🌕 Super Moon for Spooky Season

Happy Friday, crafty friends! There’s something so magical about a glowing moonlit sky filled with bats. This card captures that perfect spooky-season vibe with a forest silhouette, a big glowing moon, and eerie bats flying above. Let’s walk through exactly how to make it — step by step — so you can create your own hauntingly beautiful card!

🖌️ Step-by-Step Tutorial

1. Create the Moon Background

• Using the Antique Linen and Old Paper Distress Ink, color the Super Moon Stencil layers.

• Create a mask by tracing the Super Moon stencil on the Easy Peel Masking Paper.

  
  
  

  

2. Blend the Night Sky

• Keeping the moon masked, blend Cracked Pistachio, Evergreen Bough & Hickory Smoke to create a spooky sky. Us the lightest color around the edges of the moon and mix the grey for the look of clouds.

• Lightly blend a bit of Black Soot near the top edges for a moody night effect.

  
  

  

  
  

3. Stamp the Trees

• Remove the moon mask and stamp your tree line across the bottom of the panel using VersaFine Clair in Obsidian first. Use the grey ink to stamp some of the trees to create dimension.

• Or double stamp if needed to get a crisp, deep silhouette.

  
  

4. Add the Bats

• Use the small Bat Stickers randomly in the sky. (Odd numbers are usually best)

5. Add the Sentiments

• Cut apart the sentiments you want from the Just Boo-Cause Sentiment Strips and use thin adhesive strips to adhere.

6. Finishing Touches

• Use a white gel pen to add tiny stars (or you can use white paint splatters with the moon mask on and before stamping the trees).

• Mat the panel on black cardstock for contrast and adhere to a light green card base.

  
  

And there you have it — a mystical forest scene under a hauntingly beautiful full moon! 🛒 Supplies Used

• Unity Stamp Company

  • Just Boo-Cause Sentiments – for the “devoted to the moon” and “bats fill the night sky” strips

  • Super Moon Layering Stencil

  • Long Rooted Truths

  • Bat Stamps 

  • Easy Peel Masking Paper

• Inks (Distress Ink – Tim Holtz/Ranger)

  • Cracked Pistachio

  • Evergreen Bough

  • Hickory Smoke

  • Black Soot

  • Antique Linen

  • Old Paper

• Paper

  • Smooth ivory cardstock (for ink blending)

  • Black cardstock (for matting)

  • Light green card base

• Other Tools & Supplies

  • Blending brushes or foam blending tools

  • Misti Stamping Tool

  • White gel pen (for stars)

  • Paper trimmer

  • 0.25" Foam Tape

  • Bearly Art Glue

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you found some inspiration! Until next time… happy crafting.