Witchy Halloween Card - Carabelle Studio

I made my first Halloween card this year using the Carabelle Studio Stamp set called Pretty Witch and PaperArtsy Stamp Set by Clare Lloyd. I used PaperArtsy stamps to make the brayered background.

Mixed Media Monthly #40 - Vintage

It's time for another challenge over at the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge. This time our theme is Vintage - just created a vintage project or add some vintage elements to your project.

I created a Halloween card. I used stamps from an IndigoBlu stamp set called Hocus Pocus. I also used some Tim Holtz stickers and the bat is a Tim Holtz Trinket. The papers were from my stash and not labeled. All the inks I used were Distress Oxides.

Hocus Pocus

Halloween Tim Holtz Blueprints Cards

I had a lot of fun creating Halloween Cards with my Tim Holtz Blueprints Stamps. I used Tim Holtz papers or DCWV papers for all these cards. I colored them with Copic Markers. Take a look and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Halloween!!

Mixed Media Monthly Mid-Month Inspiration Post

I made a second project for the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge October Mood Board Challenge.

I used a Stampotique Witch stamp  and Spider Web stamp to create this card. I blended the background using various Tim Holtz Distress Inks. Then, I stamped the Stampotique Spider Web Stamp in Wilted Violet. I watercolored the Witch with Distress Markers. Then, I sprayed water through the Tim Holtz Bat Stencil.  For the sentiment I used Black Soot Distress Ink and a Tim Holtz Stencil. Finally, I added a little Tim Holtz Industrial Sticker Spider to the spider web. I hope you will join our October Challenge and I can't wait to see what you create!

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #29 - Mood Board

It's time for another challenge over at the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge. We have a fun Halloween and fall inspired mood board. Our sponsor this month is Stampotique Originals. They generously sent our design team stamps and we had so much fun creating with their fun and quirky stamps. They are offering our random winner a $30 gift certificate to their online store.

For this challenge I decorated a haunted house I bought last year at Wal-Mart. Stampotique had some awesome stamps for decorating my house. Here are some photos of the process. I painted the house with Tim Holtz paints, then stamped the roof with the spiderweb stamp using Tim's Pewter Distress Paint and the house was stamped with the Never-ending Wall stamp in Archival ink. Here are the stamps I used on this house.

Never-ending Wall Stamp 2 x 4 

Web Stamp 2.5 x 5

Halloween Cube 2 - 1.5 x 1.5

Here is the finished house. I added some Ferro Glitter glue on my purple paint to add some texture. I also added some DecoArt glitter glue to the roof for the same reason. 

I colored the pumpkins with Distress Markers and added Glossy Accents on top of them.

I also added Glossy Accents to the skull. 

5 for 5 Halloween: Collage Pumpkin Canvas

Welcome to Day 1 of our 5 for 5 Halloween Blog Event. Today our theme is "Paint". We are all sharing a project where we used paint. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Halloween Inspired Project based on a theme. Some of us are offering prizes, so be sure to visit all the links below and leave comments.

I'm offering this prize package full of Halloween embellishments. I think you will love it. To be eligible to win, just leave a comment on every day of this event and be sure to follow me. I will announce the lucky winner here on Saturday, October 17. 

For my project I painted a burlap panel black. It took several coats of black acrylic paint to get it covered. I used a brush to get into all the nooks and crannies. I cut the pumpkin shape out of card board from a cereal box. Then I used the Tim Holtz Halloween Ephemera pack to collage the pumpkin. After adding all the pieces, I cut around the edge of the pumpkin where the ephemera pieces went off the edges. Then, I cut out the stem and painted it with brown acrylic paint. I used hot glue to adhere the pumpkin to the burlap panel. This was a fun and easy project that turned out very cool. 

Here is the original burlap panel. 

Here is the finished project

Our 5 for 5 Halloween Designers

Donna (me) 
Rachel
Lynn
Karen
Kris

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #5 - Ribbon, Twine and Fibers

It's time for our 5th Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!1 This month our challenge is to use Ribbons, Twine or Fiber in your Mixed Media Project. Our sponsor is May Arts and they are generously offering 3 full spools of fall inspired ribbon to our lucky random winner. 

This month I made a Halloween canvas. I colored the background with different paints in halloween colors of orange, green, purple and black. I used some stencils and stamps and made sure to cover the sides. I used the spider web stencil designed by Mona Pendleton for My Favorite Things as a main accent. I sprayed adhesive and covered the web with black glitter. I used some gold glitter on the Time Holtz 31 silver numbers and attached them to the canvas with small black brads from Stampin' Up. I also stamped a Tim Holtz spider on the bottom of the "1" in Ranger archival black ink. 

