Boo! Hallowe'en Hanging

Last year I played along with some Hallowe'en challenges and then made a few other bits and bob's with a Hallowe'en theme with the intention to hang them all together as one finished piece.
Well...........Things happened and it languished in a box and never got done!

But at long last here it is.....the whole finished piece!
Hope you think it was worth waiting for!!! HOL

The base is cardboard covered with scrapbook paper.....need to start using some of the pile instead of stroking it for pleasure! HOL

....added some black acrylic paint to grunge it down a bit

....bit of drift wood to hang it....the twine wrapped up the boxes that my friends new patio furniture came in.....could not help myself just had to rescue it!!! LOL

....the white stuff behind the large tag is some UTEE waste from the workshop I went to in September...thought it looked good as ghostly ectoplasm!! HOL

Well there are layers a plenty and plenty of stamping on this Hallowe'en hanging so just for the fun of it I'm linking it to The Artistic Stamper monthly challenge ('cos I can't win you know...being on the DT)....but you could!!!
All you need to do is make a piece of art, a card, ATC, wall art, altered art... just use some stamping and the theme... and... if you use Artistic Stamper stamps on your entry you will be entered into the draw twice! The prize is £15 worth of stamps from the Artistic Stamper shop... along with the KlingOn to mount them onto...I hope you get chance to play at the challenge... it is open until October 31st and the winner is chosen by Random.org and announced the following week.

Thanks for looking and happy stamping :)

xoxo Sioux

ATC Hallowe'en

Here is the ATC I made for the Hallowe'en swap over at the Artist Trading Club in October.

I stamped and embossed the T!m skeleton with winter wonderland powder (it's got silver glitter in it!) and used DI's frayed jeans & scattered straw on the background...masking off a circular section for the very full harvest moon...we get some really fab ones around here and it takes your breath away when one looms at you over the hill as you drive into our little town.

.......the ticket I designed on the computer and inked....the web is Inkadinkadoo...the dots the full stop from a Studio G set of alphabet stamps as are the word fragments.

Here are the fabulous swaps I received in return.

Thanks for swapping everyone and for looking in today........happy stamping.

xoxo Sioux

Live as if..........

I think this may be my last Hallowe'en piece for a while.......had to do one last twinchie for the challenge over at Theme Thursday using your favourite colours!

Two of my favourite colours are Spiced Marmalade and Scattered Straw distress inks both used on this twinchie.

I cut a positive and a negative mask to sponge the DI SS and DC onto the textured card and stamped the T!m clock in SM over the SS........stamped the Paperartsy wrought iron in Adirondack wild plum and the corner decal and wording (my own stamp) in black archival.

Over the past few challenges I seem to have inadvertently built up a little collection of Hallowe'en pieces and this twinchie fits nicely with the rest that I am going to make into a wall hanging......

at least that is the intention! LOL

Watch this space.....

Thanks for looking

xoxo Sioux

Don't look at the Eyes!

Here I am again for the inchie month over at SCD with the theme "Hallowe'en".....Yeh!

Did the trick or treaters come your way last night? We don't, as a rule, get many round our house but the bags were at the ready just in case!! In the end not one visitor........looks like we will be munching Haribo's for a while. LOL

Stamped the backgound with DI TD using a Cherry Pie harlequin stamp.........

added a T!m script stamp (barely visable) in Impress chocolate.........

stamped the Inkadinkadoo eye and coloured the eyeball with Adirondack cranberry.......

sponged a bit of DI SM over and hand wrote the word fragments.

"Don't look at the Eyes!"................

for anyone struggling to remember where they have heard the phrase before....................

comes from the film The Devil Rides Out........an all time classic Hammer Horror!......starring a very young Patrick Mower the fabulous Charles Grey and the deliciously spooky Christopher Lee who happened to be playing a goodie in this one instead of the Prince of Darkness for a change!

I read in the paper yesterday that he had been given a gong and is now Sir Christopher Lee.....

Congratulations!

Happy stamping

xoxo Sioux

Little Witches

On first glance you might be asking yourself what on earth has this got to do with the theme "Little Witches" over at TGIF this week!!! Perhaps I can explain my thought process?

Immediately I thought about putting 3 images of different witches onto an ATC......however I could not find 3 different images I liked (I can be sooooooooo fussy LOL).......

then the words good and bad witch started a different thought process............taking me to the Wizard of Oz..............

so googled the red shoes that Dorothy wore and the sort of shoe the Wicked Witch of the East might have worn......

then I was stuck for a third set of shoes and "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" phrase sneaked in so googled the word ugly and the picture of the crocs popped up so used that!!!

Drew the legs for both the red shoes and the crocks 'cos the pictures were just of the shoes.....thankfully the wicked shoes already had the legs! Inked & stamped the good legs with DI FJ using a T!m script........Inked & stamped the ugly legs with DI SM and Adirondack wild plum using a Cherry Pie harlequin.......added some sparkle to the red shoes and some adirondack acrylic lettuce to the striped stockings. Stamped the background with an Inkadinkadoo web and added a bit of DI FB around the legs for a bit of shading..........

In the end this turned into a Skinnie (2"x4") as it did not sit well on the ATC size.......hey!

My first Skinnie!

Thanks for the inspiration Sandy

Thanks for looking and happy Stamping!

xoxo Sioux

Face Off Part III !!!

I know.......I know.........I'm getting boring now!!! LOL

Here is Face Off part III in a hybrid version.

Stamped as in part II here and the digital alphabet images printed off, cut out and attached......

oooooooooh! Far too fiddley for an inchie size.

