31 Nights of Halloween - Night 11 - Special Guest Marie Marco

Good evening, Whimsy friends!  

Tonight we welcome the uber talented Marie Marco back to the blog for some spooky inspiration.

Hello Crafty Friends! I’m so happy to be back guest designing here on the Whimsy Blog! We are on full Halloween mode now! Today I am revisiting my favorite spooky stamp set from Whimsy Stamps! This stamp set, designed by Deb Davis, called Eye Scream is just so much fun that I knew I had to make another card with it! There are just endless possibilities with this set! Today I wanted all eyes on the image of the peekaboo Mummy eyeball! 

This is a very simple card using just one image as my focal point for the front of my card. I wanted this piece to have a vintage, gore vibe.

To start off, I die cut 2 A2 sized panels from sturdy 110 pound cardstock. I then found some vintage wallpaper Halloween pattern paper (any will do) and die cut it in A2 size. I adhered it to one of my cut panels using score tape and distress inked the edges in Walnut Stain and Black Soot distress inks. 

I colored the eye using the noline coloring technique by stamping the image with Antique Linen and used water color pencils to color. You can you use any kind of watercolors! 

Then taking a vintage-looking frame die, I cut out the die using black card stock. I also used vellum paper for some simple interest which I also distress inked and placed behind the eye. To frame my focal point eye image, I watercolored some random sprigs and foliage die cuts to create a wreath . To make everything POP, I added some red texture glue using an old bottle of Scribbles fabric glue to create that bloody amazing detail! You can use any red texture glue - like Nuvo drops would work perfectly!  I love this part! 

I wanted to keep the front of my card simple, so I put my sentiment on the inside. 

I used Whimsy’s amazing Happy Halloween Word Die for my sentiment.  I also used the bat eye from the “Eye Scream” Stamp set.  I cut off the wings to replace the “o” in Halloween. I love the font of this Happy Halloween Word Die so much! It evokes very spooky vibes!! 

 Presto! A simple Halloween Card that your gore-loving friends and family will love this Spooky Season!!! I would like to give Whimsy Stamps a big, Giant THANK YOU for letting me be a part of  the Halloween Blog Celebration!!! I had so much fun creating this card! I hope you all have a very fun and memorable Halloween Season!!! Take care! -Marie 

Thank you, Marie, for this amazing inspiration!  

To see more of Marie's work, please visit her blog or Instagram account.

Special Guest - Marie Marco

Hi, Whimsy friends!  If you haven't guessed it, we at Whimsy Stamps LOVE Halloween!  We've invited lots of fellow Halloweeners to share some amazing inspiration over the next month and a half.

First up is the awesome Marie Marco!  She is going to WOW you with her creations!

Hello Crafty Friends! 

I’m Marie and it’s my first time ever being a guest for a special Halloween blog post at Whimsy Stamps ! I’m so honored and excited to be here to share my Halloween 🎃 Card because Spooky season is my favorite season of all!! 

My Halloween card today features images from the Eye Scream Stamp Set. This set just spoke to my soul! It’s such a beautifully, creepy and unique stamp set! I haven’t seen anything like it before! 

The first step I took to making this card was to die cut an A2 size panel from Bristol Smooth Cardstock in order to do some ink blending. 

 

After inkblending, I added a few water splatters for texture, and I let it dry for a few minutes while I created a border frame from black cardstock. Using A2 sized nesting dies, I cut my border. After cutting my border, I used a white colored pencils to color in some white stripes reminiscent of Beetlejuice stripes! 

The fun part of any card I create is the coloring part! I first stamped my images in Antique Linen distress ink on Arches Watercolor Paper. I then colored them using watercolor pencils in the noline coloring style I love and adore so much.  After coloring my images, I fussy cut them using a small pair of detail scissors.

 When all my images had been cut, I started on my inked background panel by stamping out my background in a beautiful spiderweb design using Whimsy Stamp’s  Web Background Rubber Cling Stamp. I heat embossed my spiderweb background using black embossing powder. 

I cut out some black bats using the dies from the Build-a-graveyard Die Set as accents to my card! 

I played around with positioning my images and then glued them all down using liquid glue and ScorTape. For some of the eyeball bats, I used some fun foam at the back of each to add some dimension to my card, and that finishes off this super fun and Spooky Halloween Card! Thank you so much for stopping by and allowing me to share in my Cardmaking Passion! 

Have a wonderful day! Happy Halloween 🎃👻🕷🕸🦇

Thank you, Marie, for that awesome inspiration!!  

To see more of Marie's work, please visit her blog.