Oh No! Somebody got stuck in the candy jar! Better turn on the lights!
BetterThe first thing I did for this card was foil a piece of blue cardstock using silver glimmer foil and the Starfield Letterpress plate. I also used two of the Clean Cut Layers Rectangle: A-2 Set A to cut out a frame from glitter cardstock.
My ghosts for this card are stamped and heat embossed with black powder on vellum. Since the ghosts are suspended between the candy jar and the outside frame, I needed to fortify the vellum paper. I stamped, heat embossed and die cut them from one layer of vellum paper. I adhered wide double sided adhesive tape to another piece of vellum and then used the dies to cut another layer. Although I could have just adhered to two pieces together and then stamped and cut, I wasn't sure how the vellum and adhesive would respond to the heat tool, plus, I needed to add a small piece of acetate to the ghost that is in the jar. I wanted him suspended in there.
When I make shaker cards that have a details shape, I like to make the "well" portion from layers of cardstock cut with the die. I used the die to cut out 8 pieces. I glued 5 together, set them aside and glued the other 3 together with a piece of acetate cut to size on top. I glued the ghost with the acetate between the two. This make the ghost appear to be suspended in the jar. I also used the stamp with silver embossing powder for the top layer of the jar.
Before I glue on my shaker pieces, I want to finish decorating the foiled cardstock and place the light on the back. I just laid my one candy jar piece where I would be eventually gluing it and then glued stars that I had cut from the glitter cardstock around the outside of the jar. For the inside of the jar I glued stars where I wanted the lights to show through.
Once the glue on the stars dried, I used my pokey tool to poke holes in the starts that were going to have lights shining through.
On the backside of my background, I placed and taped my lights in the three openings and adhered my battery piece in the lower left corner making sure that it was inside the glittered frame.
With the lights and the button in place, I placed a spider that was cut using a die from the Halloween Cut Dress Up Die Set that was embossed with the word "push" from the Papercrafting Magic Stamp Set on the front left corner.
I adhered foam tape on the back of the background piece to give the button some clearance to be pushed from the front. I peeled the protective tape off and adhered to to a card base made from 5.5" x 8.5" scored at 4.25".
Next I finished the candy jar by gluing it to the background, filling the well with some Spooky Sweets Embellishment pieces. I sealed up the jar with the piece that had the acetate on it but left the the stamped and heat embossed layer off. That is really important because it need to be on to of the glitter frame.
I put 1/4" foam tape around the outside of the card and adhered the frame on top. The ghosts are then glued onto the candy jar. Vellum does not play well with liquid glue, it shows through, so I used double sided adhesive to attach them. I don't have good luck with adhesive tape on glittered cardstock, so I tucked my ghosts behind the fame at the contact points.
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