Trick or Treat

 

It’s time for my Visible Image Design Team post and this week’s theme is Halloween and my brief is CAS - clean and simple.  I’m using the lovely pumpkins from the Happy Halloween stamp set as I don’t really use them at any other time.  Maybe I should try to remedy that?!

I wanted to speed up the colouring of the pumpkins so decided to experiment and use black card for them. First, I used Versamark to stamp and clear heat-emboss the small pumkin.

Covering the small pumpkin with a mask, I stamped and clear heat-embossed the large pumpkin.

For the colouring, I used Finetec watercolour metallic paints in orange for the pumpkin and green for the stalk.  The embossing resists the paint so you don’t have to be super careful about not going over the lines.  Once the paint had dried, I quickly fussy cut the pumpkins.

For me, a CAS card has to have a reasonable area of blank space, in this case white, but I didn’t care for leaving it all blank.  I blended some Villainous Potion Distress Oxide ink around the bottom right corner and then blended some Memento Tuxedo Black ink thought the Graffiti stencil over the top, allowing each of the colours to fade at the edges.  The sentiment was stamped in Versafine Clair Monarch and clear heat-embossed.

I matted the panel onto black and then onto a white square that I had blended Villainous Potion around the edges so that it would match.  These were then mounted onto a black 5¾” square card blank.

To make the pumpkins stand out a little more, I attached them using thin black foam tape.  I really like making the pumpkins on black card; it gives them a more spooky look!