Boo Dance Party Collection: Halloween Fun with Joan Bardee

Joan Bardee here and I am delighted to share 3 fun and colorful cards using some cute products in Spellbinders’ Boo Dance Party Collection.

Dancin’ Ghost

You can’t have a Halloween Party without a dancing ghost, right? This Dancin’ Ghost is carrying a cute little bag full of die-cut candies, and the best part is that its striped legs swing back and forth!

Added a tiny hanging spider from Boo Dance Party Sentiments Clear Stamp Set to the ghost and accented it with a black sequin for a fun detail.

I wanted a background that wouldn’t distract too much from the ghost. After trying out a few options, I settled on using Color Block Slices Etched Dies in black and grays. Added a sentiment from Boo Dance Party Sentiments, trimmed the panel, and adhered to an A2 white card.

Haunt It House

My 2^nd card uses the Haunted House etched dies, which cut out the house and all the fun elements. The Color Block Landscape die (an all-time favorite of mine) “paints” the sky. I love how dies let us color without picking up a marker or paintbrush. The sentiment is also from Boo Dance Party Sentiments.

A Spooktacular Heart

Love to use the little dies and sentiments in sets – they are a goldmine of possibilities. Formed a heart with the sentiments and dies from Haunted House, Dancin’ Ghost, and Boo Dance Party Sentiments. Used my new favorite cardstock, Spellbinders Glacier, for a background so that the white ghosts would pop. I love this cardstock because it is a very pale icy blue that acts like a neutral.

If you want to form a shape (rectangle, heart, candy cane, letters – anything) with small stamps or dies, here are a few tips:

• Watch Yana Smakula’s video here on how to do it.
• Make a template with scratch paper first.
• Draw or trace the image with a very light pencil and then erase.
• Place the sentiment first and work around it.
• For a shape with curves, like a heart or circle, use stamps and dies with curves (the ghosts, bats, and spider webs).
• Use tiny stamp images or embellishments to fill in any holes.
• Try and use the images so that they form a triangle. For example, in this card, the spider webs are placed in a triangle.

Thanks so much for checking out this post and thank you to Spellbinders!

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Other Supplies

Embellishments, cardstocks, foam adhesive, Paper trimmer, tiny dot stamps, acrylic block, black ink, patterned paper, scissors.