Halloween Theme Week: Day 6
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Hello my spooky crafty friends! Justin here, and I am so excited to be sharing with you a concoction I whipped up in my craft studio using some amazing products Halloween products!
The Halloween Cake Pops Die Set has quickly become one of my all time favorite Halloween dies, and I just adored pairing them with the Happy Halloween Shadow Dies!
Halloween Cake Pops Die Set
Happy Halloween Shadow Dies
Eyelet Rectangle Dies
Pierced Stars Plate Die
Stitched Torn Rectangle Dies
When it comes to Halloween crafting, you can NEVER go wrong with a solid Orange, Purple & Green Color palette! I played around with various colored cardstocks from my stash, and decided I wanted to use all 3 colors for my layered card layout.
I did double die-cutting duty with my orange layer, as I first die cut my orange cardstock using the largest die in the Stitched Torn Rectangle Dies, and then I die cut it a second time using the Pierced Stars Plate Die. Even though a Plate die gives you a perfectly sized A2 panel, always remember you can use them for smaller die cuts as well! I thought this was a really fun way to use the Pierced Stars pattern!
For my cake pops, I decided to craft the Ghost and Frankenstein dies, my 2 favorite designs in the set. I added a little bit of ink blending to each die cut element to give it a little bit of shading. A fun tip to keep in mind is that if you are interested in distressing the edges of your die cuts, using colored cardstock is a great hack to save you some time ink blending. Taking the tip one step further, I recommend often picking out your distressing ink first, and then picking a cardstock from your stash that is slightly lighter in color. This will really help the distressed edges pop!
My sentiment was fairly straightforward, as I die cut white paper for the sentiment, and black paper for the shadow. I did end up using a thicker mixed media cardstock, which helped give the die cut a nice sturdiness.
I carefully layered each layer one on top of the other, as they decreased in size. I used liquid adhesive to adhere my cake pops, and then used foam tape to adhere my sentiment die cuts, so that they have a little extra pop.
Thank you so very much for stopping by, friends! Happy Crafting!