Eerie Trick or Treat Card

Trick or Treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat.  Isn’t that the way the children’s Trick or Treat rhyme goes?  I don’t know about the ‘smell my feet’ part but I love a Halloween card filled with bats and haunted houses and other ghoulish things.

This card’s main focal point is the Halloween scene.  The scene was primarily created using the components from the Haunted Hollow Die Set by Penny Black and a sky colored with distress inks.

To make the card, I used a piece of Neenah Solar White 110lb. cardstock to serve as my backdrop for the sky, then added a graduating color  background with a blending tool and distress inks. Starting from the bottom of the panel and working my way up, I used Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Chipped Sapphire and finally Seedless Preserves.  To add a little extra drama, I added Seedless Preserves using a cloud masking sheet (coming soon to our store) and a blending tool until I got some areas of deep purple.

Starting from the bottom of the panel and working my way up, I used Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Chipped Sapphire and finally Seedless Preserves.  To add a little extra drama to the sky, I added Seedless Preserves using a cloud masking sheet and a blending tool until I got some areas of deep purple. The sprinkled it with droplets of water, let them sit for a few seconds (I am so impatient!) and dabbed the water off.  This created the lighter dots on the sky. After the sky coloring was finished, the panel was cut with the largest die in the Wonky Stitches Elle-ments by Avery Elle.

To complete the scene, the background trees and ground were cut from black cardstock and Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Tree Borders. The house, fence and the larger tree in the foreground were cut from gray cardstock using the Penny Black’s Haunted Hollow die set, then smudged with Black Soot distress ink.  The moon was cut from a scrap of shiny gold paper. Then, of course, there are those bats… they were simply drawn with a mechanical chalk pencil and cut out of black card stock.  I love my chalk pencil!!! It is so handy. You can draw on dark surfaces and not indent the paper, drawing thin lines to be used as guidelines, and it is super easy to erase or you can leave it on like I did with the bats.

We didn’t have the Impression Obsession Pumpkin Patch die set at the time I was making this card so I hand cut them out of a scrap of orange card stock, drew faces on a few of them and embellished the color with distress ink.

Assembly was pretty straight forward.  I only ‘popped up’ the house, a few pumpkins and a few bats with foam tape.  The rest were adhered down with the ATG tape gun.  This front panel was mounted onto a slightly larger orange card stock and then mounted again onto a slightly larger piece of black card stock. The whole panel was mounted onto a green card stock card base. By the way, if you look closely, you see that very thin clouds and a few black stars were added.  The thin clouds were made from vellum and smudged with Black Soot distress ink and the black stars are the tiny round dot centers of black sequins.

The last was to add the “Trick or Treat” sentiment.  I really wanted the sentiment to have an eerie feel so I wrote it with a white gel pen and added little wood grain lines with the chalk pencil.  The beauty of this kind of writing is it is meant to be crude or you really can’t go wrong!

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