Once in a blue moon …

you look at the sky

and you see

a dark witch

flying by.

Here’s an ATC that I would like to enter to the following challenges:

• Macabre Monday’s “Freakers free for all”
• Daring Cardmakers’ “Seeing Silhouette”
• Theme Thursday “Something round”
• Mixed Media Monday “Something Blue”
• Sunday Stampers “Blue”.

The witch (Third Coast), the bats (Make your Mark) and the sentiment (Cherry Pie) where heat embossed in black. The background was brayered. The dark clouds are part of a Cherry Pie moon stamp and they were stamped with black Stazon on glossy paper.

Sorry for combining so many challenges, but I’m pretty sure that I won’t be able to get any more  crafting done the weeks to come…

Dark woman

Now that I know that my witch safely reached her new home @ Steffi’s in America, I can finally show her on my blog. I’d like to enter her for the “Dark women” challenge @ Art on the Darkside.

Stamps used:

• Ornament, spiderweb and lace: Oxford Impressions “Haunted”
• Witch: unknown
• Bat: Make Your Mark

Dark and sinister moon

Here’s my dark and sinister moon for the the Darkness Inspiration challenge. Hope I’m still in time, for I only just discovered this challenge.

Stamps used:

Witch (Third Coast Rubber stamps)
Moon (Cherry Pie)
The black clouds are part of another moon stamp by Cherry Pie
Bat (Make Your Mark)

More New Year’s witches

Here are some more rather unusual New Year’s greetings.

I witch you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

At last I’ve found time to do some stamping again! Just as I was starting to discover the world of stamps, inks and ATCs, something unexpected came up. In August 2009 I entered a photography contest organised by Ancienne Belgique and I unexpectedly came out first. This means that, on top of a fulltime job, I spend an average of two evenings a week taking concert pictures at Ancienne Belgique and another two evenings processing and publishing them. Being a music and photography lover I quite adore this of course, but unfortunately it means also that there’s little time left for other creative hobbies.

However, the last few days I dug out my stamps again and I’d love to share some of the results with you. I adore Halloween stamps, but I never get to send any cards at that occasion.
It was a set of stamps by Gaïa that inspired me in using Halloween stamps to create Christmas greeting cards.

The stamps used are by:

• Gaïa (witches, tree, present)
• Cherry Pie (cauldron, cat)
• Inkadinkado (cobweb)
• Make Your Mark (bat)

The background paper is by Toga.