Fun and Ghoulish Soiree Card for Halloween

We have created a Phantom of the Opera meets Twilight inspired card. This slimline card, with its red paint spattered effect has a fun and spooky theme: the story is that a formal soiree has gone awry on Halloween night. Below, let's see how easy it is to make this ghoulish card!

Our Vampire SWAK Rubber Stamp combined with our Chandelier Silhouette Rubber Stamp create a spooky setting wherever they are stamped.

Bows made of red glitter and black cardstock are added near the bottom of the card. Notice how they are placed below the SWAK design to look like a necktie.

For the card base, we have 4 layers:

1) black cardstock,

2) silver cardstock,

3) white cardstock.

4) For the top layer, we have a red, orange and silver paint spattered cardstock. This was already done, but you can create your own with watercolor paints on white cardstock.

Our Vampire SWAK Rubber Stamp is just like a regular Sealed with a Kiss stamp, but it has vampire fangs and bloody drips.

Our Halloween Background Rubber Stamp works well as a true background or as a centerpiece and measures about 3 inches x 3 inches in size. We stamped it in Candied Apple Distress Oxide. Then we stamped Chandelier Silhouette in Red StazOn ink on top.

We use a white gel pen to highlight the chandelier and yellow and orange gel pens around the light bulbs to create a glowing effect.

Above is a closeup of how the Chandelier Stamp looks when some simple color accents are added. It makes a fun effect when stamping similar colors like in this case, a lighter red ink and a darker red ink.

Also, our Opera Rubber Stamp is stamped on the background on the upper portion of the card.

Did you know that we carry 4 different sizes of acrylic blocks that accommodate all of our stamp sizes? Our Small Acrylic Block fits the Vampire SWAK Rubber Stamp.

Our Medium Acrylic Block fits the Chandelier Silhouette Rubber Stamp.

Our Large Acrylic Block fits our Halloween Background Rubber Stamp (and accommodates any stamps smaller)

Our Extra Large Acrylic Block fits the Opera Rubber Stamp (and accommodates any stamps smaller as well).

Journaling Techniques to Create a Card

In this project, I combined some favorite journaling techniques to create a handmade card. For those of you that do not create junk journals, that's ok because the processes, like watercolor paint splashes, rolling edges of the paper are used below make a very pretty card with many layers. I also include below a couple of tips on keeping your tools sharp and options for using different focal points. We use a center layout where everything is built around the middle line of the card. Embellish using the top left and bottom right with a background pattern of script in black ink gives the green center a nice contrast which is often seen in journaling. (The red flowers are watercolor designs that were inkjet printed.) You can use stickers of flowers just the same. The Venus de Milo Rubber Stamp is now available. It measures about 1.25" wide x 3.25" tall. The oval frame is from our Create a Cameo Rubber Stamp Collection . You will notice, I used the top part of the Ve

Non-Halloween Stamps to Create Scary

The dramatic effect of white embossing onto black paper doesn't just have to be done at Halloween. Here we used some unconventional stamps to create a scary tag with a base of black. While these stamps normally wouldn't be in the Halloween category, they end up somehow being perfect to create a scary tag. The best way to get a bright white look is by embossing with white powder. Embossing always comes out looking extraordinary and worth the extra effort. Above is our Victorian Man Profile Rubber Stamp embossed onto black chipboard. He'll make a great embellishment for a Halloween. (measures about 2 inch x 2 inch). A tree branch from our Season of Joy Collection is one of my favorite stamps. It expresses the beauty of nature in a simple way. Above, the branch stamp was embossed in Copper Powder onto black card stock. Our Grunge Ticket Rubber Stamp is seen above, embossed in white onto black card stock. The stamp measures about 3 inches tall x 1.5 inches wide. I love

IPhone Cover Decor

Since Xyron has a fabulous way of making anything into a sticker, I decided to create décor for the back of my cell phone case. Taking beautiful, damask patterned glitter paper from DCWV, 6x6 pad, 'The Glitter Basics" I cut out my iPhone 6s cover pattern using a template I created in plain white cardstock of my case. To cut out the circle in the middle, I used an X-Acto knife. The Scooter Rubber Stamp was embossed on red paper and cut out with scissors. I smudged 'Claret' color StazOn ink around the edges. After placing the scooter through the Xyron Creative Station, I placed it onto the iPhone pattern and ran both through together. The Creative Station can take such thick items. You will see below that I ran embellishments made from shrink plastic and it had no problem with them. One of the magical features of the Xyron's sticker makers is that the top of your project comes out unscathed. You just peel the plas

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