Guest Designer – CASology for the “Scary” Challenge

I’m so pleased and honored to be asked to be the guest designer for this week’s CASology challenge! Here’s the cue card:

Once my grandchildren were old enough to appreciate getting a card in the mail, I began to accumulate a few stamps for each of the holidays. Since they are still quite young, there was nothing truly scary in my collection, but I decided I could increase the scare factor a bit by drawing spooky mouths on each of the die cut ghosts from Poppystamps, “Group of Ghosts. Then I found the perfect sentiment in a Papertrey Ink Mini-Market kit, “Halloween Pin-ups,” and had the basic elements for my card.

CASology specializes in clean and simple cards—one of the reasons I enjoy the challenge. Typically, a significant amount of “white space” is required. In this case, that space needed to be black to enhance the “scary” factor.

I wanted the ghosts to be emerging into the night sky, so chose some pumpkins from Papertrey Ink’s “Friendship Jar: Autumn” to set before the ghosts. They were colored with Copics and fussy cut. They also add a bit of needed color to the card.

Finally, I embossed the sentiment in white. I ended up making two identical cards, one for each set of grandchildren. Many thanks to Melissa for the kind invitation to guest design this week.

I’d also like to enter this card in the Inspired By: Halloween challenge.