Spooky Gel Printed Card

Halloween is a great time to experiment with deeper shades, interesting textures, and unique combinations. Things don’t need to be pretty or perfect…in fact, the weirder and more off-kilter they are, the better! Let’s use a variety of Imagine products to make a spooky card for Halloween. This project is part of the #TillDeathDoUsCraft Instagram Hop. 7 of us are posting a Halloween project throughout the month of October, each on our own designated day. I have the full list, with links at the bottom of this post.

Skill: Beginner to Intermediate
Time: 30 Minutes, including drying time

Directions:

Step 1: Apply Silvery Shimmer Delicata Ink Refill to a 6×6 gel printing plate and roll out with a brayer.

Step 2. Lay your stencil on to the gel plate. Using a piece of scrap paper, rub the negative space areas to pick up the ink. Pull the print. You won’t be using this print for this project, but you can save it for another time.

Step 3: Lift the stencil off of the plate.

Step 4. Lay a piece of 4″ x 5 1/4″ black cardstock on top of the plate, where the stenciled image is. rub the paper on to the plate firmly, making sure to rub all areas to ensure a clean pull.

Step 5: Pull the print.

Step 6: Splatter irRESISTibles Spray in Love Letter on to the gel print. I open the bottle and tap the straw to get nice, big splatters. Let dry.

Step 7: On a piece of gray cardstock, stamp a solid or silhouette image with VersaMark ink. I used a crow.

Step 8: Sprinkle Shimmering Night Sky Mboss powder on to the inked image, tap off the excess, and heat set. Then, you can fussy cut the image out.

Step 9: Die cut your sentiment out of a deep orange cardstock.

Step 10: Using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, press the front side of the letters into the pad gently. Memento ink pads have a wonderful texture, which will work perfectly with our creepy card.

Step 11: On a black A2-sized card base, ink the edges with Black Shimmer Delicata Ink.

Step 12: Adhere all of your elements on to the card base.

Supplies:
Imagine:
Delicata Ink in Black Shimmer
Delicata Reinker in Silvery Shimmer
irRESISTibles Spray in Love Letter
VersaMark Ink
Mboss in Shimmering Night Sky
Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black

Other:
Black, orange and gray cardstock
Tim Holtz: Crossbones Stencil, Crow Stamp
6×6 Gel Printing Plate
Alphabet Dies

#TillDeathDoUsCraft Hop List:

Monday: Marie:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/mariesvermontcreations/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MariesVermontCreations

Tuesday: Alison (that’s me!):
IG: https://www.instagram.com/alisonheikkila/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTEZNvtP4X_zkElPShF1QIw

Wednesday: Michele
IG: https://www.instagram.com/scrapsecrets1120/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWHXQsEw1Qg6fC5q6lJTRyg

Thursday: Candice
IG: https://www.instagram.com/candoodlecreations/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Candoodlecreations

Friday: Terra
IG: https://www.instagram.com/mayhamcraftycards/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MayhamCraftyCards

Saturday: Nancy
IG: https://www.instagram.com/handi_scandi/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4SMddMdKd37YsMYDC2fMw

Sunday: Rhiannon
Her creations can be found on my social media listed above on Tuesday. She’s only 12, so she doesn’t have her own social media accounts.