Happy halloween with Otis the moon

Hello and welcome, 

31 October, already. I can’t believe it. However, we don’t celebrate Halloween so much in Sweden, but I love to make for Halloween. This card is my last for this year, then over to Christmas making. 😊

I was fortunate to win this Otis die in the Tim Holtz addicts group on FB. So now over to the make: 

I started with the background, a piece of Distress Mixedmedia heavystock. Used my moon mask and some  Distress mica spray stains and Distress spray stain in Black soot. Using the technique Tim shows in his YouTube live demos.

I then used my stamping platform and stamped the corn branches from CMS451 The scarecrow, with Archival ink Black soot on the background. Then I stamped the webs from CMS346 Tangled webs with embossing ink and embossed with white embossing powder. I inked the edges of the card with Black soot Ditress ink. Stitched around the edges with my sewing machine. Then I cut “BOO !” with 665995 Bold text Halloween from the background. Inked a piece of Distress Mixed media heavystock white with some yellow tones of Distress oxide. I glued the yellow piece behind the cutout word. 

I cut all the pieces from 665998 Otis Colorize from White heavystock, then colored them in different yellow Ditress Oxide inks. Spritzed with water and finally inked the edges with Frayed burlap DI. He is such a cool character. I did the same with the star, and for the bat I used Black soot and Hickory smoke DOX. 

I cut out the people from an old Sizzlits die, “Halloween shadows” from Blackout Kraftstock and one piece from white heavystock. Then I colored the white piece with yellow Distress Oxides. Glued them together a little bit offset for a shadow. I cut another piece from white heavystock, sprayed with Distress Mica spray stains and then stamped “ by the light of the moon” text from The scarecrow stamp set with Black soot Archival ink. 

I mounted the moon, the star, the people and the text on 3D foam and adhered them to the card. The bat is glued directly to the background. I used a thin black pen for the eyes on the bat, and for a shadow on his wings. 

The background is mounted on a piece of yellow sanded Kraftstock, then inked the edges with Frayed burlap. The next layer is a piece of sanded Blackout Kraftstock. These layers are adhered with 3D foam between. Then glued to a card blank. 

For you who celebrate Halloween, a Happy Halloween from me and Otis🌛.

Thank you very much for visiting my blog, 

/Susanne