Something Wicked This Way Comes

Happy Hump Day. Hope it's clear skies and artsy wherever you are. Our Houston Astros lost tonight, Honey and I were disappointed but also relieved. Even he said this was way too much stress! haha Congratulations to the Washington Nationals for winning their first World Series title. I'm just popping in before bed to post the first of a few last-minute Halloween creations.

I tried a little something different on this card. I've wanted to use this digi stamp set, so what better time than Halloween? The moon, clouds and twisted tree are 3 separate .png images in the set. I opened them in PSE and arranged them like the preview scene, just to see if I could. I added the sentiment using the Text function. Then I printed it out and trimmed it down to fit my card.

SUPPLIES:
Papers -- SU card stock, Neenah index stock
Stamps -- Tiddly Inks Twisted Tree digi set stamps, Paper Artsy, Crafty Secrets, Pink By Design, Third Coast, Leave Memories
Inks -- VersaFine Clair, ProMarkers
Dies / Punches -- Clear Dollar Labels die
Other / Stash: Doodlebug 12" paper fringe trim, Sakura Glaze gel pen, American Crafts gross grain patterned ribbon (on back of card), computer-generated sentiment on front

 

I used last week's SplitCoast Stampers sketch SC772 and since I did not follow the measurements of the side and bottom strips, I did not resize and print out. 

I used my ProMarker Grey shades to tone the tree bark and then color the clouds. I used my clear Sakura Glaze pen to color in the circles in the moon. I have detail shots further down that show the shine and dimension.

I wanted to keep this card clean and simple, so for the bottom strip element, I just trimmed my image to let the black mat show on bottom and left side. Then I colored some paper fringe black with my ProMarker and adhered it down the side for that wider strip element. I cut the fringe in a wavy pattern and curled the fringe up somewhat.

 On the inside of my card, I used a variety of Halloween stamps, just looking at what I had and choosing some spooky ones.

 The back is matted simply with black card stock and then two strips of ribbon are adhered along with my siggie stamp on a die cut label.

 This is a 4-shot close-up of the moon with the Sakura Glaze coating.

And a final view. I thought about adding some bling or something, but left things as they are to keep the white space. Not every card has to be blinged up....she said, trying to convince herself. hahaha

CHALLENGES:

1.  SplitCoast Stampers Sketch #SC772 -- sketch is shown above

2.  Rainbow Card Challenge #10 October:  Brazenly Black -- my 3rd and final entry

3.  Tiddly Inks Challenge #230: Trick or Treat Spooky or Sweet -- Spooky and I used Tiddly Inks digital images in a digi set called Twisted Tree
4.  Outlawz Monday Greetings Oct.28-Nov. 11: CAS One-layer
5.  Stamplorations October CAS Challenge: ACASG + Opt. Orange -- I did NOT play the option  

6.   The Creative Crafters Challenge #21: AG
7.   The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge: Make It CAS
8.   Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge #85: 31 Days of Halloween 

9.   Creative With Stamps Challenge #43: Tree 

10.  Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Oct. 29-Nov. 4: AG
11.  Crafty Creations Challenge #401: AG

That's it for me. Thanks for visiting and have a great rest of the week! xoxo