Happy Sunday evening now (this is my second post today - if you missed my earlier one you can check it out HERE), I need to get this post finalized for y'all so I can sit and watch the Game of Thrones season finale in peace (but OMG though - have any of y'all been watching it? This season has me losing my mind LOL).
OK back to Halloween cards. I've been having some troll/technical issues lately which really ate into my Halloween card making - but I finally made THREE cards, two of which I'm sharing now and the third I still need to edit and upload (stay tuned for that one b/c there's going to be an even bigger giveaway!).
Here's cards 1 and 2:
I had soooooo much fun making these cards - which is why I ended up making 3 instead of just one! Too many ideas to contain them on just one card.
MFT's Fab-BOO-Lous stamp set is beyond adorable!! I stamped all the images onto Distress watercolour paper with Hero Arts Intense Black ink then coloured them all in with Distress Inks and a water brush.
I sponged Distress inks onto more Distress watercolour paper before splattering them with water then once dry I die cut them with the Mod Rectangle STAX Die-namics.
I used Tonic's Nuvo Crystal Drops in Ebony Black on both cards - and for once I was SO good at actually letting them fully dry before taking pics or handling them at all. I have a bad tendency to poke at things while they're drying (I know better but I can't help it) and most of the time end up ruining it or needing to fix it somehow.
I finished the inside of the card with another stamped sentiment and a couple of the little ghost characters.
For my second card I remembered THIS card I'd made last year (I so loved how it turned out!) so I wanted to recreate that idea with these stamps.
This time I used the Distress Inks to create a watercolored/splattered background, then attached all the ghosts to hemp cord to make them look like balloons. This would be so fun for someone who has a birthday near Halloween :).
I used the same sentiment on the inside and different images and that was it!
To see how these cards came together check out my video below. And if you'd like a chance to win one of these cards check out my giveaway at the bottom of the post!
You can watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <---------click!
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Now for the GIVEAWAY:
Every Halloween card I post there will be a Rafflecopter widget at the end of the post that you can follow the steps in, a random winner will be chosen via the widget and I'll fill out and mail the card to the winner from each post!
Since there's 2 cards in this post I'll choose 2 winners to each receive a card!
Good Luck and THANK YOU for taking the time out of your day to visit me here! :) :) :)
ETA: CONGRATS to Tamara and Susan! I'm so glad y'all are so keen on winning one of my cards! Reading all your comments just makes my day <3
