Halloween Book Card

Halloooo to all. I am excited to share with you a new project that I have been working on. As you may know, I have been doing a lot of traveling back and forth to Portland, which means a lot of down time at the airport. I have been watching You Tube tutorials, looking for new ideas and I found one I was very excited to try.

Surprisingly it only took me one try to get the dimensions correct, but I did have a great on line tutorial to follow. I didn't follow the tutorial exactly as that book card had more flaps, and I wanted to do a smaller version first. The overall book was very easy to create. I decided to go with a Halloween Spooky theme as I had just purchased some great Halloween designer paper and Tim Holtz Laboratorie collection that I knew would have some great paper to choose from.

Here is the front of the card. I think I will add ribbon on the next one to be able to close it. I kept the front pretty simple as I thought the paper was great and did not want to cover it too much. I did add a key to work as a knob to open up.

This is the left flap. I had a lot of fun decorating this card. I used Jolee's Boutique stickers that I purchased after Halloween last year for 75% off. Whoa...what a great deal right? I hope to do the same thing this year.

The skeleton is from the Tim Holtz paper stack collection.

When both the right and the left flap are open, this is what you see. It looks like an entrance to a spooky house to me. I thought the little pumpkin mans standing guard was a great addition.

On the inside flaps you can see that I put blank paper stock so that a hand written message can be added. I thought this might be a cute place for a picture....so many possibilities.

You open up the doors to a spider web. Pretty creepy right? Just like I hoped. I made a little pocket that I added a couple of spider tags, but one could also stick a gift card in there as well.

The tags were from the Tim Holtz collection, and went perfectly in my spider's cave.

So what do you think? Overall I am very pleased with the outcome. There are a few imperfections, but I expected that on my very first one. This is one I will keep for myself and continue to perfect. I have all sorts of ideas for this design, especially with the holidays quickly approaching.

As soon as I perfect it, I will put up a tutorial with all the dimensions, but wanted to at least give you a sneak peak. Isn't creating fun!

I would like to enter my design into the following challenges:

• Crafting At the Weekend - #5 Anything Goes + DT Call
• Hiding in my Craft Room -  #165 - Super Scraps Saturday!
• My Time to Craft -  HALLOWEEN
• Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge -   Anything Goes......
• Vandicrafts Artistry Challenge  - #8: All Hallows Eve
• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards -  No. 73 - (W2 of 2) - Vintage
• Fussy and Fancy -  No.122 - (W2 of 2) - More than one fold
• Polkadoodles -  No.36 -  Tag, you're it! (W2 of 2)
• Simply Create Too -  No.70 - (W1 of 2) - Fall/ Autumn
• A Step in the Dark -  dark theme req. - #10 Anything goes