Halloween skull card using crafty individuals stamps

Evening everyone!!

Trying to keep on top of my blog again - not sure how long it'll last though!

Made this skull themed card for my brother's birthday. We're all a little skull mad in my family so this skull stamp from Crafty Individuals was perfect for this card.

Stamp and emboss the gothic crow in black ink.

Create a mask by stamping the crow on mask it sheet and cut it out. 

Place it over the stamped image.

Hold the circle stencil in place and ink the background.

Remove the stencil and lightly ink the moon area.

Build the colours on the background using wilted violet and picked raspberry. 

Stamp the branches in black ink.

Stamp the barbed wire in black ink.

Remove the mask and colour with spectrum noir tri blend pens.

Add some highlights with a white sakura pen.

Stamp and emboss the skull stamp. 

Create a mask and ink the background.

I wanted to add a pop of colour so added a little twisted citron. 

Colour with spectrum noir tri blend pens and add some white highlights. 

Dry emboss the skull and roses. 

Place the image on a foam mat and draw around the skull and roses with a ball tool. Turn it over then do the same from behind. This should leave a lovely raised area.

I decided it needed some shading to ground the image so water coloured some chipped sapphire under the skull.

Stamp the crow twice and cut out. As you can see I snipped the legs off one image and the front wing off the other. This was intentional!!!

Colour the image and add some white highlights. Curl the top wing over a pen.

Stick the one without legs on the other one. Do not stick the wing.

Add some silver foiling around the edge of the skull and your background.

Using the new crafty individuals stencil draw some birds with a fine liner black pen.

Mount the skull topper and background onto black card, then on a pre folded 7x7 card blank.

Finally stick the crow in place using pinflair glue to give the wing a raised effect.

Thanks for joining me.

X - Dena -X

Shopping list

- Gothic Crow CI-500

- Be wild Stamp set CI-583

- Crow Set CI-361

- Skull stamp CI-529

- Stencil

- White card

-Black card

- Pre folded 7x7 card blank

- Masking sheet

- Distress inks

- Black ink

- Embossing powder 

- Heat gun

- Spectrum noir tri blend pens

-- White sakura pen

- Black fine liner

- Glue

- Pinflair glue

- Ball tool and foam mat

- Silver foil

- Quickie glue pen