Double Challenge Tuesday - Too Cute to Spook

Today is a double challenge day - one for the sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches and the other for the color challenge at Splitcoaststampers.    My cards this week will also start off one of my favorite card making themes - Halloween!  Some people are Christmas card people or Valentine's Day.  For me - it's Halloween!  And I don't really send many Halloween cards.  I just like making them.

 

I will admit right up front I messed up a bit with the sketch.  After making the card I realized that the sentiment should have gone in the center.  That's what I get for not having the sketch right out in front of me when I made the card.  

The colors are a bit non-traditional for Halloween but I do like them - Pale Papaya, Soft Suede and Pear Pizzazz.  I like the softness of them with the very delicate look of these stamps.

This is a new set from Ellen Hutson.  This cute little ghost can be dressed up in various costumes but I left him as is for this scene.  Although it looks simple there was quite a bit of masking involved to get it all on one layer without die cutting.

To color, I used blender pens with the markers on an acrylic block.

Be sure to come back Thursday for another Halloween card!  And next month I'll have a new one every Friday (and possibly more for the weekly challenges - I'm challenging myself to make as many as I can!)

Products used:

• Stamps: Ellen Hutson - Essentials by Ellen Spooktacular by Julie Ebersole and Ghost Costumes by Julie Ebersole
• Dies: very old inside out circle dies (I think by The Stamps of Life)
• Ink / Markers:  MFT Hybrid Black Licorice, Stampin' Write Markers - Soft Suede, Pear Pizzazz and Pale Papaya

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