Day 31 31 Days of Halloween~Ghosts 'n Goyles

Welcome to Day 31 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Congratulationssssss It is day 31!

CT Anne

Gargoyles were part of the Gothic Revival around Victorian England, where Steampunk belongs, and since I've been on a Circus theme, a Gargoyle jumping through a cog hoop to spook you, feels perfectly natural...

And being halloween, a ghost rattles its steampunked chains...

A bit of recycling - have you ever pulled apart your liquid roll-on liquid deodorant? Put drink cans through your cuttlebug?

And another 8'x10" canvas is readied to spook you all

Smeared Ink for the gargoyle stamps, the gargoyle-cornered frame stamp, and the skulls&lace background stamp
http://buttersidedownstamps.com/ for the Steampunkin stamp
https://www.lindystampgang.com/ for starbursts colouring all the stamps
Golden Paints have textured pastes and paints for the surrounds.  Paint colours van dyk brown and Iridescent stainless steel colours are great for blending random-coloured chippies and embellies into a steampunk them

CT Nan back again with my "Morte"  Light.

I was given the "Morte" rubber set by a lovely and it is so awesome!  It is from Smeared Ink and designed by Rick St. Dennis.  I stamped each side with an image from the set on white cardstock and then painted it with a red fluid acrylic wash.  

I inked the inside edges with Distress Ink and when it is clicked into the light base from the Frebreeze kit I bought ages ago it glows an awesome orange with a flame look on the inside.

Day 30 of the 31 Days of Halloween - Fortune Teller

Wow, it is hard to believe the days are winding down to the wonderful Halloween holiday!  But we are still enjoying every moment of the 31 Days of Halloween hosted by Smeared Ink!  Go by their blog so you can see the rules and deets of the event.  The blog hop is listed to the right on the side bar full of other Wicked Bloggers doing just like us, posting a new make each day of the month!


CT Nan with the Fortune Teller Pop-Up Card:

This is holds a hosts of stamps by Lost Coast Designs And Carmen's Veranda!  The Fortune teller along with his chicken, the "Skull with Wings, the Sun and the Moon, some crows from "A Murder of Crows, and some fab Henna Hands (Birds).  All popping up to help tell your fortune for you!  I see a fantastic night around your corner...mainly because it is Halloween Eve!

See you back tomorrow for the grand finale of the 31 Days of Halloween!

Day 29 31 Days of Halloween~Happy couple

Welcome to Day 29 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

CT Granne today!

It is almost here - Halloween eve - but still few days left to enjoy

Don't these Dancing skeletons look happy,

and why would they not - it's their time of the year.

I've used some sprays to create the background and awesome

Grunge Tree from Lost Coast Designs,

sentiment is from Tim Holtz.

So Happy Halloween for the happy couple, :=D

Day 28 31 Days of Halloween~Tombstone

Welcome to Day 28 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

A simple tombstone today stolen from a local graveyard.

It is slightly larger than an ATC. The bat, raven and tombstone are die cut from cardboard. The spooky bat face is Smeared Ink and heat embossed in black.

You still have a few days to link up with us and Evil Froggy knows you have made lots of creepy weird odd things this month...

Day 27 31 Days of Halloween~What's the Time, Mr Wolfie?

Welcome to Day 27 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

CT Anne, what time is it???

SKELO'CLOCK!

Sizzix clock die cut mat board and mulberry paper 2 colours, and swapped them over for different-coloured centres, glued to the matboard.  Coloured the white cut sides of the matboard with blobby red pen, and green around the orange piece.  Skeletons were stamped on cardstock, washed with colour.  The brads let them move like the hands of a clock - which they are.  Time's running away with us, bringing us all closer to being only a skeleton.

What's the time, Mr Wolfie?

SCREEEMO'CLOCK!

 Guess I'd be screaming too with a sock monkey poking through my throat...

Bones: chicken bones long-boiled. But never enough for all the projects in mind.  Mix up equal parts of Amazing Mold Putty, press bones into it and wait for it to set around them.  Remove the real bones, and you have your own mold to make more bones with clay, paperclay - and orange, reddish, maybe greenish jelly, made with only half the water, makes for awesome dessert accents - not to mention i scream for boney ice cream Bwahahahahahaaa!

http://alphastamps.com/ for the skeletons

http://www.madratrubber.com/ for the screaming child
http://artistcellar.com/ eye stencil
http://www.moldputty.com/ for 2-part silicone molding material

Day 26 of the 31 Days of Halloween - Alfred Hitchcock Necklace

Happy day 26 of the 31 Days of Halloween hosted by Smeared Ink!  Please check out their blog for all the rules and details of the event.  The roll for the Wicked Bloggers is on the side bar so that you can visit them also!

