Art Impressions Blog: NEW Art Impressions Halloween w/ Moonlit Midnight Sky by Lynn Dionne

Happy Wednesday Ai Fans!!!

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I'm so happy to be showing you this brand-new Ai Pumpkin Parade Set (6112) that includes several little critters all dressed up for Halloween and it also includes several coordinating sentiments and some fun candy elements as well as the coordinating dies! Today's card was also inspired by the current Ai "In the Navy" Blog Challenge with our midnight blue sky and borders!

Let's set the stage for our little spooky critters by creating a moonlit sky! To do this we will die-cut a stitched rectangle from some smooth cardstock. We will create the moon using a two-part moon stencil, one is a solid circle, and the other provides some details to the moon.

We will place the solid circle mask onto the cardstock and start with some ink blending around the moon using the Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks in Tumbled Glass, Chipped Sapphire, Villainous Potion and Black Soot.

Next, leaving the mask in place we can add some stars using a stencil and some clear glitter paste. Some of the ink from under the stars will bleed up into the glitter paste for a really pretty look! Let's also add some additional sparkle using the Wink of Stella Clear Glitter.

Let's remove the circle mask and add the additional detail to the moon with the second stencil and some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink in Hickory Smoke.

Now we can color and die-cut the critters and color them using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Sugared Almond Pink, Yellow, Orange, Gray, Gray Brown, Mid Brown, Sand, Beige, Dk Oatmeal, Lt Gray.

Now that the stenciling is dry we will die-cut a few borders from some navy-blue cardstock, this will tie in nicely with the dark blue and purple sky! We can ink the edges of the borders using that same Black Soot ink that we used on the blended sky.

We can add the borders using some foam tape and add all of our cute trick-or-treaters. I thought it would be fun to fussy cut some candy corn using the Ai Halloween S2 Paper Pack (5849) and add them to the Halloween buckets and also have it look like the owl is sprinkling some of the candy around as he flies near the moon!

For the sentiment we will use a label die with rounded corners from the Ai Journal Template Die Set (5543) and stamp a sentiment from that same stamp set. Let's also ink this with some more Chipped Sapphire ink!

For a finishing touch, we will add some pretty sparkly gems!