Day 13 31 Days of Halloween~Catrina

Welcome to Day 13 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's play today!

Day of the Dead is the theme for my today's make for the brilliant

I made a card using gorgeous image from 

Aurora Wings, Sugar Skull Day of the Dead Catrina

I colored the image using Copics and since the image is

such a stunner, I didn't add much else to this card.

I looked at pictures from this Mexican celebration

and saw lot's of sugar skulls and lot's of flowers,

so that's what my card is all about too.

Day 12 31 Days of Halloween~Weeping Angel Baby ATC

Welcome to Day 12 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.


"Weeping Angel Baby"

The background started life as a failed stamping item, set aside and not tossed at the moment. I gave it some life today for this ATC. The background is stamped using Lost Coast Designs on a Distress Ink colored base. The angel and zombie dude are Viva Las Vegas Stamps, they are heat embossed in black, colored with Distress Inks. The white skeleton is a Tim Holtz image rub on.

Love to know what you think!

Happy Hoppin'

~CT kim

Day 11 31 Days of Halloween~Cor stone the crows!!!

Welcome to Day 11 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 :)

What has CT Anne created for us today, something cute for sure!

Nope - Crow's Revenge more like!  Between that "Not my Monkeys Not My Circus" meme and some postcards on an alien theme, the brain's been buzzing, the table filling with trialled ideas.  And Halloween approacheth.  Instead of cutting rectangles 6" x 4" for postcards, the sizzix suitcase die gives a similar size but more interesting (subtle) edge.  AND it gets through mat board nicely.  A picture framer in our small city is always happy to give away the discarded inners or offcuts from mats she's made to frame other peoples' pictures, so I pop in there once in a while and gratefully accept whatever she wants to offload.  Worth asking in your town.  Anyways, this Awkful Raven stamp from gone *sob* Third Coast rubber stamps has a lot to say, especially at this halloween season.  The first postcard it was stamped onto lime green paper & fussycut.  The second was stamped onto the black matboard and heat embossed in white.  The clown was clear heat-embossed on white paper, then blue-gold Lumiere paint washed over.  The small crows look pretty happy that the clown is getting its come-uppance.

Stamps from:
http://www.vlvstamps.com/  flying monkeys across moon, winged monkey
http://www.silvercrowcreations.com/ for a huge selection of crow stamps.
Subsequent update:  He's now a Dastardly Raven, to be found at newly-revived  Third Stone Shop.com/
Alas the running clown has nothing stamped on its mounting block, and I got it second-hand.
Just watch out next time someone talks about scarecrows in the pumpkin patch, they might not mean those trad straw-stuffed humanoid things!

Day 10 31 Days of Halloween Book with Some Frights

It is day 10 of the 31 Days of Halloween, the amazing event hosted by Smeared Ink!  As you know by now, we will be posting a new make each day containing a stamped image, rubber or digital.  The blog roll with the other Wicked Bloggers is listed at the side so you can hop and see all the fabulous makes!  Check out Smeared Ink's blog to get all the rules and info you need to play along!

CT Nan here with another book, this one has some special drawers with special little spooktacular delights. The front has a lovely green "Skull with Wings" for the spine and just the skull from this awesome stamp from Lost Coast Designs with a little addition of a crawly spider!

The drawers are made from matchboxes (empty!) with jump ring pulls.  My handy dandy label maker made the labels, don't want  to open Rosemary's Baby when you want "Brain Bits" now do we?

The "Frights" drawer includes a happy hitch hiker!

And the other drawers' contents! 

That is an imposter in Rosemary's Baby's drawer...he just had to get in on the 31 days fun and I couldn't really show you the baby could I?

Thanks for stopping by and taking time to visit us!  Keep those entries coming, if you play in the hop you can enter at our place, it's all in the family!  

Day 9 31 Days of Halloween~Oracle - beware

Welcome to Day 9 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 presents...

Tag time here at the Dream in Darkness, my second make for the amazing

I used Lindy's Stamp Gang powders to create the background, 

and embossed Lost Coast Designs Oracle of the Seven Enigmas.

I used the same stamp (Oracle of the Seven Enigmas) to stamp on the shrinking plastic sheet and then took some old jewels to make a little bling.

And then a few stickers ... 

"BEWARE of the FRIGHTFUL SPIRITS"

Day 8 31 Days of Halloween~Beware! Art Tag Ahead

Welcome to Day 8 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.

I stenciled the skull and drips in white. The stamps are Viva Las Vegas Stamps and Lost Coast Designs 

Have a great day!
~CT kim

Day 7 31 Days of Halloween~ "That Shakespeare Play" on CD

Welcome to Day 7 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 Anne!

It begins with 3 witches round their cauldron.  I've got a CD tin for shallow cauldron, and excavated a key to stir with:

and I'm on a mission, a challenge for a swap: Scavenge to find & include, 5 or more: game piece, button, bread tag, jar label, bottle cap, tree pruning, numbers from a piece of junk mail, fuse wire, (broken) toy, diecut from milk/juice carton or can, over-used toothbrush. And I've just bought acquired a few colours of Pebeo Fantasy Prisme & Moon paints to experiment with, seen here on the back of the tin.  Lots of lovely texture on the front: crackle paint, texture paste, lots of paint washes... and the tin gets held done up with wire looped through a ring.  So far, I've not used any of the scavenged objects on the list except the fuse wire.

Inside:  Bottle caps, bread bag tag, poker chip and button.  So that's the 5, but why stop at this.

Meantime on the other inside, playing with the number 3.  And have you any idea how nice the kitchen smells when you're drying prunings from a blackboy peach tree in the oven?

With the filmstrip die, cut a milk carton (was that on the list?)  Stamp the 3 witches using some of  http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/  Mini Ancients, add some more scavenged elements - who knew peacock feathers could come this small?  The bark is from a bluegum (eucalyptus) tree.

The background papers are Graphic 45 Rare Oddities.  I get the 8x8 pads - seems to work for me.

So... are they Bag Ladies?  Or Witches?  Will they fashion the bark and twigs into brooms and fly off to make mischief?  Beware!!!!  If E6000 and fuse wire won't keep them in the tin, we've no chance!!!!