CT Nan here with a stamp that I absolutely adore from Carmen's Veranda and another fav one from Lost Coast  Designs.  Alfred Hitchcock Standing is one of my all time favorites, ever!  So, it was kinda hard to cut off part of his body to make my pendant.  I added the "Grunge Tree" as a background with a stormy sky made with Distress Inks.

Now, I have stated how easy I thought it would be to solder and have realized it is not easy not one bit for an uncoordinated person such as me!  But some plexi glass and the supplies, I had to give it my best shot and it is not perfect but I love it!  I added some do dads and beads to the chain and am very happy with it.

Come on back tomorrow and have a cup of goo, we have plenty left over from the spa tub ..Buwahahaa!  And keep that blasted Frog happy....enter and enter our challenge again!

Day 25 31 Days of Halloween~All Hallow's Eve

Welcome to Day 25 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Make sure you come back and link up your fabulous weirdly odd and creepy makes in our challenge!

Today is my turn, CT kim.

 Well not quite but close, "All Hallow's Eve"

The sentiment is Viva Las Vegas Stamps. The wild bats are Smeared Ink.

Wickedly odd trick or treating dog by Viva Las Vegas Stamps He has the best costume everrrrr!

Awesome crow by Lost Coast Designs overlooking the whole scene.

See ya tomorrow!

~CT kim

Day 24 31 Days of Halloween~Let's Dance into the Pumpkin Patch

Welcome to Day 24 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Yummy orange from CT Anne today...

 I've been on a stencilling jag, and on a postcard (6x4) mission, and had this postcard left over.  And some other bits left over from other projects.  As I puzzled them, trying to make a new cohesive piece, I bethought me of my journal book. And the traditional Northern Hemisphere Halloween scene.  So we shall have a pumpkin patch in the garden of a haunted house.

But gardens have all sorts of bugs, spiders, tiny doll-people laid out as sacrifices perhaps.
A Haunted House would need Haunters showing through the windows, so I left a blank area on my journal page, where there was no "traditional" leafless tree, stamped some "webs" on it, and fussycut some stamped images to add them to the back of the die-cut house:

Mat board and halloween paper diecut and glued together, here's the front side 

Ah, did I mention stencilling the journal page?  Yep.  Yellow page, purple paint daubed over.

Something learned:  not all tissue papers blend into the background when you glue them to your page.  Oh well, some crows are flying against a cloudy backdrop, maybe that monkey swinging in the tree has escaped a circus?  UhOh!  And there are some flying monkeys in the corner too.  Noooo!
Put them together, and the full scene is revealed. Happy children, screaming children, sleeping children, tiny human insects on the pumpkins, a clown face disguised as a pumpkin - the stereotypical Halloween scene, except there are no tombstones.  Oh well, another time...

Supplies:

http://www.silvercrowcreations.com/  tiny people, baby scraps, Dresden scrap Clown. Stamps: Marionette Monkey, Spanish Moss, Mean Clown, Spiked Man, Flying Crows, Frolicking Children

http://www.madratrubber.com/  squalling child face

Third Coast RS: (small) flying black birds

Sizzix Haunted house die

TCW maple leaf stencil

http://www.vlvstamps.com/   flying monkeys across moon

http://artistcellar.com/ pumpkin/pod stencil

Day 23 31 Days of Halloween~ Never say ....

Welcome to Day 23 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Starring CT Granne...

For the 23rd day of  a amazing event

I (Granne) serve you  a bit of  advice to remember 

for these dark fall evenings

AJ page using Vamp by Ike's Art as a main image,

sentiment from Tiddly Inks and some 

sad ladies from Dina Wakley's stamp set.

Never say "bite me" to a vampire!

Day 22 of the 31 Days of Halloween - A Box

It is down to day 22 of the 31 Days of Halloween hosted by Smeared Ink!  We are joining the other Wicked Bloggers listed on the side bar and showing you something new every single day!  Check out their blog for rules and details.  

