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Thursday, September 24, 2026

My Truck Runneth Over with Poppystamps Country Pickup!

Today I'm sharing a card I made with the Poppystamps Country Pick Up. It's always fun to have some vehicles in your stash, especially for those who struggle with masculine cards. You can put anything in this truck. I added some pumpkins for a fall vibe.

My background is watercolor cardstock with Flickering Candle and Jack-O-Lantern Distress Mica Spray Stains. I was trying to use up the last bit of these bottles. The pumpkins are colored with Ranger's Lunar and Solar Pastes on black Mixed Media cardstock. I use a blending tool and cover the black paper with random swirls of color. I do this quite often, save the dried paper for diecutting later.

For the truck I used scraps of cardstock, blue metallic for the body of the truck and holographic for the silver parts. I used the same silver for the Happy Birthday sentiment, isn't that script perfect? It also has a shadow die but I didn't use it here.

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Supplies:

---- https://tidd.ly/3Vc2hxp [Poppystamps]

---- https://tidd.ly/4hjwIcf [Poppystamps]

---- https://tidd.ly/4d3zKAl [Poppystamps]

Mixed Media Cardstock (I used black today for the pumpkins)

---- http://shrsl.com/4tw90 [Scrapbookcom]

---- http://shrsl.com/4q3nt [Simon Says Stamp]

---- http://shrsl.com/4q3nv [Scrapbookcom]

---- http://shrsl.com/4wvbw [Scrapbookcom]

---- http://shrsl.com/4ty31 [Simon Says Stamp]

Watercolor Cardstock

----- https://tidd.ly/4seMxVr [Scrapbookcom]

---- https://tidd.ly/4dPws4W Simon Says Stamp]

---- https://tidd.ly/4gPJpwC [Simon Says Stamp]

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Monday, September 14, 2026

Mixed Media Halloween Card Using TIm Holtz Vault Ghost Town

Hello, thanks for visiting! Today I'm sharing a card using some Tim Holtz products to create a Halloween scene. You can see the Tim Holtz Halloween Sizzix products HERE. I have a video tutorial on YouTube for this card, you can see it below:

I go through all the steps for creating the card in the video but I'll list what I did here. I first created an inky background using Mixed Media cardstock and Distress Mica Stain Sprays. The sprays were running low so I just place some on my media mat and pulled the paper through the inks. I dipped and dried in between layers. After it dried, I cut a square larger than the square I cut out of the panel as I explain below. I also cut out the pieces for the moon from this inked paper.

I took a piece of A2 size (4.25" x 5.5") of 110 lb black cardstock and using a square die, cut the center out. I then embossed it with the Cobwebs embossing folder. To give the webs a shine, I ran a black ink pad over it and poured black embossing powder on it, then heated it.

I lined up the inked square and glued it to a black A2 card front, placing it so it could be seen once the black panel is laid on top.

I took some black fun foam (mine are sheets from Michaels) and cut and adhered some strips to fit around the cut out square.This will pop up the panel. I then glued it to a black A2 size card.

I cut out the house (2x), tree (2x) and bats from the Ghost Town dieset from the same black cardstock. I glued the 2 houses and the 2 trees together for dimension. I cut the small spider from the Vault Laboratory set. I cut it from a scrap of shiny black cardstock but you could also use regular black cardstock and heat emboss it to make it shiny. I cut the spider 2 more times from plain black cardstock and glued them together to give it lot of dimesion.

I attached all the diecut pieces onto my card, some on the inked piece, some to the black panel. It gives it so much interest and dimension.

Ghost Town