Craft Supply Sale

My PIC (stamping Partner In Crime) arranges for us to attend a local used stamp supply sale every Fall. The sale was held yesterday and this post shows the items I bought. Each year that I have gone with her the sale is different as to what is available for sale as far as products, manufacturers, etc.. This year most of the sale items were SU products. In the past they have had a lot of storage items, machines, tools, supplies, inks, ink pads, stencils, steel ruled dies and thin metal dies, bling, ribbons, albums, etc....  But this year more stamps were available and card stocks and ribbons. 

I was happy to find SU card stock new in packaging for $5.00 per pack so I picked up some of those:

The colours are a lime green, purple, and navy blue. Also picked up a random pack of reds card stocks:

Foiled card stocks in a pack:

The Tulip punch:

A brand new ink pad, re inker, and marker in a bag for $3.50:

Two background stamps:

Two of their Project Life stamp sets for $2 each:

Brand new Painted Texture embossing folder in original packaging for $3:

How this sale works is this lady holds this sale at her house and different sellers consign their items to her. She sets it all up so I have learned from the past if you see a product you like and there is a stack of three of those sets to look at each set - one for the condition it is in and secondly is the price. The Tulip punch I picked up there were two of those - mine punch was $4.00 and the other punch was marked $7.00. Same with the stamp sets - the plaid background I paid $5.00 for and under that one was another of the same background for $8.00 so it is worth the time to look through the products. 

I also bought one pack of SU bling for $2.00:

By the register was a huge box of empty SU stamp cases marked 3 for $3.00 which was a good deal if you wanted those as SU is phasing those out and will not offer the plastic stamp cases anymore but I did not buy those. Always fun to shop these used craft supply sales as you never know what you will find or what kind of deals await!  Thanks to my PIC for signing us up to shop!

Halloween Bewitching Cat Card

Recently bought the Bewitched die set from Simon Hurley with Spellbinders and that arrived this week:

Very easy cat to assemble since the dies not only cut the card stock but also emboss the pieces where to place the eyes and nose pieces. Here is my card:

Cut and scored the black card stock base at the top and cut a piece of light purple card stock for the card front. Used liquid glue to put the purple piece onto the black card stock base. For the crackle background on this card I used an older Darice embossing folder. I cut a piece of white card stock larger than what I needed for the card front and I inked the raised side of the embossing folder with black ink. Put the white card stock inside the folder, closed it, and ran a wallpaper seam roller over the closed embossing folder to transfer the inked design to my card stock. Here is the folder and the tool used:

I used this background for another Halloween card I recently made also:

For the "Happy Halloween" on the cat card the lettering is very thin so I used a tip I learned from NB Cards on YouTube to add my glue to the letters:

A silicone brush, trimmed close to the handle and even across, tap it into liquid glue on the craft mat and tap this on the back of the word/letters. This way when you put the word onto the shadow piece you will not have glue squishing out of the letters all over the place. Here is a photo of the "Happy" and the "Halloween" on the card:

I added clear Wink of Stella to the black part of the cat's eyes for some sparkle:

I also wanted to use a glitter purple card stock for the witch hat on my cat but the only glittered purple card stock I have in my stash has a white core so when I cut out the witch hat die you could see the white all around the edges of the hat piece. To fix that problem I used a purple Sharpie and ran it around all the edges of the hat so you will not see the white core. I wanted both of the cat ears to peek out of the witch hat so I put the front of the hat on the face and then put the back piece - the regular purple card stock that looks like the lining to the hat -on last on the back of the cat.  Very easy card to assemble as the cat goes together quickly. Cute kitty for Halloween.....