Witchy Treats

I don't make many Halloween cards as I don't have many people to send them to but I do LOVE Halloween projects so I often make myself decorations to display around the house.  I really thought that the holding hands dies from The Greetery would make perfect witch hands though so I've made a card to send to my nieces.

I started with the hand - cutting it from pale green card and stamping the details from the matching stamp in dark green ink and slotting it into a sleeve cut from the same set in black.  To make the nails more witchy, I drew around the die and cut them by hand to form long points from purple card.    I cut a wand by hand too  - just a wobbly line from wood grain textured brown card.   The hand dies are cut so they allow the hands to hold things - brilliant detail!

Next I used the Greetery's Jumbo Jar die to cut a the jar to hold the bats ready for the witch's spell casting.  I die cut it 3 times - once using the inner and outer dies from grey, once with the same dies from white and once with the middle element left out before die cutting from acetate.   This would give you a great shaker element but I decided to just stick my bats down and keep the layers flat for posting - you'd need foam or lots more layers of card to give the shaker depth.   Here I just sandwiched the acetate between the white and grey layers and then used a scrunched tissue to add some black ink to give it a grungy "left on a witches shelf" look.  Same for the lid die cut from the same set.   I did the same technique for the contents of the jar both with black and light green ink - just to make the contents look less clean and more witch-like.

The bats and the sentiment come from the same Newton's Nook set - Halloween Trio - which matches a stamp but has the extra Halloween elements to go with it.

Once assembled I finished the card by adding a "glow" to the end of the wand showing the spell beginning.   For this I used The Greetery's Glow Powder.   This is NOT an embossing powder - it's a pigment you mix with any clear medium (such as Glossy Accents) and then just "paint" it on with a rubber brush or metal tool.   It gives a much stronger glow than some other embossing powder versions I've tried and you can make it thicker or thinner depending on what look you want to go for.   I love it!   I added a few dots of green stickles just to add daytime sparkle.

Hope that's wetted your Halloween appetite!

Tara