Trick or Treat gift bag!

Well I was a bit mean earlier in the week and only posted a sneeky peak of my halloween project as part of the Elusive Images spooky blog hop. Here it is in its entirety! It's not a great one for any arachnophobes out there!!

Here is what I used:

A plain black gift bag
Some white card
Twilight Zone and Spookylicious Elusive Images stamp sets
Ranger black archival ink
Adirondack dye inks in sunshine yellow, cranberry and eggplant
Distress ink in spiced marmalade
Cut and dry foam
Non stick craft sheet
Purple mirri card
Wide decorated Halloween ribbon
Narrow orange ribbon
Double sided tape

I stamped the house onto white card in the black ink and cut the panel to just outside the stamped image. I cut a small tag from more white card, punched a hole and stamped the Trick or Treat words in black ink. Using the cut and dry foam, apply the different colour dye inks. The aim is to build a glow on your panel and tag, I love this effect, it must be one of my most favourite ways to use ink. Firstly apply the yellow ink right across the panel and tag, working with the foam from the outside in pulling the ink onto the card from your non stick craft sheet. Next add the orange ink working across the panel and tag again. Add some cranberry ink, keep this colour nearer to the edge leaving a glow in the centre, work your way around each edge. Finally add tiny amounts of eggplant ink in the corners and the very edges of the panel and tag - be very careful not to be too heavy handed with the darker inks.

When you are happy with your inking, mount the house panel onto a slightly larger panel of purple mirri card using double sided tape. Use a strip of the wide ribbon and mount it across the gift bag using double sided tape, folding the ends round into the fold of the bag. Stick the house panel onto the centre of the bag on top of the ribbon. Add a strip of the narrow ribbon onto the tag and stick this near the top of the bag with double sided tape.  That's your bag finished and ready to be filled with Halloween treats!

Dont forget to visit the Elusive Images Design Team blog to see all the stamp sets in their full glory. You can click in the side bar to find your nearest Elusive Images stockist. For those people ordering more than one set of these stamps, you can recieve a great inspiration leaflet, giving pages of ideas of how to use these spookylicious stamps. I've seen this leaflet and it is really great.

Happy stamping and happing hunting for the spooky Halloween blog candy.

Elaine xx