Let's Get Spooky with Graveyard Gate Bundle for As You See It Challenge

Probably once or twice a year, I give a nod to Halloween and go all out with a scary card, and since As You See It Challenge has a Scary Theme Challenge out today, and since I'm on the Design Team, I thought that this would be the best time to go big and pull out my Graveyard Gate Bundle! Take a look at the As You See It Challenge Banner for this week:

And, it just so happens that my friends over at The Paper Players are also have a SPOOKY theme challenge this week:

Now, theirs is a Clean and Simple challenge, which my card definitely isn't, so I don't know if I qualify, but what the heck! 

Take a really close look at this card because there are so many details inside it that it will take a lot of looking to see everything:

• This happens to be a reverse Center Step card, where you step the center panel, not the outside edges. I wanted to create depth for the graveyard in front of which to put the gate.  To accomplish that I cut a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of cardstock down both long sides 3/4" from the edge from 1" to 7 1/2".  Then I scored across all pieces at 4 1/4" and just across the center panel at 1", 2", 3 1/2", (already scored at 4 1/4"), 5", 6 1/2", and 7 1/2". Fold those in mountain/valley folds consecutively all along. This gives you some steps to add the gravestones and backdrop to. On the back step, adhere a 4" x 5 1/2" piece of cardstock to serve as the backdrop.

• I sponged a piece of 4" x 4" Whisper White cardstock, masking a circle to create the moon and using Lemon Lime Twist, Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant and Basic Gray ink to do the sponging. After I removed the mask, I added some Lemon Lime Twist to the Moon and used a straight edged mask to make a couple of sponged wisps of clouds with Basic Gray. I stamped on some bats from the Graveyard Gate stamp set using Basic Black ink and created some branches from the sprigs from the Everyday Jars Framelits. I just trimmed away parts of the nice rounded buds to make them more jagged and added them to the back drop.
• I stamped several of the different gravestones on Basic Gray cardstock and fussy cut them to add to them to the steps in the center of the card.
• I stamped the brick pillars in Basic Gray on Whisper White and fussy cut them. They are too short for the gate so I stamped two for each side and overlapped them to make them the right size.
• Using the Precision Base Plate with my Big Shot, I die cut the Detailed Gate Thinlit from Basic Black cardstock and glued it on each side of the card so the gate spanned the front of the card. I die cut the lock and key from Silver Foil Sheet and added it to the gate.

 

           

And that's all for this week, folks! Enjoy your weekend!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.


Product List

Graveyard Gate Wood-Mount Stamp Set [144695]	Graveyard Gate Clear-Mount Stamp [144765]	Graveyard Gate Wood-Mount Bundle [146017]	Graveyard Gate Clear-Mount Bundle [146018]	Silver Foil Sheets [132178]
Basic Gray 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121044]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad [144086]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [126953]
Elegant Eggplant Classic Stampin' Pad [126969]	Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad [140932]	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]	Stamping Sponges [141337]	Stampin' Trimmer [126889]
Paper Snips Scissors [103579]	Detailed Gate Thinlits Dies [144669]	Everyday Jars Framelits Dies [141490]	Big Shot [143263]	Precision Base Plate [139684]
Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Glue Dots [103683]

Mother's Love Meets Flower Patch

Well, originally my plan was to make a card for Freshly Made Sketches, but fate intervened as it often does, and I caught sight of a cute Mother's Day Card on a Facebook page. I loved the bright colours, but even more I liked the marriage of two stamp sets, Mother's Love and Flower Patch. I love the sentiments in Mother's Love, but I'm not totally sold on the flower images. So I cased the card.

It was a creation of Trish Brunkhart, who in turn cased one of Dawn Griffith's designs. My card base is a different fancy fold. I used the Center Step fold design, which is controversial in itself. I think it should be call the Double Side Step fold because the steps are on the side, not in the center. But I don't make the Stampin' Rules, so this shall remain the Center Step fold design, under protest!

• Here's where I found a great template, that looks like this:

• I totally cased the colour scheme using Daffodil Delight as the card base, Tangerine Tango to layer and Whisper White,  I added DSP from All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack.
• The great sentiment from Mother's Love fits so perfectly on the center panel. I stamped it in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. The other coordinating sentiment I added on the inside of the card.
• I had to stick with smaller flowers so I used two designs from the Flower Patch Photopolymer Stamp Set. The little daisy doesn't have a coordinating framelit so I stamped that right on the sentiment panel. The only other appropriately sized flower did have a framelit so I stamped two of them in Daffodil Delight and Crushed Curry and another two in Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango and die cut them, adding them to the card base with Glue Dots.

• And here's the other sentiment on the inside. These flowers were all stamped.

This is a cute alternative to the fancy pastel cards I did for Mother's Day last week! Hope you've found a card that works for you.

#StampingforNepal

I just want to remind you that I'm conducting a fundraiser for the relief effort in Nepal after the earthquake, with a silent auction that you can participate in until Thursday, May 7 at 10 pm, when bidding stops. You can see the details here, or go straight to the Facebook Album to look at the items and bid on them.

You can help the relief effort as well as get a great hand-stamped item for yourself or maybe your mom. Here's a sample:

And if you are a papercrafter, I'm challenging you to use your craft to do some fundraising yourself. Then update your Facebook status with what you did and how much you donated from that using the hashtag #StampingforNepal. We'll see what a difference a group can make!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the Stampin' Up! products used to make this card today!

Product List

Mother's Love Clear Stamp Set [138841]	Mother's Love Wood Stamp Set [138838]	Mother's Love Photopolymer Stamp Set [137170]	Flower Patch Photopolymer Stamp Set [134207]	Flower Patch Photopolymer Bundle [136788]
*All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack [133703]	Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119683]	Tangerine Tango 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [111349]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [126944]	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [131173]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945]	Tangerine Tango Classic Stampin' Pad [126946]	Flower Fair Framelits Die [133731]
Stampin' Trimmer [126889]	Big Shot [113439]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Glue Dots [103683]

*Retiring June 2, 2015