31 Days of Halloween: Day 17

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here with another Halloween project to inspire you for our 31 Days of Halloween!

This time I used the wonderful stamp set Isle of Aud Creatures. I love it so much, and they are perfect Halloween stamps! The images are from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch (16th century), I'm a big fan of him!

I also used three times the window from the Door & Window set. The techniques are the same as last time (as always...;-)) Colouring with Distress inks and water, Stamping, masking, bleaching and finishing with black charcoal and white pens.

Hope you will join us with your Halloween makes!

See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

31 Days of Halloween, Day 16.

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Hello everyone, Riet here.

Today I want to show you this candle.

Even though I am Dutch, I think Halloween is absolutely amazing.

I especially like all homemade Halloween craft .

Halloween appeals to everyone's imagination when it comes to crafts.

But now the candle, bought at the Action, which is a well-known store in the Netherlands.

Especially because it is low budget.

What I used for this candle:

LCD Dancing skeletons.

LCD Crackle background.

Stazon Brown Timber.

Black waterproof ink.

I started by removing the piece of fabric.

First we are going to give the candle a slightly older look.

We dab the candle with a piece of paper towel and some Stazon Timber Brown.

The next step is with a hard coarse sponge and Archival or stazon black.

Not too much otherwise the black will dominate.

With the crackle background stamp we now make a few prints on the candle.

We do this without a stamp block, so free in the hand. Stamp light and airy.

Repeat this until you are satisfied with the result.

Now the candle holder.

It looks a bit plain.

So I put some viva decor terra on it.

It has a nice bloody color and that works well for Halloween.

I stamped the dancing skeletons with black ink and cut them out and glued them on.

Use a thin paper for this.

Decorate further with some spiders and spider web.

This is the front and the back side of the candle.

This is an easy and quick project, and such a fun way to create a Halloween deco piece.

Now it's up to you to make something for the challenge.

Participate and get a chance to win new rubber stamps of your choice.

You don't necessarily have to enter with LCD/CV stamps.

All brands can enter.

But read the rules first, so you avoid disappointment.

I hope to see your work on the challenge blog.

Click here for the challenge.

GO TO THE CHALLENGE.

31 Days of Halloween Day 15

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Hello Portal Peeps!   Gail here today with some bootastic inspiration for the 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  If you are a regular visitor here you are possibly aware of my love for Frank and his famous friends by Carmen's Veranda. 

I've used a card shape called a Floating Centre Panel Gatefold, which I found the instruction for over at Papercrafting with Paul.  I adjusted the dimensions to accommodate the stamped images I used, so this is a slimline version.  I used Lost Coast Designs Fourth Dimension for the background and floating band, Carmen's Veranda Hourglass on the two gatefold end panels and the lovely Carmen's Veranda Frank as the centre piece.  This is how it looks, flat for sending.

And here he is, popping out to woo you with his handsomness.

Submit your stamped anythings with a Halloween theme to the linky party by 23.59 PST on the 31st and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun. 

Thanks for dropping by.

 

31 Days of Halloween Day 14

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Boo! Aimee here. After five years of living in Belgium, I'm excited to be back in the United States for the Halloween season. So many Americans go ALL OUT decorating for this holiday. A recent trend is to put these giant, 12 foot skeletons on display in your front yard. They're awesome to look at, but I can't help but wonder how people store them for the other 11 months of the year?

This card features skeletons, and I promise they are MUCH easier to store.

To make this card, you'll need the Dancing Skeletons stamp, some letter stickers, decorative string, and of course, ink and paper. Follow along with these photos to see how this card was created.

Please join in the Halloween fun by creating something spooky as part of this month's Challenge and maybe win a prize. Choose stamps from the Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda catalogue, or use any other brand of stamp you like. Happy Stamping!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 13

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Hi everyone!

Can you believe it's day 13 of our 31 Days of Halloween already??

Today I made this creepy raven for you to inspire you!

I took a piece of white cardstock and sponged it very dark with Distress inks Vintage Photo, Gathered twigs an Scorched timber.

I stamped the Goth Raven with StazOn ink - Jet Black, and masked it. On my craftsheet I created a very thin layer if bleach and used it as a ,ink-pad' using parts of the big Spiderwebs background stamp. So I stamped it with pure bleach.

Using black ink, I stamped one of the Pieces of Calligraphy. After that I removed the mask and bleached the bird with bleach and a synthetic brush. I finished with an orange colour pencil and a white gel pen.

Hope you will join our Halloween adventure this month! :-)

Hugs, Liesbeth XX

31 Days of Halloween Day 12

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Hi, Darlene here with my scary halloween card just wanting to burst out at you !!!!

First I want to say that this is one of our older stamps that sadly is no longer

available.  But thought some of you will have it and maybe wonder what to do with it

Well this was a fun make

Used some halloween paper I had laying around and right about centre I tore and pulled back 

the paper to make this.  Only want to take it as far as the image (no white space)

Layered the image, after I coloured in the eyes and nails.  in behind, then layered onto black cardstock with distressed edges.

Wrapped a bit of  string around to that it almost looked like the edges had cat hair caught !!!

You can definitely do this with any stamp !!

Now its your chance to win - enter the Halloween Challenge

Be sure to enter your spooky make into our challenge this month 

and maybe win !!