Bwa Bwa Bwa! Happy Halloween!

Greetings! Not only is it World Card Making Day which you can celebrate by visiting Topflight Stamps' World Card Making Day Sale, it's also World Farm Animals Day. So what better way to celebrate than with a Halloween card? 

The star of my card is one of the adorable sheep from the super cute Baa Humbug Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Hobby Arts, who is wearing a witch hat from the Funny Accessories by Katzelkraft. A tree and tree branch became lightning from the Twisted Tree Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Darkroom Door on a stormy cloudy sky created with the Great Outdoors Stencil by Polkadoodles. The sentiment is from the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Baa Humbug Clear Polymer Stamp Set by Hobby Arts

Twisted Tree Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set by Darkroom Door

Funny Accessories by Katzelkraft

Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Heffy Doodle

Great Outdoors Stencil by Polkadoodles

Onyx Black VersaFine Ink by Tsukineko®

Black Blending Brush Set by Time For Tea Designs 

Public Service Announcement: Topflight Stamps has a wonderful sale in honor of World Card Making Day. There are loads of fabulous new products, so you should hop on over and check it out. 

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Grey Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Tuxedo Black, Danube Blue, Lulu Lavender, and London Fog Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

Emerald Green Achival™ Ink by Ranger Ink

Mowed Lawn and Black Soot Distress® Ink by Tim Holtz® for Ranger Ink

Shark White Atelier Fusion Ink by Ink On 3

Simply Sweet Rub-ons by Doodlebug Designs Inc.™

Copic® Markers: C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, YG21, YG23, BV13, BV17

Fine Tip White Uni Posca Acrylic Paint Marker by Mitsubishi Pencil Company

Cartoon Speech Bubble Die Set by Frantic Stampers

Stamping Platform
Repositionable Labels by Avery®
STAY-tion™ by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Post-It® Notes by 3M

Instructions:

1. Create an A2 card from grey cardstock. 
2. Cut a 4" x 5.25" piece from the same grey cardstock.
3. Use a distressing tool and/or scissors (or both) to distress the edges of the panel.
4. Sponge the distressed edges with Black Soot Distress ink and adhere to the card. Set aside.
5. Use magnets to secure a piece of white cardstock to the base of the stamping platform.
6. Choose the sheep you want to use from the Baa Humbug Clear Stamp Set*.
7. Use the clear index sheet from the Baa Humbug stamp set to determine where the sheep will be and where the Witch Hat should be stamped on the panel. 
8. Place the Witch Hat facedown on the clear index sheet and press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp. 
9. Lift the lid and remove the clear index sheet.
10. Ink the stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and stamp onto the image panel and onto a piece of repositionable label paper.
11. Place a Post-It Note over the base of the stamped Witch Hat.
12. Position the selected sheep stamp and place facedown onto the image panel so that the top of the sheep's head will be in the Witch Hat. 
13. Press the stamp platform's lid onto the back of the sheep stamp, lift the lid, and ink the sheep stamp with Tuxedo Black Memento ink.
14. Stamp the sheep onto the image panel and onto a piece of repositionable label paper.
15. Fussy cut the stamped label paper versions of the Witch Hat and the Sheep then place over their counterparts on the image panel.
16. Tear a piece of scrap paper and place horizontally over the sheep's hooves.
17. Starting at the top of the image panel, brush Danube Blue, Lulu Lavender, and London Fog Memento™ Inks over the Great Outdoors stencil.
18. Move the stencil downward and continue to brush the same colors of ink over the stencil under you've created a dark and stormy cloudy sky.
19. Remove the scrap paper and place the other side of the torn paper to cover the sky.
20. Flip the used torn paper from step 16 so that you have a clean-ish torn edge.
21. Brush Mowed Lawn Distress ink horizontally over the torn edge, moving the torn paper downwards until the bottom portion of the image panel looks like a green pasture.
22. Use the Emerald Green Archival ink with the grass stamp from the Baa Humbug Stamp Set to add grass for the sheep to eat.*
23. Remove the masks and color the images with Copic markers.
24. Use magnets to secure the image panel to the base of the stamping platform.
25. Position the branch from the Twisted Tree Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set*facedown on the top of the image panel.
26. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
27. Ink the stamp with Shark White Atelier ink and stamp.
28. Remove and clean the stamp.
29. Repeat Steps 25-28 to add more lightning strikes to the image panel.
30. Position the tree top rom the Twisted Tree Red Rubber Cling Stamp Set facedown on the top of the image panel.
31. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp and lift.
32. Ink the stamp with Shark White Atelier ink and stamp.
33. Remove and clean the stamp.
34. Repeat Steps 30 -33.
35. Remove the image panel from the stamping platform and heat set.
36. Use the Fine Tip White Uni Posca Acrylic Paint Marker to trace the lightning.
37. Set aside the image panel to dry.
38. Brush or sponge a scrap of white cardstock with Danube Blue, Lulu Lavender, and London Fog Memento™ Inks. Heat set.
39. Use magnets to secure the inked cardstock to the stamping platform.
40. Place the speech bubble die on the inked cardstock, then position the Happy Halloween sentiment, from the Classic Sentiment Clear Stamp Set, facedown.
41. Press the platform's lid onto the back of the stamp, lift the platform's lid, and remove the speech bubble die.
42. Ink the stamp with Onyx Black VersaFine ink and stamp. 
43. Remove the stamped cardstock from the platform and heat set.
44. Use the cloudy speech bubble die to cut the sentiment.
45. Use the rub-ons to add "Bwa Bwa Bwa" to the speech bubble die-cut.
46. Use Black Soot Distress ink to edge the speech bubble die-cut.
47. Edge the image panel with Black Soot Distress Ink.
48. Adhere the image panel to the reserved card front.
49. Adhere the speech bubble to finish the card.

Notes:

• The sheep from the Baa Humbug Clear Stamp set can be accessorized with the included hats or used with other accessory stamps and/or die-cuts. This makes this stamp set very versatile and not just for Christmas!
• When stamping the grass, use first and second generation stamping to add depth.
• The branch and the tree canopy from the Twisted Tree Red Rubber Cling Stamp do double duty as lightning strikes. 
• The tree canopy stamp could be stamped then heat embossed with white embossing powder to add additional interest.

Thanks for visiting today!