SKILLFUL STAMPING: It is Scary Stampin' Today

It should not be this easy to make a card. I wanted something that was not so time consuming for you. There are days when I like to be creative and take forever on a card and there are other days when I have very little time but yet have to get a card to someone. So with that in mind. This card is for you.

If you ever needed to invest in two bundles, may I suggest Banner Year and Lovely You. They both come with tag punches that use up your left over strips of cardstock and have various uses between the two of them. You will have seen me use them and see more goodies :0)

This is a standard card size of 5 1/2" by 4 1/4" in Basic Gray. I used a die from So Sentimental a rectangle and Ornate Layers and one from Have a Hoot....the spider web. I also used the Banner Year Pick a Punch.

1. Cut five 1/2" strips in varying lengths in leftover Whisper White cardstock and lay them out in different lengths with their edges touching each other. Stamp the bat in Memento black ink and in Smokey Slate. Grey Granite for the webs. Splattered Rich Razzleberry and Memento black ink on top of everything with an Aqua painter.

2. In Rich Razzleberry cardstock I die cut a rectangle from the So Sentimental bundle and glued down the stamped white bat strips in a hodge podge manner. This was then glued on top of an Ornate Layer which was glued to the front of the card base. I did adhere two spider webs to the card as well. Use the picture as a reference.

3. Boo was stamped in Versa ink and heat embossed with White Embossing powder. I did this on a 1/2" piece of Rich Razzleberry which was then layered on a piece of 3/4" Black. Follow the grooves in the Punch tool to make the notches in the cardstock.

The most work is the die cutting. The rest is fairly simple.