October Pick of the Month - Creative Expressions Halloween with Cosmic Shimmer

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OCTOBER PICK OF THE MONTH - Creative Expressions Halloween with Cosmic Shimmer

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE - CREATE A Halloween Card

Craft Products Used

  • Coloured Card
  • Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder - White
  • Cosmic Shimmer Fluffy Stuff – Halloween Collection
  • Clear Embossing Ink pad
  • Versafine Black Ink Pad
  • Creative Expressions Halloween Stamps
  • Creative Expressions Halloween Paper Pad
  • Circle Nesting Dies
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Heat Gun
  • Double Sided Tape
  • Embellishments

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Step One

Cut your various coloured matt and layers ready to build your card and pop to one side.

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Step Two

Stamp your Halloween wreath onto some black card using an embossing ink pad and sprinkle over white embossing powder. Then use your heat gun to cure your powder.

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Step Three

Fussy cut around your wreath.

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Step Four

Take a piece of black card and die cut a circle (that's a similar size) then adhere the wreath to the die cut. Die cut a piece of white and orange card in increasing size of circles.

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Step Five

Using your Halloween fluffy stuff collection pop small blobs of colour around to wreath to look like baubles. Use your heat gun to puff up the fluffy stuff.

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Step Six

Using some black ink, stamp a couple of pumpkins onto some orange card and a bat onto some white card. Use the green fluffy stuff to cover the stalk on the pumpkins and the purple to cover the bat wings. Take your heat gun and puff up the fluffy stuff.

Then fussy cut around the images.

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Step Seven

Take a piece of the patterned paper from the pad and stamp a cobweb on two opposite corners with clear embossing ink. Then use then white embossing powder and cure with a heat gun.

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Step Seven

Stamp some spiders into the cobwebs using black ink and then pop a blob of black fluffy stuff onto the body of the spiders and heat set.

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Step Eight

Take a small scrap piece of black card and stamp a sentiment onto it using clear embossing ink. Then cover with white embossing powder and cure with heat gun.

Fussy cut around your sentiment, this will then sit on some foam pads in the centre of your wreath for dimension.

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Step Nine

Build your card together by sticking down the matt and layers. Use adhesive to stick flat or use foam pads to raise, depending on your choice.

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Step ten

Add your wreath to the centre of your card as the focal point and then pop the pumpkins and bats around to give extra detail.

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Step eleven

Add some gems and embellishments to add some extra detail if desired.

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Happy Crafting!!

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