Oh So Spooky!

Coming soon to the Third Coast Challenge Blog!

You'll find a Halloween Challenge using the Bingo Grid shown below!

For my sample I chose Eyes/Fae ( Halloween Image)/Ribbon

 

The Third Coast featured creature is our little "Fraidy Cat" VB-323-N

The giant eyeball is from the Inkadinkado Mini Halloween Assortment 60-30739

 

Make a mask of the eyeball, so you easily stamp multiple eyes so that they appear layered. Stamp your Fraidy Cat in black, stamp assorted eyeballs, highlight a bit with orange gel pen. Layer onto Halloween Paper and again onto black card stock. Add a beribboned "oh so spooky.

 

 

 

 

Be sure to check out the Third Coast Creative Challenges

African Elephant Portrait

African Elephant Portrait

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The elephant is stamped on a scrap of decorative paper bag I received at a local scrapbooking store, I couldn't throw it away. Layer on to orchid cardstock. Use a piece of sequin waste and sponge dark ink around the edges of the card. Cut out the word "explore" from magazines and brochures. Scan or take a photo and add some paint brush effects with photo editing software.

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Photoshop Elements Brushes by Obsidian Dawn

Death By Candy Corn Part - 1

I started early making my 31 Days of Halloween projects. Mostly that meant I did a lot of shopping. I had plans for making a display with my "candy corn" pieces. I kept eating the props. (At least the candy corn and chocolate eyeballs.) I had every intention of using "stuff" I had at home. It worked for about 5 minutes. I hit the road and headed to the local Dollar Tree. Don't buy your candy corn there. It's "generic", and while many things generic aren't different, diet colas and candy corn seem to fall into that category where you need to buy name brand. Disappointing I know.

My skeleton prop came from Dollar Tree, as well as the martini glass.The candy corn, Brach's, came from the local grocer! Now I have all these bags of candy corn. ( Well, at least as I write this I do.) I found this recipe for Candy Corn Cordials from the food network. You'll find other Candy Corn recipes there as well!



I used some decorative paper for a background and an ATC sized black scrap. Stamp the candy corn images on scraps of white paper, color with your Copic markers, then stamp with the cute pumpkin face cut out from Third Coast Rubber Stamps. I found the cute candy corn stamp in the Michael's $1 bin. ( It's been lurking in my stash for awhile and is happy to be out and about!)

Check out the other 31 Days of Halloween bloggers in the blog roll on the right! Thanks for stopping by and come back again tomorrow!

Vampires!

Vampires, Bats and Ghosts OH MY!
I try to avoid vampire movies, like .....welll....like Vampires! I confess I enjoyed the Twlight Series ( Books and movies, anything to turn kids on to reading!)

I didn't find good vampire quotes, but I found some movies. Oh good :(

FW Murnau's German silent classic is the original and some say scariest Dracula adaptation. You can catch some of it here on you tube.
Nosferatu 1922 I am properly scared just by the trailers.

Or you can catch this version from 1996 From Dusk Till Dawn, with George Clooney. (How can you pass up anything with George Clooney) Dusk Till Dawn 1996

This card was kind of fun, I used some Basic Grey background paper. The cute vampire movie poster clip came from some fun scrapbooking paper I picked up at a local scrapbook store in St. Louis For Keeps Sake. The paper is from Karen Foster Designs. eek and the bats are Inkadinkado clear mini stamps. Both JoANN's and For Keeps Sake had a fun selection. ( However, they were $1 at JoAnn's and For Keep Sakes had them for $2.25, however, FKS had a larger selection....and I ended up buying from both. ( So I try to hit both the big box and local shops)

 I embossed the "eek" with some of Tim Holtz Distress embossing powder. I had gotten some at my favorite craft recycling shop ( she had bought out a local shop that was going out of business,) UpCycle Exchange. I had never used it, and had sort of expected it to work like regular embossing powder, but it works more like embossing powder that doesn't work right. You just need to be aware of it's effects before you stamp, you could be disappointed. Just be sure to use the right image and it will be great. I'm still glad I didn't pay the $4.99 that was marked on the container. At Upcycle, you pay what you want, and also trade. ( I have been weeding my fabric collection and have been getting some great deals!)

Of course, be sure to add a favorite smiggen of fiber to your piece, and be sure you check out the other 31 Days of Halloween participants listed in the sidebar!

