Build Your Own Halloween Card

Build your own Halloween card by using printouts. You can find lots of free clip art from the web that you simply copy onto a program that will allow you to resize the image to the size of your card. Color in a black and white print and customize it using your own colors.  Once you have your colored printout, create a black border and then place it on the center of your card or wherever you wish.

This was a simple handmade card making project. For this Halloween greeting card, I started with a clip art image of a cute vampire. I colored in the image with markers but you can use your favorite pens, chalk ink or whatever you are comfortable using.

If you go to Microsoft's website, you can find lots of clip art images to download to build your own Halloween card. Making Halloween cards using clip art images makes card making quicker and cheaper since you don't have to buy any stickers or draw the image on your own and there other lots of other categories to choose from to get you started on your paper card making ideas. I often type the sentiment on my computer for my homemade card ideas and I used a font called Boogie Woogie when making this Halloween card.

After typing the sentiment over the image, I printed it out on cardstock paper and then colored it. I then placed it over black paper. For your homemade Halloween cards, use the colors on the sticker or clip art when you are picking the background colors. I used red and black for this Halloween card idea but I could have used black and orange as well.

You can make Halloween cards simple or elaborate. I chose to make mine simple but if you wanted to add glitter, you could color the cape on the image with red glitter or the vampire's Halloween bag orange. You could also add a brad on all four corners of the sentiment or on the ribbon knot.

Making Halloween cards doesn't mean you have to make the color pallet purple and orange.  Red can be be bold and scary too.

Handmade Halloween cards are fun and festive to make and you get to use fun and bright colors so it's never too early to build your own Halloween cards.

Build your own halloween card
with ghost stickers

I love using stickers to build my cards because it adds a fast focal point and also gives your card dimension if it's a raised sticker. For the cards below,  I took a sheet of Halloween stickers with a bunch of ghosts on it. Ghosts are a good sticker to match most of the printed paper you have because of it's white color.

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