Yes, here it is! My first Halloween card of the season! And it’s barely August! This is the Playful Ghosts Halloween Card and I purposely kept it simple. I had planned to put some bling on the card, but I forgot before I took the photo. But that’s okay because we’re keeping it simple!
I just got this Playful Ghosts Stamp Set. You will find it in the Online Exclusives. I held off on ordering it because I wanted to see what Halloween and fall stamp sets would be in the Holiday Mini Catalog. But I didn’t see any when Demonstrators got to see the mini catalog online the other day. Stampin’ Up! announced that they put the majority of Halloween products in the Online Exclusives so they would be available earlier and Stampin’ Up! would have time to reorder anything if necessary. So if you are planning on Halloween, look in the Online Exclusives now! There will be some sort of Halloween scrapbooking release later on with stickers, a designer paper pack, and a scrapbook pages kit.
The card base is Basic Black with a layer of Gorgeous Grape cardstock. I stamped the Gorgeous Grape cardstock with Gorgeous Grape in using the little bat stamp and “Boo!” stamp in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set. I love to do stamping like this, just stamping randomly all over a paper. You’re actually making your own designer paper when you do this!
The ghost is stamped in Memento Ink on Basic White. I colored the pumpkin and ghost with Stampin’ Blends – Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, and a tiny bit of gray (I forget which color I used) and softened that gray around the edges of the ghost with the Color Lifter. And his mouth is colored with Light Cherry Cobbler.
The Basic White and Pumpkin Pie pieces are cut out with Deckled Rectangles Dies. They were just the right size! Before adhering the ghost to the Pumpkin Pie piece, I sponged a little Gorgeous Grape ink around the edge of the rectangle. I did it the old-fashioned way with a piece of sponge. We used to sell these large round sponges and then I would cut it into smaller pieces. Now you could use Sponge Daubers or maybe even the Blending Brushes.
As you can see, this is a very simple, easy, quick card to make for Halloween! You can jazz it up a little more if you wish, maybe with some splattering, ribbon, gems, or other ways. But sometimes just simple is just fine!
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