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Peek-a-boo Card Tutorial by Kristin Batsel
Filed under Art Projects, Bella's Corner, Design Team, Giveaways, Halloween, Sale, Tutorials
See more Design Team art samples from the Peek-a-boo Card Swap.
Peek-a-boo, I see you! Or perhaps a black cat, or Alice in Wonderland, or a fairy or two? The exclusive 4×4 Die-Cut Chipboard Frame Sets were designed for cards with images that show through (or peek out from around the edges of) the peep hole on the front of the card.
3 new collage sheets were designed for the 4×4 Die-Cut Chipboard Frame Sets:
1 – Scary Silhouettes Collage Sheet
I had fun picking these out: everything from skeletons to hearses (2 of them) to Little Miss Muffet and her spider.
2 – Opera Silhouettes Collage Sheet
A nice selection of backgrounds, city skylines, curtains and 18th century ladies with fans. Tag at right by Design Team Member Rhonda Thomas; see the collage sheet page for more info/photos.
3 – Alice Silhouettes Collage Sheet
Ton of images from Alice in Wonderland: The White Rabbit (actually, quite a few poses of him), the Red Queen (and the King of Hearts), the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter's Teaparty… lots of the faves are here.
Don’t you just love the “Peek-a-boo” theme for just about anything? All sorts of images dance through your head; a baby’s face, or chubby little hands over that baby’s face, spooky creatures, funny animals peeking out, dancing women, perhaps just a leg poking out from behind frills, or even dare I say it … naked women!
But oh how I digress. Take a look at what Miz Kristin Batsel has come up with using the 4×4 Die-Cut Chipboard Frame Set. Not only is it adorably spookylicious, but it is Halloween-themed; and you know that here at Alpha Stamps it is our favorite holiday that we celebrate year round!
Kristin used an image from the Black Cat Collage Sheet as her focal point. Then Kristin added a too-cute Small White Picket Fence wrapped with Black Stitched-Leaf Ribbon and finished off with tiny Pumpkin Pods?! All that with the classic Halloween color palette makes me shriek like a banshee impatiently waiting for Halloween to arrive! The whole big laughing moon and the scaredy-faced black cat are some of my favorite vintage Halloween-theme images and Kristin has put them together beautifully.
Screech on over to Kristin’s blog for a tutorial to see what other items she used and how she made her card for the Peek-a-boo Card Swap.
More swap samples by the Design Team can be seen here.
Related New and/or On Sale Goodies | |||
Kitty Cat Silhouettes Collage Sheet
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Are you ready? For the Halloween Peek-a-boo Card Giveaway!? I’ve pulled just about every item Kristin used in her card … plus a couple extra goodies that I thought worked well with the theme and the palette (so there’s probably enough paper and trims for 10 cards!); here are just a few highlights (and more are included in the “related” section below):
– Haunted Labels Scrapbook Paper
– Happy Haunting – Bewitched Scrapbook Paper
– Happy Haunting – Man in the Moon Scrapbook Paper
– The Black Cat Collage Sheet On Sale!
– Black and Orange Halloween Braid
– Stitched Leaf Ribbon – Black
– 4×4 Die-Cut Chipboard Frame Set On Sale!
– 5mm Yellow Cat Eyes
– Pumpkin Pods
– Small White Picket Fence
– Phantom: Apparition Scrapbook Paper
And, since the related New and On Sale! Poison Digital Download Set has just been posted, I decided to put it and the ENTIRE Digital Stamps section On Sale! (also only through THIS Saturday evening, June 8th, 2013). (See it and more photos of sale items below.)
To enter the Halloween Peek-a-boo Card Giveaway drawing all you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post by midnight, June 7, 2013 (Friday night PST) and tell me if you’re already prepping for Halloween artwork. (Don’t forget to leave your email address, too, so I can contact the winner; note, your email address does not need to be made public. Note: I’m offering free shipping, too, but only within the USA. International shipping will still apply.)
