The Glittered Poppleberry

 Hello friends, I hope Friday is treating you well! So for this Halloween card I wanted a silhouette effect over a night sky. To begin this slimline landscape card I cut a panel 6.5cm x 14.8cm, out of white card stock. Using a piece of scrap card I cut a sloping hill shape and masking taped either side to my panel of card. For blending I used some foam squares and my oxide ink pads. The first colour blended against my hillside is Seedless Preserves, then above it with Wilted Violet, then above that I used Faded Jeans. I moved back and forward between the colours to get a smooth blend. Once I was happy with the sky colours, I flipped my hillside over to the white area was exposed and the sky was covered. I then applied a light blend of Frayed Burlap to the hillside area.  I then removed the card stock to reveal the sky and hillside complete. using a selection of silhouette stamps by unknown companies, I added archival jet black ink and stamped them using the Tim Holtz stamping ...

  Good Morning lovely friends! I hope you all have a fantastic start to the week, I have a week off which i plan to thoroughly enjoy and do lots of crafting! Today I wanted to talk Halloween and share some crafty Halloween bits I have been doing. I have always enjoyed All Hallows Eve, the history of it and the magical feel that night has. Now I get to enjoy it further my creating spooky makes that are great fun! Yesterday I began the tedious but necessary task of clearing up my craft desk. Then got crafty... So to begin my Halloween crafts series, I thought I would start with a simple card.  First I used two distress inks, Carved pumpkin and crushed olive to make my background. I used a wet paintbrush and applied the green ink first followed by the orange to create a watercolour effect. Next using a garnet ink from Artistry inks with a stencil from Clarity Stamp. The stencil is called a 7x7 Art stencil and is a grungy frame effect. I applied the ink using an ink blending brush...

Evening friends! Sorry about not blogging yesterday, I didn't have any time to craft unfortunately. So this evening I used some of the coloured image I shared recently to make small toppers, these can also be used as tags. Both stamped images are by Clarity stamps. So to start both of the example off, I fussy cut the stamped images. Next I used distress ink on the toadstool image and artistry ink on the owl image. I used a blending tool to apply the inks to a white piece of card. I stuck the images using Cosmic shimmer acrylic glue. To complete the toadstool image I added nuvo drops and ran a pink pen around the edges. To complete the owl design, I die cut a stitched circle by lawn fawn from the inked background. Next flicked water at the inked circle and blotted with kitchen roll. This lifts the ink leaving a splattered effect. I then adhered my owl and drew a branch using ink and a paintbrush.  Thank you for spending some of your day with me. Crafty hugs and se...