One wicked beast.. by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

I know its the middle of summer but Halloween is in the stores now and of coarse for me ,Halloween is every day!

I hope you enjoy my art tag for this week~

For this tag, I  used one I had in my stash that I had die cut the claw mars out of. The background is cracklin campfire and black soot spray stains. For the background seen through the claw marks, I sprayed a new tag with wilted violet and shaded lilac spray stains and then stamped the flock of bats all over.

Then I glued the two tags together.

I stamped the cat and bat wings and fussy cut them and then glued the wings to the cat.

I then stamped the hanging bats and the cemetery onto the tag. I used a white gel pen for the eyes of the bats.

I wanted the cat to stand out so I painted him in neon colors using reinkers.

I used foam tape to attach him to the tag. I used a bit of glitter glue on the green tips of his wings and  a word stick from TH. And that's it!

I hope this gets you in the Halloween spirit!

Stamps used:

Cemetery     18907

Hanging bats    20124

flock of bats    18909

Creepy cat    19869

Bat wings set     14339

Other supplies:

Maker forte re inkers

Distress spray stains

White gel pen

foam tape

TH Claw marks die

Umbrella man by ~*Arwen*~

 Hi Lovelies

Welcome back on this Blog :)

Today, I like to share my newest postcard including the way, how I made it.

Let's go

1.) First, I draw a celtic knot bow.

2.) After painting the spaces between the knots black, I position my desired image. In this case, the Umbrella Man.

3.) To make the background not look so empty, I stamp bees and butterflies on it.

4.) When coloring, I always start with the background. For this, I use a water tank brush and watercolors from Prima.

5.) Now that the background is finished, I can start coloring my pictures. For this I use my handmade watercolor paints.

6.) The color shines and glitters. The bees' wings are just filled with glitter.

7.) The bow is still missing. I color it in olive green and add shading in red.

8.) Of course it also glitters. Finally, I stamp the edges of the card with a silhouette stamp and add a quote under the bow.

All stamps, I used:

- Silhouette clumps of plants

- Butterfly Gossamer/small

- Umbrella Man

- Bumblebee small

- I'm not overweight

other supplies:

- Watercolor paper

- VersaFine Clair

- handmade watercolors

- Micron pen

- Prima watercolors

- Posca white pen

- cardstock

- Distress Oxides

See ya soon *mwah*

Frank's wife by Cathy n

 Good evening, Cathy here with a card for you. 

I started out stamping Alhambra Programme  all over the card base with brown distress ink. I then sprayed it with some water so it would blur a little.

Next, I took grunge writing background and stamped it on the background in black ink. I then took a light brown distress ink and smooched it on the background.

Then I stamped Alhambra Programme  on a scrap paper and colored it with Copic markers and cut out.

After that I stamped Bride of Frankenstein and made a tag out off it.

I found some paper bits and I added them to the front of the card and added the other 2 cut outs I did.

                                                                   Stamps Used:

                                                       18628 Alhambra Programme 

                                                        19906 Bride of Frankenstein

                                                        17545 grunge writing background

Use IT. by Tracy Blackwolf

Hello everyone!

Todays project is an art tag. Enjoy.

Todays tag is a sentiment I'm sure we can all appreciate. 

For this I stamped the Expanding rays in a red chalk ink. It did not come to the edges so I used a paint brush and dabbed it on the ink pad and pulled the color down for a more pleasing effect.

I then used a brown ink pad around all the edges of the tag. I also fussy cut and colored the brains sign.

I put one layer of foam tape on the back of the sign and stuck it on.

I fussy cut the rest of my images and colored them with alcohol markers and layered the backs with foam tape. With the most on the brain so it would stand out pretty far. I bent the fingers of the person for more dimension. The 3D effect doesn't translate well in the photos.

I used some TH stickers for the words and that was it.

