TWO OLD BATS NOVEMBER CHALLENGE

Well, Halloween has just now passed and it's time to start on next year's cards - yes, I just said that! In this first card of the new Halloween Year, I chose to combine two of the quadrants for a single image of a cake with bats and ghosts.

 Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: November Anything Halloween

 

Because of the primarily vertical nature of the dies when combined, I determined that a slim line card style would work best, so I started by folding an 8" x 8-1/2" piece of black card stock into a 4" x 8-1/2" card. The cake die set is Simon Says "Fancy Cake Set" #S731, the ghost is from Trinity Stamps #TMD-088 "Boo Brew", and the bat trim on the cake is from Whimsey Stamps die "Dracula Going Batty" #WSD406. I cut a panel of black and white printed bat paper, matted it with black and white stripes, and glued it to the face of the black card. The paper was pretty busy, so I added a panel of vellum to cut back on the busy-ness, after heat embossing the sentiment at the bottom. I embossed a panel of orange card stock with a wood-grained embossing folder before die cutting the cake layers so that they would look like they were covered in thick icing and assembled the cake, cake stand, and trims and glued them over the ghost. I fussy cut three little candy corns for trim and created a #10 envelope out of coordinating paper.   

We had a HUGE response to our October challenge (no surprise there), so let's keep it coming! After 25 entries there will be a prize selected randomly, so everyone has a chance to win. Our challenge is always "Anything Halloween" so you're not bound to the inspiration board, but I always like using it. Have fun - check out all of the Design Team's inspirations and let us know what you think of our projects!