Divas by Design GDT - Spooky Creations

Hello Everyone!

It's time for another challenge at Divas by Design! This week the challenge is SPOOKY CREATIONS! I would love to see everyone share their spooky, creepy Halloween projects with us! I know you want to! lol

Here is my creation.

I have never made a Halloween card of any kind before, so I was really scratching my head when I first read the theme. But then I saw something that sparked my interest and creativity...it was a beautiful card by Nancy Dynes over at Frilly and Funkie. Their current challenge is A Haunting Halloween and I pulled my inspiration from Nancy's spectacular, elegant black and ivory shabby chic card. If you haven't been to visit Nancy at Tattered Treasures, I highly recommend you do, she will blow you away with her shabby chic elegance!

Thank you Nancy for being such an inspiration!

For the background I used a Prima Marketing Damask stencil and some home-made texture paste using DecoArt Ebony paint to make a coloured paste (texture paste tutorial...click here). While the paste was still wet, I sprinkled on some Ranger embossing puffs  and then heated it up to give the background a creepy, dusty feel and texture.

The flowers are cut from Joy Crafts Flower 4 out of Kraft card stock and edged with Tim Holtz distress ink Black Soot. A touch of Ranger embossing puffs here too.

The leaves are cut from Spellbinders Foliage and Cheery Lynn Leaf Set.

I had to pull a  MacGyver to make my image, as I didn't have anything that fit the size I wanted. I took the chandelier stamp from the BoBunny Welcome Home stamp set and put tape over the outer candles (there is actually 3 candles on either side of the base). Then I applied the ink to the stamp and pulled of the tape. The cobweb and spider came from an Inkadinkado stamp set. I drew the line down to the spider with a black fine tip marker! Voilà, spooky scene!

The middle layer was stamped using Graphic 45 - Harlequin stamp and Tim Holtz distress ink Black Soot. The sentiment is from Heartfelt Creations - All Seasons and also stamped with Black Soot distress ink.

I edged all of the panels with a bit of Tim Holtz distress ink Gathered Twigs and Vintage Photo and threw in a little more embossing puffs around the edges and corners.

Honestly, I never thought in a million years I would make a card with a spider on it! Brrrr, creepy! My spider came from the dollar store. It was just plain black plastic until I got my hands on him, now he's a stylish, shabby chic spider!

I am entering my card into the following wonderful challenges:

- Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog - A Haunting Halloween
- Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - #116 Halloween Sentiment
- Fab n' Funky - Challenge #231 - Halloween

- Creative Card Crew - Challenge #71 - Twine
- The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - Challenge #17 - D is for Distressing
- Card Makin' Mamas - Challenge #89 - Vintage or Shabby Chic

That's it for today. Thank you for stopping in and for all the amazing comments. I read and appreciate every single one! If you have any questions, please let me know.