Please be patient! Spammers try to post crap here a lot so comments are moderated. So if you don’t see your post in the comments section, be patient and check back in a few hours before re-posting it, please!
By Sunday morning’s newsletter, I’ll randomly pick the winner (via Random.org). So make sure to check back Sunday to see who won!
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Love the theme and the collection!
I am a re-new to rubber stamping and it has evolved since I was stamping over 30 years ago! I love it! The collection is absolutely gorgeous! It is never too early for Halloween. I do Halloween all year long.
I wasn’t thinking about Halloween until I saw this kit. What a great collection and I love the black cats. I’d love to win this. Thanks.
What a great card – I love peek a boo cards – they are so much fun to create. Love your give away too and no, I’m not ready for Halloween just yet – I need to get some new supplies to get me in the Halloween mood, but I have plenty of ideas looking at all these items!!!
MY FAVORITE YET!!!!!!! Love this!
Love Halloween and am already preparing altered art albums and creations for that great day!!!!
I have not thought about Halloween but now I am!!So cute!!
I love Halloween and all those spooky themes year round…thanks for the chance at a giveaway!
Love those halloween, scary, and fantasy stuff.
Just this morning I was thinking about Halloween. And what better place to get Halloween goodies than Alpha Stamps. This kit is outstanding!!! What a great head start on the best holiday of the year!
Very spooky-licious!
These cards are just fabulous, and so is this giveaway!
Always thinking about Halloween…it’s my birthday!! Winning would be a great early present!
Halloween is my most very favorite holiday of the year. What a treat it would be to win such a fabulous prize package!
“Great giveaway”
2 of my favorite things
BLACK CATS AND HALLOWEEN!
I love these cards!
Summer is a great time to do Halloween crafts – and I’m giving some serious thought to making peek-a-boo cards for friends this year.
What a wonderful array of black cats and all that make them mysterious! Kristin did a wow job!
Halloween !!! I keep mine handy all year!!! I can hardly wait a whole year to get started again ,so I just play with it threw out the year . You’re cards are FABULOUS!!!
Love that picket fence and its never to soon to be thinking about halloween.
Love the Halloween Peek-aBoo card. Thanks for a chance to win.
Fabulous giveaway! Love all the bits and pieces and those card ideas are awesome!
‘already prepping’ are you kidding me? It’s only 147 days til’ Halloween I’m horrifically behind 🙂 Excellent bundle by the way!
I love the witch card! My friend’s favorite holiday is Halloween, and she is a she! Not Valentine’s or Christmas…but Halloween! So this would be great!
I love love love everything in this package! It’s not too soon to be thinking about Halloween!
Boo-tiful sale and giveaway!
I have started to gather supplies to make Halloween tags n cards for friends! Have made backgrounds so far in deliciously spooky colours!
Just when I thought I could delay any Halloween creative urges this come along and I want it all. I can’t help myself drooling over all these goodies that i would ant to use now.
Fabulous projects and a great kit.
I’m not thinking about Halloween quite yet, though I do use skulls, black cats, etc. in projects year ’round!
My favorite time of the year, but don’t start until August. My poor husband has given over have the space in his office closet so I can store my Halloween stamping stuff in there!
Beautiful collection! thanks for the chance to win.
Spook-tacular! I love the Peek a boo card!
I am not prepping for Halloween but if I am lucky enough to win this, it will inspire me to.
what’s not to like about Halloween, as you see over 30 responses to your blog post already! (Other than real ghosts and goblins ;)-
I leave my Halloween themed accessories within easy reach all year! Thanks for the chance to win!
My favorite holiday. Would love to win!
I just love all those black cats! It’s never to early to start on some Halloween crafts!
I’m not quite preparing for Halloween yet, but it is in the daydream stage.
What a fab and generous giveaway prize! So many projects spring to mind!
Of course, I’m already working on Hallowe’en projects – I work on Hallowe’en all year ’round – it’s my FAVORITE holiday!
This is one of the best give-aways Ive seen for a long time. Like many others Halloween is my favorite holiday!
