Number of the beast

Currently ‘Haunted Design House’ is celebrating its milestone of reaching 666 followers and I really wanted to join the party. They chose the Iron Maiden song ‘Number of the beast’ as their theme for this fortnight’s challenge. I really had to wreck my brain, but last night I finally came up with an idea!

Here’s my interactive  house shaped ATC :

I’d like to enter this ATC into the following challenges:

• Haunted Design House: Number of the beast
• Stampotique Designers challenge #152: Sentimental
• A step in the dark: Anything goes/zombies (I obviously opted for ‘anything goes’)
• Crafty cardmakers: Wooden it be lovely (–>wooden doors & window)
•  SimonSaysStamp Monday challenge: I ought to use this more (I never get down to using zigzag scissors, but they were perfect to create those roof tiles!)

 Stamps used

• Window: StampItCrazy
• Door: Crafty Individuals
• Cobweb: stampers anonymous
• Spider: Martha Stewart
• Checkers: Stamp Francisco
• Cat: Rubbernecker
• Speech bubble: Kelly Panacci
• Monster: Stampotique

Spooky Lavinia card

Two weeks ago I attended a workshop @ In ‘t woefke. The purpose was to create fairylike cards using Lavinia stamps, but I felt like creating a spooky card too:

All stamps are by Lavinia, except for the sentiment, which is Stampendous.

I only had used this card size (100 x210 mm) a handful of times before, but I actually really like it, so I’m pretty sure I will use it more often in the future.

This is my entry for the following challenges:

• A step in the darkness: anything goes
• My time to craft: DL it
• Kreativerbastelblog: anything but square.

 

 

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

Haunted Design House offered us an interesting recipe with the following 5 ingredients: black, purple, green, metal and flourish.

Here’s what I brewed in my cauldron:

 

I mounted a green bubble background ATC on a black and purple card featuring clear embossed flourishes. My metal ingredient consists of a silver heat embossed pentagram. Sorry for the bad scan, in real life the green ‘s got a bit more punch and the pink is actually neon pink.

Stamps used

• Witch:  Gaïa
• Cauldron & mouse: Cherry Pie
• Bats: Stampers Anonymous
• Pentagram: Make your mark
• Bubble sentiment: Stampendous

Never too early for Halloween

Wicked Wednesday wants us to create an ATC featuring a die-cut. I used a graveyard die-cut and spiderweb border punch:

 

Stamps used

• Witch: Third Coast
• Sentiment: Quietfire
• Bat: Stampers Anonymous

Halloween in April

Ok, let’s make that May… Here’ s my atc for the current challenge at the Dilly Beans challenge blog.

Stamps/images used

• Heart monster: Dilly Beans
• Tree, sentiment: Katzelkraft
• Cross: Cherry Pie
• Spider: Martha Stewart

More Halloween

Here’s another ‘spooky’ atc for the following challenges:

• Stampotique Designer Challenge #121: Halloween
• Think Monday Think ATC: Halloween
• Artful Times: Spooktacular

 

For the purple background  I used an embossing resist technique so as to create a faux batik effect. For the orange circle I used a gelli-plate background. The 3 Stampotique creatures as well as the pointy hat have been painted with glue in the dark paint,

Stamps used

• 3 in a round: Stampotique
• Spiral:  Judi Kins
• Pointy hat: Scrolls work
• Halloween bat: Martha Stewart

Trick or treat

I’m still very much enjoying the Halloween themed challenges that are currently running everywhere. Here’s another ATC matching the following challenges:

• The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge: Pumpkins
• Gloomy Art: Trick or treat
• Art-Cards-Challenge: Halloween

For the background I applied lots of colours with wax pencils and completely covered them with drawing ink. I then scratched away the black ink to reveal the coloured lines.

Stamps/images used

• Checkers: Stamp Francisco
• Vampire: Octopode
• Pumpkins: Stampotiqe
• Sentiment: Katzelkraft

If the broom fits…

Hello again! I’ve got another atc to share with you:

This is my entry for the following challenges:

• The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge: witches
• Kreativer Bastel Blog: Halloween
• Craftitude: Spooky

Techniques and stamps used

• Gelli plate background with acrylic paint
• Witch: Octopode Factory
• Cauldron: Cherry Pie
• Sentiment: Quietfire
• Stripes, cobwebs and bats: Tim Holtz

Smeared Ink candle

The following project is my contribution to two of my favourite ‘creepy’ challenges:

• Smudgy Antics ‘Triple Threat’ ( use 3 Smeared Ink focal images)
• Haunted Design House ‘Freaker’s free for all’.

This is actually one candle, but I had take several photos to show all images:

How I love those Li’l Grumpies!

Distressed and embellished

Here’s a card for two of my favourite ‘creepy’ challenges: HDH Macabre Monday (pass the distressing) and Smudgy Antics (embellish it).

I don’t know if you’d agree, but I find the well-known Tim Holtz sentiment a perfect match for the  funny Smeared Ink Halloween image.  Makes me smile. 🙂

Stamps used

• Little grumpy image: Smeared Ink
• Stripes: Darkroom Door
• Crackle: Hampton Art
• Sentiment and design scrap: Tim Holtz