Count Dracula Cute Halloween Card

PANIC MODE!! I needed a cute halloween card…and QUICK!! I had to make it AND mail it ASAP and with the distance it was going to, it likely still won’t make it before Halloween. Darned. Just goes to prove how the best laid plans can and do go awry! The original card was a pull up spider card with big googly eyes that I had finished before going on vacation…I was so proud of myself for having finished it “early”! But first day back from vacation, when I put it in an envelope…I realized it was thicker than 1/4”, which meant that postage fell under the “thick envelope/package” category. Sending it to Canada (even thought it was light and only 1 ounce) and would cost $14!! (And that’s just the card without any Halloween candy!) So, despite the card being specially made, I needed an alternate Halloween card super quick! This is what I came up with:

The printed papers come from last year’s Cute Halloween DSP pack. I just sold out of my DIY Sampler kits of this on Etsy but I’m sure someone else on Etsy or eBay will have it if interested. I created a folded flap and couldn’t decide until the last moment whether to glue it down or not. Final decision was to NOT glue it down. 😆 

The punch art “Count” body is the larger shape from the Penguin Punch and his face is the smaller of the larger shapes from the same punch. The horns are from the Whale punch!! I free hand drew the face features and used a tiny scrap of the printed DSP to cut out a bow tie. The “Boo” stamp is from my stash…

And here’s the inside:

though I added a sentiment from the Frightfully Cute stamp set after I took the photo that said “You’re so sweet…it’s SCARY!!” 

And yes, I blotched the stamp impression but it was already glued in so there were no easy redo’s. So off it went to a dear great niece in Canada. Hope she  likes it (and that it doesn’t arrive too late). My next post will be the original pull up spider card that WILL get sent to a special great niece and nephew on the east coast (where it’s not crazy expensive to send a thick envelope!).

Hope this post made you chuckle! Thanks for stopping by…Have a wonderful day.