Happy First Day of November to you! I have a BUNCH of fun pictures to show you from last night's Trunk r' Treat, but first I will show you today's project:
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The snowflakes are cut with the "Snow Flurry" Bigz Die and the Big Shot. After cutting them out, I coated the back of each with 2-way glue and allowed the glue to air-dry to Post-it Note stickiness. I LOVE 2-way glue! These snowflakes can be used over and over to make several cards before I have to create new ones!
After the glue had dried to the right stickiness, I then positioned them on the Whisper White cardstock the way I wanted them. I then put the cardstock in a cardboard box, the now-retired "Color Catcher", to be exact, and spritzed it with a mixture of 91% alcohol and Pacific Point reinker in our new "Stampin' Spritzer". These come two to a package and work great! I just spritzed all over the cardstock and the snowflakes until I had the color intensity I wanted, remembering that the ink will get lighter as it dries. I let the ink set for a few moments to allow any excess to dry out. (It will dry out pretty quickly because the alcohol will evaporate much more quickly than just water would.) If I remove the snowflakes too soon, the alcohol/ink mixture could drip and run.
Ratio of alcohol to reinker: I filled the Stampin' Spritzer to about 1/4" from the top of the bottle with alcohol, then added 10 drops of reinker. You can add more or less depending on the color of the ink and the intensity of color you want for your project.
After the alcohol has had a few moments to evaporate, I removed the snowflakes and revealed the beautiful snowflake pattern on my card front. I added Pacific Point snowflakes with the smallest snowflake from "Snow Swirled" randomly over the entire front.
"Season's Greetings", also from "Snow Swirled", was cut out with one of the "Apothecary Accents" Framelits. I cut out a second Basic Black framelit and cut it in half long-ways so I could "stretch" it out a little bit on the back of the greeting piece to create a narrow mat arount it!
Basic Jewel Rhinestones add the perfect finishing touch sparkle!
And the inside of the card:
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And now for the pictures from last night!
This is me with my youngest daughter, Alisa. I ended up just being a pirate, no kitty-kat, and she is dressed as her husband, Cody!
At Trunk r Treat we were visited by a Princess, a Knight, and a . . .
Baby Dragon!
AKA: my daughter, Kimberly, her husband, Tony, and baby Liam!
My grandson Jaxon the baby monkey also came by! He is 10 months old and just about to start walking!
Jaxon's older brother and my oldest grandson, Cohen, was the engineer for James, one of the "Thomas the Tank Engine" characters!
My granddaughter, Ava, one of Cohen & Jaxon's big sisters,looked alot like her mommy, Jessica, back in the 80's!
These next few pics are just random Trunk r' Treaters, not my family, but their costumes were cute and/or imaginative!
Here we have Sofia and her little sister, Avery, as Alice in Wonderland the and the March Hare!
Ava and her buddy Molly, who was a peacock!
Trey and his little sister Marlowe as "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" and a Hot Dog!
Lindsay and her daughters Bailee and Chloe as Vector and the Minions from "Despicable Me"! Vector even carried his "Squid Launcher"!
Cruella Deville came by with one of the 101 Dalmation puppies:
And lastly, probably the most imaginative of all, a "Zombie Sock Monkey"!
That's all for today! See you tomorrow for another Stampingrox! Day!
