Trick or Treat Silhouette Family Card with Moonlit Stencil Effect

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Create a charming Halloween card featuring a family of trick-or-treaters stamped across the base, enhanced with a stencilled moonlit halo and white gel pen highlights. The result looks like a hand-painted watercolour scene with minimal effort.

You will need

848564 - HSN - Happy Haunting Reflection Collection PapersSEE IT 848562 - HSN - Halloween - Reflection CollectionSEE IT

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Step by step

1. Select a patterned paper from the Happy Haunting Reflection Collection as your card base. ▶ watch 20:00
2. Ink up the family reflection stamp with black ink on an acrylic block. ▶ watch 21:15
3. Press the stamp onto the base of your card, filling the lower area as if children are running to neighbours' houses. ▶ watch 22:00
4. Overlap the stamp slightly and reposition it to create a natural, flowing arrangement without symmetry. ▶ watch 22:30
5. Position the stencil mask insert on the upper portion of the card where you want the moon to appear. ▶ watch 24:15
6. Tap white ink onto a stencil brush and apply it around the stencil opening to create a moonlit halo effect. ▶ watch 24:45
7. Lift away the stencil carefully to reveal the glowing moon. ▶ watch 25:15
8. Lightly apply the stencil again to the interior of the moon and tap white ink to soften the glow. ▶ watch 25:30
9. Using a white gel pen, add highlights to the tops of the silhouettes' heads, arms and shoes to catch the moonlight. ▶ watch 26:15
10. Stamp the 'Trick or Treat' sentiment in black ink onto the card. ▶ watch 27:45
11. Adhere the sentiment to your card to complete the design. ▶ watch 29:30

Tips from the show

• Reflections are never perfect, so the stamp design intentionally becomes slightly jaded towards the bottom to create a realistic reflection effect.
• You can repeat the family stamp design to fill the entire card base or position it just at the centre or lower edge depending on your preference.
• The white gel pen highlights on the right side of the silhouettes create the illusion that the moon is reflecting down onto the figures.

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