Candied Bat

One from this year’s Teen Scene Trick or Treat collection, this is Miss Batty Rio.

 

This tag is going to accompany a Halloween gift that I fear is going to end up rather late, there is so much to do I am way behind schedule.

The tag follows the sketch at Pals Paper Arts, I just used a tombstone for my base instead of a plain old rectangle.  For my embellishments, I’ve cut the bats out of some G45 Steampunk Spells paper and put them on a foam square, it’s a bit hard to tell in the pic, but I’ve folded up their wings a bit for added dimension.  I've also used my Wink of Stella pens on the candies to give them a hint of sparkle.

I’ve stuck with two traditional Halloween colours, black and purple, on my tag, well, with a smidgy-widgy of other colours on the bats and candies.  So I’m entering in the current challenge at Paper Crafting Journey.  And with all the batty elements to this I’m also linking it up at the current Unruly Paper Arts’ challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E11, E21, E50, E51, (cheeks R02)

Lips R02

Eyes E35, E37, 0

Hair T3, T5, T7, 100

Outfit N4, N6, N8, V09, V12, V15, V17, 100

Bowl B000, B00, B02, B05, Y13, Y15, Y17, YR12, YR14, YR16

Chocolate E49, E55, E57

Die Cut

Silhouette Headstone

Embellishments

Martha Stewart Halloween Paper Tape

Washi Tape from stash

Papers

DCWV Bewitched

Echo Park Chillingsworth Manor – Orange/Tan

Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells – Tick-Tock

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Black

Ribbons & Trims etc 
Green Tara Mesh Ribbon – Black 
Purple Ribbon from stash 
Stamps 
Simply B Stamps Miss Batty Rio 
Challenges 
Pals Paper Arts #176 – A Sketch Challenge!

Paper Crafting Journey – Use Halloween Colors

Unruly Paper Arts Reader Art Quest 2 – Going Batty

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Mummies and Spiders and Skulls, Oh My!

It’s officially the start of the 13 Days of Halloween festivities at Simply B Stamps where there are 13 fun challenges posted over October, all with a suitably gruesome Halloween theme.  The first one was to “make your own Creepy Background” and here is my effort featuring one from the vault, Jude Mummified, from the Teen Scene Halloween 2012 collection.

 

I’ve made an ATC, which will go onto a layout in a Halloween album I’m putting together, more on that later in the month.  To do up my background I’ve used some paper tape, distressed some cardstock and stamped on an image from IndigoBlu.  I really like how this turned out, especially how the spider is only just creeping on to the page, pretty nifty placement given it is a rubber stamp (no seeing where the image is located) and I stamped after I distressed.

To make up my ATC I followed the sketch at Feeling Sketchy, I swapped out the chevrons at the bottom for my sentiment sticker.  As this is going to a boy this Halloween I hope it is suitably male enough for the C...is for Challenge current challenge and, as a mummy is a mythical being (at least a walking one is) I’m also linking it up at Cards for Men.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks R02)

Lips E11

Eyes E35, 0

Hair T6, T8, T10, 100

Bandages W00, W1, W3

Embellishments

Carta Bella All Hallow's Eve Element Stickers
Echo Park Chillingsworth Manor Alpha Stickers

Stampin’ Up! Witches’ Brew Washing Tape

Papers

Glitz Sunshine in my Soul – Rays

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Black

Stamps

IndigoBlu Hocus Pocus

Simply B Stamps Jude Mummified

Challenges 

C…is for Challenge #7 – Boys & Men

Cards for Men #20 – Myth & Magic

Feeling Sketchy #71

Simply B Stamps 13 Days of Halloween #1 – Make your own Creepy Background

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Welcome to Spooktober

So I’ve set myself one heck of challenge to celebrate the most awesome holiday of the year, which of course is Halloween.  I’m going to aim for a post a day for the next 31 days, with any luck the majority will feature a Halloween inspired project.  There will be a detour in the middle for the awesome Simply Betty Secret Pumpkin Swap blog hop (only the most amazing swap event of the year) and there are also some more gorgeous Steampunk Zodiacs coming your way.  But for the most part I hope to showcase some of the fabulous images from this year’s Halloween releases at Simply B Stamps as well as some from the vaults.

