Halloween Mixed Media Tag Video by Susanne

Hi my dear crafty friends!

There are only a few days left until Halloween and of course I have creepy mixed media tag to share today! What could be better than a skull as my main image?

I recorded a video about the making of! Enjoy!

Thank you for watching! Have a wonderful Sunday and a great Halloween party :-)

xx Susanne.

Supplies:
Viva Las VegaStamps!
Row Of Jack-O-Lanterns 
Skull
Danger Skeleton
Vampires And Witches And
Others:
Glossy Accents
Archival Ink
Brushos
WOW! Embossing Powder
Bluemoon Charm
Distress Ink

Creepy Mixed Media Tag - Challenge Inspiration by Susanne

Hi there!

Susanne here today and I'd like give you a little bit of inspiration to join our October challenge! And what else could our theme be related to in October!? YES! It's all about spooky stuff!

I made a tag with the "Skull" as my focal image. I love creating tags, because I think they are super versatile! You can use them on cards, in your planner, in your art journals, junk journals or mini albums and they have the perfect size to experiment with new products or techniques!
Sometimes I transfer the process I used on a tag to a spread in my journal or even onto a canvas.

This tag looks like a lot of work, but in the end it is really easy to achieve that look.

1. Stamp the Skull with black Archival Ink and mask it with masking fluid.
2. Make a Distress Oxide background. I used also different stamps to add texture to it (Frightful Fun and Folly, Row Of Jack-O-Lanterns, Halloween Tree Silhouette)
3. Use gesso to prime defined areas. I picked a stripe on the left border and a smaller one on the right.
4. Apply acrylic paint when the gesso is dry. Pick some colours that are working with your background. Most of the time you will get a great effect when you use complementary colours.
5. Add texture with stamps onto the dried painted areas and some black splatters to the background.
6. Remove the masking fluid.
7. Cut the Tim Holtz "Thorne Edge" from black glitter cardstock and arranged it together with the sentiment. I used a Tim Holtz word block die together with a gelli print scrap. I used Miracle Tape to adhere my embellishments.

Thank you for stopping by today!
Join our challenge here!
xx Susanne.

Supplies:
Viva Las VegaStamps:
Measuring Tape Section
Skull
I Wish My Life
Dead Letter Office
Frightful Fun and Folly
Row Of Jack-O-Lanterns
Halloween Tree Silhouette
Miracle Tape
Others:
Sizzix: Tim Holtz dies (Word Blocks and )
Acrylic Paint
Gesso
Ranger Distress Oxide Inks by Tim Holtz
Ranger Archival Ink
Masking Fluid

Dangerous Halloween Treat Box

Hi my dear Viva Las VegaStamps! Friends.

Three Days left until Halloween and I'd like to share a spooky treat box today. It's perfect for some goodies and it can be used as a little lantern where you add a LED light.
The box is cut with the Silhouette Cameo. I used kraft cardstock and covered it with gesso. I used the Gelatos on top together with the Tim Holtz Shatter stencil.

I removed the Gelatos color through the stencil using a wet baby wipe.

 
I added a little tag on which I stamped the "Danger Skeleton" and the "Row of Jack-O-Lanterns Silhouette". The edges are distressed with Distress Ink black soot. I used the Jack-O-Lanterns on the front of the bag, too.

I added the "Danger Skeleton" also to the vellum on the backside.

I stamped the "Frightful Fun and Folly", the "Halloween Tree Silhouette" and the "Row of Jack-O-Lanterns Silhouette" on the sides of the gift bag.

Stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps!
Row of Jack-O-Lanterns Silhouette
Halloween Tree Silhouette
Frightful Fun and Folly
Danger Skeleton
You'll find them also all on plate 951

Other supplies:
Pumpkin Patch (use code: susanne15 to save 15% in the Die-Namites dies online store)
Hanging Grapes
Archival Ink jet black
Faber-Castell Gelatos

I wish you all a Happy Halloween

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