It is my turn again to show you something new. And it is a box. Yep, a box.

 It is a rather nice box.  It has a stamp from the "Morte" set from Smeared Ink embossed in black on top.  Some nice papers and the orange polka dots are stamped with "The Grunge Tree" from Lost Coast Designs.  It does have a wire clasp as if to keep us out or something in?

Oh, now I remember why I needed that clasp!  Just my pet zombie hand popping out to say hello to all you visitors to the house.  The only really scary part is that if this zombie hand touches water it grows and grows!  So he stays in his box wrapped in velveteen far away from the water.

 So bye bye for today from me and my pet zombie hand!

But don't forget our challenge is still going on so come by and drop off your entry!

Day 21 31 Days of Halloween~Destination Unknown

Welcome to Day 21 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

"Destination:Unknown" Postcard sized canvas, mixed media

For this postcard I had lots of fun trying some new things, well new-to-me :)
I made the background by swiping several Distress Inks on the mixed media paper. I let it dry them sprinkled and misted with water to blend them a bit. Once dry again, I misted with DecoArt Mister Shimmer White and some splatters of the same. This helped to tone it down in spots and make it blend more.

The balloon stamp is Hampton Art. I wanted a creepier version so I added my skull stamp given to me by the fabulous CT Granne. The skull is made by Finnstamper. This was the same stamp used on our CT postcard swap, I love it! Both images are heat embossed in black and colored with Distress Inks.

Love to hear what you think!

Remember to come back and link up your weirdly odd and creepy makes with us in our challenge!

~CT kim

Day 20 31 Days of Halloween~Any Body Will Do

Welcome to Day 20 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Any BODY home, CT Anne askes ever so patiently...

I "had" to do a tag on a dress form theme.  Since I'm posting about it here, you can assume it won't be pretty pretty. I also have a metre-high stash of kiwiana scrapbooking papers. (And I'm NOT a scrapbooker LOL)  One of the patterns is of grey boiling mudpools – perfect colouring for this idea - cut to shape and glued over the manilla tag! I can stamp a dressform or body outline onto that.

And thanks to this Blog's team I've been exposed to pictures being manipulated digitally to appear ghost-like, and thought something could be done “manually”. See how the Grim Reaper looks on paper, and how ethereal it looks on organza in comparison:

Texture paste was applied inside the stamped body shape, then stamped with a texture stamp, and when dried, given a wash of moonshadow “paint” - brown with shimmering mica in different lights to give a graveyard phosphorence. It will show up through the organza in a more ghostly fashion too.

Last time I saw a dress form, the skirt was covered in petals – very girly-pretty. But not for my Grim Reaper – s/he gets bones: The bones were stamped with versamark onto more mudpool-patterned         paper, and heat embossed with Obsidian-green. One bone was cut in half and tucked into the texture paste before it dried. The larger bones were cut in half too, then folded down the middle lengthways, and attached with a glow in the dark thread to the organza over the dress form. The smaller bones are attached with thinner metallic thread.

So what do you think:  A Dresss Form fit for a ghoulish evening?

http://www.vlvstamps.com/ for all the stamps.

https://www.lindystampgang.com/  for yummy two-tone washes and embossing powders

And now I must apologise for missing out a photo from the grave... or at least from the tombstones   Day 15  This is what the tombstones looked in their entirety:

Day 19 31 Days of Halloween~Shrunken Heads

Welcome to Day 19 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

CT Granne is spirited today!

It's time to get into the mood for Halloween in the dark deep jungle at faaabulous

I got a happy mail from my fellow CT Anne and this stamp was one 

of the treasures that the mail man brought to me 

from the kiwi land

Shrunken Head stamp from Butter Side Down Stamps

Lot's of die cuts, some crazy hat's from Altered Artifacts

and a hint of coloring ...

Getting close to odd and oddities??

Day 18 of the 31 Days of Halloween - Skeleton Frame

Welcome back for day 18 and the  wonderful world of 31 Days of Halloween!  This event is hosted by Smeared Ink and you can check their blog for all the rules and details.  The blog roll of other Wicked Bloggers is over on the side to make it easy for you to hop over and visit them and comment on the great things you will see!

Today is CT Nan's turn again and she is here with her Skeleton Frame.

