Halloween Spider Cards

Here are the two Halloween cards I made this year, both featuring spider webs but in different ways. This first card was a harder to pull off than I bargained for, but I do like how it turned out.  I started by trimming down a piece of white card stock to 4" x 5 1/4". I positioned my spider web die in the top portion of my card for placement and stamped the sentiment underneath. After stamping the sentiment I did the actually die cutting of the web. However, after running it through my die cutting machine I left all of the little pieces in place without punching any of them out. While they were still hanging together, I very carefully put a small piece of foam tape on the back of each negative space between the threads of the web.  I then added more foam tape around all of the edges of my white panel for support and adhered it to my black card base. Then I very carefully lifted out the web that I had die cut, leaving all of the negative pieces behind. It's hard to tell in the photo but this means that the whole white panel is popped up leaving the black web as a negative space underneath. It looks pretty cool! The spider is actually one of those cheap plastic kids rings that are so popular this time of year. I snipped off the ring portion and used a glue dot to adhere him in the upper right corner. Fun!

My second card is much more straight forward. I again began with a piece of 4" x 5 1/4" white card stock, this time stamping a spider web image in the top left corner. I used Versa Fine Onyx Black ink and then embossed it with clear embossing powder for some shine. I stamped the spider and the sentiment the same way, also embossing them. To create the thread the spider is hanging from I used a ruler and a fine tip black Sharpie. The panel was then adhered to a black card base and that is that!

Happy Halloween!


Supplies:
Stamps: Keep it Simple: Halloween (PTI), Creepy Crawly (Inkadinkado)
Ink: Versa Fine Onyx Black
Paper: Stamper's Select White (PTI), Basic Black (SU!)
Dies: Spider Web Trio
Other: clear embossing powder, plastic spider ring, 3M foam tape