Day 27 of 31 Days of Hallowe'en

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Good morning folks. Still hanging in there?
Another quick make for me - because the project I had attempted is STILL drying. May be ready for next week the way things are going round here. Oh well, such is life and crafting.
A couple of bottles already for some heinous concoction to be added to.

 That cranberry coloured bottle has a label cut from the G45 steampunk spells stack

This bottle was tarted up with some sheer fabric with stamped images from Prickly Pear

Not a lot more to add really.

There is only 4 more days to go. The month has gone really quick hasn't it! Are you ready?

Thanks for staying with me peeps. The lovely comments really help me carry on although some of the ideas are drying up for me.

See you tomorrow for week 2 of the Smudgy Antics Colour Challenge.

Day 10 of 31 Days of Hallowe'en

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Good morning.
Well after yesterday's labour intensive and picture heavy post, I thought I'd go easy on us all and show just a simple ATC.

Using stamps from Prickly Pear and De Stempelwinkel. A pinch of heat embossing, a smidgen of orange promarkers and a dollop of distress inks.

Tomorrow is coming with Smeared Ink Day
Thanks for looking and for all your wonderful comments so far.
See you all tomorrow.

Day 6 of 31 Days of Hallowe'en

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Today I have used an image from yet another of the sponsors of this month long extravaganza - Altered Pages. This image can be found on the Halloween Horribles sheet.

A chunky ATC. Well I have some blocks of wood left over from previous projects. I might as well use the materials on hand.
After painting the wood block with bright orange acrylic then with a wash of off-white and wiping off when nearly dry, the decorating can begin.

Stamps by Prickly Pear

The moon was heat embossed with WOW glow-in-the-dark embossing powder 

 The same image just heat embossed. Sorry, my skills as a photographer cannot capture the effect under different lighting conditions.

From the same Prickly Pear stamp set. These are the interchangeable faces that can be added to the plain pumpkin stamp.

The Altered Pages image adhered to the block with loads of seed beads pressed into glossy accents.

The skulls on top secured with silicon glue. The gaps seen at the ends were "tidied up" by pressing little brads into the silicon.

That's Day 6 done. 

Off you hop to the lovely Loren. Thank you for looking and for all your kind comments so far. 

......And We're OFF .... 31 Days of Hallowe'en Begins

Yes the 31 Days of Hallowe'en extravaganza begins today. 31 postings each with a twist of Hallowe'en.
The blog hop has been organised again, for the fifth year running, by Smeared and Smudged. For more info please head on over to the forum for more info. For the day to day info on the various prizes being offered by a fabulous array of sponsors, can I suggest you go read all about it on Terra's blog.

From me, some Extra DARK projects, some not so. Some are even, dare I say it....,  downright cute. All the posts from me in this thread though will be geared toward that glorious event happening in 31 days time...

HALLOWE'EN

The blog roll for the even can be found on my side bar, top left. 
You will have arrived from the ogling the talents of Susan if you are going down the list and next you will be wanting to visit the fabulous Loren.

Going to break some of you in gently ...
My first project is just a simple tag
Made in the shape of a Witch Hat

This started life because of a little challenge over in facebook within one of the groups I belong to...Crafting Comfortably.
So 
The shape was cut out and some spiderweb fabric adhered to it. Lace, ribbon, flowers, pearly spray and feather are all from stash. The Prickly Pear black cat was stamped onto the die cut that teams with the stamp set.
Simple eh? Told you today's post would be.

'Tis the Season

My weekly challenge that I am trying to keep taking part in, due to the chance of winning a MASSIVE prize at the end of the year for competing is that of Through the Purple Haze Challenges. This week is sketchy week. To make a project with the following sketch as inspiration.

I had two goes at this. The first, although I followed the sketch, wasn't exactly out of this world.
A Christmas card for my stack.

The stamps used are both Indigo Blu, the snow flake on the green circle was stamped with glue and gilding flakes applied after masking off the sentiment that is also gilded. The little snowman was stamped with green stazon onto parchment. The paper is from my miscellaneous  "Christmas papers" box.. The punched snowflakes are double layered, punched from scraps and topped with the same vellum as the snowman. Some tiny gems, fibres and ribbon from stash. All adhered to a 6" card blank that was edged with DI.

