A Wonderfully Wicked Gothic Bats Card
October 25, 2019|Posted in: Creativity
The Wonderfully Wicked stamp set isn’t particularly scary…until the bats summon Nosferatu.
I wanted to try using the Stained Glass dies for a Halloween card. Since they have that gothic appeal, castles come to mind, which at Halloween time makes me think of vampire movies. Scary movies are not my thing, but the 1979 movie Nosferatu the Vampyre is scary and creepy and artistically fascinating. At one point he enters a victim’s room by flying into her room (in a castle, of course) as a bat. So now you have my set up!
To start, Gray Granite is the perfect color for this card. I cut a piece at 4″ x 5-1/4″ and centered the square die and the half-circle die to create a window. For the outside sky background I used Seaside Spray. I stamped three bats from Wonderfully Wicked in black, and very lightly sponged some Seaside Spray ink on the card stock. Then I glued it behind the card front piece. Next, I glued the two die cut pieces back in place, to create my castle window.
So far so good, but the plain card stock was too plain. And that is why you need texture stamps. I used that big scratchy blob image from Artisan Textures to create the roughened stone castle wall. And I swiped the card stock edges across the Gray Granite ink pad to edge the paper.
This was all glued on to the card base, and voila – the arrival of some wonderfully wicked gothic bats at the castle. Or is it Nosferatu…
(for a fun and sparkly bat card using the Wonderfully Wicked stamp set, take a look here)
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