This Potions & Spells Halloween Card was a fun card to make, even though Halloween is a little ways off yet! It was my first time to use this stamp set and dies and the background paper is from an unlikely package of designer paper! Do you know which one?
I thought maybe I had a purple designer paper pattern in my packages that I could use for a background on a Halloween card, but I quickly came across this pattern in the Flowering Zinnias Designer Series Paper. The Pumpkin Pie color and the nondescript pattern make it look like spooky Halloween paper to me! On the other side are giant zinnias, which anyone would be amazed to see if they turned this orange paper over! But that’s why our Stampin’ Up! designer series paper is so useful. One side is usually a specific theme but the other side of the papers is usually a generic pattern that you can use any time. If you were making a floral card, these little yellow designs on the orange paper would remind you of flowers. But they can also look like little twinkles or sparkles for Halloween, especially with a cauldron boiling and bubbling!
The card base is Gorgeous Grape. I almost used Blackberry Bliss cardstock but decided that was darker than I liked. It would have been fine, though. For the images on the card, I used the Potions & Spells Bundle which you will find in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives and colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers. Then you can cut out the cauldron, the cat, and the bird with the matching dies. I cut out the bubbles by hand.
The cauldron is stamped with Memento ink on Gray Granite cardstock. I also added some color and shading to the edges of the pot with Stampin’ Blends. The parrot and cat are stamped on Basic White, colored with various Stampin’ Blends markers and die cut. The bubbles were kind of fun! I ended up using quite a few different colors to make them look like boiling bubbles. The finishing touch was using Soft Sea Foam on them! I felt satisfied with how they looked after using Pool Party, Petal Pink, and other colors which was starting to look a little weird until I softened everything with Soft Sea Foam.
The cauldron is glued down flat with Stampin’ Seal with the bubbles adhered flat behind the top of the pot. The cat is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals as is the bird. The greeting is so fun! It is stamped in Gorgeous Grape ink and die cut with one of the Nested Essentials Dies. Then I sponged Gorgeous Grape ink around the edges. I also added some Glossy Dots in Gorgeous Grape and Daffodil Delight on the greeting and on the card.
It’s a fun card that came together pretty well using the new Potions & Spells Stamp Set and Dies (save 10% by buying both together in a Bundle). You’ll only find Halloween and fall sets in the Online Exclusives this year so you don’t have to wait for the Holiday Mini. Get them early and then you’ll have them and be ready to go!