COME & SIT FOR A SPELL

While I do two cards a month for my Design Team responsibilities on Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, you would think that by the time October rolls around I would have enough cards to send out to friends and family. However, that's not the case, so I need to fill in a few more by the middle of October. Enter Sunday and this week's challenge at The Paper Players! It's the talented and lovely Anne Marie's turn to host this week and she's come up with a great sketch for us. 

The Paper Players: PP659 - A Sketch Challenge from Anne Marie

I decided to use her sketch for an additional Halloween card. I started by punching blood drips from a strip of green paper and adhering it to the bottom of a top-folded black card base. Above this went a stripe of printed paper with the sentiment and spiders in orange, green, and purple and two purple strips above. I masked off the bottom half of the card and stamped a Tim Holtz spider web. The bottom green stripe looked a bit too plain, so I added another stripe of purple, black, and white bats from the same sheet of Graphic 45 as the sentiment, directly on the green panel to balance out the purple top half. The chair is a rubber stamp from Unity Stamp Company (#IB-121 "Spooky Chair"), stamped in black and fussy cut. I attached it to the face of the card with dimensional foam and finished with punching a hole in the right side of the sentiment and threading black embroidery floss through. I would have liked a darker and clearer image on the chair because you can't see the seat has "spooky" repeated across the width of the seat. Oh well.

The rest of the team has shared some great ideas, so visit their blogs and let them know how much you appreciate them!