Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Halloween Card using Whimsy Stamps Spell Book and Spell Book Potions Stamp Sets

Happy Monday and welcome to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!  This week our theme is to incorporate trees.  I decorated the cover of my spell book with some Halloween tree images from Tim Holtz.  The spell book itself is from Whimsy Stamps.

I have to say that this Spell Book stamp set and its sister-set, Spell Book Potions, is a wonderful collection!  The Spell Book stamp set comes with the outline of the book and one spell book title, but if you have both stamp sets, you can customize the cover and make several different clever books.  I love stamp sets that offer different possibilities!  For this project, I started by stamping the book and choosing the title, which I also stamped on.  Because this week's challenge was to incorporate trees, I added some tree images onto my cover from Tim Holtz's Sketch Manor stamp set.  I adding a little color with Distress Watercolor Pencils.

I also used watercolors and ended up adding a final layer of color with Distress Crayons, which smudge beautifully when you need a good smudged look.

With my book complete, I cut a background panel out of black cardstock.  I used Tim Holtz's Deckle Torn Edge Trimmer to give the edges a rougher look.  I glued my book to the background and stamped over it with a cobweb stamp, also from Tim Holtz.  I heat embossed the cobwebs and added white and green paint around the edges of the black cardstock.  To make my book stand out even more from the black background, I outlined the cover with a white Posca pen.

 Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

• Whimsy Stamps Spell Book Stamp Set
• Whimsy Stamps Spell Book Potions Stamp Set
• Tim Holtz Sketch Manor Stamp Set
• Tim Holtz Trick or Treat Stamp Set
• Distress Watercolor Pencils: Set 4, Set 6
• Distress Crayons: Set 1, Set 3
• Watercolors
• White Posca Pen
• Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
• Tim Holtz Deckle Torn Edge Trimmer
• Distress Embossing Ink
• White Embossing Powder
• Heat Tool

Be sure to submit your tree project to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store!