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!

Halloween

 Hello everyone, 

For today's post I have made a Halloween themed journal page:

Here's how I made it:

I stamped the moon with the bats first on the page to determine where I wanted it. I also stamped it on a piece of paper that was coloured with Distress Oxide Inks and shaving foam. I am going to cut that one out and adhere it onto my page where the other one is. 

Next I used Distress Oxide Inks in Weathered Wood and Black Soot to colour the background. I used the smoosh and dip method, drying in between layers. 

I added some background stamping and cut out the yellow moon. 

When the moon was put in place I added some stencilling with a Tim Holtz stencil and Distress Oxide inks, again Weathered Wood and Black soot. 

Next I stamped my images...

Coloured them with my Copic Markers..

And adhered them onto my page. I put down some washi tape first to sit them on. 

I decided not to use the words Trick or Treat that come with this cat stamp because they were to big in relation to the rest of the page. But I found another stamp which had the word Halloween in it which I thought would be perfect. I did add some black pen around the word and dragged my black ink pad along the edges. 

And there you have it ! 

I have used the following stamps:

8586 - Bast Witches

20267 - Beware of

20272 - Jack O' Lantern

20271 - Bats over moon

20278 - Glycerine

20277 - Ext. Witch Hazel 

20554 - Trick or treat dancing cat

Other materials:

Mixed Media paper

Distress Oxide Inks:

Black Soot

Weathered Wood

Versafine Clair:

Nocturne

Morning Mist

Copic Markers

TIm Holtz stencil TH147

Tim Holtz Halloween washi tape

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

 

Skellie Gnomes

 It is almost time for a spooktacular Halloween and cards need to be mailed right away.

I have TWO Halloween cards to share today both with Gnomes, these little guys are on trend right now but I have SKELLIE gnomes!!!

Stamps used: Gnome Skeleton, Gnome Lady Skeleton, Full Moon, Cemetery

The inky background is Distress Oxide ink and the Lawn Fawn Cloud stencil.

Our skellie gmones are colored with Copic markers.

The full moon is stamped in archival ink over the inky clouds and then color with the Posca white colored pencil.

This card was so much fun!!!

And now the second...

This card is with the same skellie gnome stamps, I added the Creep it Real sentiment.

The paper is Authentique and this slimline card is a PhotoPlay Paper die and card base.

Another super fun card!!!

Until next time...get inky!  HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

STOP ► Majo

Hello Peeps,

 today I show you a creation I made for my art journal book.

I’m fed up by now, as probably most of you too with all the restrictions due to COVID19.

Nevertheless, I decided to put my inconvenience, not into words, but into a page.

 I tell you how I made this.

 I stamped the jar and the lady and protected them with masking fluid. I inked the page and stamped the fingerprints, the virus and some dots randomly.

 After stamping the sentiments, I rubbed off the masking fluid and colored the lady and the jar.

 

I have used the following stamps:

Jar from plate 827

Lady and wings from plate 1523

Fingerprints, Sentiments and virus from plate 1524

Doodle Dots from plate 1471

Please stay safe, find time to craft and enjoy ♥

 

 

Something Wicked This Way Comes

 With Halloween just around the corner, I created this postcard in the spirit of the holidays and a little bit of humor on keeping up with "social distancing." This could easily be a journal page as well.

Supplies:

Witch Holding Broom

Banksy Gas Mask Flower Girl 

Kids with Giant Jack-o-Lantern

Field of Stars 

Something Wicked This Way comes

Markers (I used Tombo standard pens) 

White Jelly Ink pen

Black permanent ink

Post-it notes for Masking stamped images

Scissors

 

 Directions:

1. I stamped the Banksy girl, the Jack-o-Lantern kids and the witch using the black ink, allowed to dry, then stamped these same stamps onto the post-it notes for masks. 

2. After cutting the images out of the post-it notes, they were applied over the stamped images to protect them from all the coloring I was going to do.

3. Using the stars stamp, the background was filled out. Something Wicked stamp, was also inked up then stamped center top over the stars.

4. Colored in the background and created a floor line while blending pens. Once background was colored, the masks were removed to allow those images to be then filled with color.

Happy Halloween!

--Mercy

Not every witch lives in Salem

Hey everyone,

it's my favorite crafting time of the year: Halloween! Well, I don't limit the use of all my monstrous, spooky and weird stamps to that one season. But however, here's a little Halloween based inspiration for you.

