September 30, 2020
A Lawn Fawn Challenge #85 Awesome Autumn
According to Wikipedia, Halloween is part of Autumn. Therefore, I am entering my ‘ Happy Halloween’ card in Lawn Fawn’s challenge #85.
The Shutter card die is a lot of fun to create cards with. I kept thinking of my own childhood and the times I spent trick or treating with friends on Halloween. Each card tells a story, my card’s story unfolds by using Fox Costumes Before n’ After stamp set and die. Foxes dressed up as a skeleton, a cupcake, and bear go trick or treating, along with chickens dressed up as a donut, a ghost and a witch, down a picket fence. Along the way they see a black cat and what appears to be a ghost in the tree. One has to think this can only happen on Halloween, when folks decorate.
I used black cardstock because I wanted to show how creamy Distress Oxide are. I also used Taylor Expression brushes to blend Distress Oxide. You can feel the colors of the night during a Halloween outing, knocking on doors begging for candy. Cracking Campfire, Spiced Marmalade, Blueprint Sketch and Cracked Pistachio were the colors used for the night sky. I also used Hydracolour handmade watercolors to fleck small iridescent specks onto the night sky.
When you think of Halloween, you think of candy. A shaker card would be fitting for card like this. At Michael’s, I found Recollections embellishments called Sprinkles Vermicelles and all I could think of was it looks like the sprinkles from a cupcake. Inside the window, I included stamps of lollipops, candy corns, and candy from the stamp set called Fox Costumes Before n Afters from Lawn Fawn. I found embossable plastic on Amazon called Judi Kins Embossable Window Plastic. This has been a game changer because you can not heat acetate much less emboss something on acetate. With Embossable Window Plastic I was able to emboss the words, ‘Happy Halloween’ on the front of the window.
Below is a list of supplies I used to make the halloween card. Affiliated links used when possible, at no cost to you.
