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Gah!!! This card was so fun to make!!! (tutorial photos are pending a technical error and will be up later today, fingers crossed, but in the meantime, I will still walk you through the steps to make this card).

This is a 5 x 7 pop up card. I cut a 5″ wide strip off of a sheet of 12″ purple cardstock and scored and folded it in half at 7″. This made a top folding easel card with one side at 7″ and the other side at 5″.

I then cut a 5 x 7″ panel from some purple Halloween cardstock that had a picture of a wrought iron fence on it.

Taking inspiration from, believe it or not, the white pegboard behind the people in the inspiration photo, I adhered some black on white polka dot cardstock to the “inside” of the card base on the 5 x 7″ side. I mean, it’s a Halloween card, so there has to be something unexpected lol.

I folded the 5″ length of the panel in half and glued that portion to the back of the Halloween cardstock.

This allows the decorative Halloween layer to lay flat, but also pop up because it’s not glued down completely to the top of the card base.

The cluster of pumpkins that acts as a brake for the pop-up is from an old 1960’s learning toy and it actually already had foam on the back.

I stamped the “HAPPY HALLOWEEN” on top of it with Stampin’ Up! ink in Blackberry Bliss. You can head over to the Stampin’ Up! store by clicking on “shopping links” at the top of this page–this color ink is my new gothic, spooky go-too color, it’s fabulous! It’s the new black as far as I’m concerned. The couple on the card are from Tim Holtz’s paper dolls. I used some Jack-o-lantern head stickers over their own faces. Pro tip: because the Jack-o-lantern faces are stickers and I didn’t want them sticking to everything-just the heads of the paper dolls, I used my static bag for embossing over the backs of them, after I had stuck them to the paper dolls. This takes down the sticky backs. The black cat was from the same sticker pack as the Jack-o-lantern faces.

The bats are stamped in Staz-On black ink, and they are just a super old wood block stamp I have. “night of fright” is also stamped with the Blackberry Bliss ink. The two sentiments on this card are from an old Stamper’s Anonymous stamp set.

I hope you like this card!! I love pop-ups!! If you are inspired to create your own pop-up card with this theme, don’t forget to tag me @scrappystampthefunup and leave me a comment here on the blog. I would love to see your creations!