Day 31: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 31:  Thirty One

Looks like we made it!! It's Halloween!!

And I've enjoyed every one of the 31 days.  I'm 

so Happy for this challenge from Smudge And Smeared

 The Challenge,all of the Wicked Bloggers, all of the 

Horrifying Hoppers and Lurkers who have visited that 

have helped me to enjoy the season

a little bit each day.  I also want to

thank all of those who left wonderful 

comments, it was part of the fuel that 

kept me going.  It is so rare

for me to finish something completely to the

end and I couldn't have done it with

out everybody.

For this card, I used my favorite background, text,

inked it up, and ran it thru the Cuttle Bug.

I cut the scare crow from the

October 31 cartridge and the 31 is from

who else? Tim Holtz.

Behind them is a little bit of straw ribbon

I had stashed.

I think this is the creepiest card

I have made.  The scarecrow

reminds me of the corn fields and of the monster

hung in the barn from 

JEEPERS CREEPERS 1 and 2.

With all of my cards together my 

ATC Spinner from 7 Gypsies something 

to look at and enjoy now.

I love the way you can see the "FAE", 

the Bombshell Gal and all sorts of little elements sticking out.  

Here's wishing You and Yours a 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

Day 29: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 29: Sugar Skulls

Aren't these cute skulls?  Only at Halloween could

you ask this question?  I love how colorful you can make them. 

They are Mexican Sugar Skulls used to celebrate the 

"Day of the Dead".  

Here's a link on Wikipedia for "Day of the Dead"

For the background, I inked up a card and 

ran it thru the Cuttlebug with the swirly folder

and then light rubbed the swirls to make them stand out.

The sugar skull stamps are from Bombshell Stamps. I colored

them with copics, distressed them with a little

tea dye and, gave them a squirt with the 

Marshmallow Glimmer Mist.  If you look

at them from different angle, it really made them

look like they were made in sugar.

I can't believe it is almost Halloween.

I hope everyone is having fun gearing up 

for this weekend.

Be sure to check out all of the

Wicked Bloggers

for spooky inspiration.

Day 27: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 27: Twilight Flight

Right before dark, at twilight, the bats come out
to find a victim........nah, at our house they
come out to eat the skeeters. LOL

For todays 31 Days of Halloween ATC card,
 I gave "Extreme Masking"a try as in Tim Holtz's book,
"A Compendium of Curiosities".
That's Challenge # 19 this week
at Studio L3.

 Over at Haunted House Designs,
the Challenge # HDH062 is
Smeared and Smudged
and I don't think I could have
smeared or smudged more
ink than trying my had
at this technique.

I made my own masks with
Cricut's Happy Hauntings Cartridge
so that I could make the bats small enough to
fit on the ATC.
When you make your own masks,
remember to save the negative,
because your gonna need it when you
go to stamp inside your masked object.
I had to dig mine outta the trash.LOL

The colors of ink were inspired by
Smeared and Smudged's
October "O the Horror!!"
challenge:

I got close, but you really should
check out the other ladies entries
for they have nailed the Twilight colors.

For final touches, we add
the magic number 3 blings, and
Martha always has to have her hand in
it with the edge punches.

Have a great "Hump Day".  It's all
down hill from here, all
the way to
Halloween.

Day 26: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 26: The Spider

I've been wanting to use the 

spider since September.

It's a Martha Stewart sticker, we

just have to face it, her designers (or minions) 

are the bomb when it comes

to Halloween.

The little calender is from Tim Holtz stamps and 

I finally got my "Bingo" texture fade in the mail.

Then I tried my hand at making a scallop punch

flower outta text paper. I think 

it needs to be a little more fluffier.

The final countdown is here, have a great week.

Day 25: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 25: Jail Birds

I thought these birds were so cute and menacing

looking.  You really wouldn't know

what you would get from this bunch

of "Tricker'Treaters",

 a Trick, like pooping on 

your car, or a Treat.

The background was embossed with 

ink in the Cuttlebug with Tim Holtz

wood folder.  The stamps are from

Inkadinkado and embossed with 

black powder.  And of course the 

loopy punch is from Martha.

Have a great week,and be sure

to check out the other Wicked Bloggers

as we close in on Halloween.

Day 24: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 24: Jack Skellington and Sally

How could I not have an ATC card in my 

Halloween Collection 2010

with out 

Jack Skellington and Sally 

from

"The Nightmare Before Christmas"

I am also entering this Lovelorn couple

in to 

Haunted Design House's

HDH061 - A Lil' Lurid & Lovesick Challenge 

I mean really how lovesick can you

get when to get to your 

true love you fall out of a tower

and sew your own arm back on. LOL

My Jack Skellington came from a set

of Photoshop Brushes I downloaded 

at Deviant Art. com and 

Sally came from Simply Betty Stamps.

Both are rubbed with a little Tea dye

distress ink.  And I've been 

missing my three blings so 

it was only natural to add them here.LOL

Day 23: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 23 : Cowgirl

" I wanna be a cowboy,

and you can be my cowgirl.......

