Witch Way is the Candy? Good question…
Hi All! Happy, happy Monday!
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was good – both crafty and productive. I’ve been off work for a few days taking some vacation time and was able to finish up several cards I was working on. Plus hubby and I spent yesterday cleaning out and reorganizing our garage. A task that was long overdue. We purged a huge car load full of stuff so that makes me happy. Now the garage is clean and organized – hopefully to stay that way for a long while.
So I wanted to pop in today to share one of the cards I finished up this weekend. When I first laid eyes on this stamp set from My Favorite Things called Witch Way is the Candy by Birdie Brown, I was in love. I just think she’s the cutest little witch ever. Plus this stamp set has 3 cute little critters that come with it (a frog, a bat and a cat) in addition to some pumpkins, a moon and clouds. All that plus it has 4 different sentiments with it. Of course one of the sentiments asks, “Witch way is the Candy?”. That’s the question everyone wants to know for Halloween, am I right?
Cute witch from Birdy Browns, Witch Way to the Candy stamp set
To create my card I used my Copics to color my candy hungry little witch and then created a simple mask to put the frog on top of a pumpkin from the set and colored it with my Copics as well.
I did add some Wink of Stella glitter to the witch’s hat band and the trim on her boots. Finally, I fussy cut them out and set them aside.
Frog sitting on pumpkin created with a mask.
For my background I knew I wanted to incorporate the Trick or Treat die cut which is also from My Favorite Things but it came out last year I believe so if you’re wanting it you might have to shop around a bit for it on Ebay or something as I don’t believe it’s carried any longer on the MFT site. I die cut the Trick or Treat out of some basic black card stock. Next I cut a piece of purple glitter cardstock a bit larger than my trick or treat and layered them together with some good liquid glue. Then I added another layer under the purple glitter, this time using some orange cardstock. I added a little black bat brad to the corner to give it a bit of dimensional interest.
Trick or Treat die from My Favorite Things cut from black cardstock.
I didn’t want to do a plain old background for this card and I was excited to finally be able to use my burlap 6×6 stack for this card. I originally thought I’d get some burlap and try to die cut it but I found that doesn’t work very well because of the fraying – huge disappointment. However, it came in handy for something as simple as the square panel background for this card. I cut it to size to fit my card which is 5 3/4 x 5 and glued it to my white cardstock base.
Next I added my layered Trick or Treat sentiment and glued it in the center of the card and placed my witch and my frog on either side of the sentiment.
For a bit of bling, I added some little black gems to the card panel as well.
Inside I used the “Which way to the Candy?” sentiment stamped with some black Versafine ink.
I love, love, love how cute this card turned out. It’s one of those instances where the final product turned out better than what I had in mind. Yay!
Finished card featuring MFT Stamps, Witch Way is the Candy and MFT Die, Trick or Treat
This little card will be shipped off in the mail to a dear friend this year for their Halloween enjoyment.
Hope you enjoyed my card creation! I’ll have a couple more Halloween surprises in store over the next couple of weeks, plus a couple of other non-Halloween cards as well.
Off to get my brain switched into Thanksgiving and Christmas mode as I’m behind the eight ball in the crafting world for getting a jump start on my holiday card making. Eek! I’m off to the crafting grindstone as they say, LOL!