My second attempt - still following the same basic sketch but with my own interpretations added.

A Hallowe'en card therefore still seasonal.

 A "Spring Card" where the base and centre panels are folded to allow the card front to spring up.
The bats have taken the place of the "vertical ribbon" The die cut fence is instead of the broader horizontal band. The three "spots" on the right are charms - an owl, a howling wolf and a tiny flying witch. The four "spots" on the right of the sketch are two pins from a flower and a little gem. Ok, I added another trio of gems to balance and the base has a couple of extra flowers for decoration, but then the sketch is only a starting point after all. The paper is from a DCWV stack "La Creme"

The central image is from Delicious Doodles - the Gravestone Scene. Attached to a cream coloured circle that has been ink distressed with black soot. The sentiment is from Prickly Pear as are the bats. The spider web over the sentiment is part of a Lavinia stamp.

I am entering this duo of cards into the challenge at

Through the Purple Haze - Their Sketch

I'd like to enter card#2 into the challenge at

CCEE Stampers - Fun Folds

Desert Island Crafts GDT

Evening all. Firstly my apologies to the girls at Desert Island Crafts challenge for my tardiness. I simply had the dates all wrong on my calendar and therefore my head. I thank you all for giving me the opportunity of being a guest designer.
The new challenge starts today over at Desert Island Craft Challenge and, as a member of the Rick St Dennis EDT , was asked to do a GDT spot for them as Rick St Dennis is the sponsor this next 2 weeks.
The itinerary for this challenge is

1. Rick St Dennis Image

2. Create a Scene

3. Make it Spooky

4. Favourite Fairy Tale

5. Fantasy & Mythical Creatures

6. Monochrome

7. Show us some Metal

8. Layer it Up

9. Ribbon & Pearls

10. Sparkle & Shine

My card for this incorporates items 1, 3, 8, 9 and there's a tiny bit of 10 as well.
The image I used is the sister of the Vampyr used yesterday on the candle. This femme fatale is called Vampyr Masquerade.

I've worked with Hallowe'en/bruise colours and mirrored these in the card stocks used in all the layering. The image was coloured primarily with promarkers but there are areas that watered perfect pearls have been used to highlight and the little red mark on the black widow - that's glitter pen.

 First there's a purple base. Then a couple of dry embossed layers of spiders. These were distressed with black ink after rubbing on some metallic rub on wax. Next - five different colours used for the spider web die cuts.

Sentiments are from Prickly Pear stamped onto the same cs and die cut out.
The ribbon - orange and green organza with thin black satin woven through and pearls adhered at the junction. More pearls on the sentiments and card as seen.

You have another couple of weeks to make a project and link into the challenge over at Desert Island Crafts for your chance to win some of the fabulous images from Rick St Dennis' Etsy shop.

I'd also like to enter this card into the challenge at
A.R.T. Card challenges - Ribbons and pearls

Freakers Free-For-All

That's "Anything Goes" in normal blog-speak but at Haunted Design House we like to do things slightly different, as if you didn't know by now. So

FREAKERS' FREE FOR ALL

it is.


I was lucky enough to come across this awesome "little" craft shop whilst on facebook and, as luck would have it, not far from where I live. McOyster Paper and Crafts is fast becoming a favourite place. I love browsing round, stroking papers, eyeing up the new things that might find themselves a new home **grin**. Whilst there is "normal shtuff" there, there's also much more. I'm saying all this because I'd not heard of Prickly Pear stamps before and  Adrian had some hanging up. There, hiding in the nearly cute bit, I found this set. Ok they're cuter than some but.....

I have a little ATC for you this week, made using the set I had to rehouse.

I bring you "The Happy Couple"

 A total of 15 stamps on this little offering. Much masking done but I got there. The BG stamp is one from Sheena Douglas btw.
After all the stamping, a splash of colour on the bride's headdress, a touch of lace, some 1/4" ribbon with symbolic knots and some tiny metal flowers from stash.

A little flower at the top of the ribbon arch as well.

Looking forward to seeing your art displayed at Haunted Design House for us to come and admire.

I'd like to enter this ATC into the challenge at
Creative Corner - Anything Goes
Inky Chicks - Masking
Created With Love - Anything goes
Scraps of Darkness - Anything Goes