Oh, this is right up my alley! Halloween is always a project I can work on at any time of the year. Thanks for the opportunity to win this fabulous giveaway.
I’m starting to think about Halloween. Probably around the first part of July I’ll begin pulling out all me stuff and really get started.
SQUEAL…… I love Halloween! Always looking for goodies to create Halloween art. Another fantastic Giveaway from Alpha Stamps!!
Take care,
Diane
Oooooo, halloween, my fav. Holiday! Would love to win that one, thanks for the chance.
Spooky Fun! Love it!
Working on Halloween now helps cool off these hot summer days!!
Halloween is my favorite holiday I love the colors the cats,bats & witches. I am always doing halloween projects and would LOVE to win this giveaway! Thanks!
Oh my gosh!! I never STOP prepping for Halloween. I do Halloween theme all year long – it’s my fav holiday for creating!
We could do Halloween all year long in my house so seeing this thrilled me.I love the card and winning this give away would make a very happy girl.Thank you so much for the chance to win.
This is great! I’m a huge Halloween fan, and even have a year round bookcases books-and-items display. So…winning this would be wonderful for me! Thanks for the opportunity!
I work on Halloween art all year long! It is my favorite. And, thank you for posting all the great tutorials.
I am always, always, in the Halloween mood! Love to collect things in that genre for use in cards.
I have started to work on halloween, so this is just fantastic. Thank you for a heads up on halloween itema
I *hadn’t* been planning any immediate Halloween projects– but then, do they ever REALLY go away for those of us that love the holiday?!
Black cats are my favorites!
Go number 44!! It’s gotta’ win this time… : )
This is the coolest Halloween themed giveaway yet!
I would really like to win this one – it would be a real treat!!
Thank you for showing this tutorial!!
You bet I’m working on Halloween, love to decorate. Busy making potion bottles.
Needless to say I’d just love to win this fabulous prize.
Great card and giveaway! Halloween is my favorite!
I love everything about this! Autumn is my favorite time of year and Halloween is a big part of that!
Eeek! I love Halloween!
Love this! Hallowe’en is my favorite time to craft and I’ve started on several projects. Would love to add this project to my to-do list! Thanks for the chance!!
Just when I think your designers can’t get better, here comes this wonderful Halloween give-away. For me, Halloween is a continuing theme and I usually have something in the works that I can leave for a while and then go back to. Thanks for inspiration!
Oh man, I am ready to win all this great stuff! Orange is my favorite color so bring it on!
My favorite holiday too, and just bought a ton of burlap ribbon in different widths for projects with pumpkins!
My best Holiday memories are of Halloween. I make Halloween art year round. I can’t get enough black cats!
I love this card! Y’all create the neatest things!
Halloween is my fav holiday. I make Halloween stuff all year. Doesn’t everyone?
Awesome givaway!!! LOVE anything Halloween and this one is amazing 🙂 Would love to win this one!!!
What a lot of cool stuff! I’d love to win.
October is my birhtday month. I have always felt that gave me claim to Halloween being of my favorite holidays to play pretend and allow myself to be a tiny bit afraid of the monsters under the bed. My monsters and goblins allow me to imagine the unknown and to leap toward the bit of fear instead of run from it. I love to make things that share the “lil bit o fear” with others who enjoy the Halloween fun as well. I would love to win this give away!
Halloween is our favorite holiday! We love and collect all things vintage Halloween and its about time we started on this year’s new art pieces. This prize would be great for our projects. As usual you all have done a fabulous job of putting together an awesome and inspiring lot!
Halloween stuff–my favorite. Wonderful giveaway.
You better believe I’ve started my Halloween cards and art projects already. It’s pretty much a year ’round thing with me. It would be great to have all this wonderful gear to work with.
I love Halloween, and vintage Halloween images are the absolute best. That card is fantastic! I’m not working on Halloween anytime soon, believe it or not, I’m gearing up to do Christmas cards.
These items are just too fun! Not too early to get things ready for the Fall holiday. What a great give away, Gigi
Cute! I’m not prepping for Halloween yet.
