GHOSTS & GOBLINS FALL FROLIC BLOG HOP

Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle

Ghosts & Goblins Fall Frolic

Blog Hop!!!

If you arrived here by way of Karalee Ingram's inspiring blog, 

you're in the right place!!!

If not, you may want to start back at the beginning so that you 

don't miss anything.   wwww.sparklensprinkle.com/blog

Did I mention prizes???   Five Fabulous Prizes will be awarded.

To win one, all you have to do is leave a comment on each and 

every blog during the hop.  Three of those prizes are on an

individual blog - so miss that and miss out on a prize opportunity.

One of the things I miss living in Arizona are the beautiful fall 

colors of the east coast.  I grew up in Maine and lived in New York

for many years and saw so much fabulous fall foliage.  Florida had a bit as

does Arizona, but I travel back from time to time to get my "fall fix".

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays too.

I love seeing all the children dress up in their costumes.

At any rate, I decided that I would do a Halloween card for my post.

I admit that I got a little carried away by my project this time, so there's only one.

I started with a normal card and the mojo just wasn't there.
Then I decided on an easel card,but decided that I had done that already
for a previous hop.  What's a girl to do!

I really liked my easel card idea - I saw a card that someone had done recently

(don't ask me where I saw it LOL) combining an easel card and a gate fold card.

GENIOUS!!!

So, without further ado, here's my take on the easel  card/gate fold combo

with many thanks to whomever it was that I got the idea from.

Here's the front of the card with it's "belly band" keeping it closed.  

The cardstock was from the Recollections Midnight Magic Pack.

To create the (if I must say so myself LOL) gorgeous glittered band on the front,
I used a piece of black cardstock, ran a strip of Tear-ific 2 1/2" Tape down the center and then a strip of Tear-ific 1/4"Tape down each side of it.  I masked the center piece with a border punched out of the protective backing from my Super Adhesive Sheet  (used on the inside) see the
 Glitter Masking Technique on the Sparkle N Sprinkle website to see how to mask
and three of the fabulous new micro-fine glitters fromSparkle N Sprinkle.  They're like velvet!!!

The belly band was just a strip of cardstock, embellished with a soft wide grosgrain ribbon attached with a black and rhinestone buckle
 with a black pearl on top.

Here's a close-up of the glitters!  Don't they just make you drool???
AND - when they're rubbed into the tape - they don't come off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Open up the "gates" and inside you'll find Spooky Sally from  Stamp Set 470 - Candy Corn Halloween..  This is where I used the Super Adhesive Sheets.   See  the Stamping on Glitter (or flocking) Technique on the Sparkle N Sprinkle website.  I cut out a circle die cut using the Super Adhesive Sheets layered onto cardstock - covered it with Cloud Nine micro-fine glitter, then stamped the image with black Staz-on ink.  The image was then colored using my Copic Markers.

So - that was cute, but not enough!!!

Spooky Sally is actually on an easel card that opens up!
Got my greeting and

a space to write a little something
and NOW it's done.

Here's a little close-up of the greeting and those little spider stickers I found.

Here's a close-up of Spooky Sally stamped onto glitter.

Hope you had a ghoulish time checking out these techniques
 and my combo  card.

Enjoy the rest of the hop!!!

Next on your journey is  Shona Erlenborn who always comes up with 

something fabulous for you!

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