Freshly Made Sketches #402

When I first saw the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches I thought leaves would be my go to image.  After receiving my Happy Hauntings from EBE I went in a whole other direction.

I think it follows the sketch pretty well and gets me started on my Halloween cards.  The spider border is from W&W. 

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Curtain Call, W & W Rerun, and The Challenge #45

I've been on a Halloween card making streak and to day I have two for three different challenges.  First up is for Curtain Call - Going Batty.

I masked the moon and then black embossed the two sizes of bats from W & W's Moonlight.  The sky is inked with Distress Inks and I liked the way the moon looked with ink over the edges of the mask so when I removed the mask I did a little more inking.  The sentiment from MFT is embossed in white on a scrap of black.  I wiped off the static powder before the sentiment was dry which left streaks that I quite liked.  This will be my second entry into the Winnie and Walter Moonlight Rerun.

Card number two started out with me inking up a Tim Holtz 'shattered' stencil in black on white just to see if it would look like a spider web.  It looked great but then how would I use it.  The Challenge to the rescue.

The circle, vampire and sentiment are from MFT and that black embossed spider from W&W.  I'm sure there will be more Halloween challenges before the end of October.  Can I come up with any new ideas?

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CASology # 163

The cue word at CASology this week is moon.  There are a lot of ways to go with that image but since I've been in Halloween mode lately, that's what I went with.

I masked off a circle for my moon and inked it with Unicorn White.  The ghosts from MFT are stamped with the same ink, then filled in with a Fantastix. I drew the eyes in myself. When the ink was dry, I black embossed the bat and added some eerie Liquid Pearl eyes.  The sentiment is from Paper Smooches cut twice in orange and once in orange glitter.  I wish I could get as inspired to do other cards as I am for these Halloween ones.

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