Gothic Floral Halloween Card – Spellbinders Craftoween Day 2

It’s Craftoween Day 2 and I was so excited to see a raven and a skull for this die set. I knew I wanted to do something non-traditional Halloween for this one but I wasn’t sure what. Whenever I need some inspiration, I go to Pinterest. I searched the words ‘raven and skull’ and up popped some really beautiful art work. My eye was drawn to a gothic sort of painting that had a raven sitting on a skull surrounded by roses in colors of peachy pink. That gave me all I needed to start dreaming up my card design.

First I looked through my stash of Spellbinders floral sets and I landed on my Club Blooms die set. It has a mix of flowers and greenery that I thought would go well with the look I wanted. I also wanted a look through element on my card and I thought an archway would be pretty. Have you noticed I use my Spellbinders Essential Arches Etched dies a ton? They are my favorite shape I think. Too create some background interest, I pulled out my Spellbinders Spider Web Background Press Plate.

For my spider web background, I grabbed a piece of Gray Granite cardstock from Stampin’ Up. Fog cardstock from Spellbinders would be a good substitute. At first, I thought I would use my BetterPress to press the pattern into my cardstock with Industrial Diamond Fresh Dye Ink from Altenew. Later on in the process, I decided I didn’t like it and foiled the image instead with Rose Gold foil from Spellbinders and my Glimmer machine. I trimmed that cardstock piece down to 5 1/4 x 4 inches after foiling so there would be a border from my card base around it. For my card base, I chose Chiffon cardstock from Spellbinders.

I took the 7th largest arch die and cut a window from my foiled spider web background. I set the arch cutout aside for a separate project. For the area behind the window, I wanted it to look a little aged but I didn’t want it to extend to the edges of my card base. To ensure I didn’t ink outside that area, I cut another slightly larger arch from a piece of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb cardstock. Onto that, I applied the Altenew Fresh Dye inks below randomly across the arch.

Next I cut all my die cut pieces from my Club Blooms and Craftoween Day 2 die sets. Using my Waffle Flower Grip Mat, I ink blended each die cut with the Altenew Fresh Dye ink colors listed below.

Once I started figuring out placement for my die cuts, I realized I needed something for my skull and raven to sit on. Now, don’t be mad but I knew there were some books in one of the die sets of the Craftoween box so I opened Day 7 and die cut those books from some white cardstock scraps. I ink blended them with Industrial Diamond, Evening Gray and Pastel Sunrise. You can’t really see them on the final card but it keeps the skull and raven from appearing to just float in the air.

With all my pieces ready to go, it was time to assemble. I started by adhering my arch down to my card base with liquid glue. Then I placed my spider web foiled background over top of that with foam tape to create a window. I arranged all my die cuts until I was happy with the layout and then adhered them down with either foam tape or liquid glue based on how I wanted them to lay on the card. For my sentiment, I foiled the sentiment plate from the Spellbinders Halloween Icons Press Plate and Die Set with Blush Glimmer Hot Foil. I applied my sentiment with a combination of liquid glue and foam tape. Then I applied a few embellishments from the Champagne and Strawberries embellishment mix from Trinity Stamps.

For the inside, I used the extra flowers and greenery I didn’t use on the front. I adhered those in the bottom right corner of a piece of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb cardstock cut to 5 1/4 by 4 inches. Then I adhered another foiled sentiment from the Halloween Icons Press Plate and Die Set. I adhered that to the inside of my card using liquid glue to complete my card.

I hope you enjoyed my gothic floral take on the Craftoween Day 2 dies. You will see how I used the leftover foiled arch die cut in an upcoming post so be sure to check that out! If you want to see my process video for this card, please click on the link to my YouTube channel below. Thanks for stopping by today! Now go get crafty.

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