World Cardmaking Day

 

Hello fellow crafters and paper enthusiasts,

Today’s card was my world cardmaking day creation. Were you all able to get some crafting done on WCD? I created this card to welcome the beginning of October. I love the eerie, spooky fun of October. I’m definitely partial to corn mazes and a walk on a foggy October night vs going to a haunted house. I enjoyed creating this card and was excited to try making a card with no stamps.  

I started by die cutting a pumpkin frame. I cut this out 3 times and glued them together to get a bit of dimension. I then added a some detail to the leaf and the stem for the pumpkin. 

I stamped the inner pieces of the pumpkin, added a bit of brown ink around the edges, and glued it all together. I think that little bit of brown ink helped to give the pumpkin a more grungy look. I cut up some craft moss to help with the eerie look as well. Moss always makes me think of grave stones for some reason.

I die cut the letters, and then tried to decide on the look. I was initially going to add the letters to the moss, but I thought it might be a bit too wobbly, so I added them to the pumpkin instead. I had trouble deciding between purple and gold for the embossing on the word fun. Which color would you have chosen? I thought the gold looked best with the browns and greens in the card. I would have chosen purple if I'd gone for a more traditional black and orange for Halloween. I thought this card would land somewhere between fall and Halloween.

Once I had everything adhered, I felt like the card didn't look dirty enough so I added some splatter. I still feel like I could have done more to achieve a creepier look, but I love how this turned out! What do you think?