Thanks for stretching me this week SCD..............artistically speaking........although if I could gain a couple of extra "inchies" in height I'd be the ideal weight don't you know?!!! HOL

Thanks for looking and happy hybrid/digi/stamping.

xoxo Sioux

Face Off Part II

I thought I'd post this to try to show how digitally making something can make it easier to then do the tactile version......well it does in my case!!!

Face Off for the challenge over at SCD was the totally digital version inchie here. if you want to take a look.

Then I made this tactile stamped inchie version. I knew I could do it if I tried!!!!

Aged the background for the skull stamp (my own) with my coffee mix coloured another piece of card with DI SM and WS..............cut both pieces in half and joined them together. Used a black pen to draw the doodling down the middle and the word off.......stamped the word FACE with my Studio G letters in Adirondack cranberry and doodled a bit with a white gel pen over the top.

Thanks for looking and happy stamping!

xoxo Sioux

Vampire

The theme over at TGIF this week is Vampires!

I have as yet not read or seen any of the new batch of vampire genre............which is a bit strange as I always used to have a sneaking desire for

Christopher Lee to come up and bite me sometime! HOL

This did not turn out as I had intended.........but you live and learn.........part of the reason for blogging is to record the things that work and don't work for future reference.

I stamped the Inkadinkadoo vampire bite with cranberry onto white textured card stock and heat embossed with clear then used a clear emboss pen to fill in the teeth and emboss with clear again.......however the pen leaves a blue tinge on the work which was something I was not happy about........will have to think of something else if I want to do that again.......I expect vampires don't brush their teeth that often so I don't suppose they would be pristine white!!! LOL

Inked the background with DI SM and WS and stamped the T!m scrolls around the edge with Adirondack wild plum which strangely does not look much different from the cranberry when placed on top of the SM! Roughed up the edges and dragged on WS.

Thanks for looking and happy stamping!

xoxo Sioux

Hallowe'en Dream

First time for me over at Wednesday Stamper somehow don't seem able to fit this challenge onto my list of things to do! ........however I was very keen to make this as it incorporates one of T!m's techniques that Jennie at the Artistic Stamper re-visited this week (wood effect) and I've been meaning to try this out for ages!!!

Stamped the skeleton in clear emboss onto a textured white card stock and added black acrylic randomly with a dry-ish brush technique and used DI DC over the top to distress and wiped excess off with a wet cloth....stamped the T!m script over the whole thing with DI WS...stamped the clock and R.I.P. in Ardirondack wild plum.....stamped the Inkadinkadoo cobwebs (LOVE them!) with smoke blue Colour Box Cat's Eye ink......stamped "Dream as if you'll live forever....." (my own) in Adirondack cranberry and then stamped and embossed with Distress powder scattered straw over this and slightly off set......I like doing this overstamping as it gives it a shadow look.............wiped off any ink lingering over the resist embossed skeleton and added a ribbon to the top..........also for a bit of whimsy........a black circular embellishment hanging from the arm (like a handbag!)

and a jump ring threaded round the neck!!! LOL

Some days I think I'm just plain loopy!

Thanks for looking and happy stamping ;)

xoxo Sioux

Face Off

Back to challenge myself again and explore the world of digital inchies!!!

Over at SCD they are still asking for inchies with the weeks theme being "Faces".

I thought I'd have a digi play for a change seeing as tactile inchies don't do a lot for me! LOL and came up with this. Now it is so easy to make anything you like fit on a one inch square.......... digitally speaking..............as you can reduce any image you have.......... however, I like the idea that on a tactile inchie it is very difficult to get full size images on there and inevitably they become chopped off at the edges....so tried to do something similar with this.

Have to keep going with Hallowe'en as a theme at the minute as I am in that sort of mood and have things ongoing stamping wise that I might share soon!

The skull is a Wikipedia file of a Da Vinci skull, Orange background my own, the doodling image by Katie Pertiet at Designer Digitals and the red letters that I think give it a bit of a Mexican Dia des los Muertos feel are something I got free years ago from I don't know where 'cos I did not keep track of stuff like that then!! So sorry.......if anyone knows please let me know then I can credit.

Thanks for looking.

xoxo Sioux

Skull Sir?

I thought popped in my brain........as it does!....Well it does when I am not having a dry spell!!!......and now I can play along with the TGIF challenge this week which is "Skulls"..............

so, if you are of a nervous disposition........I'd look away now! LOL

Stamps on my ATC are Paperartsy and an oldie post card from my Royal Langnickel set......Skull from a Wikipedia file layered on top of the PA man.........hat cut from a vintage image of a circus poster........background various inks and shimmer spray...sorry made it a while back and can't remember what I used exactly! Wording from my computer and inked with DI SM and WS.

Thanks for the skull theme Sandie and thanks for looking......xoxo Sioux

Wickedly Gorjuss!

If you remember my post here you will no doubt wonder what I was up to and more to the point why haven't I shown anything by now!!

It has been brewing for a while and when I got my super fast delivery from Funky Kits of a Gorjuss Girl and Nellie I started to play.

Now...................if you have come to this post to see my card via the Sugar Bowl Challenge 8 can you do me a favour and read this post first?....................................I ask this because I don't want to shock you..........really I don't.

This is the first card I have done for this challenge so fingers crossed:)

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So here is my Wickedly Gorjuss creation!

Erm.........................yes she is sitting on a coffin!! Oh dear............... I hope I won't be tipped out of the Sugar Bowl at the first attempt!! LOL.

I used a mixture of DI's, Adirondack dye ink and acrylics, mainly because I don't have all the colours I wanted in one type!!............Then I tried my hand at making some flowers out of the papers (HOTP Vintage pad) and I have to say life is too short to cut out all those layers!!!.......The background layer was from a K&Co Scrap Pad To Go, Maison.

I really liked using the sketch and will definately use it again in the future, thanks for the inspiration.

xoxo