Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Waltzingmouse October Blog Party

I’m joining in on this month’s Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Party.  This month's party theme is a color challenge to use black, orange, and purple, which immediately brought Halloween to my mind.  Even though I don’t have too many Halloween themed stamps from Waltzingmouse in my collection, I managed to put this somewhat spooky design together using the color inspiration provided for the blog party, along with the current sketch from Retro Sketches as my starting point.

I arranged an array of different sized plastic spider buttons on an orange on orange chevron patterned piece of designer paper. The spiders are “hanging” from a black web, punched out with a jumbo border punch and sprayed with a little shimmer spray for a dewy sparkle, then set on a purple strip for contrast.

Once I had the spiders and their web in place, I used my paper piercing tool to make a simple trail between each spider and the web above. Then I set to work on the most tedious part of this project—adding those teeny, tiny crystal eyes to each spider! The “Happy Halloween” sentiment from the Say it Loud Winter Holidays set is stamped beneath the spiders in black ink. I've got to admit, I like these spiders a lot more than the ones I usually come across . . .

Materials Used: 
Say it Loud Winter Holidays stamp set (Waltzingmouse stamps); Versafine Onyx Black ink, Gold Shimmer Spritz (Tsukineko); Elegant Eggplant and Basic Black cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); A Walk in the Park-Flutter designer paper (Echo Park); spider web border punch (Martha Stewart); spider buttons (Blumenthal Lansing); clear crystals (Taylored Expressions)

20 comments:

  1. Fabulous card Lori. Love those spiders, especially since they are not real.

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  2. Oooo I love your little hanging spiders - although they are creepy lol!

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  3. what a fun design with your cute little spiders dangling from the die cut web Lori!

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  4. This is super!! I love those little spiders' googley eyes!

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  5. You have made spiders cute. Yay for you for making this fun card.

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  6. This is a fun (and different) take on the retro sketch. I didn't think spiders could ever be cute!

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  7. Cute little Halloween scene Lori, love all those little spiders.

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  8. How cute and clever Lori!! Love the descending spiders!! So fun!

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  9. Oh , I just love your hanging spiders. Only on the card though!

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  10. I think the spiders are just so adorable!! The punched webs and punched silk trails - just fab!

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  11. I love all of your sweet little spiders hanging from their web, so creative and fun.

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  12. Oh what a fun card! I love the little row of spiders, they're creepy, but adorable!

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  13. Ack! This is adorable Lori! I love it!! The paper in the background is so fun and those spiders are adorable! Thanks for playing along at Retro Sketches!

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  14. This is so adorable, Lori. Those spider brads are inspired and look totally awesome. Thanks for playing along with the WMS Blog Party this month!

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  15. Eeek! Those bitty spiders are so cute!! love the piercing for strings!!

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  16. SQUEAL those wee spidoos are sooo cute!! my girlies loved this, as I do, great card Lori, Thank you so much for playing along with us at WMS!

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  17. I hate spiders....but yours are cute!!

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  18. Those spiders are too cute to be skeery! Love how trendy they look against the chevrons...do spiders REALLY ever go out of style? Hee! Love the layout with the triple web at the top!

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  19. How fun! Love those cute little spiders!

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