Inspiration: Simon Says Stamp Wednesday
When I finish a layout, I always put aside the remaining papers and embellishments and try to make a card before putting stuff away. This was the case with the Haunted papers from Cosmo Cricket (purchased many, many years ago). It's not Halloween time, though, so I was looking through stamps and pulling out options and then I figured that the papers might work well with the Magical Wizards stamp set from Trinity Stamps (a.k.a. the Harry Potter set). I think it works well. I've had the stamps for a bit but I was unsure how to use them and those papers were a great starting point. I looked at online sketches but nothing was really sparking inspiration, so I just used the torn strip leftover from my previous page layout and I die-cut the Hogwarts crest from Black foil paper and it became the focus of the design. The top seemed a little bare, so I looked at ^banner options to fill in the space. I had this double-fold banner die from Lawn Fawn that was the right size to add the sentiment I had in mind: May your day be magical. I didn't have this exact sentiment so I inked only the first part of a stamp found in the Varied Vases stamp set and I used an alphabet set to create the last word.
I stamped the image and colored them with Copic markers and added a couple touches of gold on the broom and the books with Gamsai Tambi watercolor. Even after assembling everything, the card still seemed bare, so I got a stencil out and added Mango texture paste in a few places. It wasn't easy getting the stencil to be flat on the card since the elements were already glued in place so the result is not as crisp as it would have been had I worked on a flat paper, but sometimes, you just have to go with the flow. especially when you create as you go.
A matching envelope was made with the remaining paper.
Supplies
Stamps: Vases divers (Varied Vases - Stampin' Up!); Magical Wizards (Trinity Stamps);
Type Strips II (Papertrey Ink)
Cardstock: Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White, Black Foil (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers: Haunted (Cosmo Cricket)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); VersaMark; Always Artichoke Classic Ink (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: Magical Wizards Dies (Trinity Stamps); Fancy Folded Banners Dies (Lawn Fawn);
Envelope Punch Board, Pattern Party Decorative Masks (Stampin' Up!); Starry Colors Gansai Tambi Watercolors (Kuretake);
Wonky Stitch Rectangle Stax Die-namics (My Favorite Things); Hogwarts Crest Die (Character World)
Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Spray, Black Soot and Tarnished Brass Distress Crayons (Ranger);
Type Bit Strips Die (Papertrey Ink); Markers (Copic)
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