Stencil Fun IG Hop - October

Happy Sunday friends; I hope you've all had a great weekend so far. Today I am sharing my card for this month's Stencil Fun IG Hop organised by my lovely friend Jane. We a group of crafters who are determined to use their forgotten and neglected stencils. I'm definitely guilty of this; I have so many stencils but usually forget to reach for them so this hop is perfect for me. The theme is always anything goes but we will have an optional theme to use if we want to. This month's optional theme is 'Halloween' and I'm excited to see who has used this optional theme.

I know it's hard to believe but I didn't actually have a Halloween stencil in my stash - I know shocker - so of course I had to go shopping!!  I decided upon a Halloween script stencil as I thought it would make a fun background and I also went with a shaker element too.   I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I also decorated the envelope:

I began by ink blending my background with orange, lime green and purple inks, I then placed the stencil over top and stencilled with black ink to achieve the 'reverse stencil' technique (which I have done once before here).  I added some white gel pen highlights which I think really makes the background pop and I cut the panel down to 4" x 5 1/4".  At this point I decided to make a shaker card so I cut a circle from the upper centre of the panel and also cut a slightly smaller circle from an orange panel so that I could have a inside mat layer.  I adhered the two panels together with liquid glue and then added a piece of clear plastic (salvaged from some packaging) for my window with double sided tape.  I die cut the letters for the word 'eek' 4 times and adhered them together with liquid glue and also die cut some bats from black card.  I stamped and white heat embossed the sentiment and cut it out with a sentiment strips die.  I decided to trim the panel down slightly and added an orange mat layer behind it with double sided tape.  I found a sequin mix that included some orange, purple and green sequins so used that inside my shaker window along with some of the bats.  I added thin foam tape around the window and adhered it together to seal the window. I added the eek word with liquid glue and the sentiment with black foam squares.  I added some scrap card behind my panel with double sided tape and adhered it to a black card base for some extra drama.  For the inside I cut a white panel 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and adhered it to an orange mat layer.  I adhered a strip of the stencilled background down the left side of the white panel and stamped the sentiment in black ink.   I also added one of the bats in the top right hand corner with liquid glue.  As I had the circle left over from cutting out the window and a thin strip of the background still left I decided to decorate the front and back of my envelope too.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

AAA Colourful challenge - colour board #20

A Cut Above challenge - ATG with a die cut

Aud Sentiments challenge - ink blending and/or fall/thanksgiving + sentiment

Craft Rocket challenge - autumn/Halloween

Crafty Calendar challenge - Halloween 

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - spooky....... colours/words

Creative Inspirations challenge - autumn/something spooky

Daisy Chain challenge - autumn/Halloween

Inkspirational challenge - seasonal (Halloween)

Just Us Girls challenge - word week: Halloween

Little Red Wagon challenge - Halloween

Moving Along With The Times challenge - sentiment as the focus

Stencil Fun challenge - ATG with a stencil optional theme Halloween

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist cute or creepy

Tic Tac Toe challenge - stencil, free, embossing (my sentiment is heat embossed)

Unicorn challenge - autumn and/or Halloween

Word Power challenge - make the sentiment the focus of your card 

We hope you will be inspired by our Stencil Fun Instagram Hop and will pop over and check out all the gorgeous cards along the way. If you would like to join us please visit my Instagram page or use the hashtag #stencilfunoctober2025 and we will find you.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Lots of love

card supplies:

Pretty Pink Posh - Halloween words stencil

Gina K Designs - ink pads - tangerine twist, key lime, wild wisteria*

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiments dies*

Gina K Designs - white pigment ink cube*

Waffle Flower - nesting circle dies

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Limetree Crafts - 220gsm black card

Clearly Besotted - fright night stamp - retired

Spellbinders - simply perfect alphabets dies

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

WOW! - clear gloss super fine embossing powder

Sakura - white no.10 gelly roll pen

Little Things From Lucy's Cards - sprinkles rainbow circles sequins - store now closed

orange card from my stash

* I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store.  If are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you.  

Thank you x