Sonoran Starfish Designs

Hello crafty friends! Thanks for joining me today on my blog. Every Wednesday is blog hop day for the Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team, and today's theme is Halloween, using the Brutus Monroe surface sprays! I made this card using the surface sprays in a few different ways. I started out by spraying the purple surface spray onto a scrap of Alabaster cardstock. I coated it pretty well, but I like the spotty texture when I don't overspray. I dried it with a heat tool and heat embossed the witch hat over it with Raven embossing powder. Then I took another scrap of Alabaster cardstock and sprayed it with the orange surface spray. I dried it with a heat tool and then spritzed some areas with a little bit of the green surface spray and dried it again. I heat embossed two of the pumpkins with Raven embossing powder over the dried paper, and then fussy cut them out, along with the witch hat. I took a piece of the wood-grain paper from the winter cabin pack, and spritzed it wi...

Hello crafty friends! Thanks for joining me today! It's another blog hop Wednesday for the Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team, and we're using some of the October subscription products. For my card, I used the October stamp set, which is the hilarious fake vampire teeth stamp that comes with the "Trick or Treat" sentiment. For the background, I used a piece of glossy cardstock, and two of the new colors of surface spray, Cabbage and Aubergine. I covered the background in Cabbage first and dried it with my heat tool, and then sprayed some Aubergine through on of the older stencil club stencils. I heat embossed the stamp with purple Night Shift embossing powder, and heat embossed the sentiment with Alabaster EP onto Raven cardstock. I used two of the Halloween chipboard borders, Spider Webs and Skulls and I cut two of them off each strip. I squished my embossing ink pad onto the whole surface and embossed the skulls with Alabaster EP and the spider webs with th...

Hey crafty friends! Happy Halloween! This week's blog hop is Halloween-themed, and Brutus Monroe is offering a treat!  ***GIVEAWAY!*** We wanted to have a little fun with our blog hop this week, and give away ONE $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE to the Brutus Monroe store! Just leave a comment on each blog post along the hop to be entered! Winner will be announced on next Wednesday's blog hop post, November 7th, on the Brutus Monroe blog. Please remember to check back next week to see if you are the winner!  ***BONUS ENTRY- Post ANY project you have created in the Brutus Monroe Fan Club group on Facebook with the hashtag, # TrickOrTreatGiveaway ! Good luck! I am super excited to share my project this week...I started with a hollow foam pumpkin from JoAnn stores, and cut a big window out of the front. I painted the inside with black acrylic paint, and used some mossy stuff from the floral arrangement section to line the bottom. I cut a hole in the bottom of the pumpkin toward...

I am crazy for the October stamp of the month from Brutus Monroe! A candy corn vampire! How cute is this guy?? And bonus, it has really clean lines around the outside of the image that make it very easy to fussy cut. The stamp of the month club is really cool;  you will receive a 2x3 stamp set for only $5 which includes your shipping and handling! The stamp set is designed each month by Christopher and will be shipped out to you by the 15th of the month (excluding holidays, in the event of a holiday falling on shipment day the stamp will ship on the next business day) I stamped four of this yummy little guy and colored them with copic markers. I fussy cut all of them and used a black marker around the edges. (This is a trick I learned a lot time ago, and it makes any cut stamped images look more finished and polished!) FRONT  For the front of the card I used the new  Aqua Pigments  in the colors "Yellow" and "Red". I wet the paper ahead of time and th...