Hello all! And Happy October! My favorite month…

I hope you enjoy my card for this week.

For this card, I started by stamping all of the images first.

Then I painted the whole background with distress spray stains and water and a brush. I really love doing water color with them as I like the way they blend.I kept playing with color and adding more color until I was happy with the sky. It was pretty wet and time to walk way for the day so it got to dry overnight. Which is rare for me but it definitely has a different look than when I heat dry it. I came back and added more color to the sky again. Not too much. Things always look different on camera than in person and I had issue with part of the sky by her broom. It was not blended right to me. I can be a perfectionist. It’s annoying. lol.  So, of coarse I had to fix it. I also felt she needed a bit of magic mist to be flying on so I added so white pan pastel. Then I layered the card onto cardstock. I was going for a bit of old time Halloween card look so hopefully that comes across.I hope you enjoyed- enjoy fall…it’s far too short.

Next to Christmas, Halloween is my favorite time of the year!  Halloween is a time of fun and harmless mischief.  I love the little children coming to the door in costumes, excited for treats.

Last year's Halloween Plate is one of my favorite plates.  AND - this mummy is Fantastic!!!

VLVS Images:

12961 Bat 
18918 "31"
18907 Cemetary
18911 Full Moon
18919 Spiked Fence
14748 Mummy
19230 Coffee Ring Stain (dots only)




Start with a plain tag.  Rip word/dictionary paper and adhere in random spots on tag.

Use paint and stains to create creepy backdrop. Stamp images except mummy.



Moon stamped over painted yellow area.  White Sakura of America Gel Pen added for accent, and more yellow for shading.  The cloud part was stamped on right side of tag without moon.

Mummy is stamped, highlighted with white Gel Pen, and then stained for shadows.

Wire at top adds extra dimension as well as a die cut bat on middle left of tag.

My mummy's calling so I must go........................

Cre8tivelea Yours - Lea

Take the Cowboy Carring Letter and the R.I.P. and Jack O' Lantern image and combine them to create a creepy look!

VLVS Images:
18992 Cowboy Carring Letter
18897 R.I.P. Jack O' Lantern
18916 Small Left Raven
12961 Bat

Stamp the cowboy first (Using permanent black ink) and color the way you prefer.

Next, ink up only the pumpkin area of the R.I.P.  and Jack O' Lantern in orange (I used Mementos ink).


Referring to illustration of completed project, use first yellow gelly roll, then black permanent marker to fill in the pumpkin.  The eyes were made more slanted to look evil.  Cut the pumpkin out and adhere on top of the cowboy's head using Miracle Tape. 

In my last post I told you how you can use a Miracle Tape Sheet to mount behind the square of paper, then cut out the image in order to cover the whole area in adhesive.  You may choose to use one of the smaller widths of Miracle Tape as well.



Added a few "pumpkin lines" as well.  For the grass I used a green Memento ink and just inked up the grass area of the R.I.P. and Jack O' Lantern image and stamped.  I used an Identipen in green to connect all the grass more together.

Lastly, stamp the bat twice and the raven image.  I added acouple dash marks to make movement.  The background is easy to make, use your die cutting machine or a Martha Stewart punch made to go all around the page.  This was done on the yellow cardstock.  The yellow cardstock was mounted on Orange to compliment the pumpkin.  A little epoxy sticker was added on the bottom right.

Play and have fun with your stamp images!!  I like letting out the child within to create unusual and different type of illustrative art.  I imagine all sorts of stories.  What do you imagine????


Cre8tiveLea Yours - Lea