SBS 13 Days of Halloween - Day 13 - Altered Item

Argh!!!! Here we are!!!! The final challenge!!! I can't believe it's come to an end!!! It's been a huge challenge but such a privilege to be part of the 13 Days of Halloween as an Honorary Contestant. Thank you so much Betty for choosing me to take part. It's really stretched me and made me think outside the box on many occasions, but I've absolutely loved it.

Well here we go - the final challenge:

 Day 13 - BIG BAD HALLOWEEN BLOW OUT!  Altered project anything but a journal or a card. Must be an actual altered item.  

The thought of a countdown to Halloween popped into my head so I decided to alter a clock. 

I started with this basic cheap clock from Asda.

..... and created this!

A bit of a change eh????

Here's how I did it.

Firstly I sprayed the white surround with Black Acrylic Spray. For once it was me raiding my hubby's garage for resources rather than him 'borrowing' things from my craft room for projects! As luck would have it he had exactly the right thing and it gave a good finish after a quick coat.

Now for the base. I started with the Halloween Frame from the Silhouette Store, made it the right size and welded a circle into the centre to make it easier to attach to the clock base. I added the clock numbers at the 12, 3, 6 & 9 positions and welded them onto the frame. I had to split the frame into two pieces to cut as I didn't have a piece of card big enough. Once cut I fixed the two halves together and used strong double sided tape to attach it to the back of the clock.

Here it is from behind.

I added a touch of Wink of Stella clear pen to the edges of the numbers to gently highlight them.

As you can see the cut frame fits nicely behind the clock base.

I created the centre piece using Devilish Betty along with the Eerie Scene from Make it Crafty. 

I compiled it in Craft Artist 2 and added the words 'The Countdown is Over' in that software. 

I then used Print and Cut to cut it out accurately (including the small circle in the middle for the clock mechanism to poke through).

I used my Blitzer (1990's version of the Tim Holtz sprtizer) to hand airbrush the night sky and moon. I really love the effect it gives.

I cut out an extra printed Bat and stuck it to the minute hand. The clock hands looked a little plain so I coloured them with a Sakura Stardust pen.

I coloured the image with my Copics

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04 with R20 Cheeks

Hair - E21, E23, E25, E27, E29, E49

Dress, Shoes, Horns - R24, R27, R29, W5, W7

Pumpkins - YR12, YR15, YR18, E08, E19

Fence - E33, E35, E37, E39. E29

Grass - erm .... can't quite remember those (well I am human after all :P )

Wine - Sakura Stardust Pen

I really hope you like my clock. It's now in pride of place on my craft room wall.

I've had a really wonderful time taking part in the 13 Days of Halloween. I hope you've enjoyed seeing what I've created xxx

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Kitty Bee Designs - Aloha Friday Challenges #35 - Halloween (ends 7/11)

Sassy Studio Designs - Happy Halloween (ends 5/11)

Inky Impressions - Halloween (ends 4/11)

Nutcrafters - Halloween (ends 11/11)

Scrapper's Delights - Halloween (ends 5/11)

Simon Wednesday Challenges - Anything Goes - (ends 5/11)

SBS 13 Days of Halloween - Day 12 - Howling at the Moon!

Day 12 - Howling at the moon!  Make it hairy, use fuzz, feathers, anything fuzzy on your projects!  

Crumbs! How have we got to there only being one challenge left! This month seems to have gone so quickly!

Here's my creation for today.

I used Wolfie Ariel as she was just perfect for this project. 

The card base is a self standing pop up box (I think it's sometimes called a pillow box). I did a tutorial on how to make it for one of my 13 Days of Halloween entries in 2012 (yes I've been addicted for a while!)

The base squashes flat for postage...

... and as you push the top down it opens.....

.....until it's free standing and the image stands upright in the middle.

I love this design as it's so unexpected.

I used Pheasant feathers to add some 'fuzz' to the project. 

As you can see I had one that flat refused to behave and sit where it should, but I figured that fits rather well with Wolfie Ariel who I guess would be a bit mischievous. 

I added big feathers to the back and small ones to the front.

The sentiment came with Wolfie Ariel. I added the wolf charm.

Here's Wolfie Ariel 

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04 with R20 Cheeks

Hair - N5, N7, N9, 100

Wolf Hat - E71, E74, E77, E79

Dress - YR14, YR18, E08, E19

Gloves - BG05, BG09, B99

Shoes - E23, E27, E29, E51, E53

Cardstock - Graphic 45

I hope you like her & hope you join in this penultimate challenge.

