114 – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends! Once again, it’s another Friday in October! Two weeks from today will be Halloween! I may have a few “goblins” showing up for some candy! 👻 This reminds me that I will be needing to make up a few treat bags!

Today is a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog! Our next letter is “N”, and our hostess, Pamela, has chosen “N is for NIGHT” (clouds, moon, sky, sleeping image, stars, etc.) I think this will be a fun one for Halloween! *Please remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter.* I hope you’ll join in the fun with us. Here’s the project I’ve made for this challenge:

Well, you know I had to do this challenge in the Halloween theme, right?! I absolutely loved making this card! I pulled out all of my Taylored Expressions Halloween items to play with!

I started with the background and created the moon with the Moonlight Layering Stencil. I made sure to center it where I wanted the moon to be in placement on my background before I ink blended everything in. I also used a very light hand when making the moon in greys and yellow tones. This stencil also comes with a mask to cover the entire moon shape, so I used some Pixie Spray to tack it down to stay in place over my card before I began ink blending the blues in the background for the sky. While leaving the moon mask in place, I also used some Copic opaque white watered down and splattered over the blue ink blended sky for “stars”.

I was then able to remove the moon mask to finish my card. I layered this panel over an A2 side folding black card base. I used the Taylored Expressions Trick or Treat Border die to cut out another black piece to fit over the moon. I left some space at the bottom of the border to white heat emboss the sentiment from the TE Spooktacular Sentiments set. I just attached this to the bottom of the moon sky panel and then I die cut some bats from the TE Little Bits-Bats die with the TE Black Glitter Cardstock and attached them to the sky.

I’m loving how the moon seems to be glowing over the trick or treaters! I hope you like it too and will join in the fun with us! Be sure to check out the challenge blog to see more inspiration!

THANKS SO MUCH FOR DROPPING IN TODAY!! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND AHEAD!

Challenges:

Creative Inspirations – Autumn/Something Spooky
Craft Rocket – #130 Autumn/Halloween
Crafty Calendar – Halloween
Let’s Craft & Create – #224 Anything Goes with optional: Things with Wings (bats)
Crazy is our Fame-Stencils are our Game! – Stencil(s) with optional: Halloween
Two Old Bats – Anything Goes Halloween
Unicorn – #114 Autumn and/or Halloween
Crafty Gals Corner – #271 Fill in the Blank: “Spooky________” – NIGHT!

Hello friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and have been enjoying the wonderful Spring weather outside! We have all sorts of blooms and buds everywhere which is really exciting to see! I think I need to trim some lilacs from my bush to put in a jar and enjoy the lovely smell from them!

Today is our monthly AJ page with my crafty friend Carol (from Crafty-Stamper) who is collaborating with me to “SMASH OUR STASH”! We get creative trying to use up our never-ending stash piles along with a prompt for each month. I know she always has great inspiration to share, so please check out her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with the “SMASH OUR STASH” April prompt of “RECYCLE/UPCYCLE”:

Flowers are everywhere, so I thought I’d place them all over my page today too!

For my “recycled” elements, I have used a floral napkin in the background which gives it some wonderful texture and I’ve also painted some white paint over it for a “wash” so that it wasn’t so bright and vibrant and too busy for the background. I splattered some black and gold watercolor over it as well.

I found a darling image with these gorgeous Spring birds perched on the fence, cut it out and popped it up at the bottom with foam tape.

I thought that a strip of gold cardstock (left over from a project) would make a nice bright accent to go with my gold embossed “HELLO SPRING” sentiment and gold splatter.

I’ve also “recycled” an old part of an ATC project and half of a doily to add on the side with the sentiment and I’ve tied some old twine around that ATC panel.

Lastly, I’ve added some flowers and a butterfly from my old collection of ephemera pieces left over from years ago!

I hope that you’ve enjoyed my art journal page today and it gives you all the feels of Spring in the air! I had fun putting this one together! Thanks so much for dropping in!

(Feeling a little bit under the weather this week and I’ll catch up as I can! Thanks for understanding!)

Challenges: