Eek! Floating Front Card - Whimsy Stamps

 This is my next installation in my Halloween in July blog posts. This was another post that had been lost in my blog post drafts that had never been published. 

 

Last year I enjoyed making a few floating front cards. The EEK! word die from Whimsy Stamps made for a perfect floating card front. 

Here is the video tutorial I made for this card. I did post this tutorial last year, I just never posted this blog to accompany it.  If you watched this tutorial last year, I hope you watch it again this year and get reinspired.

I just love the way the EEK! is so perfect for this card technique. 

The background was stamped with the Galaxy Galore Rubber Stamp which has since been retired, so lucky for you if you have it. If not, and starry background stamp will do. I stamped it in clear embossing ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder on watercolor paper. 

My next step was to make a blended purple background with Distress Inks and a blending tool. Don't use stains as it will soak under the stamp and the technique won't work. Once you have the background blended, spray it with a matching Distress Spritz and let it dry naturally. Then place a clean piece of paper over it and iron it with a hot iron to remelt the embossing powder and it will soak into the paper you placed on top. Now your background is finished.

The bat is black cardstock sprayed with Empty Tomb Distress Mica Stain which is a seasonal product from Ranger Ink. I added details to the Batty die with a white Signo pen. 

The Twinkle Scribble die was cut from a piece of watercolor cardstock that I had colored with Spiced Marmalade and sprayed with Spice Marmalade Spritz. 

The EEK! letters were also cut from watercolor cardstock colored with Spiced Marmalade and Spiced Marmalade Spritz. The EEK! word die has two shadows. The first shadow I just cut from watercolor cardstock.

  

The second shadow makes the card front float. Your card base must be a top folding A2 card. Align the bottom of the second shadow with the bottom of the card front. Place it on a cutting mat and align the top cutting plateabout 3/4 of the way up the die. Leaving the top 1/4 of the die uncovered as you do not want to cut it out. Run the die through the die cut machine and then trim the sides of the card off even with where the top of the cutting mat was aligned. This will leave just the bottom of the larger shadow hangin below the top square part of the card. Then attach the star background to the front and inside bottom of the card. Add the title and the Twinkle wreath and bat. 

I finished it off with a few Raven Pearl Embellishments from This Calls For Confetti.  

 

Of course the video tutorial does a much better job of showing how all that is done so be sure to check it out.

 

Thank you again for following along and I wish you a most creative day!

Tami

 

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