Check out this ghoulishly clever way to use your Halloween sentiments to create fun and unique paper.
Today’s ghostly greeting comes from our designer, Dominique who is showing us how to create our own patterned paper! Dominique said, “I like to do this with stamp sets that have a lot of phrases because you get a lot of variety in your design. This “Ghostly Greetings” set is perfect because you have a variety of fonts to choose from.” We really love what she did here, and think it makes this handmade card so unique and fun. Follow along to see how Dominique created her own patterned paper for Halloween.
How to make this card:
- For this background I will be using several phrases from the 36012 Ghostly Greetings stamp set. I am starting out with a piece of 4 x 5 1/4 sheet of white card stock. I am going to add a bit of double sided tape to the back go my sheet to secure it to my Misti. If you have a sticky mat for your Misti, you can use that and skip this step.
- Next, I am going to start placing down a few larger stamps on the cardstock. I’m being mindful to the fact that I will be adding more sentiments and using different colors and sizes along the way. Once I have those first few down, I am going to stamp them in what will be my most prominent ink color which is Apricot from the Color Fuse Set #2.
- Next I’m going to place down the next set of stamps that I also wanted to be Apricot.
- Moving on to the next smaller stamps, I am going to fit those into some of the smaller spaces.
- Mix in different colors as you build the sentiments on all parts of the paper. I will be alternating the colors between Fern, from Color Fuse Set #11, and black ink.
- Next take the largest die from 5500-02D Outside Scallop Frame Die and cut out a lime green layer that will frame the background.
- Cut out the bats and spiderwebs from black glitter paper using the 216-01D Bats and Spiderwebs Die
- Take a black A2 base and adhere the lime green scallop frame, then the patterned sentiment paper on top.
- This is where you can get creative and place the spider webs and bats around the card front however you want.
What a truly unique and fun card. We absolutely adore how this turned out and feel inspired to search through our existing sentiment sets to find ones that might work for other holidays as well. Creating our own patterned paper is such a fun way to spend the day in our craft room! We hope you love this as much as we do, and pin this project for future FallOWeen Inspiration.