Happy Halloween!
It will be here before we know it and all of my neighbors have started to decorate outside with giant spider webs covering their front porches, zombies crawling out of the lawns and scary ghosts floating from trees! It's AWESOME! Today I am sharing a card featuring MFT's now retired "Happy Haunting" Stamp Set (you can still purchase it on the Frantic Stamper site) and here is the simple sketch that I worked from:
I began by creating a Distress Oxide Ink background with the following colors: Carved Pumpkin, Twisted Citron, Wilted Violet and Blueprint Sketch. I spattered the blended panel with diluted inks, metallic watercolors and opaque white ink to create the night sky. I cut 2"-wide vertical strips from the panel and set them aside. The images were all stamped onto white cardstock, colored and die cut. I glued additional blank die cuts behind the witch, moon and smallest cloud to give the scene some dimension.
The Halloween fence was cut with an old Martha Stewart paper punch and I lightly blended some Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink across the top of the fence to indicate moonshine - the same thing was done on the clouds. A piece of black cardstock was prepped with an anti-static powder tool, the sentiment was stamped with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with white powder. The sentiment was die cut and glued onto a small strip of MFT's striped pattern paper.
The blended background strip was adhered along the right side of the card front and all of the remaining pieces were glued into place on top. I used some foam tape to pop the moon off of the card front, which added nice dimension and allowed me to slip the small cloud just underneath the sleepy moon! I added a few matte gold stars to finish off the card.
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Thanks you so much for all of your comments and I really appreciate you stopping by!
Rachelle ♥
This is just as cute as can be Rachelle!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sherri! I appreciate you stopping by! : )
DeleteLove this cute card, thanks for joining us at CraftyCatz this week, hope to see you again soon.x
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Janette! : )
DeleteOooh far too cute to spook!
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Hugz tinz
Thanks a million! She is way too cute!
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Cute Halloween card. Thanks for joining us at Simply Create Too Anything Goes, optional twist "Spooky or Scarey" Challenge.
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DeleteI think she's eaten too many sweets. She's looking a little green around the gills, lol. I love it. Love Dawn x
ReplyDeleteLOL! I think you are correct! That's the best laugh I will have all week! Cheers!
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Rachelle, this is so adorable! Love your coloring...thanks for joining us at Krafty Chicks this week xoxox
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Lori! I appreciate it! : )
DeleteSo super cute! I love the design of this and the background is wonderful! Did you draw that sketch? It's fantastic! You could totally colour that up and make a card out it too!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much - yep - I usually try to do a quick sketch to see if everything I have planned will really work or not! : ) Often times if I don't do a sketch, I end up trying to cram too much stuff onto the front of a card and then it gets pitched! Sketching saves me a boat load of time!
DeleteAwww this is so cute Rachelle! I love that little green witch and your awesome layout, adorable Halloween card!!
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Thanks Tammy! I've got about a dozen more just like her on my drawing table - I've got to get some of them in the mail this week!
DeleteHugs - Rachelle : )
Such a cute image and I love what you did with the background! Thanks for sharing with us at the Paper Funday Challenges this month. Donna - DT Member
ReplyDeleteThanks so much - I appreciate it! : )
DeleteSuper cute card!
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