Graveyard Chills - Whimsy Stamps

 

Graveyard Chills is a card I made as part of the Whimsy Stamps Halloweener Design Team 2022! I had a great time taking a non "Halloween" meadow die and turning it into a graveyard scene. If you have followed me for long, you know that I am fascinated with cemeteries, cemetery symbolism and don't find them scary since I see them as a reminder to take care how to live to be prepared for the inevitable end. So it should never be a surprise when I post a cemetery make. I have a lot of them. 

As usual, I filmed myself making this card, so I hope you enjoy the video tutorial.

The top of the card is Nevermore paper, the frame is from the Slimline Meadow die, the bats from the Build a Graveyard die, and the sentiment is from the Chills Word Die Set, all from Whimsy Stamps.

 

Moving down the card, I show the rest of the Slimline Meadow Die. It is Black Soot Idea-ology Cardstock that I colored with Distress Oxides and Distress Watercolor Pencils.

 

I added some skulls from the Build a Graveyard set onto the BaG tombstones and next to the tombstones. The gates and tombstones were aged with Distress Crypt Grit paste. Then when dry I rubbed some Distress Crayon in Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, and Ground Espresso onto them.

This is a great angle to be able to see the grit and texture added to the fences, tombstons and frame.

 

At the bottom of the card I have another set of gates and a large layered tombstone.

I was easy to tuck the tombstones under the different layers of the Slimline Meadow die.

I'm really so happy this card turned out as well as I had hoped it would. I hope you found something inspiring or interesting you could include in one of your makes.

Have a crafty day!

Tami

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