TRICK OR TREAT

Are you old enough to remember Caspar the Friendly Ghost? I'm not sure if he's been around lately or not, but I remember him vividly from my long ago childhood.

As soon as I saw the little ghost stamp in the September 2022 Paper Pumpkin kit, I immediately thought of Caspar. I know he doesn't really look like him, but he has just such a cute friendly face.

Digging through my stash of Designer Series Paper, I discovered this haunted house piece from several Halloweens ago. I thought that was perfect, that the ghosties could be flitting around from house to house.

In the stamp set, besides the cute ghost, there was another stamp that was a small group of bats. Interesting fact: Did you know that the proper name for a group of bats is a "cauldron"? How appropriate is that?!? 

Using a golden/orangish piece of cardstock on which to adhere the haunted house piece, I stamped in black ink the cauldrons of bats all around the edge. While you have to inspect it closely to discover that the black blobs around the edge are actually bats, I think it provided an interesting border.

Here you go, a tutorial to create a card like mine:

SUPPLIES:

White cardstock

Black cardstock

Gold/orange cardstock

Haunted House Designer Series Paper

Spooky Treats stamps, Paper Pumpkin, September 2022

Black ink

Die Cutting/Embossing Machine

Ornate Frames dies

Black crocheted trim

Stampin' Dimensionals

Paper Snips

INSTRUCTIONS:

Fold a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of black cardstock in half, creasing it well with a bone folder.

Cut a piece of gold/orange cardstock to 4" x 5 1/4". Using the bats stamp from the September 2022 Paper Pumpkin kit, stamp the bats haphazardly in black ink around the entire perimeter of this paper. Adhere this to the black card base.

Cut a piece of haunted house Designer Series Paper to 3 3/4" x 5" and adhere this to the bat-edged cardstock.

On scraps of white cardstock, using the ghost stamp from the same kit, stamp three ghosts in black nk. Fussy cut them. Add them to the DSP background, but leave the lower right corner ghostless.

On a scrap of white cardstock, stamp "trick or treat" from the Paper Pumpkin kit. Die cut it with a die from the Ornate Frames set.

Cut a 3-4" piece of black crocheted trim, fold it in half, and tape it to the back of the sentiment on the left side.Trim the ends to angles.

Use Stampin' Dimensionals to add this tag to the lower right corner of the card.

Cut another piece of the gold/orange paper to 4" x 5 1/4" and adhere it to the inside to make writing in the card easier than writing on the black. If you want to (I didn't) you could stamp the cauldrons of bats all around the edges of this piece too. If you did that, the bats would show up better as actual bats.

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Since you are like no other being ever created 

since the beginning of time, 

you are incomparable.

- Brenda Ueland -

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Ghostly

Smiles.