Halloween Theme Week- Day 3

Hi friends, it’s Suzy. It’s Halloween week here on the Pretty Pink Posh blog, so I get to share some of my Halloween cards with you.  My first card uses the brand new Halloween Pals stamp set and my second card uses the Trick or Treat Friends set from last year. Here are the cute images all colored from the Halloween Pals stamp set.

As an early Halloween treat during theme week, we’re having a 15% sale on all items in the Halloween category. No coupon necessary. 

I colored these images with Copic Markers and then shaded them with colored pencils.

Both of my cards use the same technique of creating backgrounds for cards with watercolors. I made my cards with watercolor paper and used popular PPP dies on both. I used a wet on wet watercolor technique to allow the color to run outward from the die-cut openings for the backgrounds.

For this card, I used the Stitched Pieces die for the background. I then applied lots of water to the edges of the openings and painted the edges with orange watercolors. The color ran outward where I had applied the water. I splattered some orange paint with my brush over the background as well.

I stamped the Happy Halloween sentiment from the Halloween Pals stamp set with black ink in the center opening. I then adhered the cute little critters and jack-o-lanterns from the stamp set over the top and bottom opening. I also used a pumpkin from the new Pumpkin Patch Critters stamp set.

I added some Black Nuvo Drops around the images to tie in the black color from the sentiment. I also added some jewels in Espresso and Pearl White.

This card uses the cute images from the Trick or Treat Friends stamp set. I used the Window Frames die for the background of the card. I applied water to the edges of the die-cut area again. I then applied orange paint to the top and black paint to the bottom as the “ground”. I splattered some additional orange watercolor on the background with my brush.

I colored all of the stamped images with Copic Markers and then added details and shading with colored pencils. I adhered the images to the bottom of the card creating a scene. I stamped the sentiment with black ink in the opening. To finish off the card I added jewels in Amethyst and Spring Green.

Thanks for visiting today and Happy Halloween to all of you!

Suzy