Skull Stencil Card

We are just 10 days away from the start of autumn and of course that also means that the Spooky Season is coming soon too! My grandchildren have turned me from someone who hid on Halloween from the Trick or Treaters to someone who decorates the porch, lights a pumpkin and greats them now with sweets and a huge smile. I honestly love Halloween and last year ran out of sweets as we had so many callers at our door.

So I thought today would be a good time to get you thinking about some fun Halloween makes. The card I am sharing really did make me giggle as I made it. It was made for the recent HobbyMaker TV show, which you can still catch up on via YouTube.

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Tutorial

I used a piece of inked card from my stash. This piece was made using lumberjack plaid, scorched timber and lost shadow distress inks.

I placed the skull shadow stencil near the top and blended black soot distress ink through the eyes and mouth and a little way around the skull.

I stamped the Trick or treat sentiment from Happy Halloween onto scraps of white card in black ink and distressed the edges with a distressing tool. I did the same to the edges of the card. I edged the sentiments with candied apple distress ink allowing it to get messy with my fingerprints as this all adds to the fun Halloween look.

I stuck the sentiments in place. Next I used a pipette and sucked up some ink from a bottle of candied apple spray stain. I then applied the ink as dripping "blood" from the underside of the sentiments and around the skull.

I left the stain to dry overnight and then cut to size. I matted the card onto red glitter paper and then onto a black card blank.

I hope my card wasn't too ghoulish for you. You can obviously leave the dripping blood off if you prefer but for me the more Hammer Horror the better!

Jane x

Products Used

Skull Shadow Stencil

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Happy Halloween Stamp Set

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