Hand Made Halloween Greeting Cards

Halloween is right around the corner, and I love handing out holiday cards at work. These two were made with holiday napkins, black card stock, and Halloween scrapbook paper that I had in one of my drawers. A lot of stores, such as Michaels, Walmart, Target, and places like Dollar Tree will sell reduced scrapbook paper packs, some as low as one dollar in the bargain sections. While these papers might be thinner than the 'premium' papers, they work great when adding some pop and color to DIY paper craft projects! When I'm paper crafting, I use a Fiskars paper trimmer to make sure I get clean and even lines - it saves a lot of time, and keeps my hands from hurting.

For the pumpkin card, I used silver embossing powder. With both cards I used my Xyron (as mentioned in my last post) to make stickers that could be mounted on several different colored squares. You can achieve some depth here by using dimensional glue dots. For the glitter lines on the inside of the alien card (below), I used double sided tape and some of Martha Stewart's glitter. I like using this glitter when crafting because of its fine consistency and how vibrant the colors are.

The next two cards were made using one of my favorite new stamps from Michaels which I got on sale a few weeks ago. With the first card (below) I stamped the haunted house directly onto the purple scrapbook paper background and darkened the embellishments (bats, trees) I knew I wouldn't cut out with with a pen. I then stamped the same stamp onto white card stock and cut it out so that I could glue it with a dimensional dot over the first haunted house stamp. I used black embossing powder and covered it with black glitter while still hot. I colored the windows in with colored pencil, and added in a moon stamped on yellow paper. The frame embellishment is thanks to a Martha Stewart edge punch, but you could achieve a similar effect with any decorative edge scissor.

This final card was done using basically the same technique. The silhouette of the kids and the tree was fussy-cut from a scrap book paper and glued on with dimensional dots. The bats are embossed with clear Versamark glue.

There you go! Some quick and easy Halloween greeting card ideas using things most of us have laying around in our craft drawers. Let me see some of the stuff you are making this year in the comments!