I’m having a lot of fun with these sets from My Favorite Things, but I have to admit this spider is really starting to give me the creeps! This card was more work than it looks, but I do like how it turned out.
I stamped the lady and cake first onto a piece of the retired Stampin’ Up! Halloween Night spider web paper. (This image served as a guide for placing the pieces and provided an interesting background.) I stamped the image again onto the dotted patterned paper, positioning the stamp so the dress image did not cover any of the large dots on the paper. I cut out the dress, then stamped the dress dots onto the specific colored dots on the patterned paper, cut them out and adhered them to the dress. I stamped the lady again onto Whisper White cardstock, colored her arms with Creamy Caramel ink and cut them out individually. I adhered the left arm, then the dress, then the right arm, adding my sorry attempt at a bat tatoo…I needed a much finer point pen.
I stamped the cake part of the stamp onto the patterned paper, once again avoiding the big dots, cut this out and colored the icing black. Using a black 3-d gel pen, I added three dots across the center of the cake and drew in little legs (eek!) with the marker. I cut out the candles and flames and adhered them to the black background. The cake was then adhered using dimensionals.
Before cutting out the framed dress and cake, I stamped a spider in the corner, it’s legs hanging off the edge of the square. I traced his legs with a marker to make them a tad thicker, then cut around the edges of the box, cutting around the spider’s legs. I stamped the spider again onto white cardstock, cut out his body and adhered that over the body in the corner using a dimensional. I adhered the panel to a square of black cardstock for a bit more definition, then attached the assembled piece to the patterned paper and added the brads.
I pieced together the sentiment using both stamp sets, then decided I needed something else along that right side. SO…I stamped another spider, colored both bodies with the 3-d gel pen and added the “string.” (Yuck! I think I’ve had enough of this spider for a while.)
Lastly, I attached the finished piece to the 4 1/4″ square card.
Thanks for looking! Have a great day! 🙂 (I promise tomorrow’s post will be “normal.”)
Cardstock: SU Black, Whisper White
Patterned Paper: Daisy D’s World Bazaar Circles, SU DSP Halloween Night
Stamps: My Favorite Things “You Take the Cake” and “Fright Night”
Ink: SU Black, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Black Stampin’ Write marker, Sakura black 3-d glaze pen, black brads,
dimensionals, aquapainter
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