Planning a Halloween party for your child, this year? Why not let him/her help you create the Halloween party invitations? With this simple card design, you can have 12 personalized invitations created in just one afternoon.
Materials:
- 2 - 9x12 Watercolor papers (90#)
- 1 - 4x6 blank greeting card with envelope
- 1 - 4x6 cardstock, white
- 1/2 inch letters: b, o, o
- Glue Dots® Continuous Lines
- Pop Up Glue Dots®
- Mini Glue Dots®
- White Gesso paint
- Liquitex acrylic paint
- Black marker
- Paper towels
- Water
Tools:
- Pencil
- Ghost cookie cutter
- Wooden fence template
- Sea sponge
- Paint brush
- Craft knife
- Scissors
- Self-healing cutting mat
Instructions:
- Paint both sheets of watercolor paper with gesso. Let dry.
- Paint 1 sheet of watercolor paper with dark colors and the other with lighter colors. For this example, I used brown, red, copper, and blue for the darker sheet and two shades of green for the lighter sheet. Let dry.
- Dab sea sponge into white, red, and cream colored paint, then gently tap it onto the lighter paper. Let dry.
- Turn the light colored paper over, place the cookie cutter on top of the paper, trace the shape, and cut with scissors.
- Trace the fence onto white cardstock.
- Sketch a leafless tree on the right side of the cardstock.
- Place the cardstock on top of cutting mat and use craft knife to cut out the fence and tree.
- Outline the fence and color in the tree with a black marker.
- Fold the greeting card in half, place it on top of the backside of the dark colored paper, and trace with a pencil.
- Cut out the 4x6 shape.
- Use Glue Dots® Continuous Line Adhesive to adhere the back of the dark paper onto the front of the greeting card.
- Use the black marker to sketch texture (wood grain) into the fence.
- Turn the ghost over and use Glue Dots® Pop Up Adhesive to adhere the ghost on top of the fence. (This particular adhesive will give the illusion of the ghost floating on top of the fence.)
- Turn your letter pieces over and use Glue Dots® Mini Dots Adhesive to adhere the letters on top of the right side of the fence.
- Use the black marker to trace an outline around the entire card.
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You can even create a cute invitation for your next Haunted House by choosing to use a house-shaped cookie cutter instead of a ghost. Here’s an example:
Here’s a tip for using Glue Dots® Adhesives:
These adhesives are double sided and pressure-sensitive. When you place the Glue Dots® Adhesive on the back of your watercolor paper, rub your finger over the liner a few times before removing it. If you don’t, the adhesive will come right up as you pull back the liner.
Also, because all Glue Dots are permanent aside from Removable Glue Dots® and Poster Glue Dots®, make sure you have everything lined up exactly right. If, for some reason your background paper is slightly off on one side, just trim the card to line up with your background paper.
Design and Photo Credit- Alyice Edrich
