A dark and stormy night is the perfect setting for this Halloween card using the newest Memory Box stamps and die cuts. Would you want to be out on a night like this? The bats over the Haunted Mansion (E1801) are enough to send me headed home--pronto!
A simple manilla shipping tag sets the scene and can be used later for a gift tag or bookmark if carefully removed from the card base. I worked some Pummice Stone and Chipped Sapphire Distress inks around the edges of the tag and a little Scattered Straw ink around the mansion and over the windows. Yellow colored pencil in the windows create a glowing effect---looks like all the ghosts are home tonight!
I die cut the Blank Ticket from sticky-back canvas and stamped Vintage Halloween words in yellow ochre chalk ink for a textured background. The canvas is a natural color with a self adhesive backing and chalk inks take well to it. Check out the scary spiders with orange bodies in the background...first bats, now spiders!
This haunted mansion must have a pumpkin patch (OK, it's just one pumpkin but look at the size of it!) and naturally, a creepy wrought iron fence nearby---yes, another fantastic die cut!
All I can say is, you won't catch me in this neighborhood but it's fun to create spooky Halloween cards for friends and family---I'll be teaching a holiday card class at Stamp Delights on August 18th ---hope you join me there!
Supplies:
Haunted Mansion E1801
Spooky Halloween B1807
Crow and Pumpkin C1800 (crow portion not used)
Vintage Halloween Words G1802
Orb Spider B1131
Blank Ticket Die #98213
Wrought Iron Fence #98164
Blackbird patterned paper
Claudine Hellmuth Studio Sticky-Back Canvas-Natural (Ranger)
Happy Friday!