I thought it would be fun to make a Halloween card again so I pages through the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper. I hadn’t used this paper with the building fronts on it, and I wondered how I would use that on a card. After seeing it in my mind as looking like a spooky high-rise apartment building, I decided on this Spooky Sweet Slimline Halloween Card. A slimline card would look like a tall building with multiple spooky windows!

The Basic Black card base is cut at 6″ x 6″ so I could score and fold it in half at 3″. That makes the card 3″ x 6″ which fits in some regular office-style envelopes I usually have on hand. You can make a slimline card taller and wider if you want.

For the designer paper layer, the Spooky Sweet Specialty Designer Series Paper, I cut it just “a smidge” smaller than the 3″ x 6″ card base. That’s technically 2 7/8″ x 5 7/8″. Or you could cover the entire front, or make the margin the normal size. For the inside of the card, I used “the other side” of this pattern with all the spooky windows which just has some light orange lines across it. Since it was fairly light, I was able to stamp “Happy Halloween” inside, from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set. I also stamped some bats for fun!

Back to the front of the card! I stamped the word “Spooky” from the Spooky Halloween Stamp Set in Pumpkin Pie on Basic White cardstock, then just cut around each stamped word. I think the words fit better on the card this way. It’s a great technique to use when you need to save space. I popped up all the words with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a little bit of embellishment, I added a few of the purple stars in the new Shimmer Star Foam Stickers. These little things are so fun to use! They really are foam so they feel very funny when you slide them off the sheet! The are sparkly and fun and come in three sizes and three colors – white, purple, and black.

This Spooky Sweet Paper is called “Specialty” because also included in the package are cut-apart images and diecut images you can use for extra fun on cards, Halloween projects, and scrapbook pages! Check out all the Halloween products in the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives!

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