The Lair....by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello Everyone!! Happy spooky month! I Have a new spooky card today-

Here's how I started this card...

Next I used a paint brush and three colors of spray stain. Adding colors until I got the desired effect.

Then I added the bat stamps and some orange to the candle light. After I was done adding spray stains, I dried the card some, and then started adding pan pastels in black, grey and white. I added a bit of red pastel just by nosferatu to ad to his creep factor. I used a pastel pencil for the girls dress. both white and gray. Last I went in with a white gel pen to give the bats eyes and highlights on the spike gate and tombstones.

Last I layered onto cardstock.

I hope you enjoyed this card!

Stamps used:

Branch antlers set     20147

Cemetary    18907

Hanging bats   20124

Flock of bats    18909

Nosferatu    19902

Creepy lady holding candle    20127

Spike fence   18919

Other supplies:

Distress spray stains- used as watercolor

Pan pastels

Chalk pencils

 white gel pen

Witch hat by Cathy N

 Hello Cathy here with a fun Halloween card I made.

                                                                     Stamp Used:

                                                     19204   striped witch hat

I started out by stamped the witch hat on cream cardstock and colored it with copic markers.

I then added some Halloween ephemera. I then put it on some Halloween paper.

A haunting we will go By. Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello all! 

Halloween is next week and so I made a card for my favorite holiday- enjoy🎃

To start my card, I stamped all the houses first. Then the graves, fence, then kids and last I stamped the moon and clouds, and last was bats.

I colored in the windows and the jack-o’-lantern  and then I started on the background.

I worked the back ground until I was happy. Then I let that dry. I came back later and worked on the houses. I felt the houses needed some trees between them so I went back and stamped the trees. I added in the creepy fog and the very last thing was to stamp the words. It was a lot of work but I loved it. I think it coveys Halloween night pretty well.

Stamps used :

A haunting we will go.    19736

Old house.   19741

Haunted mansion 17883

House,lg. 9864

Cemetery 18907

Spiked fence 18919

Kids in costumes silhouette 19266

Full moon 18911

Jack o lantern 20312

Flock of bats. 18909

Weathered tree 19467

Winter scene woods 19793

Row of Jack o lanterns (I only used one in the row) 19210

Other supplies:

Distress spray stains

Pan pastel- white

Black memories ink pad.

Poison apple by Cathy N

 Good morning, Cathy here with a fun card for you.

                                                                       Stamp Used:

                                                                   19702 poison apple

I started out by stamped poison apple and coloring it copic markers and then layered it on black cardstock. 

I added on top of Tim Holtz Halloween ephemera and added some on top. 

We are all weirdos by Cathy N

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

                                                                       Stamps Used:

                                                                         Plate 1504

I stared off by making the background using distress ink and I smooched it on the craft mat and picked it up and dried. I did that a few times. Next, I stamped some of the stamps in the same ink for the background. I edged it with a dark brown distress ink. 

                                                                  Then I stamped the branch in the same dark brown distress oxide in on the top and then I used black ink to stamp the rest around the card.

Halloween night scenic Mail Art by Cocofolies

Hello Everyone !

After a little pause on the blog due to lots of things behind the scene, so sorry, I'm finally back today... very happy to share with you a cute and fun scenic stamping mail art! 

I used masking techniques mainly on this one, starting from a simple white standard envelope (mine measures 11x22 cm). Several VLVS wonderful fun stamps to give life to the scene, dye inks in natural tones for the background, and a bit of extra (soft) coloring here and there, and that's all! 

To start I stamped on the left side my dancing cat using black permament ink and next stamped it again soon on a post-it with the remaining ink. Then I fussy cut out this one to create a mask of my dancing cat, and put it over my original stamped image to adhere.  

Next, I stamped my Jack o'lantern Along Fence over the cat, and created a second mask, before stamping  my  Tree with Tire swings.

On the right side, I stamped the sign, masked if off before stamping the Stone wall. And to finish the scene, I stamped  at the bottom my little Mischievous Elf  to add a bit of fun.

Next, I colored the pumpkins and the wall with just a few Distress ink pads squeezed on my craft mat,  in Carved Pumpkin, Walnut Stain, Hickory Smoke and Gathered twigs. I roughly watercolored some parts of the background too (be careful, you have to do this really slightly, as the envelope does not tolerate much water!). I also put a bit of grey and brown shadows under all the images.

At this stage, I decided to add in the right upper corner Hanging bats.

Still using my watercolor detailed brush, I added color (Brushed Corduroy) between the branches of the tree, and arounf the bats.

Don't hesitate to heat up your paper from time to time, to make your envelope more robust! 

Time to play with a few color pencils to add some dimension to the scene and characters. I used my Derwent Coloursoft pencils in the colors you can see on the photo below. I had a wonderful time during the process. 

For the finishing touches, I used my Posca pens in Black and white, and some fine blackliner. 

