Pink Halloween

In honour of October being Breast Cancer Awareness month

as well as Halloween,

the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers have combined the two,
so the theme is

"P is for Pink Halloween"

Why not join in and have some spooky fun?

The background is a smoosh of ink, a sprinkle of powdered paint

and a spritz of water, along with some words and washi tape.

Agatha was stamped directly onto the background

and again onto white card which was coloured, fussy cut and glued over the first image.

A quick swipe of ink around the edges, a folded black card and it's finished!

Stamps

Stampotique - Agatha Witch; 3 Greetings

Ink

Distress Oxides - worn lipstick; candied apple; worn lipstick; wilted violet

Archival - jet black

Other

Prismacolor pencils - various 

Washi Tape

Ken Oliver Color Burst - Alizarin Crimson

 

 Challenges

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - #120 P is for Pink Halloween

Stampotique - SDC309 Use Washi Tape
 Craft Stamper

Spooky Crafting!

     

Trio of Halloween

Halloween Trio of Tags

was the theme of a swap in which I participated recently.

I decided to have a play with "Monster Mash" from Dylusions for the main, er ... aliens, 

along with a few other stamps and stencils.

I started with the backgrounds, each one using 'wilted violet' Distress Oxide with another colour added and then spritzed with water and let it run.  

Stencils were used to create the backgrounds on each one. 

The glass jar was stamped onto acetate with StazOn ink, and again on a piece of scrapbook paper for a wood grain look.  Both were fussy cut and carefully glued together where the jar sits on the base.  The captured bats were also stamped onto acetate, then coloured on the reverse with Gelly Glaze pens.  The areas of colour on the jar are also Gelly Glaze pens.   Pieces of torn washi tape were added before assembling the jar.  The sentiment was then added.

I love this character; he really looks like he belongs in a lab somewhere!

I watercoloured him with Distress Inks, adding a touch of Gelly Glaze pens to the buttons, striped leggins and his boots.  His face and hands were coloured with Prismacolor pencils.

On the final tag, I chose this weird little alien who can't believe what he's seeing in the sky!

He is coloured with Prismacolor pencils with highlights of Gelly Glaze on his spots, tongue and eyeballs.

Each tag has a dragonfly, also coloured with Gelly Glaze pens on acetate.

The tags were edged with 'pumice stone' Distress Ink.

Each ribbon was hand coloured to co-ordinate with the tag.

They were fun to put together; hope you like them.

Stamps

Dylusions - Monster Mash

Art Impressions - Air Hag Set

Stampotique - 3 Greetings

Tim Holtz - Simple Sayings

Stencils

Tim Holtz - Mini Set #17; ShatterTHS014

Unknown (words)

HAPPY CRAFTING!

  

Halloween already?

I skipped off to Craftanoon with my friend Jenni on Saturday, for a day of crafting fun.  I took along a few stamp sets including a new one I grabbed off the shelf last week which seems to be scarce as hen's teeth at the moment - squeeee!!!

I already had "Bird Crazy" but now I also have the accessories "Crazy Things", so I thought I'd start with a little halloween fun.

The background is created in a bokeh style using Distress Inks and the Crazy Bird stamped directly onto the tag.  He is then stamped again onto extra card along with the hat and pumpkin lantern and fussy cut before colouring.  A glittery purple ribbon finishes the tag off nicely.

I'll be back again shortly with another Crazy Bird, so don't go too far away!

Happy Crafting!!!