Hello there friends! Halloween is very quickly approaching us at the end of this week and it’s one of my favorite Holidays ever since I can remember and it was such a fun memory of things I passed onto my own children to have fun with as well. We have lots of fun memories together. I know there are some people that don’t like it…or maybe the “scary” things that come from it, but for me, the more scary, the better! (With the exception of the little ones, I don’t like to scare people that don’t like a good scare…but for me, it’s all in fun and make believe.) This is the reason for my warning post title…just in case you happen to not like it. It’s totally fine if you don’t!😉 – OR clowns!! LOL!
Today starts a fun new challenge over at the {Cupcake Inspirations} Challenge Blog with the theme of “Monsters/Ghouls“. Looking at the photo, you can opt to make a cute little colorful monster/alien type of birthday card if you’re not into the Halloween or scary, so just another way you could interpret the challenge idea if you wanted to.
But here’s my scary “monster/ghoul” creation I made for the challenge:
He is a bit on the spooky/scary side, isn’t he?! I have been looking for a creepy clown image like this for a couple of years and finally Whimsy Stamps came out with this “Creepy Clown Sleep Tight” rubber stamp set and I knew I had to grab it up and specifically in reference to the movie “It” by Stephen King who’s a favorite author of mine. My younger son is really into these type of things too, so this one’s going to him!
I started out the background with a piece of watercolor cardstock that I used some Black Soot Distress ink to sponge in some clouds with using a cloud stencil from my stash. I then took some Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Spray and water and let the color run into the background with the sprayed water. I also watered down some more Black Soot ink and made some splatters with a brush over it. I then black heat embossed the Whimsy Stamps Spider Web Frame over top of it, cut it out with the WS Zig Zag Stitched Rectangle die and then added some more Black Soot ink around the edges. I layered it over an A2 sized top folding black card base.
For the creepy clown image, I black heat embossed it twice over a piece of Bristol Smooth Watercolor panel and then used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and a water brush to color it with. I fussy cut it out and then just cut out the hands only of the second image, and used some foam tape to pop the hands over the image and then the entire clown image over the frame background. I white heat embossed the sentiment from the “Creepy Clown Sleep Tight” set over a piece of black cardstock and then die cut it out using the WS Quick Strips die set. (Note: I used a partial die cut method to lengthen the die so that it would fit the sentiment.) I sponged around it with white ink and then glued in place under the clown image.
If you “dare” to take a closer look at mister creepy clown here, you see how I’ve colored him and cut him out.
I did use some brighter colors as he’s a clown and I really wanted him to pop from the design. I used a silver metallic gel pen to color in the bells on his hat and then I’ve used some glossy accents over his yellow colored eyeballs to make them pop out a bit more as well. The teeth were left white, but I used a white gel pen to color them in a bit for more prominent whiteness. It is such a detailed image so it was fairly easy to color.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my good Monday morning scare for you today!😱🤡😂
So if you’re still making some Halloween type of creations or you have some cute, creepy, fun monsters/ghouls on your projects, be sure to share them with us over on the {Cupcakes Inspirations} challenge blog in the next 2 weeks! We are looking forward to seeing your makes!
Whimsy Stamps still has their 31 Nights of Halloween Event going on, so I’ll be entering this card in that as well.
Other Challenges I’d like to enter “Creepy Clown” for:
- Double D – October: What does it mean to you? (spooky Fall fun Halloween!)
- Mod Squad – Spooky Halloween
- Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Layer it Up (popped up layers over clown)
- Creative Moments – #201 Anything Goes
- Cute Card Thursday – Stamping
- Creative Knockouts – #373 Halloween (black, green, purple, orange)
- Crafty Catz – #524 Anything Goes optional: hats
- Daring Cardmakers – Spooktacular Makes
- Two Old Bats – Halloween Jump Start *NEW CHALLENGE BLOG
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