31 Days of Halloween: Day 16- Spooky Witch Canvas

Hello hello! I got plenty of rest yesterday, and was able to get together a super project for you today! Can't wait to share it! But first I have our sponsor information for you.

Once again, we are being sponsored by the fabulous Graphicat Designs!



Have you had the chance to swing by their new shop website? They are now offering rubber stamps, and I just LOVE their snarky sayings! They go perfectly with so many of our Smeared Ink stamps. Today Graphicat Designs will offer the winner a choice of a $10 Gift Certificate to the store, or their choice of 5 digi images. Be on the lookout for the Graphicat hidden image and the Rick St Dennis hidden image. When you spot them, email us and let us know to be entered.

As far as sponsor winners go, I will be updating winners later today and catching up on claim emails. If you are listed above and have not yet done it, please email us so we can pass on the info on how to claim your prize!

Okay, now that I've given you all the great sponsor info, let's move on to my project! It is an 11x14 canvas and it's pretty "Spooky".

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Once again, my canvas uses tons of different materials to make the background. There are too many for me to remember, but some of them include paint, papers, pattern paper, book pages, different homemade masks and texturizers, paint spray, mod podge, crepe paper, stamps, charcoal, pastels, & pens. I can, however, tell you that I used various stamps from our Urban Decay and Quoth The Raven stamp sets.

I started with the background, and then moved onto my witch. I just love how she came out, as this is the first one of these girls that I have made!

I recently took a workshop that taught how to make these girls, of course in a much cuter style, but I have so many ideas for changing them to suit me and I plan on making tons more of these canvases. So, what do you think? I think this will be the first that I will be selling and I'd love to hear your opinions.

Okay, now that you've seen my project, it's time for you to hop through the Wicked Blogs. Have fun today, and I'll see you tomorrow!

Day 4- 31 Days of Halloween: Autumn Sunset

Hello, hello! It's day 4 of 31 Days, and since I've been sharing some pretty monochromatic projects with you, I thought I'd liven it up a bit with something colorful. One of my favorite things about this season are the vibrant, warm, beautiful tones; the orange pumpkins... the red, gold, brown and burgundy leaves... the colorful apples and squash...the gorgeous flowers...I'm sure you have a visual now. That is what inspired this project.

I decided to make a painting to be displayed over my fireplace. I started with a flat canvas and covered it with spackle, then sprinkled it with clean crushed eggshells, which gave it the bumpy texture.(You'll definitely want to click on the pics to see the textures up close!) Then it pretty much came down to painting my scene(I used various paints and techniques), and then adding in my pumpkins from Smeared Ink's digi set The Patch, which were colored using prisma pencils and distressed slightly.

Here are a couple of closeups of my autumn tree and my pumpkins.







I LOVE the way it turned out, and it reminds me of taking an evening to go to the pumpkin patch and pick out a perfect jack-o-lantern pumpkin. Sipping hot cider, walking through a corn maze, and imagining a superb spooky face that you will carve into your prize later in the month. Listening to the kids talk excitedly about the upcoming festivities, and remembering what it was like to go trick-or-treating as a child. Ahhhh, I want to be in my painting!!

I hope you get the same feeling that I do when I look at this, and that it inspires you to use some fall colors for some of your upcoming creative projects. I also hope that you will continue on to the other Wicked Blog participants and see what they have in store for you today.

I've heard that there is a hidden prize lurking about somewhere in the blog roll....hmmmm... the pouting witch from Smeared Ink has gone astray, and we need your help locating her! If you spot the pouting witch somewhere, you should probably email and let us know where she is! We'll even have a drawing for a reward of your own pouting witch to add to your digi family! The winner will be announced tomorrow.

Remember that you can find the wicked blogs listed in my sidebar, and if you need a refresher on how 31 Days works, just click here. Have a wonderful day, and I'll be back with another project tomorrow!