Halloween will be here before we know it so get your new stamp sets and accessories in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog and start creating! On this Scary Cute Slimline Halloween Trick or Treaters Card, I couldn’t resist making a colorful spooky background with the trick-or-treaters heading up to the house for their treats!
This is a slimline card made with a Basic Black cardstock card base. The card base is a 6″ square that is scored in half at 3″ so when it is folded, the card will be 3″ x 6″. The layer on the front of the card is Basic White cardstock 2 3/4″ x 5 3/4″.
To make the Basic White cardstock look spooky for Halloween Night, I used the Blending Brushes to add all kinds of ink colors! I used some of the new In Colors. Well, maybe all of them except Sweet Sorbet. I also used some Pumpkin Pie and Crushed Curry. I only have three Blending Brushes but if you are careful to work from light to dark ink in similar colors and really rub off the excess ink after each color on scrap paper or Grid Paper, you can use each brush for several ink colors. When you are finished, just rinse them out at the kitchen sink! Be sure to rub off a little bit of ink before applying the Blending Brush to the project to avoid getting a dark blob of ink.
Next, I stamped the three separate trick-or-treaters in black Memento Ink as if they were walking around on Halloween Night going trick-or-treating with their little baskets. You need to have a juicy ink pad to get a good, dark impression of the image. The Stamparatus would work well for this so you could stamp it over and over if necessary. You can also fill in the areas that didn’t stamp heavily enough with a black marker if the blacks match pretty well.
The Scary Cute Stamp Set has some fun stamps and greetings in it. I stamped some of the bats up in the sky. I stamped the Crushed Curry cardstock with the moon stamp but I cut it out according to the shape and used the plain cardstock side because I liked the cardstock color better than the inked side.
The haunted house is a diecut and I already had that cut out. I decided to use it but away from the trick-or-treaters so it wouldn’t look like the wrong size. I adhered tiny pieces of Parakeet Party card stock behind the windows and after adhering it to the card layer, I trimmed off the excess side so the house would fit better.
For the greeting, I stamped the “Halloween Happiness” on Basic White but decided to cut the words apart so they would fit in the corner. They were stamped with the Starry Sky In Color Ink and then I added a little Parakeet Party ink around the edges with a Blending Brush just to make the words look a little spooky and fit the card just right.
On the inside of the card, I adhered a Basic White layer just like on the front of the card. I stamped the other stamp with the three smaller trick-or-treaters and a greeting from the stamp set. Then I used the Blending Brush and just a light layer of Parakeet Party ink. You could use any color you like.
This Scary Cute Stamp Set will be fun to use making Halloween treats and other projects as well! Here is a Scary Cute card I made the other day using the spooky frame die with the tree branches. Just get the Scary Cute Bundle of stamp set and dies and you will be all set for making a card like my Scary Cute Slimline Halloween Trick or Treaters Card or many others!