I hope you’ll join me on my little bloggy celebration of Halloween and, to kick off the proceedings I have a tag featuring the cute Little Ghost Jude from this year’s Teen Scene Halloween release, Trick or Treat.

 

To make up my tag I followed the sketch at Sunday Sketch and Stamp, I just changed the base shape to a coffin and made the strip element angled to suit.  For once I am very, very early posting my entry in the weekly Through the Purple Haze challenge, it was fortunate their theme was Halloween.  With my ghostly image, I’m also entering this in the current challenge at the Order of the OpusGluei!

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks E11)

Lips E11

Eyes E35, E37

Hair T6, T8, T10, 100

Shirt T6, T8, T10, 100, YR12, YR14, YR15, YR16

Jeans B91, B93. B95, B97, B99

Boots T3, T5, T7, 100

Pumpkins G21, G24, G26, G28, YR00, YR02, YR04, YR07, YR12, YR14, YR15, YR16

Embellishments

Creative Memories Classic Halloween Stickers

Martha Stewart Halloween Paper Tape

Papers

DCWV The Witches’ Brew  

Paper Accents Heavy Cardstock – Black 

Ribbons & Trims 

Green Tara Cobweb – Black 

Green ribbon from SBS Ribbon Swap stash 

Stamps 

Simply B Stamps Little Ghost Jude 

Challenges 

Order of the Opus Gluei!  #166 – BOO!!! 

Sunday Sketch and Stamp #176

Through the Purple Haze #12 – Halloween

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A Sting in the Tale

It’s challenge time over at Simply Steampunk Challenges and this month’s theme is metal.  My project features the beautiful Scorpio from the new Steampunk Zodiac collection at Simply B Stamps, drawn by the talented Abigail Larson.

I was looking for a suitable scorpion shaped S for the tag and stumbled on the awesome Bio-Alphabet of Mechanical Insects by Carolina Veliz and, luckily for me, her S was a scorpion.  And, her work is available for use by others, you can alter it but I loved her drawing in its raw form looking like a piece of metal art, just perfect for a metal challenge project.  I also found a great mechanical parts font by an illustrator named Georgie to go with the S.

To make up my card I’ve followed the sketch at Fusion Card Challenge.  As the SSC challenge called for metal I decided I’d get creative with some of the many metal cogs and other embellies I have and make my own Steampunk scorpion – what do you think?  I know, looks more like a crab than a scorpion, I only had circle embellies to work with and really wanted to use the pocket watch and I was convinced I was doing Cancer anyway – goes to show how much I know about the Zodiacs!

Hope I’ve inspired you to go through your own stash of metal embellies and make up a project, we’d love to see you over at the challenge page and remember, if you use a Simply B Stamps Steampunk stamp you’re in the running for the prize of two images from the as yet unreleased Zodiacs.

If you need any more inspiration, check out the new release in rubber of Steampunk Women – these feature some of the beautiful women from previous releases at Simply B Stamps.  Here’s a project I’ve done using the Bride of Frankenstein from the Steampunk Classic Collection 5.  You can find the details of this project here.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks E11)

Lips R29, R46

Eyes E27

Hair E21, E25, E27, E29

Dress & Hat T2, T3, T4, T5, T6

Gloves & Veil Y23, Y26, Y28

Embellishments

Graphic 45 Staples Brads
Metal Pocket Watch Charm
Metal Skeleton Hand Charm
Papermania Chronology Clock Hands

Prima Tiny Junkyard Findings

Tim Holtz Gears

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock – Black

DCWV Witches Brew

Powders & Finishes etc

Diamond Glaze

Ranger Black Embossing Powder

Punches

Martha Stewart Double-Edge Spiderweb

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Scorpio
Alphabet Made of Mechanical Parts by Georgie

Challenges

Fusion Card Challenge – Hypothesis #14
Use Fussy Cutting with Smudgy Antics

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