Boo Pals!!

It’s Wednesday, and this week, I made a Hallowe'en card using High Hopes Rubber Stamps Boo Pals - SS007 for the image and Boo-tiful Day - E233 for the sentiment. Hallowe'en is now only a few months away! Wow! Where has this year gone? Time seems to be flying by so fast!

To make my card this week, I began with a card base of Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb. cardstock, cut and scored to be 5.5" x 4.25". I cut the background paper from Recollections - Black cardstock to be the same size as the base card and attached it using double-sided tape. Using My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Layers and my Anna Griffin Empress Mini Machine, I die cut Doodlebug - Pumpkin Party cardstock. I just love these little ghosts. With a finger dauber and Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Villainous Potion, I inked around all of the edges of the die cut. U-Line double-side tape was applied to the back of this piece and I popped it up onto the base card. Using the same cutting machine, I die cut Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card cardstock using Nestabilities Dies - Deckled Rectangles - Large.

I stamped the main image onto the Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card die cut using my MISTI and Memento - Tuxedo Black ink and coloured it in. I created my own moon shape using a 2" circle mask that I had created earlier with a Fiskars hand punch. The eyes and nose for the cat and ghost were added in using a Sakura Glaze - Black pen. I ran the coloured image through my Xyron Creative Station and attached it to Recollections - Black cardstock. I didn't have a larger die of the same shape, so I put the piece that I had adhered together into my Brother Scan 'N Cut and created a .08" border around it. This created the small black border to make the image pop. The sentiment was stamped onto a scrap piece of Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card cardstock using my MISTI and Memento - Tuxedo Black ink and then it was die cut using my cutting machine and Poppystamps - Christmas Quotes. Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Wilted Violet and a finger dauber were used to go around the die cut.

The card was now ready to assemble. I added U-Line double-sided tape to the back of the frame and sentiment and popped them both up onto the card to finish it off.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Boo Pals - SS007 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Sentiment: Boo-tiful Day - E233 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Wilted Violet, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Villainous Potion

Paper: Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card, Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb., Doodlebug - Pumpkin Party (12" x 12"), Recollections - Black cardstock

Die Cuts: My Creative Time - Rectangle Frame Layers, Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies - Deckled Rectangles Large (S4-202), Poppystamps - Christmas Quotes

Tools: MISTI - Most Incredible Stamping Tool, U-Line double-sided tape, Anna Griffin Empress Mini Machine, Sakura Glaze - Black, Brother Scan 'N Cut, Xyron Creative Station

Image coloured with Copic Markers:

Black Cat: C8, C6, C4, C3, R30, R22, (Eyes and Nose - Sakura Glaze - Black)

Ghost: BV20, C0, Colorless Blender, (Eyes and Nose - Sakura Glaze - Black)

Tombstone: W5, W3, W1, W0, 100

Grass: G99, G94, G21, YG97, YG17

Sky: BV29, BV25, BV23. BV20

Moon: BV23, BV20, C1, C0, C00, Y00, Colorless Blender

Hope you like it and have a spooktacular week!

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