Halloween Skull Shaker Card with Stampendous

Hello everyone!  It's getting really really hot here.  Monday, at 3 p.m., it was almost 110F and the air was not moving.  I love the heat and summer but this is way too early.  Summer does not start for another 60-ish days.  

Well, making another card for Halloween was not really on my list this week. But while looking through a stack of my unused stamps I came across this rocking Skull Stack by Stampendous, which has been sitting in my stash for a few years now, and I had to finally do something with it.  So I made my first ever shaker card!

I am entering this into two card challenges.  The Stamp Ink Paper Challenge blog has Challenge 70 - Tic Tac Toe - 

And the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog has Challenge 49 - Boo! - 

Now...to make the card - I started with a top folding A2 card base of white cardstock.  Then I stamped the Skull Stack (retired) by Stampendous on a piece of white cardstock with black ink.  Using the 2nd largest die from the Stitched Rectangle Stax by MFT, I die cut the part of the image I wanted to use.

Next I placed the two largest dies from the same set onto a piece of black cardstock and die cut them.  This gives me my frame for the window of the card.

Next I cut a piece of acetate using the largest rectangle die.  I also picked a piece of decorative orange paper from Thrilling by Authentique and a phrase from another piece of decorative paper from the Ghosts & Goblins Matstack by DCWV (both from my stash).

Next I adhered the orange paper to my card front, adhered the cardstock with the skulls to the orange paper, glued some small googly eyes to some of the skulls, and placed some black and purple sequins and some orange and purple beads on top of the skulls.  Next I glued the acetate to the back of the black frame and then adhered double sided tape to the back of the acetate.  

Once the googly eyes were dry, I flipped the window frame over and adhered it over the skulls.  Then I adhered the phrase to the left of the window.  

And the card is done!  I love how the sequins and beads sometimes get trapped within the skulls and drop down like a pinball machine.  LOL  

I don't know why I was mentally blocking shaker cards.  For some reason I thought they were more time consuming than they really are.  This was so much fun to make.  Of course now I have other ideas in my head.  Hmmm, are there any shaker card Christmas challenges coming up??  LOL  I hope you liked this card.  Feel free to leave a comment below and, until next time - 

Hugs from Brasil - 

Michael