hell is empty.... by Tracy blackwolf

 Hello all-I made a card for todays blog- its a bit dark but its how I feel...Hope you like it anyway..

For this scene, I sprayed some Distress spray stains for the background As I envisioned my scene- sky, grass, earth, under world...

I had to fee hand the hell scape- Which I'm not great at which is why I stamp. Lol.

after getting the inks where I wanted them, I went in with some black pan pastel and a soft brush to darken hell scape. I then stamped the devils so they look like they are emerging into our world.

I then painted  them red and added flames to the hell cave. Also I stamped the trees in the background.

I went over the whole scene with watercolor pencils to add to the details and depth of the scene. I also kept adding to the dirt piles the devils are emerging from until I was  happy with the look. 

Last, I used my computer and transparency to get the phrase.

I added a bit of 'smoke' rising from the devils with pan pastel black. I put the phrase on and done.

Hope you enjoyed! 

Stamps used:

Devil   19905

Fir trees silhouette   19723

 Other supplies:

Distress spray stains

Watercolor pencils

black pan pastel

multifarious card stock

  

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

Monster mash by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!!!

Almost Halloween!! Where has the month gone!?

So my project for this week is a long card. 4.5 x 10 and it s a new paper I have not used before. I have to say it does not have the blending properties of what I usually use. I used white heavy stock. This is for the background only. If you're a heavy inker/ paint user as I am, Id stick to the mixed media heavy stock.

The project is pretty straight forward, tons of fussy cutting and then painting the images and then a lot of foam tape, sometimes triple layered as I wanted a lot of different depths of the images. 

I chose many images, stamped and cut out as I wasn't sure how many would fit or what my scene exactly was going to be and I wanted enough to chose from. After all are colored and cut,  and foam tape applied, I like to fluff them- bend wings ,limbs, collars, etc. to give them some life as it were.

I hope you enjoy the monster Halloween!

Stamps Used:

Spider on web line   19263

Death head moth ( for the wings)   20056

piles of bones and skulls ( for 3 skulls on stick) 19903

wolfman   19725

Frankenstein bolts   5842

Devil  19905

Mummy   14748

Dracula   17686

Vampire boy   15165

Pumpkin   18626

Bat comin at ya   12649

 Plague doctor   19701

 Eye and brow   5795

Intense lady   17904

Bat wings set   14339

Vampire or kisser   17874

Other supplies:

Distress spray stains: Dried marigold, crackling campfire,

Squeezed lemonade, Wilted violet, Salvaged patina, Speckled egg, Lost shadow, Black soot, Antique linen, vintage photo, tea dye, tattered rose, twisted citron, lumberjack plaid

Silver sparkle gel pen

white gel pen

white pigment ink

foam tape

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

Express soulful notes by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone!

For my project today I made an art tag. Enjoy...

I felt a nice spring art was in order. To start, I sprayed three colors- mustard seed, tumbled glass and uncharted mariner onto the tag. Spritzed a little water to help the blend, let dry a bit and then finished the drying with my heat tool.

Once dry, I dropped water drops all around and let that sit for five minutes then dabbed with a paper towel.

It Gives it a more distressed look. Then I Used a pallet knife and light modeling paste through a stencil for the musical notes. spread it through like you're buttering bread. then let dry. Takes about  20 minutes depending on environment. Because I used distress spray, and the paste is wet, it will soak up the underlying color. If you don't want that you can first seal the art with collage medium. Or, you can wipe paint or wax or ink over the top when dry.

I then felt it needed a bit more color so I spritzed some saltwater taffy ink here and there. Not too hard as I wanted drops rather than heavy coverage.

While that dried, I stamped the singer lady and painted her and cut her out. I put foam tape on the back of her to give dimension.

I attached her to my tag and began hot gluing paper flowers all in her hair and down her neck and shoulder. Last, I Gathered the word stickers to make the phrase and stuck them on. And that is it! 

I hope you enjoyed this weeks blog project.

Stamps used: 

Banksy wall singer     20303

Other supplies:

Distress spray stains: Mustard seed, Uncharted Mariner, Tumbled glass, saltwater taffy, frayed burlap, 

tea dye

TH stencil #067 Concerto

Light modeling paste by Golden

Prima paper flowers

TH words stickers