Something Wicked

October brings out the Halloween in us. Here is a Halloween tag created for a few challenges. City Crafter has a color challenge using yellow, orange and green. Frilly and Funkie wants to see a different kind of tag with a Halloween or autumn theme. The Octopode Factory is looking for lime, orange, and yellow. Inspiration Journal wants to see some spooktacular decor.
To make my tag, I started with a large manila tag and die cut it using pumpkin Jack from Sizzix. I then used a splatter technique to add the yellow, orange, and green paint splatters (and some purple). The broom is a Northwoods stamp. The raven is from the Octopode factory. The sentiment is from Quietfire. This tag will be hanging on my door to greet all the little trick-or-treaters on Halloween this year.

Autumn Colors

There is an autumn breeze in the air. The fall colors are starting to show, and both Great Impressions and Fashionable Stamping  challenged us to use fall colors.
I started by stamping the oak leaf in sepia on a piece of glossy cardstock. I then stamped these lovely ladies from Rogue Redhead on the leaf. I used Tombow markers to color them. The sentiment is also a RRD stamp. The background was stippled using dye inks in fall colors. The image panel was layered on a designer paper from Club Scrap and three fall color rhinestones were added. The base card is kraft.

Being Happy

I decided to try a change of pace this afternoon. Instead of doing my usual and making a card, I would work in my art journal. I will be able to enter these pages in a few challenges. Hels' Sunday challenge at Ink on My Fingers is what makes you happy. At Three Muses the challenge is a journal quote. The Sketch With a Twist challenge at Mark's Finest Papers is a sketch and the theme anything but a square or rectangular card.

Every once in a while it's fun to just play. After covering the pages with gesso, I pulled out my Dylusions sprays and stencils and sprayed away. I used the sketch from Sketch with a Twist for the basic layout. I pulled out stencils from various sources that I hadn't seen in ages and stenciled away. My bird stamp from Club Scrap hadn't seen the light of day for years. I even added a zentangle flower (one of my latest interests). I love the sentiment from Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions collection. "Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you decide to see beyond the imperfections." Can you tell I really enjoyed myself today?

Gather Love Together

I'm a little late in posting this card. Let's just say I was delayed and then chose a technique which took a little longer than I expected. But it's still Friday and I'm sharing my Blogger's Challenge card. The theme this week is falling for you (love theme with fall colors). The card also works with several other challenges: Simon Says Stamp and Show leaf-spiration; Mojo Monday sketch; I Brake for Challenges - fall; and Artistic Stamper - the Natural World.
The background of my card was made on my gelli plate using fall colors and maple leaves (part of the natural world) from my back yard . Actually it is the ghost print; the positive print will be showing up in the near future. The large, brown circle and the dark green circle die cuts are from Spellbinders. The leaf and branch are from Tim Holtz (Sizzix). All of the stamps are from Club Scrap. I've been wanting to try and use leaves from my tree with the gelli plate. I really like the results I got.
Please feel free to create some art and join in with this week's challenge.

Blast from the Past

Once upon a time a long time ago I discovered Tim Holtz and Stampers Anonymous stamps. For my card today I went back into my stash of early stamps and pulled out two stamps that I acquired about the same time I discovered and met Tim Holtz. I wasn't even sure I could make them work together.  I created this card for the Compendium of Curiosities II challenge which was distress markers from p. 50 of Tim's Book. My card mostly shows the stamping with distress markers that Tim described. Everything stamped was done using this technique. The heart was die cut from grungeboard and then colored using the watercoloring technique. Although it's a little hard to see on the scan, I used tissue tape across the background to frame the 2nd stamp. After coloring the heart, I covered it with rock candy distress dry glitter. I believe that this is the first glitter that I can say I really love. I don't feel that I will be wearing it for weeks after using it, and the effects on artwork are so wonderful.

The SKeleton in Armor

This is Halloween Month. I thought this dandy skeleton from Stampendous made a great focal image. The poem behind him is is a portion of "The Skeleton in Armor" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I am entering this card in three challenges: Cheery Lynn -- Halloween; Simon Says Stamp -- glimmer and sparkle; and Take a Word -- manuscript.
The die cuts are all from Cheery Lynn --chicken wire frame, lace corner deco H, and flourish leaf strip. On the spiderweb corner I added rock candy dry glitter and a bling spider. The script poem was sprayed with a heavy spray of dazzling diamonds glimmer mist both for the shimmer and for a bit of eeriness. And  for his eyes I added holographic rhinestones. What fun!

Musical theme

This week the theme of the Our Daily Bread Design challenge is something musical. On my card I started with background design paper from Tim Holtz with musical notes. My sentiment is a stamp from ODBD with the words of a song I love by Jim Croce. My image is a bird (nature's music), also an ODBD stamp. In the corners I added some bling.