The Spooky Season

Hello Crafty Friends! Happy Halloween! It's Laurie here! I am sharing The Spooky Season using Scary Doll Owen and Scary Doll Emma by Paper Nest Dolls as my Design Team Inspiration Card. I couldn’t resist squeaking in one final Halloween card!

The Details of My Card

For my card, I had to do some research! I’m not a big horror fan. So, I had to google what these characters were and colour them according to the photos online. Lol! I used my Copic markers to colour them and added Glossy Accents to the shovel and the knife. Also, I added silver gelly roll pen to all the metallic trim on Emma’s jacket.

Since I had two stamps to place on my card, I decided to create a slimline card, but I thought it would be fun to use the tag “Tis the Season to be Spooky”. So, I brushed Black Soot along the edges to give it a distressed feel. Next, I added a black mat to the tag and rubbed Brushed Iron wax on the mat, the die cut gates, and the mat of my card to tie them all in together. Once I did that, I placed my sentiment sticking above the card with an iron gate on either side of it with my characters layered in front.

I love the oval dies that I used for the black mat and the Skull and cross bone paper! Such a fun and interesting shape!

For embellishments, I used several bats and black rhinestone stickers, as well as a spider trinket that I placed over the printed spider on the tag. The only other thing that I added was the reverse “Scary” word to the tag. It summed up my card perfectly!

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Copic Markers:

Scary Doll Owen

Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/E04

Hair: E18/E08/YR18/YR14

Overalls: B99/B97/B95/B93/B91

Reds: R29/R27/R24/R22

Stripes: B95/B91/YG63/YG61/YG03/B39/B37/R29/R27/R24/R22

Shoes: R29/R27/R24/R22/C3/C1/0

Shovel: C6/C4/C3/C1/E18/E15

Scary Doll Emma

Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/E04/R20

Hair: E53/E51/E50

Jacket: C9/C7/C6/C4

Dress: C3/C1/0

Boots: C9/C6/C4

Knife: C6/C4/C3/C1/E18/E15

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Card Recipe for The Spooky Season:

Scary Doll Owen and Scary Doll Emma, Paper Nest Dolls

Paper Basics - Stamper's Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink

Fright Night 12” x 12” Collection Pack, Photo Play Paper

#9 Slim Stitched Box Oval Dies, Photo Play Paper

Tim Holtz Gate Keeper Thinlits Dies, Sizzix

Reverse Cut Halloween Words, Frantic Stamper Inc.

Brushed Iron Metallique Wax, Art Alchemy

Black Soot Ink, Ranger

Blending Brush, Stampin’ Up!

Bat Stickers, Recollections, Michaels Arts & Crafts

Black Rhinestone Stickers, Recollections, Michaels Arts & Crafts

Spider Trinket, Stampin’ Up!

Glossy Accents, Ranger

Silver Gelly Roll Pen, Sakura

Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 3 ½” x 8 ½”

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Hope you like my Design Team Inspiration Card using Scary Doll Owen and Scary Doll Emma for Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,

Laurie

Scary Cute Halloween Card

Hello Crafty Friends! It's Laurie here! I am sharing my Scary Cute Halloween Card using Vampire Ellie by Paper Nest Dolls as my Design Team Inspiration Card.

The Details of My Card

For my card, I had so much fun colouring Vampire Ellie with my Copic markers! I knew that I wanted to give her black hair and decided to go with a ghoulish green and red since she is a vampire. I made her skin a bit lighter by not using E04 for my shadows to give her a deathly pallor. Lol!

For the balloons, I went with an ectoplasm green like in Ghostbusters and a black for the bat. I used my white gelly roll pen to make bat’s fangs stand out and for the highlights on both balloons. The balloons also had glossy accents add to them to make them look like real balloons. Star Dust Stickles were added to the red bows and red trim of her dress. 

I decided to create a mini slimline card since I wanted to create a spooky graveyard scene with my dies. Of course, if you have a vampire, you must have a moon dripping blood! Lol! So, I stamped the blood drips first before die cutting the moon out. That way the craters on the moon die did not cause voids in the stamped dripping blood. Next, I brushed Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink around the edges of my moon to make it glow.

Then, I die cut the graveyard in Basic Black and Basic Gray to help differentiate the two layers. Don’t you love how the spooky sky and moon show through the gate to the graveyard!

For the sky, I went with some spooky green skulls paper to match my colouring. Plus, they reminded me of all the ghosts in the graveyard.

A couple of black glimmer bats add some sparkle to the sky. The “Scary” sentiment was die cut from red glimmer paper to match my red colouring.

Finally, the finishing touch was a scattering of red rhinestones and black sequins to match my colour scheme.

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Copic Markers:

Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/R20

Hair: N10/N8/N6

Greens: G29/YG67/YG17/YG03

Reds: R39/R37/R35R32

Shoes/Bat Balloon: N10/N8/N6

Skulls: C3/0

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Card Recipe for My Scary Cute Halloween Card:

Vampire Ellie, Paper Nest Dolls

Paper Basics - Stamper's Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink

Kelly Panacci Halloween Designer Mat Pad, K & Company

Red Glimmer Paper, Stampin’ Up!

Black Glimmer Paper, Stampin’ Up!

Boneyard Edgers Dies, Frantic Stamper Ins.

Full Moon Dies, Lawn Fawn

Reverse Cut Halloween Words, Frantic Stamper Inc.

Bat Punch, Stampin’ Up!

Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink, Ranger

Blending Brush, Stampin’ Up!

Ghoulish Grunge Stamp Set, Stampin’ Up!

Cherry Cobber Ink Pad, Stampin’ Up!

Metallic Sequin Assortment, Stampin’ Up!

Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Stampin’ Up!

Glossy Accents, Ranger

Star Dust Stickles, Ranger

White Gelly Roll Pen, Sakura

Basic Black, Very Vanilla and Basic Gray Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 3 ½” x 6”

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Hope you like my Design Team Inspiration Card using Vampire Ellie for Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,

Laurie