31 by Cathy N

 Hello, Cathy here with a Halloween tag. I'm just getting my spook on. 

I started off with making the background. I used some browns and a rust distress color.

Next, I stamped sheet music background with the darkest brown I used to make the background.

I then stamped creepy cat and creepy rat on white cardstock and colored with copic markers and fussy cut out. 

Then I glued them to the bottom of the tag. For the last little bit, I added some new Halloween goodies from Tim Holtz. 👻

And here is my tag.

                                                                     Stamped Used:

                                                            19557 sheet music background

                                                           19869 creepy cat

                                                            19873 creepy rat

                                                                Other stuff used:

                                                                 Tag

                                                                 Distress ink

                                                                White cardstock

                                                                 Copic markers

                                                                 Halloween ephemera

Halloween tag - Zombie brains

Hi everyone,

you may have guessed it, but here is another Halloween inspired project from me. ;-)
This time I have a Frankenstein tag to share with you.

I worked on a tag that is about 3 inch wide and has a torn edge at the bottom. To start the tag I used three colors of Distress Oxide sprays and dried the paper between each layer of color. Background done - it's really a simple one.

For my focal cluster I stamped and heat embossed the blood drops in read. Then I stamped the jar, roughly masked the outside and added Frankensteins head inside. I added some little touches of color with ZIG watercolor pens, but to be honest you have to look very close to see that.

I also stamped "Zombie brains" onto a piece of watercolor paper, tore the edges so that I ended up with a little tag and added more of the Oxide spray to that. With a few stitches I adhered it to the tag itself. Then I just added the large tag to a base with my sewing machine and decorated it with a piece of ribbon.

Stamps used:
Blood Dripping (18961)
Mason Jar (18957)
Frankenstein's Bolts (5842)
Zombie Brains (18955)
All stamps from plate 827

Other material:
- Canson watercolor paper
- black cardstock
- Versafine Claire Ink (nocturne)
- Versamark Ink
- Distress Oxide Ink Sprays (crackling campfire, frayed burlap, cracked pistachio)
- WOW! embossing powder (primary pink robin)
- ZIG real brush watercolor markers
- thread
- ribbon or cheesecloth strip

 
See you soon + happy Halloween!

Halloween tags with witch and death moth

Hey everyone,

just two days until Halloween, so of course I have another inspiration project for this. Today I want to share these two tags. I know, it might be a bit hard to see on the photo, but guess which material I used as a base?

... it's foil! Windmill foil to be exact.

I cut my two tags from the foil and colored them with alcohol inks and some blending solution. I worked on them as long as I was happy with the look.

 While they were drying, I stamped and cut two focal points - the witch with her broom and the death moth - on watercolor paper. I left a white boarder around both images. I usually don't do that, but I thought they needed a little more contrast to stand out against my colorful tags. Bonus: it made the cutting much easier. ;-)

To add more interest I chose a chipboard element for each tag and heatembossed it - my favorite thing to do with chipboard.

As my backgrounds have dried in the meantime, I could work a little more on them. I decided to turn the tag around and stamp on the smoother side without the alcohol ink. For stamping I used a white Stazeon ink which works really well on foil. I stamped the row of chakras as well as part of the tree stamp on the red tag and two different skulls and the branch antlers on the blue one. The tree and the antlers both create a similar look when you just stamp parts of it, but I wanted to give you double the inspiration. 

I finished the tags by glueing the chipboard pieces, the cutout images and a lot of thread on them and added one of the Tim Holtz stickers on each.

I haven't had my alcohol inks for a while now, but it was fun playing with them on the foil. And of course there are some cool possibilities of using foil tags for decoration such as placing them in front of an electric candle.

Stamps used:
Witch Holding Broom (19705)
Death Moth (20056)
Weathered Tree (19467)
Realistic Skull (19724)
Branch Antlers Set of 2 by Cat Kerr (20147)
The Head Figure by Cat Kerr (20138)
Chakras (20246)

Other material:
- windmill foil
- watercolor paper
- Versaclaire Ink (nocturne)
- Stazon ink (opaque cotton white)
- Ranger alcohol inks + blending solution
    red tag: sunset orange, purple twilight, wild plum
    blue tag: denim, turquoise, raspberry
    on both: pitch black
- Scrapiniec chipboard elements (spiderweb 4967, boarder 4614)
- Embossing powder (Lindy's Gang - chalk it up)
- black and white thread

See you soon & happy Halloween!

When witches go riding ..

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my post where today I have a tag to share. There is also a process video ! Yay !

If you'd like to see how I made this then hop over to the VLVS! YouTube channel

I have used the following stamps for this tag :

10599 - Spiral

19567 - Writing circles background

19568 - Double Coffee rings

19907 - When witches go riding

20127 - Creepy lady holding candle

19995 - Overlapping circles

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Vintage Halloween

 

Good Morning !! Karen with you again..

 

 When I first saw this Halloween Image it screamed old vintage post card type picture to me. So I've decided to make my annual Halloween tag using it.

 

 

 Even though we don't really celebrate Halloween here in Australia, I still like to make myself a little something spooky every year.

 

 

 I started off with two tags, 1 size #10 and 1 #8.  I inked them using  Tim Holtz walnut stain Distress Ink, Flicked a bit of water on them, and got out my trusty sewing machine and stitched a border around them both.  I then stamped the #10 to make a background using :

 

Coffee Ring Stain

Fancy Spiderweb corner

1878 grunge Writing

 

 

If you have a go at doing a background like this, don't worry if it looks messy, you will end up covering it up.

 

I then started on the smaller tag:

 

I began the smaller tag with the Coffee ring stain stamp, stamped  randomly around the tag, As  wanted the smaller tag to have my main focal image , I then stamped the Kids with Giant Jack-O-Lantern and Vampires and Witches  in t the middle of the tag, and added in a bit of colour using my Tim Holtz Distress Markers. I wanted the jack-o-lantern to look like it was glowing so I gave the edges of the tag another ink, just to darken them up a bit.

 

The little Row of Jack-o-lanterns Stamp was just sitting on my desk staring at me. It's just to cute, so I decided to stamp them on a spare bit of card stock, partially fussy cut them out and add some stitching to them, to add in as a border at the bottom.

 

 

The last thing to do was to layer them all on top of each other, I used mounting tape to mount the smaller tag in the middle of the larger tag  and the row of pumpkins underneath the tag- see no more messy background :)  

 

 

 

So there you have it.. my own little piece of Halloween to sit on my desk.. I hope you have a wonderful day, and look forward to seeing you all again soon.

 

Happy Haunting! - Karen

 

 

 

 

 

 



Fly Me to the Moon...On a Broom, or Something...

Halloween is in the air and the chance to use this very fun stamp is both trick and treat! 

 Items used include:

The Witching Hour
Embrace Your Weird
Lady Riding Vacuum
May Arts Ribbon
Miracle Tape
Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder

A splash of orange/lime/purple/blue Dylusions inks were used to create the splattered background.  The tag is edged with a bit of acrylic paint, as well.  I stamped the lady and embossed her, adding just the final coloring touches with matching Copic markers. I love the frilly ribbon detail on the gal's apron, so the lacy fiber used brought the tag together nicely.

I did go back and add the moon and expression, The Witching Hour later.  The sequins also made for a fun touch of color, too.