Yippee yi yay yay yay....."

That song has played in my head the whole time I was

making this card.  So, what are you gonna be for

Halloween?

All of the stamps are from the 

Retro Cowgirl Rubber Stamp Set

from Bombshell Stamps.

They are awesome, I made the background with

the little stamps included stamped on distress ink.

She is just fabulous and I wanna be just like her 

when I grow up. Hehehehehe

She's colored with copics and due to her 

long legs she peeks over the top of

the rest of my ATC's. LOL

Thanks to the  CajunStampingQueen 
I found out that

Bombshell Stamps has a brand new blog up

and a couple of challenges, I'll be 

sending my ATC over to one.

Have a super weekend and take 

in all the sights at Wicked Bloggers Blog roll, up

in the right hand corner.

Day 22: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 22: Man of Mystery

Today's ATC celebrates the Man in the Shadows, lurking 

about the trees and spying in windows.  Wow that 

sounds more like Peeping Tom. LOL

Anyway, for the background paper, I ran tea dye ink

all over it, then balled it up, as if to go in the trash,

then ran some aged mahagoney and walnut stain over the 

wrinkles.  I thought it gave the paper a real antique look.

I added some drops of splattered blood with stamps from

Martha.  Looks real doesn't it?

The Man of Mystery is also a stamp from Martha

of the same set. I stamped him in embossing ink and

 embossed him shiney black  so he would stand out.

 The scroll work is from

the Happy Hauntings Cartridge.  I love the 

teal color with the red.

See you along the Wicked Blogger Trail.

Day 21: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 21: The Pumpkin Fairy

My stamps from Smeared Ink had

come in yesterday and I had to try'em out.

This stamp is from the "Fae" collection.

He is so cute and is doing some

serious pondering or he is 

reflecting on how fast this October

has flown by.

I typed the title out on Word and 

made the pumpkin by punching out 3 ovals

and edging them with some distress ink.

Have a great day hopping along the Wicked Blog Line, savor these 

last days of October.

Day 20: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 20: Wicked Marie Antoinette

Todays ATC is a total internet collaboration. The idea

of dressing Marie Antoinette came from this blog,

Kris Dickinson's "A Nostalgic Halloween"

She has a couple of Blog Posts altering Marie

for ATCs , Banner's and such.  I just knew I had to give it a try.

Theme Thusrday  is responsible for the "Pink".  And 

who better than Marie to dress in pink.

Studio L3 is responsible for the background, Challenge # 18, 

Dabber Resist, out of the Tim Holtz

book "Compendium of Curiosites"

I got the Marie image from 

Digital Collage Sheets.  I love the instant

gratification of ordering a download but then they have the 

PDF password protected because your not 

suppose to use them in Photoshop. Bummer.

The little witch's hat and the skull are also from 

Digital Collage Sheets.  I used my spider web punch and 

Iron Gate punch from "you know who" and also the branch

punch. The little rose came from Iamroses.com. Marie's

bat wings came from the Tim Holtz stamp.

I love all of the Hat pins crafters

are adding to their flowers, and I figure Marie Antoinette surely 

had a couple.  The "wicked" sign, I printed from Word.

Now from "Wicked Marie", go see all of the 

WICKED BLOGGERS

and their WICKED creations (the blog list is to the right)

19: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 19: Mystical Owl

Moon, stars and owls.

I found this neat svg file to cut out on the cricut

at SCALe-files.

The background was stamped with a grunge stamp

from Paperbag Studios and I added a 

piece of embossed card stock for color and texture.

Have a great day hopping along the 

Wicked Blogger Blog list.

Day 18: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 18: the Framed Spider

Another ATC "Guinea Pig" card,  in other

words I was testing all sorts of stuff out on it.LOL

All of the ladies on this blog hop are so artistic it makes

you want to try different things.  

After using three different Distress Inks to color the base,

I used the Broken Glass texture fade

folder. Then rubbed Black Soot on it to make the cracks stand out.

Then I sprayed it down with Terra Cotta Glimmer mist.

  

I painted the metal frame with alcohol inks and stamped 

the spider on the text.

I used alcohol inks on a mini

domino, stamped it with a crow, covered it with 

Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint, then rubbed

distress ink over it to bring out the crackles.

Note: And that is a crow, it may look like a Raptor dinosaur

but it is a crow. LOL

I put the Crackle Paint over the Spider too, but I think it works better

on non-porous surfaces.  I've also have learned that you

need patience when waiting on the cracks.

On the bottom edge, I broke out the Iron Gate Punch from

you know who.

Day 17: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 17: The Enchanted Forest

Today we venture in our dreams

thru the enchanted forest where the trees could grab you 

up by your ankles and hang you

upside down until your hero comes along.

My tree lives on a background sprayed with 

Rum Rasin Glitter Mist and is 

never caught without his bling surrounding him.

The warning sign was run thru the cuttle bug 

with the Wood Folder and distressed with

Walnut and Peeled Paint inks.  The stamp

for the sign is from Martha Stewart.

