With Halloween being right around the corner I'm really getting in the mood for making spooky-themed cards!!
These 2 aren't really spooky - they're more on the cutesy side LOL! They both use new stamps by GinaK and although I'm not a spider OR a bat fan - both of these little guys are really cute!
I used KI Memories Haunted patterned papers for this card - the purple dotted paper is actually the reverse side of the paper that's on the card base.
I stamped the spider onto white CS, colored him in with a Prismacolor pencil, then outlined him and the web with Star Dust Stickles (in the pic it looks almost blurry - but that's actually the glitter).
I attached the bazzill bitty blossom with a Making Memories Halloween Pebble brad (can you see the little web on it? So cute), and added 3 black sparkly brads from this KI Haunted Color Lab kit.
The sentiment is also from GinaK, and the ribbon is from a share I was in eons ago!!
For this card I used my brand new Spellbinders Rectangle dies - I only have the full rectangle set right now but I think I'm going to eventually have to get them all!
I used the sandwich instructions on Papertrey's website to be able to use the dies with my Cuttlebug (it's the first and only die cut machine I've ever used) and it was SO easy. I didn't emboss them for this card but that's next on my list to try out.
The patterned paper is also from the KI Memories Haunted collection - and I wish y'all could see this paper b/c it's shimmery!! I LOVE that about their papers - any of the ones listed as "frosty" are actually really pretty shimmery paper - I just LOVE it.
Anyway - I stamped GinaK's sentiment and bat image onto the CS, then used a black Prismacolor pencil (blending it with a paper stump dipped in Gamsol) to color the bats in.
I finished off the card with some baubles from Stamping Bella, some ribbon (from WalMart), and a couple of bats that I punched out of black CS using my Martha Stewart punch (did you know you can use 40% coupons now on her line at Michaels?? I was SO giddy when I found that out and got this bat punch at 40% off - YAY!).
I added Star Dust Stickles to the bats and the scallops on the black CS, and completely covered the punched out bats in it for some fun sparkle!!
