Batty Halloween Card

This card uses a variety of items from many different manufactures.  I knew I had to use the bat from Best Witches, and the rest of it just came together with items I had in my stash.

 I used the following for the card:

• Gina K - Best Witches dies
• Gina K - Black Onyx Ink
• Gina K - Master Layouts 1
• A Colorful Life - Ghosties Stencil
• Recollections - Halloween Phrases
• Distress Oxide Ink - Seedless Preserves, Carved Pumpkin, Lucky Clover

To make the card, I used blender brushes to add the Distress Oxide to white card stock.  The stencil was then placed on the panel, and a damp paper towel as added on top and lightly pressed into the stencil.  This removed some of the ink from the panel and made it look "ghostly". The panel was cut with Master Layouts 1 (along with the associated black mat).  Bats were cut from black cardstock with the die from Best Witches.  These were added to the panel, with some of the bats added with foam squares.  A white gel pen was used to add eyes to the bats.  The sentiment was added using Black Onyx ink (interesting that it ended up looking blue in the picture!).  The panel was then added to the black mat, and the entire piece added to the card base to complete the card. 

This card was entered in the Mod Squad Challenge - Halloween

Ghostly Halloween

Its become tradition that I make Halloween cards for the Grandkids.  For these cards, I am using my favorite Halloween sets from Mama Elephant and Lawn Fawn:

For the Purple card, I used the following:

• Gina K - Wild Lilac Ink and Card Stock
• Mama Elephant - Boo-tastic Stamp Set
• Lawn Fawn - Spooktacular Stamp Set 
• A Colorful Life - Ghosties Stencil
• Gina K - Small Circle Dies

For the Orange card, I used the following:

• Gina K - Sweet Mango Ink
• Mama Elephant - Boo-tastic Stamp Set
• Lawn Fawn - Spooktacular Stamp Set and Matching Dies
• Copic Markers - C5, C7, C9, Y15, YR12, YR14, YR18, R01
• Wink Of Stella Clear
• A Colorful Life - Ghosties Stencil
• Gina K - Small and Large Circle Dies

To make the cards I first created the background by stenciling the Ghosts. The background was then trimmed to size and matted with black card stock and added to the card base.  The sentiment was added.  The 3 ghosts were stamped and die cut.  These were added to a black circle and added to the purple card with foam squares to complete the card.  The witches hat was stamped, and then masked to add the ghost.  The hat was colored with Copic markers.  The image was cut with a small circle die, and matted with black.  This was added to the orange card with foam squares to complete the card.  

The Purple card was entered in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Spooky.