Have a great Sunday and stay out of the 

spooky forest.  Go and check out 

what the rest of the Wicked Bloggers have 

in store for you.

Day 16: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 16: Tombstone

A simple ATC for today, we are plundering around in the 

graveyard and this is what we found.

For the background we stamped the text with 

Martha Stewart stamps then went over it with 

Shabby Shutters and Vintage Photo Distress ink

For the Tombstone, we cut it from 

the Happy Hauntings Cartridge.

And the final touch was added with

my new Drippy goo punch from Martha.

Hope you enjoy a great weekend and 

don't forget to hop along the 

Wicked Bloggers Blog roll for 

some wonderful Halloween 

inspiration.

Day 15: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 15: Scaredy Cat

I love these old images from Halloweens way back when.

this image was from Daisy D's Halloween Paper line that I've

had a while.

I distressed the green card stock and distressed the 

image.  Then I stamped Tim Holtz Cat

with embossing ink and embossed it with black

powder to get a deep black.

Does any one know which ink pad will give you the 

blackest image?  When I stamp with 

what I have it's just a dark gray. It may be the paper I'm using

and it just soaks up all of the ink.

I had the scariness going there for a while until I 

went all "flower child" on it with the bows and flowers.

I need to invest in scarier punches.

Day 14: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 14 : BEWARE

Welcome to Day 14 of 

31 Days of Halloween, I hope you have taken in 

all of the Halloween Goodness of the Wicked Bloggers.

All of the ladies have been kicking some 

serious spooky inspiration.  The 

Blog Roll is on the side Bar.

My ATC today started of with the background

made with the Tim Holtz wood grain folder and 

inking the folder itself with distress ink 

then running it thru the cuttlebug.

The owl is cut from the Happy Hauntings Cartridge.  The 

"beware" sign was made with a Martha Stewart stamp and the 

"poison" sign was made with the Tim Holtz Stamp.

Have a great day and be sure to visit 

all of the Wicked Bloggers.

Day 13: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 13: The Skeleton

Today's ATC is a "lift" straight from a

tag made by Tim Holtz in the Sept/Oct Paper Crafts

magazine.

Sometimes I gotta follow exactly along

with something to learn techniques and then

I can apply them to other things. 

On this card I loved using the checkerboard 

embossing folder then rubbing the distress ink over it.

I still need to learn how to line up my spider webs.

They look like their just suspended in air.

Stamps: Tim Holtz Skeleton, Webs, and Happy Halloween

Embossing folder: Tim Holtz Checkerboard

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

It seems Tim Holtz made this ATC but I 

promise I put it together.

Day 12: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 12 : The Scarecrow

Another "too cute to scare" ATC.

My stamped image is from Dustin Pike
colored with copics

You can't help but love these images.

I used my favorite background, text distressed

with Tim Holtz inks and added

a Tim Holtz swirl from grunge paper that I had also 

covered in text and stained with ink.

How many leaves do you count? 

Three! there's that number again. LOL
Have a great day!

Day 11: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 11: The Haunted House

Today's ATC is made with Delicious Doodles

Haunted House Digi Stamp

printed on Avery Clear Label paper.

I layered it over a torn paper and inked up background.

I don't know why but I have it in my head that bling

has to always be laid out in threes. LOL

I have no idea where the ribbon came from but it 

matched.

After yesterday's fiasco I stuck with simple.

And I want to thank everyone for their advice on embossing.

I didn't know you could overheat it.

Day 10: 31 Days of Halloween

Day 10: The Raven

This ATC will be 

"Forever More"

Stuck in my head.  Why didn't I listen to 

everyone on the web who said:

"Always trim your rubber stamps that are mounted on cling foam

very close so that you can tell where it's going"

Why couldn't I make the little Raven's feet touch the limb?

Cause I didn't trim close enough.  

UUUGGGGHHH!

I stamped these with embossing medium,

which is what? Invisible! Couldn't see a

thing until the black powder was added.

And I have no idea why the "Raven" word bled into the paper.

It looks like it melted right in the paper.

And let me just finish my rant, I was also working on my 

Simply Betty Challenge # 4 Project,

you know the one with the pumpkins.

I had it all laid out ready to cut in my gypsy, paper loaded,

the cricut started cutting and then

and then,

The Gypsy Died

The battery was dead, it needed charging.

That's what the flashing little red light is 

about folks, It's dying.  I thought I could

make it.  And to top that off all off I can't find my charger.

UUUGGGHHH!

So now I will have to punch in all those pumpkins and cut them 

one by one.

UUUGGGHHH!

Thank you for letting me vent my frustrations.  Back to the ATC.

Stamps: Michelle Ward, Green Pepper Press Stamps

Paper: My Minds Eye

Distress Inks: Ranger

Ribbon: I can't remmeber

DoHickey with the skull on it: I think it was Recollections from Michaels

Have a Great Day Ya'll.

and 

I mean it! LOL