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Happy Haunting

I can't quite get into the Christmas spirit, yet so I wanted to share the Halloween cards I made this year.  To create the card I started with a 4.25 by 5.5 panel cut from Bristol smooth cardstock. I used Inkadinkado masking paper to cut a circular mask and stuck that to my background panel. I ink blended around the circular mask using Distress Oxide inks in the colors Broken China, Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserves, and Black Soot. I kept the mask on and took the ink blended panel to my splatter box and splattered it with white acrylic paint and Perfect Pearls. After letting the panel dry, I removed the circular mask and I added a mixture of water and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink to add shadows to the Moon. 


I used the Hello Bluebird Oak Tree Scene die cut to cut the trees, the ground, and the frame out of black cardstock. On the ground piece, I stamped the sentiment “Happy Haunting” from a Recollections 2020 Halloween stamp set. I stamped the sentiment in Versamark Ink and embossed it using Recollections Snow embossing powder.  I used a Recollections Halloween spider web rubber stamp to stamp the spider web so that it appears as though it is hanging down from the tree. Using Momento Tuxedo Black Ink, I also stamped a mummy from the same Recollections Halloween stamp set.  I colored the mummy using cool gray Copic markers (C3 and C1).

                 

 All elements were adhered to the card base using Tombow Aqua liquid glue. For the inside of the card, I cut a white piece of cardstock using a Momenta nested border die cut and stamped it with a sentiment from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Monstrous rubber stamp set using Versafine Onyx Black Ink. Using Momento Tuxedo Black Ink, I stamped a jack-o'-lantern from the Recollections Halloween 2020 stamp set and colored it with orange and yellow Spectrum Noir markers (OR1, CT4, and CT2). The jack o' lantern was adhered to the sentiment and glued to the inside of the black card base.

This was such a fun card to make.  I made several variations of the card using different images from the Recollections Halloween 2020 stamp set.

Happy Haunting

Supplies:

  • Strathmore Bristol Smooth Cardstock
  • Recollections Black and White Cardstock
  • Inkadinkado Masking Paper
  • Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks -Broken China, Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserves, Black Soot, and Fossilized Amber
  • White Acrylic Paint
  • Perfect Pearls
  • Hello Bluebird Oak Tree Scene die cut
  • Recollections 2020 Halloween stamp set
  • Versamark Ink
  • Recollections Snow Embossing Powder
  • Recollections Halloween 2020 Spider Web Rubber Stamp
  • Momento Tuxedo Black Ink
  • Tombow Aqua Liquid Glue
  • Momenta Nested Border Dies
  • Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Monstrous Stamp Set
  • Versafine Onyx Black Ink
  • Alcohol Marker
    • Copic C3 and C1
    • Spectrum Noir OR1, CT4, and CT2
  • Foam Tape
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