Beware! A Halloween Card

Greetings! My card was created for Day Four of the Lost Coast Portal of Creativity's 31 Days of Halloween Challenge. I used the Clown with Balloon stamp by Lost Coast Designs and the Medium Keyhole stamp from Carmen's Veranda. 

Here it is!

Products Used:

Clown with Balloon Rubber Stamp by Lost Coast Designs

 Medium Keyhole Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

140 Lb. Mixed Media Paper by Strathmore

Light Grey Cardstock 

Tuxedo Black and London Fog Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Stormy Sky and Dusty Concord Distress Ink by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Lightning Black Brilliance Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Clouds Stencil by Virginia England

Time Tunnel Stencil by Visible Image

Copic Markers: 

Clown: T0, T1, T2,T3, W00, W0, E40, BG90, G0000, YR12, YR15, YR16, YR18, R22, R24, R35, R39

Keyhole: Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Yellow and Red Triplus Fineliner Pens by Staedtler

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura of America

Black Multiliner by Copic

Woodgrain MBossabilities

Red Alphabet Rub-ons by Doodlebug Designs

Halloween Idea-ology Remnant Rubs by Tim Holtz for Advantus

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of pale grey 12x12 cardstock to 10" x 7", score at 5", and fold to form a 5" x 7" card. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Medium Keyhole twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
3. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version on the inner outline of the keyhole.
4. Place the sticker paper over its cardstock counterpart to mask the outside of the keyhole while keeping the center open.
5. Place the clouds stencil towards the top of the opening of the keyhole.
6. Sponge or brush Stormy Sky then Dusty Concord Distress inks over the stencil onto the cardstock. 
7. Rotate and move the stencil downward.
8. Sponge the same inks over the stencil onto the cardstock.
9. Repeat this process until the opening in the keyhole was filled with a stormy cloudy sky. 
10. Place the Time Tunnel Stencil over the opening of the keyhole.
11. Sponge London Fog Memento Ink over the stencil onto the cloudy sky in the keyhole, sponging heavily in the center of the tunnel and lighter as the tunnel goes outwards.
12. Remove the repositionable sticker mask.
13. Use Copic markers to color the outside of the keyhole to look like brass.
14. Fussy-cut the keyhole and edge with a dark marker. 
15. Use red alphabet rub-ons to add a sentiment to the bottom of the opening of the keyhole.
16. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Clown with Balloon onto white cardstock.
17. Fussy-cut the clown, color him with Copic markers, and edge with a black pen. 
18. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp just the balloon area of the Clown with Balloon several times onto white cardstock.
19. Fussy-cut the balloons and color them with Copic markers.
20. Use a white gel pento add highlights to all the balloons. 
21. Set the colored Clown and balloons aside.
22. Use Lightning Black Brilliance Ink, a brassy metallic ink, to ink a piece of mixed media cardstock to look like an escutcheon. 
23. Trim the panel, edge with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink, and heat set.
24. Use Halloween Idea-ology Rub-ons to add sentiments to the upper left of the panel.
25. Mist a 5" x 7" panel of light grey cardstock (left from Step 1) with water. Place it into the wood-grain embossing folder, and run it through the die-cut machine.
26. Adhere the embossed panel to the reserved 5" x 7" light grey card, and edge the card with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink.
27. Adhere the Clown with Balloon and his extra balloons  to the Keyhole as shown. 
28. Adhere the keyhole to the brass escutcheon, then adhere the escutcheon to the wood paneled card.

I sure hope you play along with the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's 31 Days of Halloween Challenge!

Thanks for visiting today!