Halloween Theme Week- Day 1

**All items in the Halloween section are 15% off during theme week**

Hi crafty friends, it’s June and today I have the honor of kicking off our Halloween Theme Week, so exciting! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I’m so happy that this week is gonna be filled with even more inspiration for spooky projects!

For my card, I wanted to highlight some of this year’s Halloween stamp sets, but I brought in some older, non-Halloween elements to switch it up.

The moment I saw the little branch in the new Batty About You stamp set, I instantly got the idea to bring in the big branch from the Spring Birdhouses stamp set to fill up the space. And that’s what sparked the idea to use one of the adorable birdhouses from that set in my scene, or in this case, BAThouses! I went with the vine birdhouse so I could match it with the green leaves from the branches, and spruced it up with a skull icon from the Halloween Icons stamp set. Which has become an instant favorite stamp set by the way! You can never have enough small images to add details to a scene.

I wanted to decorate not just the birdhouse, but also the branches. I stamped the cluster of pumpkins from the Halloween Corners stamp set and also the single jack-o-lantern from the Halloween Icons that matched it perfectly. 

I picked out 3 bats from the Batty About You stamp set and colored in all my images. For the first time this year, I actually went with a traditional orange-purple-green color palette so the spooky theme would be instantly visible at first glance.

I kept my background very simple. I cut out the largest size of the Stitched Torn Rectangles and ink blended a gradient that darkens on the outside of my card. I used Carved Pumpkin and Dried Marigold Distress Oxide for this. To add more interest, I also splattered some Crackling Campfire Distres Oxide and thinned out white acrylic paint on my panel.

I’m always so happy when there’s a matching die for a sentiment, so the sentiments in the Halloween Corners stamp set are right up my alley! I stamped the ‘Spooky Wishes’ with black ink and cut it out. Very simple, but I still like the way it looks against the busy card.

And that’s it for today! I hope you enjoyed reading about my card and I hope you’ll come back tomorrow for more inspiration by the Design Team members.