No, I haven’t started any Halloween projects yet but these great cards sure make me want to RUN into my art room and create! Thanks for the chance to win your give away..
DebbieK
D Kaste at wi dot rr dot com
Such howling prize! Would love to create with this prize!
Great projects and no I have not started Halloween except to preorder paper that is to come out. Right now doing star mini album for a my god daughter who is having her first baby.
Thanks for giving me a kick start on Halloween! I will start in July, last year I didn’t get as much made as I had planned.
I have not started my Halloween crafts yet. Can’t wait to win this so I can begin!
Yes I’m already snapping up great Halloween papers and getting great ideas for awesome spooky decorating!!! Love the cards
Oh yummy fun things… I would love to create with these.
Ohhhh, luv all the scrumptious goodies…thanks for the chance to win!
Halloween is the most awesome of all the holiday’s! Hope you pick me … I would love to have this set! Thanks for the opportunity.
No, I am not prepping for Halloween yet. However, as fast as this year is going, I feel like I should be. I love of the beautiful Halloween items in your giveaway. Thank you.
Wow Wow! Love Kristen’s book and will definitely start to create for Halloween ahead with such a super inspiration to motivate me!Count me in for the drawing pleeze!and thanks for the chance!
Yes, I have been thinking about Halloween and Christmas. Egad, can you believe it!! The goodies are to die for, heh heh. Good luck to alll…….
Oh, I love all your Halloween supplies. I used a lot of them last year. I would love to win this!
June is definitely not too early to start thinking about Halloween!
BOO!!! Hope I win this one!
Love it!!! I plan on joining the swap, so I need these goodies. Thanks for chance to win.
So living for this!!! I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Thank you for the opportunity.
Wow – Can’t get any better that a Halloween giveaway! I absolutely love the Halloween decorations, crafts and etc. so I hope to be selected for this giveaway.
It is ALWAYS Halloween (or Xmas) in my brain! I’m working right now on a “Lost Clown Circus”, and I CRAVE this win! :OD
Yes Yea…for me is all the year round Halloween and i love the Peek-a-boo Giveaway…!!!
BOO to you
Kerstin from Germany
Thank you so much for this providing this opportunity! I’m creating a history of the Halloween holiday that I include in my cards, and would love to be able to use your wonderful products to decorate them! Linda
OMG!! Halloween is my favorite holiday!! Such an awesome prize package! It’s never too soon for spooky fun!
Beautiful sample art! And whew, what a kit!
Around our house Halloween is the official start of the “Holiday Season” … so Halloween-themed art projects are popular!
I’m always getting started late; I probably won’t make my Halloween items until mid-September or later. But October is my favorite month and this collection gets me excited for spooky time!
What a wonderful Halloween peek-a-boo card. And the kit has so many marvelous things in it. I love Halloween and I can see the possibility of many great cards from the give-away kit.
So freakin’ adorable! Love the sample cards AND all the wonderful goodness in the kit!
Want to be in the swap….need these supplies……ooooooo….Halloween. My favorite time of the year!!!
J
This makes me go geeked for Halloween!!
This is so generous and Kristin’s card is adorable! I have been prepping for halloween since last month~ nice to know I am not the only one.
Halloween is most definitely my favorite holiday! I would so love to win this give away! I sometimes give gifts on Halloween and this would make an awesome gift for somebody who is very lucky despite all of the black cats!
I’m already planning on a theater of the dead for halloween and a bookstore for spooky books from the books we made during the Halloween apothecary last year! The more Halloween the better!
YES!! In fact I have already started drawing and prepping for Halloween. My favorite holiday to create for. Anything goes. I love this collection. If I could be lucky enough to win, I might just start the day it arrives. I think another witches cauldron cookbook would be in order.
There is a corner in my studio that is Halloween year around. It started out small with a few creations and has grown thru the years. I am in the mood to create for Halloween anytime. LOVE IT!
I just finished a Halloween exploding box. I love Halloween!
hugs Karen