Review Preview: Sugarplum Halloween & Scene

 

Today is Friday and that means another Review Preview.  This time we are reviewing the recently released Sugarplum Halloween & Scene sets!   We are also giving away a $5 gift certificate to All That Scraps, but you have to find it!   Today's project is from our very talented DT member, Jeanette:

Black Magic by Jeanette

The Sugarplums Halloween stamp set from C.C. Designs is adorable with a capital A!!!  Don't you think Olivia and Christopher make the cutest little trick or treaters?  There are so many stamps in this set, you will always have a perfect image to add to your creation.  Not only that, you have lots of fun sentiments too!  So many possibilities and I only used a few of them for these! 

 

Since these are Halloween stamps, I thought it would be fun to use the Black Magic technique with them.  Olivia and Christopher were perfect for it! I started with black cardstock and stamped my images with white ink.  Then comes the fun part.  I took my prismacolor pencil, dipped it into mineral spirits and then colored directly on the black cardstock.  The mineral spirits soften the pencil a bit and make it color smoothly on the black cardstock and it just brightens right before your eyes.  It's very cool to watch.   I was careful not to color over the white stamped lines because the color will cover them.  After I finished coloring, I used a glitter pen to outline everything.

 

For Olivia's card, I used some dp from K&Co, pop-dotted the little owl that's riding on her broom, and attached dew drops to the corners and a ribbon to the front.  I kept it simple because I love the image on the black with such fun bright colors.

 

Christopher is holding onto a hershey bar.  When you pull the ribbon up it pulls the candy bar out of the holder.  After I colored Christopher and friends, I cut them out and adhered Christopher to the Making Memories dp, then pop-dotted his pitchfork and the cat.  I also pop-dotted the sentiment and then added some red gems, just a little extra bling :)

 

These are just a couple more fun things to do with these great stamps!  I hope you get a chance to try this technique.  If you do, upload it to the gallery and let us see your creations.

 

Happy Halloween stamping!

Jeanette

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Now it's time to blog hop to see what the other DT members did and to find the $5 gift certificate!  Have fun!!

 

Lesa   Julie    Christine    Christina    Diane

 

And since we didn't get a chance to Review Preview Amy's sets, some ladies decide today was a good day!  Make sure to blog hop some more to see some of Amy's Boutique:

 

 

 

Diane   Katie   Cathy

 

Have a great Friday everyone!