Pals October Trick-or-Treat Blog Hop!

Trick-or-Treat! It's time for some fun and festive crafting with the Stampin' Pretty Pals! You've probably hopped over from Claire Crotteau-Hutt at Stamppaperscissors.  I'm stop number 12 on the Pals Hop and I'm glad you hopped in!  I'll help you "hop along" from blog to blog where you'll find great ideas for Stampin' Up! Halloween projects along with some tricks and treats along the way!   Should you hop off course, simply click on any of the links in the Pals Hop Line-up below and you'll be back on track.

My Trick or Treat project is this Spooky Halloween card.  All products are Stampin' Up!.

Card Stock:  Basic Black, Tangerine Tango and Old Olive
DSP: Paper Stack Brights Collection
Ribbon: 3/8 Inch Taffeta Ribbon Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie
Stamp Sets: Wicked Cool and Dark and Dreary (retired)
Ink: Illuminate Glimmer Watermark

You've been TRICKED! Lucky you! I'm sharing a great trick that you can use on your next project. 

My trick is the "direct to paper" method of ink application.  Stampin' Up!'s Illuminate Glimmer Watermark ink adds a luminous shimmer to stamped images.  When I used the Stampin' Up! Illuminate ink, I applied the ink directly to the card stock;  ink pad to paper. 

After embossing the Spider Web design on the Basic Black card stock, I simply placed the opened ink pad directly on the embossed design and dragged it along the length of the design.  You can see the dragged effect below.  This is an alternate method of applying ink, and for this project, it produced a cool effect.

I needed a Spider for my web so I resurrected the Spider image from the Dark and Dreary stamp set.  This ink worked well on the black card stock to produce the spider, which I then cut out and placed on the spider web.

The Illuminate Glimmer Watermark ink is available in the Holiday Catalog on page 23.  My next project for this ink will be some  shimmery Christmas ornaments.

Now hop along for more tricks and treats and some spooky ideas from Laurie Chilton at Stampin' Ink,  stop number 13, on the Pals Trick-or-Treat Blog Hop!  Thanks for "hopping" by.

1. Barb Furlong at The Love of Stamping
2. Kim Czenszak at Live Love Stamp
3. Nicole Picadura at Scraps & Stamps 
4. Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty 
5. Beth Beard at My Little Craft Blog 
6. Peggy Noe at Prettypapercards.com 
7. Kerry Willard Bray at Stampgoodness 
8. Debbie Crowley at expressively deb... 
9. Naki Rager at ...notes from Naki 
10. Sherrie Gross at Stampin Sunshine 
11. Claire Crotteau-Hutt at Stamppaperscissors 
12. Diane Roberts at Score at Four and a Quarter   you are here
13. Laurie Chilton at Stampin' Ink 
14. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping 
15. Rae Harper at Wild West Paper Arts 
16. Brian King at Stamp with Brian 
17. Ann Schach at The Stampin' Schach 
18. Nicole Watt at Impressions by Nicole
19. Shannon Hokanson at My Stampin Blog 
20. Maggie Mata at Maggie Made Cards 
21. Sandra Conner at Pretty Provisions
22. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin' Space