Carved, Stamped, Colored, and Stickered for Halloween

The witch is stamped on a pale blue card and colored with colored pencils. I masked her and using a cloud template I sponged on the clouds using purple ink.

The pumpkins and ghost stamp along the bottom were erasers that I carved myself. I stamped them on sticker paper and colored them with markers and attached them along the bottom of the card.

Merry Christmas Colored Blocks

"Merry Christmas" was stamped and embossed with fine line black. I colored the blocks with colored pencils.

Embossed Christmas with Lace Edge

Merry Christmas was stamped in gold pigment ink and embossed with gold embossing powder. I used Victoian edged scissors along the front edge and glued a piece of lace along the same edge.

Corrogated Ghosts on Layered Card

I layered black cardstock cut with a deckle edge onto a yellow card. The "Happy Haunting" is stamped on and embossed with silver embossing powder.

The three ghosts are stamped, colored, cut out and run through a paper corrugator -- a crimping tool that creates the 3D corrugated paper look. I glued the corrugated ghosts around the words.

Shopping Online

There are several places to shop on-line. One of my all time favorite places to start is Gingerwood Links page. It never lets me down. I can find all kinds of supplies there.

Of course, I have a few other places I go to for bargins. This is good for beginners because there are so many things you are going to want. A few of these are:

• creativexpress.com
• createforless.com
• addictedtorubberstamps.com
• frugalities.com

Frugalities is a fun website. They sell everything at a discount and the percentage off changes everyday. No wonder I find myself going there several times a week.

While you are at these websites you may want to sign up for the newsletters so you can keep abreast of new items they have. Ebay has several supplies listed also. Look under toys and hobbies and crafts. There are stores on Ebay so you don't have to always bid to shop there. Pricegrabber has a lot of supplies listed under toys > arts & crafts. I could spend all day there looking at things.

Online shopping is great and there are lots of wonderful rubberstamping supplies out there. A lot of places also have galleries so you can get inspired and keep the ideas flowing!