Art Impressions Blog: Spooky Fun w/ Stenciling and Glitter Paste by Lynn Dionne

Happy Wednesday Ai Fans!!!

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Today we will be creating a spooky fun card using some beautiful glitter paste! But first, we will select some gray cardstock and apply some Distress Oxide Inks in Hickory Smoke and Black Soot. Sometimes it is fun to switch out your cardstock background colors when doing your stenciling and these two colors on the gray cardstock will give us a great look!

To set the scene, let's add some clear glitter paste over the top of the stencil. This will pick up a bit of the black and gray and add a perfect sparkle to our spiderweb. We can set this aside to dry...but be sure to take a little bit of time to clean off all of your tools and stencils right away!

Next, we will be using the new Ai Spooky Crew Set (5934). This set has several critters popping out of pumpkins as well as a spooky tree, cottage, and several coordinating sentiments. We will be using the little cat today but any of these would work great for this card design.

Let's go ahead and stamp, color and die cut all of the images. For the coloring we will be using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Sugared Almond Pink, Orange, Scarlet Red, Pale Green, May Green, Deep Violet, Beige, Mid Brown, Lt Gray, Dk Gray.

Before we add the stenciled background to the card, we will wrap some pretty purple twine around and tie it into a bow.

Next, we will die cut a black frame using the Journal Oval Frames Dies (5588) and for the inside of the frame we will use the purple and gold star paper from the Ai Halloween S2 Paper Pack (5849).

Let's assemble the card using some double-sided tape and pop up the framed cat using some 3D Foam Squares.

Now we can add a few sparkly stars and pretty sequins to this front panel, and this will just bring everything together nicely!

As a final step, let's lightly stencil the inside of the card and add a sentiment that says, "Wishing you a spooktacular Halloween!" and the spooky tree that we had previously colored and die cut. This will finish off the inside of the card perfectly. We can also add the "Spooky" sentiment to the front of the card!

Here is another card that I had previously done using this fun new stamp set: