Halloween Card 2014 number 6

Welcome to my blog today,

Today I'm sharing four mini cards with you today. I made these cards with the thought that they could be in a set. I have four cards with rather the same techniques but look a little different from the others.

I cut down card to get them into squares. I made my own background papers by using distress ink and a blending tool. I love dark purple for Halloween so I used dusty concord.

The first card I used the cat stamp from hero arts and stamp it on the card. I then used the pumpkin from the same stamp set and used adirondeck rusty ink pad and then used WOW copper embossing powder. I didn't know how this would turn out and I never used adirondeck ink pads with embossing powder before and was really lucky and glad with the results. All I have to say about heat embossing is use an antistatic bag first, it really does make a huge difference.

I then cut out paper using xcut nesting dies and ran then through my big shot machine. I then stuck these to the base of the cards.

For the third and fourth card I chose orange as the base and used old paper distress ink for the back ground. I used the left overs from the first two die cuts and placed them around the edges. I used the whole frame for one card and cut of the corners to use on the other. I stamped the vampire and ghost image from papersmooches stamp set and coloured them in using promarkers. I love how the red on the vampire's cloak pops out. I cut out my images and went round the edges with my memento duo pen. I adhered the images using foam pads, then stuck the backing paper to the card base.

I love how these cards go well together and using only minimal supplies. These cards are easy to make and can be given out as invitations or just little cards to give to children like your nieces or nephews when they come around to your house on Halloween.


 Supplies

• memento tuxedo black ink pad and duo pen
• Hero Arts Halloween moon (04) CG369
• Papersmooches Spookalicious
• Dovecraft Acrylic block
• WOW copper embossing powder
• Dovecraft heat tool
• anti static bag 
• xcut nesting dies
• Sizzix big Shot
• letreset promarkers
• distress ink old paper, dusty concord
• Blending tool
• Pva glue
• Foam Pads
• Martha stewart 12" scoring board and tool
• black and Orange card stock