This card measures 6ins x 6ins and uses a pre-scored blank from a Hobbycraft card pack.
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.
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.
Yuk, yuk, yukity, yuk, yuk, I really, really didn’t like it, but when I turned it over I found that I did!
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!
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.
