J’ai plus de souvenirs que si j’avais mille ans

Finished another Hallowe’en card, this one features Vampire Queen, another sadly retired stamp from Kraftin’ Kimmie.

I’ve taken up the challenge from Inkspirational to use five stamps on my card.  One is my image; I’ve then added a second and third by stamping the bat twice again on acetate, heat embossing it and then colouring it with a Tim Holtz Distress Crayon.  My fourth is the sentiment, another Kraftin’ Kimmie stamp but from another Hallowe’en set, stamping and heat embossing on acetate isn’t so easy so the sentiment is a bit hard to read.  I like to think it is ‘distressed’ like it’s been carved in stone and worn over time, suitably fitting for a vampire themed card.  My fifth and final stamp is the web and Spider from IndigoBlu.  I’ve also heat embossed this, unfortunately I used a clear embossing powder (I’d never used it before and it seemed to be white!) so I then went in with some Molotow Paint Markers to be able to see the actual stamping.

The heat embossing of my background images was inspired by the current challenge at CAS on Sunday.  The CAS layout of the card follows the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.  I wanted some added interest hence the acetate panel, I was going to do it as a shaker but then realised that would make the embossed web and sentiment hard to see.  I did the background of the panel in Distress Inks and colours in keeping with a dark night, just the time when vampires like to venture out.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes B01

Eye shadow BV20, BV23, BV25

Lips R59, R89

Hair B01, BV23, BV25, BV29

Wings C4, C6, C8, C10

Outfit BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29, R24, R35, R37, R59, R89

Crown & Skulls Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Bat C4, C6, C8, C10

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder Antiquities ~ Frosted Crystal

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Black & Detail White

Inks & Paints etc

Molotow Paint Marker ~ Signal Black & Signal White

Spica Pen ~ Red

Stampin’ Up! Archival Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Crayon ~ Twisted Citron

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans, Salty Ocean & Stormy Sky

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot

Papers

Crafter’s Companion ~ Heat Resistant Acetate

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Elegant Eggplant & Whisper White

Stamps

IndigoBlu ~ HP 1 Hocus Pocus

Kraftin’ Kimmie ~ My Best Friends are Witches sentiment (retired) & Vampire Queen (retired)

Challenges

CAS on Sunday #93 ~ Heat embossing

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #193

Inspirational #119 ~ Designer’s Choice: Use Five Stamps

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