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Pumpkin Picking

Today's fun Halloween card features the Tim Holtz Colorize Pumpkinhead Colorize die set and Distress Mica Stains.
I started by spraying a water color panel with Hocus Pocus, Jack-O-Lantern, and Empty Tomb Halloween Distress Mica Stains.  For the moon, I die cut a circle out of water color paper. I ink smooshed Antique Linen and Weathered Wood Distress Oxide Inks onto a craft mat and sprayed them with water.  I pushed the circle into the inks and dabbed off the excess ink and water with a paper towel.  I inked the edges of the moon with Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink.  I adhered the moon to the water color panel and added a black bat to the top of the moon.


Next, I die cut several trees, bats, and fences out of black cardstock.  I also die cut a couple of fences from silver foil cardstock.  I adhered the trees to both sides of the card panel.  I slightly offset the silver foiled fence from the black fence and adhered the fence pieces to the bottom of the card. 


I used a variety of cardstock colors to create the pumpkin and Pumpkinhead figure.  I placed the pumpkin into Pumpkinhead's arm.  I used Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink to ink Pumpkinhead's arms and bone.  I glued Pumpkinhead to the center of the watercolor panel.  To finish off the card, I added the very fitting "pumpkin picking" sentiment to the top left of the watercolor panel.


I added the watercolor panel to a black cardstock panel.  This was glued to a white card base.  On the inside of the card, I die cut a border shape from silver foil cardstock.  I used StazOn Jet Black ink to stamp the sentiment in the center of the shape.  I added two bats on opposite corners of the sentiment.


This was such a fun card to make.  The "pumpkin picking" label was the perfect sentiment for the Pumpkinhead character.


Pumpkin Picking
Supplies:
  • Accent Opaque White Cardstock 100lb
  • Recollections Cardstock - black, white, cream, and silver foil
  • Strathmore Cold Press Water Color Paper
  • Bazzil Bling Cardstock - Royalty
  • Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Mica Stains - Empty Tomb, Hocus Pocus, and Jack-O-Lantern
  • Colorize by Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits - Pumpkinhead
  • Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween 2021 Thinlits Dies Vault Series
  • Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits - Toil and Trouble
  • Tim Holtz idea-ology Small Talk - Occasions
  • Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Monstrous (sentiment)
  • Elizabeth Craft - The Woods 1 die set
  • Distress Oxide Ink - Vintage Photo, Black Soot, Antique Linen, and Weathered Wood
  • StazOn Jet Black ink
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