 He is so proud of the "Skull Life" he has a plaque on his pic!  Looks like it must be a pretty rough life as he seems to be missing a large part of his body or bones.  That blood splat behind his skull tend to tell of how he lived and left.  He is joined by his spider friends and some guardian skelly hands. His frame, the picture frame, not HIS frame...is stamped with the "Skulls Border" from Lost Coast Designs.

Hoping this finds you in a bit better shape than this poor guy!  He does have one request...that you enter our challenge!  How selfless he is :)

Day 17 31 Days of Halloween~EyeFly Postcard

Welcome to Day 17 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

"EyeFly" Postcard sized canvas, mixed media.

The background is layered with various acrylic paints, DecoArt Media Misters and some stamping using the Chicken Wire stamp by Unity and some splats by Visible Image. I love the eye creature by Viva Las Vegas Stamps! Such an odd stamp to have a great play with, it is heat embossed in black to help it POP!

Happy Hoppin'!

~CT kim

Day 16 31 Days of Halloween~Skull Moon ATC

Welcome to Day 16 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

My ATC for today, Lost Coast Designs Crow, wicked ATC Skull Lace stamp by Smeared Ink and some Visible Image clear embossed on the background.

Happy Hauntings!

~CT kim

Day 15 31 Days of Halloween~Tombstones

Welcome to Day 15 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

I am thinking there are some wicked things from CT Anne today.....

ATCs,  shaped as tombstones, cut from mat board.  The left one was painted black, then both were coated with sand texture paste, and when dry, washed with interference paints and Lindy Stamp Gang moonshadows.

I drizzled a thick frame around the round face with Liquid Pearls, colour onyx pearl.  While it was still wet, lightly teased and pressed into it, some "spiderweb", then added a portion of Ancient text border stamp below.
Lost Coast Designs stamp catalogue to the rescue for both ATCs: a Mini Ancient was stamped on a Graphics 45 "Rare Oddities" paper - placed so she had feet!  She's domino-sized too.  One of the "3 small doll faces" was also stamped on the same paper for the lighter ATC.  The teeth are from a set sized to be placed over a kid's own teeth.  A supermarket chain is having a Disney dominoes promotion right now.  My daughter wants very specific dominoes, I want all her daughters' leftovers as my DH does the grocery shopping at a different chain!

The legs fitting between the teeth dictated the final placing of the domino.  A strip of fluffy yarn below the teeth, and flowersoft(!!!) round the sides of the domino hide and texturize the whiteness. 

All the stamps came from http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/

I hope if I'm not cremated and ashes dispersed in the wind, that my grave will be this colourful!!!

Day 14 of the 31 Days of Halloween

Are you having as much fun as we are participating in the 31 Days of Halloween event hosted by Smeared Ink?  Go by their blog and check out the rules and prize info and make sure to go to the blogs listed on the side bar and see what lovelies they have prepared for you today and everyday this month!

CT Nan has been up to no good again and is back with a Grunge Book.

 This little book is 2 inches by 2 inches!  I saw a YouTube video by Rach0113 making one of these and was intrigued.  The skull on the front and back is the "Skull with Wings" from my Altered Tin Book from day one used again without his wings and he is from Lost Coast Designs.

 This book consists of three 4 x 4 inch squares soaked in a mash up of Distress Inks and then folded very simply but being able to then be folded down to a pop up sized 2 x 2!  The ribbon that holds it together is put between the back cover and the last page.

 Here it is unfolded.  The grunge name comes from I am guessing the distressed inking and the front covers are crumpled up and then the wrinkles inked and then ironed to put on the book covers.

 I used the "Skull with Wings" from Lost Coast Designs and the "Dancing Skeletons" along with various stamping with the "Mini Skulls" , "Crow and Skull Borders" and a music stamp from Michael's bargain bin.

When folded back up it magically is 2 x 2 again!

Good news!  We drew a name from the comments yesterday, but the catch is if we drew your name you must have commented the following day as well....you know us, had to make it complicated!  We have a winner!  Congrats, Carol, please email us at dreamindarknessblog@gmail.com to claim your prize. Which is .....

This awesome angel is  from Smeared Ink from the rubber sheet  called "Letterbox Backgrounds" that had all ATC sized stamps. So thanks for commenting everyday not just two in a row required to win, Carol!

Keep those entries coming in..Evil Froggy must be appeased!