Trick or Treat with Tim Holtz & Sizzix

Boo-Yeah, Friends! Happy Monday! I’m back today with a spooky card share featuring new seasonal products from the 2018 Tim Holtz and Sizzix Halloween release. This is the silly sweet Frightening Faces die set, along with the new Halloween Shadow Script set, a bold sentiment set that is sure to be a stand-out on your crafty projects this year.

Frightening Faces creates a myriad of silly faces, and one thing that I really love about it is that you can use either the positive or the negative shapes, giving you lots of design options. You all may remember the owl card I made awhile back that uses a mix of the positive face pieces to build the actual owl body (click here if you missed that post). And today I’m using the negative die cut shapes on a dark and moody panel made with Distress Oxide inks. I love the cutaway faces that creates, of course enhanced greatly, in my humble opinion, by the addition of googly eyes.

I used the negative cutouts of the Halloween Shadow Script set to make die cut openings for the sentiment, too. And then stacks of the script positives, die cut from silver metallic cardstock beneath and crisp black cardstock above, make the sentiment really pop. The silver layer on the bottom is a very subtle touch, but adds a bit of surprise when viewed from the side.

The card base itself is made up of several layers, starting with silver Distress Metallic cardstock that has been sanded for age. Layer two is white cardstock, edged all around in Idea-ology Halloween design tape. You’ll notice I used some additional pieces of tape to “hold down” the top layer, too. Finally comes the last layers of Distress watercolor cardstock, inked up in Halloween colors of Distress. The greens are a mix of Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress inks. The top panel is made with Oxides in Wilted Violet and Hickory Smoke. And while the inks were still wet, I trickled on spots of silver embossing powder, which were carefully heat set from below.

A single poison label cut from the Halloween Paper Stash adds a fun “tab” to the top of the card. And I finished off with Idea-ology hex nuts in the corners. Those guys totally remind me of the bolts on Frankenstein… so fitting for a little Halloween spook, don’t you think?

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope your week is off to a great start!

P.S.- I started up my annual Halloween Haunted House Tour this weekend. Keep scrolling down a post if you missed day one, and would like to catch up… or simply click here.

The supplies I’ve used are linked below: