Be afraid, be very afraid with Sara

Hi Bluebird Friends, Sara here!

Today it’s my turn over the Hello Bluebird Blog and I have a spooky card to show you, featuring some of the recent released items as well as some previous ones.

Since I am a cat lover, the Nine Lives stamp was one of my favorite from the recent release, and when I was searching the inspiration for a spooky card, I instantly thought I would have used one of those as a black cat over a pile of pumpkins. So, I looked into all my stamps and I got those:

Nine Lives stamp for the cat
Halloween Fun stamp for the sentiment and the small hat
Woodland Littles stamp for the smaller pumpkin of the pile
Autumn Days stamp for the larger pumpkin and the pumpkin with the mouse
Fall Banner Buddies stamp for the “wreath” leaves behind

I stamped all the selected stamps and I colored them using the Copics listed below:

Cat: N9 – N8 – N7 – N5 – N4
Hat: V09 – RV69 – RV66 – N8 – N6
Pumpkins: E18 – E08 – YR68 – YR15 – YR12 – YR21
Mouse: W5 – W4 – W2 – W1
Leaves: YG97 – YG95 – YG91

I then cut them using coordinating dies.

I wanted to keep the background very simple, with a light yellow moon over a white background. I used one of the Nesting Circle die to create a mask from a masking paper and I lightly blend the yellow ink. I then arranged all the items I wanted to feature in the scene and I positioned the second larger Nesting Deckle A2 Die in place to cut the background panel in the correct position. I used a mix of glue and foam tape to create the scene. I also stamped the sentiment at the bottom using Versafine Black ink (which is my favorite for detailed and small sentiments like this one).

To complete it, I decided to adhere some orange pearls here and there, I matted the panel twice, one with a slightly larger kraft cardstock and then with a 5,75″x4,5″ white panel. And here’s the finished result!