Haunted House by Helen Chilton

I couldn't resist a Hallowe'en post this week seeing as it's the 29 October.

I've used a whole variety of stamps and stencils for this one.

To make my haunted house, I used Melina's house stamps...

...and built them up. The stamping doesn't need to be perfect as...

...you're going to paint them black so that they're silhouetted. I then cut them out to give a crisper outline.

I stencilled a yellow moon using Distress Oxides and the A4 circle stencil, then inked in the whole piece of card.

 

Then I inked just round the edge of the moon with the Weathered Wood Distress Oxide inkpad to make it stand out.

After that it's just a case of building up the stamping with trees, the scarecrow, the stalky things and the bird.

Add some bats with Craftyboard and a Dinky stencil.

And then stencil some tiny mushrooms. The text is stamped onto orange card.

I've used two tone stamping here to give the card more depth. I always enjoy building up scenes like this - I hope you've enjoyed it too!

Helen