I made this card to give to my daughter for Halloween and it is also for the SCS Ways to Use It WT555 Challenge of 'Brush it Up' where you need to use a brush on your card eg: brushstroke painting, tole painting, use a brush for adding chalk, dry brushing etc. etc. I used DRY BRUSHING on my card to add white pigment ink on the tops of the black diecuts to add a bit of reflection from the moon & to add a bit of mistiness/spookiness to my card. Please see this link for details on the challenge---> WT555 ~ 10/29/2015 ~ Brush It Up! by Cook22 at Splitcoaststampers
I LOVED making this card so much - it was great fun and I just enjoyed every minute of it. I made a quick prototype with white cardstock first so I knew exactly where I needed to put the various layers - so that saved me a lot of time & I didn't waste my scant supply of black cardstock by making boo-boos.
I made the sky using Ranger watercolour cardstock and Distress Inks. I diecut a circle from Inkadinkado stamping mask paper and placed it on the cardstock so I could mask where I wanted the moon to be. I then coloured the cardstock using my Ranger round ink blending tool with the following Distress Inks: Dried Marigold, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade, Stormy Sky and Hickory Smoke. I removed the mask and coloured the moon a little with Dried Marigold and shaded it a little with Hickory Smoke. I added two layers with my Wink of Stella clear glitter brush over the moon to give it some subtle sparkle.
The house, pumpkin and gravestones and bats are a die by Impression Obsession - Halloween Hill - but I cut off the tree next to the pumpkin and didn't use the far RHS of the diecut (as it didn't fit into the scene but saved it for later on). The front hill was diecut using another Impression Obsession die - Hill Landscape Layers. The gravestones and cat are leftovers from the far RHS of the back hill plus I diecut another scene and cut off a couple of gravestones and tucked them all in behind the diecut hill.
I used a small flat brush dipped very lightly into some white pigment ink to add a bit of whiteness to the tops of all the black diecuts (except for the Orchard Tree frame) so it would look like the moon is reflecting off them and to add a bit more spookiness. The ghosts were diecut using a Memory Box - Ghastly Ghosts die set - and I added some clear Wink of Stella to them for some sparkle. The black tree frame is also by Memory Box - Orchard Tree Frame - which I diecut 3 times and glued together using Tombow Mono Multi glue. I used some cobweb to add some mistiness/fog on the moon plus on the bottom hill & used tiny dots of Ranger Multi Matte medium glue to attach it. The designer paper is old - from 2008. I used the Orchard Tree Frame to diecut the paper but used the negative of the diecut. I used a Lifestyle Nesting Card Template die (rectangle) to cut the paper negative to the size I wanted then just glued that in around the black Orchard Tree diecut frame. It was great because it just slotted in around the black diecut tree on my black cardstock base.
The sentiment was stamped in Versamark Watermark ink and heat-embossed using SU white embossing powder. I trimmed the sentiment panel down then cut a flag end on the RHS. I added a Kaisercraft black rhinestone then popped the panel up on 1mm dimensionals. Lastly, I tied on some Divine Twin Halloween twine.
Thanks for having a peek at my card! Please come and peek at my blog - this link will take you directly to my blog post where I have a close-up photo of the scene & a more detailed supplies list---> http://instead-of-ironing.blogspot.c...ings-card.html
ETA: Also added this to the SCS Free for All F4A297 Challenge of Fall Colors + the Mixability Challenge MIX144 of Fall Colors - which susieaustralia suggested my card fits. Thanks Susie ♥
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Fri, Oct 30, 2015 @ 6:24 PM
Oh my goodness, this is amazing Jocelyn. Everything about it is fabulous, thanks for the great description too. This fits perfectly for the F4A and MIX challenges this week too.
------------------------------ Susie
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Sat, Oct 31, 2015 @ 1:52 AM
Brushing the white pigment ink on the edges of the die-cuts is perfect for the WT challenge and looks great too. The whole card is fantastic, I love those little ghosts especially, they are so sweet! Your DIY is wonderful, and the cobweb finish is perfect. It almost looks like sheep's wool, I was wondering if you had used needle-felting felt.
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28816
Sat, Oct 31, 2015 @ 5:32 AM
From your looooooooooooong description, I take it that this took a looooooooong time to make and it shows!!! Very very spooky and perfect for Halloween!!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
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Sat, Oct 31, 2015 @ 7:25 AM
Ooh, "pooky"!! Love your card, wow, it is amazing looking! Love how you put the real looking web stuff on there. Love also how you used what would not normally be a Halloween die frame (with the tree)! I have to remember that! So cool...love it! Thanks for playing!
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