Don’t Forget to Wear Your Mask at the Haunted Mansion!

Greetings, Cardmakers and other crafty types!

I'm very fond of this season's Haunted Mansion stamp because it's really flexible in what you can do with it. (I'm thinking that if I mask off the bats, I can turn this puppy into Grandma's House for a Christmas card!) Today I made a little landscape (a first for me, I believe) and had such a good time with it! Try this and you'll have a good time, too!

S U P P L I E S

PAPER: Memory Box Black Soiree Shimmer and Woodland Path patterned paper, heavy card stock scrap; STAMPS: Haunted Mansion (E1801), Autumn Tree Landscape (E1805) & Happy Halloween Combo (B1391); MEDIUMS: Ranger Distress embossing ink & superfine detail embossing powder (black), VersaMark embossing pen, Diamond Stickles; gems     

T O O L S

Nestability circle die, masking paper, heat tool, anti-static bag/baby powder brush

I N S T R U C T I O N S

1. Make card base (4.25" x 5.5") from Black SSP and set aside.
2. Cut PP panel (4" x 5.25") and brush with anti-static bag or baby powder. 
3. Die cut circle from a scrap of heavy card stock. Discard the cut-out circle and use the scrap with its hole in the middle as a tracing template on your PP. Trace along the hole with your embossing pen, then quickly stamp sentiment stamp sentiment. Apply powder and emboss. 
4. Stamp and emboss mansion on PP.
5. Stamp mansion on masking paper and fussy cut along the outside of the mansion. Cover mansion image on PP with your mansion mask.
6. Stamp trees with embossing ink and remove mansion mask. Apply powder and emboss.
7. Adhere PP panel to card base.
8. Smear Stickles inside moon.
9. Adhere gems.

Easy as punkin' pie, right?

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!