Happy Halloween!

I needed a RAK for a young man who has been hospitalized for a rare auto immune blood disease.  I still had some components left on my workspace from previous projects so I decided to make them the focus of the card.  It didn't take long and this was the result.

The base card was run through the Sizzix/TH Halloween background embossing folder.  Various purple, orange and green distress inks were smudged over the raised words.

In the center is a dark blue and black piece of decorative paper.  From the Sizzix/TH Halloween Shadows decorative strip die you'll find the fence, owls, tree and bat.  The harvest moon was cut with a circle punch.  The owls' eyes were colored with Kiwi Perfect Pearls.

I don't normally mail naked envelopes so I pulled out Tim's Apothecary stamp set and stamped the skull in Jet Black Archival Ink on the front.  For the back I stamped 'Happy Halloween' in JBAI and then again, slightly offset, in Venetian Orange AI.

 I'm so glad I didn't throw those extra pieces away when the previous project was completed!