A Spooktacular card.

It's almost Halloween, and I thought I would make another wee Halloween themed card.  I decided to use Angelica Strange as the focal point for my card, how cute is she? I coloured her using Promarkers, stamped the skull onto her dress, then masked it to have the crossed bones on the dress too.  All of the papers are from the 31 Spook Street Digi Kit and I punched them out using my trusty Hexagon Punch.  The sentiment also comes from the Angelica Strange set.

Ingredients

Angelica Strange Stamp Set by Sarah Hurley

Papers from 31 Spook Street Digi Kit

Promarkers

Memento and Archival Ink Pads

Foam pads

I hope you like her as much as I do, and it inspires you to do some Halloween crafting!

I would like to enter the following challenges;

2 Sisters - Cute & Spooky

Di's Digi Designs - Halloween

Stampin With The Dragon - Halloween

Cute Card Thursday  - Spooktacular

Happy Campers - Halloween

Crafting for all seasons  - Too cute to spook

Eureka Stamps - Halloween Colours

Make My Monday - Halloween

It's October

And that can only mean one thing...Halloween is on it's way! It is my turn to host the challenge over at Sarah Hurley Challenges and I had to choose Halloween.  I love everything Halloweeny, from witches to bats, ghoulies to black cats and I think it is becoming much more of an occasion here in Britain too.  Thankfully, it is much easier to get Halloween stash to make things too.  

Sarah has recently launched a new range of characters and you can find them living in 31 Spook Street. There are stamps and a great digi kit, which includes some awesome digi papers.

I used stamps for my project and did some inky crafting for a change.  I usually make quite clean and simple cards, so this was an adventure for me.  I used elements from Angelica Strange and Malcolm Strange Stamp Sets and embossed some of them with clear embossing powder to make a background.

I then used Distress Inks to add some colour to the background, whilst leaving the pumpkin and boooo clear/white.  I was really pleased with the results, and the stamps produce clear crisp images every time, and because they are clear you can see exactly where you are stamping and that it is straight, which was important for the "Spooktacular" sentiment, which is in the Angelica Set.  I used black embossing powder for the spider, fussy cut him and popped him onto some 3d foam to give him some dimension.

Ingredients

Angelica Strange Stamps

Malcolm Strange Stamps 

Distress Inks

Clear and black embossing powders

Versa Mark Ink, Black Memento ink

Orange and white card from stash.

I really hope you can pop over to the Sarah Hurley Challenges and join in with the things that go bump in the night.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Bearly Mine - Halloween

Cutting & Stampin - Halloween

Country View  - Something Spooky

Emergency Crafters - Halloween

Imagination Crafts - Halloween

The Stamping Boutique - Halloween

Created with Love - Halloween

Quirky Crafts - Quirky Pumpkins

There is a new range on the block.

And I would like to say "Welcome to 31 Spook Street" . And the residents of this street are The Strange Family. I am soooo super excited and lucky to have had a sneaky play, and teased you all with a sneaky peek, with this spooktacular new range from Sarah Hurley.

I had a play with the Digi Kit to make this card, and a couple of the stamp sets are winging their way to me.  As soon as I saw them, I knew I had to have them, especially when I saw the really cute cat, owl and ghosts wooooooo. Though best of all is this little chap that I have coloured as he is called "Malcolm Strange" and I adore him, nothing to do with the fact my hubby is called Malcolm ;-) The digis in the set are coloured or black and white, so ideal if you want to make a quick card, or like me want to create a scene with one or more of the characters. I popped Poe the Owl and Muffin the Cat in, just so Malcolm wasn't alone.  You may have noticed the awesome skulls and bones on the background paper, that is also from the set and is featured in different colours, and they all work perfectly together.

 

Ingredients

31 Spook Street Digi Kit  Paper & Digital Stamps

Coloured with Promarkers and Flex Markers

Malcolm - Hair - Ice Grey 4 & 5

Face - Leaf, Apple & Meadow Green, 

Shirt - Cool Grey 1, 

Waist Coat - Aubergine, Plum & Purple

Buttons, Bow Tie & Hankie - Orange & Burnt Orange

Trousers - Warm Grey 4

Shoes - Warm Grey 5

Muffin - Cool Grey 1, 3 & 4, Bright Orange and Salmon Pink

Poe - Tawny Owl, Grey Squirrel and Purple

Post - Auburn(FM) and Burnt Sienna

Stampin Up Punch and Stamps

"Boo" sentiment made using Block Alpha Stamps

Bakers Twine, Pearlised card and orange paper from stash.

I really hope you can pop over to 31 Spook Street and say hello :D

I would like to enter the following challenges; 
Clear It Out Challenge- Let's Hear it for the boys 
Passion For Promarkers - For The Boys
Shopping Our Stash - For the kids
Cards For Men - String it Up
Digi Sketch Challenge - For The Boys
Cutie Pie Challenges - Cute one for the boys
Glitter n Sparkle  - Male cards
Opus Gluei - Boo!
Creative Corner - Happy Halloween