Bats Flying Over the Moon Card

When bats going flying over the cloudy moon you know that Halloween is near. The Bats Flying Over the Moon Card is designed so that it can be displayed throughout the Halloween season.

You can create the Bats Flying Over the Moon Card using scraps of Halloween card stock for the overlays in and on the card. I used some card stock I have from a Halloween tablet of card stock from Michaels. You can even use plain colored card stock in colors of black, gray, purple and orange.

Homemade cards are fun to make and make a wonderful gift to give to someone. They are more special as it is something you took the time to create for someone and put your creativity to use to make the card special by adding your own wording and sentiments. Everyone loves to get something that is homemade as it is a gift from the heart and a lot of thought and compassion went in to its making.

Box cards are a great card to send to someone as they can display them for the holiday season on a shelf. They remind you of a small picture.

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Bats Flying Over the Moon Card

Author: Carla Arlene Creations

Equipment

• Cricut Maker
• Brayer
• Scoring Wheel/Stylus
• Standard Cutting Mat
• Spatula

Materials

• 1 Sheet of Black Cardstock
• 2 Sheets of Sapphire Blue Cardstock
• 4 Sheets of Halloween Cardstock for the various insert pieces
• 1 Sheet of White Cardstock
• Cricut Pen
• Glue
• Foam Dots
• Liquid Pearls

Instructions

Cutting Out the Bats Flying Over the Moon Card

• Upload the Bats Flying Over the Moon Card into design space.
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• Select all and ungroup
• Select the dotted lines on the back of the card and change to a score line from basic cut
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• Select the score lines and the back of the card
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• and attach them
• Select the dotted lines on the front of the card and change to score line from basic cut
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• Select the score lines and the front of the card
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• and attach them
• Then click on the Make It button
• The prepare screen will appear
• Now if everything looks correct on it, click on the continue button
  The next screen will be where you will select the type of card stock you are using. If you do not see the material in your material favorites, click on "browse all materials" to find the weight of cardstock that you are using. For example the Halloween Cardstock I used is medium weight, you will need to select "Medium Weight"..
  Once you have Design Space set, you are now ready to prepare your mat. I used a brayer when placing the Cardstock on the mat, this helps in making sure that the paper is adhered to the mat and will help in keeping the paper from ripping or moving when it is being cut. 
• Next upload the inside and front overlays and decor of the card to design space
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• Then click on the Make It button
  The prepare screen will appear
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• Follow the instructions in the paragrah above
• Next upload the back of the card overlay and sign into design space
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• select all and ungroup
• Next select the wording
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• change from basic cut to pen
• then select the wording and click on the weld icon
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• then select the wording and the sign piece
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• and attach them
• Then click on the Make It button
  The prepare screen will appear
• Follow the instructions in the paragraph above

Assembling the Bats Flying Over the Moon Card

• Starting with the card piece
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• then glue the small tab on the front piece to the large tab on the back piece
• ****note when gluing the tabs together make sure the card front and back are aligned up
• next glue the inside back overlay piece in place
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• then glue the small tab on the back piece to the large tab on the front piece
• now your box card should be formed
• next glue the inside side overlays over the tabs
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• next glue the outside overlay piece that has bats on to the front of the card
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• using foam dots put them on the back of the moon and clouds
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• put the moon in the center of the back of the inside of the box card and then place the cloud over the moon
• next glue the bats on to the front of the card (please note one bat is larger than the other)
• next glue the sign on to the back overlay of the card
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• then glue the back overlay onto the back of the card
• using liquid pearls – white, put eyes on the bats and let dry before placing in envelope
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Happy Crafting!

Carla