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Spooky Ghosts on a Halloween Card

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This Spooky Ghosts Halloween Card winds up the Halloween season here on my blog! Are you taking kids out for trick-or-treating tonight or are you staying home and handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters? I love being home and giving out candy, especially to the itty bitty trick-or-treaters. We used to have a LOT of kids come to our house after the little neighborhood carnival down the street years ago, but now we have half or less that we used to have as our neighborhood has gotten older.

This card has a Pumpkin Pie cardstock card base with a layer of the orange dotted patterned paper in the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper. I cut a strip of the striped pattern in the package to make sort of a wall on the left side of the card. And at the bottom, I cut out some of the Potions & Spells books, also printed in the Halloween Spells DSP.

Then came my favorite part….making ghosts! I learned this from a Demonstrator group meeting I attended with my friend who would become my upline when I signed up. I thought it was so creative! Use a heart punch, heart die, or simply cut out a heart by hand. Then cut it in half! You have two ghosts! Of course, with the flat edge, you have to put them so they are peeking out from somewhere. I put some faces on mine with a Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker. For the third ghost, I just cut off part of the bottom of the heart so it looks like just his head is poking out from behind the stack of books! The little sentiments are stickers from the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. They fit in there perfectly.

I’m sorry that Halloween will be over after today. I think the decorations I have for the house, cards, and Halloween things I can make are so much fun. The Halloween colors are great, too, to work with! But now it’s on to the next holiday!

Have a safe and fun Halloween today and tonight!

Halloween Memories So Spooky Sticker Card

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Halloween Memories So Spooky Sticker Card

Halloween is really getting close now! Here’s a quick and easy card to make, the Halloween Memories So Spooky Sticker Card. Even if you don’t have these exact materials, you can make something similar with whatever you have!

This card is made with the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. It is great for scrapbooking and even comes with layouts and detailed instructions if you want to follow their design. But you can also use the paper and stickers for making cards, treats, and other projects. If you don’t have this kit with the sticker sheet, you can substitute other paper or stamping. The kit includes the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper that you can order online but is not in a catalog.

This card starts with a Basic Black card base but you could use any other Halloween color. The background is a pattern in the Halloween Spells DSP that has little bubbles from the potion. The three stripes at the bottom of the card are stickers in the Workshop Kit but you could use the striped paper pattern in the Halloween Spells to put across there or just some other coordinating designer paper or stamped strip.

The So Spooky on the card is a large sticker in the kit. That sure makes it easy! Even the two black stars are stickers. If you don’t have the kit, just stamp some Halloween greeting on cardstock and adhere it, maybe add some spooky, glittery gems….which could be anything! Maybe some Googly Eyes if you have some.

This is one of those cards that I liked a lot when I finished it even though it took barely any planning or time at all! It was super simple!

Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card

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Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card

I hate that Halloween is sneaking up so fast because there are so many fun Halloween cards and projects to make! There’s just not enough time! But this Halloween Spells Cauldron Halloween Card was fun to make with the special Halloween designer series paper and the glimmer paper, stamp set, and dies.

The card base is Basic Black cardstock but you could choose other colors as well to match the paper. For the background, I chose the spooky striped paper from the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper.

The cauldron and its handles are cut out of Silver Foil. I even colored with one of the gray Stampin’ Blends markers for a little shading along the edges of the pot but I don’t think it was worth the effort really. There is also a cauldron you can stamp in the Potions & Spells Stamp Set and color in or stamp on colored cardstock and then diecut with the Potion & Spells Dies as I did on THIS CARD.

The little stack of books on potions and spells is stamped from the Potions & Spells Set, colored with Stampin’ Blends and die cut. You can also get books on another sheet of the Halloween Spells paper but they are larger. The black cat is stamped on gray (I can’t remember ever which gray is which!) cardstock, shaded in a tiny bit with a light gray Stampin’ Blend and diecut. If you want to get the stamps and dies together they do come in a Bundle and you’ll save 10%. (The dies are due back in stock next week so then the Bundle will be available again!)

The fun part of the card is making all the bubbles coming out of the potion in the cauldron! These are all diecut little bubbles of various sizes and I used the Festive Glimmer Paper and the Three-Color Glimmer Paper. I also used some Pumpkin Pie cardstock bubbles and a few Lemon Lime Twist cardstock bubbles. Just play and do it however you like! And then there is the diecut of the potion running over the edge of the cauldron!

The little greeting at the bottom of the cauldron is one of the words on the scrapbooking sheet of stickers in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit that you can find online. In this pack you get Two-Tone cardstock, the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper and some other sheets for scrapbook layouts plus the sticker sheet with all kinds of fun things on it! Check it out because it might inspire you to make those Halloween scrapbook pages of your kids when they were little (or big!) or you can use the materials to make cards and other fun projects or treats!

It’s time to make those Halloween greetings, treats, party favors, scrapbook pages ready for photos, whatever you like!

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Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card

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Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card

It’s October so Halloween is getting close! All the holidays are getting close! This Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card uses a combination of products but it was fun to make. You don’t always need the perfect idea in your head when you make a card! Just pick “something” to start with…a stamp set, a set of designer papers, a set of dies…and start playing with different ideas. You might use different colors of cardstock than you thought. You might use the other side of the designer paper you planned to use. Maybe some other image in the stamp set works better. You never know!

The main thing I started with for this card was the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper with the potions and spells books. You can buy this paper by itself in the Online Exclusives, but I got mine in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. I also got a sticker sheet, two-tone cardstock sheets, and more. You can make three 2-page scrapbook page spreads with this kit or use the supplies to make cards or other projects, which is what I am doing.

Once I had the idea of using a certain designer paper, I chose another one of the papers for the background and Pumpkin Pie cardstock for the card base. I also wanted to use the little Dracula guy in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set on my card, even though he was a little small. I planned to stack the potions and spells books and maybe have the ghost standing on top. After cutting out a strip of the books, I decided to trim around the edges of the books to make them smaller. Then I decided to use a strip of the black and white strip in between the books along the edge of my card. After that, I tried placing the books on end along the bottom of the card and that was the key! I liked that look! Sometimes you just know! Then I placed the Dracula ghost, colored with Black and Highland Heather Stampin’ Blend Markers and cut out by hand, on top and added a greeting and all was well with the world!

The greeting is in the Potions & Spells Stamp Set. I thought it was perfect for this card. I already had this diecut banner in my package of Basic White cardstock, so I stamped on it for the greeting. This die is in the Nested Essentials Dies. I also stamped some little starry stamps in the same stamp set in Highland Heather ink on the banner and tied a little bow with double strands of Linen Thread. It is adhered in the top corner of the banner with a Mini Glue Dot. For some sparkle, to enhance the potions & spells theme, I added some Shiny Sequins in two different colors.

Here’s another card I made with the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set.

Time to make those Halloween cards to send!

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