craftykiwimama

I Would Never Ghost You

About this Project

I picked up a pretty cardstock pack in a peachy pink from a local craft store, which I thought would make a sweet base for this design. I love pink for Halloween. I'm very definitely a 'too cute to spook' Halloween crafter. I love the playfulness of Halloween and pink for Halloween embodies that for me. So this was a fun starting point for this design. I had some left overs from a panel I inked the Ghostly Greetings background on, which fit these little windows so perfectly. But I only had two, so left the central window free, to turn it into a tiny shaker well. It make took me a while to settle on the sentiments, but I knew from the get go, I wanted ghosts flying around the apertures. I created the central apertures with a cool little trio window die from the Terrific Tickets Add-Ons Die Set. I put little stamped elements behind the top and bottom window, which were left overs from last years creating for Halloween. I left the central window free to create a tiny shaker element. I cherry picked some cute embellishments including three little white ghost embellishments which work so well with the rest of the ghostly theme. I added a mix of seed beads, some little sequin stars and the cute little ghosts. After much debating, I settled on the sentiment Spooky Halloween as my main greeting. The 'o's in this were such a good match for the eyes on my ghosts it felt rather perfect in the end, but I debated quite a while as I wanted a sentiment which made good sense. I really wanted to use the cute sub-sentiment 'I would never ghost you' and needed the top sentiment to work with it. But I'm happy where I landed. I had issues with the cardstock, which was a cheaper card front from a local craft store. It had a slightly slick finish which made it hard to ink on. So I opted to use Stazon Black ink for the stamping. This was a good option in the end and stamped well. To check out the full creative adventure you can watch my YouTube Tutorial for Whimsy Stamps.