Monday 1 June 2020

Trick Or Treat Halloween Card

This card measures 6ins x 6ins and uses a pre-scored blank from a Hobbycraft card pack.
Trick Or Treat Halloween Card
I know it’s far toooooooooo early, but this card was a series of happy accidents that I have to admit to being quite chuffed with because when I started playing with the idea of a metal embossed skull I had no idea where I was going with it.
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As you know I very much like a Day of The Dead skull, I am just rubbish at drawing them, this, in my opinion, is a poor effort but I decided instead of relegating it straight to the bin, I would stick with it and colour it using a variety of fine and ultra fine Sharpie pens.
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Yuk, yuk, yukity, yuk, yuk, I really, really didn’t like it, but when I turned it over I found that I did!
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But what to do with it?  I originally thought shrine, but had no suitable frames for it and didn’t want to make one, so I then thought card.  So, I covered a card blank with a purple and black, spider and web Halloween paper and simply plonked the skull in the middle, that didn’t work.  Then I thought, hmmmmm what about “Trick or Treat” to the side using silvery glitter letters, in two different sizes? It worked!
Trick or Treat Halloween Card.
This quickly followed by the addition of some purple/fuchsia stars and a scattering of three white dots here and there, made using a white gel pen.  Woo hoo hoo I even felt a tiny bit of my mojo coming back, but there again, I do love the doing Halloween stuff, perhaps even more than Christmas sometimes, I think it is the colours.
I now need to put the card somewhere safe, as I might use it to hold Iris and Bertie’s invitation to Nanny’s annual Halloween party and sleepover.