Until next time~

Stamps used:

Brains 25 Cents    19899

Detailed brain     19696

Hands lady     4800

Expanding Rays    19896

Other supplies:

TH chit chat stickers

Colorbox chalk inkpad- warm red

Versafine claire- Pinecone, nocturne

Distress spray stain- stormy sky

Halloween-ish card by Cathy

 Hello, all Cathy here with a Halloween-ish card for you today.

                                                                           Stamps Used:

                                                                19563 grunge circles

                                                               19991 Alis Volat Proprits

              

                                    Why I say Halloween-ish because I started out to make a Halloween card and I didn't know what I wanted to use for the main image, so I switched it up a bit. I stamped the grunge circles in an orange and purple distress ink colors around my card base. Then I took my sponge dabber that had brown distress oxide ink on it and used whatever was left on it to go around the card. I splattered some water on it to give it drips.

I decided to make a tag for the front. I took rusty hinge antique linen distress ink to make the tag background. I stamped Alis Volat Proprits with black ink and tore the tag. I edged it with distress inks.

Lastly, I added foam tape to the back of the tag added to the card base.

Bettie by ~*Arwen*~

 Hi Lovelies :)

Welcome back on this Blog and welcome July!

Today, I'm here with a new postcard.

Close-ups:

The stamps, I used:

- Bettie Mermaid

- Medium Cephalopod

- It isn't that I'm not

 

other supplies:

-  Watercolor paper

- Cardstock

- VersaFine Clair

- Micron Pen

- handmade watercolors

See ya soon *mwah*

No Clothes......by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

For todays project I did another page in my art journal...enjoy

For this page, I sprayed some water in the two corners and then dipped my brush in the spray stain and gently tapped it where I wanted color. I tipped the book so it would spread but not too much. then I dried it before stamping the various stamps on the color areas.

I dipped my brush in darker colors and tapped it against my finger to get the splatters. The last color I splattered is a light gold you can see when the light hits it. 

For the ladies, I fussy cut just around them leaving a background for painting so they would stand out more once on the page.

I found some iridescent wrap scraps and decided it would add a festive touch to the scene. I heated it with my heat tool to make it not so fluffy so my girls would sit better. I used foam tape on the back of them but I used hot glue to stick them to the page, I didn't want it popping off later.

I used my trusty TH snarky Quotes and also glued them on with hot glue.

And that is it my friends! Hope you enjoyed!

Stamps used:

5 Ladies       18537

Bubble wrap texture    19566

Chevron banner    19042

Writing triangles    19571

Other Supplies:

Kaleidacolor ink pad- baby powder

Pearl ex water color pallet- duo and interference

Distress spray stains: picked raspberry, salvaged patina, tea dye, tattered rose, Victorian velvet

If you show me something naughty ..... ► Majo

 

Hi guys,

 

I will you a card with a fabulous sentiment I’ve had for some time and didn’t know how to use it. I finally found the right “surroundings”. Please enjoy.

 

Stamp: 834 from plate 309

Have a good time and don't forget, 

we have FREE SHIPPING until July,1st!

Luv ya ....

 

 

 

 

Poe's Party Hat by Cathy N

 Hello, all Cathy here with a semi-Halloween card for you. I have been in the Halloween mood for the last week or so and I just had to make something for it.

                                                                    Stamped Used:

                                                                       19900 Poe

                                                                      17545 grunge writing background

                                                                      19991 Alis Volat Proprits

I started out with some orange distress ink and stamped grunge writing background randomly around the edges of my card base. I then took some brown ink and inked around the edges and splattered some water around to give it a grunge look.

 

I had made this background earlier with some white paste that I added some black ink to it, and it mad it gray. I tore the edges and edged it with some gray ink. 

Next, I stamped Poe and cut him out. After that I stamped the wings from Alis Volat Proprits in the same orange ink I used for the background and cut them out. I found a top hat in my digital collage images and cut it out so Poe could where it. I added the wings to the hat and then the hat to Poe and I added foam tape so it would stick to the texture of the background.