Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Spooky Salutations

Hi there! 

As soon as I saw the flying owl in the Cocoa Buddies set from the new Cider and Cocoa Fall release at Hello Bluebird I knew I wanted to challenge myself to create a spooky Halloween card with it. To help make that happen I pulled out a bunch of older stamps and dies, most of which are sadly no longer in stock. I started by using the Full Moon Scene Die to cut out the card front, I then removed the tree before stamping the owl just below its branches. I then proceeded to color the tree, grass and owl by hand using Copic markers. A mask was placed over the owl before I laid down a moon mask, that I created with the Light of the Moon Die, then air brushed in the night sky. It was then time to cut out some jack o'lanterns using the Jack Dies and color them too. Finally, it was time to start gluing all these parts and pieces together on the card base. The Spooky Script and Halloween Word Strips were used together to add the sentiment as a fun finishing touch.  :)

Later gators!


Supply list:
cardstock- Papertrey Ink and Copic X-Press It
stamps- Hello Bluebird (Cocoa Buddies, Spooky Script and Halloween Word Strips)
ink- Memento memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx black and Versamark watermark

Hero Arts detail white embossing powder

Hello Bluebird Full Moon Scene Die

Hello Bluebird Light of the Moon Die

Hello Bluebird Halloween Words Strips die

Hello Bluebird
Jack Dies
Sharpie extra fine white pen

Copic markers:

jacks- YR12, YR04, E97, E39/YR21, YR12, YR04, E97, E39, G43, G46, BG96/E50, E81, E31/YG93, E84, E87, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17

tree- E43, E44, E47, E49

grass- YG00, YG03, G43, G94, G99
owl- Y02, YR23, YR27/E40, E42, E43, W1, W3, YR23, E37

sky- V01, V04, V09, BV08, BV29, V25

moon- G20, V20, V22

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