The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic Black card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left. I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock and taped it to the inside.
On the front I cut a piece of DSP that measured 5-1/4" x 4". On the bottom of that piece I had taped a 4" x 1-1/2" piece of DSP from the same package. That piece was leftover from cutting a 4" x 12" strip and then cutting that strip to 5-1/4". I kept the scrap because it was wide enough.
Once the strip was taped I hunted in my ribbon stash for something that would look good with this. In a clear plastic baggie I found a piece of this black gingham ribbon so I thought I'd use it. One less piece of ribbon in that package! YAY! I ran my tape runner across the ribbon and laid it on the line of the orange piece of DSP. I used scotch tape on the back to hold the ends down. A knot was tied and glued to the ribbon band. I should have waited to glue it because I think I would have liked the tree on the other side but it's okay, it worked out.
Next I taped the DSP to the front of the card. Then the fun began. I die cut the tree and bats. I had a sheet of Basic Black card stock that has a double sided sticky sheet on it, so I could make these into stickers. Gluing tree branches is not fun at all. They are from the "Oh My Fright" bundle.
The ghosts were cut from vellum. I cut three of them and then I cut an extra one that I had a double sided sticky sheet on it. I'll discuss that fiasco in a bit.
I lightly set the tree on top of the card and placed it where I thought it looked the best. Then I slipped two ghosts behind the branches and pressed down lightly on the part of the branch that touches the ghosts. I removed the tree with the ghosts on it and added glue to the back of the ghost where the branches were. The tree was then pressed in place. I used my heat tool to warm up the tree a bit so the tree would stick better.
Now for the upper left ghost. I set one in place that had the double sided tape on it. It almost disappeared on to the DSP but it was blotchy. SO I took the other ghost I had cut and glued it in place. Vellum and glue do not go well together. I recall years ago I had used vellum tape. I know I don't have any and if I still had some it probably would be dried up because it was that long ago. Anyway, the ghost looks blotchy because of the glue and the ghost under it. I wasn't able to remove the first ghost or I would have. So it is what it is.
The bats were added next. I took my Cherry Cobbler marker and colored the eyes in. I like bats to have deep red eyes. Kind of creepy. They do show up red but you have to look closely. You won't see it in this pic.
The words are from the "Oh My Fright" bundle and were stamped using Basic Black ink on Basic White card stock. I fussy cut them and set them in place using dimensionals.
I thought the card could use some of those cute little ghost embellishments. They are from the "Bats, Ghosts & Dots" adhesive backed package. They're so cute. These I didn't cover with glow in the dark paint, thought I think it would be fun. I just ran out of time.
This was a very fun, quick and easy Halloween card to make.
Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's Halloween card,
Wanda















