Quick & Easy Halloween Cards . . .

. . . thanks to Distress Oxide Inks, a cloud stencil, a cute bat stamp, and my Cricut.

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Okey dokey!  The first thing I did was a quick search in Cricut Design Space to find some spooky Halloween images.  And lo and behold!  I found exactly what I was looking for.

Take this card for instance:

I just knew that the Spooky Forest Luminary from Rob and Bob would be perfect.  So, I added the image to my project mat and sized it to 5.5" x 4.25" and let my Cricut do the rest.

In the meantime, I started inking up a background using Black Soot, Seedless Preserves and Wild Honey Distress Oxide Inks.

I didn't use a mini ink blending tool like I normally do; instead I used a round sponge that I cut into wedges. (I get the sponges at Michael's. They come in a 3 pack and only cost $3.00.) I very lightly dabbed each of the colors onto a piece of gray card stock.  Once I had the base layer of ink down, I used the cloud stencil and applied more ink with a heavier hand.  After I was happy with the clouds, I went over the panel again to blend some of the areas.

I adhered the Spooky Scene on top of the background using my Ball Point Glue Pen and Tombow Multi Mono Glue.  I did trim the tiniest bit off the spooky scene just to show a little bit of the gray card base.

Ta-Da!  All done!

For the second card, I had my handy little Cricut cut out the Happy Halloween image from the Dimensional Scenes Spooky Hollow Cartridge.  Now then, I gotta tell ya, there is an arch and few more wrought iron spikes, but I trimmed them off so the center would be more open.

For the cloudy sky, I used the same inks as I did for the first card.  Then I adhered the Happy Halloween cut out using my liquid glues.

And those bats!  How cute are they??  They are from the Witch Way is the Candy stamp set from My Favorite Things.

I stamped them onto a piece of Neenah Solar White Card Stock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I colored them up with  Cool Gray Copics (C1, C3, C5 and C7) and I colored the inside of their ears with R00 and R20.

After I cut them out by hand, I adhered them to the front of the card with foam tape.  Abracadabra!  All done!

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