Boo! It’s my favorite holiday and I made two versions of the Halloween Stair Step Card. Clever Cats are featured in Basic Black, Blackberry Bliss, Mango Melody and Basic White. Wondering where that DSP came from, as you don’t see it in any of the catalogs? Look again, because I colored one of the black and white designs from the Cute Halloween designer series paper with a Light Blackberry Bliss Blend. Super fast and easy to change the color. I fussy cut the cats, broom and pumpkin and popped them up on strategically placed dimensionals.
My second Halloween Stair Step Card showcases a graveyard with skeletons, tombstones, a resident spider and a sparkly bare-branched tree. The gravestones came from the Ornate Frames Dies. The middle one I used as is. I cut off the bottoms of the other two labels with my paper snips to get that tombstone look. It’s hard to see in the photo, but I fussy cut one of the skeleton faces on the far left panel and popped him up with dimensionals over the top of the printed skeleton face.
While both versions folded flat for mailing, the envelopes were quite thick and uneven. So I ran a piece of Basic White cardstock through the Subtles embossing folder and wrote the addressee information on one side. I used that piece as a backing for the folded stair step card and inserted both into a clear envelope with the address visible on the opposite side. Then a trip to the post office to purchase an extra 20 cents of postage for hand canceling. The wow factor of a clear envelope and seeing the card front made the extra cost totally worth it!
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