Hello Honey Bee friends! Since it’s almost October (I can’t believe how time flies!) I’ve made a not too spooky Halloween card featuring a few of the new sets in the Falloween release! I love how so many of Honey Bee’s sets work together such as the Owlloween stamps and coordinating dies with the Lovely Layers: Scaredy Cat dies.

Before I began, I die cut the moon in the Owlloween Honey Cuts from masking paper. Be sure to save the negative part to use later. Then I die cut a 4-¼” x 5-½” piece of masking paper with a hill die from the Horizon Slimline Borders Honey Cuts. These will be used as masks for the sky and the ground.

All of the inks I used for this background panel are Distress Oxide inks. I placed the mask for the moon onto an A2 sized piece of 80# white Neenah. I placed the mask for the ground at the bottom of the A2 white Neenah panel. Then I used ink blending brushes and the following colors to create the night sky around the moon: Prize Ribbon, Chipped Sapphire, Villainous Potion, and Black Soot.

Next I placed the negative moon mask around the moon. Using my MISTI, I inked up the moon stamp from the Owlloween stamp set with Lost Shadow. I used a blending brush to wipe away a lot of the ink in the center of the stamp so that the edges of the moon would be darker than the rest of it. I stamped the moon, then repeated this step as much as needed until I was happy with the look. Before I removed the mask from around the moon, I inked on Antique Linen just around the edges of the moon.

I removed the negative moon mask and put the mask for the moon back over it. I blended on a bit more Antique Linen around the edges of the mask blending out into the sky. Then I covered the sky with the other mask and blended on Black Soot, Chipped Sapphire and Prized Ribbon Oxides for the hill. I left a portion of the ground lighter to look like the light of the moon.

I know that sounds like a lot a lot of steps, but it was actually very easy to do. If you are more visual, like me, I will have a reel posted on my Instagram soon that will demonstrate these steps.

Note: I did the following step the next day to allow lots of time for the Oxide inks to dry thoroughly. I added anti-static powder to the inked nighttime panel. Then I stamped the tree from the Owlloween stamp set with clear embossing ink and added black embossing powder. I used my heat tool to set the powder. I love the bit of dimension and shine this adds!

Then I stamped the small bat in the Owlloween set with black pigment ink onto the background piece, some hanging from the tree branches and a couple sitting on branches.

The large bat and the pumpkin are from the Lovely Layers: Scaredy Cat Honey Cuts. I die cut black cardstock with the bat die. The bat’s nose/ears die and the pumpkins layers are die cut from white cardstock. After coloring the white layers with Carved Pumpkin and Crackling Campfire Oxides, I used glue to adhere the pieces together.

I trimmed the completed panel to 4-1/8″ x 5-3/8″ and glued it to an A2 sized piece of black cardstock.

I used foam tape to adhere the bat and pumpkin to the card. Then I stamped a sentiment from the Sweet Halloween stamp set with clear embossing ink onto black cardstock. I added white embossing powder and heat set it. I cut it out with the coordinating Honey Cut and adhered it with a foam strip.

I added gems from the Sweet and Spooky Gem Stickers to the pumpkin’s eyes. I used a white gel pen to add dots to the stamp bats’ eyes.

I’m definitely on team “not too spooky” for Halloween! Are you like me, or are you more “give me all the creepiness”? Either way, you can create your preferred style with these awesome sets!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful and crafty day!