31 Days of Halloween Day #28

Welcome to 31 Days of Halloween 2015 presented by Smeared Ink! Every day this month I will be posting a Halloween/Spooky/CreepyCute project here on my blog. This is a blog-hop and the blog-roll is over there to the right of your screen ---> 

While having some fun, creating, blogging and hopping, I'm also hoping to raise some funds for Cancer Research UK in collaboration with Stand Up 2 Cancer.

Please consider sponsoring my 31DOH posts and as a special Thank You, everyone who donates even a single pound before November 1st via my Just Giving page will receive a handmade card from me!

And normal service resumes! The dentist yesterday was just a check up but it was for me and 3 of my 4 kids! So they were bribed with fast food lunch and poundshop toys afterward! So, back to Halloween! The poundshop had some fab spiderweb garlands that I've bought for my shop - we're doing facepainting and a bake sale on Saturday - I can't wait! 

This is the second part of yesterday's project. I stamped the heads from the Dylusions 'Day of the Heads' stamps onto some Authentique 'Thrilling' paper, mounted them onto black card and cut them with a border. I had the crazy notion that they looked like a tree! haha 
My border is black acrylic paint, Marvy white pigment pen and the tree and writing are Black Sharpie.

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Anything Goes in January at Crafting By Designs

Welcome to the first Crafting By Designs challenge of 2015! As per last year, the first of the month is 'Anything Goes' and I have used an image from Smeared Ink, one of this month's generous sponsors. This is the 'About Time Pocket Watch' and I chose it as I love it but really didn't know what I was going to do with it. However, you know that way when a song gets stuck in your head... well, everytime I looked at the image all I heard were lyrics from Smashing Pumpkins 'Tonight' in my head! So I figured I'd make an Art Journal page with the lyrics and the image! This is a smaller 6x6 page.

My background uses several dylusions sprays, I've stamped across with black Archival ink using a Visible Image barbed wire stamp. The stars were stencilled on using a Dutch Doobadoo Mask and Black Soot DI, highlighted with white Uniball Signo Pigment ink pen. Around the edges, I coloured with black promarker and wrote the lyrics with the Uniball pen.

The image itself is coloured using Rusty Hinge and Crushed Olive DI applied with a blending tool I've used the white pen again to highlight parts of the image too.

I will enter this at Smudgy Antics January Challenge.

Cant wait to see what you come up with for this challenge!
Thanks for looking!
mo xxx

Anything But a Card Challenge at Crafting by Designs

We have a fabulous challenge at Crafting by Designs this week - I'm hosting and my theme of choice is 'Anything but a Card'! We have the amazing Octopode Factory as a sponsor and I have used the Jareth image! Jareth is the Goblin King from The Labyrinth movie, played by David Bowie! One of my very favourite movies from when I was a kid.

I have made an art journal page using the image which was printed out quite large and coloured with Promarkers. I coloured the  background of my page with turquoise, purple and orange Dylusions sprays. I used water in a spray through a spotty stencil and then modelling paste through a Dutch Doobadoo Star Stencil.

I sprayed some more turquoise Dylusions and once dry used my white Uniball Signo pen to draw around the stars. The black stamping is a Visible Image stamp - 'Ripped Fishnets' - with a Ranger Black Archival ink pad.

The wording are quotes from the movie in a free (for personal use) font from Dafont.com called 'Bleeding Cowboys'. I've printed them onto white pearlescent paper - the larger quote is mounted onto a spellbinders Fleur De Lis square coloured with Dylusions.

The final touch before attaching the image and quotes is some Turquoise Sparkle Medium from Imagination Crafts through a chevron stencil.

Thanks for looking! I hope you'll join in this challenge and create something... just not a card!
Mo xxx