I made this card for my 11 yo DD. I really enjoyed making this card as it gave me an opportunity to play with Ranger Distress Inks to make a sunset on Ranger watercolour paper which I have never done before. First of all, I punched out a 1 inch circle from a post-it-note to use as a mask so that when it was removed after blending the inks, I had a moon.
I used a round Ranger Blending Tool and used quite a few colours of Distress Inks (which are listed in the Card Details below) which you wouldn't probably realise from just looking at my card. I went from light to dark and just kept blending till I was happy. I tried to make it a little darker on the LHS and kept it lighter on the RHS where there would be more light from the moon. I removed the moon mask but decided to add a little watered down Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink with a paintbrush to the moon to try and make it look more rounded and not quite as white.
The house, tree, pumpkin, tombstones, cat and bats are all from one die called Halloween Hill by Impression Obsession. I diecut 2 layers from the black cardstock and glued them together so there was a bit more depth. I used a small scrap of watercolour paper and coloured it yellow using Lemonade Distress ink then cut it to fit in behind the pumpkin face and the windows on the house. I used a sponge and Hero Arts White dye ink to sponge the edges of the diecut to look like the moon was shining on the various elements then attached the diecut to the inked watercolour paper. I added some Stampin' Up! Dazzling Diamonds glitter glue plus Kindyglitz Gold glitter glue to the pumpkin face and the windows on the house for a bit of sparkle.
The very front panel is a die by Memory Box - Graveyard Landscape and again, I diecut 2 layers and also sponged the edges with white ink.
The ghosts are also by Memory Box - Ghastly Ghosts which has 5 different ghosts in the set.
The sentiment is from Hero Arts and was stamped using Versamark Watermark ink and heat-set using Stampin' Up white embossing powder. I love this embossing powder because it is really white. I attached 2 x Doodlebug 1974 Halloween Assortment boutique brads (from 200 which I have had in my stash forever.
I used some X-Press It Mounting Tape to attach the scene to some orange glitter cardstock then attached that to black glitter cardstock using Ranger Wonder tape which is very strong and works really well with glitter cardstock.
Lastly, I attached some white cobweb across the sky using tiny dots of Tombow Mono Multi glue to look a bit like mist/fog. This cobweb is from my local supermarket and comes in a big bag with black spiders and looks like cushion stuffing and super-stretchy and costs about $3. It's REALLY awful to work with as it catches on everything which nearly drove me crazy - but I like how it looks on my card :-)