Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Trick or Treat



My favorite thing about Halloween, is how cute all the kids look dressed up for trick-or-treating. So, that is what inspired this card that was for the S2G Twisted Thursday challenge 25 and for the make a Halloween card challenge at Die Cuts R Us. The catch was to use the sketch and a Halloween embellishment. I thought if you turned the sketch upside down, the circle element would make a great moon.I used some brayer techniques that I love trying to duplicate from Michelle Zindorf's blog (although she is the master - and I am just playing!)I cut the little witch with the cricut with A Child's Year cart (still my all time favorite!) The tree is stamped with a CTMH stamp (Spellbound). For it, I inked it in versamark, then black momento ink. Stamped the first generation, then moved it slightly and stamped a 2nd generation for the shadows. I embossed the entire tree and inked over it. I added black shard glitter glass from art glitter for the road and oversprayed the entire card with Tattered Angels tiger lily.

10 comments:

Carole Beath said...

Very very cute Halloween card. Thanks for playing along with the DCRU challenge.
Carole DCRU DT

Gwen's Busy Little Hands said...

Very cool card. The tree is my favorite element on this project. Love trees...The inking you did is very artist, lends a lot of depth to your card. Great job!

Smiles!
Gwen DT@DCRU

Cara said...

Hi, Gini! What a spooktacular card! I love the shadowing. Nice to have you join the DCRU DT challenge again!
Cara DCRU DT

Debbie said...

What a cool card! Love that tree and background coloring! Thanks for playing with us over at shirleys2girls Twisted Thursday! Hope to see you again!

Bumbles and Fairy-Tales said...

Beautiful Halloween card! I love the silhouettes! Very unique!!!
Great job! Thanks for playing along:)
~ margie (DCRUDT)

Sammye Jo said...

Gini- Such a great entry!!!!! Sammye Jo - www.62cards.blogspot.com
DCRU DT

Karolyn at Paper Therapy said...

Wow! Gini, this is oustanding!! Love the silhouette Halloween images, and your take on the Twisted Thursday sketch! You ROCKED this! Thanks so much for playing - I hope you'll join us again!!

Amber said...

Oh my goodness Gini, what a fabulous card! It looks like a painting! I'm going to have to try some of your amazing techniques.
Thanks so much for joining us again this week at DCRU!
Hugs
Amber

Justine said...

WOW this is such a fun card. love everything about it. Good luck in the drawing and I just posted our next Twisted Thursday sketch. Hope you will play with us again

Anonymous said...

i love halloween cards! you did such a wonderful job!!! good luck with both challenges.

sarabeth
dcru dt