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Boo to you! – Let’s make a cheery Halloween card

Hi friends! Halloween is almost here, so I thought it was time to share this fun, easy, happy Halloween card. Honestly, I am not big on the spooky and scary things for this holiday, so I went cheery and bright for this card.

Halloween card featuring the ghostly treats stencil – a scrapbook.com exclusive product.

To begin this project, I used the Ghostly Treats stencil from scrapbook.com to ink blend in some happy CP ink colors: it’s a girl, bellini, garden party, sixteen candles, cummerbund, and chiffon. I used blending brushes to get a light layer of ink and tried to create a gradient in the larger images. I also used some bits of mint tape to mask off any shapes that I did not want to accidently get ink into. For this project, I decided to color in each set of shapes its own color. When I was done with the inking, I wiped of my stencil and used an embossing mat to emboss the image into my inked background. Then I trimmed the panel down so that it would leave a border on an A2 size card base.

For the sentiment, I swiped some sixteen candles ink onto a piece of white cardstock and used some bold alpha dies to cut out the word boo. For the “to you” portion of the sentiment, I just used a black pen and a scrap of white cardstock.

Embossing a stencil adds some fun interest to the background. It also helps to define white areas like the tops of the candy corns!

I stacked up some “boos” for my sentiment and adhered all of the pieces to an A2 size card base. And, voila!! My card was done!

Special thanks to scrapbook.com for generously providing the stencil used in this project.

Disclaimer: This post features affiliate links. They are at no cost to you and they help to support this site. Thank you so much to scrapbook.com for generously providing the dies and stamps used in this project!

Let’s make a Fall Rainbow Wreath card – featuring scrapbook.com exclusives!

Hi Crafty Friends! I am so excited to be back with another fun crafty project to share today. If you would like to see a video tutorial for this project, please click here:

https://youtu.be/QD9YeeH5nwo

I began this project by die cutting about a dozen small leaves from the autumn leaves die set from scrapbook.com. Any of the leaf dies in this set would do, I just picked my favorite one. These dies are really small, so I found it pretty quick to cut them out using my sidekick. I then took a rainbow of Catherine Pooler Inks and used a blender brush to apply ink to the leaves. I tried to add more color to the tips of the leaves and less near the stems. I also went ahead and die cut a narrow circle frame approximately the size of my wreath to use as a guide.

For the stamping, I used the hi fall set from scrapbook.com. I am really loving the set. In the video, I used the cummerbund ink to stamp the hi on a white card panel just slightly smaller than an A2 size card base. In my other cards below, you will see that I also made this card using some CP ink colors. The colors I used included it’s a girl, do si do, bellini, catching rays, chiffons, melon ice, garden party, minted, cummerbund, serenade and sixteen candles. I used the MISTI to stamp the hi so that I could go ahead and double stamp to get a nice solid sentiment. Next, I took the word fall from the stamp set and layered it on top of the hi and stamped it in black.

I prepared an A2 size card base and now had all of my card parts ready for assembly. First I added my background panel to the front of my card using some liquid glue. To build the wreath, I used the circle die cut as a guide and adhered the leaves in rainbow order, with slight overlap, using some smart liquid glue. Once all of the leaves were glued on, I flipped it over and used some foam squares on the back. I tried to overlap the foam on both the frame and the leaves to add some stability to the wreath. I centered it around my sentiment and adhered it to the card.

To finalize my card, I added some fun Honey Bee rainbow gems to add some fun sparkle.

Take a look at these other fun cards that I made using the same products:

Rainbow leaf wreath card with focal “hi” stamped using the color sixteen candles
I made this same card for an occasion other than to welcome fall.

Special thanks to scrapbook.com for generously providing the stamps and dies used in the project.

In this example, I stamped the hi using the color minted. Also, I changed it up and used a different die from the autumn leaves set.

Disclaimer: This post features affiliate links. They are at no cost to you and they help to support this site. Thank you so much to scrapbook.com for generously providing the dies and stamps used in this project!