Happy Halloween

Have fun this weekend-
Hope you get lots of treats and no tricks!

Elizabeth and Carol

Haunted

Here are three pieces made for the new Halloween stamps from Oxford Impressions called "Haunted" Check here to see the entire plate.
This first one is on a chipboard hanging moon. - lots of black glitter and hangs with a black wire.

The following piece is on heavy chipboard. It has lots of texture. It is kind of hard to see the black on it. She is holding black roses and there is a black glittered spider in the top left corner and more roses in the right corner with wrinkled black ribbons also and a wire hanger.

The last piece is a necklace and was made in the style of Lisa Guerin. I loved her little girl necklaces from her blog and then saw them again in the current "Life" magazine by Stampington. So, I decided to try my hand at a Bat girl style for Halloween. She has lace top and black velvet skirt.

Thanks for looking.

Elizabeth

Dance among the Shadows

Here are some Halloween pieces that are all made with stamps from Oxford Impressions. Check out all her Halloween stamps here.

This is a vintage bottle on which I adhered stamped papers. Then I sealed them with wax. The back has some rub-ons. Then some tiny black beads were placed inside. A metal piece was used as a stopper and sealed with more wax.

The skull below was stamped and embossed with white powder onto vellum and then cut out and placed on the round stamped dial piece. It was placed onto a black crepe paper round ruffle with silver glitter on the edges. Then it was placed on scalloped black glitter paper.
A couple of cards below


And finally, a simple bookmark - just right for the season.
You can click on any of these images for a closer look.
Lots more Halloween ideas to come
Elizabeth

Halloween Inspiration

It's time to get out all the Fall decorations, and that means the Halloween pieces. We've only about 6 weeks to display all the fun things that the season brings.
This is a hanger, about 5 X 7"--using vintage images and embellishments.


There are so many visual inspirations out there--
This one is my daughter's, from a BH&G spread...

More hangers (from Elizabeth). So many ways to portray the season....

Find your favorite image, combine with varied papers, and there you are.

Another color inspiration--knitted dish cloths....

This is a super simple, but effective, pennant. I used the painted woodies from Michael's and placed them onto the huge paint chips (should say, paint chunks!) from Better Homes & Gardens. Thanks, BH&G, for making such luscious colors available; not just for my projects, but for warming up the walls of our homes.

These are closeups of the project's beginnings--

I think this cat is a hoot!

This is fabric--so precious--from Hobby Lobby (not sure about availability this year).

Fall gives us so much with which to work.

Hope your craft tables are full of fun projects.

Carol