Spellbinders Craftoween Day 1 – Quick and Easy Vampire Card

It is no secret that I love Halloween. So it’s only natural that making Halloween cards brings me immense joy. Spooky scary or spooky cute. I don’t discriminate. When I saw the 13 Days of Craftoween box from Spellbinders, obviously I had to grab one. This card is one I created right out of the box. I followed the color inspiration from the photo included with the die set to keep it simple. I only had an hour to play before I had to log on for work after all and that’s all I needed to create this cute little card.

I knew I wanted my vampire to be flying in front of the moon. To create my moon stencil, I grabbed a scrap cardstock panel and used one of the Hero Arts Nesting Circles Infinity Dies to cut a circle out of the panel. I then placed that DIY stencil over my A2 top folding card base and used Sunray Altenew Fresh Dye ink to blend color onto my moon. I used my Pinkfresh Studio 1″ blending brush to ink blend. If you don’t have these brushes, I HIGHLY recommend them. They blend ink beautifully. To add some dimension and shading, I came back in with Honey Drizzle on the outer edges, almost creating a glow on the inside of the moon. Once it dried back, you couldn’t really tell the center was lighter. In hindsight, I should have used a more orange yellow for the outside edges.

Then, using my Misti Stamping Tool, I stamped both of my sentiments in Versafine Onyx Black ink. You have to be really careful with this ink because it’s a pigment ink and it doesn’t dry immediately. You can either wait for it to dry, be VERY careful or dry it with your heat gun. I have smeared a freshly stamped sentiment more times than I care to admit. With my sentiments stamped, it still looked a little blah so I decided to do some splatter. I grabbed a couple old Stampin’ Up re-inkers. I used Basic Black and Gorgeous Grape. I just put a drop onto an acrylic block, sprayed with a bit of water and then used my fan brush to splatter that into the top left and bottom right of my card. I did the same with the panel I planned to use on the inside of my card.

For my vampire, I just used some cardstock scraps and used the same colors as the image on the Craftoween envelope. I die cut those and then assembled my vampire using the embossed guide on the bottom most layer of the image. I used foam tape to pop him up off the card and placed right in the center of the moon. Then I die cut some bats from black glitter cardstock. Those were not included in the Craftoween Day 1 die set. I pulled those from my Spellbinders Haunted House die set. That was it for the front of my card.

My inside card panel, which I already splattered, was stamped with another sentiment from the Craftoween sentiment stamps. I stamped that in the same Versafine Onyx Black ink and then glued three additional bats cut from purple cardstock. Easy peasy. I adhered that into my card base with liquid glue and BAM…Craftoween Day 1 card complete! This card was so easy to make and you could change up the colors and make it really fun. I’ll definitely be playing around with this die more.

To see my process for this card, check out my YouTube link below. If you also got the Spellbinders Craftoween box, let me know what you made! As always, thanks for stopping by today. Now go get crafty!

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