PGP: Nesties 'TRICKs' & Halloween digi 'TREATs'

Are you doing any last minute Halloween crafting? :o)=

Cathy (of Paper Garden Projects fame) made a gorgeous fall sketch into a digital freebie--it looks gorgeous with her fab Copic marker skills. Her creation gave me the idea to make a couple of PGP freebies too. This card uses the first digital Halloween image that I doodled. It's a little sketchy, but I hope you like it. I've also got a card with the "apothescary jars" in the works...

1... digital freebie for Paper Garden Projects
2...swaddling some mummy babies
3...making GIANT templates from your Nestabilities
4...embellish-y stuff (the card background)
5...baby gem spider (+speedy way to embellish inside cards)
6...digi: apotheSCARY jars

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Mummy Twins freebie
for Paper Garden Projects

(I used the small ones here)

SMALL mummy baby PDF
SMALL mummy baby JPG
&
LARGE mummy baby PDF
LARGE mummy baby JPG

My BFF Kim has twins (and coincidentally so does Cathy!)
Kim's become another victim of the flu--poor Darlin'--
so I hoped this might give her a giggle. Love you Kimmy!

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...swaddle mummy babies

• Nestabilities Label 9
• Neenah white cardstock
• Black Prismatic cardstock
• Copic Multiliner
• BasicGrey Ambrosia 6x6 pack
• Needle, thread, Paper piercer
• Tim Holtz Design ruler
• Scor-tape, Tombow monomulti
• Black Rhinestones
• The "I want it white" Collection
• Cheesecloth

Step 1A} Print the mummy twins & their spare heads for layering (how ghoulish, hey?)
Step 1B} Cut them out.

Alternatively, you could print just one baby with one or two heads, ROFL. (The picture above shows the size I used & the large size so you can compare) :o)



Step 2} Colour & the extra heads and cut them out. I lost one of the baby's heads & couldn't stop singing "Mommy had a baby & her head popped off...!" (Ever play that with dandelions when you were a kid?) Good ol' wholesome, morbid fun!



Step 3} Cut strips of mummy gauze from cheesecloth

Of course, if you don't have cheesecloth, you could swaddle your babies in ribbon. :o)



Step 4} Wrap each baby, stick on their heads, & adhere them to a card. :-D

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Make BIG shape templates
(from your Nestabilities)

Giant template shapes to match your Nestabilities.

I love the labels 9 but I wanted it to be enormous for large 5.5 inch/6 inch cards...
so I did this stuff:

1. Die cut the largest size of the Nestabilities label
2. Traced it onto white paper
3. Scanned it & saved it as a jpg
4. Enlarged the image & printed it out as a template
5. Traced it onto cardstock & cut it out

Seems like a lot of steps, but once you get your basic shape you can match your Nestabilities perfectly and all quickly too. ;o)

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...do some embellish-y stuff
(the background of the card)

Step 1} Trace the big Nestabilities template onto cardstock & cut out. Add a strip of patterned paper & embellish it (I pierced & stitched this BasicGrey Ambrosia paper.



Step 2} Cut out the sentiment & adhere it.



Step 3} Layer ribbons. These are two ribbons from the "I want it white" collection at Paper Garden Projects. (A gingham ribbon under the sheer dotted one...just to be weird.) ;o)



Step 4} Make a shaped mat for the babies:

A} Die cut the Nestabilities label (2 patterned papers)
B} Distress the edges
C} Add black rhinestones
D} Pierce & stitch around the inside
E} Faux stitch around the outside

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...jazz up the inside of black cards
(+ baby gem spider)

A lot of people don't like to have to write on the inside of black cards, but I am SO crazy for black, so here's one solution--a curvy folded white piece inside the card:



to make it...



Step A} Fold a piece of cardstock to the desired size.
Step B} Lay the big Nestabilities template over it.
Step C} Trace it & cut through both layers of cardstock (with a bit off of the top of the folded edge so it will make a shaped card)
Step D} Embellish the edges (I added silver metallic dots to match the card front)

I also added a wee spider:



A) Stick a black self-adhesive rhinestone on the card
B) Draw a silver line for his wee web
C) Add teensy eensy spider leggies (I used a Copic multiliner)

In hindsight (if you want perfect legs) you could draw them first & add the rhinestone after.



and th-thuh-thuh-thuh-that's all folks!

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apotheSCARY jars

Apothescary jars PDF
Apothescary jars JPG
&
Apothescary digital paper JPG
Apothescary digital paper PDF

Here are the jars (embossed but uncoloured) straight out of the printer
(on paper that I painted with matte medium):


(click the pic for a close-up look)

The neat-o thing about digital...is that you can draw your images, scan them & then touch them up so that they have layers of various shades. I used a Photoshop brush with different transparencies to make the webs & things in the jars lighter in places, like they were seen through smokey glass. I'm no pro by any means, but it sure was FUN! A quick sprinkle of clear embossing powder makes em all textured. :o)=

On a personal (oink oink) note: Thank you sooooooh much for your kind thoughts while we piggies had the flu. It was certainly scary with the whole lung damage thing, (but though we're both still way tired--and my chronic lung jazz etc will still take hard work to repair) we are now well on the mend from H1N1. Hope you are all healthy and so very happy! oxo

P.S. Copic markers & embellishments are on sale:

(And all kinds of other great stuff too; plus shipping deals)