ink for the message, the wiggly eyes were also from my stash

Bret doesn't like candy corn although lately he seems to like a lot of the candies I eat, must be in the I eat whatever is in front of me stage LOL so added some tiny chocolates we had for his.

Shoebox Thursday by Darlene

Feliz Día de Muertos! it's our custom to have this kind of bread for this holiday is called pan de muerto in Mexico it has a different flavor but is not so bad here is just that is the same flavor as the rest of the breads 😊 and at least at the Hispanic store near my home they only have one size which is huge

For today's shoebox project Darlene had this nice fall or Thanksgiving card. We used woodgrain Alterations folder by Tim Holtz/Sizzix, the letters are from the inline alphabet set by Altenew, the burlap ribbon is by SU, the flowers were from her stash and we added some beadazzles microbeads by Suze Weinberg

Día de Muertos

Today is Día de todos los Santos or all Saints. Most people celebrates the life of children or short life of children that die too young (under 2) so celebrations of Día de files difuntos o Día de Muertos or Day of the Dead that is celebrated tomorrow November 2nd starts today for those that had this kind of loss. This year I decided that instead of sending a Halloween card to my family that I would send them a Día de Muertos card although the inside message was Halloween, only because I didn't have anything else :0) Growing up my family didn't do much for Día de muertos but we always celebrated Halloween going to parties sometimes but for sure going for treat or trick with all the kids in the neighborhood.

Hero Arts came out with a cool layered stamp set and die of sugar skulls so fun to play with. For the background, I made a very simple "papel picado" with tissue paper that is very popular this time of year and sponged rose bud ink. For my skulls I used rose bud, Bahama blue, Lulu lavender, pear tart and lilac posies inks and for my message tuxedo black ink.