For this art journal page I'm working in an old book from the 50's. Two tips for you: As the pages are quite fragile, it's better to glue two or three together. And to avoid the book becoming too bulky, just seperate a few pages from time to time. Keep those pages for future projects.
I primed my spread with some heavy gesso and a brayer, leaving enogh "white space" for some of the text to shine through.

Then I tried to figure out how to place my chosen images and stamped them directly on the page. While I got a good impression from the moon in the background, the spooky house didn't look as good as expected and the details got totally lost. Guess my ink pad got a little too dry. But I wasn't too worried about that. I simply stamped the image on a plain white napkin and cut it out (not too neatly). I kept that piece aside and glued it on top of the unsuccessfully stamped image after I added color to the background. 

And coloring the background is already the next step. I used two Lindy's Gang sprays: moonshadow mist in buccaneer bay blue (a brown with a blue touch) and a blazing black flat fabio spray which gets a greyish blue tone when it's dyluted with water. I tried to get as little color as possible onto my stamped images which worked pretty well even if I had been to lazy to mask them.

After that I adhered my napkin piece and added a stamped tree next to the house and some texture to the background. The new mark making stamps do work well, don't you agree?

I staped a witch hat on watercolor paper, colored it with ZIG brush pens and cut it out. As I wasn't sure about which color of the hat would work best, I just did two versions and kept the other one (which is green) for a future project. Then I added some washi tape to the lower right corner, placed the witch hat on top and stamped a quote: Not every witch lives in Salem.

Here are some more photos of my finished project. Hope you like it.

 

 

Stamps used:
Haunted Mansion/Bridge (17883)
The Moon (20157)
Striped Witch Hat (19204)
Assemic Stripes (20576)
Plus Sign Background (20571) 
Fir Trees Silhouette (19723)

Other material:
- old book
- watercolor paper
- heavy gesso
- brayer
- Archival Ink (jet black, watering can, seafarer)
- Versafine Ink (onyx black
- Lindy's Gang sprays (moon shadow mist "buccaneer bay blue"; flat fabio "blazing black")
- ZIG real brush watercolor marker
- washi tape


See you soon!

 

Creatures of the night

 Hello everyone, 

For today's post I have made a postcard. I have used a mix of new and older stamps for this. 

I have made the background with Distress Oxide Inks. I used the smoosh the inked and dunk method, drying between layers. The images were coloured with coloured pencils. 

Stamps used: 

20571 - Plussign background

20270 - Spiderweb in tree branches

20566 - Priest in robes

20552 - RIP

20564 - Cross grave stone

20556 No tears for the creatures of the night

Other materials:

Distress Oxides : Peeled paint, Ground Espresso and Carved Pumpkin. 

White pen for splattering

Coloured pencils

Versafine ink 'Nocturne'

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

That VooDoo That You Do

 I think Halloween celebrating has started early this year because we are simply looking for something fun to take our minds off of what is happening in the world these days!!

I have a fun Halloween card to share today AND I have changed up the way I typically color my Viva Las VegaStamps! images!!

Stamps Used: Sitting VooDoo Doll, VooDoo I Put a Spell, Fancy Spider Web Corner, Mwahahahahaha

The VooDoo doll is colored with Copic markers and fussy cut to be adhered on a gelli print I had in my stashed (Dina Wakley Paints).

He is sitting on some custom washi tape from Um Wow Studio, designed by our very own DeeDee Catron.

I just love how it all came together!!!

Are you doing any Halloween creating??

Until next time...get inky!!

Life is a Carnival

 As Summer slowly fades into Fall, county fairs start up. Using the Spinning Swing Ride stamp and some Distress Oxides on a tag, reminds me of simpler times.

Supplies:

Spinning Swing Ride

Distress Oxides: Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade and Squeezed Lemonade

Blending Brushes (or any blending type tool)

Chipboard Tag

White Gesso

Black Pigment Ink

Black Embossing Powder 

Stencil Flower Dot (use any stencil you have on hand)

Texture Paste Copper Crackle

 

Directions:

1) Cover chipboard tag evenly with white gesso (if you have a tag that is on white chipboard, skipp this step).

 2) Stamp and emboss the stamp, positioning it to the left of the tag.

3) Apply in strips horizontally each color, purple, pink, orange and yello.

4) Blend colors with blending tool, color to color, edge to edge of pigment.

5) Find stencil and add texture metallic pastes.

This tag can have a tassel added and the sides inked with black as well, but I ended up leaving this as is.

Hope you enjoyed this quick project! See you on the flip side!