Simply Spooky

Here's my card for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge to make a Halloween card without any orange. I turned to my Sweet Spooks set from Market Street Stamps for this fun and orange-free Halloween card.

I built a spooky night time scene on a gray cardstock panel. The bottom of the panel has two wavy edged strips of striped green paper as grass. I machine-stitched along the tops of the strips to add some definition to them. For the big yellow moon, I cut a circle from the panel using a circle die. A piece of dot embossed vellum is set behind the open circle, with a yellow panel placed behind that to give a yellow glow.

I stamped the bat from the Sweet Spooks set on white cardstock and colored it with Copic markers, then cut it out and set it on the scene with dimensional dots. A few self-adhesive pearls are scattered around as stars. The set's "spooky" sentiment is stamped just underneath the moon in a sparkly silver ink. Spooky, but not too spooky, right?

from i {heart} papers: Market Street Stamps Sweet Spooks stamp set, X-Press white Copic blending cardstock, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic markers (V01, V04, V06, V09), My Mind's Eye Lime Twist-Life of the Party 6x6 paper pad, Spellbinders circle die, Lifestyle Crafts Polka Dots embossing folder, Zva Creative self-adhesive pearls, Sticky Thumb dimensional dots

other: Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, and Basic Gray cardstock (Stampin' Up!); white vellum (The Paper Company) Encore Silver ink (Tsukineko); sewing machine