Peridot Cards

I’m falling behind in my posts again.  With 3 sales in roughly 6 weeks at my booth, I’ve been busy making a few more Halloween cards, a bunch of Christmas cards and generally just getting “stuff” ready.

Here are some of the Halloween cards I completed for the first sale in September.  I used a couple different Recollections paper pads that I had picked up after Halloween a few years ago.

The first few cards used the Mystic Moon 8×8 paper pad.  It’s not my usual style of paper but I wanted to have a wide selection of cards.  The paper pad is quite dark (lots of gray, green and purple) with a scarier feel.  In keeping with the scary feel, I skipped the “Happy Halloween” sentiment and went for sentiments that I think more matched the feel of the cards.  For embellishments, I used silver metallic Love from Lizi peel-offs on one set of cards and some die cut spiders with black rhinestone bodies on the other.

For the next several cards I used a go-to sketch which features a 3×3 inch panel.  This sketch is great for using the corner pieces of papers with full page images.  I paired the corner floral piece with a coordinating floral background, adding some shine with the gold shimmer paper.  For the corner piece featuring a spider web, I added a small die cut spider.  There was enough room on all of the 3×3 inch panels to add different versions of the “Happy Halloween” sentiment.

Since this was an 8×8 inch paper pad, I was able to make several of each card.

After the dark and scary, I switched to Recollections Pinkaboo 6×6 paper pad.  This paper is about as opposite as you can get from Mystic Moon.  While the Pinkaboo paper also featured ghosts and skeletons, they were far less scary when done in pinks, purples and gold foil.  The paper pad included a sheet of border strips that I definitely wanted to use.  The first few cards used a textured purple cardstock for the background and a pretty pastel pumpkin print for the image panel.  The next cards used another textured cardstock for the background and a pink and black skull print for the image panel.  Both sets used border strips for the panels running across the card.

I really liked the paper I used for the image panels and decided to use them for a few more cards.  This time I paired the pastel pumpkins with an hombre pink sky pattern and more textured cardstock.  For the pink and black skeletons, I pulled out a sheet of the gold foil skulls paper.  This paper is really fun with the skulls also having an hombre effect, changing from pink to purple.  The last few cards featured the pink and lavender ghosts.  They were too cute not to use and I was also able to use the last of the border strips for the horizontal panels under the sentiment.

Both paper pads were fun to use but for my next batch of Halloween cards I focused on the more traditional orange and black color scheme.