Triple Boo for a Start

Although I have been playing with paper for decades, it feels like I am on a new journey. I have found a love for die-cuts and card-making "things"...even though I have never been a "card person" or a "scrapbooker." But hey, there are no rules!

For my first finished "piece" I present "Triple Boo's"!

I definitely need to do some research on how to take better photos!

Supplies:

Dies from Sweet Boo bundle (Scrapbook.com)

Ghost
"Boo"

Two different 3D flower dies from a set (Amazon)
Stencil: 8"x5" background (Amazon)
Ink: Junesix waterbased ink (Amazon)

Sorry, no colors listed on the stamps themselves, but might be Sky Blue and Lemon Yellow, watered down

6x6 piece of pattern paper bought from a big box craft store probably 15 years ago!
White card stock (Neenah 94 bright index 110lb (Amazon)

Process:

I didn't really have any sort of project in mind when I started. At first I just wanted to try cutting out the little ghost out of white card stock.
Then I wanted to see what it would look like out of patterned paper.

It didn't seem like the arms and mouth stood out very well, so I tried to shade around those parts with some watered-down ink. I must have had some purple out somewhere...but not sure what it was. I am pretty sure that it was a bit much! ;o)
I cut out a flower from the same patterned paper and put it on the ghosts head.

Then I tried dabbing up the rest of the ink with the paper. I loved the effect and cut the third ghost (far left) out with that. She's my favorite.
At this point I pivoted to trying to organize and audit my craft supplies. I came across the set of flower dies I had purchased months ago...before I even had a die cutting machine! Those little flowers were more challenging to do than I thought. I tried watching a couple of tutorials, but I think I need to practice more. Since I already had the pattern paper scrap from ghost #2, I just used that. And then I got the idea to put the flowers on the other two ghosts that did not have a head adornment yet.
Since that pattern paper already had little flowers on it, I fussy cut out two of them to give to
Now I had three ghosties, and decided I needed to do something with them. I pulled out some stencils (I had never used) and tried to find a yellow to match the pattern paper. Actually, this might be the first time I've ever used any stencil!

I blotted a cotton ball scrap I had on the ink pad and used that. Not the best tool, but it worked.
I thought I'd also use a watered down version of the blue ink on the stencil and just offset it a bit. In hindsight, I wish I had just left the yellow.
I placed the ghosts on the background and painted on a bit of shadow with the same watered down blue ink.
I decided to try and "finish" it by giving it a border. I hand tore strips of the same pattern paper and placed them as a frame.
It felt like it still needed a little something, so I die cut "Boo" from the same set that the ghost came in and placed it under them.
For a quick and easy display, I bought a little 6"x4" frame (Dollar Tree) and used some Magic Scotch tape rolled up on itself to attach it to the outside of the frame. The frame is really just a stand that I can reuse! (And hopefully the tape comes off the paper without any problems.)