STAMPtember is Here… and Spooky
Happy STAMPtember!!! Simon Says Stamp always celebrates fall (and Heidi’s birthday) with a big release celebration in September. As always, this year’s STAMPtember release includes some wonderful new basics, some autumn themed products, and of course - Halloween also. This blog post will collect some of my Halloween themed projects. I’ll be making other posts this month also.
You can take a look at the complete STAMPtember release from Simon Says Stamp HERE!
Techniques:
I chose a dark plum cardstock for the main focus of the card, thinking it would look suitably dark and creepy, but stand out well from the black base I planned.
To add to the layers and textures - both actual and visual, I wanted to give the eyes from the Spooky Eyes stencil a dimensional look.
1. I ink blended black ink through the main eye part of the stencil.
2. After cleaning the stencil, I offset it just a bit, and spread opaque Distress Crackle paste through that same stencil. I thought the crackle would create a fun effect for the eyes - what do you think?
3. I then used Glow Grit Paste through the other stencil for the pupils. Spoiler alert - that didn’t work. It actually looked great when glowing in the dark, but didn’t have enough contrast under light. Darn. The texture was still cool, so I just used some watercolor paints to add a deep yellow-green color on top of that grit paste, along with a little clear glitter.
Once that panel with the eyes was completely dry, I used a large circle die to cut it out.
The background panel for the card is the large group of bats from the CZ Halloween Basics, stamped twice with embossing ink, and with clear embossing powder on it. That gives it that slight bit of dimension and fun touch of shine to stand out just enough behind the feature of the eyes.
The words on the card are all from that same CZ Halloween Basics stamp set. I stamped the Happy Halloween one word at a time so I could put the words in a row horizontally rather than stacked. I used one of the Sentiment Label dies to cut it out, and trimmed it so it looks “wrapped” around that circle of eyes.
Colors:
ink: Black.
cardstock: Concord & 9th Plumberry, Lemongrass, and Black.
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