VIDEO: Easy Die Cut Christmas Ornaments - Felt & Paper

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Something very fun is coming in tomorrow's blog post and I'm here with both a preview of that AND my Happy Halloween ZOMBIE landscape video! Santa and zombies - what could be better?

So let's start with Santa and work backwards. This is a little sneak peek of the Hero Arts kit and the amazing tag dies in it. For my sneak peek, I decided to make an ornament instead, because I have such a soft spot for homemade Christmas ornaments. These dies make it all super easy! I decided on felt for my ornament. I use this felt glue to assemble it after cutting the pieces out. This is where I buy my felt - you really need wool felt to get clean cuts with dies - don't use that stuff from big box craft stores - it won't cut as cleanly. 

Isn't he cute?

Now I wanted to reinforce the back, since the felt is so soft, so I used the oval infinity dies, and then also punches with holiday glitter paper to reinforce the hanger and the main portion of the Santa. The oval dies have a perfect match for the face! 

My Monthly Hero Kit Subscriptions -... [ HA ] DI337 Nesting Oval Infinity Dies (H)... [ HA ] PS778 Glitter Paper Holiday Sparkle |... [ HA ] Shop - Embellishments - 100% Wool... [ TE ] Amazon.com: Felt Glue [ AMZUS ]

So come back tomorrow for more fun ideas for the kit and some other cool holiday stamps. 

But now - IT'S HALLOWEEN! Happy Halloween! We are having STUNNING Halloween weather, and the AC hasn't run in days. The whole year has been much cooler than normal, which is great because that lower utility bill money turns into ART SUPPLIES through transmogrification that scientists have yet to understand. And it's none of their business anyway.

I found a super fun way to create spooky landscapes with india ink on watercolor paper - I won't spoil it for you - you can watch the video - but it's MAGICAL. I went to the East Austin studio tour YEARS ago and saw a similar effect that an artist got with salt and ink, but I've never been able to reproduce that at all. So I was super excited that this particular chemistry did what I wanted it to. This first card, the only thing I did was add the zombies from this set. SPOOKY.  I am NOT responsible if the hair on the back of your neck stands up. Muahahahah! Look at the little lightning bursts around the clouds above some spooky zombies on the beach!

Here's another example - I really love how pronounced the lightning and the surf are in this one!

I tried this blue and magenta ink on this sample, and it's just magical. To me it seems like the details are softer, but I'm not sure if that's because of how much water I used, or if the different pigments act differently - I need more experiments!

I'm so addicted to this look!

Here are all the products I used to create these - and the video & a Halloween joke are below!

Graveyard zombies [ HA ] Cold Press watercolor paper [ BLIC ] Black India Ink [ BLIC ] Blue India Ink [ BLIC ] Magenta India Ink [ BLIC ] Flat Wash Brush [ BLIC ] Eye droppers [ AMZUS ] Stylist sprayer - continuous mist [ AMZUS ]

So here is the video for this spooky technique!

Now for some SUPER corny Halloween jokes and one of my fave fall recipes!

Q: What does a ghost panda eat? 

A: BamBOO

Q: How do you fix a broken jack-o-lantern?

A: With a pumpkin patch!

Now for one of my fave fruit dips from back in the days when I had parties!

This is so yummy if you have some nice tart apples - that's my fave way to eat it. And most vegan cream cheese is great so it's allergy and vegan friendly.

• 8 oz. plain cream cheese
• 2/3 C. peanut butter (I use Santa Cruz Organics with no sugar because the fluff is sweet enough. I love it both with creamy and crunchy)
• 8 oz. marshmallow fluff - there's a fun vegan one in Austin now - called Funky Mello. So yummy and their customer service is amazing.

I like to use a mixer to get it super smooth. Then just put it in the fridge until you are ready. Serve with fruit, but tart apples and bananas are my faves with it!

Anyway - I hope you have a great Halloween! I love this holiday and I'm sad it ends today - but don't think there won't be all year zombies, because there will!

Loveyameanitbye.

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