Framed Silhouette Halloween Card

Life has been pretty hectic lately. I've been splitting my time between my full time job, my house, my dad's house and crafting in between. Why am I telling you this? I'll explain further down. 

But first, I've made another card featuring the recent release from This Calls For Confetti. This is what I call a framed silhouette card. I've also got a surprise on the inside of my card! Scroll down for creative details and a little chit chat. I'll have my full supply list at the end of this post, as well.

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Our central air has gone out and it will totally need replacing. Of course, it's hot as HADES here in the southern United States, so we've been sleeping at my dads house until we get our air fixed.

Now, I generally will not apologize for my photos or mistakes I make on my cards. Due to splitting my time back and forth between two households, some of my crafty mess is at my dads. 

I created this card in, let's face it, horrible lighting while at my dad's house.. Definitely not up to my standards! Was it worth it to have air conditioning? Absolutely, haha!

The photo you see above is some ink blending I did on an A2 white card panel using Ranger distress oxide ink in Wilted Violet and distress ink in Kitsch Flamingo. I also splattered on some black paint. That smudge you see was a droplet from my paint bottle that smeared but luckily, it's covered up by my black card panel.

I used an A2 size black piece of cardstock with the TCFC What Lies Within card front die, then trimmed off some bats and the haunted house for use in my silhouette scene.

I also decided to use my handwriting for a "warning" on my card. Yes, there's a little something inside and I thought it would be be fun to write "open if you dare" in a childish scrawl.

To achieve this, I used the same circle dies for cutting out the open space on my black card panel, to create a circle frame. I wrote my words using a white gel pen, along the curve of the frame then trimmed it off and adhered it below the bottom circle of my card panel.

Once you open the card, you're greeted with a sweet little BOO! I created the Boo die cuts and ghost with the Ghostly Greeting dies and adhered them to the inside of my card.

I the pink cardstock was actually from one of my Christmas paper pads, but I really wanted to tie in some color from the front of my card, to the inside.

I highly recommend wearing your glasses when taking final photo shots.  The final shots were taken in my craft room in the sweltering heat of my house. Heaven forbid I run and get my glasses out of my purse. But no, instead I now see tiny little dots from dry white gel ink that landed on my final shots of my card, because.....I wasn't wearing my glasses.

Note to self, never take photos without your glasses! I could have easily dusted those specks off but this chick is not hanging in this hot house any longer!

Also, you could easily create a shaker card but I opted to glue some tiny shimmery confetti bits onto my sky, from my Spookalicious Mix. They look white in the photo above, but they're actually silver with a prism effect when you look at different angles.

So boys and girls, what lessons have we learned today? One, it's hot and a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. Two, wear your glasses. Haha! I have really enjoyed creating with these goodies from This Calls For Confetti. They have soooo much good stuff in their shop. I hope you'll pop in for a look. 

I also have convenient affiliate links below, at no additional cost to you. Just click on the brand name below the product to view more product details or to shop.

Happy Fall and Halloween cardmaking! See you later!

Terri

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Project Grip Mat Large - White - 24x18 inch Shop at: Scrapbookcom	3 mm Adhesive Strips - 160 strips Shop at: Scrapbookcom	Spookalicious Polymer Clay/Sequin/Confetti Mix Shop at: TCF Confetti	What Lies Within? A2 Metal Dies - 2 pc Shop at: TCF Confetti
Ghostly Greeting Metal Die Set - 9 pc Shop at: TCF Confetti	A2 Size Acetate Sheets - 20 pk Shop at: TCF Confetti	Concord and 9th Black Cardstock - 8.5 x 11 in - 12 pc Shop at: Scrapbookcom	Nested Circle Dies Shop at: Scrapbookcom
Ranger Ink Kitsch Flamingo Distress Ink Pad Shop at: Scrapbookcom	Gelly Roll White Pens - 3 pk Shop at: Scrapbookcom

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