Nothing to Fear!

It’s here, It’s here! It’s Halloween season, AND time to start your spooky stamping! Stampendous is excited to be playing along again with the 9th annual 31 Days of Halloween at the Zahar Studio blog with our hostess with the ghostess, Terra! In the past this has been limited to stamped projects, but Terra has blown it wide open this year with tons of great options including mixed media and lots of other art styles. You’ll find a ton of inspiration at this event.

The theme this year is Day of the Dead, although any Halloween themed items can be posted. But beware!! Some of it might be kind of spooky! It’s not for the faint-hearted, or those who dislike Halloween.

How it works:

Stampendous has created a special page which will keep our Halloween Fun easy to find. That page is here:

31 Days of Halloween – Stampendous

The links to our Design Team and their amazing Halloween projects will be posted there along with our posts.  We will be offering our own prizes, as will many of the other participating blogs. Be sure that you read each blog’s rules for their giveaways, they are all separate and different.

Today I've created a Halloween card featuring the great Spider Fear Perfectly Clear Set (SSC1263) from Stampendous, along with a sentiment from their Spooky Wishes Perfectly Clear Set (SSC1264).

Stampendous:

SSC1263 Spider Fear PCS
SSC1264 Spooky Wishes PCS

DCP1005 Fitted Frames Set A
DCP1006 Fitted Frames Set B
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Acrylic Handle

MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Plus:

Black and Orange Cardstock

Authentique Lustrous PGL006

Graphic45 Clockworks #4500682

Memento - Cantaloupe, Tangelo

Copic W6, 100

Foam Applicator

Foam Tape

Die Cut Machine

Instructions:

Step 1:  Create a Double Dutch Fold card from black cardstock (see Pinterest for instructions)
Step 2:  Use the Fitted Frames Set A to die cut out a piece of the Authentique paper and a matching layers from black cardstock
Step 3: Use the Tuxedo Black ink to stamp the Spider web and sentiment on Authentique paper, use a foam applicator to apply some yellow, orange and black ink  color, adhere to the matching black mat

Step 4:  Use the Fitted Frames Set B to die cut a white layer for the inside of the card, stamp with spider webs, spiders and the sentiment, rouge with inks, edge with a black marker
Step 5:    Cut layers of orange cardstock to match the flaps and inside of the card, adhere decorative papers that have been edged with black marker to the layers

Step 6:   Use foam tape to add the spider web and saying to the front flap
Step 7: Stamp the largest spider on white, color over it with the W6 marker, cut it out, adhere to the spider web on the card front

I made several of these spooky cards for a card club I belong to, I love how they turned out!

Happy 31 Days of Halloween,

Louise