Et voila! :)

Stamps used:

- Trick or Treat Dancing Cat

- Hanging bats

- Stone wall

- Tree with Tire swings

- Jack o'lantern Along Fence

- Mischievous Elf 

I hope you like this project as much as I did.

Happy Halloween!!!!

Corinne

Halloween gift box by ~*Arwen*~

 Hi peeps ❤

Are you in the Halloween mood yet?

For me, Halloween is 365 days a year - I just love it spooky ❤❤❤💀❤❤❤

Today I have a Halloween style gift box. Below you will also find instructions on how I made the box.

when light shines through the lid from behind

 

And that's how I made it:

1.) You need 2 sheets of cardboard. 1x DIN A4 for the box and 1x 23.8cm x 15.1cm for the lid.
Fold the sheet for the box all around 1x at 3cm and 1x at 6cm.
The sheet for the lid is folded at 1.5cm and 3cm - again all around.
Then cut away the unneeded cardboard as shown in the picture.

2.) Before the lid is folded, we need a second piece of cardboard the same size as the top of the lid. In this case it is 17.5cm x 8.8cm. I cut the piece 1mm smaller on each side so that I could fold the lid more easily at the end.
Now you choose a punch of your choice - I chose a bat. You fix the cut cardboard on the inside of the lid, position your punch, fix it too so that it doesn't slip and hop through the punching machine.

3.) Now you need something transparent to put between the two layers of cardboard.
Here I took a solid foil and embossed it with a spider web.

4.) Now the foil can be adapted to the cutout in the lid and glued in place. Leave enough margin. Then stick your second piece of cardboard on the inside of the lid and you have a cutout that looks equally beautiful from the outside and inside.

5.) Now everything can be folded and glued. This template is a double-walled box. This means that you first glue the small tabs to the sides and then glue the remaining 4 sides to the inside. The box is ready and can now be decorated according to your preferences.

All stamps, I used:

- Spider web in tree branches

- Cemetery

- Rats in Pumpkin 

- Spider

Other supplies:

- Cardstock

- ScorPal

- Bat die

- Embossing folder

- Staz on

- Versafine Clair

- Distress Reinker

- handmade watercolors

- Watercolor paper

- Ribbon

- Charm

- Foil

See ya soon *mwah* 

Trick or treat cats by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone! 

Keeping with my love of Halloween is my blog card for today.

For this card, I stated with mixed media heavy stock postcard. For the background, I used acrylic paints and a brush. I squeeze the colors I want onto a plastic bubble packaging- I love to reuse- and randomly dip my brush in colors and swipe all over the card. I'm not too careful- If you hate it you can start a new card and save the other one to re do later.

While that dried, I stamped all of my images on the same type of cardstock, fussy cut them out and started painting them in with Distress spray stains and a brush.

I used the Happy moon face to stamp on the big moon. I try to ink just the face and then take a paper towel to carefully wipe away what I don't want. I did the same with the large pumpkin and face parts. I used a white gel pen to add fangs to the open mouth and whiten the eyeball. I added in the red veins with a tiny brush and paint.

Then I used foam tape behind the cats and all else got double stick tape.

Then I attached everything to the card and stamped some bats and done!

I hope you enjoyed this card- Enjoy October- its so short!

Stamps used:

The Moon   20157

Open Mouth   5766

Cheshire smile   19904

Eyeball   10398

Pumpkin, Lg.   15555

Trick or Treat Cats    18296

Happy Moon   19507

Flock of Bats   18909

Other Supplies:

Acrylic paints- Light blue violet, Fluorescent purple, Dyna- Iridescent green Yellow

Distress spray stains: Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Dried Marigold, Crackling Campfire, Twisted citron

Color Hive Neon Reinkers: California Love, Outrageous, Purple rain

White gel pen

foam tape 

multimedia heavy stock postcards- TH

KISSING SKELETONS AT HALLOWEEN by Fran Chalmers

Hi everyone!

Today I have made a Halloween tag! We don't really celebrate Halloween here much, but I love these two kissing skellies! 

First of all I cut my tag and then used inks and brushos on a gel plate to make the background.

I then stamped the outside edges in purple, and used a background stamp for some texture

I added some dripping blood at the top of the tag and embossed it

I stamped the skellies and used a white gel pen to emphasise the bones.  I used a stamping platform to make sure the image was black enough.

I coloured in some of the dots round the edge of the tab, and then blended purple and black ink round the edges.

I used washi tape to ground the skellies and lastly splattered orange posca pen onto the tag, and lastly added some ribbons.

Stamps Used:

Kissing Skeletons 19727

Punchinella Sequin Waste Border 20161

Blood Dripping 18961

Doodle Dots 19827

Other Items Used:

Gel Press

Brushos in Orange and Purple 

Elements ink in Graphite

White gel pen

Orange Posca Pen

Purple Posca Pen

Distress inks in Black Soot and Villainous Potion

Versafine Clair inks in Fantasia,, Nocturn and Tulip Red

Clear Embossing Powder

Washi tape

Ribbons

See you next time!