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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Lawnscaping Challenge #116 and Getting my Ghoul on with Lawn Fawn's "Happy Harvest" set

One of the things about being laid up is that I have been able to view a lot of videos. One of the videos that I thought was SO COOL was from "Just One More Card" and it was on "How to Zombie-fy Your Stamps." Julia did a video taking an ordinary, cute stamp from My Favorite Things and making it into a stamp fit for Halloween. Her shattered glass background she did BY HAND!! It looks so cool!!

Anyway, she inspired me to look at my stamps and see what I could do. I had the Lawn Fawn set "Happy Harvest" on my desk and I thought it would be fun to Zombie-fy the scarecrow and the crows!

I stamped the scarecrow and the two crows using a bit of masking. I then went on the internet for some zombie images and made some strategic marks on the images with a pencil. I then used a Copic Liner pen to outline where I placed the pencil marks. I then colored the images in with Copic markers and die cut the images out with the matching dies. I added details using a white gel pen and a red Spica marker.


Next I stamped a bunch of corn stalks all over a white piece of paper and masked off a circle using a piece of masking paper. I then blended Distress Inks in Chipped Sapphire, Wilted Violet and Smoked Hickory to create the blue background. I then sprayed some water into my hand and I flicked it onto the background to make "stars." It made the corn stalks look like they were in shadow, which I thought was so cool!!


I then created a bit of a scene with all my images under the moon. I LOVE how this came out and it was the most fun I have had making a card in ages. It took a bit of time to figure out where I wanted to place all my hand drawn pieces into the image but I think it was worth the time.

I am entering this into the Lawnscaping Challenge: Too Cute to Spook at the Lawnscaping Challenge blog.

I want to thank you for stopping by today. Have a great day!!


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8 comments:

  1. Susanne VargasOctober 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM

    Amazing how you made a cute stamp into something scary! Love the scene you build around it!

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  2. Kim HegginsOctober 20, 2015 at 7:56 PM

    Fabulous card Nora...just love your zombie scare crow, so clever!

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  3. Tracey McNeelyOctober 20, 2015 at 9:42 PM

    Nora I can't keep up you are on a roll, must be feeling better! Love this cute card and your colouring!

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  4. UnknownOctober 24, 2015 at 3:21 AM

    Love how you used the idea and made it your own – what a fantastic halloween card! So happy to see I inspired you :)

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  5. SmilynStefOctober 24, 2015 at 2:10 PM

    What an awesome green face

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  6. Taunya ButlerOctober 26, 2015 at 5:37 PM

    Well, this is just ZOMBIE-TASTIC!!!! Love how cool and fun you made this card!! You are so cool - and this card is just beyond awesome!!! So glad that you are feeling better enough to craft!! You always create such AMAZING cards!!!

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  7. Samantha MannOctober 27, 2015 at 3:30 PM

    eek!!! this is AMAZING!!!! looooooooove how you zombie-fied the birds and scarecrow!!! holy cow - so cool!! wow!! Thank you SO much for playing along with the Lawnscaping Challenge! :)

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  8. Barb GhigOctober 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM

    Oh, how CUTE, Nora! Beautiful Copic coloring and I love how you created your background! Fabulous Halloween card!

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