New stamps upcoming, Halloween 2024

So I have my mitts on a bunch of new stamps, a small bunch mind you, so anyone who is tickled better make note of the release date:

New stamps will go live in the store on Wednesday September 11 at 8pm UK time

There will be new stencils also and today’s card features one of those – Spooky Tree stencil will release on Wednesday evening also. I’ve paired it with some of the little tiny incidental stamps from the upcoming stamp set, which is called Haunted. Here’s a sneak peek of the set.

This card is super fun to make – revisit inky fun with this easy-to-batch card design. Get yourself a card front – I’m using a piece of cream cardstock cut 4.25 by 5.5 inches because my brain is wired to US sizes. Start with the tree-face mask from the stencil set – Now – thing to know – the tree-face mask is a fun piece of stencil that comes in the exact shape of the tree in the stencil. It’s carries the face detail – so you can add a face to your stencilled tree or not, that’s the purpose of this piece. The stencil material I use is thin and bendy, I use it because I can get more detail – thicker stencil material would not cut so smoothly. A bonus function is that you can use this piece as a tree mask, but the branches will move unless you use stencil adhesive.

I actually don’t mind that since I’m making a spooky background forest here and I use a long fibre brush so movement was actually minimal. People with short fibre brushes will find the branches move so I’d definitely suggest an up and down sponge motion if you want to use finer detailed stencil and masks.

I started by putting tree-guy on the card at the right hand side with his face roughly in the centre of the side of the card, facing into the card with his butt sticking out to the right hand side. Then I brushed on some orange, I wasn’t too careful as a sort of hazy feel is what I was going for here.

Next I repeated the process on the left hand side of the card, randomly brushing more orange ink on in between tree impressions to get a little depth. I cannot stress how un-careful I was. Once that was finished, my card looked like the first pic in this block of six pics.

Next, I laid the actual stencil on top of the card, positioned towards the left, to leave room for my sentiment. I made sure the stencil was facing the opposite way to orange tree guy. I brushed black ink into the tree shape, see centre top pic. In top right pic you can see where tree guy has been popped back into his space on the actual stencil. Bottom left pic, you can see me adding his face with a heavier layer of black ink. I’ve switched to a smaller brush at this point. Look at his wee face, he’s so excited for Halloween! The card front now looks like the bottom right pic and I can add the sentiment and any other bits and bobs that I fancy.

For the orange card I stamped bats and stars, all tiny incidental stamps conveniently supplied in the new upcoming stamp set! The sentiment is from the new stamps set.

Tiny pumpkins infest the tree in the green forest

Wee little bats hang from the branches in the purple forest – this was so much fun to stamp.

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4 Comments

  1. Julia Aston

    SO so fun and spooky Claire! Love the faces on the trees and the hanging bats and pumpkins as well as the flying bats!

    1. admin

      Thanks Julia, you’ll enjoy this one!!! lol!

  2. Kim

    This is just the right amount of spooky! Reminds my of the trees in the Silly Symphonies Dancing Skeleton 💀

    1. admin

      och ta for popping in Kin, I must google that, sounds like my cup of tea! lol

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