This Have a Hoot Halloween Card is the epitome of Halloween. It is cute and not scary, but it has all the elements you’d expect for Halloween. We have a spider and a spider web, bats, and a full moon, but still not scary.
I’ve always loved Halloween, but I like cute Halloween, not scary Halloween. I don’t like haunted houses or zombies with chain saws chasing me. They just give me nightmares. But I love Halloween. I love seeing all the little kiddos dressed up in their costumes. One of my favorite days of the year was at my youngest daughter’s elementary school (she’s in college now), they’d have a parade. All the kids and teachers would dress up and the parents would come to school to watch the parade. They would pick up classrooms as they would parade around the school and out around the grounds. The kids were so proud of their costumes. And it was so much fun! An
So lets get down to making this cute and not scary Have a Hoot Halloween Card.
Supplies for Have a Hoot Halloween Card
- Have a Hoot Bundle
- Basic Black Cardstock, 8½ x 5½”, scored at 4¼” + scrap for spider web and bats
- Cajun Craze Cardstock, 5 3/8 x 4 1/8″
- Whisper White cardstock, 5¼ x 4″, 4¼ x 3½”
- Blackberry Bliss cardstock, 5 1/8 x 3 7/8″
- Scrap of Mango Melody for Moon, punch out with 1 3/8″ circle punch
- Memento Black Ink Pad
- Sponge Dauber
- Alcohol Markers for Coloring
- Pumpkin Pie Blends Combo Pack
- Crumb Cake Blends Combo Pack
- Soft Suede Blends Combo Pack
- Black Blends Combo Pack
- Mango Melody Blends Combo Pack
- Old Olive Blends Combo Pack
- Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush
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Instructions
The first step is to cut out the openings in the Blackberry Bliss cardstock with the Peek a Hoot Dies that are part of the Have a Hoot Bundle. These cut out dies are all one piece so positioning them is a breeze. Run them through your Stampin’ Cut and Emboss Machine. Save the tag cut outs for another project. We want the sheet with the openings.
Next take the smaller of the two pieces of Whisper White cardstock and line it up against the back of the piece with the openings. Carefully, with a pencil, lightly mark the openings, so you’ll know where you need to place your stamped images.
With the sentiment, “Have a Hoot on Halloween”, I stamped it a little toward the bottom of my opening. This gives me a bit of room later to place a bat in the upper area of the window.
Coloring
Once you’ve made your pencil marks, you can stamp your images within the marks in black. Make sure your images are completely dry, then take a good eraser and erase your pencil lines.
With your alcohol markers or Stampin’ Blends, color your images. See the supply list above for the colors I used to color my images.
In order to tone down the stark whiteness of the Whisper White background of the cardstock, I took a sponge dauber dipped in my Memento black ink and carefully sponged around my images. I always started off the paper on a piece of scrap paper because I didn’t want to get a big black blob on my image. I just wanted a subtle graying of my background.
Once I think I have everything grayed down, I line it up with my Blackberry bliss layer to double check that I’ve grayed out everything I wanted to and touch up where needed.
Assembly
Punch out a 1 3/8″ circle from a piece of scrap Mango Melody. This will be your moon. Gray down the edges with your sponge dauber. Attach the moon to the upper left corner of your Blackberry Bliss layer. It will hang off. Cut off the over hanging parts and gray down the areas you just cut off. You need to do this before you go on to the next steps. It is much easier to place and cut your moon now than after you have it mounted.
Turn your layer to the back side and place dimensionals all around the openings and around the outside of the card. You should be liberal with your dimensionals as you don’t want your openings to sag. This is a perfect card to use our newer black dimensionals. Attach the stamped layer, making sure all the images are in the openings. Adhere these two layers to the Cajun Craze mat and all three to the black card base.
Punch or die cut bats out of basic black cardstock. Diecut the spider web from the Peek a Hoot Dies. Use your Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to add a bit of glitter to all of the above. You could even add glitter to your moon if you want. Adhere all of the bats and web to the front of the card. Remember to put one of the bats into the sentiment opening. That is why we stamped toward the lower area of the opening.
Inside of Card
The final step is to add an inside piece. It is hard to write on a black card base. Stark Whisper White was too bright for this card. So, I did the same thing with the inside that I did with the front. I took my sponge dauber and darkened the edges in a wind swept pattern before I adhered it down to the inside of my card.
And there you have it. A cute, not scary Have a Hoot Halloween Card. Check out the video below.
If you like this Have a Hoot Halloween Card, but need any supplies, you can click on any of the supplies named in the supply list. It will take you directly to the Stampin’ Up! store. If you live in the US and don’t have a demonstrator, choose me, Terri Aldridge, as your demonstrator. I’d be happy to help you in any way. Thanks and happy crafting!