I'd like to enter this into this Challenge:

Simon Wednesday Challenges - Anything Goes - (ends 5/11)

A Second Halloween Frame with Rick St Dennis

It's Halloween theme at Through the Purple Haze Challenges this week and we're sponsored by Rick St Dennis.  

As I've been lucky enough to be on two DT's sponsored by Rick St Dennis this week so I decided to make this project as a companion one to the frame I made for Saturday (see previous post).

I used my friend's Brushos to create the background for Freddy Fullmoon.

I love the vibrancy and intensity of the Brushos but need a lot of practice to create the delicate effect that I've seen demonstrated.

Here's Freddy Fullmoon. 

I coloured him with a mixture of Copics and Promarkers.

Can you guess which parts are which pen???

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Skin - Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral, Burnt Orange with Pastel Pink Cheeks (Promarkers)

Hair - Cinnamon, Cocoa, Walnut (Promarkers) E29, E49 (Copics)

Cloak - Purple, Aubergine, Black (Promarkers)

Waistcoat - Bright Orange, Orange, Burnt Orange (Promarkers)

Bat & Trousers - N5, N7, N9, 100 (Copics)

Shoes - 100 (Copic)

I must admit I enjoyed using both types of pen on the same image and don't think you can really see the difference between the pen types. 

SBS 13 Days of Halloween - Day 11 - Witching Hour

Day 11 - It's the Witching hour, what's Halloween without a Witch?  Let's make those witches POP off your projects!  Use wobble action or pop up dots, just make it "FLY" off the page.

Waa haa haa!! Too right you can't have Halloween without Witches!

To make my witch POP I decided to use two techniques - making a spring mechanism, and making the card base on Acetate.

I had planned to use Witchy Mrs Boo, but got distracted while printing and used Broomstick Betty instead. Daft to get distracted but the end result worked nicely.

Mounting her on an acetate backing makes her 'POP' off the page as it is, but I also made little springs out of spare acetate to make sure she REALLY pops off the page. Those little paper folds are something I've made since a child. They're the ones where you fold two equal width strips of paper in on themselves. I wasn't sure if they'd work in acetate but luckily they do.

The scene at the base of the card is the Graveyard Scene from Make It Crafty. I cut it out then coloured it with copics (BG96 & W7 for the ground)

Here's a close up of Broomstick Betty. 

I coloured her with Copics but unfortunately have misplaced the list of which colours I used. 

You can see that her wands and the stars at the back of her wand has Stickles added to enhance the magical effect.

I hope you think she 'POP's enough. Come on over and join in the 13 Days of Halloween Challenges - not many more to go now!

A Halloween Frame with Rick St Dennis

Woo Hoo!!! Digi Galore Challenges is back!!! 

We've had a lovely break over the summer but it's great to be back!

What a way to start - with Rick St Dennis as a Sponsor!

The theme of course is Halloween - what else could it be?

This week I've been staying at a crafty friend's house. It's been a lovely week, not only cos it's given me a chance to spend time with her, but also because it's given me a chance to play with her stash! She's got Brushos which I've seen demo'd but not tried myself so I decided to use them to make a backing for Mystique from Rick St Dennis.

I love the vibrancy and intensity of the Brushos but need much more practice to get the subtle sprinked effect that I've seen demo'd

I coloured Mystique with my friend's Promarkers. It's been a while since I've coloured with Promarkers & I'd forgotten what lovely pens they are. I don't get people who say they're not as good as Copics. they have a different nib so behave differently, but they're just as good.

I used:

Skin - Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral, Burnt Orange with Pastel Pink cheeks

Hair - Cocoa, Chestnut, Walnut (with E29 & E49 Copic added for depth - that's the one thing the Pro's are missing)

Hat - Royal Blue, Indigo Blue, Black

Roses - Arctic Blue, True Blue.

It's hard to catch on a straight photo but on the angle you can sort of see that the stars and hat band are coloured with Sakura Stardust pen and the draped fabric round the hat is coloured with Clear Wink of Stella pen so it shimmers and looks like organza.

I hope you like her. I've got a companion frame coming on Monday.

SBS 13 Days of Halloween - Day 10!!! It's Zombie Time!!!

Day 10 - STOP Zombie time!  

Create your BEST Zombie project!

