Hi everyone! I am ready for fall, how about you? I live in a college town – there is always a buzz around town when school starts and football begins.
After Christmas cards, Halloween cards are my favorite. I love the bright colors and cute characters! Today’s card features the Stitched Diagonal Backdrop Die by Kat Scrappiness. It is such a versatile die.
I die cut this out of orange paper and backed it with a piece of purple polka dotted black paper. I die cut and colored with Copics the cute little monsters from the Monster Mash stamp set and dies from Lawn Fawn. I used foam adhesive to pop up the monsters on the card. I kept the sentiment simple with the word boo in jewels from my stash.
Hi, my name is Caren Bartholomew. I’ve been creating cards off and on for about 20 years. Ten years ago, I was able to set up a dedicated craft room and have been nonstop card creating since! My style is clean and simple, and I love cute and punny. I like to try new techniques and occasionally dabble in other crafts. I can’t wait to create and share Kat Scrappiness products.
Greetings! Hannah, from Fanciful Spaces, here! I have been SO excited to share this card with you! This card required a few technical moments, but it harbored a lot of glittery fun! I suspect my nephew will really enjoy it when he receives it. 😉
I was inspired to create this card after I saw a card with a similar cut through the front panel, the other card was more swoopy and gentle, but I wanted something harsh and fierce looking (the other card didn’t use googly eyes either)! Like the other card I saw, whose lines were more or less perpendicular, I wanted the same effect. These perpendicular lines, along with a sharp 90-degree angle, were quite easy to create with the usage of Kat’s Never Ending Rectangular Dies.
To start I adhered a sheet of Scor-Tape to a piece of Neenah Solar White in 80lbs. I then cut these out, to create a rectangle, with one of the rectangles from the Never Ending Rectangular Die set, I also cut another sheet of cardstock using the same rectangular die. Then I cut two corners of a rectangle at perpendicular lines using two larger dies from the Never Ending Rectangular Dies.
I was left with 3 separate pieces of cardstock/Scor-Tape.
For the top and bottom panels of the Scor-Taped piece, I covered them with Nuvo Scarlet Red Glitter. I made sure that I worked on scratch paper, and I had turned off my ceiling fan. I then put another sheet of scratch paper on top of the glitter and pressed it into the Scor-Tape. Using a pair of tweezers I removed the two pieces, shook the glitter off, and then returned the excess glitter to the container. The use of Scor-Tape kept pretty much all of the glitter in place and prevented glitter from flying about my craft room! It was the most mess-free experience I’d ever had with glitter!
For the middle section, I applied googly eyes, of a variety of sizes, over it. The remaining Scor-Tape that was still visible I covered with Nuvo Charcol Glitter, using a similar technique to the red portions. At this point, I also colored the other sheet of cardstock that I had cut out. I wasn’t 100% sure all of the areas wouldn’t be seen as I layered the glitter and eyes on it, therefore I colored it using Black Soot Distress Oxide.
Carefully I traced the glitter pieces onto a sheet of scratch paper and used that to make a pattern in order to cut out 2 layers of black fun foam slightly smaller than the glitter pieces. I adhered the fun foam together using Ranger Multi-Medium Matte. When they were dry I used 1/4″ Scor-Tape to stick my glitter pieces onto the fun foam.
Next, I used VersaMark Ink to adhere WOW! Clear Gloss Embossing Powder to the edges of a sheet of cardstock that was cut to an A2 size (4.25″ x 5.5″). I only needed to emboss about half an inch around the edges. Carefully, I lined up the glitter and eye sections. Once they were in their correct positioning I applied Ranger Multi-Medium Matte to the fun foam of the top section. I let that sit and dry for a bit, keeping it in its correct position was key to line up the eyes and the bottom section when I went to glue them down.
Kat used to sell die set by a Cheery Lynn Designs, it had this fabulous “Boo” sentiment. She, unfortunately, doesn’t carry it but she DOES have this “Boo” sentiment by Tonic Studios which would work perfectly! I cut my sentiment out of white cardstock and out of black fun foam. Using Distress Inks I colored the sentiment and then doused it with my Wink of Stella pen. When the sentiment was dry I adhered it to the fun foam with Ranger Multi-Medium Matte and then to the glitter panel. This was all adhered to my card base using a tape runner, and Viola, one of my favorite cards ever was created!
If you liked this project, feel free to use Hannah10 at checkout! The following are the products I used:
1 Comment
Cute card, Caren. I too am ready for fall…bring on the pumpkins!
August 24, 2018 at 6:21 am