Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Layer up your backgrounds for a delightful yet frightful look for a Halloween card. This new Simon Hurley create. (@inklipse) release is full of backgrounds and images that are so fun to combine to make unique creations, like this card with a shaker and a swinging element!š¤šøļø
SUPPLIES:
Simon Hurley Create.:
-Clear Stamps: Framed Frights, Bad to the Bone, Hocus Pocus
-Background Stamps: Spider Web, Gothic Script Background Stamp
-Stencil: Damask
-Medium & Small Blending Brushes
-Stellar Ink Pads: Shady, Pompus, Crown Me, Fore, Black Widow
-Solar Spray: Trust Fund
-Stark White Cardstock
Ranger Black Embossing Powder
Dina Wakley MEdia:
-Transparencies:Clear
-Glue
Simon Hurley by Spellbinders:
-Coordinating Die Sets: Framed Frights, Bad to the Bone, Hocus Pocus
INSTRUCTIONS:
-Stencil a 4ā x 5-Ā¼ā piece of White Cardstock with the Damask stencil. Lightly ink over the stencil with Pompus and then Crown Me for a subtle background.
-Lightly ink the Spider Web background stamp with Shady + stamp this over the Damask background.
-With a medium blending brush, shade all four sides of this panel with Shady.
-Splatter this background with Trust Fun Solar Spray.
-Stamp the following images: skeleton, spiders, jar of eyeballs + eyeball bag in Black Widow on White cardstock + color as you like. Die cut them.
-Stamp the EYE LOVE YOU sentiment on a light/bright green card stock with Black Widow, die cut + then shade with a small blending brush + Fore.
-Stamp the frame, till death do us part sentiment + the cat on a gray cardstock with Black Widow + die cut. NOTE: when die cutting the frame, cut out the center of the frame, too.
-Die cut a solid frame from dark purple card stock. Stamp with Black Widow + the Gothic Script stamp.
-Cut a piece of transparency to 2-Ā½ā x 3.
-To assemble shaker frame: Adhere transparency to back of gray frame, then adhere skeleton to back of window sheet. On back of this frame, add foam tape all around the edges, making sure the ends all touch. Inside the foam tape + on the back of the skeleton add some shaker bits. Adhere the purple solid frame panel to the back of this to complete the shaker element. Ink the cluster of bats image with Fore, stamp it off on scratch paper + then on to your background panel on the upper right corner.
-Add the frame to the left-hand side of the card front background panel. Distress the edges of the Till Death Do Us part sentiment strip with the edge of your scissors. Adhere this to the bottom left corner of the card front. Pop up all images as shown.
-Hand cut a skinny strip of black card stock + stick it on the card like it is coming up out of the jar of eyes. Pop up the EYE LOVE YOU sentiment at the stop of this strip.
-Add a spider to the end of a piece of clear thread or fishing line. Tape the opposite end to the back of the card +bend it over to the front.
-Adhere panel to a black A2 card base.
Layer up your backgrounds for a delightful yet frightful look for a Halloween card. This new Simon Hurley create. (@inklipse) release is full of backgrounds and images that are so fun to combine to make unique creations, like this card with a shaker and a swinging element!š¤šøļø
SUPPLIES:
Simon Hurley Create.:
-Clear Stamps: Framed Frights, Bad to the Bone, Hocus Pocus
-Background Stamps: Spider Web, Gothic Script Background Stamp
-Stencil: Damask
-Medium & Small Blending Brushes
-Stellar Ink Pads: Shady, Pompus, Crown Me, Fore, Black Widow
-Solar Spray: Trust Fund
-Stark White Cardstock
Ranger Black Embossing Powder
Dina Wakley MEdia:
-Transparencies:Clear
-Glue
Simon Hurley by Spellbinders:
-Coordinating Die Sets: Framed Frights, Bad to the Bone, Hocus Pocus
INSTRUCTIONS:
-Stencil a 4ā x 5-Ā¼ā piece of White Cardstock with the Damask stencil. Lightly ink over the stencil with Pompus and then Crown Me for a subtle background.
-Lightly ink the Spider Web background stamp with Shady + stamp this over the Damask background.
-With a medium blending brush, shade all four sides of this panel with Shady.
-Splatter this background with Trust Fun Solar Spray.
-Stamp the following images: skeleton, spiders, jar of eyeballs + eyeball bag in Black Widow on White cardstock + color as you like. Die cut them.
-Stamp the EYE LOVE YOU sentiment on a light/bright green card stock with Black Widow, die cut + then shade with a small blending brush + Fore.
-Stamp the frame, till death do us part sentiment + the cat on a gray cardstock with Black Widow + die cut. NOTE: when die cutting the frame, cut out the center of the frame, too.
-Die cut a solid frame from dark purple card stock. Stamp with Black Widow + the Gothic Script stamp.
-Cut a piece of transparency to 2-Ā½ā x 3.
-To assemble shaker frame: Adhere transparency to back of gray frame, then adhere skeleton to back of window sheet. On back of this frame, add foam tape all around the edges, making sure the ends all touch. Inside the foam tape + on the back of the skeleton add some shaker bits. Adhere the purple solid frame panel to the back of this to complete the shaker element. Ink the cluster of bats image with Fore, stamp it off on scratch paper + then on to your background panel on the upper right corner.
-Add the frame to the left-hand side of the card front background panel. Distress the edges of the Till Death Do Us part sentiment strip with the edge of your scissors. Adhere this to the bottom left corner of the card front. Pop up all images as shown.
-Hand cut a skinny strip of black card stock + stick it on the card like it is coming up out of the jar of eyes. Pop up the EYE LOVE YOU sentiment at the stop of this strip.
-Add a spider to the end of a piece of clear thread or fishing line. Tape the opposite end to the back of the card +bend it over to the front.
-Adhere panel to a black A2 card base.
