Halloween! My favorite time of the year for card making. While I'm waiting for the new Halloween stamps (from Plate 1504) to arrive at home, I wanted to get a head start with my Halloween crafts using some older Halloween stamps.
I started with a slightly different idea. I wanted to create a shining moon for the Bats over Moon stamp, so I started with ink blending a light color onto some watercolor paper.
But the moonlight ended up being a much larger area. I just rolled with it because I wanted to know where it takes me.
To add some initial texture, I sued some simple bubble wrap and stamped the same inks all over the background. Before stamping, I misted the bubble wrap with some water.
Then I added a variety of mark-making stamps to the background - again, using the same colors that I used for the initial ink blending.
Here you can see the finished background (waiting for the water to dry ;) ).
Now I stamped the bats.
I also stamped the Halloween labels onto a piece of cardstock and decorated it with some of the stamps that I used for the background. I then cut them out and distressed the edges.
I wanted to mount the card onto a separate piece of black cardstock to make it stand out a bit more. To give that background piece some texture, I stamped the Beware Of stamp using white ink. You don't see much of it at the end - mainly that awesome font.
After I adhered the pieces together, I added a bit of ribbon and a trinket - and voila, the first Halloween card of the year is done.
Wit a lot of fun texture :)
When my husband saw the card, he was reminded of the movie Suicide Squad... the colors match it pretty nicely.
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