A Pumpkin Patch Kind of Halloween

June 26, 2021 | ullycatdesigns

Here is a quick layered card for Halloween or Fall greetings using one of the Birch Press layered designs. It went together in less than an hour.

First decide on your colors. I knew orange for the pumpkins and then decided on autumn leaf colors for the four layers needed. The dies cut an A2 size panel (4 ¼ x 5 ½ inches), I decided to go for a 5 x 7 inches card, so I also cut a 5 x 7 inches rectangle of an orange card stock and a mat layer of Terra Cotta card stock at 4 ½ x 6 ½ inches.

I cut layer A from Lemon, layer B from Terra Cotta and layer C from Orange. All the layers will give you lovely small leaves as off-cuts, but layer B also gives you large, veined leaves that can be used to decorate your card or save for other projects. You will want to cut a fourth layer for the backing. I cut my 4 ¼ x 5 ½ inches backing from Pumpkin Bread cardstock.

Using a green fine-tip marker, I colored in the pumpkin vine leaves and vine once the layers were all glued up. (Another alternative would be to cut same green squares of paper to cover behind the lemon layer the pumpkin leaves.)

The sentiment was an extra one left from another project using Karen Burniston’s Halloween Charms.

Because the card has so many layers, I have opted to leave it as a single layer -postcard style card that will fit in an A7 envelope as it is too thick to send as a postcard.

Hope you enjoyed this quick card. If so, please comment and like and follow this blog. 😊

Supplies used:

Karen Burniston – Dies – Halloween Charms– 1058
Birch Press Design – Dies – Autumn Breeze Plates Layer Set – 57381
CosmicShimmer – Specialist Acrylic Glue – 125ml
Colored card stock in Terra Cotta, Pumpkin Bread, Orange, Lemon and Black
Green marker
Hero Arts stamp on envelope flap

Butterfly Halloween

October 1, 2019August 23, 2020 | ullycatdesigns

Angela Poole’s Flutterings -Butterfly die set is the basis of this card. This was the first time I had made this die set. I used a heavy black cardstock from my stash to cut the main pieces of the butterfly mechanism and lightweight orange cardstock scrap for the backing pieces. I watched Angela’s two videos on the assembly of the butterfly card, before attempting my assembly. I used red double-sided tape to adhere the main mechanism piece to the card base. (I cut out a rectangle in the glitter card so that the tape could stick to a smooth card base for a stronger hold.) The lacy wings kept getting caught-up in the movement, so I used tiny dots of glue to adhere them to the orange backing of the wings.

The orange ribbon was added to make the pull tab easier to pull. It opens the wings to reveal a Happy Halloween with tiny pumpkin, both stamped from an older planner stamp set in my stash.

All-in-all a relatively easy interactive mechanism to assemble, but possibly the placement of the body hinders the closing of the wings, a long with their catching on each other’s lacy edges. I’ll have to experiment some with the die set and assembly.

You can view a video of the wings in motion by clicking here.

Spooky Halloween

September 15, 2019November 3, 2019 | ullycatdesigns

Bats and potions and spiders, Eeeck! It must be the Halloween season.

This card was created using Karen Burniston’s Circle Tag Book Pop-Up die set and Halloween stamp sets by American Crafts, and papers by DCWV.

My inspiration for this card came when I found the three stamp sets at my local Tuesday Morning Store. I had been looking for a set of “potion bottle” stamps that wouldn’t cost an arm and a leg to own. At $2.99 a set, I got three sets which all had a copyright date of 2019, but I haven’t been able to find on Google yet. Their packaging calls the three sets: After Dark, Midnight Haunting, and Bootiful Night.