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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 Halloween Card

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Potions & Spells Halloween Card

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!

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