It’s October so Halloween is getting close! All the holidays are getting close! This Potions & Spells Hocus Pocus Halloween Card uses a combination of products but it was fun to make. You don’t always need the perfect idea in your head when you make a card! Just pick “something” to start with…a stamp set, a set of designer papers, a set of dies…and start playing with different ideas. You might use different colors of cardstock than you thought. You might use the other side of the designer paper you planned to use. Maybe some other image in the stamp set works better. You never know!

The main thing I started with for this card was the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper with the potions and spells books. You can buy this paper by itself in the Online Exclusives, but I got mine in the Halloween Memories Scrapbooking Workshop Kit. I also got a sticker sheet, two-tone cardstock sheets, and more. You can make three 2-page scrapbook page spreads with this kit or use the supplies to make cards or other projects, which is what I am doing.

Once I had the idea of using a certain designer paper, I chose another one of the papers for the background and Pumpkin Pie cardstock for the card base. I also wanted to use the little Dracula guy in the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set on my card, even though he was a little small. I planned to stack the potions and spells books and maybe have the ghost standing on top. After cutting out a strip of the books, I decided to trim around the edges of the books to make them smaller. Then I decided to use a strip of the black and white strip in between the books along the edge of my card. After that, I tried placing the books on end along the bottom of the card and that was the key! I liked that look! Sometimes you just know! Then I placed the Dracula ghost, colored with Black and Highland Heather Stampin’ Blend Markers and cut out by hand, on top and added a greeting and all was well with the world!

The greeting is in the Potions & Spells Stamp Set. I thought it was perfect for this card. I already had this diecut banner in my package of Basic White cardstock, so I stamped on it for the greeting. This die is in the Nested Essentials Dies. I also stamped some little starry stamps in the same stamp set in Highland Heather ink on the banner and tied a little bow with double strands of Linen Thread. It is adhered in the top corner of the banner with a Mini Glue Dot. For some sparkle, to enhance the potions & spells theme, I added some Shiny Sequins in two different colors.

Here’s another card I made with the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set.

Time to make those Halloween cards to send!

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