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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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Flying Ghost and Pumpkins Halloween Card

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Flying Ghost and Pumpkins Halloween Card

I’m beginning to realize how close we are getting to all the fun holidays coming up! This Flying Ghost and Pumpkins Halloween Card is a card I made by creating a little spooky scene using stamps. You can be playful with your stamps and tell a little story!

This card starts with a regular-size card base of Basic Black. Then I used other colors I like against the black for Halloween – Pumpkin Pie and Highland Heather. These are cut at different size layers that I normally use. The Pumpkin Pie cardstock is cut at 3 1/2″ x 5 1/4″ and the Highland Heather cardstock is cut at 3 1/4″ x 5″. The front panel is Basic White, or used to be before I colored it! It is cut at 3″ x 4 3/4″.

For this card, I used the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set and tried to create a spooky scene for Halloween night. To begin, I colored the Basic White cardstock using the Small Blending Brushes and several different colors of ink. I simply colored different overlapping areas of the background. You can use whatever colors you like or make it darker than I did. Some colors I used were Misty Moonlight, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie. and Gorgeous Grape. The clouds are inked with Night of Navy.

The ghost on the broomstick is stamped with Stazon ink in black, colored in, and cut out by hand. Yes, it’s a little tricky but you can do it! For a change, I used both sets of Watercolor Pencils to color in everything. Then very lightly, I smoothed out the colors using a Blender Pen. This technique is one that I used a LOT when I first discovered stamping and Stampin’ Up! I loved the texture of the Watercolor Pencils and I loved using the Blender Pen over the pencil to make it look a little neater and smoother.

At the bottom of the card, the line of pumpkins is stamped using the stamp of two pumpkins also in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set. If you create a mask you can stamp over the mask and make the pumpkins look side by side or one behind the other. Then I cut around the tops of the pumpkins to leave a bottom edge that I could color in with grass with a Watercolor Pencil. The pumpkins are colored with Watercolor Pencils also.

The ghost and the strip of pumpkins are adhered to the Basic White background. You could also pop these up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I added a few stamped bats and stars in the background also.

The greeting from the stamp set is stamped in Black Stazon ink on Highland Heather cardstock and then diecut with the Perennial Postage small die. I wanted a smallish greeting so as not to take up much space in my little Halloween scene! For some embellishment, I added some Adhesive-Backed Shiny Sequins in Lemon Lolly. There are four colors of sequins you can use.

Halloween is fast-approaching! If you like making Halloween cards and decorations as I do, this is our season coming up!

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Playful Ghosts Halloween Card

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Playful Ghosts Halloween Card

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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