Good Morning!
Today is my last Guest post with Just Us Girls Challenge for the month. Can you believe September is almost over? Still doesn't feel much like fall here, but I'm ready for it now. It still feels like hot, humid August not a week before October. I do have to admit, October is one of my favorite months -- it's cooler, leaves change, it's my birthday month, and Halloween! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I loved helping my kids create their costumes and taking them trick-or-treating. Now I love seeing everyone else's kids dress up. I'm also a big spooky, scary, creepy movie fan too.
And that is a nice lead in for my card this week, which is on the spooky side. This week's challenge is the Anything Goes Stencil week at Just Us Girls. I found a cool mummy stencil a few weeks back and it came in just in time for me to play with it for this challenge.
I inked up the stencil first using the colors Serene (a light purple), Pebble and Black Jack (for the eyes). Then I Versamarked the eyes and added glow in the dark emboss powder. See my photo below to see them "glow in the dark". I was going to leave it like that and just add the spiders, web and sentiment. However, I spied my sugar paste by Bo Bunny and decided to give my mummy a little more shimmer! It got a little rough around some edges when I peeled off the stencil, but I decided that added to the grungy creepiness a bit more and didn't sweat it. There are two more photos below where I tried to show the shimmer more. I cut several spiders so they would be bumped up. My web I cut in black cardstock and vellum and glued the vellum on top of the black not caring much if the glue showed through in spots, again for more creepiness.
The dark background doesn't help brighten the card up as much as I had hoped, but it also lends to the grungy, creepy, kind of old feel too.
Card Supplies:
Stamps: Sentiment - (Memory Box).
Paper: Neenah 110# Solar White;
Ink: Serene, Grape Crush, Pebble, Black Jack (CP Ink).
Extras: Mummy Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Spider die (Trinity Stamps); Web die (Studio Katia); Sugar Glitter Paste (BoBunny); Glow in the Dark emboss powder (Wow).
I'm thrilled you visited my blog. Have a creative day!
Come back soon! 💖
Nance
6 comments:
Fun Halloween stencil Nance! Cute card too! Thanks for guesting with us this month and making such great cards! Happy birthday soon!
Very fun spiders! Thanks so much for joining us at JUGS!
Nance, this is just creepy enough! The fact that it glows in the dark is even more fun. Thanks so much for guesting with us this month, it's been a pleasure having you! I hear Nicolas Cage's movie Longlegs is supposed to be a SCARY one. Love him, but don't know if I'll see this one!
OH WOW!!! Glow in the dark??? How fa-BOO-lous is this?!!! You've been a wonderful GD, Nance!
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ps remind me that you love a good scare while you're here - original Exorcist anyone?
This is my all time favorite Halloween card, Nance! Those glow in the dark eyes are so spooky! Then add the spiders and EEK! I hope you had as much fun making this as I have had looking at it and reading about it!
Your card is fantastic, Nance. I love that large mummy stencil and all the embellishments you added with the web and spiders. LOVE the glow in the dark eyes! How fun!!!!! It's been wonderful to have your designing with us, Nance. Thank you so much for your wonderful creations!
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