You're The Spooky To My Jam!

 

Hello!  Halloween is definitely my jam.  This card was created with a few Trinity Stamps dies and of course one of their adorable Halloween Gnomes.

To create the shaker element of this card, I used the Half Pint Jar Stamp and Coordinating Die Set.  I stamped the jar image on a piece of cardstock and I used the die from the set to cut out the solid jar shape.  I use this shape to create a mask to color the jar using my Copic Marker Airbrush system.  I drew a pencil line on the jar where I wanted the jam to be in the jar and where I wanted the jar to be empty.  I used B00 to color the top of the jar and I used YG06 and YG07 to color the jam in the jar.  

Once I had it colored, I used the coordinating die that cuts the inside opening to cut my jar.  

I cut a solid jar from black cardstock and then glued 8 cardstock pieces on top to create my well.  I will also glue the inside of the jar that I colored.  

I wanted to have some spooky elements in my jar, so I used the dies from the Scream & Sugar Mug Add On and the Pumpkin Candy Bucket Die Set. I placed them in the jar trimming the pieces as necessary and glued them down well so that the shaker elements won't get stuck on or behind the edges.  I sprinkled in my little elements and then sealed it with a piece of acetate cut using the solid jar die. I carefully glued the stamped jar on to making sure not to get glue on the window opening because that is really hard to clean off.

To add another fun element to my card, I cut some bats out of black cardstock and glued them to thin strips of acetate.  I used my craft knife to cut openings between the "well" layers and then glued the bat strips in the openings.  The bats were cut using the dies from the Oh So Spooky Gnomes die Set.

For the card background, I lightly inked white cardstock using Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide Ink and then used the Halftone Texture Stencil with the same color of ink.  

I cut the stenciled cardstock to 5.25" x 4.0" and glued it to a purple cardstock base.  I made the base from cardstock cut to 5.5" x 8.5" and scored at 4.25".  

For the sentiment, I combined words from This Calls For A Toast for make "You're The" and "To My Jam".  

I added a few spiders and sprinkles to finish up the card along with a the little Fa-boo-lous Gnome that I had left over from another project.

I hope that you have enjoyed following along in the process of making this card and might have been inspired to create one of your own.  I also have a link to my YouTube process video below if you want more details.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Sandy