hi it's Shari here today and I'm gonna be making this spooky mummy card with this little puppy from that happy Halloween set so I have a piece of stormcloud cardstock and I was thinking what would be a cool way to kind of have the mummy effect of all the cloth that wraps around the mummy and I thought of this micropore tape that I I'm sure you've seen people used to hold dyes onto paper it's a surgical tape you could actually buy it at the drugstore but it's very thin and you can kind of see through it so I thought this would be really cool to layer and get the fabric look that you see on a mummy of all those layers of fabric so you can see I'm layering it here and you can see you get a different look when you got two layers or three layers and I'm just gonna cover this whole piece of cardstock I picked a darker gray for the back so that it would show through through the tape if you did this on white I don't think that you would see it as well and I'm gonna cover this whole piece and then I actually took a few pieces and cut them down the middle so I had some thinner pieces to layer on top I thought it needed a few more but with that really wide tape it covers up a lot so with a few I did about four here of these thinner pieces you can just layer them on and not cover up all this cool mummy look that you've got going on here and then I'm gonna die cut this with a smaller rectangle this is the largest of the small set of stitch rectangles and then I'm just gonna throw the excess away if you didn't want a border like I'm gonna have you could have always just folded the ends of the tape back behind it this tape is very thin so it's not gonna really affect anything so here I've got the clarity stencil brushes and I thought it would be really cool to add some slight tint to this tape so you can leave it as it is but these are going to bring just a little bit of ink onto it so you can see I loaded it up with some wilted violet and I tapped off the excess onto my sheet of typing paper and then I'm just gonna brush from the sides and across in the top and I'm just putting the purple on the very top third here you can see the color sort of change it's very very subtle but I just thought it would be fun to add just a little bit more color to the background with these fun Halloween colors now I'm going to go in with the car pumpkin and do the same thing through the center here and you just keep working it very lightly until you get the color you want if you want more color you just keep brushing it on I think this is probably the best way to add color to this tape because if you use a foam a blending tool it might make the edges roll up a little bit so on the bottom here I'm using the twisted citron I think these are three very traditional Halloween colors the wilted violet carb pumpkin and twisted citron so I think they go together and you can see that very very subtle color there and I'm just going in with my brushes one more time and getting some of the ink that's still on them off onto the tape so here I've got some of Louise ABCs the B and O and I'm gonna cut out of this extra piece of black glitter paper that I have a beet and two O so that I spell out boo and that's gonna go across the top of my card here so I'm just gonna set this part aside and then we're gonna work on the images so I'm taking the little dog that's just sitting forward I'm gonna stamp him out twice just in case I mess up and then I'm gonna dress him as a little mummy to go with the background so I'm gonna take the two mummy pieces the part that goes on his head and the part that goes across his body color those as well and then I'm actually gonna color the little trick-or-treat bucket - and then I'm also going to use the little tombstone from spooktacular to just kind of fill in around the little dog on the bottom of the card so I'm stamping a couple out as is and then I'm doing a little selective stamping here I'm just inking up the edges so they don't get those letters in the middle and I get a blank tombstone and then you can put something different on the tombstone you can see I have one there with a little dog paw that's in the happy Halloween set and that actually I'm going to use one that's just blank because I'm gonna layer it behind and it doesn't really need to have anything on it so now I'm going to get to coloring here and I'm doing very simple coloring just with a couple shades of brown on my dog I think this is a 23 and then I'm also going to use the e25 for the darker color so I'm doing the e23 first and then I'll do a little bit of the e25 kind of under its neck there on the bottom of its feet and around the bottom of his nose and then I'll just go back in with my lighter one and I'll kind of blend it out most of the dog kind of gets covered up by the mummy suit anyways so really the most important part is his face so also with the mummy I don't want to leave it just stark white so I'm going in with a very light II that was easy rho0 and this is a triple zero and then I'm gonna go in with my colorless blender and just kind of blend those out so it just gives it a little more contrast from being just white and a little more interest I'm gonna color the little Halloween bucket here with some oranges like I said very simple coloring I'm using a darker one just for the inside so it looks like a bucket and a little shading along the bottom then I'll go back in with one of those really pale easy rosy rose and just color the bone for the same reasons that I didn't just leave the mummy wrappings white so here we've got some gray some toner grades I'm going to use a t3 and a t5 i believe and i'm just doing very simple shading on these as well and i'm gonna color all the tombstones exactly the same so now I've got some more of that storm cloud cardstock and I'm going to use the kind of curved meadow border guide to make some spooky grass for the bottom of my little scene I've got going on here I'm just gonna tape that on there and you'll see it's gonna layer right there I had cut that piece to be the same as the stitched rectangle I cut earlier and I'm gonna use some double-sided tape here just so I make sure that it's really well stuck down to this micropore tape that's on the background because it's kind of more like a fabric and I have really odd things happening with my lighting right now in the video and I'm not sure why so I really apologize for that so I'm just gonna go ahead and stick that spooky grass right down to the bottom of this panel and now I can kind of start assembling my little scene here so I'm gonna glue the mummy wrappings on to my dog and I'm just using liquid glue to do that just so it's nice and stuck down very well so the one Spurs body just kind of layer right on top and then of course there is the little wrappings for his head and then I'm going to be using some thin foam squares these are half the thickness these are from scrapbook adhesives and I'm also going to use some full thickness ones but I'm using the thin ones on the back of the dog and this tombstone which is kind of going to be in the background and the some on the side but the one that I'm about to put on here I want it layered over top of that one so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the full thickness squares the little small ones and just put them on the right side and then I can use a thin one for the left side and it will layer right on top of that one already has a phone square so I'm just gonna pull off those back your pieces and start sticking my little images down I'm gonna Center my dog up right in the center there and then I'm gonna make the tombstones kind of turn at different angles like they settled in the spooky graveyard that thin ones gonna layer right on top of that one that I already put down I like this one with a little paw on it and then I'm gonna put one of the thicker squares on the back of the trick-or-treat bucket just so it's in front of the other tombstone now I'm gonna use some liquid glue and put my little glitter letters down the trick for this is I'm gonna put the B and the a on the end and then that way I can just Center up the oh in the middle that way I'm not prone to getting my word kind of off-center and shove too much to the left side now for the rest of my sentiment I need to use some archival ink so that this will stamp on this tape it's not exactly paper and I want to make sure that it's bold and doesn't smear or fade so I'm gonna line that up right underneath the boo and I really like that the boo letters are kind of crooked and wonky now I'm using this is from the booyah set this is the little string a little dotted string that a little spider is gonna go on so the string and the spider are both from the booyah stamp set I just thought it added a little cuteness to those big bold blue letters that are there so there's the string and I'm going to stamp that little spider both with the archival eek now I can add my panel to my card base which you could have done before if you really wanted to but and since I already have those pieces on there I'm going to use liquid glue so I don't don't worry about running a tape runner across it and I'll know that it's nice and stuck down and it's not going anywhere I'm just gonna Center that right onto that card base so I have a nice black mat around my whole panel and there is the finished card I just think it's so cute and I love the texture of that tape in the background and here is a closer look at that mummy pup thanks for watching have an amazing day bye