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 Supplies:

White or Black Cardstock or Blank Greeting Card

Black Paper (if use white cardstock)

Orange Paper

Black Ink Pad

Halloween Image

“Paper Shapers” Decorative Scissors – Deckle Edge

Adhesive (double-stick tape, glue or glue stick)

Optional: Dimensional Adhesive Foam Squares  

Optional: Halloween rubber stamp (called “Fred-a-Scare”)

Instructions:

1. Get a white or black pre-made blank greeting card at a craft store or make your own by folding a piece of cardstock in half and cutting off the excess paper to make it the size of a greeting card.
2. If your card is white, adhere black paper to the front of the card and trim away the excess black paper.  Double stick tape is the fastest, easiest method to use for attaching the paper to the front of the card, but glue or glue sticks also work well.
3. With a piece of orange paper, tear out (rather than cut) a piece that will fit inside the boundaries of the greeting card so the card will frame the orange paper (see picture).
4. Crumple the piece of orange paper and then unfold it again, but don’t flatten it completely.
5. Take a black ink pad a gently rub it over the ridges created by crumpling the paper, as well as the torn edges.  Only the raised ridges will have ink on them (see picture). 
6. Adhere this “distressed” looking piece of paper to the front of your card.  I sparingly used dimensional adhesive so that the paper would be partially raised from the black surface of the card to give it dimension and interest (see picture, although it is kind of difficult to see it).  If you are using regular tape, you can create your own dimensional adhesive by wadding up a small ball of tape to create dimension.  Use this “ball” of tape to apply the orange paper.  Ultimately, you can apply the orange paper in any way that works for you.
7. Find a Halloween image you want to place in the center of the card.  You could use a free clip art image, a rubber stamp, or a scrapbooking embellishment, for example.  For this card, I used a rubber stamp to create the skeleton on the white cardstock.
8. Trim the Halloween image using decorative-edged scissor called “Paper Shapers.”
9. Rub the black ink pad along the edges of the Halloween image to blacken the edges (see picture).  You can also randomly rub the very edge of the black ink pad across the Halloween image itself to also give it a “distressed” look.
10. Apply the Halloween image in the same way you applied the orange paper.

THAT’S IT!  You’re done! 

Happy Halloween crafting everyone.