This is my first Halloween card for this year, and I am so excited!! I love how it turned out and I enjoy anything cute for Halloween! This Spooky Sweet Happy Halloween Card was made with the designer paper and stamp from the Spooky Sweet Suite Collection in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!
The Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper is going to be so much fun to use on Halloween cards, scrapbook pages, or other projects! Not only do you get papers with costumed animals, spooky haunted houses, and other printed papers to coordinate, but you also get diecut pieces of all types plus patterns to cut apart for tags or maybe labels for cards and scrapbook pages plus embellishments on your project. This paper is almost like a kit with all kinds of things you can use!
For this card, I started with a base of Basic Black cardstock. Next, I started cutting apart some of the Spooky Sweet Designer Paper and looking at the animal characters and the diecuts to see what I wanted to make. There are two full sheets that have street-like scenes of spooky houses, fences, and sidewalks. I cut apart this one house, although I didn’t cut it the size I intended to and almost started over with the other sheet of paper with the row of Halloween houses. But I stuck with it and just adhered it over to the right edge of the card with a strip of the back of another paper in the pack for the orange strip along the left side of the card.
Once I had that basic card design made, I played around with the other elements in the designer paper. I chose the goofy little bird carrying a pumpkin to be popped up on Dimensionals as if he is walking along the sidewalk, plus a couple candy corns because I couldn’t resist! For the greeting, I cut apart some of the tags/banners and stamped “Happy Halloween” with a stamp in the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set in Memento ink. I trimmed down the banner a tiny bit and cut the left side on an angle so I could angle the greeting. I also flagged the right side. It’s a Halloween card so you can do anything crazy on it that you want!
Luckily I remembered that I also bought the Shimmer Star Foam Stickers in the Suite. These are really different little things! They are actually foam, so if you stick the Take Your Pick Tool underneath them to get off the sticker page and onto your project you will feel the foam! It’s kind of odd when we are used to solid gems! But they are very sparkly and come in three sizes and three colors: White, Black, and Purple. I had fun putting them on this card!
If you want to save 10%, purchase the Spooky Halloween Bundle and get the dies that go with the stamp set. I couldn’t resist the characters and sentiments in this Bundle for Halloween!
Unfortunately, Stampin’ Up! didn’t put Halloween sets in the Holiday Mini Catalog, just the Online Exclusives. The Mini, however, does have a couple of nice fall/autumn stamps, dies, and papers. There are more in the upcoming Online Exclusives coming September 3rd, plus more Christmas! So get ready for lots more new things September 3rd with the new September-December 2025 Mini (Holiday Mini), Onlines Exclusives, and two new Kits in the Kits Collection. It will be a fun day!