I'm pretty pleased with myself - I'm pretty much done with my crafting for my Halloween party. A whole month in advance, which is unheard of for me. The last missing piece was making an invitation for the girls, so yesterday I was inspired to craft and made the following invitation. I had this idea of using a belly band for the front of the card and keeping the most interesting part for inside, with the Pivot Pop-Up die. While I do love interactive cards, I don't make a ton of them because they are so time-consuming, so it's always nice when I get to put a little more mileage out of them. My nieces absolutely love them, so it's worth taking the time as they are appreciated.
I kept going with the Hey Pumpkin collection. I used a piece of character patterned paper die-cut with the Dotted rectangles and matted it with Crushed Curry cardstock so it would stand against the Basic Grey card base. I didn't put anything on the card front so the belly band could slide on and off easily, and I wrapped the strip of jack-o-lantern paper very loosely so that the girls wouldn't struggle to put it back on the card and bend the corners. I had a lot of fun decorating the belly band. I used my doily die with Holo Waves mirror cardstock from Tonic and I layered a chipboard house on the front. I highlighted the knob with Crystal Drops and added shimmery Crystal Effects on the windows. I wrapped candy corn colored twine around the band and hung a candy corn glass bead on the knot. I used a lobster clip so that my crafty niece can reuse the dangle on something else if she wishes to. I added black gems around the doily. I stamped and embossed a little ticket image from a past Halloween stamp set that reads something like "invitation to a crazy bash", embossed it in crushed curry embossing powder and punched it with the matching ticket punch.
Inside the card, I used the holographic paper sold individually from the Hey Pumpkin collection to make the unfolding part of the pivot pop-up. I made sure to think about the direction of the pattern before die-cutting, as you need to assemble two pieces together and you don't want your pattern, if it's directional, to be upside down. I die-cut the letters to the word Boo! with the Typo lowercase die from Tim Holtz out of Crushed Curry cardstock, covered them with Midas Touch Aqua Shimmer and glued one letter per panel. I used the puffy stickers to accent each letter. My fave it the ghost coming out of the O!
Because I had my Halloween stamp set out, I was inspired to use the longer sentiment that says "Have a spooky Halloween night". I embossed it with black powder on Holographic Film cardstock from Etcetera. This is the neatest pack of 6" x 6" cardstock: it's all holographic, but you get five different patterns in the pack (2 pages of each). The one I used has this wavy pattern that looks like a mirror or water. It's really cool! Underneath, I reused two paper scraps from a previous project that had not been used and I topped each end with a large orange sequin from the ephemera pack.
At the bottom, I added the actual invitation text, printed with my computer on patterned paper. I downloaded an Halloween font from dafont.com to fit the look. I die-cut the text with a Dotted Rectangle die and I matted both sides with punched holographic cardstock. I used my last sequin on there to add a little something.
An oversized envelope was made with matching paper. I used the Halloween Bats dies I found at Michaels. I layered black foil paper for the detailed bat over holographic cardstock for the case. I die-cut a banner out of polka dot paper and stamped my text with the Riley's ABCs alphabet set.
On the back, I added a silver wax seal with my initial and I used silvery star washi tape to close the envelope. I have wanted to get into wax seals with the longest time. I recently found an inexpensive one with my initial and silver sticks that you can insert in a glue gun. I thought this would be easier than literally playing with fire, so I purchased an inexpensive glue gun and gave that a try. I decided to use a non-stick mat and prepare seals in advance, that would be ready to just glue down on my envelopes. The results were inconclusive. I managed to get a good eight seals that worked properly. And then for some reason, the sticks started dripping clear from the gun instead of silver. I don't know if the gun got too hot or what and why the silver pigment was not following along with the actual glue, but that's when I stopped playing and I'll have to revisit the products to see if the problem persist or not. For the time being, I do have the seals I was able to create and I used one on my envelope here.
Supplies
Stamps: Riley's ABCs (Lawn Fawn); Fête d'Halloween (Stampin' Up!)
Cardstock: Basic Grey, Not Quite Navy, Crushed Curry ((Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Paper, Chipboard, Puffy Stickers, Ephemera: Hey Pumpkin (Crate Paper)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Dies: PIvot Pop-up, Everyday Sentiment Banners, Outside in Stitched Rectangles,
Dotted Rectangle Stackables (Lawn Fawn); Halloween Bats (Recollections);
Typo Lowercase Alphabet Bigz (Tim Holtz for Sizzix)
Accessories: Crushed Curry and Basic Black Stampin' Emboss Powder, Ticket Duo Punch,
Stampin' Dimensionals, Envelope Punch Board, PInking Heart Border Punch, Washi Tape, Black Sequins,
Shimmery Crystal Effects (Stampin' Up!); Gold Crystal Drops, Midas Touch Aqua Shimmer Brush (Nuvo);
Candy Corn Glass Bead (Bead Landing); Baker's Twine (Lawn Fawn); Glossy Black Gems (Pretty Pink Posh)
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