Mary Ann's October Birthday

     Well, for the month of October we had only one Birthday Girl in the Gigglers.  It was Mary Ann, who just LOVES Halloween.  She always has a Stampin' Up party in October and between the decorations and the food you know she has a Halloween baby.  She also LOVES ATC's. (If you're not familiar with ATC's, they are Artistic Trading Cards measuring 3 1/2 X 2 1/2.  They can be traded, but not sold).  So size and content was already picked by her.  I just had to put it all together. 

     I picked The Artistic Outpost for my images.  Black was the color for the card itself.    After inking my background of the cardfront, I stamped the frame and vines/leaves.  On the frame I stamped Black Soot DI, then stamped it with Embossing ink and covered it the UTEE.  I was a little disappointed with the effect, so I used a Q-tip and Black Archival ink to add more darkness.  I sponged the edges with Black Soot DI.  Next I die-cut an oval and added the skeleton cameo, which is also embossed.  She looked a little plain, so I gave her some black pearl earrings and necklace.  A girl's gotta have her bling, right?  I then just taped it to the back of the ATC front. 

     Inside I blended color on the vanilla cs, added a die-cut spider web and a few punched spiders.  The sentiment I typed on my computer.  Hope you like it..........

Supplies:

Stamps:  Artistic Outpost

Paper:  SU Very Vanilla & Basic Black

Ink:  DI Black Soot, Dusty Concord, Dried Marigold

Dies:  Cheery Lynn Spiderweb, Spellbinder Ovals

Tools:  UTEE, Spider Punch, Gilder Ivory EP, Pearls