Halloween Card #2

Here is a card of my own design. I knew I wanted to use a spiderweb, and the rest evolved around that. Simple, but cute. You can see this card in person soon, on display at Heartland Paper.

I used a spiderweb shape from my Silhouette files and altered it just a bit to stretch to all the edges of the card. I can’t find this exact shape in the Silhouette store anymore, but there are still plenty of spiderwebs to choose from.

Here are the rest of the instructions:

Materials:
Pattern paper: Haunted Hallows “Frames” and “Spiderweb” by Teresa Collins
Orange cardstock for base
Black cardstock for spiderweb, cut with the Silhouette machine
Black netting/tulle
Black pipe cleaner
Googly eyes
Black inkpad for inking paper edges
Adhesive: Aleene’s Tacky Glue, plus paper adhesive

1. Cut orange cardstock to 8.5” x 5.5”, then fold in half for card base.
2. Cut polka-dot side of “Frames” paper to 3.75” x 5”. Ink the edges with black inkpad.
3. Cut spider web with Silhouette machine from black cardstock.
4. Using approx. 5” square of black netting, glue it to the back of the spiderweb (liquid glue works best here). Once dry, trim the extra netting away.
5. Cut out desired word strips from back of “Spiderweb” paper. Ink the edges with black inkpad.
6. Using a black pipe cleaner, cut four 2” pieces for the legs. Twist them together in the center and bend the end for legs. Take the remaining piece of pipe cleaner and twist it into a tight spiral for the spider’s body. Glue the body to the legs and the googly eyes to the body.
7. Adhere the polka-dot paper to the center of the card front. Glue the spiderweb to the card front on the left side. Adhere the word strips along the right edge of card front. Glue the spider to the web.