Hi everyone,
Apologies for my long absence. Blogging has taken a backseat this year unfortunately and now, suddenly, it is November and the Christmas decorations are in the stores! They say that time speeds up as you get older but I didn't think it would speed up this much! I also wonder whether people still visit blogs anymore or whether they just use different social platforms like Facebook or Instagram(?). Aside from my Gallery on Splitcoaststampers, I am part of a few Facebook Cardmaking Groups but also share the occasional card on Instagram which are quick and easy ways of doing it without doing a blog post - plus it is fun to see what others are creating with stamp sets that I have. And we only have so much time to look at various sharing platforms.
Anyhoo, I made this Halloween card for my daughter and it was super-easy to make: I made it in less than an hour which is probably a record for me!
This is also my card for the following Challenges. Click on the underlined links for more details about the Challenges:
Diecuttin' Divas Weekly Challenge - Challenge 393 - Anything Goes
Always Fun Challenge 82 - Halloween
The sky was made using Ranger Distress Inks in various colours. I wet my Ranger watercolour cardstock with water then smooshed my Distress inks onto an acrylic block and used a #8 flat paintbrush to paint strokes of each colour. I dried it with a heat tool then repeated the process to intensify the colour and I love how vibrant it turned out. The haunted house, tree, gravestones, pumpkin and bats are all one die by Impression Obsession - Halloween Hill and I diecut it out of black cardstock using my Big Shot - but I did cut off the far RHS of the diecut (which was a cat and 2 more gravestones) as I wanted to make a smaller card. I diecut the ghosts from white cardstock using the Memory Box Ghastly Ghosts 98701 dies and added Wink of Stella clear glitter to them to make them sparkle - alas not captured by the camera. I also added Wink of Stella to the windows in the house and the pumpkin face.
The greeting is by Hero Arts - Happy Halloween CL353 and was stamped using Versamark Watermark ink and heat embossed using Stampin' Up white embossing powder. I used a powder tool first so I wouldn't have any stray embossing powder that would really show up on the black cardstock. I attached the main panel onto some more black cardstock and trimmed the edges to 1/4" using my Perfect Layers Tools, then mounted that onto a white card base with edges trimmed to 1/16". Lastly, I used an old stiff bristled paintbrush and white acrylic paint to dry-brush highlights on the black elements on the card.
Thanks for visiting my blog today.
Jocelyn
Card Recipe:
Stamps: Hero Arts Happy Halloween CL353 clear set
Ink: Versamark Watermark, Ranger Distress inks
Dies: Impression Obsession Halloween Hill, Memory Box Ghastly Ghosts 98701
Accessories: Big Shot, Tombow Mono Multi glue, Stampin' Up white embossing powder, heat tool, white acrylic paint, #8 flat paintbrush, stiff bristle brush, Wink of Stella clear glitter brush, Perfect Layers Tools, powder tool, cardstock - Ranger watercolour, black, white, white cardstock base
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