Now I don't do Zombies! I really really don't so had to think hard about this one. 

I used Zombie Rio (now retired from the Simply Betty store) and teamed her with the Zombie Killa digi paper from Smeared Ink which I coloured red.

 The Zombie Killa title was part of the paper so I added the extra sentiment myself.

I really love how the screw heads pop. I added some glossy accents to highlight them even more, but they pop a lot as they print.

I coloured Zombie Rio with my Copics:

Skin - BG93, BG96, BG99

Hair - N5, N7, N9, 100, R24

Dress - C1, C3, C5, C7

Come over and join in the fun at Simply Betty Stamps

SBS 13 Days of Halloween - Day 9!!!

Day 9 - Sexy and Scary make 

a sexy Halloween card for a male.

Sexy and Scary? Nice and easy with the lovely images from Simply Betty. It was a hard choice but I settled on Dark Diva Carmen and used the Heart Accordian Card base from the Silhouette Store.

I cut the card base twice once from black and once from gold. I then cut the hearts out of the gold one and added them as accents on the black one. 

The card folds nicely so  Dark Diva Carmen is revealed in her full glory as the card is opened.

The sentiment is done with a Gold gel pen and I added a thin gold paper boundary round the front and inside of the card.

I coloured  Dark Diva Carmen with my Copics:

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04 with R20 Cheeks

Hair - E21, E23, E25 (sticky marker attack!), E27, E29, E49

Dress - R24, R27, R29, R59, W7

I love the impact this card design has. 

It's actually quite simple, but looks really intricate and has such impact. I hope you'll come and join the fun at Simply Betty Stamps x

SBS 13 Days of Halloween - Day 8

Day 8 Already! Where has the time gone????

Today's challenge is

Oh the EMBOSSIBILITES!  Use Halloween embossing 

folders, or wet embossing using Halloween

 backgrounds.  MUST be Halloween themed.

I decided to cover both bases and use wet and dry embossing (just in case :P)

I used the Stampin Up Spider Web Textured Impression Embossing folder to dry emboss some black card. I then ran a Versamark pad over the raised lines and applied Heat it Up Black Sparkle Embossing Powder. 

I tried it twice and ended up with two different effects as the Versamark caught the base more on the right hand one. I love both effects but decided to use the cleaner one on the left hand side for this project. 

I mounted the embossed panel on some papers from the Carina Gardner Spooky Collection

I added a cut out Spider which I'd embossed with clear embossing powder.

Here you can really see the sparkles in the embossed web.

I had another play with clear embossing powder on the sentiment (again from the Carina Gardner Spooky Collection). I was triple embossing and building up the layers to make it look like a glazed embellishment, but then decided to try a layer of Gold Pearl embossing powder on top.

As the layer of clear was so thick the gold pearl moved about on the surface so I was able to 'blow' the Gold Pearl out to the side. I really like the effect it gives - a bit of an accident, but a happy one at that.

When it catches the light it's quite dramatic.

Here's Jack Skellington who's a retired digi from Simply Betty. 

I coloured him with my Copics

Head - E50, E51, E53, E55

Eyes - W5, W7, W9

Suit - N5, N7, N9, 100

Bow Tie - E18, E19

I hope you like him

SBS 13 Days of Halloween - Day 7!!!! Halloween Colours

It's strange that I found today's challenge one of the hardest cos it was so open. 

Color combo traditional Halloween colors; 

Orange, Purple, Lime Green and black anything goes.

That just gave me too much choice! 

Eventually I decided on this card using Fluffy Monster Christian 

The backing paper is from the Sassy Designs Ghoulish Paper Pack.

I coloured Fluffy Monster Christian with my Copics:

Skin - E000, E00, E11, E21, E04 with R20 Cheeks

Hair - Y11, Y15, Y17

Fur - YG11, YG03, YG25, YG17, YG67

Spots - YR12, YR15, YR18, E19

But hang on all is not as it seems

As the Sentiment says Beware of Monsters!!!!! Little Monster Jude is hiding waiting to pounce!

I mounted him on a pop up mechanism so he jumps out when the card is opened.

I coloured him with my Copics again:

Skin - E000, E00, E11, E21, E04 with R20 Cheeks

Fur - YR12, YR14, YR15, YR18, E19

N5, N7, N9, 100

Horns - YG11, YG03, YG25, YG17

I hope you like him. Come over and join in the fun at Simply Betty Stamps.