Resistance Is Futile

Triple matted card with skulls. The skulls and cover sentiment are embossed with Glow in the Dark. Spooooky. Halloween, resistance is futile.

With the lights off, the card has a spooooky glow.

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Totally Resistable

Try It on Tuesday: Scary and Spooky
Crafty Cardmakers: Things that Go Bump in the Night
Southern Girls: Punches and Dies
Just for Fun Rubber Stamps: Halloween

Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything Goes
Krafting Kimmie Stamps Saturday challenge: Anything Goes
Crafting From the Heart: Anything Goes
Aurora Wings: Anything Goes

Supplies

InLinkz.com

Putting It Together

I like the look of multiple matted cards and a card using embossing paste resist is perfect for this style.

To start, I stamped and embossed skulls on a panel. The embossing powder is Glow in the Dark to give a spooky look. It's not easy to see the slightly yellow embossed images on the white cardstock, so...

...I used the blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink to darken the panel. The embossing acts as a resist for the ink, leaving those areas the colour of the card and embossing. After adding the ink, I used a dry cloth to buff the embossed skull and remove the sheen of ink from the embossing.  This also brightens up the skulls, too.

I ran the skull panel through with the stitched rectangle die to make 3 cut panels. I used every other die size. I found the orange glitter silk card in my stash, perfect.

I used the same dies, the in-between sizes to cut the orange and dry fit the panels together.

To prepare the card base, I used the same Black Soot ink to darken the inside and front to give the rest of a card a spooky look.

I glued to largest two panels together, and then...

...attached them directly to the card base.

I glued the next two sizes together and added foam mounting tape to have the panel higher than the base.

And added to the card.  I lined up the skulls.

I affixed the smallest panels together and added foam mounting tape. To help keep the centre from being crushed, I put in a double stack of the foam tape.

And the multi mounting is done.

I embossed vellum with the same Glow in the Dark powder.

I trimmed the sentiment to a double flagged banner. The nice thing about vellum, it takes shaping so well.

I balled up half a dot of Glue Dot Craft dot to place at each side of the banner. To obscure the adhesive, I put down a dot of Onyx Liquid Pearls.

I added a sentiment to the inside placed in the area intentionally left a bit lighter.

I added a confetti spider to the empty spot in the top panel.

And, in the dark...