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I love creating a scene. Not the kind that leaves the public squirming in discomfort, but the kind that is perfectly placed on a greeting card. Amanda here today with a few fun ways to create scenes with stickers on Halloween cards.

Using a single package of cardstock stickers from the Thirty-One collection, I created a trio of Halloween cards, each with it’s own spooky scene.  I had so much fun mixing and matching stickers, I kept making cards until I ran out of stickers!  To see some bonus cards made with stickers from the Thirty-One collection, head on over to my blog.

This happy jack-o-lantern card was created with patterned paper and a few stickers. The star paper sets the scene at night and the striped paper creates Boo Street. I popped up a couple of pumpkins with foam to add dimension to the scene. I stitched a border around the card to add a bit of texture.

The skull paper from the Thirty-One collection is my favorite. It is a little bit creepy and a little bit fun all at the same time. I paired the ghoulish skulls with the silvery ghost stickers and created a custom sentiment to complete this simple scene. I used a tear strip to created the striped border and stitched around the card to add some texture and color to the card.

I popped up the custom sentiment with foam to add dimension to the card. Head over to my blog to see additional ways to use this custom sentiment and download it for FREE.

This next scene has lots of details and layers.  I adhered chevron paper to the card base and added a herringbone hill to create the background. I stitched the papers to the card, adding stitching detail to the top of the card. I layered all kinds of scary stickers to the card to create a spooky night scene.

I added depth to the scene to adhering the tree with foam. The clouds are adhered directly to the card making them appear as though they are floating behind the tree. I also popped up the little bat with a foam square.

One of my favorite tricks when working with lots of stickers is making them unsticky by coating the back with a thin layer of cornstarch. With a dry paint brush, I apply a thin layer of cornstarch to the back of the sticker and gently brush off the excess cornstarch into a garbage can. Unsticky stickers are easy to reposition, which is important when creating a scene on a card. After I have determined the final placement of a sticker, I adhere the stickers to my project with a tape runner or other adhesive.

After I had applied corn starch to all of my stickers, I experimented with background paper. I arranged a bunch of non-sticky stickers on a piece of patterned paper until I had a scene that I was happy with.

While the orange chevron paper was fun, I wanted my scene to have a spooky nighttime feel, so I placed the stickers on a black background to see what they looked like. Because the stickers were no longer sticky, it was super easy to move them to a different paper and try moving some of the stickers to a different position.

Happy Halloween!
Amanda

Supplies:
Thirty-One Cardstock Stickers 6×12 Phrase and Accent
Thirty-One Double Sided Cardstock 12×12 Mystical
Thirty-One Double Sided Cardstock 12×12 Dreadful
Thirty-One 6×6 paper pad