Art Impressions Blog: Spooky Holiday Mansion by Carol Hintermeier

Hello Ai fans!

I had so much fun turning the Holiday Mansion into a spooky (but not too spooky!) Halloween card! I used the Halloween pieces from the HM Accessory Set to make this card!

All of the images were stamped onto Neenah Solar White 80# paper with Copic safe ink. I colored them all with the Copics listed below. Then I used the included dies to cut them out. There isn't a die for the house, but it's so easy to fussy cut, which I did!

I cut a piece of Strathmore Bristol Smooth to 4" x 5-¼". I die cut a circle shape and added positioned the mask where it would be behind the house. I blended on some Distress Oxide inks with blender brushes. The colors I used are Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot for the sky. I added some water drops and then blotted them up with a dry paper towel after a few seconds. Then I added white spatters with some slightly diluted white gauche using a paint brush. The ground is Peeled Paint and Forest Moss with a bit of Black Soot around the edges. I removed the mask for the moon and added Fossilized Amber to it. I used a couple of light gray Copics to add the moon craters.

This little monster behind the door just makes me smile!! For the windows I used some vellum and stamped the googly eyes and spider webs onto it with StazOn black ink. I used a white gel pen on the reverse side and colored in the white of the eyes. On the left window, I filled in around the eyes with a black pen. After I glued the vellum pieces behind the openings, I added some thin foam tape to the back of the house and attached it to the background.

The sentiment is stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I die cut it out with a die from the Flag Double Stitched Dies.