I had a bag of glittered Halloween shapes from K&Company that I used for the haunted house, spiders, skulls and accents on the word tiles. I added some black ink and goggley eyes to the spider. To make the word tiles I painted some Tim Holtz grungeboard shapes with Distress Crackle paint in Peeled Paint and then rubbed Distress Stain in Tea Dye on the tiles. The letters are Tim Holtz grungeboard letters that I covered with a mixed purple blend of Stickles. On the bottom of the canvas I added a black web-like trim from May Arts and on top of it I added the gold mesh from May arts (see bottom picture for a close up). I love the texture these fibers add to the canvas. 

This canvas was so fun to make. I hope you are inspired to make something really cool this month. I can't wait to see what you come up with!!!

Denami Designs Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog. I'm participating in the Denami Halloween Blog Hop this month. I'm so excited to be able to participate again. I've been quite busy building a new house, but things are moving along and I've had some time to create again lately!! 

I love Denami Stamps and I thought this Happy Halloween stamp with the spider web and spiders was just too cute. For this card I used a technique I haven't done in years on this card. First, I stamped the stamp using White Craft Ink onto black paper. Then, I colored over the stamped image with colored pencils. It's a really easy and fun technique to use and it works really well on black paper. I kept the rest of the card relatively simple to showcase the cute stamp. The papers are all from Pebbles Tricks and treats. The circle dies are Sizzix Framelits. 

Be sure to check out the rest of the participants on the hop and leave comments because 2 lucky commenters will receive a $20 gift certificate to the Denami Store. 

If you're following the hop you should've come here from the blog of the super talented Barb Murphy at http://kinsalecreations.blogspot.com/ and your next stop will be the blog of the very gifted Lisa Elton at http://mypapertales.blogspot.com/ If you just found out about the hop and want to start at the beginning go to the Denami Blog.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Mimi Halloween Cards

I wanted to use my Penny Black Mimi Halloween set this year. I bought lots of new Copic markers last weekend with an extra discount I had, so I really wanted to color also. So, I colored the 4 main images in the set. Before I made the cards I checked out the Penny Black Saturday Challenge to see if any of them would fit and I saw it was a sketch challenge so I made all the cards using that sketch. I also picked up some glitter paper while I was out last weekend so I used glitter paper on all the cards. Thanks for taking a look!

Here are my cards: 

Spooktacular Halloween

I made this card for the current Lawnscaping Challenge - to try a new technique. I've never used inches or tried to make a window card so I thought I would give it a try. It might be better with other types of images, but I think it turned out OK. I used the Lawn Fawn Happy Haunting stamp set and colored with Copics. The paper is Pebbles Tricks & Treats and the label die is PTI. Thanks for stopping by!

Sunday Inspiration - Spooky Cupcake Toppers

Check out my Sunday Inspiration post on the EAD Designs blog today. I made some spooky cupcake toppers.

Eternal Love

I made this card for the current Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge. I used the Paper Smooches stamp set called Spookalicious. The papers are from K&Company. Thanks for taking a look!

Here's my card.

Spider Girls

I made this card using the new EEK stamp set from Technique Tuesday designed by my blogland friend Teri Anderson. I just love all her new stamps!! I'm entering this card into the Moxie Fab World Repetition Challenge. Click here to join in all the fun in the Moxie Fab World.

Materials

1. Card stock - Black (Stampin' Up)

2. Decorative Paper - Fright Night (My Little Shoebox)

3. Stamps - EEK (Technique Tuesday)

4. Ink - Tuxedo Black (Memento)

5. Twine - Halloween (Doodlebug)

6. Googly Eyes (Hobby Lobby)

7. Foam Tape (Stampin' Up)

The Play Date Cafe #147

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It's time for another color story from The Play Date Cafe! This week our colors are Evergreen, Olive, Smoke and Cherry Blossom. I used a cute little Gel-a-tin's Gelly Jr. stamp called Halloween Kitty. Isn't she cute? Speaking of Gel-a-tin's they are our sponsor this week and generously provided the PDCC DT with stamps for this week's projects. They are offering a fabulous Gel-a-tins prize package for this week's winner. This color story is gorgeous and I think you can go many ways with it - Halloween, Christmas, even Valentines. I can't wait to see what you all make!

Be sure to check out all the awesome stamps, block, and embossing powders in the Gel-a-tin's Store. 

It's All About the Candy Corn

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This card basically describes my philosophy of life. I made it using my Copics and a CAS style for this weeks WEE Memories challenge. Thanks for taking a look!

Here's my card.

Materials
1. Card stock - Whisper White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie (Stampin Up)
2. Decoratie Paper - The Midnight Spell Matstack (DCWV)
3. Stamps - Hauntingly Sweet (Unity Stamp Company), Candy Corn (A Muse Studio)
4. Ink - Black (Memento) 
5. Markers - Chrome Orange, Lemon Yellow (Copic)
6. Paper Snips (Martha Stewart)