Halloween Card using mostly Lavinia Stamps

 

Hi everyone 😃

Happy Halloween to those of you who celebrate it!   Quite a few homes around our neighbourhood have had their decorations out for quite a while now - but being in Australia, it is certainly not as big as it is in the USA.   I have never seen SO MANY Halloween decorations in the stores this year though - it was mind-boggling!  We put up decorations today as I don't have alot and certainly nothing terrifying for the little kids and had quite a few groups come trick-or-treating - but gosh, it was freezing outside and only 9 degrees Celcius with a high wind-chill factor........brrrr 😬

Today I am sharing a card that I made for my daughter and I had SO MUCH FUN making it as it took me out of my comfort zone.

This is also my card for the following Challenges - click on the underlined link to take you to the Challenge:

Splitcoaststampers - Technique Lovers Challenge TLC973 - Night Sky

Crafty Catz Challenge #656 - Anything Goes with Optional Twist of any 4 Legged Critter

To make the background, I grabbed some Ranger Watercolor Cardstock and used the smooth side.  I diecut a circle from 3M Post-It Craft Paper using a Lifestyle Nesting Circle die and my Big Shot so that I could mask off the moon.  I then wet the cardstock and sprayed various Dylusions Shimmer Sprays, Ranger Distress Oxide Sprays and Kaisercraft Kaisermist Sprays.  I dried the cardstock using my heat-gun and re-did the spraying till I was happy.  I removed the moon mask and sprayed water in just that area then sprayed some Antique Linen Distress Oxide spray and just let the colours bleed into each other then dried it with my heat-gun.  I was so pleased with how the moon looks - like it is glowing.

I watered down some Jo Sonja white acrylic paint and splattered that over the background using a fan brush and did the same with Jo Sonja pale gold acrylic paint.

I used my powder tool on the background then stamped the Lavinia Sacred Tree using Altenew Obsidian (black) pigment ink then heat embossed it using Ranger Black Super-Fine Detail Embossing Powder.  Because I wanted some sparkle, I first separated some of the black embossing powder and mixed in some Bellbird Place Diamond Glitter and it worked a treat.  I knew that I had some black sparkle embossing powder somewhere - but do you think I could find it?!  But tonight, it was in the drawer where I had been looking:  go figure!!

I then stamped the Lavinia Grass Silhouette and heat embossed that as well then sponged some of the black ink around the bottom of the cardstock and heat-set that with the same sparkly embossing powder.

I stamped the Lavinia Bat Colony over the moon and again heat-embossed it.  The owl is from a Hero Arts/Scrapbook.com Greetings collaboration set.  The spider and sentiment are from the Hero Arts - Happy Halloween CL353 set.  I drew a line from the tree branch to the spider using a Copic Black Multiliner in size 0.3.  

I WISH you could see the sparkle - it looks amazing in real life!  

I sponged some of the Obsidian ink around the edges of the card which really made a difference to the scene.

Once I had finished the panel, I glued it to some Core-dinations purple cardstock and trimmed it to 1/16" using my WRMK Tool - Layers Guide.  I glued the purple cardstock to some Kaisercraft Black Glitter cardstock and trimmed that to 1/8" - then popped the card front onto a white card base.    

Thanks for visiting my blog today!  

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Lavinia - Sacred Tree LAV437 + Grass Silhouette LAV680 + Bat Colony LAV558, Hero Arts - Happy Halloween clear set CL353 (spider and sentiment), Hero Arts/Scrapbook.com collaboration clear set Greetings (released 2019)

Ink:  Altenew Obsidian (black) Pigment

Designer Paper:  Kaisercraft Black Glitter Cardstock

Accessories:  Sponge, heat-gun, Ranger Super-Fine Detail Black Embossing Powder EPJ37392, Bellbird Place Diamond Glitter, Dylusions Shimmer Spray Inks, Kaisercraft Kaisermist Spray Inks, Ranger Distress Oxide Spray Inks, Ranger Watercolor Cardstock, WRMK Tool - Layers Guide, Big Shot, 3M Post-It Craft Paper, Other Cardstock - Core'dinations Purple + white card base, Jo Sonja Acrylic Paint - Titanium White + Pale Gold, Fan brush, Powder Tool, Copic black multiliner 0.3

Dies:  Lifestyle Nesting Circles