13 Days of Halloween- Use Halloween Colours

I seem to be on a roll at the moment with Steampunk images from Simply Betty Stamps. For today's card I have used is Bride of Frankenstein from Classic Collection 5. I used lots of Halloween colours- orange, purple, green and black and used papers from the latest range of Halloween papers from Graphic 45. I love the muted tones. The lace and black bling were from my stash and the flowers were from a Prima sprig. I coloured the image using Copic markers, distressing with Walnut Stain ink. The bling around the frame was made by cutting up a flourish to make it fit the image.
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Please keep stopping by as we are only reaching the halfway point for the 13 Days of Halloween.

 

 

13 Days of Halloween- Chocolate Box

Well, today's challenge over at  http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com.au/ is to create a candy holder or treat bag. I chose to make a chocolate box and of course, had to buy myself a box of chocolates to fill it!!
The image I used is 'Jack and Jill' from the 2012 Steampunk Line at Simply Betty Stamps. I coloured it using my Copic markers and inked around the edge of the image with Walnut Stain Distress Ink once I had cut it out. I made the box out of a piece of 12x12 card- next to no waste! The papers I used to decorate it were from MME Lost and Found Halloween collection again. I love this pack and have continued to find ways to use it as both sides have great designs.
Making my box just a little bit creepy, I added a bony hand from one of my Halloween swaps. I hope you like it.

13 Days of Halloween- Mummy Loves You

One of my favourite New Halloween images from the Betty Boo Halloween Collection is 'Who's Your Mummy Betty'. She is gorgeous! I was unsure of what to make using her as I felt a need to try something other than a card. I found a glass container in a $2 shop to use as the base for a candy jar. It is decorated with paper, gauze and of course the Simply Betty Stamps image and it's caption. I tied gauze and skull ribbon to the hanger .

 

The gauze is coloured using a light touch of Walnut Stain Distress ink to take away some of the starkness. Yummo, all ready now for Halloween treats!

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13 Days of Halloween- Boo! Did I Scare You?

Today I have created a pop up box card using 'Little Owl Oscar' from Jude Little Trickster's digi collection over at Simply Betty Stamps. I used this digi earlier in the month on my banner but really love it. This time I coloured it with small flicks to represent feathers on the owl costume using Copic markers. I added sticker pumpkins and stars behind the image by first placing them on strips of acetate using tape. Other embellishments included some paper fall leaves from one of Betty's famous craft swaps, ribbon and a chipboard caption. I used paper from My Mind's Eye Lost and Found- Halloween. Paprika Stickles on the chipboard piece helped  tie it in with the glitter on this paper range.

 

If you feel like getting a few things made for Halloween and be in the running for a terrific prize why not pop on over to http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com.au/ ? There is lots of inspiration from all of the contestants who are part of the 13 Days of Halloween.

13 Days of Halloween- Blood Curdling Card

Today's challenge over at Simply Betty Stamps is to create a card using blood effects. I chose the Steampunk digi image from the Robert's Halloween Digi Collection- Christian Count Drac. Hard to resist a vampire image!
I really love to combine some old effects with the steampunk images and I have a big collection of old books I like to tear apart and use for backgrounds. I find the paper is often lovely and thick and holds inks and dyes really well. Sometimes it is a little hard to adhere though as the fibres in the paper come away. I started by inking the edges of the book paper with Walnut Stain distress ink. I used Red Velvet Glimmermist to create a blood effect.
I coloured the image using Copic markers and came in from the edges of the paper with the distress stain again before mounting the image on black cardstock.
The bat embellishments were from the Cricut cartridge Happy Hauntings- a must cartridge for Halloween fans and my other embellishments were silk bias tape coloured black using my Copic marker and a bat brad my stash. I kept this one fairly simple rather than detract from the blood effects. Let me know what you think.

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There are great prizes and lots of inspiration from everyone in the running for Princess of Halloween.

!3 Days of Halloween- Steampunk Challenge

I love Steampunk and had fun creating this stepper card for the challenge over at Simply Betty Stamps. The background for my stamps was made by embossing foil covered card with a Docraft's triboss cog folder. I then covered this in gesso and once dry covered the surface with alcohol inks. I let some of the foil show through by sanding the card once it had dried again (with the help of my heat gun!!) The clock is the Tim Holtz 'Weathered Clock' and in front of the dyed gauze there is a Memory Box Cogs die. Both have been distressed using a range of Treasure Gold gilding waxes. To attach the gauze and cog die I used small brads to avoid glue. The sentiment was coloured with Distress stain and the edges inked. I curved the sentiment to make it look like old paper too.
The Steampunk Witch image is coloured using Copic markers and I used a double layer of foam tape to lift her off the card front.

The image and sentiment are from Simply Betty Stamps - 'Steampunk Witch'. Pop over to the blog now to see all of the other amazing entries in the !3 Days of Halloween Challenge at:

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Halloween Banner- Simply Betty Stamps 13 Days of Halloween

It was very exciting news to find out I was a contestent in the Running for Princess of Halloween over at Simply Betty Stamps Blog. The project for the 1st of October was to create a Halloween Banner. I chose to use Digi Images from Betty's Jude Little Tricksters range.

I began by cutting out pennant shapes from black cardstock and then added Lost and Found Halloween papers which were slightly smaller. The edges were inked with Black Soot Distress Ink.
I used the Cricut cartridge 'Fanciful Frames' to make the orange and black frames on each pennant. They are embellished with black gems. The white centres for each frame are embossed with a Tim Holtz embossing folder featuring cobwebs. I used pop dots to adhere the images and lift them off the paper after colouring them with my Copics and then fussy cutting. The top of each pennant has a strip of paper added to the top which was shaped using an EK Success Moroccan Die.I put twine through these strips and tied pieces of tulle between each pennant. The Spooky lettering is from the Cricut cartridge Happy Hauntings using the Spooky font.

Little Owl Oscar

 Little Dragon Jude

 Little Wizard Ariel

Ali Mummy

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