Stampotique Creepy or Scary

Its my favourite time of year and so perfect for Stampotique! so its time to make something Creepy Or Scary!

I looked to That Craft Place again for a unique MDF piece and Danny produced a bespoke size and extra tree! check them out here

Applied DecoArt Modelling Paste to the trees with a palette knife texturizing

 Applied DecoArt Texture Sand to the Tombstone element

Applied DecoArt Crackle Paste to the house and allowed to dry for 2 hours

I then assembled with superglue

Start to apply DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics Dark Grey and Carbon Black

Lighter at the top blending the black at the base and on the trees

 Wiping back some of the colour on the house to reveal the texture

 Dry brushed with Dark Grey and Medium Grey

Embossed acetate for the apertures and coloured with Alcohol inks, cut to size and glued in place

behind each of these apertures I fixed a fairy light to illuminate

here's the Spooky Scene at night

Stampotique

Jasper Fruhling

Fofe

Batty

Mr stripes

Pumpkins- Halloween Cube 2

Hanging Bat- Halloween Cube 1

Batboy

Uncle Buck

Candle

Cousin  Carmine

Squiggle Arms

Unicorns do exist

My friend loves Unicorns, so when I found this beauty in need of a make over 

heres how I transformed this beauty for her

 Applied a coat of DecoArt Media white Gesso

 Followed with a coat of DecoArt Media Fluid acrylic Titanium White

 Applied Quinacridone Gold and Prussian Blue spritzing and dripping until happy with the coverage

 Once dry apply DecoArt Crackle Glaze and allow to dry 4-6 hours

 Once the crackle has developed and dried work in Paynes grey and blend with a wet wipe

Finished with Soft Touch Varnish

Stampotique Challenge- Anything but a card

This week brings us a new challenge "Anything but a Card" more details here

You can create just about anything this week, except a card. Let's see tags, books, boxes or 

anything else.

I had a beautiful wooden star and decided to just stamp in black so the wood grain was still visible

I used Spidergrass, Dandelion and Swirl Stalks, with Moon girl resting her wings coloured softly 

with distress inks

Stampotique Challenge- Only Blue

Blue Bat Box

Now here's a challenge, only use shades of blue no black or white! 

For more info on taking part click here

I cut a box on my Cricut and then applied washes of blues to the sides and top, darker at the top working downwards

One dry I stamped with Stazon Midnight Blue, using Stampotique Owl Tree, Majestic Tree and Batty and Batty about you!

I stamped Batty with Stazon Midnight and Hawaii Blue, cut out and fixed to wire for each of the corners on the box

Gothic Window

Apply DecoArt Media Crackle paste to the Gothic MDF Frame, available from That Craft Place

Apply DecoArt Media Gesso to the backing board

Apply a run of colours light at the top gradually working down to the darker tones
I used Diarylide Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Pyrrole Orange and Quinacridone Red

 To create a subtle ombre effect

 

Apply DecoArt Dark Grey value 3 to the frame

 Followed by Carbon Black

Once dry, highlight by dry brushing with Metallic Silver

Stencil the CWS Trees Stencils with Carbon Black

I stamped the Lost Coast Crow onto silver painted card and cut out

Guest Creative Guide at A Vintage Journey

I'm so pleased to have been asked to be a guest creative guide at A Vintage Journey for their latest Challenge 'Wonderful Watercolours'  as I love watercolours!, it has always been my go to medium, so I jumped at the chance!!

It also gave me the opportunity to use some of my recent favorite Tim Holtz stamps Flower Garden, Mini Bouquet and Wildflowers.

To see more details on taking part in the challenge 
and my tutorial please click HERE 

Stampotique Inchies Challenge

This weeks challenge theme is "Inches" 

What are inchies? They are little 1"x1" pieces of work. You can create your submission with just one inchie or you can create a bunch of inchies and add them to a project. 

Our design team has some great samples below, be sure to check them out!! We love seeing what you create so come and join us for this fun challenge.

I decided to make a Heads, Body and Legs Game using 1'' Stampbord tiles, it was quite tricky to stamp and took lots of attempts!

I applied tape to the back of 3 tiles and stamped each character I used Smile, Marci and Wilber and Splatter Blob and coloured with Watercolours