I felt inspired by the Two Old Bats mood board for April and Anything Halloween but I had to put my thinking cap on once again. My card is not too dark nor too wicked and was really fun to make this background. I made my lightning strikes by following Frenchie Stamps lighting technique. I used glue in a fine tip bottle to draw my lightning strikes on shimmer white cardstock, then added white embossing powder and heat set. To add a little interest, Frenchie recommends inking some yellow and pink in the beginning of the lighting. The stamped images were definitely oldies but goodies. The clouds are Cornish Heritage Farms large cloud, Outlines Rubber Stamp Company grasses, Inkadinkadoo Halloween Trails for my witch and sentiment from Gina K Designs Wicked stamp set. The background was inked in grays, charcoal and some blue and a few clouds were stamped in white pigment ink (I think my pad needs to be reinked).
I’ll be sharing my card today with:
Two Old Bats Halloween April Challenge – Anything Halloween
and Halloween Crafts All Year Round Challenge #2
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.
Stamp Buddies 
I like your lightening. I just noticed the witch. Looks great!
Thanks, Lisa, that’s such a great old Inkadinkadoo set.
Very cool. I like how you did the lightning.
Great card! Thanks for sharing at Halloween Crafts All Year Round. I hope you’ll link up more of your projects.
Janis, Design Team Member @ Halloween Crafts All Year Round
Thanks for a fun challenge and celebrating Halloween year round.
WOW!!! Amazing job on the lightening and I love that witch. I see a winner here.
LOL…thanks Gerry. I was pretty happy with the background and thought the witch would work well.
I love your lightning! This is a lovely dark card and the witch makes it wicked. Great job on your creation of it. The sky really is amazing.
Thanks so much Golda. It was really fun to create that background.
As is usual with you, you’ve come up with an amazing Halloween card and that lightening is great. Love it all and can see the work that went into making this one.
Thanks, Johanna, and using the shimmer cardstock really created a cool background.
WOW! Your lightning and stormy sky look AMAZING! And the witch and grass images finish your scene beautifully.
Thanks, Lisa, this was a fun background to make.
AWESOME creation my friend! I have that old Inkadinkado stamp (she’s so cool looking) and I love how you’ve used it here! Great job! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Two Old Bats challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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Fabulous scene! Thank you for sharing with us at Two OLd Bats Halloween Challenge.
Awesome card!!! Thanks so much for participating in our HALLOWEEN CRAFTS ALL YEAR ROUND challenge!!! I appreciate that you play along and I enjoy visiting your blog!! Have a happy crafty day!! Deanne at A Little Bit O’ Paper
What a great card, Gayle! I love the background combined with my all-time favorite witch stamp. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used this stamp either as a full image and other times the tail alone. Love it!