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International Art and Soul Entry #92: Halloween Cards


Here on DannysCards.com, it's been a minute since I've worked on cards. That's for an assortment of reasons (mostly because I'm a teacher and school is my new top priority). But I also lost a bit of my inspiration, giving some way to other hobbies. But thankfully, with fall around the season and the holidays gearing up, there's no shortage of inspiration around here. 

This week's cards come courtesy of International Art and Soul blog and one of my favorite types of challenges, the Tic Tac Toe board. Let's take a look at the board:


For my first card, I went across the top, focusing on a bow, red and embossing. The red and embossing was easy, but for the bow, I went with twine on the side. I used a general stamping technique and here's the results:

The blood emboss folder is a creepy one with blood oozing down. I stamped the image several times and used 3D adhesive dots to give a white cut out a little pop. I colored it in with my copic markers, and voila.

For my second card, I decided to make use of mixed media. For this one, I went with diagonal up-right with embossing, a die and an image. Here's the results:

I love that Halloween is back. It's the perfect occasion for inspiration. I'm also working on some more Halloween cards, so come back soon for more creepy related cards.

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  1. Christine HarropSeptember 26, 2020 at 8:48 AM

    Wow!It's great to see something made specifically for a challenge. Thank you so much for your entries in our Tic Tac Toe challenge at IAAS and we would love to see you again. I'm so glad you enjoyed the challenge . Like you I really like this sort of challenge and loved making my DT card for it.Christine DT x

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  2. CGSeptember 26, 2020 at 6:40 PM

    WOW what great cards, and I'm so glad you were inspired by the Tic-Tac-Toe board! I especially like how you stamped directly onto the embossed background to make the perfect background! Thank you for joining our Tic-Tac-Toe challenge at IAAS, and I hope you'll join us for our new challenge beginning tomorrow. Best, CG

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