Happy Thursday AI Friends!
Halloween was never one of my favorite holidays, but now, with all of these cute sets from Art Impressions, it has climbed the ladder to second. I can't seem to stop creating with all of these images and since Halloween is tomorrow, I thought I'd share two projects. Both of these were inspired by the "Along Came A Spider" challenge currently on the blog.
The card below is a pop up frame card. Push the sides in and the frame pop ups and away from Frankie. When the sides are pulled out, the card flattens to a 5 x 7 for mailing. Frankie's legs also wiggle side to side as well as his eyes. I used #6120 - Frankenstein Puppet, #5604 - Halloween Journal dies and the #5462 - Web dies set to create this card plus added a few sets of wiggle eyes (check out the little spidey on the left). LOL!

To make the card, cut two pieces of 5 x 7" black cardstock. Score both pieces at 1/2", 1", 6" and 6 1/2" along the 7" side. For the front, fold one piece as valley, mountain, mountain and valley (V,M,M,V) and the back piece, fold just the opposite (M,V,V,M). I recommend you decorate both pieces at this point so you can lay flat to glue decorations securely. You can place Frankie inside the frame at the end to position him just where you want him. Glue the front and back ends together with the 1/2" tabs on each side.

To make the dancing Frankie, cut all the pieces with the puppet die set, but hold up on the pants. You will need to cut an extra shirt piece from scrap cardstock. For the pants, you will need to stretch his legs. To do this, you will need to partial cut the legs up to the top of his pants by placing your cutting plate just under the cut line (of the top of the pants) so that it won't cut. Then free hand cut an additional 1/2" for the top of the pants (see below). I also rounded off the top corners of his pants. At the top of the pants (about 1/4" from top), punch a hole big enough for a pop dot to fit through freely. You may have to snip a little bit of the hole to make it larger. Place one side of the pop dot to the back of his shirt. Place the pants with the hole over the pop dot. Place foam tape onto the back side of the shirt and adhere the extra shirt piece onto the pop dot and foam tape. The legs should move freely at this point. Decorate the rest of your Frankie as you desire. Glue him into place inside your frame card.
To make the ghost tag, I used the scraps from my card above. This is always a great way to use up your scraps and create an extra tag, card, etc. for future. I die cut the ghost, spider and banner from the #6111 - Spooktacular set. The bow from the #5811 - Gift card pocket die set and the spider webs from the #5604 - Halloween Journal die set. I inked the ghost with black distress oxide ink and glued to a black die cut ghost to use as a shadow. Decorated her with cute little wiggle eyes and a bow on top of her head. I die cut two banners (one in black for the shadow) and wrote the word "spider!" across the white one. I cut the bow from scraps and attached a spider web behind it and placed a spider on top. Added a few more webs, spiders, ribbon on top and a little red heart and the tag is finished.

I hope you enjoyed my projects today. Thanks for stopping by!
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Happy Halloween! Keep on Creating!
Copics used: R20, T0, T2, T4