See you tomorrow!

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

I have the honor of serving on the Third Coast Rubber Stamps Design Team. Each month we received a stash of "Challenge Stamps". The three nude women in the journal page above is one I recently received. I like it! But I was trying to figure out a way to use in for my 31 Days of Halloween entry and my Third Coast Blog day.

One of my many favorite things to do on the internet is search for quotes. I had searched for Halloween quotes when I first signed up for 31 Days. I remembered seeing "I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween". The perfect quote! I like journaling with quotes and words and using ransome note lettering. I have a stash of letters that I keep in two embroidery floss organizers.

I pick up travel brochures when we travel, studying the brochures carefully for the perfect fonts. I know I prefer the fonts with "serifs" but pick up others that have cool color combos or are the perfect size. I try to keep a stash, so that I can sort through each letter looking for the perfect one that will be appealing with the other letters in the quote and with other art on the page.

Stamp the image on some scraps of designer paper and embossed with fine black embossing power. Apply a wash to your journal page using acrylic paint. Adhere your stamped images and add lettering, and assorted other quotes. I found some other interesting quotes about naked and or nude people from the internet.

"Clothes make the man (or woman). Naked people have little or no influence on society." Mark Twain

Check out all of the art stamps on Third Coast, at the links to the right. Three Nudes is # FA - 201-I .

Thanks for visiting Day 2 of The 31 Days of Halloween! Be sure to click on the next link in the blog roll at the right.

Day 1 - The 31 Days of Halloween

Welcome to The 31 Days of Halloween! Also World Card Making Day! Check out the links in the side bar to all the Wicked Bloggers participating in The 31 Days of Halloween.

Don't you love those little stamps they sell at Michael's for only a $1. A couple of years ago I picked these up in their $1 section. Even better, they were in a two pack, 50 cents each!

I used some designer paper scraps I picked up at my local craft recycling shop The Upcycle Exchange  in Saint Louis. Layer the paper onto your card. Next make an ATC sized card with a faux postage stamp template from SplitCoast Stampers

Print the template onto card stock, cut out the shape you would like to use, make a mask to help keep your image contained in the shape! I love doing this and love all the templates you can find on SplitCoast Stamers.





Of course you have to add some organdy ribbon or some sort of fiber!

The photo at the top has been embellished with Photoshop Element Brushes from http://www.obsidiandawn.com/ You can use the brushes for free or purchase a license for commercial use. I love them. This one was postage related brushes! Very Fun!


Check back daily for more of The 31 Days of Halloween!

Fun iPhone editing

More iPhone editing fun from the OHP mission trip to Georgia. Posted from my phone, later I'll edit from the computer and make the photos larger!

- Posted using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Juicy - Trumpet - Echo

Echo with Chrysti & Susan, check out the link in the side bar.




This week's word is "juicy", which brings forth all sorts of interesting images.

For some reason brass instruments came to mind, and this image I took in Galveston Square, Galveston Texas, November 2009. It is of course taken with my iPhone and manipulated with at least 3 photo apps.

Ya need a bit of juice to play these contraptions and I gave it a bit of a watery overlay.

Won't you join us with your echo?

- Posted from St.Louis,MO using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Location:Colvin Dr,St Louis,United States

SNOMG Blizzard of 2010

Back in October, my friend Dena and I were bemoaning about how busy and stressed we were and that we needed to run away





We decided we needed to take a weekend, see a museum and do some crafts. The first weekend of February was the first date we could come up with. Dena would take a long weekend, and I would put the BRO on the back burner and we would head out to Washington DC. We would hit the museums and hang out at the motel in the evening.Dena would do crochet and I would do some digital art.





So here we are! We saw the American History and Natural History Museums on Friday, Watched the snow fall from Rosslyn at the Best Western and trapsed through the snow to the Iwo Jima Memorial on Saturday





Sunday, we boarded the Metro and headed to the Mall, and waded through the snow to the Monuments!






Conditions are looking good for a Tuesday, late, afternoon flight back to St.Louis!





We've enjoyed our trip and yes, we knew there was SNOW in the forecast, but we really didn't believe that there would be 12- 30 inches of snow! (We're from St. Louis!) We're impressed by the emergency responders of the DC area, they do great work!





We'll be back!

Posted from Washington, DC using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Location:Washington,DC