Boo Ghosts

Hi, crafty friends! Christina here to share a spooktacular shaker card with you featuring some of my favorite things from the latest Halloween release. I used the new, awesomely big Ghost Holder Dies, paired him with some trick-or-treating ghost friends, and gave them all a spooky sky background that I created using the Scattered Bats Stencil, and the wickedly good Upright Greetings: Halloween Stamp Set. Let’s get started!

First, I created the spooky sky background by stenciling the Scattered Bats with Black Soot Distress Ink and stamping the Upright Greetings with Wilted Violet Distress Ink all across a lavender cardstock panel trimmed to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. I deepened the color around the edges of the panel with Villainous Potion and Black Soot Distress Inks, and then splattered the panel with Hocus Pocus Mica Stain before die cutting it with the largest Wonky Stitched Rectangles die, giving me the background and the frame pieces.

To create the shaker, I attached the wonky rectangle background to a lavender cardstock panel trimmed to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Then, using double-sided tape, I attached a piece of acetate to the reverse side of the wonky frame and sandwiched it with another wonky frame to create the shaker window. I placed thin foam strips around the rectangle background for the shaker walls, and then added the Spooktacular Clay Confetti (swoon!) to the center of the panel before placing the shaker window panel on top.

Next, I die cut the rest of the elements for my card design using white cardstock and silver glitter cardstock. From the Ghost Holder Die Set, I die cut the ghost, his candy bag, and the Boo greeting. From the Spooky Mug Additions, I die cut the small ghost friends, their bags, the candy pieces, and the stars. I inked the bags and candy pieces with a variety of pastel inks to match the confetti and added a pumpkin face from the Halloween Mug Addition Die Set to the large candy bag. So adorable!

To finish things up, I attached everything to my shaker window and added a little sparkle to my ghost friends with a Wink of Stella glitter marker. The last thing was to add a few of the Upright Greetings, heat embossed in white on black cardstock, and then die cut with the Sentiment Strips Dies. 

And that’s it for this spooktacular shaker card featuring some incredible Halloween goodies. See you again soon!