Happy Halloween!

This Spooky Best Witches Halloween Card is the last Halloween card of the season I guess! I hate to see the end of using the Best Witches Stamp Set and the Scary Cute Stamp Set. I have loved stamping the Best Witches and coloring them with Stampin’ Blends.

This card has a Basic White card base and a layer of Basic Black cardstock. Then I layered on a piece of the Black & White Designs Designer Series Paper for the background and even added a little strip of another pattern down lower on the card.

The witch is stamped with Memento ink on Basic White Cardstock and colored in with various Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. I diecut her with a Layered Circle Die and layered on a piece of Pumpkin Pie Cardstock cut with a scalloped circle die in the same set. The witch looked a little plain so I colored in the background to look more like Halloween night. I used several different colors of Stampin’ Blends – a little light yellow, some bright green, some orange, then Pale Papaya over all of it, plus some Granny Apple Green to finish it off! You can just play with these markers and see what turns out!

I used the Alphabest Stamp Set and the Best Label Punch to spell out “Spooky!” across the card. I barely had room to fit it in! It’s really a fun set to play with, as I am finding out. You can purchase both the stamp set and little punch in a Bundle and save 10%. You’ll find both in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog.

The ghosts peeking out from the sides of the card have special significance! Ghosts are part of what attracted me to Stampin’ Up! and to sign up to be a Demonstrator 20 years ago, as it turns out! When I saw cards made with ghosts out of hearts cut in half, I was sold on the creative possibilities of stamping!! To make these ghosts I punched a heart with the Heart Pack punch out of Basic White cardstock and cut it in half with scissors. The ghost on the left side is cut down just a little smaller to make him fit better. Then I just added eyes with a marker! So fun!

Here is another card I made with my heart ghosts a few years ago!

I hope you have your Halloween treats all ready for the trick-or-treaters tonight! Not sure we will have as many as we used to have back when more kids lived here and there was a little carnival down the street at the pool. I love handing out candy when the kids come to the door! I have my Paper Pumpkin treat boxes ready plus some extra bags of candy. The Paper Pumpkin treat boxes I already handed out were quite a hit, so consider trying out the Paper Pumpkin Kits especially for holiday times!